What was your very first computer ... ?

@CharlieZ I just looked it up, vacuum tubes and core memory, that's like 3 generations before my time. Also, Ferranti Mercury is a pretty entertaining name although they didn't know it at the time.

@SW-User Yeah!
It took 2 hours to "warm" and startup!

Was the first one in my Country.
No more the only one by 1968 when I began to "use" it. But the only one dedicated to academics.

@SW-User The name, Clementina, comes cos, when ready, it made a sound emulating: "Oh my Darling Clemetine".
What else can you expect from a British computer?😆

@CharlieZ Wow, for real?

@CharlieZ I can't even imagine how tedious it must have been to even do something as simple as a series approximation before computers.

@Nimbus Yup!😁

@SW-User E piu…(and even so) we DID it!

@SW-User Do you know who else used this same computer at that time, in Buenos Aires?
Grigory Chaitin.

@CharlieZ Oh cool, it's a small world!

@SW-User It is.
Gregorio was, for some time, an undergraduated assistant professor and "intern" at UBA Faculty of Sciences.
He had a small room in the campus where some us joined to share Argentinian "Mate" or coffee and studdy.
We also went together to the first course offered by IBM on Disk Operating Systems, a novelty by then.
Those were the days, my friend!