What was your first computer

[welsh wizard]

We have had what was my first car, how about what was your first computer,
Mine was an ATARI 800XL with the benifit of a disk drive, most only had tape drives then.

[Stan]

Mine was a Amstrad 64K with a color monitor, a voice synthesiser with speakers and a tape drive.

Stan

[mudoggy]

My family's first computer was a Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive.

I really miss some of the games I used to play on that.. they were classics, and had a nice feel to them.. much better than that Apple **** at the time.

[Bronco]

Commodore, all it was was a keyboard that you pluged into a tv.

Went nutz trying to write programs for it & gave it to a freind who has not talked to me since.

[drdeath]

ok - no one make fun of me...

my first was an old apple 2c - i got it in 1984 when i was 4. it had the keyboard built into the rest of the computer, and you had to boot the computer off a 5 1/4" disk for it to work. came with a green/black display 6 or 7 inch monitor and had the classic crappy apple one-button mouse....

was cool for a while as i played a lot of classic games on it - trashed it as soon as i got my first pc!

[DHatAVI]

Sinclair ZX-81 with 16k of add on ram and a Radio Shack cassete recorder for program storage!!

Then I graduated to a VIC 20

David

[800XL]

Heh, what do you think? Actually I got the Atari 800XL after I had an Atari 400 for a while. I had the Indus GT disk drive, most stylish floppy disk drive ever created. LED track indicator, smoked glass pop up door in the front, and all over black. I added a 1050 drive to it later when I wrote a disk sector copier in Atari Basic. I could copy a floppy disk in about 2 minutes flat.

After that, I moved to a Columbia MPC, the first IBM PC clone ever made. Soon after I picked up an original IBM PC that I still having in running shape today. I wonder if it is Y2K compliant...

[Andre]

My first:
386sx33
2MB RAM
512KB Video
125MB HD
But hey... 14" screen! And it actually wasn´t mine, but my parents.

[Dominus]

Mine was an ADAM FC from coleco. I have absolutely no idea what the specs were on that old puppy, but boy, the fps on "Buck Rodgers: Planet of Zoom" were off the scale!!!


edit~: Just found out that it had a Z80 CPU with 64k of RAM, and came with 32k of ROM w/ BASIC burned on it. I also had a tape drive (optional), but I have no idea of it's capacity. If someone could tell me, I'd appreciate it.

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[MrEd]

Atari was my first, then the Commodore, then a Tandy from Radio Shack. Also had a Compaq, Packard Bell, IBM, now I have a system I built myself.

-MrEd
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[Dreadnaught]

Mine was a Trash 80 Color computer, then
TI-99 4A
Commodore 64 tape drive then finally 2 1541's

Later...Paul

[AndreBranco]

back in brazil (long time ago)
cp500 (brazilian computer)
msx 1.0 (japanese--made in brazil)
ibm xt (my first american computer)
ibm pc at (286)
386 dx 25 (cool nec 3d monitor)

here in the usa
386 sx 20
cyrix 5x86 100mhz
cyrix 6x86 233mhz
intel celeron 400
future: 500mhz celeron


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[ZOOTMAN]

Apple, then Apple II+, then Mac, then 386 ect. Still have my tape recorder and program tapes.
J.T.

[krusty]

1983 Commodore 64 ...It was fantastic!!
Though I don't miss it now.

[krusty]

double post

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[U-96]

1983 Acorn Electron
later added a 3.5in floppy instead of a tape player. I was the envy of my friends!
I also had this expansion board on the back that took ROM chips and cartridges, and allowed joystick/printer connection.

That was followed by an Amiga 500. That was a great machine for the time. I can see why people get all sentimental about them. Onboard stereo sound and 4096 colour video! I think I'm right in saying that it whooped the *** of PCs at the time - at least from a gamers/music creators/ease of use/bang for the buck point of view. No hard drive as standard was a downer though, on reflection.
Later games came on 10+ floppies.

I picked up an old ?8086 from a friend in 1993. It was sucky then. 512k 20MB HDD. Mono Hercules CGA hahahaha. It's still in my shed. Ohmygod!!! Spares!!! Voodoo3 cooler project coming up! /forum/smile.gif

Then I got a Playstation in 1995 which kinda killed the urge to buy a PC as I am a gamer at heart.

However, my PS CD mechanism died, and since prices became sensible in the last couple of years, I finally got round to building a Cel400 system this year. Yay!

