Chris’s First Computer

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My first computer? First used: Commodore PET with built-in cassette drive at my middle school library… I taught myself basic BASIC using that machine. First computer I owned: Timex-Sinclair 1000, lovely 2K RAM machine with a membrane keyboard and connected to a black and white TV and a standard cassette deck.

Then I went thru the Commoodore family at home, and the Mac and PC at work, which merged into PCs both places by about 1996 thru to today. :)

My first computer? First used: Commodore PET with built-in cassette drive at my middle school library… I taught myself basic BASIC using that machine. First computer I owned: Timex-Sinclair 1000, lovely 2K RAM machine with a membrane keyboard and connected to a black and white TV and a standard cassette deck.

Then I went thru the Commoodore family at home, and the Mac and PC at work, which merged into PCs both places by about 1996 thru to today. :)

Commodore 64
I did a little programming with it. One of the programs that I modified was machine code that would read a disk directory. I modified someone elses code so that you could do directories of different disk drives.

load *.*,8,1

Philip

Commodore 64
I did a little programming with it. One of the programs that I modified was machine code that would read a disk directory. I modified someone elses code so that you could do directories of different disk drives.

load *.*,8,1

Philip

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81 (known as the Timex Sinclair 1000 in North America) when I was living in Brussels in 1983. It was black and white, 1K (!) although mine came with the (woooo!) 16K RAM Pack, had a TV for a screen, no sound and used a tape recorder for data storage, and had a touchpad keyboard.

In spite of these limitations, I spent HOURS on it, mostly typing in BASIC/Machine Code programs I got from magazines (followed by hours of debugging cause I’d miss-typed somewhere! ;-) That little machine brought me hours of fun and is absolutely responsible for my love of technology today, although tech is not what I do for a living.

Thanks for the walk down Memory Lane!
Carmen, typed on a Gateway Tablet PC, with colour and sound and everything! :-).

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81 (known as the Timex Sinclair 1000 in North America) when I was living in Brussels in 1983. It was black and white, 1K (!) although mine came with the (woooo!) 16K RAM Pack, had a TV for a screen, no sound and used a tape recorder for data storage, and had a touchpad keyboard.

In spite of these limitations, I spent HOURS on it, mostly typing in BASIC/Machine Code programs I got from magazines (followed by hours of debugging cause I’d miss-typed somewhere! ;-) That little machine brought me hours of fun and is absolutely responsible for my love of technology today, although tech is not what I do for a living.

Thanks for the walk down Memory Lane!
Carmen, typed on a Gateway Tablet PC, with colour and sound and everything! :-).

My first computer was an Amiga 500 that I got in 1987 with 512kB internal RAM and another 512kB expansion RAM and a second external floppy drive. It was a blast. Then I got an Amiga 4000 with 4 MB RAM for $2500 in 1992 and bought a PC Card which was an entire IBM clone computer with a cyrix 386DX chip on an expansion card. It even included a VGA adaptor on the card with a passthrough cable. I could run both the Amiga and the PC at the same time and switch between the two with a keystroke. It was expensive and fun. Fortunately someone bought it from me so I could buy my first Dell Pentium 133 with a whopping 16 MB RAM with a 15″ monitor and in 1994 and move away from the dying Amiga.

My first computer was an Amiga 500 that I got in 1987 with 512kB internal RAM and another 512kB expansion RAM and a second external floppy drive. It was a blast. Then I got an Amiga 4000 with 4 MB RAM for $2500 in 1992 and bought a PC Card which was an entire IBM clone computer with a cyrix 386DX chip on an expansion card. It even included a VGA adaptor on the card with a passthrough cable. I could run both the Amiga and the PC at the same time and switch between the two with a keystroke. It was expensive and fun. Fortunately someone bought it from me so I could buy my first Dell Pentium 133 with a whopping 16 MB RAM with a 15″ monitor and in 1994 and move away from the dying Amiga.

Wow. My first computer was a vic-20 with a cassette tape drive too. My first real computer was an IBM PS2 486 with a 14″ monitor that I got for $2000. Had a 9600 modem. I don’t remember how much ram but I remember going to get ram at an Office Max. When I asked the sales person for it, he proceeded to tell me if the computer was more than a year old(it was 2 yr old at that time) you couldn’t buy the ram for it. I wisely did not believe him, and reached around him and grabbed the correct ram.

