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Topic: What was your first computer?
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JT
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posted 04-16- 09:46 PM
   
Mine was an Atari 800 with 64K RAM. I think it still works.IP: Logged |
Mighty
Pilot
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posted 04-17- 01:14 AM
We've had this thread before. I guess not on this board. I just searched.For me, a DEC PDP-11/05 in our garage in about '77. 48k words of memory, four 2-meg removable hard drives about 18 inches across. Stored in a refridgerator-sized cabinet. Each 8k magnetic core memory board was about two to three times the size of today's motherboards. The CPU was a collection of circuit boards that took up about half the space of today's desktop system. IP: Logged |
Spanky the Mad Dog
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posted 04-17- 02:02 AM
Spanky here... I had a commadore Vic 20 first. Actually My dad had some texas insturment thing. Small with a soft touch keyboard. Like on a Microwave. It used a regular crappy tape recorder for storage. The vic used a dedicated one. Then on to a Amstrad 8088 then played lots on mad dogs 386/40 and on and on. lol 
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Pachy
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posted 04-17- 02:55 AM
The first I owned was an Amstrad CPC464, but the very first computer I played with was the original Macintosh. Man, what a shock. Of course I couldn't afford one. Then a CPC6128, then an Atari 520 ST (loved this one), then unfortunately I had to switch to those crappy Windows PCs, until I figured out everything I needed at home could be done under Linux. But SDOE came out and I started using Windows again  I had a similar shock with those Palm things. Very cool, but I don't *need* one. IP: Logged |
Whirlwind
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posted 04-17- 06:09 AM
TI-994/A then a Commodore 128 - what a computer, it was my primary college workhorse until 1993, when I bought a 486DX2/50 with a wopping 8MB RAM and a 170MB HD. It is still alive in various states right now, including the monitor...IP: Logged |
Michael Harrison
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posted 04-17- 06:58 AM
Xerox 860It was actually a word processor (of which none since has equalled) that could also run CP/M. Started programming in Basic on this machine back in '78 IP: Logged |
Sv
Pilot
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posted 04-17- 07:24 AM
Sinclair Zx-81... with the 64k mem pack add-on! This had the microwave-style touch keys, but they had the touch of death. Every now and then a certain press would crash the machine... just a white screen of death.There was one very cool feature though, each of the BASIC keywords was available as a one key function stroke - you could fly! Also the Zx-81 procesor had a million instructions too... machine language was fun 
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WWI in SDOE!
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Zurawski
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posted 04-17- 11:10 AM
ROF!Epson Apex 9Mhz w/duel 5.25 floppies & a killer 14" CGA monitor! IP: Logged |
Jerry
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posted 04-17- 11:18 AM
Commodore 64, two 5 1/4" disk drives and a "hi res" 320X200 monitor. Built-in basic, 16 colors and 8 sprites, 3 voice sound. Nothing could touch it for years.IP: Logged |
Elric
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posted 04-17- 03:52 PM
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k, a rubber keyed joy! I think it's still around somewhere... I had used a ZX-81 c/w 16k ram pack, at school. One wobble and bang goes your program.The first computer game I played was "Fighter Pilot" by Digital Integration. Elric [This message has been edited by Elric (edited 04-17-2000).] IP: Logged |
Werner Molders
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posted 04-17- 05:01 PM
Apple 2e (at school) - green monitor, "boot disks" and virtually no OS. Given the state of education funding in my area, I actually think my school still has a few that have yet to be retired.Werner [This message has been edited by Werner Molders (edited 04-17-2000).] IP: Logged |
ReaperMan
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posted 04-17- 10:29 PM
Wow you guys are really dating yourselves.
Anyway, it's neat to see where everybody's coming from.I had Apple IIe's in the classroom, did some GBASIC on those. First console was an Atari 2600. Moon Patrol, Yar's Revenge, still got all the games at home. My older bro had a Commodore 64 for a while (Gunship, Summer/Winter Games, MULE, Mail Order Monsters...) and then we got our 386 a few years later. Star Control, SC2, X-COM, Railroad Tycoon, Darklands, SWOTL... man those were the days. So many memories. The 386 still lives, and I think the Atari does too, just missing an adapter. Windows? What's that?... I don't think I have enough memory to run it ------------------
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ArgonV
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posted 04-17- 11:45 PM
SWOTL!!!!! An awsome WWII sim!!!!! I love that game. In fact, It is on my hardrive right now, and yes it works in Windows (Dos Prompt actually) I STILL play that game. So many memories. One of the few games then that had bombers that you could get into the gunners positions of.IP: Logged |
mposis
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posted 04-18- 12:16 PM
Amiga 1000 w/ 256KB in 1986. It still works too.IP: Logged |
Wilder
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posted 04-18- 04:29 PM
It was a sinclair spectrum of some description can't remember what....But I can remember typing in lines of basic to make simple games.....wish I'd kept it up really! At school our IT lessons were using punch cards(honest!!!!) I kept getting mine back with a syntax error...lol. First real game was Elite on the bbc microIP: Logged |
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