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Comment by Nicholas Thomas Wright on October 5, 2009 at 2:13pm

I programmed a one-player poker game on my Ti-83 and -89 calculators that even scored your cards.

Comment by Ob1Wan82 on September 8, 2009 at 11:43am

I only know it was running DOS and it was only a keyboard with room for 2 3,5" floppy's. Had to boot DOS from a floppy too! It also had a nice black and green monitor:).

Comment by Garrett W. on September 8, 2009 at 10:45am

Mine was a homebrew 486DX running Win95 on a 300-something MB hard drive. Oh, and a cartridge-type CD drive. :) I wanna say we paid $400-600 for it. No idea how much RAM it had.

Comment by Kristin Peabody on September 8, 2009 at 8:37am

What was your first computer? Mine was an Apple II+ purchased in 1977 for ~$1000, 64k memory, cassette tape program load and storage, TV for monitor......

Comment by Ferd on September 3, 2009 at 7:26am

I started with FORTRAN in 1974 on an IBM-360, followed by COBOL and PL-I. Since then I've written in lots of languages including LISP, PostScript, and XSLT. I've taught Pascal, C, and Java. I took out a loan for my first computer (a NEC running CP/M).

Comment by Ulrik F. Damm on August 24, 2009 at 12:38pm

Lol would be cool with the teenaagers only program, unfortunately i've just turned 18 :P

Comment by Thomas on August 24, 2009 at 11:27am

lol. The thing is adults have so much more experience than teens so I guess it would be interesting to see what a bunch of teens can do.

Comment by Kristin Peabody on August 24, 2009 at 7:51am

What about us old farts Thomas? Lol....I started programming in BASIC and machine code back in 1978....what a long strange trip it's been.

One thing I think that always amazes me, is that I bought my first computer (an Apple II+) for around $1,000. Almost every machine I've bought since (even though the capabilities have skyrocketed) has been between $1,000 and $1,500 with the exception of a cheap email box for my wife ~$400 and a gaming rig. What are your experiences with this sort of thing?

Comment by Thomas on August 23, 2009 at 8:35am

I want to see what us teens can do when we work together! http://bit.ly/2Oa2V

Comment by Ryan Beerbower on August 3, 2009 at 11:10pm

I've met several people like that in my day. They'll say, "I know to make a VB form." What a joke.

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