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Supreme Ideology
join:2004-11-14
Atlanta, GA | reply to wxboss
Re: Your first computer
I'm still using my first PC. |
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penguins4evr
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join:2002-01-17
The Colony
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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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2kmaro
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TRS-80, Model I w/Level II Basic. Eventually expanded it to full 48K RAM (it had 16K tied up in the BASIC ROM) with an expansion interface to get a printer hooked up along with 4 5.25" floppy drives and finally an 8" 5MB hard drive. The hard drive I got at a "deal" price of just under $2000. Had an Epson MX-80 connected at one time, and later one of the early 24-pin dot matrix printers (another $2000).
Later had Model III, 2 Radio Shack Color Computers, then later a Tandy 3000 and then moved off of Radio Shack/Tandy brand into generic desktops.
Amazing how far we've come in 25 or 26 years.
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koolman2
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join:2002-10-01
Anchorage, AK | reply to penguins4evr
"Hello, computer! Computer, respond!"  |
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CurtesyFlush
Bababooey, fafafooey, tatatoothy.
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Fontana, CA
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said by 2kmaro  :Amazing how far we've come in 25 or 26 years. I recall buying a 40mb HDD for my 386DX-40 and wondering how the hell I was ever going to fill that thing up with 1's and 0's.
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Anti_Cyrix
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join:2003-03-06
Sacramento, CA | reply to wxboss
In '95, for about $2k:
133 mhz pentium
16 meg EDO ram
1mb video by S3
sound blaster compatible sound card
6X cd rom drive
1.2 Gig WD HD
3.5" floppy
No modem (later bought a 33.6k) |
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theman23
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join:2004-06-17
San Francisco, CA
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Got mine in 1997. It had a Cyrix (what the hell were my parents thinking?) 300mhz processor, 32 megs of RAM, 2 gig Hard Drive and 13" Monitor. Cost ~$500. |
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MJimLay
aka FlexBaud
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join:2004-10-06
Beach Haven
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This Thing... |
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ravencajun
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join:2004-08-12
Houston, TX
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this thing
»www.cedmagic.com/history/osborne-1.html
1981: Osborne Portable Computer
The Osborne Computer was the brainchild of Adam Osborne, a well-known publisher of technical books in the early days of the personal computer. He wanted a computer with a built-in screen that could fit under an airplane seat, and the Osborne just met those criteria in 1981, albeit via a rather small 5-inch CRT. The screen displayed 52 characters, but could be shifted left/right to display longer lines of text. The Osborne was introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire in April 1981, and was also notable for being the first machine to come bundled with a suite of software that included BASIC, WordStar, and SuperCalc. The unit retailed for $1795 and had brisk sales of about 10,000 machines a month.
Other companies, most notably Compaq, jumped into the portable computer business, prompting Osborne to release the Osborne Executive model in 1983 (at which time the original was named Osborne 1). This unit had a 7-inch CRT and the same Z80 processor as the original, but an optional 8088 CPU card allowed it to run the MS-DOS operating system. But Osborne Computer Corp. was unable to manage itself effectively in its rapidly changing market from 1981 to 1983, and OCC declared bankruptcy on September 13, 1983.
My husband got 2 of those things. They were the hot item back then a truly portable pc. The screen on those things were so tiny you would go blind. I still had a lot of the floppies from it and cleaned house about a year ago and threw them out.
We had several other of the old systems from early 80s up to the HP Pavillions that I now use. |
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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My first computer had a 486DX processor by AMD, that's all I can really remember. After that I had a 75MHz Pentium, and then a 233 or 266MHz [cant remember] cheapo upgrade thingie by a no-name brand or something... then a K6/2 500MHz one, and then newer stuff. |
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coxta
Ultramundane
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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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SoilFlames
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Andover, MN
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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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shimonmor
join:2000-12-30
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Kaypro II, 1982 and I was 13. I still have it in my closet. Had 64K RAM, a Z-80 processor at 2.5MHz. I put in a switch to overclock it to 5 MHz and piggybacked RAM chips on top of each other to 128K. I still have all the manuals and diskettes and tons of printouts. Had a 1200 baud modem and an Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer. CP/M was the operating system and I used to program in BASIC, S-BASIC, Pascal, Z-80 assembly and C+. Sure had a lot of fun with it...I may have to dust off and fire her up to see if she still works. |
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jlramirez
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Montgomery, IL
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TRS-80 was the first I'd used... First owned was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A...Then on to Commodore 64, then Tandy 1000SX and then up, up and away from there... Still have the old Commodore 64 and Tandy 1000 sitting in the basement on a shelf.
The Tandy has it's monster 20MB HDD which cost $700 back in the day... 
-JR
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askmrauto
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San Antonio, TX
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The Good Ole PCjr ;)
Mine had 256kb or RAM and no harddrive. Came with a cartridge which had BASIC on it. I used a floppy to boot into MSDOS and remember games like Monopoly, Donkey, Race Car, etc. O and a sweet Infared keyboard
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join:2002-10-02
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Re: Your first computer
man this is like the 20th lets discuss old computers thread ive seen lol. you guys are old |
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Anonymous_
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my first computer was an (DELL) Intel pentium 1 166MHz it had a CD-ROM drive and a 3.5" floppy Running Windows 98SE it had a ATI Mach64 VT(64bit) i got it for free this was in 1999 128MB SDRAM
for internet i went to the Los Angeles Public Library it was a lot faster (high Speed at the time)
2 PC
Intel cleron (Northwood)2.0Ghz
64MB GPU
160GB hard drive
40Gb hard drive
3th computer
AMD athlon XP 2000+ (UNLOCKED to 2.4GHz 400 FSB
Nvidia FX5200 64bit 128MB
200GB
and 160GB (160GB for software installers) hard drive
i am planning on gettin two 40GB sata for it (raid)
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cow116
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Indianapolis, IN
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this is my first computer that is truely mine and i dotn have to share. pentium 4 3.06ghz 533fsb, 2GB Ram (4x 512MB dual channel ddr 400) power color ati 9600xt ultra edition, sound blaster audigy 2 zs gamer edition, 2x western digital 80 gig hdds(one sata one eide) abit is7-e mobo. NEC dvd rom, samsung 48/24/48 cd burner. onboard nic on is7-e and a 3com 10/100 nic for redundant networking. |
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ronny_b
join:2004-10-10
Saint Louis, MO | reply to wxboss
In 1978, TRS-80 Model with 4K memory (later upgraded to 16K), two cassette recorders (one for input, one for output), acoustic modem.
Ron |
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drslash
Goya Asma
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Marion, IA
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The first computer I owned was the C64.
I can't resist posting the first computer (just the interface) I ever used.
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