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This is like Deja vu all over again.
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Jacksonville, FL
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| Your first computer What was it. An old Apple (II), TRS-80, Commodore 64, Atari 400?. Maybe your first is P4 with all the bells and whistles. I was just curious as I was sitting here waxing nostalgic. My first computer (that I actually owned) was a Commodore 64, but I played around with an Apple II and an Atari 400 prior to my old 64:)
64K and 300 baud modems...those were the days:D
Okay, list your first rig and any fond memories you might have of it. | |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
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Round Rock, TX
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| Apple II+ (48 KB) that was beefed up (over the years) to have:
3.5 mhz processor (stock was 1 mhz)
2 - 5.25" diskette drives
1 - 3.5" diskette drive
80 column video card
"language" card (with 16 KB of RAM)
128 KB RAM card
Grappler printer card
Epson MX-80 F/T printer with a 256 KB buffer inside it.
Apple color monitor
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koitsu
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Mountain View, CA
| Re: Your first computer 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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Weirdal
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Lincoln, NE
| when I was 4 I think (1994) my family got a computer, I remember it had windows 3.1 and that a couple years later I was addicted to the game 'mouse' on it
I dont remember anything else though, we didnt have it long 
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Epyon9283
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Dayton, NJ | My first was an AT&T 8500 plus. 286, 2mb ram, 21mb hdd. | |
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DanHo
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Seattle, WA | My first computer was a Commodore 64. The first computer that I actually purchased myself was a Mac PowerPC. | |
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Westmont, IL
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| Re: Your first computer said by Willy  :About 1986. Tandy 1000 with 128K memory and 2 5 1/4" floppy drives. Doubled the memory to 256K for $200 then added a 20MB hard card for $800. Tandy was super proprietary. You wanted to expand the system you had to buy Tandy and you paid through the nose. It's the first and last Tandy. My parents bought the same model for me around December of 86. I upgraded the memory by 128K to 384K.
I remember trying to upgrade the modem from 300 baud to I think was a 1200 baud model and could never get it to work.
it came with some king of a dot matrix printer that did not even have a form feed button.
It still sits in my basement, the floppy drive broke on it and can not even boot it anymore. | |
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mrmagoo
join:2001-05-11
Cartersville, GA | IBM 8088, (2) 5 1/2" floppy drive, 64k of ram, no hard drive and dos 3.1 | |
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innerspin
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Birmingham | mine was the good old spectrum 28k! lmao | |
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CurtesyFlush
Bababooey, fafafooey, tatatoothy.
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Fontana, CA
| A Timex-Sinclair with a Radio Shack cassette drive and video out to a 10" Hitachi B&W TV I had salvaged out of an old pay for TV chair from an airport.
It was great to write and run BASIC routines on when I was a noob with the language.
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coxta
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1 edit | Re: Your first computer said by CurtesyFlush :A Timex-Sinclair with a Radio Shack cassette drive and video out to a 10" Hitachi B&W TV I had salvaged out of an old pay for TV chair from an airport. It was great to write and run BASIC routines on when I was a noob with the language. Same here. I bought mine at what is now called Riteaid. I eventually bought an IBM PC with 128kb on the mother board and two floppy drives. At the time of purchase, I bought a 6-pack plus card (to give a total of 640 kb) and a Hayes 2400 baud modem.
The operating system at that time was a choice between 1.1 DOS or CPM-86. | |
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Doctor Four
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| A Timex-Sinclair is what I also had, only all I had was the
computer itself, and a rented TV to hook it up to. But later
I got a Commodore 64 and 1541 disk drive (once the price had
gone down to $199 from $599).
If there was one thing the C64 was good at, it was playing
games.
A few useful sites for finding C64 games I have bookmarked:
»arnold.c64.org/
»www.c64.com/
»www.lemon64.com/
One of the best emulators to run the games on a PC is
CCS64. It's shareware, though free to use (but registering
unlocks additional features): »www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/
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runnoft
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Deerfield, IL | Apple IIe, a graduation present in 1986.
Then an IBM 286, an office hand-me-down in the early 1990s.
