Do you remember your FIRST!!

[Phantom]

Curious to know just what was your first computer system & what did you pay? (just remember, it may show your age) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif Or maybe you just started late!...Whatever!

I got my 1st ‘puter at the “Cutting Edge” of technology! I waited & held out for a Zeos 486DX-33 with a whopping 4MB Ram and 200Mb HD. Windows for workgroups 3.11 & Dos 6.2
I added the Multimedia package...2-speed Mitsumi CD-Rom W/Soundblaster 8-bit sound card & Koss speakers And, of course, 14” monitor & 3.5” floppy drive. I was cookin’ with gas!!! Paid $ 1,820.00
Still have it in my work room but I robbed the 3.5” floppy for THIS 3rd ‘puter

So...Whats YOUR early dream machine??

Phantom

[Ed_S]

1983 - Radio Shack Color Computer

(The original, not the CoCoII)
4K ram, no storage device whatsoever! Built-in BASIC on 2 ROM chips. No lowercase letter display, although they would print out. Used a TV rather than a monitor.

Programs came on Rompaks, which were basically what game machine cartridges are now. You could add a tape drive for storage, and BTW that was AUDIO casette tape. Or you could pop for the $350 floppy drive (single sided, low density, 5¼") which used a controller card in the cartridge slot. Max ram you could add was 64K, and then you had to use a custom mem-swapping routine!

Later they came out with extras like a 300 baud modem (external, of course), and the "Multipak Interface" which was the greatest thing! Added expansion slots to the cartridge port so you could FINALLY use more than one thing at a time!

This was a great machine for it's era. There were a lot of modifications done to mine with soldered-in projects. I've still got the old beast in storage, it still works. (or did last try, few years ago now)
There are still users groups out there for these, and it was discontinued in '87!!

Ed

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[Dave_H]

My first computer was the Vic-20, can't remember the price. My first upgrade was the huge step up to the Commodore 64. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Dave

[neo_otyugh]

not really sure...it was somehwere in 85-88,
ummm..i remember things like 4 MHz and not much else

[Amarok]

had the old pet computer....no idea what my parents paid.... cassette tape drive... that was like 1982 83????

long time ago

[hd581]

Abacus.
http://thedam.com/cwm/smile/cwm/ohplease.gif

[daveleau]

Ed_S- I had that same setup! LOL I had a Teknics 15"tv for the monitor and the guy at Radio Shaft told my mom it could do anything and everything she wanted. We went back after it wouldn't and they charges us $150 to upgrade it from 4K to 16K so I could run the floppy drive. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I wish I'd stuck with it cuz I'd be alot further along than I am in my knowledge. I set that aside when I got a Nintendo and didn't touch a computer again until I was in college when I got my Mac Classic II. LOL
Dave

[stylin19]

1983ish...1100 bucks.. IBM PC Jr. ( yes..I was THE guy who bought it )...had a whopping 128k memory. A great monitor and an infrared keboard.

[seti]

While it's not the first computer I used, but the first I've owned.

P2 - 266 (still running it http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif...at 3*103mHz)
Asus p2b (still going)
64mb (128 now)
Stealth g460 (tnt2U now)
SB awe64 (x-gamer now)
usr v.90 (@home now)
6.4gb seagate (half lost to bad clusters, twice. Used for mp3's. Main drive is a 8.4gb WD)

I've had it for 2 years, and I've learned a lot (mostly from sysopt http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif) When I first got it I had almost no clue what I was doing. Haha, I didn't even have DMA enabled for almost a year.

Live and learn.



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[grandslammer]

Well, a leading edge 486 DX2. 8MB (yup, count 'em 8!) ram, 780 mb HD, 14.4 modem, 2x CD rom, win4WG 3.11. This was a "multimedia" system. Complete with color monitor, 1mb video ram, and stereo speakers! Whew!, what a system!

Oh yeah, a COLOR dot matrix printer. HA! All in all, we paid like 2 large for that jewel!

That was right at the onset of the pentiums. If we had only known..... but of course, we didn't know jack about computers then. Hopefully we know a little bit more now, huh?

Wishing you all the best...

M

[Stan]

Well, it was a 286 with 1Mb RAM (later upgraded to 4Mb) and a 40Mb HD.
I was able to run Windows 3.11...
I had a dot matrix 9 pins Epson printer (so slooooow)

I think I (I mean my parents...) paid 110.000BEF (approx $2800)...