U-96

[lance201]

my was an IBM Pc-XT with 512 KB RAM, a CGA-Adapter and two 5 MB Harddisks in an Epansionunit. Made noice like hell and was nearly 20 Kg heavy... but I used this from 1984 to 1991!!!! No Problems ever!

LCPL Twenty

[lance201]

my was an IBM Pc-XT with 512 KB RAM, a CGA-Adapter and two 5 MB Harddisks in an Epansionunit. Made noice like hell and was nearly 20 Kg heavy... but I used this from 1984 to 1991!!!! No Problems ever!

LCPL Twenty

[JerseyJoe]

I had a trs80 model 1. The I got an original ibm pc which I OC'd to ummm I think it was a blazing 10 mh /forum/smile.gif

[Carl Uman]

None other than the GREAT Commodore 64 ;-)

[Livewire]

Commodore 64. Does any one remember that All-text game. Where you where sleeping or in a trance-like state. You controlled these six robots who carried out the tasks necessary to save the world from total annihilation. I still have the laminated card that you could use to track the bots positions. I can't remember the name though?????
Livewire

[Dash709]

Apple 2e. I still remember the endless nights, punching away at keys to make some pointless game in Basic, only to remeber i had not booted off the Pro-Dos diskette, so i could not save!

[Adam Harvey]

Mine was the Apple 2 /forum/frown.gif

[Nick66]

(1981) Commodore Vic-20.

[MadMatt]

Commodore PET, VIC-20(w/tape drive!), Commodore 64, Amiga 500 (What can I say, I was a C= guy.), 386-33, 486-75, P133, and finally Celeron 366@605mhz (thanks to Sysopt!).

I used to have a reaaly brutal ongoing debate with my best friend on the question of Commodore vs. Apple - guess he won....

As for consoles: Atarti2600, Colecovision, SNES, Playstation

[Dreadnaught]

Livewire...I remember a lot of nights commanding Aura, Poet, and all the rest of those robots. Did you ever find the 2 meter tall robot?

Later...Paul

[welsh wizard]

MadMatt "C"might be on come back heard recently that they were relunching the brand!

[wileycoy]

Hmmm... Let me think for a minute.

1) TRS 80 with tape drive and one button joystick.
2) ??? (Made by Coleco) Was a very short lived computer model. Was bought as build- your-own computer. I fried it before I had it together. I didn't know much about static electricity when I was 12 /forum/smile.gif
3) 386 20.
4) 386 40 (Big leap).
5) 486 66.
6) Pentium 120.
7) P 233 MMX
8) 300A

Anyone remember what that computer made by Coleco was?

[Dominus]

It was the A.D.A.M. which used a Z80 CPU and had 64k of RAM.

[dawgtuff]

Gateway 386.Tried like heck to get Win95 to run on it,couldn't,and that's when I got hooked on this 'puter stuff...new hobby.

[SysOpt]

TI 99/4a

[KillerBug]

Didn't we have this last month? All well, my first computer was this sega thing, it was a mess. The first computer I used was a "Hi-Tek" Apple.

[Livewire]

Yeah,I Spent alot of time with those bots: Whiz, Waldo, Sensa. I found the Seventh one never actually repaired and was able to use it though. Seems like I would always end up face down on the KB or hearing that faint shriek telling me that I never go anywhere playing games at all hours of the night. How about the Round room <Bar,BAr> or was that Zork it's all a blur now.
Livewire

[Mr_Wobble]

ZX81 Used it for a year with its measly 1k RAM before buying the infamous 16k RAM Pack! Oh, the terror of RAM Wobble after spending 4 hrs typing in a program! /forum/frown.gif
Then I upgraded to a 48k ZX Spectrum. Oh Bliss, Oh Joy! No Ram Pack, and it was in colour too!!! /forum/smile.gif

[nilknarf]

Sometime around 1985, in a place far, far away....
TRS-80 Color, used it for games and my dad had witten a math teaching program for my brother and I. Also used Tandy Model IV, 100, and DMV. My dad currently has these systems in storage. My first laptop was a Tandy 1400LT, I still have it. Amazingly, these systems still work after all these years!

Next, I jumped up to a KLH 286 12MHZ and Packard Bell 386Sx 16MHz. Sold the 286, still have the 386.

Then, I built my 486DX33.

I built my next computer after trading in the 486. It has evolved into the Pentium 200 that I have now. I currently have 2 other computers running linux and Netware, as well as 4 laptops.

