what was your first computer?

i had a C64 ... i wish i hadn't gotten rid of it that thing ruled

 

mine was custom made from a shop here in town. It was made in like 97 and it had win 95 on it.

 

trs 80 16k

 

oooooold compaq laptop. barley ran win. 3.1. still barely runs 3.1 but i still use it!! its awsome.

eric

 

First one I nursed at work was a TRS-80 Model 5. First one at home was a generic 386 DX with Win 3.11.

 

Texas Instruments TI99/4A
Processor: 16-bit TMS 9900 running at 3Mhz
Graphics: Screen resolution of 256x192 in 16 colours
RAM: 16K
First introduced in 1979 with a retail price of $525.

 

Silo was where I bought my first CD player, way back when Camillus had a Mall My first computer was a Commodore Vic20. I don't recall too many of the specs, but it had a cassette player for data storage and a modem that plugged into a port on the back. I used to dial into CompuServer to play a text based version of Shuttle Lander

My first computer with a GUI was a Pentium 90 w/ 32mb EDO memory, a 1mb Diamond Multimedia graphics card and a 700mb hard drive. It was also my first time upgrading anything, after which I broke it a few times and learned how to fix my mistakes I got hooked

 

a TRS that a girl friend had bought for her son...........she brought it to me, to type in the code, that would write out his name on the screen, which was hooked up to a tv.........I think it was 230 lines of code, that I had to type out from a book..........I never did get it right........so that turned me off of code of any kind.......wobbles

 

I had a 286, but i can't remember who made it.. It ran MSDOS only, i suppose this was where i learned about code, having to use text interface.. Got me started with BASIC programming. Ah, the golden years.. lol.. Then, progressed to a 386, which had a groundbreaking 12mhz (or something like that) and a turbo button. (why?) That ran windows 3.1, and Commander Keen.. Ah Yes!

 

first computer in our house was an apple IIgs, then a pentium 60. first pc i owned was a pentium 166

 

cant remember, other than it had them big 5 1/2 inch floppy disks

 

first one I bought was a Pentium 200MMX, 32MB RAM, S3 2D card and VooDoo2 SLI with a whopping 4,2GB hd and a blazing fast 8X cd-rom

first one I had to fix up (this was before my first computer) was a 386 with like 4MB ram orso and 500MB hd with only a S3 2D card in it

 

I remember the Altair back in my college days in '75.
My first P.C.? Probably some cruddy old XT. My electric typewriter could and did do more.

 

The first computer I owned was back in the 1980s.
It was an IBM with DOS.
It was my first experience with a computer and I
enjoyed it a great deal. The first time I fouled
it up I called people for help. The next time, I
had learned a few things and fixed it myself.


Maggie

 

My first computer was a Mac that only ran when you had a floppy disk inserted into it. It was from the late 80's

 

Atari 800 with 48K of RAM
First PC-compatible: Quantex 386SX/16 w 2MB RAM and a 10MB drive.

 

My first was a Commodore vic20. I still have it in my closet With the tape drive and a few other things for it.

 

Sinclair Spectrum ZX80,

1k RAM , I've still got it and it's still running!

Also got an old Commodore +4 with 16kb, an MSX with 64kb and an Atari 65XE and a couple of C64's around.

 

C64. after we got rid of it, we had a custom built 486...with a 4x cd-rom drive. i thought that was the sweetest thing..."my pc has a cd-rom drive."

 

IBM PC, not XT, PC. intel 8086. No hard drive, no coprocessor.

It cost around $5,000 then.

 

Don't remember the exact model, but it was a Tandy I know that fer sure. Never really got into it much. I remember it had a cradle thingy where you put the handset from the phone onto so you could connect to the internet. Thought that was too cool. Kinda like some early 70's James Bond crap. lol Then a friend got us into a heep 'o trouble & my mom took it away.

This was in the late 70's so....

 

Man i wish i had an old computer still so I could just hack into it and write code on it. ahh, so much fun.

 

The first one I had was a "Tandy Model 1" with 4 K ram and a cassette recorder and player.

Green screen. Cassette tapes were used to load, run and store data.

Went to a Tandy luggable/portable/laptop (ha ha) Model 4P. Two 5.25 floppy drives. Hacked the memory from 16mb to 32mb by soldering on another memory chip.