Wow. My first computer was a vic-20 with a cassette tape drive too. My first real computer was an IBM PS2 486 with a 14″ monitor that I got for $2000. Had a 9600 modem. I don’t remember how much ram but I remember going to get ram at an Office Max. When I asked the sales person for it, he proceeded to tell me if the computer was more than a year old(it was 2 yr old at that time) you couldn’t buy the ram for it. I wisely did not believe him, and reached around him and grabbed the correct ram.

The first computer I ever used was a DEC PDP/8 in 1971 when I attended Groton School in Groton, MA. I was 14 at the time and I was originally introduced to a programming language called Focal 8. The machine was about as large as a refrigerator and used a paper tape reader and punch to load or save software and a teletype 33 terminal to input from a keyboard or print. There were no such things as VDTs at the time. I believe the maximum memory in the machine was 4k of RAM and in order to IPL the machine you had to use a sequence of binary switches on the front of the computer in order to get it into an operational state in the event of a power outage or a ‘crash’.

Later on, I was able to parlay my job at Radio Shack in 1978 into buying a TRS-80 Model 1, Level II with a total memory capacity of 48k (only 27k was available once you loaded up BASIC). I ultimately owned 4 of these which I hacked into various configurations, including one that had 64k inside the keyboard, supported lowercase characters with descenders and ran at 5.3 MHz (original processor ran at 1.6 MHz) without crashing and supported the use of bank switched memory from the expansion interface that would allow for a 32k bank of ram for data storage or use as a print buffer. It also supported nearly 2 Mb of online floppy storage using 4 8 inch floppy disc drives and ran CP/M 2.2. Using an Votrax SC01 voice synthesizer chip I was able to create applications that would talk back to the user via a port on the expansion interface. It was a totally cool machine for 1981 standards. Even ran faster than the IBM PC at the time.

I also had a Timex-Sinclair 1000, Texas Instrument 99/4, Commodore 64 and VIC 20 machines. and did programming for small businesses.

I’m still at it more than 35 years later.

The first computer I ever used was a DEC PDP/8 in 1971 when I attended Groton School in Groton, MA. I was 14 at the time and I was originally introduced to a programming language called Focal 8. The machine was about as large as a refrigerator and used a paper tape reader and punch to load or save software and a teletype 33 terminal to input from a keyboard or print. There were no such things as VDTs at the time. I believe the maximum memory in the machine was 4k of RAM and in order to IPL the machine you had to use a sequence of binary switches on the front of the computer in order to get it into an operational state in the event of a power outage or a ‘crash’.

Later on, I was able to parlay my job at Radio Shack in 1978 into buying a TRS-80 Model 1, Level II with a total memory capacity of 48k (only 27k was available once you loaded up BASIC). I ultimately owned 4 of these which I hacked into various configurations, including one that had 64k inside the keyboard, supported lowercase characters with descenders and ran at 5.3 MHz (original processor ran at 1.6 MHz) without crashing and supported the use of bank switched memory from the expansion interface that would allow for a 32k bank of ram for data storage or use as a print buffer. It also supported nearly 2 Mb of online floppy storage using 4 8 inch floppy disc drives and ran CP/M 2.2. Using an Votrax SC01 voice synthesizer chip I was able to create applications that would talk back to the user via a port on the expansion interface. It was a totally cool machine for 1981 standards. Even ran faster than the IBM PC at the time.

I also had a Timex-Sinclair 1000, Texas Instrument 99/4, Commodore 64 and VIC 20 machines. and did programming for small businesses.

I’m still at it more than 35 years later.

I remember taking a college course using the Radio Shack computer with cassette tape, I taught two college professors how to improve their programming skills. At this time I bought 2 apple IIe computers, and later 2 apple IIgs computers, each arround $2,000. Also I remember being the first person in Okla. to add a mouse to a computer. At that time there was only 2 programs that could use a mouse, MouseWrite and MouseCalc. None of these computers had hard drives.

I remember taking a college course using the Radio Shack computer with cassette tape, I taught two college professors how to improve their programming skills. At this time I bought 2 apple IIe computers, and later 2 apple IIgs computers, each arround $2,000. Also I remember being the first person in Okla. to add a mouse to a computer. At that time there was only 2 programs that could use a mouse, MouseWrite and MouseCalc. None of these computers had hard drives.

