Really odd question, but what system would I have been using back in the early 80's which I used to do really simple programming to make a train drawn out of 0's and 1's move across the screen?!
It took hours to key it all in, and was a realy thrill!!
Thanks,
Kate
2007-03-22 06:07:57 · 9 answers · asked by swinkate 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
80s or 90s? Commodor Pet? TRS 80?
By 1982 we had the Sage IV and Rare Black Box running UNIX on 12.5MHz 68000s just before IBM arrived on the scene and took us back several years with the 4.77MHz 8088 which they called a 16 bit processor, but if that were true then the 68k was a 32 bit processor.
By 1986 I was using a MicroVAX and a couple of years later a VAX 8600 which had about the power and memory of a very poor MP3 player and cost as much as a house in Silicon Valley.
By 1990 we were using PCs with Windows 3 and Sun workstations with SunOS. The machine to beat was Silicon Graphics and I loved visiting Parametric to dogfight with the Russians.
So you probably meant the 80s and it was probably a Pet or even an Apple II?
2007-03-22 06:13:17 · answer #1 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably an Apple II, a Commodore Pet or a TRS80. IBM PC (introduced 1981) cost about £2400 then.
2007-03-22 13:14:09 · answer #2 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Kate,
Wow - it could have been the Radio Shack TRS-80, the Commodore, or the Color Computer.
Norm
2007-03-22 13:26:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was the early 80's in the UK, that might have been a Sinclair ZX80 or ZX81, Acorn Electron, BBC micro or a Tandy. All programmable in BASIC.
2007-03-22 13:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by Never say Never 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remember doing something like that, but with a man zipping along the screen!
I think was using an Acorn, BBC or Comadore computer using msdos!
Sorry I cannot be of much more help!
2007-03-22 13:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by Chris W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
early 90s' prolly a windows 95 machine ... 80s' prolly a commodore64 ...
2007-03-22 13:13:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was in school then i would bet on the BBC micro - very popular in schools around the time. They look like this (the one on the left):
http://gtw64.retro-net.de/articles/CGE/croydon11.jpg
2007-03-22 13:18:37 · answer #7 · answered by silicon_rain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine it was some form of BASIC. (I used to write little text games on my commodore with it)
2007-03-22 13:12:59 · answer #8 · answered by Timothy S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like BASIC to me, and it was really fun to use, although it did not amount to much
2007-03-22 13:15:50 · answer #9 · answered by cmm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