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Dave Phillips wrote:

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> 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 ?

first "contact" was a triumph-adler (german manufacturer of typewriters,

sewing machines, and, incidentally, computers) machine running cp/m on a

zilog z80, at the primary school where my father worked.
first machine i really knew how to use (still not my own, but my

father's) was an 8086 with 640k ram at 8 mhz (or 4.77 when i was

annihilating my father's tetris record - he never found out how to

underclock the thing :-D)
first audio machine i used many years later (1998, i think) was an sgi

indy running irix, with snd on it.
first machine i actually owned was a dual p2/350mhz with 256m ram and a

4g scsi drive (yay!). i upped it over the years to a dual 800 p3 with 1

gig ram and phased it out after seven years.
> And for extra points:

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>

> What was the first music/sound software you used that really hooked you

> into this making-music-with-computers fad ?

snd and its ability to display fft graphs. what a great learning tool.

apart from that, i used it to edit live recordings.
:-D
funny idea for an off-topic thread. i'm looking forward to other postings...
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