I love talking about stuff like this.

Our very first computer? An Atari 800XL which hooked up to the TV. I copied programs from the back of magazines into basic, and was absolutely fascinated with it.

However – my first computer is not my most memorable one. That would be the ADAM computer. It was Colecovision’s attempt to get in on the computer market. I got it for Chanukah the winter that I was in the hospital for knee surgery (1986). We bought it at Toys R Us, and then every week it began to go on sale… so dad would pack it up, bring it back to the store… get a $100 rebate on it.. and then bring the new one back home. It had a daisy wheel printer that we used to have to actually vacate the house when printing something, because it was THAT loud. It didn’t use cassette tapes to back things up, but it used “data packs”, which were expensive, and it took like an hour to load a program. In the end, I think they ended up paying US to buy the computer. ;)

TRS-80 Color Computer II

I remember typing endless programs from Rainbow Magazine, met Lonnie Falk once, and then spending endless hours “debugging” them! We joined a local CoCo computer club and met some great people. I wonder where those guys are now?!

Radio Shack Color Computer
4K of RAM, 16 color. One of the first things I did was upgrade it to 16K and double the clock speed. Both voided the warranty but it was reliable.
The great thing about it was that it ran TRSDOS. It was a tweaked version of MS DOS.

Radio Shack Color Computer
4K of RAM, 16 color. One of the first things I did was upgrade it to 16K and double the clock speed. Both voided the warranty but it was reliable.
The great thing about it was that it ran TRSDOS. It was a tweaked version of MS DOS.

I guess it depends. The first computer I _owned_ was an NCR Century 100 in 1976, a real room-filler, but I was never able to run it… I couldn’t find enough power in my parents’ garage! I ended up parting it out and selling the remainder for salvage.
The first real, usable computer I owned was an Ohio Scientific C1P I bought in 1980, a 6502-based system that was a contemporary of the Apple ][. Casette tape for storage, 4K of static RAM, Microsoft BASIC in ROM, but the video display was strictly character-mapped, no graphics to speak of. It was really not bad at all. OSI is gone now, but in their time they made some really neat machines.

The first computer I actually owned was a comadore Plus 4. It was cool withthe built in apps and all. I rember mowing laws to save money for a cassette drive so I could save all the stuff i was writing in BASIC.

I also owned a Tandy 2000, which was mostly IBM compatable and ran MS-DOS 2.0. My parents gave me this as opposed to the Laser 128 I wanted. That was an early Apple clone.

I really moved up when I went to the IBM PS/2 486 DX2) with Windows 3.11 pre-installed. I still found myself using DOS a lot though. I used o use Telex, WinTelex, and old school Compuserve to connect to the outside world.

How things have changed…..
HP D530 3.0ghz HT processor, 3gigs RAM, Windows XP Pro
I think my old Plus 4 running GeoWorks was faster than Bill’s latest operating system.

The first computer I actually owned was a comadore Plus 4. It was cool withthe built in apps and all. I rember mowing laws to save money for a cassette drive so I could save all the stuff i was writing in BASIC.

I also owned a Tandy 2000, which was mostly IBM compatable and ran MS-DOS 2.0. My parents gave me this as opposed to the Laser 128 I wanted. That was an early Apple clone.

I really moved up when I went to the IBM PS/2 486 DX2) with Windows 3.11 pre-installed. I still found myself using DOS a lot though. I used o use Telex, WinTelex, and old school Compuserve to connect to the outside world.

How things have changed…..
HP D530 3.0ghz HT processor, 3gigs RAM, Windows XP Pro
I think my old Plus 4 running GeoWorks was faster than Bill’s latest operating system.

hrm, think my comment got deleted or you changed this post?

First computer: Atari 400, with the BASIC cartridge that probably changed he course of my life in myriad unknown ways. Followed by the VIC20 and C64, Apple //e, and eventually went Mac for the rest of my life.

My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20 also with the “Datasette” cassette recorder. I even got online using the 300 baud VicModem. I still have fond memories of playing those text-based adventure games on cartridge.