The first computer I purchased, a Micron Pentium 200, around 1995. It was almost $3000. Eesh. | |
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Whonon
@dynamic.cov | Texas Instruments TI-99/4,
Texas Instruments Pro PC (8088), 5MB disk,
DEC (Digital Equipment) PC (25MHz 486)
Many more since then -
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tbsteph
join:2002-01-31
Maylene, AL
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| Bought an AppleII+ for the kids in the early 80's. First work computer was an IBM 8088 with 2 5 1/2 inch floppies and a 9" (I think) green phosphorous screen. Cost about $2,500! (Here I sit using an HP ZV6000 notebook with an AMD 64, 15.4 inch screen etc. that cost less than $900.00). Sometings have progressed (My first new car- a Toyota - cost less than $2,000 - 1971). By the way, the first real game played on the Apple was Wizardry I. Hated that game - could not save your position while in the maze! But did like the ultimate spell; tiltowait? | |
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Ray
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Mesa, AZ
| Re: Your first computer My dad brought home an Apple ][+ with a copy of Wizardy also. Prior to that I had just used my friend's TRS-80 and I had a little Sinclair. I got an Apple ][e in '85-'86 and my first PC (286-12) around '90.
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koolman2
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| AST Pentium 66MHz, 450MB HDD, 8MB RAM. Top of the line back then... We got it before '94. and that's all I know. Oh, and it had a 300-baud modem.
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Owlbet
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1 edit | Started out in the early 80s doing manual accounting, then in 1983, my employer upgraded the accounting to computerized. I did accounts receivable on a TRS-80. I don't think it ever crashed although my boss at the time was forever restoring from a floppy as I was forever overwriting something...lol. I've never gone back to manual accounting. I got my first home PC for Christmas 1999, but it died of Klez and motherboard failure in May 2002. It was an HP that was replaced with my current computer, a Dimension 4500S Dell. When the HP died, I took anything that looked like a motor and proceeded to remove the copper. I was going to take apart the hard drive to see what it looks like, but lost interest. I still have the hard drive around here and run into it every once in a while. The monitor, keyboard, speakers & original mouse were given away. 
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rchandra
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| Re: Your first computer The ORIGINAL was (well, is) the Amiga 1000...which I own one. Then came the 2000, the 500 (an attempt to make it more affordable), the 3000, the 4000. After that, I'm not sure.
My system is filled to the gills with 512K fast RAM, 8M slow RAM, and a SCSI interface w/ a 49M disk (which has a number of floppy-sized partitions) and a 300M full-height 5.25" disk. Also have the Amiga monitor, which serves as the video output device of my home TV system (no TV set...just a stereo, 2 VCRs to serve as tuners, and the monitor).
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UBdude
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Buffalo, NY | Re: Your first computer 1992 IBM PS/2 Windows 3.11 25Mhz cpu 2MB HD and 2MB ram. guess i'm the young one around here | |
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Hawk
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La Quinta, CA
1 edit | October 1986
CPU: not specified
RAM: 0.25 MB
HD: none
COST: $799
Radio Shack was a leader in PC compatible systems back then. (In fact, you probably have memories of using a Tandy TRS-80 at some point.) This is the 1000-EX. It supported MS-DOS, the popular text-based operating-system which the graphics-based Windows system was built upon.
Do you remember DOS from IBM? It competed with MS-DOS from Microsoft, just like OS/2 Warp from IBM did before Windows 95. In both cases, it's rather clear which history favored. Though, being available in limited quantities isn't always a bad thing. Edit: If my memory serves me, that's "Deskmate" on the screen. | |
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2 edits | Re: Your first computer I had the same computer as hawk it was a tandy 1000ex without the extra floppy the floppy was built into the side. The monitor was something close to that as well. I played wheel of fortune on it and 10,000 pyramid and i was like 4-5 years old at maximum.
Next computer was Packard Bell pentium 75mhz with windows 3.1 and skifree was the game of choice. Then we got the upgrade cd to windows 95 this time i was about 9 years old.
