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How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 5:56:06 AM   
Hillwilliam


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Status: offline 		COMPUTER ya buncha perves.

Theyre bringing back the old Commodore 64.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_17815320?source=rss

Kicked up and modernized of course. I was wondering what folks had for their first puter.

The first one I ever used was at the marine lab. It was a 64K Apple with 2 external floppy drives.

First one I ever owned was an IBM clone I got in Grad school for $1600

256 K, dual floppie drived (the old 5.25 ones), green scxreen monitor and a dot matrix printer.

OK folks. fess up. How primitive was your first puter?

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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 7:05:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		TRS-80.It was an expletive in school.  they were attach to an old machine which read cards (really old).

The library had an apple (don't know what year) but I was able to play Carmen Sandiego on it.

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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 7:13:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was taught BASIC in school from 1979 onwards and remember we used to sit in groups playing text-based dungeons and dragons a la:

You are in a long hall. There is one door on the other side. ...

You are holding a carrot.

Running towards you is an angry bear. What do you do?

Some might remember these games..

I had a friend with a ZX Spectrum with a cassette player.

My first computer was in Poland in 1995 a secondhand 386 with a 4MB hard disk running DOS, Quikmenu and WordPerfect for DOS 6.0. This changed to a 486 shortly afterwards with Windows 3.1 on a 500MB hard disk.

I was still running Windows 3.11 on this computer in 2002.

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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 7:44:59 AM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 9:46:15 AM   
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Seriously though, my family had a commodore 64.  Later, when I got a personal computer, it was a "fat mac" with 4 megs of ram.  4 megs was so outrageous, required a mod to add a fan to so the memory didn't overheat the system. 




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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 10:34:12 AM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 11:04:51 AM   
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working for the IRS and was a Sperry Univac monster.
Funny thing is, when I went to google an image for it, I got
one of those malicious Scan Your Pc now thingies.
I bet no one thought of computer viruses way back then, eh?

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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 12:32:06 PM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 12:44:34 PM   
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whata youse ssay sonny? 

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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 12:57:29 PM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 4:41:19 PM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 4:53:36 PM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 5:10:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		My first was a windows 95.
But thanks for the link. Sent it to The Man, he used to work for Commodore, building those dinosaurs.


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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 5:22:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Purchased in 1988 Epson Equity 1+. It had a smoking fast 8088 processor clocking at a blazing 10mHz in turbo mode with 640kb Ram and a massive 20Mb HD and a 5.25" 360kb floppy, it also had an EGA video card. Later upgrades I added a math co-processor and upgraded the video card to VGA. I still have it and to this day it still works.

thanks for the walk down memory lane.....

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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/11/2011 5:59:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Lessee...my first one was an early computerized lighting system at my university.

First "real one" was a VIC-20 we used at work to program EEPROMs.  I took it home over a weekend and had it playing bits from "Dark Side of the Moon".

Then I moved on to various HP (lab computers) and Wintel (office computers) at work.  The first one I owned ('92) was a portable 386SX with math coprocessor, a 40 Mb drive (which I promptly doubled), 1Mb RAM and a monochrome VGA display.  It cost about $950 from Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale.

(It's hard to play 688 Attack Sub with a monochrome display.  It was almost impossible to see if the torpedoes were armed, so I'd inadvertently disarm them right in the middle of a battle!)

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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/14/2011 3:18:20 AM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/14/2011 6:54:04 AM   
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I graduated to an IBM 360/70 when I went to college.  Dumb terminals and a weak server.  System was looking for any excuse to crash.

First work computer was an Apple II+, and it was a joy to use after crotchety IBM and PDP mainframes.

First home computer was an Atari 520ST.


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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/14/2011 7:00:02 AM   
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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/14/2011 8:04:37 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
How Big Was Your First One?
Well, the guy told me it was 10 inches. To this day i swear that is the reason i cant parallel park.

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COMPUTER ya buncha perves.





oops.

never mind.


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RE: How Big Was Your First One? - 4/14/2011 3:09:16 PM   
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