I also had a couple TI-99/4A computers. YEARS later a friend gave me a LaPine 386 DX/40 PC with a whopping 120mb Maxtor hard drive and 8mb of RAM. I believe I ran DOS 6.22 and can remember using QuikMenu III as my “GUI” and doing a lot of graphics work with NeoPaint for DOS.

Ahh, the memories!
Wayne

My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20 also with the “Datasette” cassette recorder. I even got online using the 300 baud VicModem. I still have fond memories of playing those text-based adventure games on cartridge.

I also had a couple TI-99/4A computers. YEARS later a friend gave me a LaPine 386 DX/40 PC with a whopping 120mb Maxtor hard drive and 8mb of RAM. I believe I ran DOS 6.22 and can remember using QuikMenu III as my “GUI” and doing a lot of graphics work with NeoPaint for DOS.

Ahh, the memories!
Wayne

Chris,

My first computer was a C0ommodore Plus 4 which I obught at a garage sale for $15.00. It got me started and ws acutually quite good even though it was not a commercial success.

My Next was an Eagle 4 CP.M machine which I still have and use. It was the first computer to function like a modern computer even though only 64k of RAM.

Ken

Chris,

My first computer was a C0ommodore Plus 4 which I obught at a garage sale for $15.00. It got me started and ws acutually quite good even though it was not a commercial success.

My Next was an Eagle 4 CP.M machine which I still have and use. It was the first computer to function like a modern computer even though only 64k of RAM.

Ken

The first computer that I ran was an IBM 1401. Punch cards and mag tape. We were doing regression analysis. Faster than a rotary calculator, but not by much.

The first computer that I owned was a Radio Shack Model 1 with a cassette drive and Basic in ROM chips. Spent a lot of time typing.

The First computer I remember using was an Apple II or a IIe at my elementary school library. then my mother’s Tandy TL/2 1000 later on. the first personal computer I owned was also the very first computer I fixed, an 8088 with a blown board. the first computer that I bought myself was a Compuadd 386 dx 25 with a 109mb HD for $20 at a yard sale. the first system that I was able to access the internet with was a 486dx-2 66mhz system that was spread out on a desk because it’s original case was damaged. it had windows 3.1, 16mb of ram and IE 3.1, those were the days…… though I would still love to find a apple IIe somewhere.

The First computer I remember using was an Apple II or a IIe at my elementary school library. then my mother’s Tandy TL/2 1000 later on. the first personal computer I owned was also the very first computer I fixed, an 8088 with a blown board. the first computer that I bought myself was a Compuadd 386 dx 25 with a 109mb HD for $20 at a yard sale. the first system that I was able to access the internet with was a 486dx-2 66mhz system that was spread out on a desk because it’s original case was damaged. it had windows 3.1, 16mb of ram and IE 3.1, those were the days…… though I would still love to find a apple IIe somewhere.

Apple II plus for me! Actually it wasn’t really my computer, I did bookkeeping for my parents travel agency on it– when I wasn’t trying to figure out Akalabeth.

Apple Macintosh 128k (purchased by my family). It was a classic, and I still own it. It was upgraded to a Mac Plus (1MB of RAM) about a year after we bought it. Floppy disk swapping was always fun.

All the best,

Andrew Darlow
Editor, The Imaging Buffet
http://www.imagingbuffet.com

Apple Macintosh 128k (purchased by my family). It was a classic, and I still own it. It was upgraded to a Mac Plus (1MB of RAM) about a year after we bought it. Floppy disk swapping was always fun.

All the best,

Andrew Darlow
Editor, The Imaging Buffet
http://www.imagingbuffet.com

My first computer was A Vector Graphic I-don’t -remember-what-it-was-called kit built. It was from about 1978. It used a Z80 processor and was a S-100 bus based system, which means that it had a rack with several 100 pin slots, all in parallel. It used a +8 V and +18 v power supply, which had to be “pulled down” on the cards to TTL (+5v) or +/-12v levels.

It had a processor (Z80) board that also held a couple of PROMs that held the OS and a 48K RAM board. It also had a Northstar tape drive I/F board and later a DOS board that I/F-ed to a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive. Later on a ‘Bitstreamer II’ that fed a composite monitor.

