1.0

in the beginning there was 1.0

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Turbo Pascal 6, 1990. Blue screen, green menus, and a compiler fast enough to feel instant.

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Duke Nukem 3D, 1996.

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Braun SK4, 1956. Rams and Gugelot's record player, nicknamed Snow White's Coffin for its clear plastic lid.

[Alfred Baudisch (Pardall) @AlfredBaudisch]

Turbo Pascal theme

[Der Baldur @Der_Baldur]

@michaelmicasso2 Still have mine

[Cyber Siege @cybersiegegame]

@zehavoc @michaelmicasso2 I used Amos Basic on Amiga and made several game prototypes with it. For example dungeon crawler. Never actually finished one, though.

[Mike Rowe @mike_rowe]

@michaelmicasso2 What, no printer?

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IBM Selectric II, 1971.

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Sinclair ZX81, 1981.

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Amiga 500, 1987. Workbench 1.3 glowing blue, a floppy drive humming beside it.

[uɐʌI @LlanasIvan]

@michaelmicasso2 Turbo C 1.0, 1987, plain text, no syntax highlight, not that fast but it was C!

[Bryan Christ @TragicWarrior]

@michaelmicasso2 tools like this are what inspired me to build a window manager for the terminal. i've been maintaining it for nearly 20 years now:

[Goldener_Reiter @GoldenerReiter2]

@michaelmicasso2 The Ti 34 I had for school in 1987. A better calculator in any way (like the Amiga Workbench instead of Apples MacOS 😊)

[Germs @NFTYGiFY]

@michaelmicasso2 built this in high school with turbo pascal

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IBM 729 Tape Drives.

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Kaypro II, 1982.

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Dieter Rams' Braun ET66, 1987.

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TRS-80 Model 100, 1983. A word processor, a modem, and forty hours of battery life.

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Jill of the Jungle, 1992. Epic's shareware platformer, sunset gradient and all.

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Alley Cat, 1984.