What was your first computer?
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My first computer was Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic
Internet scared me. Fortunately, after a year of using Maxton met Opera, was 2005 year
I studied opera intuitively guide and on forum. In 2010, I developed the expanded menu for Opera and completed for the next versions of Opera.
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My first computer was an Amstrad PCW8512 in 1985. It has been named "the bargain of the decade". It was ready to use out of the box and came with a printer. It ran the elegant CP/M operating system which I thought was the best since sliced bread!
I adored that machine and took it much further than it's intended use as a word processor. I used it for invoicing in my business and I even for Soccer betting in Norway, "Tipping" running a system that I actually won quite a bit with. The Amstrad filled in the betting coupons and printed them for me. Something that would have taken days to do took me a couple of hours.
The video rental business was about to take off and I created a video renting software solution used in several businesses at the time all running on the Amstrad PCW.
I still have the Amstrad up in an attic. I bet it would just work if I brought it down and plugged it in. It always did!
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I started my first programming (and programm destroying) experiments with my father's Texas Instruments SR52 or TI-59, you know the calculator with a red LED display and the magnetic strip/card reader.
Soon after I used to examine and play with his Sharp PC-1500A, the one with the 4 colored plotter attached and an external compact cassette ”mass storage“ connectable (which can well be emulated by a nowadays computer's soundcard). Have it still in working condition, thouge the plotter does not work without the built-in batteries which themselves are broken.
The real ”hacking“ began on (again my father's) Commodore PC-10, an IBM PC compatible 8088 CPU machine with 4.77 MHz and (I think) 512kiB RAM, 2 5.25" Floppy drives. I explored DOS on this thing, edlin'ed config.sys and autoexec.bat, used GW-BASIC to programm (or rather design) an ASCII art adventure style computer game (which was lost on floppy failures later. :()
So those were the beginning – which of those qualifies as „first computer“?
I didn't change my machines like underware later, so then only came three (besides other of only historic value):
[ol]- An Amstrad PC3286 80286 CPU 16MHz, 1MiB RAM, SuperVGA with a 40MB hard disk. Ran under MS-DOS 3.3, then DR-DOS 6.
- Windows 95, later ME running a custom built Pentium 166MHz with several RAM upgrades up to 512MB probably; several hard drive upgrades from 2GB up to 8GB + 2GB.
- The thing I still use since a decade: A custom built AMD Athlon 64 X2 DualCore 3800+ with now 2GB of RAM and 250GB + 1 TB hard disk space. Win XP/32 as primary OS.
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My father had an IBM Datamaster. His company purchased the 5150 for him, and I inherited the Datamaster. It was so heavy that I could not move the machine, so it sat for a few years, unloved and untouched by me. I eventually got around to working with it in the mid-80's, by which time the Datamaster was a dinosaur.
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My first box was a Commodore C64… great introduction!
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IBM System 3 Model 8. 16K of memory. It was a single partition machine about 2 1/2 k was the operating system. The memory was iron core. The we moved into the big time by adding 16K, making a total of 32K memory. The cost of the 16K iron core memory and the installation and testing by IBM was 12,000 dollars.
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RadioShack TRS-80 color computer
Me,too.
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My first box was a Commodore C64… great introduction!
Dito! (1983)
But to be honest. Mainly i used it as a game console.
Of course i tried to write some BASIC stuff (wouldn´t call it "Programs") - but I wasn´t ambitioned enough to continue my "career" as a programmer. Actually my first real relationship to a girl (thanks Katharina!) needed too much of my time… (the hormones... )
My first real PC was a 386DX/33 with enormous 4MB/RAM and a 120MB HD. First DOS only then Win 3.1...
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Also a Sinclair ZX81 with 16k RAM. Towards the end I bought a high resolution graphics pack for it, I think that was made by Memotech, but it was a bit of a disappointment.
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My own first computer was an IBM XT with amber monochrome display, back in the mid-1980's and bought thru an arrangement with my workplace. Prior to that, I was writing/coding a few of my own programs on punch-cards to run overnight during "dead-time" on the company's IBM mainframe.
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My first computer was the Mac 512K. I still have it and it still working.
I sometimes play the old games like Missile Command, Asteroids, write stuff with MacWrite and draw in MacPaint. I have a box full of old floppies with cool programs.
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My first computer was the RCA Cosmac VIP. It featured the 8-bit 1802 processor and programming could be done in CHIP-8 using the 2 kilobytes of RAM. This CPU was CMOS and static so it could be single stepped or run at a very low clock speed which was totally cool. It also became one of the first space hardened microprocessors and is still used today on satellites as a boot strap or watchdog.
Naturally I forgot all about the Cosmac VIP when I got my Acorn Atom. It had an actual keyboard and I eventually got it up to 12 kilobytes of RAM. Ah the memories (2114's to be acurate
My first computer was also the VIP … Dad worked for RCA so we got it early. Expanded it with 8K RAM, ASCII keyboard and printer (converted from an old teletype); Dad also got s copy of a Tiny BASIC written for the ELF computer (another 1802 hobby system) which I converted for the VIP. (Dad was the hardware guy, I handled the software.)
First computer I actually owned (as in paid for) was a Timex/Sinclair 2068 (US version of the Spectrum).
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In fact, the first used computer was Robotron (manufactured in DDR, if you remember this country ) like this:
It was in 1986, on Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian space launch facility). And, of course, it was not my personal machine - it was "office machine"
But my first Fortran lessons was there.Then, 1989 - Atari. Then, 1991 - IBM PC/AT, all computers was not my personal - it was work computers.
And then 1996, my first home personal computer - some IBM PC compatible with Windows 3.11 preinstalled and with Windows-95 on floppy disks
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(manufactured in DDR, if you remember this country )
Btw. (just info): It´s still there! Nowadays we only call it differently… :woohoo:
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My first computer was ЕС-1841:
I cannot remember the year definitely, somewhere at the end of 80-ies. But it was first my own computer. Before that I used CM-14 (beginning of 80-ies), Robotron, PC/AT 386, DVK 3 and some other computers, but all of them were owned by the companies Iworked at that time. -
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Commodore 64 with datasette of my brother, cassette demagnetized in one step! :S