ScottMo
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join:2000-12-15
Stony Brook, NY
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Re: Your first computer
In 1993 I bought a Midwest Micro 486SX with 4 Meg of ram, a 120 MB HDD, and Windows 3.1 I added a "high-speed" 14.4 modem a year later for my first internet experience (on AOL).
Now my video card has more RAM than my first hard drive had storage space. |
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cupx2
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join:2002-08-14
Lynn, MA
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my first hmmm
has got to be this...
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N10Cities
SILENCE I Keel You
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join:2002-05-07
Roland, OK
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The first computer I ever used was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III (64kbyte RAM and 2 - 5 1/4 floppy drives!) in school. First machine I ever got at home was a TI-994A (they had just stopped production, so Mom got it cheap). First machine I ever bought myself was a Commodore 64. |
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N10Cities
SILENCE I Keel You
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Roland, OK
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said by wxboss  :Bought an Amiga 500 years later God I loved (and still do!) the Amiga! That thing was so far ahead of it's time (multitasking OS, GUI, stereo sound, excellent graphics - in 1988!!). I shudder to think what the Amiga would be like now if Commode-door hadn't dropped the ball....  |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | reply to wxboss
Atari 1200XL and 1010 cassette recorder.  |
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smoky_129
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join:2002-09-04
Arab, AL | reply to wxboss
commodore vic-20
»oldcomputers.net/vic20.html |
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Gambrinus
@teksavvy.com | reply to wxboss
An old XT, I Loved it had dos 3.1 and a sales software package that still can NOT be beat |
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nokiatech
join:2000-10-18
Stuart, FL
·Comcast
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My first machine (other than a word processor my mother had) was a packard bell 60mhz pentium. It was a total POS. Ran windows 95. Don't remember any other specs. It had a 14.4k modem which was BLAZING at the time. I rocked on AOL with it. |
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Smegmal
join:2004-08-21
West Springfield, MA
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Commodore Vic-20 here as well, with the tape drive and a few game cartridges. I believe Gorf was my favorite.
I have to confess, I typed in every program in the manual. Perhaps even sadder: It's all still out in my garage, and probably more likely to boot than my old 486DX2 box. |
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ld2950
join:2001-09-22
Medford, MA
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A commodore Vic 20 then I graduated to a c64 and from that to a c128..Then a friend gave me an 8086 no name puter...The first computer I built was a 486/66 with an amd processor and I have benn hooked on amd ever since..:D
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CCafe
join:2000-08-16
Des Moines, IA | reply to wxboss
8088 640K 2 5 1/4" FD no HD (it came later after a FD died) Makes you kinda long after the days when no heat sink or fan were required to run you cpu! |
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Augustus III
If Only Rome Could See Us Now....
join:2001-01-25
Gainesville, GA | reply to wxboss
apple 2 that i still have in the closet at the parents' place.
it works but i think my 2nd floppy died too so it is somewhat useless now. |
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cork1958
Cork
join:2000-02-26
Fruitport, MI
·Verizon Online DSL
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An IBM clone from 1997 with a 486DX cpu, 16MB memory, Windows 95, 3.02gb hd. Still in use today and runs just as good as the day I bought it. Has Windows 98SE on it now and 80MB memory. Cost $1300 then. I have since acquired 4 other systems for a total of less than that altogether!!
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MDColson
join:2002-12-20
West Hartford, CT
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Geoworks |
edit: Oh yeah, and it had a soundblaster sound card!
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firstwasavic
@209.5.x.x
| Commodore Vic-20 with a tape drive first here, got a 16k ram expansion shortly after (3.5K just didn't leave much room for code, but it is amazing how much you could squeeze in there). Saved most of my programs on tape, still have some of the in a box.
Switched to a Commodore 128 later (although I am sure a Commodore 64 came along in the middle somewhere, but not for long)
I tell you, that 1 Mhz VIC-20 booted up and shutdown faster than my 3.0Ghz Intel today! |
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jwersan
R.I.P. Mom, Brian, Ziggy, and Max.
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join:2004-12-20
Port Jefferson Station, NY
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This was my first computer..
The Kim-1 6502 processor computer..
»www.old-computers.com/museum/com···=1&c=149
Yes it is just a board, but the ENTIRE computer was on this board, and it worked!!
1K of static ram!!!
I built the power supplies for it!!
I think I still have it somewhere... |
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yengec
join:2000-03-24
Boca Raton, FL
| reply to MDColson
A pong/tennis style video game console - I was only 3-4 years old, can't remember
Atari 2600 Video Game Console
Atari 800XL
Atari 130XE
Atari 1040STe
Intel 486 based 66MHz PC
Intel Pentium based 133MHz PC
AMD Based 450MHz PC
Intel Based 266MHz Notebook
AMD Based 1400MHz PC
Intel Based 400MHz Notebook
Intel Based 1200MHz Notebook
AMD Based 1800MHz (64 3000+) PC
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mattmill
join:1999-09-03
Brunswick, ME
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My first exposure to a computer was a friend's dad worked for the National Institute of Health in DC. He would bring home a terminal that we would hook the rotary dial phone up to the rubber cradle and play Star Trek on a roll of thermal paper. I remember how mad my friend's dad got one weekend when we used a whole roll of paper and he needed to do "real work" This was in the late 70's.
The first computer that I owned was a TI-99/4A with a cassette deck for storage. My friend and I would spend hours writing games in BASIC that were like those Atari 2600 space invaders type.
Wow, just thinking about all that and I went into Photography and he is an IT exec at a major US corp. I guess he took it more serious than me.
matt |
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big greg
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join:2003-10-11
Boston, MA
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First wrote code for IBM 1130 »ibm1130.org/
First owned IMSAI 8080 »www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/imsai/ |
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Andrew J
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join:2001-11-09
Lancaster, PA
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Texas Instruments TI-99/4A and I still have it.
»oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html
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