Charlie StrossToot a photo of a computer that first arrived in the year of your birth!
(Here's mine: the IBM System/360)
chris actual@cstross Holy crap I get a trinity of computers!
https://cybernews.com/editorial/the-1977-trinity-and-other-era-defining-pcs/
Perrin42It has always been my life's goal to be so closely associated with the Trash-80. 😆
pzmyers 🕷
Andrew White
MightyBigCar
Simon Pride
Chris McDonough ✅
John Maxwell@cstross [edit to add: I've been to this museum and seen that display. Hunh.]
Frank Skornia@cstross Things were heating up for PCs in my birth year, but there is really only one I can share.
(Commodore 64)
(Commodore 64)
J$
Tom Bortels
Will McGugan
oefe
Weekend EditorOuf! I learned on one of these!
jer@willmcgugan @cstross
So I was going to do that one. Had to find out which ones were shipped in that year only to find you'd already done it, which apparently is the only one from that year. HP and IBM did nothing for the whole year?
So I was going to do that one. Had to find out which ones were shipped in that year only to find you'd already done it, which apparently is the only one from that year. HP and IBM did nothing for the whole year?
sh3llcmdr
Asad Sayeed@cstross interesting way to get people to self-dox ;)
John@cstross Mine being the Sinclair ZX80 might make you feel old, but when the kids start posting pictures of iMacs or iPads or whatever, we can all just crumble into dust together.
Adam Millerchip
Hugo Mills@semanticist @cstross I started learning to write software on one of those. (I'm still learning).
The '80 was borrowed from a cow-orker of my dad's. They had it back and upgraded it to an '81 the next year, and we borrowed that, too.
My dad made the mistake of leaving me alone with the manual for half an hour, and spent the next 30 years trying to catch up.
I still have the 48k model 2 Spectrum that I bought the year after that.
Snosrapkungfu (They/them)
@cstross but probably more notable the release of the intel 8088 and moto 68000
DrYak@snosrapkungfu haha, same year.
Larry@cstross
My first computer ... 360 7040.
Punch card WatFor, dot-matrix printout pinned to the corkboard the next morning.
My first computer ... 360 7040.
Punch card WatFor, dot-matrix printout pinned to the corkboard the next morning.
DaveI can't find a computer; the MINSK1 didn't arrive until a year later.
However, I lay claim to COBOL.
Janeishly@TheLancashireman @cstross I can't either. So I'm having RAM.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@TheLancashireman @cstross @Janeishly
You _want_ to be blamed for the verbose monstrosity that is COBOL? Respect 😲
You _want_ to be blamed for the verbose monstrosity that is COBOL? Respect 😲
Allen Wirfs-Brock
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵
Justine Smithies
Phrank
Colin Macleod@cstross The IBM 305 RAMAC, the first computer to include a hard disk drive - https://www.computerhope.com/history/1956.htm
zach
Alastair CampbellMy options seem to be the TRS-80, Commodore PET, Atari VCS, Apple II, R2-D2, and C-3PO.
Jef Poskanzer
Acroamatis 🇨🇦@cstross Not my brand, but certainly the most _iconic_ release from the year of my birth:
Jason B@cstross Apple IIc, 1984. My parents bought one, an incredibly expensive splurge for them but at least I would have a good computer for the rest of my life.
Cameron R 🇺🇦🇨🇦
Pedro de-las-Heras-Quiros@cstross
The Interface Message Processor (IMP) for the ARPA computer network, a ruggedized Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer with special-purpose interfaces and software.
Gary 
Rainer Burkhardt
mhd@cstross I'll ignore the much more well-known ones and choose to align myself with the basically immediately discontinued Noval 760
Alexander Shendi
Dave@dave I am STILL sore that the big European computer merger of the 1980s that I was rooting for never happened so we never got to see computers marketed under the brand BULL-SIEMENS.
Raffzahn
Computeum Vilshofen
marcus
George B
caskfan
Jens N@cstross
I had three rather well known computers to pick from, but I have go with the Commodore.
I had three rather well known computers to pick from, but I have go with the Commodore.
Hryscan@cstross English Electric DEUCE introduced
Computers
A commercial version of Alan Turing's Pilot ACE, called DEUCE—the Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine -- is used mostly for science and engineering problems and a few commercial applications. Over 30 were completed, including one delivered to Australia.