It required a terminal, that I/F-d via a RS232 port. We used either a TI ‘Silent 700′ (which also printed on thermal paper), or a Lear Seigler ADM-3A (which ‘printed’ to a built in screen). The iMac has about the same profile / shape of the ADM3A — I bet they modeled it on it. You also see it sometimes in late 70s and 80s movies, like (maybe) in War Games, which had Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius hacking into the Pentagon and almost starting World War III.

It also had a acoustic coupled modem.

I still have most of it (including the modem), and it may even still work (at 300 baud).

The first computer I used was a IBM S/360, at a programming class I took at a local two year college when I was in elementary school. I got my HAM license at the same time. Later on I played with a Sinclair, as well as a VIC-20 and a friends Trash-80 from Radio Shack.

The first PC I used was a 8086 Corona portable (maybe 40 lbs!), with one single sided 5 1/4″ floppy drive. I think when DOS 2.0 came out it became double sided, from 180K to 360K by using 9 sectors per track instead of 8. You actually had to buy double sided floppies. You could also get DSDD (Double-Sided Double-Density 720K) disks.

Later on DOS 3.0 supported 1.2M floppies, but required a different drive. DOS 3 also had hard drive support. You could upgrade to a hard drive in an earlier DOS if you used a (Western Digital) I/F card that had it’s own BIOS. It came with GWBASIC on it’s DOS floppy. IBMs has BASICA in ROM built in. We were told GWBASIC stood for Gee-Whizz Basic – it did some cool stuff, but kinda yawn today.

My next one was a IBM PS/2 Model 30, which I still have and it works. The PS/2 was the first to use 6 pin mini-din keyboard and mouse connectors, which is why we still call them PS/2 connectors. Since then I’ve had at least a dozen. My house today has several networked PCs running everything from Win ‘98 to XP Pro, Ubuntu and Slackware, as well as my son’s MAC Book OSX.

My first computer was the TRS model 1 with tape storage as Christmas present from Grandpa. The first computer I bought was the Commodore 64 with the slowwww 1541 disk drive. I have many pleasant memories of these computers and of course my Grandpa who has passed away.

My first computer was the TRS model 1 with tape storage as Christmas present from Grandpa. The first computer I bought was the Commodore 64 with the slowwww 1541 disk drive. I have many pleasant memories of these computers and of course my Grandpa who has passed away.

My first computer was an Apple IIe with dual disk drives that I bought on St. Patrick’s Day in 1983. I paid $2,500 for the system, which included a 300 baud Hayes modem and an Epson dot matrix printer, and an additional $500 on two software programs, WordStar and VisiCalc. Throughout the 1980s, I added additional software programs.

Early on, I subscribed to the Source, CompuServe, and Dow Jones. These were online services I used daily, predecessors to the Internet. I worked in financial public relations and obtained financial data and other information for my clients. I lived in Chicago at that time and often sent news releases to the City News Bureau and the Chicago Sun-Times via modem from my home early in the morning. For some reason, the Chicago Tribune would not allow me to send releases to them electronically.

I had a client in Toronto whose CFO had an IBM PC in his office and another in his home. We exchanged copy and financial info for news releases, corporate fact books, and quarterly and annual reports electronically. This saved us a great deal of money in Federal Expense charges. In those days. FedEx charged about $40-$50 for overnight delivery.

Most clients simply accepted FedEx charges as a cost of doing business. Some also spent considerable sums on word-processing equipment and frowned upon personal computers.

In 1986, I used Software Publishing’s PFS software series to build a database of companies in Los Angeles and San Francisco. I then used PFS to prepare a letter and used its mailmerge feature to prepare letters and envelopes to about 300 West Coast firms. I soon landed a senior account exec job with a PR firm in San Francisco.

I learned how to use both Macs and PCs on the job and by taking classes from time to time during the 1980s and 1990s.

On the Fourth of July in 1999, I bought my first PC, a Proteva, for $1,200 as a lark though the Home Shopping Network. It served me well until late 2005, when it finally collapsed on me. I bought a new Compaq Presario in December 2005, which I am now using to write this Comment.

My Apple IIe sits on the computer hutch behind me. Almost 25 years old, it still works like a charm. Apple Computer can be very proud of the IIe line.