I'm in the process of building a new system to supplement the others (and my family is still trying to figure out why I never have any money!).

If my dad ever posts to this thread, he'll probably outdate most of us!

[Gordon]

I started out w/an Atari 400 w/a cassette tape drive, then onto an Apple II+, then an IBM PC Jr, and then a Commodore Amiga 1000 w/a Motorola 68000 cpu that was later upgraded w/a Motorola 68010 cpu. The next one was the beginning of my building my own computers starting w/a 10 Mhz Intel 8088 that was later upgraded w/a 10 Mhz NEC V20 cpu, then a 16 Mhz 386SX that was later modified up to 18 Mhz by replacing the oscillator, then a 25 Mhz 486SX that was later modified w/an AMD 66 Mhz 486DX2 and then again w/an AMD 586-133 o/c'd to 160 Mhz, next a 150 Mhz Pentium o/c'd to 188 Mhz that was later modified w/a 300 Mhz AMD K6-2 o/c'd to 333 Mhz, and presently an Intel Celeron 300A o/c'd to 450 Mhz which I later plan to o/c to 504 Mhz when I modify my ASUS P2B rev 1.10 m/b to allow for manual voltage settings.

On the horizon maybe an ABIT BP6 dual processor m/b using the upcoming Intel P3's, 370 chip design, w/full speed L2 cache and 133 Mhz bus speed. The new Intel 810e/820 chipset series don't look very promising compared to the present BX-2's, performance wise from what I have been reading.

[Moe]

Wow, i don't think anyone else had this one (kinda rare), IBM PCjr... Man that thing had so many cool things including:

Infared Keyboard
A _game_ built into ROM
The coolest peripheral attachment system, you can keep adding modules on forever (as long as you keep adding power)
the list goes on...

anyway, that was a nice trip down memory lane..

[Gordon]

Moe: I had modified the PC Jr. by adding a regular full size keyboard, 64K memory, and a 5 1/4" Floppy, w/no HD. The only thing available on ROM, if I remember right, was a full blown version of BASIC. The basic computer system came w/a washed down version of BASIC. Performance wise, it wasn't as fast as a regular IBM PC. Something was left off which lowered it's performance a little. I don't remember anymore what it was. The computer store where I had purchased my Apple II+ gave me a brand new IBM PC Jr. in exchange for my Apple. The PC Jr's weren't selling. I never liked the Apple II+. The IBM was a lot easier to program than the Apple, plus the operating system, PC DOS 2.0, was easier to use than the Apple's ADOS.

Now that I think of it, I remember buying a brand new IBM AT computer w/an Intel 80286 cpu, a 80287 Math-coprocessor, 64K RAM, a 20 meg HD, and a 320x200 IBM color monitor for the company I worked for. It cost over $5000.00. Boy have the prices dropped.

[Moe]

Hey Gordon,

What I meant by the 'Game', was something that was actually in the Diagnostics portion of the ROM of the computer, I don't remember what it was, but it allowed you to test something (which I don't remember either). I remember playing it when i was pretty young.

As I recall, the system has two slots for cartridges, which I now realize is very unusual.

I also have a BASIC cartridge, plus I found someone else who had a King's Quest I cartridge for it.

I was still able to get parts for it as recently as a couple of years ago, which I think is pretty cool for a unusual computer from the early 80s.

[RobRich]

My first computer was a Laser XT 8086-1. It was cutting edge technology at the time. The -1 meant I had a true math coprocessor, which allowed to play games that latter standard 286's choked on. It also ran at a whopping 10mhz, but still faster than the 5mhz standard during its time. I also had it decked out with 640kb on memory, a "high-end" cga card, a 14inch monitor (costed more than the system itself), two 3.5 720 floppies, and an extremely large xt keyboard. Started with MS-DOS 3, then I had a graphical interface when DosShell came out with DOS 5. I still have the DOS 5.0 factory disks setting on a shelf collecting dust. Sort of like my friend who still has a working copy of Win 1.3, no joke!!

[lost1]

Apple II, Apple II+, Laser 128 (Apple IIE clone w/128k! RAM- came out before Apple brain-farted & killed the clone industry)

Dash709- Been there done that w/ProDos myself-AARGH!! /forum/wink.gif

486/66, P100 & 133, P2 300 & 400, P3 450

Finally settled on a K62/450 @ 500 /forum/smile.gif

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[Gordon]

lost1: Wasn't the Franklin the first and only successful Apple II(+) clone?

