What was your first computer?
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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.
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I started with an IBM with no mouse and a floppy drive that took real floppy disks the ones that looked like the old 45' music disks and a terribad green screen.
Playing frogga, swashbuckler,lemmings and space invaders. -
Tandy Coco II with tape drive. Learned I wasn't a programmer.
Next was an IBM XT 8086 with a huge full size 10 meg HD… still had the advertisement for thatuntil a few years ago...
10 megs of storage ... "More room than you we ever need"! LOL
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My first one was in 1996, I was 6 years old…
It was a PC running Windows 95. It had a Intel Pentium 100 MHz, 32 mb RAM, 1 GB HDD, a floppy drive and a CD-Rom drive. I remember playing the first GTA game on it, and later connected it to internet in 1999 using a 56k modem. That was amazing.
It was still working 10 years later when I gave it.18 years later, I'm working on a Mac Pro (cylinder), running OSX Mavericks, it has 6-Core 3500Mhz, 32 Gb RAM, 512 GB SSD...
It's crazy to see it has 1000 times the 1996 PC's amount of RAM.
Unfortunately, it has no floppy and no CD-Rom drive -
Enterprise 128k
My dad bought EP in Hungary in 1990 year in summer.Z80 4MHz CPU
128KB RAM
He has a nice case design and great for those times, BASIC.
Until now, it is in excellent condition.On the Internet you can find an active community of fans of the computer.
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А я уже не помню свой первый комп.
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I bought my 1st computer in 2003: Apple's eMac1 gHz
But I still remember my father's PC , a 386XT. That was maybe in 1990 or 91. -
First computer I used was a Bendix G-15,summer of 1965. Main memory was a rotating drum. It also used lots of vacuum tubes. The programming language was Intercom 500 - more rudimentary than what would be an assembly language today.
First computer I owned was from Ohio Scientific Instruments- of similar vintage to the Apple II. Later owned an IBM PC-AT, Mac IIci, and many Windows-based PCs. Now, in addition to Windows, also use android-based devices and a chromebook.
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My first one was a Marathon 32K computer, probably better known as Lambda PC8300. This was in 1982 I believe.
I made my first program on it - a guitar chord finder after 3 weeks. After that, probably '83, I got a NewBrain AD computer which was a very good mini computer for it's time.
And while we are at old stuff: -I used the Opera browser from the very beginning, so with the Vivaldi, the circle is sort of closed.
Jostein
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First machine I used was a Commodore Pet 2001.
First one I owned was a VIC-20.
Then Commodore 64.
I owned about every commodore 8bit machine and peripheral ever made.
Worked at a commodore repair depot for a few years where I sold a good portion of the largest Commodore collection in history… http://zimmers.net/cbmpics/2002fiasco/fiasco.html -
Hmmm judging by the majority of postings in this thread it seems we Opera 12.x lovers are pretty "old" people :woohoo:
My first own computer was a Philips VG8010. An MSX compatible home computer with 32kb RAM and based on the Z80A CPU.
The first computer i came in touch with was afaik an IBM XT with a Monochrome Monitor earning some extra money for cataloging stuff into a database. Later on i had access to a friends Sinclair ZX81,I never had a Commodore C64 (VC20, Plus4) and really disliked their 8bit computers to be honest. That dislike for Commodore Computers changed later when they brought the Amiga Series.
Over the years i had quite a lot of computers and kept a good deal of them (many i bought for sentimentality later on) including:
Philips VG 8020, VG8235, VG8280, Sony HitBit, Acorn Archimedes, Atari 260, Atari 520ST, Atari 1040ST, Atari Mega ST, Amiga 1000, Amiga 500, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200 and maybe some more. PCs not listed since they are usually bought as components,