My first computer was an Apple IIe with dual disk drives that I bought on St. Patrick’s Day in 1983. I paid $2,500 for the system, which included a 300 baud Hayes modem and an Epson dot matrix printer, and an additional $500 on two software programs, WordStar and VisiCalc. Throughout the 1980s, I added additional software programs.

Early on, I subscribed to the Source, CompuServe, and Dow Jones. These were online services I used daily, predecessors to the Internet. I worked in financial public relations and obtained financial data and other information for my clients. I lived in Chicago at that time and often sent news releases to the City News Bureau and the Chicago Sun-Times via modem from my home early in the morning. For some reason, the Chicago Tribune would not allow me to send releases to them electronically.

I had a client in Toronto whose CFO had an IBM PC in his office and another in his home. We exchanged copy and financial info for news releases, corporate fact books, and quarterly and annual reports electronically. This saved us a great deal of money in Federal Expense charges. In those days. FedEx charged about $40-$50 for overnight delivery.

Most clients simply accepted FedEx charges as a cost of doing business. Some also spent considerable sums on word-processing equipment and frowned upon personal computers.

In 1986, I used Software Publishing’s PFS software series to build a database of companies in Los Angeles and San Francisco. I then used PFS to prepare a letter and used its mailmerge feature to prepare letters and envelopes to about 300 West Coast firms. I soon landed a senior account exec job with a PR firm in San Francisco.

I learned how to use both Macs and PCs on the job and by taking classes from time to time during the 1980s and 1990s.

On the Fourth of July in 1999, I bought my first PC, a Proteva, for $1,200 as a lark though the Home Shopping Network. It served me well until late 2005, when it finally collapsed on me. I bought a new Compaq Presario in December 2005, which I am now using to write this Comment.

My Apple IIe sits on the computer hutch behind me. Almost 25 years old, it still works like a charm. Apple Computer can be very proud of the IIe line.

I’m with you, Chris! My first computer was the Commodore VIC-20 and later on Packard Bell 386 (486’s weren’t out yet). I also had a Commodore-64 and a C-128 (the C-64 died one day with an ‘Out of Memory error in 0′ on startup). I learned BASIC as well on the Commodores and remember too typing for hours the programs from magazines. I also remember spending ‘double’-hours typing in hexadecimal code for the advanced programs running ‘machine-language’! I still remember how to program in BASIC (I had to clear the cob webs away from that part of my mind to do it) and have been trying to type in a program in BASIC recently for forecasting the weather based on cloud types and barometric pressure (I’d do it in another language but don’t have the time to spend to learn it/them). I also used during that era Apple IIc, a TI (don’t remember the model), TRS-80’s, and an IBM PC. Although I still miss the straightforwardness of the Commodore line, esp. the ROM-based OS. Also the word processor Speedscript was a favorite at our home at that time. My mom still misses it. I remember when the first VIC-20 was displayed at a major dept. store on a pedestal-like stand with a light beamed onto it. My parents and I were just amazed at such technology!! LOL

My first computer was an Atari 400 that featured a FLAT keyboard which took some getting used to but it was workable. We saved programs on cassette tape at first. What a disaster. “Why would you want a disk drive?” was my dad’s question. But we got one. Then “what on earth would you want a modem for?” Because, dear daddy, in 1986 I had foresight, thank you. I upgraded to an 800XL and then to an Atari ST. You can almost guess the ages of everyone here by the first computer they used .

I broke my leg and my dad got me a TI-99/4a from K-Mart. I scrounged up a tape drive and some game cartridges, and the voice box of course. I typed in a few games and whatnot but they were frustrating. anytime anyone walked in the room the static would make it freak out with an alarming array of colored boxes and lines and weird noises.

I’ve had lots of different odd computers over the years, my favorite was the Osborne cp/m (?) machine, a little suitcase with a tiny 4″ orange mono screen. I kept track of rebates my wife sent away for with it’s database program.

I broke my leg and my dad got me a TI-99/4a from K-Mart. I scrounged up a tape drive and some game cartridges, and the voice box of course. I typed in a few games and whatnot but they were frustrating. anytime anyone walked in the room the static would make it freak out with an alarming array of colored boxes and lines and weird noises.

I’ve had lots of different odd computers over the years, my favorite was the Osborne cp/m (?) machine, a little suitcase with a tiny 4″ orange mono screen. I kept track of rebates my wife sent away for with it’s database program.