Next was a 286 that I hired out to the company I was working for. Only way I could afford to get it. Had to wait a year for the lease to run out before I got it home. Then 386, 386SX33 Epson luggable that I lugged to Africa and revolutionised the West African's company Supply inventory management by publishing an Alphabetical catalogue of their 30,000 items. 600 pages of paper. Boy that stirred them up, hundreds of duplications, etc. Used Foxpro then, so fast over File Express.

Next various 486's, 486/33, 486Sx/66. upgraded to 486/100. Then pentium 100, 166, P2/266 desktops. Finally my P2/400 gateway Solo 9300 laptop purchased in 1999 for around $6000 OZ dollars, with docking station, extra 10 gig harddrive, 120mb floppy, DVD/CD etc. Still have it and use it every day. Boy, the money I have spent on PC's, when I figure it out. Bazza

 

Tandy TRS-80

 

I want go get a TRS-80 so bad. Can you program BASIC on it?

 

you sure can

I remember them days

10 print"what is your name"
20 if 10 <> Endi then go to 30
30 print"wrong name"
40 goto 10


something like that LOL

hell I can't remember that stuff anymore

 

A Compaq 386 that was Frankensteined from a bunch of parts my geek friends had laying around. I think I got it my Sophomore year in high school.

 

My first was a Commodore VIC-20 5K Memory

At the time i tought it was alot off memory

 

You don't need an old computer to program BASIC.

 

Hey, I've got one of those - gathering dust in the attic. Also got a Spectrum+ with integrated tape drive.

 

First computer I had was an Apple 2 with that awsome phycologist thing Ask Liza or whatever. So funny.

 

P2 233 MHZ
64MB PC 100 SDRAM 3X
Komodo 17' Monitor
8GB HDD
8MB VIDEO CARD (CHIP-www.SIS.com)
8X CD-ROM
What can i say?
I just got into the whole computer business.

 

The fIR p.c.:-

Was it Simon?
BINGO! Edmund Berkeley first described Simon in his 1949 book, "Giant Brains, or Machines That Think" and went on to publish plans to build Simon in a series of Radio Electronics issues in 1950 and 1951.
Simon touched such pioneering computer scientists as Ivan Sutherland, who went on to influence development of interactive graphical personal computers.


1950 Simon FAQ

 

First computer I ever ran was my brain.



It is still state of the art too.

Amateurs

 

Yeah but its always fun to mess around with old programs on the old computers.

 

It's probably in better shape than mine, It's gone yellow round the sides and has been cooked once. When I was about 8 my mum spilt some milk on it and put it in the sandwich warmer to dry it out. Then forgot it was in there!!

Have you seen what good condition ZX80's are going for:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11994&item=8122015019&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

 

I had a Commodore Vic20 with the cassette drive. I remember writing the programs that Endi mentioned, making your name go across the screen in different ways, and simple question and answer programs.

After that died, we got an Apple IIe and then later an Apple IIGS. My parent's are still Mac users, but then again, they also have a working Beta VCR. (Beta came out in Stereo before VHS)

 

Your parents are smart. Beta is a better format than VHS. That's why tv and radio stations still use beta systems. Or am I just a curmidgeon

 

My first computer was a commodore 64. Damn that thing rocked. Than My second was a 20mhz 486 woot. Go crystal caves and commander keen. Damn those were the days.

 

Its always fun to see and look around at garage sales and then buy the stuff for like $5.

 

For those how don't know Curmidgeon = An Optimistic Pessimist ,,,Glenn

 

My first one... Lets see
Macintosh 512K --> upgraded to 1MB, and a second floppy disk drive.

Way back when you could easiely run a systyem, paint program and a wordprocessor from a single 800 KB floppy disk.

 

An Abacus...

 

Get to work beotch

 

2 + 2 = uhhh...

 

exactly

 

10 input "what is your name?";A$
20 if A$ = "Endi" then goto 40
30 print "wrong name"
40 print "I would have thought of something witty but its 4am"


oh and i remember when my parents got a mac ... and i was like "what in blazes am i gonna do with mouse?" lmao

 

Star can help you with that, he runs this nifty section right here at MG!!

 

Cindy and I got our first computer free from someone who had just upgraded. It was a 486 with a 1.2Gb hard drive, and I think it had 64 RAM.

Thing is, that was only 3 years ago!! We used it to do ebay and raise money to buy our current setup, an AMD Athlon 1.3 with a 40G hard drive and 512 DDR. What a jump!