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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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:53:33 -0800, Mr. Art wrote:
>Would that have been an Amiga by chance?

Of course.  A500, specifically, though my brother has an A1000 somewhere he
got used some years later.  I have an A2000 in the corner of my office, too,
but the poor GForce '030 card has seen better days and refuses to boot.

(Yes, that's right, the term "GForce" had already been around the block a
few times before the GeForce video cards came out.)

-- 
#local R=rgb 99;#local P=R-R;#local F=pigment{gradient x}box{0,1pigment{gradient
y pigment_map{[.5F pigment_map{[.3R][.3F color_map{[.15red 99][.15P]}rotate z*45
translate x]}]#local H=pigment{gradient y color_map{[.5P][.5R]}scale 1/3}[.5F
pigment_map{[.3R][.3H][.7H][.7R]}]}}}camera{location.5-3*z}//only my opinions

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"Mr. Art" <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote in message
news:3B4B34B2.CA084ED5@chesapeake.net...
> Cool! You are the first Spectrum owner that I have heard of.

    Most of us just don't talk about it much....

(First computer owned (well it was the 'family computer' but no one else
used it ) : Spectrum +3)

--
Scott Hill
Software Engineer.
E-Mail        : sco### [at] innocentcom
Pandora's Box : http://www.pandora-software.com

*Everything in this message/post is purely IMHO and no-one-else's*

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:29:33 +0100, Scott Hill wrote:
>"Mr. Art" <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote in message
>news:3B4B34B2.CA084ED5@chesapeake.net...
>> Cool! You are the first Spectrum owner that I have heard of.
>
>    Most of us just don't talk about it much....
>
>(First computer owned (well it was the 'family computer' but no one else
>used it ) : Spectrum +3)

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000.  If memory serves, it was 
essentially the same hardware as the Sinclair ZX-81, but with 2K of RAM
instead of 1K.  I have a ZX-81 in a box in the garage, too.  I even have 
the flaky 16K RAM expansion and (I think) the thermal printer.

-- 
#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbt 1}hollow interior{media{emission T}}finish{
reflection.1}}#end Z(-x-x.2y)Z(-x-x.4x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90}

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"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
>
> My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000.  If memory serves, it was
> essentially the same hardware as the Sinclair ZX-81, but with 2K of RAM
> instead of 1K.  I have a ZX-81 in a box in the garage, too.  I even have
> the flaky 16K RAM expansion and (I think) the thermal printer.

That was my first as well, might remember me saying before, and I was
thinking Mr. Art here has one too.  Mine still sits in the corner of a
bookshelf with a few tapes and the 16K module.
I used to look at the 2000 model in magazines thinking I might get one with
color output one day, but by then I realized they were pretty limited in
hardware.  Kind of a notebook PC of their day though if it weren't for
needing a television.
I can never forget how one of my nieces ran around the dining room table
while I programmed the last lines of a bunch of code for planet orbits,
which was being copied from a book (thank goodness!), and she ran into the
power wire pulling the plug out of the wall.  Was also my first encounter
with a computing *disaster*.

Bob H.

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:38:59 +0100, "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk>
wrote:

>Run it in the taskbar and just tell them that the program they're running is a
>real resource hog. Works for me...

Better yet, put it in the task bar, then make Explorer crash (it will
resurrect, don't worry) and lose its system tray.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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Still have mine also. It sits on the desk amidst the junk that makes
up my privet domain. 'Spose it still works, just never plug it up.

Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:29:33 +0100, Scott Hill wrote:
> >"Mr. Art" <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote in message
> >news:3B4B34B2.CA084ED5@chesapeake.net...
> >> Cool! You are the first Spectrum owner that I have heard of.
> >
> >    Most of us just don't talk about it much....
> >
> >(First computer owned (well it was the 'family computer' but no one else
> >used it ) : Spectrum +3)
> 
> My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000.  If memory serves, it was
> essentially the same hardware as the Sinclair ZX-81, but with 2K of RAM
> instead of 1K.  I have a ZX-81 in a box in the garage, too.  I even have
> the flaky 16K RAM expansion and (I think) the thermal printer.
> 
> --
> #macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
> -z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
> P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbt 1}hollow interior{media{emission T}}finish{
> reflection.1}}#end Z(-x-x.2y)Z(-x-x.4x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90}

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Jamie Davison <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote in message
news:MPG.15afe598f11fd32e989998@news.povray.org...
> > > > I take it you never did any raytracing on a 486 then?
> > >
> > > Actually, I did.  I think my scenes are becoming more complex and I'm
> > > playing with more parts of POV.
> >
> > Oh well, I thought there was the start of a You Know You Haven't Been
Ray Tracing Long Enough theme
> > going there.  Could have been interesting perhaps.
> >
> > Bob H., the proud owner of a 486 w/o coprocessor at first ray.
>
> I started with a 486SX/25 and 4Mb of RAM...
Ditto.  I remember my first upgrade, just switched the chip to a DX/33.
"Wow", I thought, "that math coprocessor really makes it fly!"  I also
remember the first time I saw triple digits on the PPS counter :)

...Chambers

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:3B4### [at] pacbellnet...
>
>
> Warp wrote:
>
> >   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).
>
> I have used a punch card computer. Man, I feel old!
How long did it take to render skyvase on that thing?

...Chambers

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> > I started with a 486SX/25 and 4Mb of RAM...
>
> Ditto.  I remember my first upgrade, just switched the chip to a DX/33.
> "Wow", I thought, "that math coprocessor really makes it fly!"  I also
> remember the first time I saw triple digits on the PPS counter :)

I switched straight to a DX2/66 and that was my first encounter with POV, 
so I never suffered through it without a co-pro :)

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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