coxta
Ultramundane
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join:2000-07-15
LALALALALALA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
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Re: Your first computer
said by 53059959  :man this is like the 20th lets discuss old computers thread ive seen lol. you guys are old You'll have to lean closer and speak louder into my ear trumpet.
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Jay_Are
J.R.
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join:2004-04-10
Sicklerville, NJ
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IBM PS/1 25MHZ with Windows 3.1, played countless hours of Microprose F-15 Strike Eagle III and Sim City 2000 on this bad boy.
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Feanacar
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join:2005-02-19
Weston, OR | reply to wxboss
Altair 8800
I go back a wee bit... |
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PittsPgh
join:2003-08-21
Pittsburgh, PA
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said by 53059959 :man this is like the 20th lets discuss old computers thread ive seen lol. you guys are old Wait a minute, let me get my bifocals, i don't think I'm reading this right.
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cosmicvoid
Infinity Or Bust
join:2001-01-02
Kingston, WA | reply to wxboss
SWTPC (SouthWest Technical Prod Corp) 6800 running at 1 MHz !!, with 8 KB of ram. 1975.
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MyFirst
@shawcable.net | reply to wxboss
Mine was the epson qx-10
»www.xs4all.nl/~fjkraan/comp/qx10/
My First Laptop
»www.xs4all.nl/~fjkraan/comp/px8/ |
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koitsu
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join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
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I had the same thing as McSummation, minus the CPU accelerator, language card and Grappler + Epson. For what it's worth, I still do 65xxx assembly...
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JollyStomper
The Funky Feel One
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join:2003-03-16
Right 'Dere
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Atari 800 w/the BASIC cartridge and some other kewl games (Defender, Pac Man, River Raid, etc...)
It's still at my Moms' house. It still works great...
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MrClean132
Sassy 'Medic
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join:2000-08-28
Toronto, On | reply to wxboss
an 8086 XT, with DOS something. |
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Oldiegoldie
@pacbell.n |  reply to wxboss
My first computer was a sinclair ZX81
1k memory no screen no disc was done with a tape recorder |
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outtatimeiii
Mini Me
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join:2000-12-24
Tucson, AZ
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Mine was a IBM 3270PC, a business class IBM XT pretty much. It was decked out from the factory, AMD D8088 4.77MHz, 640KB RAM, and CGA adapter was stock. It also got a 32MB Miniscribe hard disk in 1987. It also got a 1200 baud internal modem when they were cutting edge.
Of course, it was already way obsolete by the time I was old enough to use it LOL. It still served 10 years (yes, 10 LOL) as my primary computer. Who needed Windows 3.1 or 95 when you had MS-DOS 3.30, a BBS client, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, good games, etc  .
I finally got a new computer in 1999, a K6-2 400 running Win98. Thats where my Windows hating began LOL.
The IBM still runs to this day, hard drive and all, which surprises a lot of people. |
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oldhand
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join:2003-05-16
Saugus, MA
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An IBM-610 that I bought for $50 in 1969 when a client company closed its doors. It was built sometime in the 1950s and used paper tape for entering the "program."
I had to get rid of it 2-years later. When I proposed to my future wife, she gave me a choice -- her or the computer. I made the wrong choice! |
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Mashiki
Balking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON
·Bright House
·Rogers Hi-Speed
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Vic 20 with tape drive. We even got the 16k RAM expansion cartridge so we could get that little bit of extra memory.
How I will never forget waiting for the commadore book to come in as a kid, and getting a new program to write out and record onto tape. |
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ghostlisting
join:2005-03-10
Denver, CO
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I remember in my teens, our family computer was a Packard Bell 486 with a 25 mhz processor . That machine cost our family over $2000. It had 4MB of ram,a 210 MB hard drive, and a bitchin 2400 baud modem. My brother and I used doublespace to get that puppy up to 420MB, but then the machine ran so %*()*@#%*(% slow it was terrible. Oh, and I spent half of my life on AOL going "A/S/L/pic?" ROTFLMAO. I had an AOL marathon that lasted for 15 or 16 hours.
I almost forgot, we actually had two of these machines..... The first one when I was playing a computer game, the mouse started smoking....?!! so we sent it back, and packard bell sent us another machine.
We thought we were in heaven once the AOL 4 disks came in the mail!!@UIO@# sdhjkg he he he!!!
One more thing..... Does anyone remember BannanaCOM??? That was hands down, the coolest comm program out there... I loved that program to pieces!!~!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh bring back bannanaCOM!!!! |
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adelphiasux
Hope Tw Is Better
join:2003-06-29
Horseheads, NY
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TRS 80 (coco II)
I have an Apple II GS with all the original boxes and manuals sitting next to me though.. Anyone want it? LOL
bannanacomm:
»www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/SFN/ipcom/bancom.exe
»www.google.com/search?sourceid=n···nnanaCOM |
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Timt49
join:2004-01-19
Racine, WI | reply to wxboss
A Commodore PET, original model, with tape deck, tiny keyboard, and 8k worth of memory...
upgraded to a Pet 2001 when they came out. still have it along with printers and disk drives. all still work. |
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bbranonymous222222
@cox.net | reply to wxboss
We still still have the Osborne. It was first purchased by my uncle and given to us when they upgraded in about 1989. Then a number of TRS-80's. The next step was 386DX. Oh The Osborne has a 300 baud modem and a 5" inch screen. |
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brydry
...it's meat-cake
join:2004-12-05
Safety Harbor, FL
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My step-father bought me a TI99/4?. A cool little machine in its day. Came with a cassette drive and a modem. I taught myself basic on that thing and even wrote a silly little game for it, and moon landing simulator... spent hours and hours on that program. My step father still has it and it still works.
The first machine I bought myself was whitebox made at a local shop. Pentium MMX 233mhz plus turbo boost, 2md video card, 32mb edo ram, 6.4gb hdd running win95. This machine could do it all. It had 2 edo ram slots, 2 sdram slots (yes, they could all be used at the same time) isa slots, pci slots and the m-b and bios even supported usb. Eventually it had 32mb edo ram, 128mb sdarm, 13.6 gb hdd and a 16mb video card. Still have that hdd, actually just gave it to my neighbor and works great like a wd caviar drive is supposed to.
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wolfhouse
join:2001-03-01
Union City, NJ
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That beast and its 1 MHz Motorola 6809e and its rubber keys. |
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spidey3
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join:2003-01-12
Croton On Hudson, NY
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DEC 10 |
»www.columbia.edu/acis/history/pdp10.html
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