[DougM]

Well we had a teletype machine that came in a metal suitcase with an acoustic coupler for the modem. The machine it was connected to pretty much ran only APL so you were really in an interpreted language for an operating system. It was rather frustrating to run out of paper in the middle of your adventure game /forum/smile.gif.

Does anyone else remember acoustic couplers?

[FlameOut]

I started out with something from Radio Shack, called (I think) just 'Micro Computer'. Came with a whopping 4k of memory, and I bout this big plug in module to ad another 16k or ram (or maybe it was a 12k module to geive me a total of 16, can't remember. This was in the early 80's.

Then on to the C+64, C+128, Amiga 500, Amiga 3000 (I do miss it) and finally went back in time to winblows.

[FlameOut]

I started out with something from Radio Shack, called (I think) just 'Micro Computer'. Came with a whopping 4k of memory, and I bout this big plug in module to ad another 16k or ram (or maybe it was a 12k module to geive me a total of 16, can't remember. This was in the early 80's.

Then on to the C=64, C=128, Amiga 500, Amiga 3000 (I do miss it) and finally went back in time to winblows.

[altair]

i had my first one back in 1985, it was a Radio Shack CoCo II, with 8 KB and 16 colors at a time. later i got a radio shack tape recorder (thankfully), and use it for anoher two or three years

[miles]

Mine was an apple IIE. with 2 5 1/4 drives, but i could not get used to the apple soft basic language.

[nilknarf]

DougM, I remember acoustic couplers. I think my dad still has one somewhere. Don't know if it works though. I also remember, and still have, 2400 baud modems. I think I have even slower modems in the museum (storage).

Anyone do mainframe work? Remember anything called a Planar Memory Board? I have an 8k x 16 Planar Memory Board that is older than I am, the warranty seals are from 1974. I have no idea if it works or where it came from.

Anyone got anything else old and interesting sitting around?

[Death To Mel]

My first computer was a tandy 1000 with no hard drive only a 5 1/4" disk drive. A 3 1/2" disk drive and a 20mb hard drive were added in later /forum/smile.gif In my opinion it was better before the hard drive was put in because all the games I had had to boot up for the 5 1/4" drive and the hard drive screwed all that fun up.

[DavidX]

I only became interested in computers about three years ago and my first machine was - dare I admit it? - a Packard Bell 120MHz Pentium with 8Mb RAM. Boy, was I green! /forum/redface.gif (Now I wouldn't dream of buying any pre-built computer. It's too much fun making my own.)

Since then I've become hooked (I now work as a computer tech) and especially like the very early stuff. Among other dinosaurs, I've got a TRS-80 Model I and have just acquired an Altair 8800 with separate 8" FDD. I guess I'm making up for lost time /forum/wink.gif Getting the Altair to actually work will be my next challenge.

[lost1]

Gordon-
Franklin- now there's a blast from the past! I almost bought one of those, and as I recall, they were the only clone of the II+
I got my Laser 128 for about $500 when IIE's were $1500+. Gee, I wonder why Apple crushed the clones... /forum/wink.gif

[welsh wizard]

same as now they don't like the compo,when some guys Stateside started making an emu box for the ST's that ran faster than the Mac's they got all funny and wouldn't sell the Apple Mac OS chip to install in them, you had to get them by deception,
WW

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[Machamix]

Mine was an Atari 800xl with tape drive
and a b/w tv set. =(

[j_k]

Harumph .... Emerson ..still ahve the xcellent Emmouse and Monitor- Seagate drive ATI Graphics - Intel CPU - I meg of Ram heh
now its getting to be I gig phew.

[j_k]

Emerson- still have Emmouse and Monitor
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[j_k]

Emerson- still have Emmouse and Monitor
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[jbob]

I, like DavidX, have only recently aquired an intrest in computers a few years ago. Mine was a Pentium MMX 166 with 32 meg mem. The computer was made by a quaint little shop in my home town, that I'd never even knew was there, until I'd talked to a few people. Now, I work there. Feel free to check us out www.computerall.com

[MDHerman]

Hi:

Mine was a Tandy 1000 HD. I remember my brother, who procured this unit for me, espoused, "You'll never use up 10 meg!"