Stan

[BEOR999]

For my first IBM-PC I got a Commodore, 486-25 and a 240 mb HDD, 4mb RAM and I am sure it was £2,500.00.

Before that I started on a commodore 64, state of the art games platform that was, with a super fast tape recorder to load the games http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Dominus]

The ADAM Coelcovision Family Computer. 2 tape drives, 64k of RAM, a BASIC ROM, and a Zilog Z80 CPU. All in all it was a good system. I liked it better than the Commodore64C I upgraded to, mainly because the commodore kept kept crashing. After those two, I had a 486SX 25mhz with 4 MB of RAM and a 200MB hard drive. I managed to run DOOM on it, even though the game required a DX2-66 (I began tweaking at an early age).

That system was a Packard Bell, so of course it didn't last over a year, so I soon had a P75@100, which I still have as an IPMASQ firewall. After that, a P166, a P2 333@400, and my current K7 600@666.

[The o/c freak]

The first pc I used myself, but which I didn't buy myself was:

A stunning 80386SX

It had a frequency of 8Mhz and a turbo of 25
I upgraded it to 4Mb ram and a 200Mb Hdd.

I still have it running on my little experimental network of 2 486's and a 386

[welsh wizard]

First was one of the greatest little computers ever made, Atari 800XL within about 2 months of buying it for 125 pounds stirling ( rats forgotton how to get that darn pound sign up again) it came with a disk drive and it came with 1 game ( The Payoff) and a very primative office type program, the computer soon develope a personality problem as made a splitter card that allowed 3 dif operating systems on rom so could change with a few key strokes one gave the system 80 col display,1 basic Atari op, and the other was a monitor that allowed anything to be stopped on the fly and all memory to be dumped to disk, the drive ended up with a similer board that allowed 1 to be a US doubler, the other a Happy, and the other a Quad, and then took mem up from 64K to 256K which in those days every one thought was big, still have the system, still going strong runs the Eprom blower which is still used, and every now and then I still play Boulder Dash, Digger Dan, and Star Raiders on it and still get just as much enjoyment out of it http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
WW

[CMonster]

Okay, I'll bite:

Back when the 486s were being dumped for Pentium 60s and a P90 was every nerd's dream, a much older friend gave me a 286, he said I might like better than the Brother word processor I was using.

It wasn't so long ago, but even so, I knew so little that I didn't even know to type in "wp" to start Word Perfect. My friend was right though - it was a darn sight faster than the Brother.

Only one problem though - the floppy didn't work and I didn't like the idea of only having my work on the hard disk -- and so it started... I went to a used computer parts store (out of business now) an purchased several flavors of floppy drive, a controller card, and a new ribbon - what do you know I fixed it! ..and then there were these $10 386 motherboards ..what did I have to loose? I laid down $30 and soon had a lightening fast 386 with 4MB of Ram ..it was all I would ever need..sitll using the monochrome display... I was looking for a good 486 board..looking ...

You know I told my friend that I hesitated to take anything free because it always ended up costing me $4000 - $5000... well $6400, 15 computers, 7 monitors, and 4 printers later... here I am totally addicted, but I have my Athlon 600 and "it is all I will ever need."

yeah right!

[Barney]

My first computer was a Commodore64.I got it for free from my grandpa,he was already working on a 286PC (LOL).I had everyting on it,I had a floppydrive,a tapedrive a keypad (rare) a few joysticks and lotsa floppies and tapes.And ofcourse I had a powercartrigde and incredible sound (plugged into my stereo) and a matrix printer.It was great.For a while.My next computer was a multi-media 386SX-20 with 2mb RAM,80Mb hd,SB Pro,2speed CDRom,and a minitower.That had real power (compared to C64)

Ronald

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[Morpheus1964]

Apple][+. Dual Floppies. Game Paddles. Sanyo 9" B/W monitor. AppleDOS. 48K Ram + 16K Extender. 300 baud *INTERNAL* modem (replaced 110baud cradle). thing still screams. It loads my old BASIC programs faster than Windows does and I've got about 499Mhz on it, and about 3,920x the memory.

still runs - got a picture I took a couple weeks ago on my site http://baux.dyndns.org/~alice just click the "My 'Net" button and check it all out.

[medo]

Hello,

My first one was a Commodore 64, smuggled across the frontier (to avoid paying the custom duty).

Medo

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[mgordon99]

Mine was a 486DX that I bought from a friend 3 years ago for $500. It had 5MB RAM, 300MB HD, a blazing 2400 modem, 5.25 and 3.5 floppy, 2X CD ROM, and windows 3.1. I tried to upgrade to a 14400 modem, but she couldn’t take it, something about the UART if I remember correctly.

