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  • N Nish Nishant

    James T. Johnson wrote: but the first real PC I had was a 25MHz 486 DX2 with 4MB of RAM and a 120MB HD. Wow Jambo. Of all the first machines we have seen so far in this thread, yours is by far the fastest :-) Nish


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    James T Johnson
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    Thats the only one I remember, I can't remember the Atari ones very well; it was only used for me to play games on ;P James Simplicity Rules!

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    • N Nish Nishant

      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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      Roger Wright
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      Apple IIC, 64K RAM, external FDD (5-1/4"), television for a display. The CPU was a Rockwell 6502 at 1 MHz, I believe...

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        Thats the only one I remember, I can't remember the Atari ones very well; it was only used for me to play games on ;P James Simplicity Rules!

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        Nish Nishant
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        James T. Johnson wrote: I can't remember the Atari ones very well; it was only used for me to play games on I used to play prince of Persia on my 286. The sound used to come out through the mono PC internal speakers :-) Nish


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          Apple IIC, 64K RAM, external FDD (5-1/4"), television for a display. The CPU was a Rockwell 6502 at 1 MHz, I believe...

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          Nish Nishant
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          Roger Wright wrote: television for a display :omg: I bet you are wearing glasses now!!! Nish


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            Roger Wright wrote: television for a display :omg: I bet you are wearing glasses now!!! Nish


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            You win that bet!

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            • S Shog9 0

              Used TI99/4A, followed up by a used PC/AT (80286, 1MB RAM, 20MB HD, 5.25 FD, Hercules monochrome gfx card) ;P --------_**

              People they come together People they fall apart. No one can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars...

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              Emanuele 0
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              Me too!! A TI99/4A!!!! The best!! In italy it had a short life, after 3 month that i buyed it went out of production :-< ...so no more software... ....so I begin to learn TI-BASIC! But I still have it...and sometimes i use it!! - SONORK ID 100.17421 : b0nu$ -

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                Me too!! A TI99/4A!!!! The best!! In italy it had a short life, after 3 month that i buyed it went out of production :-< ...so no more software... ....so I begin to learn TI-BASIC! But I still have it...and sometimes i use it!! - SONORK ID 100.17421 : b0nu$ -

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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 :) --------_**

                People they come together People they fall apart. No one can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars...

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                • N Nish Nishant

                  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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                  Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    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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                    l a u r e n
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                    zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack :)


                    situations to avoid #37:
                    "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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                    • N Nish Nishant

                      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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                      Maxwell Chen
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                      My first computer: 5 years ago when I graduated from university. An Acer PC, Pentium 266MHz, 3G hd, 32MB RAM, Win95. Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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                      • L l a u r e n

                        zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack :)


                        situations to avoid #37:
                        "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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                        Nish Nishant
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                        lauren wrote: zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack Dating yourself here, eh? :-) Nish


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                          My first computer: 5 years ago when I graduated from university. An Acer PC, Pentium 266MHz, 3G hd, 32MB RAM, Win95. Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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                          Nish Nishant
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                          Maxwell Chen wrote: 5 years ago when I graduated from university. An Acer PC, Pentium 266MHz, 3G hd, 32MB RAM, Win95 Wow! That's pretty heavy for a first computer :-) Nish


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                            Tandy/Radio Shack TR80 Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer

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                            Nish Nishant
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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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                              Maxwell Chen wrote: 5 years ago when I graduated from university. An Acer PC, Pentium 266MHz, 3G hd, 32MB RAM, Win95 Wow! That's pretty heavy for a first computer :-) Nish


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                              Maxwell Chen
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                              I am a newbie. LOL :-D Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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                                I am a newbie. LOL :-D Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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                                Nish Nishant
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                                Maxwell Chen wrote: I am a newbie. A 10 year newbie eh? Nish :-)


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                                • N Nish Nishant

                                  Maxwell Chen wrote: I am a newbie. A 10 year newbie eh? Nish :-)


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                                  Maxwell Chen
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                                  Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: A 10 year newbie eh? A 5 year newbie!! I started to learn computer and C/C++ since October in 1998. Maxwell Chen People say "No news is good news". Then, no code is good code!?

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                                  • L l a u r e n

                                    zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack :)


                                    situations to avoid #37:
                                    "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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                                    Anders Molin
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                                    lauren wrote: zx81 with a wobbly 16k ram pack Me too :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

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                                    • N Nish Nishant

                                      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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                                      Giles
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                                      Atari 520 ST. They were the days.:(( :(( I've still got it, and get it out everynow and again. Still works. :)

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                                      • N Nish Nishant

                                        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


                                        Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                                        Kannan Kalyanaraman
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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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                                        • N Nish Nishant

                                          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


                                          Check out last week's Code Project posting stats presentation from :- http://www.busterboy.org/codeproject/ Feel free to make your comments.

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                                          Michael A Barnhart
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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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