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

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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Marc Clifton

OriginalGriff wrote:

Good for it's time, but those magnetic strips were sooooo unreliable!

I eventually also had the HP version with the mag strip reader. It was soooo cool. I wrote Hunt the Wumpus on it - one program to randomize the caves and store them into the 9 registers using 2 digit encoding so I could map 20 caves with 3 routes each, plus 3 pits, 3 bat caves, 1 Wumpus and 1 player location. A second program on another mag strip was used to actually play the game! It was my first real taste of optimizing code, getting the game play to fit into 240 instruction "cells." Marc

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Maximilien

First computer was an Amiga 1000[^]. I wished I still have it (and the couple of games I had at the time that I really liked).

I'd rather be phishing!

Ron Anders

Steel Taiwan clone XT that flipped open like a funny car. 8088 chip that all who had these swapped out for a NEC V20. 2MB expanded ram board + QEMM 30MB drive Hercules video then upgraded to a Emulex/Persist Bob-16 graphics adapter. 2400 baud modem - I was a BBS rat. DOS 3.1 / Desqview A year later my dear wife got me a Genius Mouse. I had windows 1.01 on but that sucked more than you can know. It was more of a side show to show people. Getcha some of that! :thumbsup: