Well if I'm going to be my normal pedantic self I'd have to say a Binatone Pong machine similar to this:
(On the left)...
Its actually older than me and I still own it. Apart from that I have an Atari ST circa 1986 which I had upgraded to the powerhouse that is 1 whole MEGABYTE of RAM. Awesome.
Me and my 1337 PIC programming sk1llz will soon make this Pong game obsolete.
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My first computer was a Commodore 64 and my first PC a 8086 Bondwell with a hardisk of 10MB and 640 kb of memory (yes with the memory extension)
I wrote Assembly on the commodore (with final cartridge II) and Aztec C on the PC
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Well if I'm going to be my normal pedantic self I'd have to say a Binatone Pong machine similar to this:
(On the left)...
Its actually older than me and I still own it. Apart from that I have an Atari ST circa 1996 which I had upgraded to the powerhouse that is 1 whole MEGABYTE of RAM. Awesome.
Me and my 1337 PIC programming sk1llz will soon make this Pong game obsolete.
I LOVE how excited the dad is in the picture.. he's pointing at the screen like "Look out! here it comes!" LOL
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I had a pong game too (pre 1980 I think) but my uncle built it for us as he is an electronics specialist.
But as far as a typical type system it was a IBM clone 8086 with a 8087 math co-processor chip, 10 MB hd, 5.25" floppy. Alos had about the same time or so a TI-99 4A I think it was.
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My first computer - a 4004 CPU with 1k of 2102 memory. (This was in the early 70s, before home computers were available.) My first computer that I didn't design entirely by myself - a Godbout 8080 S-100 CPU board (around 1977 or 1978). (My old Z-80 computer still runs.)
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Oldest computer: Timex Sinclair 1000 .... the 1000 stood for the 1k memory it had.... oh yeah, and a cassette "drive"
First Computer used: Apple ][e ... Apple BASIC and LOGO
First computer owned: I.B.M. P.C. -- yes.. a genuwhine, ohweginal .... it was the model B, with the 640k upgrade.... we further upgraded it with a 32MB hard drive, a mouse and a Hayes 2400Baud modem.... 16 colors on an old b/w TV screen..... ahh, those were the days....
Like many others, Commodore 64. Unless you count the "Basic Programming" cartridge for the Atari 2600. But you probably shouldn't.
But the first computer I ever used was an industrial strength teletype. Built like a tank. And every line of output text sounded like a mob hit. I remember playing "Oregon Trail" over carrier signal. Reams and reams of greenbar were expended.
Apple][c when I was 2 years old! Learned how to read thanks to that computer... at 2! No wonder I'm so smart now.
Then when I was 6, the Amiga 500. And it still works, even to this day!!! (Let's see those computer companies that make Microsoft based comps make a long lasting computer like that.) Only we must have 1000's of disks for it now. Like 3 big boxes full. Most of the software and badass games are deteriating over time though unfortunately. But many of them still work. Plus I can always get more off of eBay.
Then when I was about 15, we got our first computer that had Windows 95 on there. Pentium 100 MHz, 128 Meg ram, and a 4 gig harddrive. It only lasted 3 years though.
I didn't get my first computer until 97. I was 11 years old then. It was a compaq presario: Pentium 2 - 300mhz, 64mb of ram, 4mb ati rage 3d video, 7gb harddrive, it came with windows 95. It costed ~2000 dollars.
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I remember having this computer that I couldnt do anything except play tetris on, it was probably DOS now that I think about it. Anybody got any ideas what piece of junk this might be? My parents had it at their work too..
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