BTW, check out this site:
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/



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[drojman]

My first was a vic 20, but not just any old vic20, mine had an External Tape drive! My friends were jealous. Mostly played games on it, even back then. Tried a little basic programming... there was only like 10k ram or something like that. Next my dad got a computer that had like 256k of ram, he paid like 2 grand for it. Monochrome monitor, 100meg hard drive, I cannot remember the speed of the computer, but my brother and I were in heaven... LOL

Then I bought the fastest computer gateway made, no second fastest because the 150 just came out, (1995), a 133 pentium, with 16megs ram! 1.6gig HD, 2MB video!!!, 28.8 modem (which I found was really a 33.6 in disguise... ) 8x cd rom (everyone else had a measly 4x) It was all I ever needed.. I was sooo proud! still use it as a second computer today. It got scavenged for its case and parts a few times, but now it's all back together again.
paid a total of $2700 for it!!!!

One note, when I bought that I opted for the trinitron 17in monitor, and I still use it today, A gREAT monitor.



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[wyvrn]

Showing my youth here

P133
32MB RAM
1 GB hd
expensive USR 28.8 sportster modem
refurb 14" Gateway vga monitor

Paid 1300 for this rig. Used it until I built my first machine, an AMD k6 300. That was 18 months ago. To wit, I have recently built 4 machines 450 Mhz or better for slightly more than I paid for my first one. Knowledge is power.

[Banti]

Laser 128

Apple Knockoff

Whopping 128K of RAM! Had a 10" green mon. Had to use TV for color.

I think it had a 2Mhz clock... maybe


Banti

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[M1pilot]

Around '89 or '90 I got suckered into a an old XT (8086). Paid 300.00 bucks for the thing....but it had a color monitor (CGA...yuch!!!!), and 640k of memory. Originally it had DOS 3.2, but since I did'nt have a clue, I managed to wipe out the HDD (ooooh...10mb MFM). Did'nt have any disks for it (360k 5 1/4's), so I ended up buying DOS 5.0 (175.00....told ya, I did'nt have a clue!!) and eventually installing that. If nothing else, that system taught me to get around DOS comfortably. Did'nt start using Windows (3.1) until I swapped in my first 286 board a little while later. I used that old XT case right up to about my third 486 (lots of modifying).

-M1pilot

[Toadman]

Hmm...my first was a Tandy 1000TL, 4mg RAM, 20 mg hd, 16-color EGA, a GUI OS called "deskmate". One of the first PC's with built-in DOS(no floppy req.) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[JeffD78]

I got an old 8088 when I was 13. 640k RAM, humongous 40meg hard drive, CGA graphics, dual floppies, joystick and wow! a mouse! Next in line came my 486SX-33 with 4mb RAM, 210meg hard drive, soundblaster clone, and a blazing fast 2400baud modem. Later upgraded with a 2x CD-ROM, 14.4k modem, 16mb RAM and a 486SX4-100 overdrive processor. After that I got a P75 with 8mb RAM, 850mb hard drive, 14.4 modem, 8x CD-ROM. I upgraded it to 96mb RAM, put in a 6.4gig hard drive that I still use today, P150 overdrive processor, 24x CD-ROM and a Monster Fusion video card. Then I got a Gateway, P2-350 (still use), DVD-ROM, 64mb RAM, 6.8gb hard drive, 8mb Riva 128 graphics, 56k modem. Then I gutted the Gateway to build what I have today.
Azza PT-6VAX2 motherboard
Soundblaster PCI-128
ATI Rage Fury Maxx
128mb RAM
6.4gb hard drive
6.8gb hard drive
DVD-ROM
CDRW
56k external modem
Dlink 10/100 NIC
P2-350@433 or Celeron 466@581, once I figure out why my framerates are twice as fast with the P2 as opposed to the Celeron

[skywalker[TSG]]

this is some **** list


1# VIC20
2# C64
3# AMIGA 500 still in use
4# APPLE II
5# ATARI 1040
6# 386 12Mhz@20Mhz
7# AMIGA 4000 still in use
8# ATARI FALCON still in use GREAT FOR MUSIC
9# POWERMAC 7200 still in use
10# 486 SX-25@33
11# 486 DX2-66@80 still in use
12# 486 DX4-120@150 still in use
13# POWERMAC 8200 still in use
14# P60@66
15# P100@133 still in use
16# POWERMAC 8500 still in use
17# P166MMX@200 still in use
18# P233MMX@280 still in use
19# PPro250mhz@340
20# Powermac G3 300mhz still in use
21# PII 300
22# PII 450@600
23# CELERON 300A@504 still in use
24# DUAL 466@560mhz still in use

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[Missing the point]

My first computer, or my family's?

