Gawd, they know how to make me feel old...
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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I had the Speccy itself; you just had the cheap knock-off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Um..."and was meant to work with a basic audio tape recorder to save and load data"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
1.3 gig hard drive - that's huge! I think my first PC, back in 1989, had around 20 megabytes of hard drive.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Hey, I bought the same model, as an upgrade from the Amstrad PPC640[^]!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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).
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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Bluddy right! If you couldn't find it on tape, you had to type the damned program in!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Several times, if I recall correctly... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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.
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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 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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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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!
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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:
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
The one that doesn't count: Sorry! TI-994a back in '82-83 I think. The next one was a hand-me-down PowerMac 6100: 1 512MB HDD, 16MB RAM, and a huge 13'' monitor! OS 7.5 was so bad that my first real computer manual was 'Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters'! Great times! :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
A 520 ST, which I still have. But, if you ignore the cassette restriction, a TI 99/4A (Which I probably still have...9or maybe my sister has it.)
We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
My high school computer was an IBM 1620 (go ahead, look it up!) with 40,000 digits (not bits - it was a decimal machine), console typewriter, and card I/O. This was in 1967, you young whippersnappers :cool:
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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My high school computer was an IBM 1620 (go ahead, look it up!) with 40,000 digits (not bits - it was a decimal machine), console typewriter, and card I/O. This was in 1967, you young whippersnappers :cool:
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
Yeah we ha a ti994a also but thought it didn't qualify here because of the cassette. We had great fun writing basic programs to scroll expletives on the screen. What fun teaching a computer to swear. Just look what we've done!
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Tandy 1000 HX[^] Without that, you'd never would've had the pleasure of meeting me.
Jeremy Falcon
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Comitstrip: First Computer[^] My first was an Amstrad 1640: EGA graphics, 640K RAM, 8MHz processor, no math coprocessor (but a socket so you could add one), no HDD, but twin 5 1/2" floppies (360Kb per disk). And that was second hand... What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count :laugh: )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
What was your first "real" computer? (I'm not counting Spectrums and their ilk here: if it had a cassette tape it doesn't count
Why not? I'd give anyone with such a beast extra points just for having the patience of dealing with tapes. (that's all I had for storage for the first year I've had my Commodore 64)