Ha!

mdh

[daveleau]

My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with 6K upgraded to 16K. Had a long lag and then got a Mac Classic II but have since mended my ways and gone strictly with PCs. /forum/smile.gif

[bluetoon]

my first PC was a 8088 with a 20 Mb HDD witch never filled up.
But I had a atari wich you connect to the tv before that.
/forum/smile.gif

[welsh wizard]

unless it was a games consel I thought Atari's were PC's (personal computers)
WW

[Sweeper]

Kaypro II.-NOTE-This isn't my page.But I did have a Kaypro II just like the one shown.
www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/cmuseum/kaypro.htm (http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/cmuseum/kaypro.htm)
http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/cmuseum/kaypro/kaypro.jpg


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[Prospero]

Apple II with 24k later upgraded to 48k. I was about five or six when I got this so forgive me if it's wrong. Dad had an altair he used prior to buying this for me and my brother. That thing didn't even have a monitor, just colored lights that would flash code and loaded by flipping switches up and down for 1's and 0's.

[jeana]

TRS-80

At eight, I was able to write a fun program that would write my name 1000 times on the greenscreen! High tech.

[john robbinson]

my first was a 486 dx50 last winter then got into it went to one show and built this system its a pc 598 m/b w/sis530 vidchip 8megshared memory onboard. cmedia 8338 full duplech sound on board 333cyrix overclocked to3x95 128megs total ram 4.3gig samsung udma 33 hd aver/tv/fm card a sonyz6 cam, benwin sub/w satilite cheaplucent winmodem conect at 52000 i use it to answer the phone and have faxed with it. microtech slim3 scaner and old hp deskjet400 the guy at the show accidently left win98 on hard drive i run 32bit color oh i put all this into a AT case i converted to ATX power and i,m still learning. Anyhow keeping with thaem of this i garbagepic this old sharp pc7000 thougt i would use the parts but know i keepit so when my wifes freinds come over with there laptops i tell them this is mine its slick it looks like a little boombox the front folds open and is a keyboard and connects to the pc with phonecord. flat lcd screan 10x12 that tilts. two 5.25 floppy drives and hookups for serialport,parallelport,color crt.and phoneline in/out 20lbs w/handle P.S.dont know what o/s to use on it or where to get it it turns on but needs a disk to boot had two in it but nothing on it

[Roy]

Around '58 there was my Post slide rule ~ analog, but a computer nonetheless. In the '70s it yielded to an HP-35, the first scientific calculator. An HP-29C programmable scientific calculator remains on my desk for daily reverse-polish notation activities.

1982 brought the Osborne O-1, the first fully contained portable with bundled software. It paid for itself many times over before I segued into the MS-DOS/Windows environment in the early '90s.

There were many loyal Osborne users, I'm surprised to find it so seldomly mentioned here.

[JennyPsyco]

My first computer was an IBM 80808. I think it was like 123 of the type made. Was my dad's company suplied computer from Intel. Went out of date so they gave it to him, and therefore I got it. Loved playing pool and monopoly on it. Even had a color monitor.

[electromotive]

My first home microcomputer was a homemade 6800 with 1k memory, and I played with 8008s. Before micros, I experimented with computers made of discrete logic (RTL, DTL, ECL, and TTL).

My first commercial was an IMSAI 8080 (around the time of the Altair 8080). This was just before FDDs. These had switches on the front panel for address and data bus access. You could put in whole programs this way. Use to hand assemble before compilers. Could save code and feed code in via teletype paper tape. Also burned code into EPROMS (2708s!) in ZIF sockets. After a while got an 8" shugart FDD. And much later 5 1/4" shugarts around when UCSD Pascal first appeared. Big step up. It was a long time before I got my first 10MB HDD. I knew of Bill Gates then (as I lived near Seattle), but MS-DOS had yet to appear.

I actually designed and built 8086 and 8088 computers more than a year before the first IBM PCs.

[ablang]

My first computer was a Packard Bell 386.
I know I know. Stop the hissing and booing!
I didn't know any better when I first started out.

