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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
My first computer was a Tandy Color Computer—popularly known as the "CoCo"—from Radio Shack. List price $199, but the Shack always had them on sale for $99. All programming was done in Basic and you saved your programs on a standard cassette tape. Back in the day it was quite a bargain. Screen resolution was terrible (not unlike the very first home video games), but I did manage to do some animation with it. Wasn't easy, as you had to tell the computer the location of each and every pixel, but it was fun.
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My first computer was an Acorn. It was later called the
Acorn System One. I bought the ready-assembled version for £75.
It had a hexadecimal keyboard, 8-digit seven-segment LED display and a cassette interface. Programmed, of course, in machine code, byte by byte.