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ownedgirlie -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/24/2007 11:37:09 PM)
No clue of it's official title. It was a "PC Clone" (is that what we called it? or IBM Clone) with two 5 1/4" floppy drives and a boot-up disc. I moved up in the world when I got a 386 - HP I think. Later I had a MacSE/30 which was way cool at the time.

mythi -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 12:13:42 AM)
Atari 800xl

JohnWarren -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 1:12:13 AM)
Altair.. eight switches and a button. I bought it through an advert in Analog

BrainSlugs83 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 1:14:05 AM)
TRS-80 Model 4, It was all one solid unit, built in black and white screen, 5.25" disks, and keyboard -- it also had a tape drive, DOS, basic rom -- I learned to program on this thing... Later I had a commodre vic 20, and 64... no DOS... I had to write a program in basic to format disks... and load a file called "$", which would list as a line numbered basic program that showed the contents of the disk (no folders, each line was a program name, it wouldn't run as it was all syntax errors)... my first PC was an 8Mhz 8088 with CGA graphics and PC speaker for sound... I was happy when we finally got a 16 Mhz 286 with EGA! ... my first modem was 2400 baud...

BrainSlugs83 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 1:15:25 AM)
quote: Altair I read somewhere, that althought the Altair couldn't really do much, it caused radio interference, and you could program it with fancy math calculations, turn on a stereo to the right freq and you could play music via a computer program...

youngsubmission -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 2:51:09 AM)
a 486 i think. Only had it for a bit. Eventually upgraded to a pentium 1 lol. Good ol' Windows 3.1 and DOS games =)

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:06:16 AM)
I ended up getting a HP 386 SX16 with a vga card I put in Corel Draw 1 and wanted it to do wonders. I remember hitting keys and waiting for it to do stuff thinking it wasn't responding. The item I chose was a complex sample drawing of an old train as used in the old west. My friend and I were disapointed but for the rest of the evening it redrew stuff just based on the original set of keystroked commands. Think I had something like 20 megs of ram. Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:08:59 AM)
I remember I found this monsterous computer that was used in a bank. The floppies on that must of been the size of old 45s or larger. Think it was the using a Unix operating system. I remember also coming across lots of cassette tapes with info stored on them from programs Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

justplainjava -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:15:32 AM)
my first my son built for me and it the op was windows 98, the first one he own was a vic 20 take care and be safe java

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:44:24 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DesertRat 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. That would probably be worth something to a collector in mint. Pc Pro mag just ran a issue about selling retro computers. So I imagine your color was CGA? I use to remember the various color adapters as they progressed this way: CGA - crappy graphic array EGA - thought I remembered it but guess not [image]http://www.collarchat.com/micons/m10.gif[/image] VGA - very good array SVGA - super graphics running 64 megs of ram you must of been flying! Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

MistressMaamNH -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:49:18 AM)
My first computer was a Commodore 64 that I ordered through the Sears and Roebuck catalog store. It had the big ass actually "floppy" floppy disc, and a green monitor. To get it to actually DO anything, you had to program it yourself. I remember the owners manual that came with it..it had several programs you could duplicate...so I spent an entire day once typing in completely nonsensical letters and numbers, and I created a program that showed planets and moons floating across the screen for about 15 seconds! Whoohoo..time well spent lol Finally I was able to find a storebought program..."The Legacy of the Ancients" OMG, I LOVED it....My dad and I used to play it together..he'd go into the towns and gamble and win a whole bunch of money that I could then go out and buy supplies with to fight the evil monsters. It was a great time :) MMNH

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:52:05 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Elorin 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.) Yes I am glad you mentioned that you were younf..love your pics btw.... I remember so many plugging in the TV as a monitor I remember we had an Atari from Sears to play pong Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:53:19 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bearincuffs Hate to admit this but mine was a TRS-180 Not familiar with that one...hmmmm Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:58:31 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SilverShadows 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. I was always of the IBM family as I could do Lotus 123 spread sheets and then get into the graphics. I rmember popping in a modem and discovering the world of BBS and then text Internet think the first modem I had was 300 baud? I remember progressing to 1200, 2400, and then winmodem, 9600 ect. I got into BBS and even went out and bought a copy of WILDCAT! 4 BBS I am looking at the box in fact of "The World's Most Popular BBS Software" Wonder how much this box w/ 5.25 & 3.5 disks is worth? Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 3:59:59 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BeatMeDaily 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 Quite cool...I STILL remember My DOS prompts and commands...how scarey is that? Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 4:02:55 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: nighthawk3569 *Commodore 64...12" b/w TV for monitor...5¼ floppy...* *mine ran on Diesel fuel. [image]http://www.collarchat.com/micons/m11.gif[/image]* I must of missed the conversion to diesel fuel kit. [image]http://www.collarchat.com/micons/m10.gif[/image] So if one were to use a computer for after a world disaster what would you return to? Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 4:04:16 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: socalbbwsub The first computer I purchased was a piece of junk...Compaq with Windows ME! [:'(] ME operating system was one of the lamest ones to come from Windows I do like Windows Noticed RED HAT is posting cease and desist letters...imagine that from an open source op...go figure... Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

FLFunTop -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 4:06:10 AM)
Let's see here jr. high - highschool pdp-8 basic, assembly and fortran with an asr 33, who needs a monitor when you have a teletype and paper tape punch College DEC System 10 that had also Algol (Pascal not invented yet) ADDS monitor and printer terminal Then a VAX still Adds monitors. 1st cmputer Job IBM 1130 64 K doughnut memory 1st computer to have Fortan no monitor, DG Nova also 64 K and a techtronix monitor, pc was an Osbourn(Portable and my aching back)

SirDiscipliner69 -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 4:09:07 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: dcnovice 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. You got Me on the first one but I do remember Leading Edge... Ross ©º°¨¨°º© Ross ©º°¨¨°º©

Elorin -> RE: What was your first computer? (3/25/2007 4:10:22 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SirDiscipliner69 Yes I am glad you mentioned that you were younf..love your pics btw.... I remember so many plugging in the TV as a monitor I remember we had an Atari from Sears to play pong Ross ©º°¨¨°º© Glad you like the pics...it's about time to add more, I need to resize some recent photos. I learned to program in BASIC (not VisualBasic!) on the Vic and the Commodore. We had the Atari, with many games (I'm the youngest of three kids, we played it a LOT) including Warlords, PacMan, Yars Revenge, and multiple others (I remember what the screens looked like but not the names of the games). On the VIC we played the text based turn games...I was never the greatest at those, but I'd try anyway. ~E

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