Gawd, they know how to make me feel old...

H Brydon

My first was the IBM System/360-65[^]. I then went to the oldest, which was the IBM 1620 Model I[^]. No cassette tapes on those babies.

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Jorgen Andersson

IBM AT: EGA "Graphics", 512kB RAM on the MB and a 6MHz processor, but 2 20MB Harddrives (5¼" Double height, could be used as anchors) and one 5¼" floppy (1.2 MB) The 512MB RAM was a very frustrating limitation. So when I upgraded it I had enough money for a DX50 + 16MB RAM or a DX2/66 + 8MB RAM. Being as frustrated as I was with the RAM limits of the old MB I chose more RAM. Just to find out that there were no programs that could use more than 8MB at the time. :sigh: At the same time I also upgraded to an 800MB 3½" HDD supposedly state of the art at the time, just to find out that the old battleships were faster. :wtf: <edit>And the old IBM keyboards were so sturdy you could go to battle with them as a Claymore substitute</edit>

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OriginalGriff

I got myself a 32MB hard drive for mine. Cost the same as I paid for the computer (£400 then, equivalent to around £1000/$1500 in todays money) 400ms access time - so every time I read something from the disk, it would take at least half a second. I tried backing it up, but I ran out of floppies... And I thought it was so quick!

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OriginalGriff

You owned a mainframe? :omg: Just how big was your house? :laugh:

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Joan M

My first computer was an AMSTRAD 1512 without HDD with CGA (4 colours) and one 5 1/4 floppy drive and 512 MB of RAM. :cool:

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Chris C B

...and you make me feel really old. :sigh: I built one of these[^] while I was still at school. It's even in a museum! Now, where's my Zimmer frame? :laugh:

H Brydon

Not that big, really. But it was never cold. :-)

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OriginalGriff

Holy Computing, Batman! :omg: I love the specs:

CPU No processor but nine DC operational amplifiers
SPEED 0.5 to 15 repetitive operations per second

So...Doom is going to run a little slowly on that then? ;)

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HobbyProggy

Saw that today and got reminded that im too young for this... although my dad gave me his old amiga as first pc, but yeah, just not that old :~

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Lost User

Mine was a Commodore VIC20 - was great at the time (I was 8 at the time and got given this at Christmas instead of the Atari console that I'd asked for - wise move) :) http://oldcomputers.net/vic20.html[^] Introduced: June 1980 Released: January 1981 Price: US $299 (cost about the same in GBP) CPU: MOS 6502, 1MHz RAM: 5K (3.5K for the user) Display: 22 X 23 text, 176 X 184, 16 colors max

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Mark_Wallace

I had the Speccy itself; you just had the cheap knock-off.

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Mark_Wallace

Bluddy right! If you couldn't find it on tape, you had to type the damned program in!

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GuyThiebaut

1.3 gig hard drive - that's huge! I think my first PC, back in 1989, had around 20 megabytes of hard drive.

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Mark_Wallace

Hey, I bought the same model, as an upgrade from the Amstrad PPC640[^]!

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CPallini

I don't care if you count it or not, I've had a wonderful ZX Spectrum 48K and I learned (its) BASIC and Z80 assembly with it.

Jochen Arndt

I sympathise with your feeling. My first was a Schneider/Amstrad CPC6128[^] with additional external floppy drive (not an original one but a raw 3" drive). Then I had a second hand not IBM compatible 80186 based Philips :YES[^] with 640 KB RAM, a 20 MB SASI (SCSI predecessor) hard disk and an additional external 5 1/2" disk drive (again not original but one from a defective IBM PC). Even my first new PC had less power than the P150 from the strip (a 486DX33 with 8 MB of RAM).

Marc Clifton

Technically, my first "computer" was an HP 25C (I think that was the model) calculator, but it was programmable - 49 steps. My first "real" computer was a Commodore IBM - real keyboard, 32KB of RAM, 6502 1Mhz processor, and a tape drive for storage, which I eventually upgraded to dual floppies, each floppy had double the storage of Apple's drive, mwahaha. Marc

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OriginalGriff

Several times, if I recall correctly... :laugh:

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Rhuros

I had a Commodore 64 in '83 and was spoilt rotten by my parents as it came with a 5 1/4 floppy drive and printer... Followed by an Amiga 500 in '88 If we're talking about PC, I had a Laser 386 DX 25 MHZ, 2 MB ram and 69 MB Hard drive. It was offered as an alternative to a FM Towns games machine that I'd won though a competition I'd entered in the games Magazine back in 1990, as the FM Towns couldn't be sourced from Japan. Needless to say the PC was far more use than an FM Towns.

OriginalGriff

In that case mine was a TI 59[^] - but I didn't think of it as a computer then! Good for it's time, but those magnetic strips were sooooo unreliable!

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