My first computer system. he he ha ha

[Gene C.]

I had said that I had been around the block a few times. and so while I was looking for some info. I can up on this. and just had to share it with you all. and believe it or not. it still works. I paid 119.29 + tax for this power house on sale. http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/Tandy,Radio,Shack_MC-10.html

and than moved up to this power house. a little over 200. for this big one: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/Tandy,Radio,Shack_TRS-80_Color_Computer_II.html

and after that I got a adam with a built in tape drive. that acted for the harddrive.

I know this is not of any use to you all. but, it sure brings back memories for me.

[Dallasmcse]

My cherry was a ibm xt with dos 1.1 Ah the memories!!!!

[happyhamster]

4K RAM??? You gotta be kidding! What can you fit there? Powerful calculator? What did people use it for?

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[RCN_Moose]

A COCO!!!!!!!
Oh my God, the memories...
I feel so much better knowing that I'm not the only COCO user here.

Moose http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Must remember to hit the spellcheck..dang

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[Gene C.]

that was one thing you could do with it. it was for writeing your own programs with ect.
it also has sample text to show you how to write all kinds of programs ect. I mean were're talking 18 years ago here.

and as far as the ram goes. in the old days you didn't need alot of ram. hell, I got a oringal full copy of windows ver. 1.03 on 6 360 disks that will run on 2 mb memory. which in those days was about 200. a meg. I have some old memory recipts somewhere from those days. hell, I paid close to 3000. for an xt when they first came out. and that was the last one I ever bought from someone else. I took it all apart a couple days later and found out what made it tick "reading everything I could"and have been going every since. so the prices that people are crying about now.

IS pocket change back than. when I get the time I'll pull out some of my old records and post them.
I also got one of the first ibm suitcase style with a 4" built in screen, plus one of the first apple's.

"""please""" don't anyone here get on that thing about me bragging again. I'm just trying to show that my whole life, than and now. has been build around a keyboard and system of somesort.

[happyhamster]

I see... Did you have to use its own (pre)assembler, or did it have Basic already?

The simplest computer I used had 64 Kb RAM, no HD and used a small TV instead of monitor. It used tape recorder for long-term memory, you could load simple games and stuff. But it had a real Basic interpreter! I believe I even found a C compiler for it, but by that time I moved to 80286 with 1Mb RAM/ 40 Mb HD.

[jad1097]

I used to love my Apple IIc+. I used it up till two years ago. I seem to remember that there is a date on the back of mine saying it was built in 1984.

Here it is. (http://www.hughes.net/~gcifu/applemuseum/iic.html)



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[jad1097]

This was the first computer I owned.

http://www.geocities.com/jad1097/images/inty2.jpg http://members.home.net/alienoid/gigainty/index.html "Attached to the Intellivision II are the Intellivision Computer Module (Serial P300197) which has a whopping 2K of RAM! And the Intellivision System Changer (Serial 002273) which allows you to play Atari 2600 games. The downside to these units is that the Computer Module can't do much other than some BASIC programming and play some enhanced Intellivision games. The System Changer only works with an Intellivision II. It can't be used with a Gold system unless some hardware modifications are made. "

" instead of having 64K RAM as planned, the computer would have 2K, and RAM upgrade modules would be released later to bring the RAM up to 64K, along with a printer, a data recorder, and a modem. None of these planned accessories were ever released. But, in 1983, Mattel finally released the computer, calling it the Entertainment Computer System (ECS).

The ECS had a built in BASIC programming language, and a 49-key music keyboard synthesizer unit could be bought separately."
http://members.aol.com/pbjurman/intv.html




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[bhess]

WOW, this must be before microsoft. I didn't see ctrl,alt, or del

[Dave_H]

Here is my first,
The Commodore Vic-20 (http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/cgi/alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/getentry.cgi?Commodore/VIC_20.00)
3kb RAM, with a whopping 1.01MHz chip!!!
The good 'ol days, when a floppy really did floop. Great site Gene http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Thank-You for the memories.
Dave

[Ed_S]

RCN_Moose - There's still a bunch of us ex CoCo nuts around. My first was a CoCo I (f-board). Was heavily modified with "solder-it-yourself" magazine mods, plus parts from Dennis Kitz, remember him?
Had the Multi-Pak, dual floppies, & too much to remember. Still have it ALL in the original boxes, plus a complete collection of HotCoCo, Rainbow, UnderColor, & Color Comp. magazines.

happyhamster - 4K was enough, & 16K was PLENTY - back when programmers knew how to write decent code instead of the sloppy, wasteful **** we have now!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif
But it's a LOT cheaper now, though. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Hey Gene! I've also still got an MC-10, new in box... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Ed

[tonym]

Intellivision. Now there's a trip back in time. I wasted some of my formative years playing "B17 pilot" and about 10 other games! Boy, looking back on it now, it was primitive -- sort of like the writing on cave walls! But boy was it fun.

My first computer was home made. It was based on a Rockwell 6502 and had various memory when I could afford it or had to trade it (for gas/date money!) and it had a big/loud/hot Winchester drive that I think was 8 megs, but I couldn't use the whole drive as it was defective and that's why I had it. The last incarnation of this poor beast (it looked like Frankenstein after about 10+ surgeries/modifications) was screaming at 5MHz! Blazing back in 1980!

My first storebought machine was a 286 from "PC Brand". I believe I payed $2500 for this thing that had a 14" EGA video system, 2MB of RAM, a 287 co-processor and a 40MB HDD...all in a very large/clunky desktop case. This lab rat was modified all the way to 486DX2-66. Three or four new mobos and processors.

Oh, those were the days...


Tony