My Family's first computer is a 486 DX2-66 with 8MB ram. We later upgraded to 32 MB. It is an AST

MY first computer is a P II 233 with 64 MB ram, and a 6.4 GB hard drive, 3 years ago may 13th. I have upgraded it to a P III 500 @ 620 and 128 MB ram, witrh 13 BG hard drive, and a Diamond Viper V770. I am gonna get a new case on friday (my birthday) and put the old motherboard and CPU in and get another RC5 cracker going for me!

[jadinolf]

January 1978, Radio Shack Model I with a whopping 4K of memory and a tape recorder to load programs. I believe it was $599.

We've come a long way.

[Emc2]

Mine was a 386 system with unknown memory amounts and a 120mb harddrive. Played falcon 3.0 and Dune II on it. Sadly, we lost it during a move from one city to another, as the durn truck bumped around too much.

[tonym]

The first was a home-brew job based on the Rokwell 6502 uP with an 8MB Winchester drive, an 8 1/2 FDD and a cassette tape storage. It had 460KB of memory (samples from about 6 different mfgrs.) and ran at a blazing 3MHz! Paid like $150 for the parts in 1974 and added probably $100 in improvements (like a chassis!!!).

My first purchased computer was a "PC Brand" 286 with a 14" EGA monitor, a 20MB HDD, 1MB od RAM and a 287 co-processor. Paid $1900 for it in 1988. I upgraded that unit to 386SX/386/486/486DX2 before it took the great dumpster ride to Valhalla!!!


Tony

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[jadison]

Well, I don't remember the exact model (wasn't into computers as much as I was a year ago) but the graphics provided a whopping 2 Colors, black and green. I'm sure it was an apple, I used to work on it for Word Processing. The 1st user intensive computer I used was an old 386 with 1MB of RAM, and a 512K vid. card Then it was considered fast, I used to play 'ol flight sims on it: Tornado & Dynamix. I thought those games had great graphics :0

Yes we've sure come a long way, but think about it...our Athlon 1GHz will seem like nothing compared to the 50+GHz systems that'll be out in a few years...I wonder where all of this speed will end up taking us...

-jd-

[Szech]

It was an 8086, and I don't know how much RAM it had, because I wasn't heavy into computers then (I was just a kid!). You had to boot from a (Low Density) 5 1/4" disk (Held a whole 360K!!!), and I remember the boot disk had DOS 3.3, GW Basic, and Word Perfect -2.1. It had a second low density 5 1/4" drive, so I could leave the boot disk in the A, and all my games and other **** would be run off the B drive. It didn't have a Hard Drive at all, it had a CGA monitor, it had an 88 key keyboard (can't find those anymore), and I remember I put in an e-isa joystick card with two ports.
Wow... what a piece of **** that is now. I must say though, that DOS 3.3 was my arch enemy... I was using it up until my family's 386, and when we got DOS 5.0, I was shocked and amazed at DOSSHELL among other things. 6.0 was another good leap, with such things as DELTREE, MEMMAKER, SCANDISK, and DEFRAG.

[Biff]

Around 94 I guess, Packard Bell 486 around 1400 bucks, 4 meg ram upgrade was $300.
I year later NEC P75 850mg hd, was $4500 ouch

[MadMatt]

C= Vic 20! My dad got it for me when I was about 10. 4k RAM with a tape drive. LOL - a program took like 30 minutes to load!

Later, we got a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem - actually placed the handset onto the modem! Very high tech for the day....

[Smokey]

The first computer that I ever used was a Commodore Amiga 500 with a Commodore 1024S monitor. The **** built in floppy drive wouldn't format disks, but that thing was great for playing games http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[nk4]

My first dream machine must have been the amstrad 6128. I used to stay at my friends place for hours playing on it. I thought those graphics on a green monitor, and the sound it had was all I needed, and was almost certain to buy one. Then I saw the amiga 500 that another friend got in 1987, and I knew that it would be the one, only it had to be another 2 years before I could buy it. Those must have been my happiest computing days I can remember. I kept it until 93, when I sold it and got a 386. It was the time when amiga 500 was checking out and PCs with vga and a soundcard did not cost an arm and a leg anymore. But I wish I still had my amiga. The closest I can get now is some excellent emulators that are around.

