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out of memory in 200
It even had commands to control cassette tape input and output

I recall a GWBasic demo called "Genius World" maybe that has something to do with it ?

TI-BASIC was my first programming language. Those fancy graphing calculators are a gateway drug to the dark side.

Basic, was a double edge sword. It was good in that its simplicity enticed potential programmers. It was bad in that it’s simplicity hindered learning anything else. It made everything else seem unnecessarily complicated. While in college, my limited basic knowledge made understanding Cobol difficult, Fortran almost impossible, and RPG II? Forget about it. It took me three times of installing and deleting Quick C before I finally stuck with it. The setup (include files, main functions, output format) seem cumbersome. It took awhile to finally understand, with complexity, comes options.

BTW Quick C is still my favorite IDE and compiler, even came with it’s own graphics library. Too bad it’s obsolete.

My first was QBasic, but I learned TI-BASIC on my TI-86. I tried to learn ASM on it as well (never made anything useful, outside of a high score resetter for a Tetris game that was passed around)

My parents bought it at a warehouse club (Price Club - which is now Costco).

We had the basic system no drives. Had to use cassette tapes to save programs.

BTW, TI Invaders is one of the best Space Invaders games out there. Loved that game.

My first real computer was a Pentium, I think, running Windows 95. My mom had to save up for months to afford it (I think it set her back something like $4000 at the time). We played some silly kids games on it, but nothing awesome.

I didn't know programming was a thing until I was assigned some optional class I was afraid to take in grade 12 (can't remember what now), and friends told me about a computer science class that I should swap it for, and so I did. The class was basically an introduction to programming in C++. Great class. The teacher didn't lecture or anything. They lent us textbooks supplied by the high school, and the teacher just assigned us reading and exercises from the book. Some students complained that the teacher didn't do anything, but for myself it was the perfect class. No human interaction at all. Just messing with the computer. I loved it. If it wasn't for that little accident I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

The best college courses had the same format. Read these chapters from the textbook (we had to pay for the textbook this time, obviously) and do these exercises. And then the odd test. It was lots of fun, and easy to do. Of course, you had the same people that probably should have picked another field complaining that the instructor wasn't doing anything, and complaining that it was too hard...

My dad had an IBM PS/2 running Windows 3.0

But the main computer I remember running was a 486 with Windows 3.1

As far as a computer I could call my own, a friend of my dad gave him some parts (he was moving overseas) and I put it together. It was a Pentium. Forgot what OS was on it. But the first computer I bought and built was a Pentium 3 with Windows 98 SE (The bad about ME was widespread enough for me to avoid it). I think a hard drive crash (or something just messing with the MBR when it wasn't supposed to and wiping it while I was using the computer) resulted in my getting XP for that machine.

I started to get into computing with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500 and to gaming with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex

Then I got a 286, 486, a citrix 133, and so on. I've also played with some old cards like voodoo series, with glide as a 3d driver.

Edit: when I first used 3DStudio it was a fullscreen dos program, I miss that version.