mine is quite a "steep" story: my first computer was an Averatec with a 1.3Ghz AMD CPU, XP sp2 was out on that moment.First application was Cubase.Tomorrow, after just a few years i am going to give a VJ/DJ showcase with timecoded vinyls so... yeah i really dig it! Simone On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave Phillips 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 computer I used was a Data General minicomputer running BASIC, accessed through an Olivetti TTY terminal with yellow rolls of paper, huge Linotype-style keys, an acoustic-coupled 300-baud modem, and a punch-tape reader/writer. > > The first computer I "owned" (my dad bought it) was an Apple ][ with a floppy disk and an 80-column color monitor. I ended up using it more than him, and it migrated from his office to my room a few years later, when he bought himself the original IBM XT. > >> >> And for extra points: >> >> What was the first music/sound software you used that really hooked you >> into this making-music-with-computers fad ? >> >> > > The first computer I bought for myself with my own money was a complete Atari 1040 ST system in 1988, along with a greyscale monitor, a Roland MT-32 and a Roland RD-250 piano and a copy of HybridArts SMPTETrack. I bought it explicitly to make music. Made a ton of MIDI music with that setup for about 4 years, then bought an Apple Macintosh Classic with EZ-Vision. Quite a few years after that I got a PowerMac 7100 running DECK II and released a CD using that. I didn't do any music for many years (but plenty of Linux stuff) until 2006 when I bought a Mac Mini running Debian and then the year after I bought the ASUS laptop I've been recording and gigging with ever since. So that's the complete history. > > -ken > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- .wmv , .wma , .pps along with all proprietary Windows formats won t be accepted and/or viewed.... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
