wxboss
This is like Deja vu all over again.
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| Your first computer
What was it. An old Apple (II), TRS-80, Commodore 64, Atari 400?. Maybe your first is P4 with all the bells and whistles. I was just curious as I was sitting here waxing nostalgic. My first computer (that I actually owned) was a Commodore 64, but I played around with an Apple II and an Atari 400 prior to my old 64:)
64K and 300 baud modems...those were the days:D
Okay, list your first rig and any fond memories you might have of it. |
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Bill
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| In 1997 (maybe a few years earlier) my family bought me a computer for school work; they said it was the top of the line and was more than anyone would ever need, even 10 years into the future! 
The 233 MHz Pentium CPU, 32 MB of RAM and 3GB HD didn't last as long as they predicted 
I still have the machine out in the garage.
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McSummation
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Apple II+ (48 KB) that was beefed up (over the years) to have:
3.5 mhz processor (stock was 1 mhz)
2 - 5.25" diskette drives
1 - 3.5" diskette drive
80 column video card
"language" card (with 16 KB of RAM)
128 KB RAM card
Grappler printer card
Epson MX-80 F/T printer with a 256 KB buffer inside it.
Apple color monitor
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Weirdal
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when I was 4 I think (1994) my family got a computer, I remember it had windows 3.1 and that a couple years later I was addicted to the game 'mouse' on it
I dont remember anything else though, we didnt have it long 
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Epyon9283
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Dayton, NJ | reply to wxboss
My first was an AT&T 8500 plus. 286, 2mb ram, 21mb hdd. |
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DanHo
Hugh Johnson
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My first computer was a Commodore 64. The first computer that I actually purchased myself was a Mac PowerPC. |
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Willy
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About 1986. Tandy 1000 with 128K memory and 2 5 1/4" floppy drives.
Doubled the memory to 256K for $200 then added a 20MB hard card for $800.
Tandy was super proprietary. You wanted to expand the system you had to buy Tandy and you paid through the nose.
It's the first and last Tandy. |
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mrmagoo
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Cartersville, GA | reply to wxboss
IBM 8088, (2) 5 1/2" floppy drive, 64k of ram, no hard drive and dos 3.1 |
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innerspin
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Birmingham | reply to wxboss
mine was the good old spectrum 28k! lmao |
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alg
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A Tandy 386 with 3.5" floppy drive from around 1993 or so. That's all I can remember about it. |
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CurtesyFlush
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A Timex-Sinclair with a Radio Shack cassette drive and video out to a 10" Hitachi B&W TV I had salvaged out of an old pay for TV chair from an airport.
It was great to write and run BASIC routines on when I was a noob with the language.
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runnoft
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Apple IIe, a graduation present in 1986.
Then an IBM 286, an office hand-me-down in the early 1990s.
The first computer I purchased, a Micron Pentium 200, around 1995. It was almost $3000. Eesh. |
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Whonon
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Texas Instruments TI-99/4,
Texas Instruments Pro PC (8088), 5MB disk,
DEC (Digital Equipment) PC (25MHz 486)
Many more since then -
Currently running 7 computers + 2 laptops. |
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Greg_Z
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First would of been a Exidy Sorcerer (1978-1979), then a H/Z-89 with CP/m.
»oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html
»oldcomputers.net/index.html
»oldcomputers.net/ads/ads.shtml
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tbsteph
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Bought an AppleII+ for the kids in the early 80's. First work computer was an IBM 8088 with 2 5 1/2 inch floppies and a 9" (I think) green phosphorous screen. Cost about $2,500! (Here I sit using an HP ZV6000 notebook with an AMD 64, 15.4 inch screen etc. that cost less than $900.00). Sometings have progressed (My first new car- a Toyota - cost less than $2,000 - 1971). By the way, the first real game played on the Apple was Wizardry I. Hated that game - could not save your position while in the maze! But did like the ultimate spell; tiltowait? |
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Ray
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| My dad brought home an Apple ][+ with a copy of Wizardy also. Prior to that I had just used my friend's TRS-80 and I had a little Sinclair. I got an Apple ][e in '85-'86 and my first PC (286-12) around '90.
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koolman2
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AST Pentium 66MHz, 450MB HDD, 8MB RAM. Top of the line back then... We got it before '94. and that's all I know. Oh, and it had a 300-baud modem.
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Started out in the early 80s doing manual accounting, then in 1983, my employer upgraded the accounting to computerized. I did accounts receivable on a TRS-80. I don't think it ever crashed although my boss at the time was forever restoring from a floppy as I was forever overwriting something...lol. I've never gone back to manual accounting. I got my first home PC for Christmas 1999, but it died of Klez and motherboard failure in May 2002. It was an HP that was replaced with my current computer, a Dimension 4500S Dell. When the HP died, I took anything that looked like a motor and proceeded to remove the copper. I was going to take apart the hard drive to see what it looks like, but lost interest. I still have the hard drive around here and run into it every once in a while. The monitor, keyboard, speakers & original mouse were given away. 
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wxboss
This is like Deja vu all over again.
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It's nice to see some 'pc old timers' on here
My computing exposure and history is as follows (don't expect me to remember the dates)....
Com 64
Eventually went to the Commodore 128
Played Lemonade Stand on Apple IIs in school
Dad got a Atari 800 with a Cassette drive (while he bought it for legitimate purposes, the first games he bought got me hooked on PCs for good
Bought an Apple IIC (also bought a 3 1/2 drive..man that was cool- my favorite pc up to this point)
Bought an Amiga 500 years later
Bought some type of scaled down Compaq which served its purpose well
Currently have an Compaq AMD XP 2000+ (plan to hold on to this one for a while)
I still think some of my best experiences were using the Commodore and eventually the Apple to log on and surf to local BBSs! |
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Hawk
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October 1986
CPU: not specified
RAM: 0.25 MB
HD: none
COST: $799
Radio Shack was a leader in PC compatible systems back then. (In fact, you probably have memories of using a Tandy TRS-80 at some point.) This is the 1000-EX. It supported MS-DOS, the popular text-based operating-system which the graphics-based Windows system was built upon.
Do you remember DOS from IBM? It competed with MS-DOS from Microsoft, just like OS/2 Warp from IBM did before Windows 95. In both cases, it's rather clear which history favored. Though, being available in limited quantities isn't always a bad thing. Edit: If my memory serves me, that's "Deskmate" on the screen. |
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