Founder of Commodore and my business mentor (I was VP and Treasurer and also VP Strategic Planning for Commodore in the middle 1980s).



Don

My first computer was a C-64. What a fun machine. We had to do everything and it was a wonderful learning tool. My first word processor was keyed in by hand in machine language from an article in a magazine and saved to cassette tape. I followed with a C-128 that I programmed to do the cell count on my bone marrow biopsies and help generate a report. All written in Commodore Basic. I wish it still worked. I really wanted an Amiga but Commodore had lost its edge and that wonderful machine disappeared.

Jerry Liles

My first computer was a digital PDP-8M.... Damned thing was the size of a full size referigerator....

Well my first was really FADAC - Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer - a stripped down and hardened, "portable" PDP-10. Weighed about 200lbs and required a 5 kw generator. The program was loaded from punch tape and input was from a keys around the display. No keyboard. It was "hot stuff" in 1967. It was also a pain to keep working in the field and we tended to conduct fire missions with the slide rules and firing tables. Looked impressive though.

Wish my C-64s and C-128 still worked.

Jerry Liles