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8 Aug 2024 01:23:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV performance  
From: Mr  Art
Date: 10 Jul 2001 08:59:47
Message: <3B4B34B2.CA084ED5@chesapeake.net>
Cool! You are the first Spectrum owner that I have heard of. Knew of it,
just never had the money at the time.

Warp wrote:
> 
> Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:
> :     My -first- computer was a TRS-80
> 
>   Well, if we are talking about first computers, then I have to note that
> I said earlier that "the first PC I used was a 8086". However, it wasn't my
> first computer.
>   The first computer ever that I have used was a Spectrum 48k, and the first
> computer I have owned was a Spectrum 128k.
> 
>   I even learned a bit how to code in Spectrum assembler. The intel assembler
> is surprisingly similar and so it took me just a few days to learn it.
> 
>   Of course I'm very young in this matter. I personally know people who have
> used computers when they still used punch cards and had no monitors of any kind
> (everything was printed on paper).
> 
> --
> #macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
> rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
> ],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
> 7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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