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Atari 520ST. Purely for musical purposes, which is just as well as you couldn’t store more than about 64k of text on the hard disk, and 1.44 on a floppy!
i got u all beat so far , my first was a commodore 64 about 24 years ago , u hooked it to the tv ,i used to program in dos with it and the tapes to do backup were unreal lol.
then i upgraded to a p286 ,think it had a 2gb drive which was huges back in 1990,then had a p386 p486 and my beautiful first laptop was a toshiba p90 which i got in 1996 and i still use for my tech stuff.I do alot of linux work so i use that one for my remote access to the server.win 95 and a 10 inch screen-cant ask for much more hahaha.
I buy a new computer every 12-18 months so pretty much have owned every ‘new best thing’ since 1984.i think i have enough for a museum hahaha@casinobonusguy 170732 wrote:
i got u all beat so far , my first was a commodore 64 about 24 years ago , u hooked it to the tv ,i used to program in dos with it and the tapes to do backup were unreal lol.
then i upgraded to a p286 ,think it had a 2gb drive which was huges back in 1990,then had a p386 p486 and my beautiful first laptop was a toshiba p90 which i got in 1996 and i still use for my tech stuff.I do alot of linux work so i use that one for my remote access to the server.win 95 and a 10 inch screen-cant ask for much more hahaha.
I buy a new computer every 12-18 months so pretty much have owned every ‘new best thing’ since 1984.i think i have enough for a museum hahahaAlthough I didn’t own it I had access to commodore 64. I wrote a tic tac toe game on in but it had no backup tape. My sister was vaccuming one day and unplugged it. Poof!
One my first computers was a radio shack – it had 4k memory. Space invaders was the first “cool” video game (course there was pong).
Still remember cpm-80 operating system along with ms-dos being the two choices. Word processing was done with disks that were about 10 inches high (not 5 1/4′).
How about supercalc 123 – before lotus 123.
Anyone remember the Sinclair. It was fast and cheap.
When I was in College, we did programs using code punched out on cards – then put the cards in order – and ran them through the computer ( a really huge floor model).
Started out with a Commodore 64 ages ago. Now that I think of it, I kinda miss it. Wonder if it’s possible to buy one??
A 386 something or another with 4 megs of ram. The hard drive size……well it was laughable now. I do remember that sucker cost me $1200.00. :roflmao:
I started out in the early 80’s with a Commador 64 and for some reason I remember the name Adam Computer where I learned to code simple programs. I then got a IBM XT with the huge amber monitor. hehe
I remember when we used the yellow punch cards and that little strip of tape to record on. After that I went to work in corporate techanical support where I had access to the latest hardware and software where I discovered my love of programing when I ran in to dBase III.
A couple months ago I bought a Dell XPS 420 and I love it! Being that I do a lot of multi-tasking my old system would frequently become unstable so I kind of upgraded and got the following specs.
– Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9300 (6MB Cache,2.50GHz,1333FSB)
– RAM (4GB2 Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz – 4 DIMMs)
– Hardrive (750GB – 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache)@pjotter 170745 wrote:
Started out with a Commodore 64 ages ago. Now that I think of it, I kinda miss it. Wonder if it’s possible to buy one??
I have one slightly used hahaha.look on ebay although they seem to be antique status now
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A 386 something or another with 4 megs of ram. The hard drive size……well it was laughable now. I do remember that sucker cost me $1200.00. :roflmao:
I remember having a 386DX , there was also a 386MX I think.
I also had a 286 and a 486. After that they were called pentiums I believe. My 286 cost $1200, then like a month later they dropped a few hundred bucks.My first computer was an Apple LISA, a big clunker of a desktop, that came out before the Apple Macintosh. It had mostly business programs, however, I remember having lots of fun using it with an acoustic coupler to dial up to local BBS’ in Seattle at the time.
Now u got me thinking…my first was in 1997 (and i was a young wipersnapper of 14).
The computer was made by my brother’s techy friend who made computers. it was great and i was using Compuserve as my ISP….I would use it to chat to my friends in NY and london. I would occasionally use it for school work to type up an essay or two and would often use encarta.
I think the stats of the computer were pretty basic…like 40 gbs of memory but i dont know the rest…
Stef
Also a commodore 64 with the taperecorder.
Only to play a game called frenzy, boy that was fun :happydancMy first own computer was in December,2001, it was Duron (didn’t remember its parameters). I was a student and it cost me $500 – my first earned money
With my first computer I started my own business :happydanc
A Radio Shack TRS-80 – which I’d upgraded to a massive 16K of memory ..
That’s 16,000 bytes .It had blocky pixels, black or white, which by hanging a piece of green perspex plastic over I could magically turn into color … DARK green and LIGHT green.
:tongue:No such things as floppy drives then – everything was loaded off audio tape – and by hooking the tape drive up you could make your computer beep and make sounds !!
:hattip:It was around 1980 I think – and I’d worked for two months all summer school holidays as a labourer in a local factory to be able to afford it.
Absolute magic that thing was !!!
:inlove:
