What was your first computer?
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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80386, 260MB HDD(later upgraded to 540MB), 4 MB RAM (later upgraded to 8 MB), 1.44 / 1.2 FDD, DOS 5.0 Kannan
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Two answers depending on what you call a computer and how far own goes. First one in my family that I used was a Wang 720 (they are in musuems) First one I actually purchased was a vic 20. You can do things with 4k of memory and none of those fancy hard drives. To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
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8088 with 640K RAM, Amber monochome monitor with Hercules graphics, 5.25" floppy, 20Meg HD (Yes Meg, not Gig) --- CPUA 0x5041 Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?
Of the replies so far, mine was closest to this one. It's the same specs, but with a macho graphics card. CGA. 4 colors. ph33r. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) "I just recieved an email from myself but I didn't send it ?" - Colin Davies, Sonork conference
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Apple IIe no HD 14" green and black screen 360KB 5.1" floppys 64KB RAM (which was need to be upgraded to 128KB) it had BASIC build in the ROM andd it was the 1st computer that i ever program more then 15 years ago. Then at the age of 13 i got Amiga 500 (the best computer ever!) it had 512KB RAM Kickstart 1.2 OS (i upgrade it to KS 1.3) still no HD (it cost too much) 720KB 3.5" floopys i played games that had 64 colors at 320x200 res. On this cumputer i programed C, C++, Pascal, AMOS (the bast BASIC ever) fortran, 64xxx ASM. From then it's a blur of x86, today i'm running P4 1.6Hz 512MB RAM 120GB HD that cost me the same the my 1st computer.
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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I had a ZX 81 with 1 Ko RAM and a 16 Ko RAM extension and tape reader. If you want to see the beast, I may shoot a picture :omg: At this time I programmed it with Basic and assembly. Laurent Kempé Tech Head --- Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address.
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Original ZX Spectrum - with 48K RAM and dead-flesh feel keyboard. I orginally wanted a ZX81 but couldn't afford the £99 to buy one (being 12 and getting only £1/week pocket money). Free
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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TRS-80 Model 100. It was arguably the first laptop. It wasn't a PC. It had a Z80 processor, running at 2 MHz. I bought the 'big' one - it had 24K of RAM, and then I bought another 8K to fill it out to its maximum of 32K RAM. It included an 8 line by 32 character LCD display. It would connect to a parallel printer, RS-232, and included a 1200 baud modem. It also would save data and programs to/from audio tape. Reportedly the Model 100 had the last major piece of code from Microsoft authored by Bill Gates (the builtin text editor inside was written by him). I still have the machine. :) Gary R. Wheeler
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Norm Almond wrote: Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 :omg: That must have been aeons ago, eh Norm? Nish
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zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack :)
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"good morning ... how many sugars do you take in your coffee ... and what was your name again?"coming soon: situations to avoid #38: "...and the dog was there too?"
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- Emanuele - wrote: In italy it had a short life Heheh, they didn't do so well here either; almost drove TI out of business in fact; but it was a fun machine :) --------_**
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Yes it was fun! But for some people IS FUN! Try to search for TI99/4A on Google you'll find a lot of site...I downloaded a screensaver! bye - SONORK ID 100.17421 : b0nu$ -
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Atari, Apple...geez - you guys should have started with the only *real* computer.......
:) Commodore 64 :)
* 1 MHz processor * 64K RAM * 5 1/4 inch floppy drive that has a capacity of an amazing 170Kb, which you could double when using both sides of the disk! Ducks - expecting somehting to be thrown in this direction Essam - Author, JScript .NET Programming
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Norm Almond wrote: Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 :omg: That must have been aeons ago, eh Norm? Nish
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Hey Nish, That was my first computer too (the first one I owned anyway) and I'm 35. David http://www.dundas.com
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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My first PC was an IBM-AT (80286, 512K RAM, Seagate 20M HD, CGA, 360K and 1.2M floppies - both 5.25"). I used it with a Princeton Graphics color monitor and an Okidata Microline 192 dot matrix printer which I <gasp!> still own (bit don't use). Oh yes, and DOS 3.1. /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Commodore vic 20, which I got as a gift ~19 years ago. The things I remember is that you loaded every thing off a cassette tape, and I bought a 8KB ram upgrade card for $300US. First PC. Packard Bell XT pc with 640Kb mem, CGA graphics and I think a 10Mb harddrive. When I got my 80MB which I paid allmost $1000US for I thought I'd never fill it.. John
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Vic-20! 4k memory (not 16k!), tape recorder, family TV set (1981). The first computer I programmed was a TRS-80 in 1978-79. (I'm 33 now)
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Two answers depending on what you call a computer and how far own goes. First one in my family that I used was a Wang 720 (they are in musuems) First one I actually purchased was a vic 20. You can do things with 4k of memory and none of those fancy hard drives. To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step towards Knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
Oh it was only 4k! Mine was a vic-20 too and I wasn't sure so I said 16k because 4k seemed impossible. Ben
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Ah those were the days. I bought a Commodore Vic-20 when I was 13. An amazing 5k of ram came standard. Also had the 24k ram upgrade cartridge! Data storage was handled with a cassette recorder and a little interface box, horribly unreliable. The thing plugged into a TV for the monitor so I used a little 13" portable. Spent lot's of hours typing basic code into that thing. Eventually moved up to the Commodore 64 with a big clunky external 5 1/4" external floppy drive. Programmed alot on the Apple II's at school as well. Used my first PC in 1985 while in the army, not sure what it was though. I remember it had dual 5 1/4" floppies, no hard drive and a Bausch & Lomb plotter that had a mechanical arm which you inserted a marker into to print charts from Lotus 123. I still have a DOS 2.11 disk laying around somewhere. Memories ... hehe.
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Mine was a CP-200. This was a brazilian version of ZX-81, with 16K (KBytes, not Megabytes!) RAM, 8K ROM, a National PV-220 tape recorder. With C-90 tapes, you had an impressive capacity of 64K each side of the tape (wich, obviously, would take 45 minutes to load). And you think your 56K modem is slow... The main proc was an Z-80 8 bits processor @ 3.54 Mhz. It handled the video, too. So, the computer had two modes of operation: FAST and SLOW (it's true, it was these names!). In SLOW mode, you had video refresh. In FAST mode, the screen went blank and the computer was 8 times faster. Some games flashed the screen a lot, because they drawed the screen in FAST mode, then showed the screen for a few moments in SLOW. Some moments playing those games makes you want to puke! :) There are still some emulators of ZX-81 on the web, very good emulators, only a bit faster :) Crivo Automated Credit Assessment
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I mean the first one of your own. Not the first one you used in college or school or work. Mine was a 80286/2MB Ram/40 MB HD :-) 1.44 MB FD and 1.2 MB FD DOS 5.0 Nish
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Mine was an Adam what used audio-like casettes. I worked on that thing night and day realizing that after 18 years I had finally discovered the one thing I enjoyed and do very well. I completely taught myself to program (casette Basic) and wrote, as my first application, a football game. Man, what I wouldn't give to be able to go back and see that code now :) Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C# Author, Visual C++.NET Bible A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the af