Anyone curious about its specs and stats can view it at my web page:
http://ablang.tripod.com/pb.html

[SysOpt]

A TI 99/4a back in 1984 (3MHz!), then a Commodore 128 later (with a 300 baud modem!). Those were the days! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[RCN_Moose]

A Commodore Pet, then an ADAM (Coleco), then a TRS-80. Ah, who can forget the glory days of the tape drive. Nothing like waiting a half hour for the game to load. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

Moose http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[JohnRobins]

ZX81, then Tandy TRS-80,Amiga w/two floppy disk drives!/AST 486 DX2 66Mhz upgraded to 133Mhz pentium overdrive-gave it a good kick at the time! Sega Megadrive, Own built system AMD K6 233Mhz clocked to 266Mhz with Peltier, Sony Playstation just for Gran Turismo/Tekken 3, Own built Abit ZM6 mobo w/hot rod 66 & Celeron 400@450 now waiting for my 533A@900+ probably two peltiers and watercooling yummmm.
John.

[catcow]

My very first computer was an Oric 1. It had a 6502 CPU and a whole 16k or ram.
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[welsh wizard]

Man who brouht this out of the archives, Just because I have been real busy since getting back to work this is real below the belt stuff to get me to show I still call in when I have the time. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif
WW

[jman01pa]

My first was a Timex / Sinclair 1000. I got all the accessories that Kmart offered. Cant remember much about it. I had it two weeks and knocked it off the table and broke it. Took it all back for $$$. My next did not come until I got a K6-2 300 two years ago. Of course I always had them at work.

J http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[voogru]

The first computer i had was a:

Uknown Mobo
166 MHz intel
66 MHz bus
ATI mach 64vt
Unkown sound card
****-ola modem 2000
windows 3.1 then windows 95 then windows 98 win98 worked like a charm.

then i fried the mobo. whoops!

[Missing the point]

Hey ablang, I like your pic:

http://ablang.tripod.com/explod.gif

[pickel]

This question was asked on another forum( Rom 2)..
How does the monitor after exploding , able to reappear and destroy the box?????? Are you ready??? Well, this computer happens to be running Win 98 2nd Edtn with dual monitors
Two birds with one stone!!!!LMOL http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

the pickel

Hey : WW, still your "old" self I see!!LOL

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[TRINITY]

My first computer was an XT with 40 meg. hd and a CGA Monitor.

I bought it for $600 off my buddy because it had a dos version of Godspeed a really great colour coded bible search engine.

Question: Why does this Website look like the one that I post on called JESUSAVES.COM??

[This message has been edited by TRINITY (edited 05-28-2000).]

[stephan]

A sinclair spectrum 48K with dead flesh keyboard. I upgraded it to a 'real' keyboard and it didn't work properly again!

[blind to truth]

wow,you guys are old.mine might be the best of the group!an IBM XT 8086 with 512k RAM soldered to the board,mono screen,10 or 20 MB HDD,and DOS 3.3,not to mention a 360K floppy drive.

[bobcat]

1) Apple II+ : 1982
2) Amiga 500 : 1990
3) 486 66/Dx2 : 1994
4) P90 : 1996
5) P150 : 1996
6) P233MMX : 1998
7) PII233 @ 300 : 1998
8) C400A : 1999

[Petros]

An incredibly powerful VIC-20!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[thxmanu]

I had the wonderful IBM PC PC! Two huge 360k floppys!

[flashngcurser]

IBM the original PC, the one with the dorky Charly Chapman comercials. I think it ran at 4.33 mhz! I think it was a 8080, had 2 floppies. Upgraded in 82 to a 4 meg harddrive. It had IBM dos 2.0, i found out latter that (not M$) dos 2.0 had been recalled (no not updated hehe). I never had a problem with it though.


Next Apple II+ around 84 or so. Did anyone really beat Ultima 3 or 4?


Than many 8088's, 286, 386, 486, and so on.

In fact i am typing this from an old p133. It is my personal work computer, (not on the company network, has my MP3's and so on hehehe)

[izzzy12k]

My 1st PC was a 486/66 with 8MB RAM!

Boy, whatever happen to that thing? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

izzzy12k

[dexmax]

Admate PC/XT w/ 20MB HDD. And its still running too... odd ey...

