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Apr 21st, 2003, 12:30 PM
#1
Thread Starter
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Your First Computer What was It?
I want to here about everyones first piece of kit they bought, and why they would (or would not as the case may be) still use it today.
The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genious of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. This is who we are.
(Quote MM)
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Apr 21st, 2003, 12:48 PM
#2
Frenzied Member
Sinclair ZX-81 with the optional 16KB ram pack.
Nice cheap computer and since it was almost impossible to load/save stuff (to a tap recorder no less) it virtually forced the user to learn how to code.
Then I traded up to an Acorn BBC Micro B which had an awesome 64kb to play with and managed to fit a speech synthesis program into half that!
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Apr 21st, 2003, 01:40 PM
#3
Addicted Member
This thing cost me more than the comp I'm using now did.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=68
"And most of the evils of society can, in fact, be cured through information. We have a society that has been disinformed and based on the disinformation has made irrational choices. And that's what I mean by 'ignorance.' People, who ordinarily might be smart, are deprived of the data by which to make a rational decision, don't have the data to do it."
Frank Zappa
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Apr 21st, 2003, 03:20 PM
#4
Monday Morning Lunatic
First computer I ever *used* was some Apple thing (hey, I was about 4 at the time or something).
First one I did something useful with was a BBC B First computer I ever personally owned (and still have it!) was an Acorn Electron, kind of like a cut-down BBC. Great for programming though (I love BASIC and assembler).
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Apr 21st, 2003, 06:29 PM
#5
Member
The first computer I ever used was a 8088 or something like that.
The first computer I ever owned was a 386.
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Apr 21st, 2003, 09:12 PM
#6
The first computer I ever used was an Amiga (spelling).
The oldest computer ever was an old Micro Bee (I think that's it's name).
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Apr 21st, 2003, 10:53 PM
#7
Frenzied Member
1985, Texas Instruments Home Computer. With a Voice Synthesizer, but no Floppy Drive. Had to do with normal Audio Tapes. I began with a Laptop! Miss it so!
"Brothers, you asked for it."
...Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian D'Anconia
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Apr 22nd, 2003, 06:50 AM
#8
Fanatic Member
In roughly the order I had them:
Sinclair ZX-81 with the optional 16KB ram pack (stuck on with velcro)
Commodore 16
Commodore Plus 4
Dragon 32
Acorn Electron
BBC B
Commodore 64
Amiga 500
Amigs 500+
Martin J Wallace (Slaine)
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Apr 22nd, 2003, 08:14 AM
#9
Lively Member
amstrad cp64k green screen, tape recorder
was about 5 or 6 at the time, mainly for games, very basic programming like drawing pictures on the screen.
it was gr8
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Apr 22nd, 2003, 08:22 AM
#10
Retired VBF Adm1nistrator
First computer I ever use was the Robin. It had two 5.24" drive bays on it.
Then I had an apricot after that.
I also used some of the machines in my dad's work - AT&T's plant in Bray in Ireland.
They had some nice kit
Microsoft MVP : Visual Developer - Visual Basic [2004-2005]
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Apr 22nd, 2003, 11:16 PM
#11
My first was an Apple II. It had a 5-digit (numeric) serial number!
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Apr 23rd, 2003, 04:26 AM
#12
PowerPoster
Compaq - 586 97mhz, a lovely computer.
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Apr 23rd, 2003, 04:34 AM
#13
Suck
amstrad cp64k green screen, tape recorder
I haven't hear that one in awhile.
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Apr 23rd, 2003, 04:39 AM
#14
PowerPoster
Originally posted by Nightwalker83
Suck
Actually, it was a great system.
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Apr 23rd, 2003, 04:28 PM
#15
Addicted Member
Apple II+
Started programming with ApplePASCAL and AppleBASIC.
