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I taught myself Assembly Language on an IBM 7040 in 1968 or 1969 by reading the code output of the FORTRAN compiler.
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Wow, this brings back fond memories. My first development machine was a Commodore Vic 20. I wrote a product pricing program on it for the first company I worked for back in the early 1980's. The proof of concept was well received. The company purchased an IBM PC with PFS File and word processing and my IT career was launched. 
And yes, the Vic 20 was hooked up to a black and white TV and had a tape recorder for a storage device. Man those were the days!
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The very first, circa 1964 - 1970, was an IBM 360 with Assembler and Fortran IV.
In the PC world, circa 1980 - 1982, it was an IBM PC with dual floppies and 64K RAM using GW-BASIC. Soon after I switched to Borland Turbo Pascal.
Those systems were so limited even when compared to an Android Tablet today.
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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Wow! All the responses makes me feel really young, my first development computer (the one ever I did something that could be considered development) was a 386 computer owned by my school (don't rememeber brand) that ran the glorious MS-DOS (unknown version), on it I developed some programs on Logo and stored them on these big 5 1/2 floppy disks. Making the turtle move and draw was amazing back then.
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My initial development experiences were with BASIC first,then assembly on a TRS-80 Model 1, complete with 4K of RAM and tape cassette storage. It was a great day when my dad finally buckled under pressure and sprung for the 48K expansion interface.
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I started in 1969 on a PDP 6 with a huge 6K of drum storage (a 3 ft diameter drum with magnetic material on the outside and (about) a 3" read head). Our group was developing analog to digital converters at the time. During the development we upgraded to a PDP 8 with almost twice the processing power and 8K of memory. Fun times!
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I fondly remember many long afternoons in junior high school (late 1970's) on the single Radio Shack TRS-80 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80[^]. Hey, it was either that or churn through roll after roll of printer paper playing Star Trek on the teletype terminal. Fortuantely for me, not many kids wanted to spend their free time in the computer lab in those days. We saved our spaghetti code to an audio tape cassette drive! Ah, the good old days.
-- Mountain Will
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An HP-2000C via modem using an ASR-33 teletype @ 110 baud in high school. It was available to some schools in the Los Angeles School District if there was an instructor to teach Basic programming (all we had). Programs were created offline on another ASR-33 using paper tape. We couldn't store files, so when done you had to output your program onto paper tape again after making changes or lose them.
My first personal computer was a Commodore Kim-1 (6502) with an S-100 expansion board to add 8K bytes of static RAM. The terminal was a Compucolor 8001 19" color graphics terminal, which was an 8080 computer in its own right. This was in 1974 I believe.
Mike
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A Commodore VIC-20 in 1982 with 4k memory (the other 16k came as expansion and at a price).
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How about a KIM-1. A Single Board computer with a 6502 processor, 2K ROM, 1K Ram (expandable to all of 4K), a 24 key keypad, and a 2 character single line display.
This was in 1978 or so. All assembly language, It could be connected to an ASR-33/KSR-38 Teletype (anyone remember those?).
Still have the KIM-1 somewhere.
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PDP-8/I running TSS-8/I in high school. Used FOCAL-8, BASIC-8, and PALD-8 (Assembler), also IBM S/360 FORTRAN and COBOL when the school finally added a programming class (we spent most of the time teaching the teachers).
Univac 418 Model II for first paid job ($5) FORTRAN and ART418 Assembler
IBM S/370 first salaried programming in Assembler.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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A PDP-8e with real ferrite core memory. Taught myself Dartmouth Basic from a book my dad had, I wrote the program on paper, he typed it in for me. He had to fix a few typos. It was really stupid.. it printed a picture of an airplane. Later, I'd go into work with him on Saturdays and write Basic on their "mainframe" (an 11/70, I think.. never saw it in person).
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Very cool  . When was this?
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IBM 127 in high school - cards the teacher took and ran at the local community college.
Apple II Europlus (1983) - mfd in Ireland, used PAL video. BASIC then Pascal.
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TRS-80 Model III in 1983. 8" floppies, 16K RAM. Got it from a business office when they upgraded - altogether ~$3K worth of gear + software. Learned QBASIC, got exposed to databases, had an outrageous non-WYSIWYG word processor lol. The printer was a mega-industrial very fast daisywheel unit which came in its own very large acoustic enclosure and still sounded like a truck going through when it ran.
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North Manchester, UK
Web Developer
Asp.net
MVC
C#
SVN
Good Design Skills (photoshop etc).
All the usual... I would like to see working examples of work and be able to talk through design, architecture ect.
It's for the company I work for, you'll be working initially within a team of 3.
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Out of curiousity, I checked out your company's website (I'm not looking for a job) and found clicking the 4 segment areas (Phone, Desktop, Web and DB Development) doesn't do anything. Also, the site seems painfully slow.
/ravi
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OK. My comments still apply.
/ravi
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 I'm thinking of skinning it to look like Android Holo theme, I wonder if this will make it any faster than the metro look
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Nice site.
Wasn't slow for me either.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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cheers
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A note for our American members who may not have heard of Manchester, UK
Think Detroit, take out the nice bits, and make it rain all the time. According to Fox News, the Beatles are from Manchester[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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OriginalGriff wrote: A note for our American members who may not have heard of Manchester, UK
That's as opposed to UK Tourist Boards who might not have heard of Birmingham, USA[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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