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    Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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    Juan Carlos Cobas
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    None owned an MSX one? I bought a Sony 201P with 48 Kb. At that time (1985) was a fantastic computer. I really had fun with it.

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      Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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      Niall Barr
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      Yamaha CX5M[^]

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        Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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        KaRl
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        ZX81, 16K RAM extension and a nice rubber keyboard[^]


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          Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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          When I was 12 I got a Commodore 64. Only with the tape-recorder though... A year after I got my 64, I upgraded with a Floppy-drive and a super-duper speed cartridge... I still remember my first program I wrote: 10 print "Hello Commodore64" 20 goto 10 ;)

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            Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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            Giles
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            The first I used at home was my dad's a Commodore PET 90. My own was an Atari STe 520. Saying that not sure if an Atari 2600 games console counts?


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              Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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              Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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                ProffK
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                Ye Olde Sinclair ZX81, 1k RAM. Gene Roddenberry was a legendary pioneer of thought-provoking, futuristic science fiction. George Lucas created Jar Jar Binks.

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                  48k ZX Spectrum :). God that was fun. The best bit is i still have it. Its in my mums attic. The only problem with it is the membrane has gone by the Z key which means it needs a good thump to get it to work (hense a large dent in that corner). that made it prety much impossible to program on as the spectrum ahd allt these extended unction keys which i couldnt use without the left ctrl key :((:(. I might hve a look at it now though. Jon

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                  Not being a regular poster here at CodeProject (I'm a stereo-typical lurker), just thought I'd mention that some of us still use ZX Spectrums. Aah the joys of coding in z80 assembler. Anyway, thought I'd give a link to somewhere I know that I think still sells ZX keyboard membranes, in case you decide to fix it... www.sintech-shop.de[^] Cheers, 'bod

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                    Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                    C0d3_P03t
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                    I recently bought an illustration book on computer history with pictures from the earliest of systems to the present ones and it was astonishing looking at the first mouse and the first portable system hehe. Would be kinda cool if a Museum existed with all those different computer system. From the very first systems to the modern pc. Would be even more cooler to see ENIAC or UNIVAC on display hehe. It would be a huge one. Always trust your techno lust

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                      Not being a regular poster here at CodeProject (I'm a stereo-typical lurker), just thought I'd mention that some of us still use ZX Spectrums. Aah the joys of coding in z80 assembler. Anyway, thought I'd give a link to somewhere I know that I think still sells ZX keyboard membranes, in case you decide to fix it... www.sintech-shop.de[^] Cheers, 'bod

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                      Thanks. I think i'll check that out. Jon

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                        Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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                        Roland Bar
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                        First video game console: Atari 2600 First computer: Commodore C64 Greets Roland


                        Wenn der Computer wirklich alles kann, dann kann er mich mal kreuzweise.

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                          Bamaco2
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                          VIC 20 then C-64 and on to C-128 then A1000, A500, A3000. Still have my Amiga 3000, but its not powered....

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                            I bought myself a ZX81 in 1982 using my entire life savings (of £45 - I was only 11). My parents had refused to buy one for me for my birthday because it would only be a 'fad'.:sigh: (It wasn't.) After that I had an Oric Atmos, Commadore 64 and an Amiga 500. I got a PC in 1993 (and haven't bought another one since - I use a work laptop at home).

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                              In about 1973 it was a WANG 720 with memory for about 2000 program steps or about 120 variables. Soon I changed to the newer model 2200 with ROM-Basic and 4k memory. (By the way, ONE 320k floppy at that time could be bought for about 20 DM, that is about 12 US$!) ;) I still own this (running!) model. It is amazing to let compete it with a PC in incrementing a number. When the PC gets an integer overflow, the 2200 is still counting in the hundreds. Peter Schlang Software-Entwicklung und -Beratung (This item consists of 100% recyclable bits and bytes!)

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                                Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                The first one I had access to was my Dad's Apple /// - a 6502 with 256kB of RAM and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. When he later fitted a Z80 coprocessor card to it I taught myself Z-80 assembler under CP/M 2.2. The first machine I owned myself was an Amstrad PCW8512 CP/M+ box. With a memory upgrade it had a whopping 1MB of memory! The PC I owned was a Dan Technology 16MHz 386SX with 2MB of memory in 1990. It cost me £1150 - how things have changed! Nowadays, I have an Acer Travelmate 8006LMi laptop (2GHz Pentium M) and an Athlon 2500 desktop box. :cool: Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                                  Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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                                  David Wulff
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                                  1995, Pentium 166 with 64MB RAM, 2.1GB hard disk and Windows 95. I've had 'older' machines since then, but that was the first computer I owned.


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                                    Sam Woodward
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                                    Commodore 16 then Acorn Electron (with the Plus1 expansion) then Acorn Archimedes A3000 Sam W

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                                      1982: Apple ][+ with extra 16K module to bring it up to 48K! ooooooooo I paid for it myself in high school, science fair bonds, after school work (bag-boy at Grocery store), and a .. side business at school (no, not drugs). edit: and the first one I programmed: was 1980, TRS-80, that a friend got as a christmas gift and wanted to learn how to program Basic. He couldn't learn from a book, I could, so I learned and taught him. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                        386SX/25, 8 MB RAM (CPU and RAM soldered onto an expansion board), 120MB (?) HD, running Windows 3.10.

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                                          Home-built on a wire-wrap board. Intel 8080 processor (2MHz) 256 bytes (yes, BYTES) RAM 1K EPROM Hex keypad and 4+2 digit LED display. Single 8-bit I/O port could be hooked up to home-built interface hardware. Wrote my own monitor program (we didn't really speak of "operating systems" then) in Assembler to live in the EPROM. Wrote programs in machine code to run in the RAM using the hex keypad. If you haven't developed code that way you haven't really lived!


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