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Atari ST. And my school used Turbo Pascal 3.0, which needed DOS, but there was PC-Ditto, an XT emulator. With a Norton factor of 0.33, which means that an XT was three times faster! That taught me efficient programming.
The other nice thing about this setup was that I discovered endianess by the hard way. -
@electric-ghost Yes and no. On the Atari ST, I did only Pascal and then C. But during my studies, I had a big project with a non-linear filter bank that I implemented in Matlab and then ported to a 56k DSP - the assembly was just as nice as you'd expect from Motorola.
Instead of asking how old people are, how about this:
Post the specs of the first computer you regularly used. I will start.
Tandy 1000 SX. Not one, but TWO 5 1/4" floppy drives. An 8088 CPU and 640K of RAM. The operating system was MS-DOS 3.2, which was always in the A: drive.
We used it to make papers for school in Wordstar, and my parents made spreadsheets in Lotus 1-2-3. We learned to type on it. We played Space Quest, King's Quest, Carmen Sandiego, and Lords of Conquest on it. We transcribed BASIC programs from the, "BASIC Training" column in 3-2-1 Contact magazine.
We LOVED that computer.
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