On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > For no reason beyond boredom I decided to pester this list with an OT > topic or two. So, without further delay: > > What was your first computer ? > The first I owned was the very original IBM PC. 10MB hard drive, 1MB DRAM. $3000 IIRC. Got a Hercules video card pretty quickly. I used some Unisys/Univac machines when I was in college but I don't consider them mine. Starting with Turbo Pascal I wrote a librarian for my DX7. Sold the code to some company I cannot remember - nice people though - for about $500 + royalties. They renamed the program to DXConnect as an inside joke on my name. Over time I think I made maybe $1000 tops total for the project, but more importantly discovered that I'm not a programmer,. ;-) But hey, it was a good start. > > And for extra points: > > What was the first music/sound software you used that really hooked you > into this making-music-with-computers fad ? > In terms of home studio software (I assume that's what you're asking) that's extremely easy. Sequencer Plus, and later Sequencer Plus Gold. I found Tran Tracks somewhere in that time frame and used to buy MIDI tracks from him to play my guitar with when I wasn't playing live. Amazing that he's still in business selling inexpensive MIDI tracks 32 years later. Somehow it's not all that different today, just that I have more power on my desktop than the old Tascam/Ampex jingle studio I worked at in the early 70's had in the whole building . Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
