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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/25/2007 11:56:12 AM

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Amiga was better known for it's graphics...my 2nd computer was an Amiga 500....and by then I had a shiny new state of the art 2400 baud modem. Yeah baby, yeah!

Yes that was it Amiga...they claimed the graphics were superiour to anything...you were flying with that 2400 baud....

Remember the upload / download limits?

you needed to contribute at a rate that you downloaded...

once you reached your limit...see you tomorrow

I just found that the puter I dumster dived is an AMD Athlon XP running at 1250 mhz...now I need to convert that to the model number...yahoooo!

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/25/2007 11:56:18 AM

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An Atari(something) scary...

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/25/2007 11:59:06 AM

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Altair.. eight switches and a button. I bought it through an advert in Analog

Whow....do you still have it?

I remember seeing adds in magizines about buying and building kits for the latest power hungry hobbist.

Nice to see you around again...

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Lost it and a lot of other stuff in a house fire back in 1988

Sorry to hear of that John...that really sucks....

So would you ever get another one if you came across it in a flee market?...like a lost toy from childhood?

Now I am having a hard time with all My archives...

Thought another 130 gig drive I had sitting aside was spare and looks like it is all storage of graphics articles and writings.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/25/2007 12:01:38 PM

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Hmmm, its so long ago I wonder if its really important. But I would say something with a couple of floppies (don't you hate flopies??)

Still the magnetic storage is suppose to out last those of cd storage as it is reported to degrade after a few years

Looks like My mutiple copies of things is begining to take on a minor appearance of My vinyl collection...and then there is the cassette collection of vinyl recorded on first play of the record...

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RE: What was your first computer? - 3/25/2007 12:03:18 PM

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An Atari(something) scary...

So what did you do on it?

How did it see it's demise?

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RE: What was your first computer? - 4/4/2007 5:08:59 PM

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Altair.. eight switches and a button. I bought it through an advert in Analog

Thought you might enjoy this: Home of the New Altair 8800 Kit!

http://www.altairkit.com/index.html

http://www.hackaday.com/category/misc-hacks/page/5/

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RE: What was your first computer? - 4/4/2007 5:35:11 PM

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Wish I knew how to hack the Staples "Easy Button" to say "that was f*cked up"

Now there are so many hacks for xboxes and such it isn't funny

Read where tom tom knew there were trojans and viruses installed yet did not tell people buying them untli antivirus software showed them up when connected via usb to a desktop

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Found it!

Staples Easy Button hacking
http://www.impulsedesign.com/easy_button.pdf

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RE: What was your first computer? - 4/4/2007 6:31:01 PM

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The first one I used was a Commodore Vic20. Used it at work to burn EEPROMs for trunked two-way radios. I took it home one night and programmed it to play a Pink Floyd riff from "Dark Side of the Moon".

the first one I owned was a no-name (from Fry's) 386SX portable and cost about $1500. had a 3.5" floppy and a 40Mb hard drive, which I doubled to 80Mb. I added the math coprocessor. Ran DR-DOS 5.0 (a much, much better OS than Microsoft DOS at the time). Can't remember how much RAM it had. Had a monochrome display which made playing 688 Attack Sub a bit of a problem. Did resumes, school papers, and some microwave circuit simulation on it.

Later I bought a 2400 baud external modem. Ah, those were the days.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 4/5/2007 3:01:59 AM

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The original game boy....lol.....The Commodore C64......does that date me? I played Wizards Crown for endless hours and thought the damn thing was fast and then that racer the 128 came out.....Hot Damn!

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RE: What was your first computer? - 4/9/2007 10:21:14 AM

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MY first computer was a Casio FX-702P Some called it a calculator on steroids, it had about 2 KB of RAM and a 20 characters display in 5x7 pixel matrix. All in a cute little package measuring 6.5 x 3.5 x .5 inches. you could program it in BASIC. It had a cassette interface to save programs.

Later I got an IBM clone, an 8086, 4.7 mhz, with 64k of RAM (after all Bill Gates, at the time, was saying "Who is ever going to need more then 64k or ram?"). it had a yellow monochrome monitor and 5" 320k floppy drive.

All hail the: A:> dir

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RE: What was your first computer? - 4/9/2007 10:31:57 AM

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Man it has been so long ago I don't even remember what my first computer was, but I can tell you what I'm running at work...a whomping 486 with an amazing 256 mgs of hd space....oh and to top it all off...a dial up modem! Super light speed here! I have to dial up the main office everynight to transfer data so the hd can be wiped and used again. So much fun!

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RE: What was your first computer? - 4/9/2007 1:31:24 PM

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my very first was a tiny kid computer named SmartStart, then all sort of gaming consoles. my first real computer was a Comandore 128 that i still have. And then i got a proper computer, a Olivetti Pentium when i was 15 years old.

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RE: What was your first computer? - 8/27/2007 5:38:46 PM

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First "computer" in my home wasn't even a computer - it was a TTY hooked to an analogue coupler that dialed in to IndyVAX and Donnelly...

First "real" computer in my home was a TRS-80 Mk1 with the 8" floppies... you could feel the individual bits moving through the phone lines...

My first computer that was mine all mine - Mac 512k. Massively pimpin' the pixels, yo!...

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