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Apr 24th, 2003, 02:37 AM
#16
Addicted Member
Well I never owned it, but when I started Uni in the '70s, they had a second-user IBM360 on which I learned Fortran using punched cards, which was fun when you dropped them and had to get them back into order.
Before that, I had a Faber-Castell slide-rule.
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Apr 24th, 2003, 02:47 AM
#17
Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Actually, it was a great system.
The compaqs at my old High School were crap.
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Apr 24th, 2003, 04:21 AM
#18
Monday Morning Lunatic
The Compaq I had at work running NT4 was dead nice. I stayed logged in for 85 days, heh.
I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
-- Linus Torvalds
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Apr 24th, 2003, 08:03 AM
#19
Fanatic Member
Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Compaq - 586 97mhz, a lovely computer.
you must be young...
1st used: don't remember
1st owned (well...through my parents, but hey): 386, ~15 Mhz or so? Played simcity classic all the time
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Apr 24th, 2003, 08:11 AM
#20
Lively Member
I had a Dragon32 but then upgraded(!) to a BBC Master.
Whatever happened to the clunky keyboard?
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Apr 24th, 2003, 09:50 AM
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Apr 24th, 2003, 10:57 AM
#22
Hyperactive Member
Atari 520 STFM
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Apr 24th, 2003, 11:09 AM
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Apr 24th, 2003, 01:12 PM
#24
Fanatic Member
First owned was a Commodore 64
First used was a Commodore PET in our school library.
There was a very cool Snoopy vs Red Baron math program
and the classic, Lemonade stand.
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Apr 24th, 2003, 03:00 PM
#25
Member
theres a lemonade stand java game on the net
http://www.lemonadegame.com
I used to play with that game
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Apr 24th, 2003, 07:21 PM
#26
Frenzied Member
Also a Sinclair ZX-81 but without the optional 16KB ram pack.
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Apr 25th, 2003, 02:23 PM
#27
The first computer I used that was my own was a 80386 SX 25mhz from 1991, 80 mb harddisk, 256k video card, 4 mb ram, 3.5 and 5.25 inch diskdrives.
The first computer I used (not counting an Atari game console from 1985/1986) was a 8088 or 8086 from around 1987 with a Hercules??? monochrome video card and a harddisk.
Last edited by Peter Swinkels; Oct 16th, 2005 at 02:41 PM.
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Apr 25th, 2003, 02:44 PM
#28
Frenzied Member
TRS-80 coco2
(http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?c=508&st=1)
Had the audio tape for a hard drive (sucked) Write a program all day long and save it to the tape... just to never get it back... very frustrating for a 6 year old. I didn;t touch another computer for almost 14 years after that.
I'm off to GalahTech, hope to see you there.
If you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game. -- Steve Ignorant.
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Apr 25th, 2003, 06:42 PM
#29
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Apple II for practice. The real one was a Commodore 64
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Apr 26th, 2003, 01:54 AM
#30
^:^...ANGEL...^:^
Looks like I came in computer world late then u guyz...in 1993
Pentium 60 MHz (Turbo makes it 90 MHz)
16 MB Ram
500 MB HDD
Floppy
CD-Rom
Basic Sound System
Basic Graphics
Thats all I can remember...
Now I own
P III 800 MHz
512 MB RAM
100 GB HDD
Sound Blaster Live
Matrox Millenium G450 DuelHead Graphics
Netgear FA312 10/100 NIC
Realtek 10/100 NIC
500 W Speakers
MS Mouse
MS Keyboard
Motorola CABLE Modem
56 KBPS Standard USB Modem
DVD - ROM
CD - ROM
CD - Burner
Floppy
Webcam
Netgear 10/100 Full duplex switch 5 port
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Apr 26th, 2003, 02:24 AM
#31
m,
The Compaq I had at work running NT4 was dead nice.
The keyword in there is dead.
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Apr 26th, 2003, 04:14 AM
#32
Hyperactive Member
My first computer was an XT(X-T?) ... or a 286
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