[Mykex]

Ohh boy, I had a knock off of the commadore 64. My parents gave it to me they won it for looking at a condo lol. No drives on it pluged into tv. forx=d <gosub4> forx=g <gosub5> lol I cant remember the language but it was something like that. I think at the max of my programming I had done a hangman program. Still used the paper for the words but the hangman picture drew by pressing enter for a wrong andswer. Boy ohh boy have we come a looooong way. Mykex

[Glynn R Harris]

What fun!
First I had a Timex/Sinclair 1000. Had computer lust for two years previous but unsure of committing to that $1795 Apple IIe. So I saw the Timex 1000 at a department store in September 1982 for $99 and bought it. Figured this computer stuff might be TOO SMART for me to figure out, but what the hay, I dived in.
Took this little black wedge to work, hooked it up to a monochrome portable t.v. Bought a cassette recorder to save programs. After a short time I was writing BASIC programs, exhausting the 4K (!) so I bought the 16K RAM pack. At the time, my work at a local cable tv company was to answer the phone (can you say: boredom?) and look up the customer's account on 3x5 cards. So I made a custom database program in BASIC and by keying in 4 numbers on the membrane keyboard, called up the customer info. I felt so COOL!
Of course, the RAM pack would shake loose OFTEN, requiring a 6-minute reload of the database from tape. So an aluminum plate and some velcro was my first "hardware" fix.
I went from there to add 64K, disk drives, parallel port, built a 300-baud modem from a kit, and stayed up all night on BBSes.
I was going to say something about how much times have changed, but hmmmm.... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[hhh8785]

The first computer I had on my own is sadly the same on i have right now. It is a pentium 233 mhz, with 28 mb of Ram, a crappy 4 gig hard drive, with a messed up CD ROM (which i got fixed), a 3 1/2 floppy drive, and it had i think a 13 inch moniter, which thankfully I do not have to put up with any more.

[juandeez]

I had a beautiful Tandy 286 from Radio shack. It didn't have a hard drive. I remember playing King's Quest, and I had to change the disk when I went to the next screen!

[rtyp3]

OK, Im young, but Packard Bell 133, 16MB Ram

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[rtyp3]

OK, Im young, but Packard Bell 133, 16MB Ram. That thing gave me so many problems...
Sorry bout the 2 posts... I didn't think I hit it twice...


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[NeilTrain]

Started programming on a Comodore 64 when i was about 8, i did some pretty hefty programming on that puppy for how young i was, then i played around with the amazing Amiga 1000. Which, by the way, at the time was a million times better than any Apple. I still think the Amiga would have become the standard instead of the PC had they maintained backward compatibility. It was a machine way ahead of its time. then i went on to a 286, Pentium 75, now a PIII 450, and making applications for fortune 500 companies, i guess i owe my whole career to fooling around with theses **** machines!!

[chipbgt]

Does a "Speak-&-Say" or a "Speak-&-Math" count? does anyone even know what im talking about? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[welsh wizard]

yep, and they do have a CPU, so I suppose they count http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif
WW

[ctaylor]

My first computer that was all mine was the old COMPAQ PORTABLE 286. It was the size of a sewing machine.

The first computer I ever got to play with was the old KIM. It was a hexpad based machine that ran with a cassette player for media storage and had a whopping 2K of memory. My dad built it back in 1975 and allowed my "greasy little kid hands" to touch it sometime in 1976.

[Chainsaw]

It was a TRS Color computer with a tape drive and 64k ram, hooked up to a TV, and "No" I never oc'd it. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif
c:::CHNsaw

[Spencer]

Texas Instruments TI-99 when I was a kid and then I fell out of the computer thing.

When I got hooked again it was a PacBell 486SX33 with 4MB RAM and 512KB Video. Been hooked ever since. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[jl123]

Well i'm young too.

here's my first:

Packard Bell 386SX with 4 megs of ram

But about a month ago i got a old IMB 80286 with 512Kb of ram http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif I got it from a church garage sale for free http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Took it apart and used the fans and screws. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Oh yeah and also I took out the processor which was only a little bigger than a quarter. It was like a chipset today. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif It's now at the Irvnig City Dump http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel(jl123)

[rtyp3]

Woohoo! I am the hundreth entry!

[hd581]

LOL, and look at the timing, too. 5 min after the 99th post. You've probably been sitting here all day hitting CTRL-R!

[Snuffy!]

486 DX2 66
8mb RAM
400mb h/d
SB16
1mb Legend vid card

She was a puppy :P

[hackercarlos]

Apple Macintosh 7200/90

[hackercarlos]

Sorry. Double post

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[MAGIC 8-BALL and THE ELF]

I remember when your kind discovered the sundial - 8-Ball

Does that count, Old One? - Elf

I say it does! - The Third

[LittleKing]

The first computer I owned was a Packard Bell (or POS, as I like to call it). It was a Intel 75Mhz with 800MB hard drive, 8MB memory. It was a total piece of ****. My current system is much better.

Now for the first computer I used it was I believe a TRS80.

LK