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What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 5:52:42 PM   
SirDiscipliner69


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Status: offline 		What was your first computer?

Mine was a 8080 IBM using DOS with 5 1'2" floppy disks and mono color screen with no graphics capabilities.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:13:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		A Franklin 2000 - A Apple II+ clone with a top quality CPM card.  This was on of the last Franklins to have desent compatibilty with the Apple.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:15:45 PM   
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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:20:57 PM   
mstrjx


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Status: offline 		I swore up and down that I wouldn't get a computer until the technology levelled out.

I caved.

A 386.  Not much of an early adopter.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:26:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		The ZX-81. You could load programs to and from cassette tapes using any cassette recorder. And I splurged and got the 16k memory module.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:27:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		in 1984 or 1985 i worked on a kaypro of some kind at work.. soooo hard to do anything on but it was portable and that was nice..but i didn't move it anywhere but at the time i was working on a typewriter called a Xerox memorywriter so what did i know.....i mostly worked in the marketing department trying to do things with mailing lists on the Kaypro computer in a was it called cpm system...i forget....then we had Apple computers in the marketing/sales department and everyone else in the company had Dos...poor those guys...then i cried years later when they wanted to take away my apple..but since windows was there..i adjusted rather smoothly...ha ha

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:28:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		A Commodore C64. Oh yeah. Tricked out with a disk drive and 14" RCA color tv/monitor. Then I had a Kaypro, with 64 k of RAM...same as the C64...using the CP/M operating system. Two floppy drives, monochrome monitor...the works!! I can't remember if it ran on kerosene or coal.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:37:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		A VIC20. It took cassettes and could be plugged into the TV for the monitor. I don't know "specs" on it.
We later had a Commodore 64 with both cassette tape and 5 1/4" floppy option. Green monitor...my favorite games were Jumpman and a highly amusing Barbie game. (I was young.)

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:43:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hate to admit this but mine was a TRS-180

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:46:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I believe my first was a TI99/4A...  3 MHz, 16K RAM.  It also used the Data storage cassette system.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 6:47:49 PM   
BeatMeDaily


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Status: offline 		the 1st I used was a DEC terminal in 1978 High School computer Lab writing
stuff in basic and assembly.
My own 1st computer was 386sx-16

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 7:21:14 PM   
nighthawk3569


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Status: offline 		Commodore 64...12" b/w TV for monitor...5¼ floppy...
mine ran on Diesel fuel.   
 
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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 8:09:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		The first computer I purchased was a piece of junk...Compaq with Windows ME! 

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 9:15:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		The first computer I used was a TRS-80 in high school.

The first one I ever owned was a Leading Edge XT clone that was a hand-me-down from a friend.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 9:20:00 PM   
DomMeinCT


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Status: offline 		An Apple IIc "portable".  It had 128k of RAM and 1 floppy drive.
The CPU had a handle which was what made it portable, but the monitor weighed 20 lbs.

Bought it through 47th Street Photo in 1986 for grad school.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 9:24:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		My first computer was a "no name" computer that came with a home based business oppurtunity I got into back in '94(?)   I had the computer for 7 years but the home based business was a waste, as I now know they usually are.  :-)   I now have a HP w/WinXP but it is showing signs of wear but I will wait until Vista is better before I think about getting a new computer.  

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 9:25:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had a Leading Edge 8088 with mono monitor. It came with 2 floppy drives & I installed the hard drive myself. I thought it was just the most extraordinary thing!

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 9:52:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't really remember.  It was in the 80's and it was a custom built mix of brand names parts....It had less power than the calculator I used in high school...with an old dot matrix printer and 5 1/2" floppy drive.  But it did have and impressive CGA monitor that was capable of actual graphics...so frogger, and a couple flight sims were on it.


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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 9:54:01 PM   
completenz


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Status: offline 		I started with a decent computer, a Macplus with 7inch monochrome screen, 2 meg ram and a 20 meg exterior harddrive and 700 kb floppy drive. Oh the speed lol.
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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/24/2007 11:19:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		This Dell 2400 I have now. I am a newcomer at this. I waited till I was almost 40 a few years ago, to get into this. I have learned quite alot in a short time. I used a Apple in high school and various computers on jobs, but you could not explore just do the same exact programs over and over to complete a task.

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