[NoCtrl]

I paid $1,100 for a Packard Bell Legend VIII Supreme http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif with 2 megs of ram and no sound. It was a 386 running at 16 or 20 MHZ. I can't remember. Maybe 20 MHZ was turbo speed! It came with Lotus Works. Bought it a Sears along with some screw drivers. I went back some months later and bought 2 more megs of RAM for $200. I also bought a Disney sound . . . well, it wasn't a sound card. It was a stand alone speaker that plugged into the parallel port. I was thrilled to finally have sound playing Might & Magic. I do remember the endless tweaking to get enough of that 640k free to load the game.

My next computer was a pentium 60 from Maximus. Look at Reseller Ratings for their rating and you'll see what a mistake I made.

After that I built my own computer. I had already replaced components and knew I could do as good as those guys. That's when I discovered the SysOpt and Tom's Hardware sites. I used a Supermicro P5STE motherboard and ran into Dan (no Tweakit yet) and Anand (no AnandTech yet) on the Supermicro newsgroup.

Hey, this is turning into a trip down memory lane. Now everyone knows how I got here. That's enough.

[hd581]

6# 386 12Mhz@20Mhz

LOL!!! Skywalker o/c'd his 386?!?!? The heatsink is worth more than the chip!!!

Incidentally sky, (just noticed) is it natural for you to put 6# instead of #6? where you at? (geographically)

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[wtp]

486-SX Texas Instrument CPU, 540MB Harddrive, 1MB Video cArd, ........ in other words, this computer was slow, and it sucked. The only thing good in this computer was the V.90 modem that was 56k. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[welsh wizard]

nk4 those Amiga's are still around you can pick them up at Boot sales for pocket money these days quite often get a stack of software with them as well, every time I see an old system going cheap like that I get suckered into adding it to the collection,aquired last week 3 Acorn A3010's all working total buy price for the 3 $5 NZD I think that works out at less than 2 pounds stirling, the drives in them were worth more.
WW

[nk4]

WW, are you talking about a specific place where you see those machines? If so, where?

[Jinx67]

A Timex sinclair I played with the calculator http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif heh. By the way it cost me 109 dollars after tax...

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[DaveLewis]

Let's see -

The first computer I used was a CPM Machine with an Z-80 Processor, S-100 Bus, 48K of memory and two (count 'em, two) 8" floppy drives. It had a monochrome - green on black - monitor and cost the company something around $5000.

The first computer I owned was a TI-994A. I paid about $400 for the black and silver console (16K memory) with the cable for a cassette drive to store my programs and an RF modulator to use a TV for the display. A couple of months later I bought the TI expansion box with a 5 1/4" SSSD disk drive, a 300 baud modem, and a huge 32K memory expansion card. The expansion box was about $400. I think that the system ran at about 6-8 mHZ. For 1982 it wasn't too bad.

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[welsh wizard]

nk4
keep an eye on the papers for boot sales and drop along normally on a Sunday morning in the UK, over here in NZ its a Saturday, also watch out for Computer Trade Auctions they quite often turn up in them, and as they are now some what out of date most traders arn't interested in them ,all they want are the Pentium class systems these days, so the Old Atari's Amiga's Acorn's etc go for next to nothing, picked up a Amiga 500 it has been expanded to 1meg [ bought today] still in box with power supply for 50cents New Zealand, and yes it works, so just keep an eye open on the papers, they are out there just waiting for some one to buy them.
I even find 486's for $25 good working systems, normally buy the if HardDrive is stated as 540 meg, every now and then I find that the hard drive is really 1.7gig or 1.2 gig for some reason Telcom down here fitted oversize drives to teir systems even though the BIOS could not see the extra size.
WW

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[RobRich]

I started in the mid-80's with:

Laser XT - Intel 8086-1 4mhz cpu @ 10mhz
Full math co-pro
640kb RAM
2 - 720kb 3.5" floppies
cga graphics card
14-15" monitor (really something like 14.5")
etc.....

It did some cool graphics with the math co-processor, but it was way too overpriced: I think around a couple of thousand US for it.

[alpha]

IBM PC-XT - high spec 640kb model, with 10mb HDD! Paid £100

[Hellmund]

I can't remember what the name of the console was but it had games like pong on it and took cartridges.
Then I was stoked when we got our brand new Vic20 with cassette tape drive and a state of the art 1 button joystick.
Hellmund

[LuckyTech]

OH my first was a ... Packard Hell , had a super fast 60 mhz pentium with 8 mb of ram 540 meg HD , Win4wg , 14.4 modem , 14 in monitor , dot matrix printer, Color even whoa bigtime and only paid the low low price of $2295 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Scar]

Of 'coz remember!!!

