What was your first computer?
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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.
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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
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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, -
Good night to all!, well when I was 8 years old I'd touched my first computer, a MSX Talent with cartridge interface, doing my first steps trying to understand BASIC and only I'd was capable to do only's PRINT, LOAD, SAVE, etc… After this I'd used to touch for a while and ZX Spectrum 8K, later spend hours on a INTEL 80286 with 640K and 12" amber monitor of a friend.When I'm 15 years old, as part of training exchange program from the high school we have the oportunity to work to ensamble PC's, from modests XT's (8086) to 80386DX with "gigantous" 2MB of RAM and 40GB disks... so in a jeopardy act I'd purchased all the components with the money I'd saved and do make my real first computer, an AMD 80386SX @40Mhz (buyed as INTEL 25Mhz) with 1MB, 50MB HDD and with an Cirrus Logic w/256K VGA card with 12" white posphor flat screen, with a modest DOS 3.3. Since this passed trough my hands an Ciryx 5x86 @120Mhz, IBM clone @200Mhz, a Pentium 233Mhz, an AMD Athlon 1.8GHz, an Intel Core2 duo @2Ghz, a set of Dell Latitude C410/D810/D620, HP EliteBook 6xxx, an AMD C50 laptop, and finally got a actually an Intel i5 laptop... but today I can remember the old-blackie MSX Talent with it freaky keyboard (the keys was so much bigger for my fingers, and it sound when pressed..) and my first x86 PC (a real win for a teen on a country where the technology available was some years delayed against the developed countries...) "brought to life" with my own hands.
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My first PC was a second hand IBM PS/2 Model 70 running Windows 3.11. I can't recall how much memory it had, but I know it had a 120MB hard drive. It was my first PC, and I didn't appreciate what I had. It even came with a Model M keyboard! I got it for my 10th birthday in 1997. Memorable because my Dad bought it for me at a Cash Converters shop in Birmingham, and when we went to pick it up the guy on the counter was confused and gave us a modern multimedia PC. Windows 95, TV Card everything, my Dad wanted to take it but me being me and wanting the PC I saw a week ago I told my Dad it wasn't the one I wanted. He knew damn well it wasn't, but he knew it was more modern than the PC I wanted!
Anyway, since then I've appreciated older hardware a lot more, collecting bits as I go. The oldest PC I have is an IBM PC-XT 286 from 1985/6. I bought it from eBay for £80, all I wanted was the Model M keyboard that came with it! As well as this, I have a custom built 486 that I was given by a guy who was clearing out his house. The interesting thing about it was that he gave me the documents with it, which detailed all the parts in it and the cost. A 250MB Samsung Hard Drive in 1993/4 cost over £1,000 according to his receipt!
The most interesting PC I have is a Compaq Laptop - the model escapes me at the moment - but it has a built in ZIP Drive and a built in power supply. All it needed was a kettle lead to plug in to the back of it.
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What my first computer was is difficult to answer.
Let me explain
At the age of 12 the school I attended was chosen out of thousands to have computer programming taught to us
We learnt Mnemonic assembly language and BASIC. That was back in the early 1970's
A professor from the local university setup a teletype machine with a keyboard and an accoustic coupler
linked to a mainframe at the university (A Honeywell (if I remember correctly))The next computer I used was an IBM mainframe 370/158. My brother talked his boss into giving me a summer job when I was 14
and I worked as an operator. On that basis they gave me a job when I was 16 and paid for me to go to college/universityThe first computer I actually owned was a Sinclair ZX81, followed by a spectrum 16
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PDP-8i. TTY tape boot loader started by a short sequence toggled in on the front panel. 12 bit word, 4k address range (we hacked a way to add a few of these blocks (7 if I remember right) hacked hard drive, magnetic core ram, 12 inch reel to reel tape drive(s). Eight instructions.
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Heathkit (can't remember model number) and Altair 8800 at the same time. After that, Apple II.
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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!
Isn’t it a neat feeling to do this?! We have a habit of keeping old laptops and despite them not being super old it is cool to turn them on and have them boot into old OS'es just like the last time they were used years ago. We showed our teenaged daughter one machine and she asked, "why is it loading so slow?" :side:
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Heh. I still have a 1995 Packard Bell Pack-Mate (updated from Win 95 to Win 98), but for some reason it hangs in the middle of trying to boot. I THINK it has a bad stick of RAM.. My old 10-lb monochrome Compaq 3826s-20 laptop has a similar problem - but that could just be because I didn't put a boot disc in it. I'm pretty sure it won't boot at all, unless you have a properly formatted 4.25" floppy in the drive.
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My first computer was a fun little beast called a Cosmac Elf. Built around a RCA 1802 processor, mind had a whopping 128 bytes of RAM (I couldn't afford the full 256 bytes) and had this amazing user interface that consisted of nine toggle switches, a pushbutton, and eight LED's (I couldn't afford a 2 digit LED display or the decoder logic either, so binary it was).
No permanent storage, hand assembling your machine language – fun times.
Needless to say first time I got access to a TRS-80 it was a major step up. Woo-hoo, 4K Level 1 basic interpreter in ROM with 4k of RAM! ... and I could actually SAVE the stuff I wrote to tape!
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Commodore 64 with Commodore tape deck along with Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Bruce Lee, Arcadia and some others
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My first one that I owned? That would have been an earlier Trash 80. Prior to that I had two whose names I don't recall - their stats really. One was from DEC and allowed me to connect to the university and one was one provisioned by the state of Massachusetts and was actually made by the super-computer company, Cray. It was a huge thing, absolutely huge. Prior to both of those, I'd used dumb terminals for the most part. (That which is old is new again, as we move it all to the 'cloud.')
I've owned a Vic 20, something from Atari, and even had a PET system that came as a kit for a while. Those memories are long forgotten or at least rather fogged. (I'll let you figure out why - this is the same username that I use on Slashdot, by the way - I just made a journal entry there suggesting that people try Vivaldi out so you might get some people smarter than I am - I'm just a button poker with a penchant for mathematics.)
Anyhow, too many to list. I was just commenting in another thread how I'd once paid $400 for 4 MB of RAM and had to add expansion memory chips to a TRS-80 (model II - I think?) in order to be able to type in lower case. I was a bit late in the game, I didn't really touch a whole lot of computers until university in the early 1980s. I'd poked at some prior but nothing major. Today, I own too many and never get bored. Well, I don't stay bored… :blink:
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My first Computer was a Commodore 64. The later model that looks like a wedge.
