What was your first computer?
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While Apple II supposedly was the micromachine to have, financially it was way out of my league. So it was an Exidy Sorcerer instead, allegedly "a coveted collector's item". Now they tell me…
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My first computer was a Kaypro II with 2 floppy disk drives, Zilog Z-80 processor running CP/M. I still have it down in the basement somewhere.
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My first computer was an Ohio Scientific Superboard which I bought in 1979. It came with a whopping 4k of ram. I upgraded to 8k for $80 in 1979.
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Mention of the TI-57 reminds me… Hands up all those with programmable calculators who wrote moon landing programs!
I had moonlander going on an HP-25. It worked only in one dimension, up and down. I found that if I fired a negative burst of fuel followed by a positive burst I could land in two steps.
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My first computer was the Texas Instrument TI-99/4A Then i moved on to Commodore 64, Amiga and then PC .
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Ohh my first Computer …. Siemens Nixdorf 80286 MS-Dos :whistle:
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My first computer was a Commodore 64
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Timex Sinclaire purchased first year they came out and still have
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An orginal Apple ][, when they were new. Grandma bought it for me. Boy, were the boys in class jealous.
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My first Computer was an Atari 800
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari-Heimcomputer#Atari_400_und_800
I've been in the 2nd grade.
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My first computer was the Comadore 16, I hate to say how much time I spent loading games with my little RCA tape recorder.
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I had an early 90's Wang laptop that was given to me by my cousin who had upgraded to an actual IBM-PC laptop. I wish I could remember which model it was exactly, but it came with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.
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My first PC was a Toshiba laptop with two 3.5 diskette drives A and B. After this model, laptops came with HD, and now you know why the hard drive got the letter C. I used to bot the system from DOS-diskette in drive A and simulated a HD in drive B. Those were the days. I felt like a geek and in fact was an expert in the eyes of my school and my neighbors. This lasted some years, till I went to Africa in 1993 to teach for two years.
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Oh, the memories of owning a ZX Spectrum 48K in the early eighties are now coming back. How could I ever have hoped to fill the whopping amount of RAM that it had? Mind-boggling.
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As with some posters in this topic my first computer was a Commodore 64, complete with green monitor and datasette. One of my best childhood memories actually and the machine that introduced me to programming.
One day I dreamed that I programmed a game on the C64. Up until that moment I never programmed anything but then I just sat down and wrote the game from the dream. It was simple, and cheap, and bad - but it worked. And then a lot of games followed and I got better and better. Thank you, C64. -
First PC I actually owned was a Commodore PC 10 III, whopping 512 kb
RAM, dual 5.25 in floppy drives, but it did have 4 color CGA graphics.
Then I bought a used 386 that needed work, it ended up being a 386DX
with 4 meg RAM and 40 meg HD, then a 486, then 486DX4 Overdrive with
24 meg RAM. About this time, I was given a broken IBM XT, but it did
have a working 10 meg HD and adapter card that would work on the old
Commodore, so I pulled one of the floppy drives and installed that old
MFM hard drive. Still have my Amstrad PC in the attic, along with a
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I forgot to mention…all of those were either second-hand or rebuilds
that I put together from parts picked up at various places, but mainly
a little computer shop here in my hometown, unfortunately they have
gone out of business. My last build is a Pentium 166 MMX with 96 meg
RAM, 2 hard drives (2.1 and 4.3 gig), still running! I gave in and
purchased a completely new system back in 2008, first new PC I've owned.
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My first post here. My first PC was a Pentium P66 with 512MB hard disk and 8MB RAM. Also had a double speed CD-ROM drive! Great machine and fond memories.
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I have always been more a hardware enthusiast than software and I have never done anything more advanced than a few .bat scripts using PC edlin editor….
But did you know that Sinclair delivered DIY kits to build HiFi aoudio amplifiers? So my first Sinclair was a 2x20Watt stereo amp with active filters, that I built in 1972.
Later, as an audio engineer in NRK in Norway, I have used Norsk Data central computer with Sintran OS. My first PC table computer I ever touched, was the First Apple Macintosh SE with CPU and harddrive integrated in the monitor, keyboard and a one-button mouse. I still have a Macintosh/20MB harddrive, with the Motorola 68030 "accellerated" CPU, same design as the original Apple Macintosh with blsack and white screen.
My first real computer to own, was an Amiga 2000 in 1987, including a PC bridgeboard. I went on internet with that one in the early 90's, I believe it was Drammensnet in 1994. I was user No 15 I think. I had spent three months posting questions back and forth on one BBS, writing one or two lines of a large connection script to set up my Amiga and finally log on to the internet. With good help from other BBS users.
The Amiga was a very advanced machin, using SCSI harddisks. In the year 2002, I could connect a brand new optical drive to it and it worked immediately, with 2GB storage, that was on an Amiga developped in 1987!
I have never stopped wondering what the computing wrold would have looked like today, if the AmigaOS had survived over the PC Windows or Apple OSI still run the software emulator "AmigaForever" on my PC sometimes, just for the nostalgia. The first working computer (and "affordable" - NOK 170 000) video editor I used, in 1995, was the Draco Video Workstation, running Movieshop editing software -on the AmigaOS of course. This was the foundation of the popular Casablanca video editor launched in 1996, a proprietory, dedicated video editor in a box which was extremely easy to use. It "worked right out of the box", as the marketing slogan said.
This has now become a very mature, user-friendly video editing system for HD video. Still going strong, Linux OS based, and only just recently launched for PC installation on Windows 8. This PC software is called Bogart and the Casablanca editors has been a source of income for many years, and I still deliver this system to customers in Norway.
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Maybe there is a sane reason that I never have made many scripts later on, then…
And Oh yes my memory is improving here: I even wrote mountlists for an external scsi harddrive on my Amiga 2k. It was a 5" drive in a large external box, and went clickety-clack when accessing or writing data. Those were the days, yes. A world of wonder. Who would believe back then that the 16MB capasity of the scsi disk, fifteen years later could be stored on a stamp-size flat memory card.