It was ZX-Spectrum 3.5MHz (14MHz in turbo mode) with 128K RAM, color EGA-monitor, 2 Floppy Drive - 5,25" & 3,5" & Sound card AY.

How much I paid? Just $40 (fourty!) - small price for nice computer!

It was at 1994 a.d.

But what is most interestin' - it is still in use! (durin' workin' on PentiumII - 300/64MB/4MB XGA, 15"/4GB HDD/....)

I like Z80 assembler, like simplicity in use & programming, like that I know that ZX do each time - why it hang on or why it fly away.

Anyway - ZX RULEZ 2+2'ever!

-Scar-

P.S. Phantom, very interestin' theme U've choose, isn't it?

P.P.S. Sorry 4 my English...

[izzzy12k]

I paid $3000 for a Pentium 100Mhz, 1.6HDD 32mb EDO ram.

now has the value of a calculator. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

izzzy12k

[Chef Mark]

yeah - the first was an Apple IIe somewhere around $2,000 US and bought in 1982?, can't remember exactly. We won't discuss the other numerous machines in between (sore subject with the wifey <g> ).

[bdunn]

Anyone e;se remember the TRS-80 model 1 it had a whopping 4k ram before we upgraded it to 16k. I had a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem. 300 was fast because many machines were only communicating at 110. That was the first but not the strangest.

The strangest PC i ever owned I recently donated to a museum. I bought a DEC Rainbow 100. What a piece of hardware.

[Jinx67]

Yes the tandy was definetly a step up from the Sinclair hooked up to a 13 inch black and white TV. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I also remember when you got your programs off a magazine page instead of the I- Net. talk about writers cramp . http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


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[ytay]

do you remember your first..........**** i thought this was going somewhere else....oh well, nothing to add http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[skywalker[TSG]]

hd581> sweden

hehe bought the 386 back in 1990
back then i paid like 4000$ for the darn thing

[ShyGuy665]

My first computer was and is a Machintosh i cant remember what kind but ( it is in storage) it is fast and it is a '95, so i am looking for a new one for the feture I WANT TO BUILD ONE so if u have any web pages for me to purchase parts and SYUFF on computers

E-Mail me ShyGuy@aol.com

[ShyGuy665]

My first computer was and is a Machintosh i cant remember what kind but ( it is in storage) it is fast and it is a '95, so i am looking for a new one for the feture I WANT TO BUILD ONE so if u have any web pages for me to purchase parts and SYUFF on computers

E-Mail me ShyGuy665@aol.com

[Hellhound]

I remember my first puter...It was a dandy Tandy.I dont remember the model but..I played the hell outa it...got basic down and upgraded to a C=Vic 20 with this funky ultra cool tape backup system .I tinkered with that for a while...never made the leap to a C=64. I got outa the pc game because of the new Atari (wow). I then had to have the atari 128 ..great toy...but a tad overpriced and not enough titles..after that it was the
nintendo 8 bit...I guess its starting to show that I dig gaming..After owning many home gaming consoles I finally was captivated with a compaq 233 about 2.5 years ago...got it..made upgrades...still game on it..and am happy with my investment.
Peace
Hellhound

[Hellhound]

I remember my first puter...It was a dandy Tandy.I dont remember the model but..I played the hell outa it...got basic down and upgraded to a C=Vic 20 with this funky ultra cool tape backup system .I tinkered with that for a while...never made the leap to a C=64. I got outa the pc game because of the new Atari (wow). I then had to have the atari 128 ..great toy...but a tad overpriced and not enough titles..after that it was the
nintendo 8 bit...I guess its starting to show that I dig gaming..After owning many home gaming consoles I finally was captivated with a compaq 233 about 2.5 years ago...got it..made upgrades...still game on it..and am happy with my investment.
Peace
Hellhound:
Hey take this post down.....sorry ...i have no idea how this happend http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif


[This message has been edited by Hellhound (edited 04-16-2000).]

[SysOpt]

TI 99/4a followed by a Commodore 128.

[Phantom]

Man, never did I expect this thread to carry so far!! I knew ya'll had to have had lot's of early 'puters...but...Geeze!
My guess is cuz of the post "topic" caught the attention of most! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif ...Carry On!

Phantom