[dundee] ...and my FIRST computer

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On 7 March 2011 14:26, Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:
> James Le Cuirot <chewi at aura-online.co.uk> writes:
>
>> [...] and Amiga BASIC, the latter also written by Microsoft!
>
> Anyone who's ever used AmigaBASIC will understand why Microsoft didn't
> go on to become a major developer for the platform. ;-) I used AMOS
> quite a bit, and GFA BASIC and later the ACE compiler, but I don't think
> I ever found AmigaBASIC of much use...
>
> (Learning C, Python, Emacs and VIM on the Amiga made the transition to
> Linux on a PC relatively painless, so it's vaguely on-topic!)
>
> --
> Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>
>

we went from zx spectrum 48k  --> zx spectrum 128k --> atari st 2600
--> amiga 500 --> amiga 1200 --> pentium 120mhz cpu, 16mb ram, voodoo
fx pass-through card. (my first pc)

think my favourite was the amiga 1200.  (also used to render Babylon 5)
installing linux on it wasnt easy though. in 1996.

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