Next computer was a pentium 2 350mhz with windows 98. At this time the thing was blazing fast and over 2 grand. It played doom 2 and quake 2 like a champ and schooled my buddy's pentium mmx 233.
Finally last year i built my "new computer" otherwise between 98-2004 i had to use the p2. | |
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2 edits | An IBM PS/1, 80286, 1 MB RAM, 20 MB HD, integrated screen (why I dunno), 3.5" floppy, 2400 baud modem (used to take me onto the Toronto FreeNet back in the day). Runs some proprietary operating system from IBM (4 windows of choicse on bootup...kinda odd), but runs Windows 3.1 now.
Oh, and circa 1990 for $2000 or so.
And yes, still runs like a champ, but doesn't get much use now a days. | |
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Carl
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Krotz Springs, LA | A Tandy 1000 EX. It still works!
I am trying to sell it though. 
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swsamurai
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Bakersfield, CA
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| Re: Your first computer said by Carl :A Tandy 1000 EX. It still works! I am trying to sell it though. Good luck. I have an old 1000HX with dual floppies. I had that thing on three separate eBay sales, one starting at $1.00, and it never sold. I was even including the RGB monitor and the modem. Now it sits in my garage in a box as a spider condo. THe relics of a by-gone era! | |
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swish spiffyness
@range81-155.btcentra | mine was a TIME computers, 500mhz - K6-2 with 3DNOW // 128SDRAM
I went from that straight to a toshiba notebook, satellite p20 102 / P4 / 1GB DDRAM / nVidia GeForce FX5700 with 128mb DDRAM | |
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yuniverse
join:2000-07-14
Federal Way, WA
| My first was TI 99/4A with 16KB of RAM, i think. That was in 1982 or so. Then I received the original 128K Mac... that was so sweet! Graphic and its GUI was just incomparable to any other PCs (except Xerox workstations or Lisa). Got it for $1700 with ImageWriter because of my Uncle's University 1/2 price discount.
128K RAM
no Hard Drive
1- 740K 3.5"(?) Disk Drive
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Karl Uppiano
join:2003-02-02
Ferndale, WA
| said by Hawk :October 1986
Do you remember DOS from IBM? It competed with MS-DOS from Microsoft, just like OS/2 Warp from IBM did before Windows 95. In both cases, it's rather clear which history favored. Though, being available in limited quantities isn't always a bad thing. Edit: If my memory serves me, that's "Deskmate" on the screen. DOS from IBM was called PC-DOS, and it was made by Microsoft and OEM'ed with the IBM-PCs. MS-DOS was used by the clones. But PC-DOS and MS-DOS were nearly identical. We used them interchangeably on PCs and clones that we had at work. | |
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Karl Uppiano
join:2003-02-02
Ferndale, WA
| Re: Your first computer Oh, and my computer history?
o DEC PDP-11/34 RSTS-E (Resource Sharing/Time Sharing Enhanced). I did not own this one. The college did.
o HP25 (Ok not a computer, but you could program it -- and I did, a lot). I eventually traded it for a 25C that would remember what you keyed in when you turned it off.
o Atari 800 w/BASIC cart, Assembler/Editor cart, AtariWriter cart. One floppy disk drive, I/O module.
o TRS/80 Model 100 laptop (40 col x 8 row LCD screen if I remember correctly). It still works.
o Then, into the PC era... | |
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Newegg
Supreme Ideology
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Atlanta, GA | I'm still using my first PC. | |
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LaurieDB
Does it really matter?
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Sacramento, CA
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| Re: Your first computer said by Newegg :I'm still using my first PC. Same here. I never thought I'd actually have to purchase my own machine until about 4 years ago. | |
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penguins4evr
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| My first computer was a Mac 512ke (the so-called "Fat Mac"); no hard drive; the computer Scotty tried talking to through the mouse in "Star Trek IV:The Voyage Home." I wish I still had it if only for nostalgic reasons.
Second computer an upgrade to a Mac SE; this time with a hard drive, woot!
Been using PCs ever since because of compatibilities with work. | |
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koolman2
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Anchorage, AK | Re: Your first computer "Hello, computer! Computer, respond!" | |
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