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Veronica Olsen πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸŒ»

@cstross @stux I was about 5 at the time of this clip. My first real encounter with a computer, I think, wasn't until helping out adding books into the database at my school library when I was around 10 or 11.

7 Nov 2023 at 10:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.online
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Charlie Stross

@veronica @stux My school got its first computer labβ€”with three Apple II’s between more than a thousand kidsβ€”too late for me to take a CS 'O' level much less aim to study CS at university.

7 Nov 2023 at 12:04 | Open on wandering.shop
Klaudia (aka jinxx)

@cstross @veronica @stux Oh wow. I still had those floppy disks in the late 1980s and early 90s. Our math teacher had written a learning program for us that he handed out on 5.25" floppies. :) And I was lucky enough to write my first articles for the students' newspaper back at school using some text program running on DOS. :)

7 Nov 2023 at 12:17 | Open on literatur.social
sbi

@veronica @cstross @stux Being born east of the Iron Curtain, my first encounter wasn't until I was way past school. And it was machines like this.

An A 5120.16 computer from the 80s of East Germany.
An MC80 computer from the 80s of East Germany.
7 Nov 2023 at 12:57 | Open on toot.berlin
Dani (:cxx: modules addict)

@sbi @veronica @cstross @stux My very first computer was the Elektor SC/MP kit that I had to buy piecewise and solder myself.

elektormagazine.com/magazine/e

My verst first *working* computer 😜 was the successor of the famous PET2001.

7 Nov 2023 at 13:36 | Open on hachyderm.io
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