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Re: Your first computer
A Timex-Sinclair around 1982. Was taking a course in Basic at college and the computer lab was always a busy place.
Having the Timex-Sinclair enabled me to write the program, verify that it ran properly, then make the trek over to the computer lab and enter the debugged program into the computer and print out the assignment.
The graphics on a B&W television were pretty bad, and anything that was to be saved had to be saved on an external cassette deck.
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radio2
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Worcester, MA | reply to bond787
Got a DEC PDP 11/34a at work in 1978, then shortly thereafter bought a tandy 1000 with the external hard drve |
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techjoe
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IBM PC...Ya know, the good kind with the dual 25lb floppy drives and that mean green monochrome monitor. Was either an 8088 or 8086. Upgraded to an XT, tandy, and off we went through 2/3/4/586. 
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swsamurai
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Re: Commodore Pet 1977
MY GOD!!!! I Remember those beasts. The school I went to had several, and someone got hurt trying to steal one. We used them to do our student records on. |
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swsamurai
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Re: Your first computer
said by Carl  :A Tandy 1000 EX. It still works! I am trying to sell it though.  Good luck. I have an old 1000HX with dual floppies. I had that thing on three separate eBay sales, one starting at $1.00, and it never sold. I was even including the RGB monitor and the modem. Now it sits in my garage in a box as a spider condo. THe relics of a by-gone era! |
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Coon Dawg
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This was my first computing device.
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SOLdesign
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Woodland Hills, CA | reply to wxboss
Radio Shack AT
Dual 5 1/4 floppies
no hard drive
dont remember how much mem..
so fine...
damn the 80s were cool |
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Chuck22
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In 1979, Alpha Micro AM100.
WD16 processor, 32K ram, 8" floppy drive, removable magnetic platter drive.
CMP/AMOS (Alpha Micro Operating System).
Stood on the floor -- about the size of an end table.
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rchandra
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Sinclair ZX-81 1K RAM. Eventually added the 16K RAM module and the 300bps modem. An audio cassette recorder served as mass/mag storage instead of a disk drive.
Later, I got the Timex/Sinclair 2068, was able to reuse the modem, and got a mikrodrive...which was a continuous-loop cartridge system with carts about the size of a microcassette. way faster than audiocassette, plus no rewinding. the same i/f also had a parallel i/f, so I was able to attach a DMP100 printer (although didn't use it a whole lot, mainly due to the noise while printing). Also got a cartridge that remapped the video RAM and made the system 64 columns.
first bit of computing hardware I owned was a TI-30 (yes, the red LEDs). one step up, our family owned a Pong. and a step up from that, at one time I owned an Atari VCS, the predecessor to the 2600 (althought that's rarely called a "computer"...I thought it was interesting that if you really wanted to, you could get keypads to plug into the joystick/game controller ports, and a BASIC cartridge).
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rchandra
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The ORIGINAL was (well, is) the Amiga 1000...which I own one. Then came the 2000, the 500 (an attempt to make it more affordable), the 3000, the 4000. After that, I'm not sure.
My system is filled to the gills with 512K fast RAM, 8M slow RAM, and a SCSI interface w/ a 49M disk (which has a number of floppy-sized partitions) and a 300M full-height 5.25" disk. Also have the Amiga monitor, which serves as the video output device of my home TV system (no TV set...just a stereo, 2 VCRs to serve as tuners, and the monitor).
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UBdude
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Buffalo, NY | 1992 IBM PS/2 Windows 3.11 25Mhz cpu 2MB HD and 2MB ram. guess i'm the young one around here |
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The first computer I had was a Timex Sinclair ZX-81. It had 1kb of memory, with a 16kb memory extension. It used a tape drive for upload/downloading files. It hooked up to a regular TV, 2 colours, black and white.
My second computer was a IBM Generic (AMD, in fact) 80286, 1 meg of memory, 40MB HD, VGA graphics, 3 1/4 and 5 1/2 drives, and a 2400 baud modem! Yee haw! Oh, I also had a soundblaster in it.
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In 1983 I started mowing lawns to save for a Commodore 64. In 1985, when I had $900, I bought the just-released Commodore 128, with the 1902 Commodore Monitor ($320! component video inputs AND RGB!) and the 1571 5.25" Floppy ($170! Double Sided! 340K!).
The C-128 had three modes: a full C-64 emulator (the 8505 proc in 6505 emu), a native c-128 mode (native 8505), and it had a Z-80 processor for running CP/M. 40 and 80 columns in 128 mode, 40 column composite and 80 col using RGB, which the monitor supported also via a switch. Plus a 1200 baud modem.
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1st
TRS-80
Cassette Recorder
300 Baud Modem with push button to connect after manualling dialing using the phone.
Now
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Saint Louis, MO | reply to wxboss
Custom Built
386
250 MB Hard Drive
RAM (unknown)
3.5" Floppy
5.25" Floppy
Tape Backup Drive
Single Speed CD-ROM
Windows 3.11 |
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Boomerang86
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Never really laid my hands on a 'puter keyboard until about 1981, when my high school started loading up on Apple ]['s (and their black Bell & Howell branded versions); all with 48K RAM and a single sided 180K floppy drive that costs over $400; the computer was over $1K IIRC.
1983 I managed to actually buy my first, a Coleco Adam (and their dreaded proprietary tape drives). This was the first machine I connected to the telephone network with its internal 300K modem. Sold it after a year or so, dabbled with a used C64 (ran my own BBS for a week), T/S 2068, then put it all away for a few years. 1988 my dad got an IBM clone 8088-1 16mHz with a 20MB HDD; played Test Drive 2 on it a few times.
Now it's the '90s and the internet is starting to look very interesting... December 1996 I bought my first true PC of modern vintage, a Monorail 7245 all-in-one with its Cyrix 75mHz chip, Windoze 95, 16MB RAM, 1GB HDD and 33.6k modem. Less than a year later I upgraded to an IBM Aptiva PII 233; others include two Fujitsu notebooks (P133 and PIII 1GHz), A Compaq PC Companion (first portable with Windoze CE 1.0), and my current Sony VAIO P4 2GHz. |
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Babar
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Timex Sinclair 1000
Ohhh, Daddy!!!
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dylking
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Saint Paul, MN
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MY first computer was an Apple //c, green screen, 300baud modem. Lode Runner and the Infocom games wore that puppy out (and a few cracked games, I must admit). Still have it downstairs, in a box, next to the ][gs
OUR first computer was a TI 99/4a. That was my first real introduction to computers. |
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