TRS-80 (Model I) with a whopping 4K of system RAM and a cassette deck for saving/loading software.:eek::D:)
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Mine was a Samsung Sensor SP 386SX circa 1992. It ran Dos 6.0 and Windows 3.1. I remember when my dad brought home a stack of 3 1/2 disks to upgrade the OS to 3.11 he borrowed from work. I still remembver the night we bought it from a mom-and-pop computer store in Edison, NJ. I think it's still there amazingly enough. I remember buying games from Egghead Software (anyone remember those places?) I remember having to jury rig the monitor power button with a big eraser and rubber band because it broke and would only stay on when it was held down. Those VGA graphics were SWEET! This was also my last company-built PC. My next computer was a custom-built 486DX tower I got at a computer show and every computer I've had since I built myself.
And for the record, I bought my first non-old man car just last year, having driven Buick Park Avenues and Pontiac Bonnevilles since High School. I turned 30 and celebrated with a Nissan.
Wow. There are a lot more mature individuals on STO than I thought. Young people think that taking a test in school without using their IPhone is a hardship, but I remember when the only thing we could use for math problems were our fingers and toes with a razor blade for subtraction. LOL
C64 here too. I never really got good at using it though. I did however get a lot of experience using a 286 computer that lacked a Hard drive.... Yeah that was interesting. Booting MS-DOS 3.3 from floppy, and running all software from a floppy...
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First computer I ever touched was a teletype terminal connected to a DEC PDP-8. This was on a field trip when I was around 4th or 5th grade.
First computer I ever owned was an Apple ][+. 48K RAM, a 5.25" floppy disk drive, and a color monitor. Eventually expanded to 64K, two floppy drives, and a dot matrix printer.
First used was an Alpha Micro minicomputer at the community college. Used a teletype with heat-sensitive transfer paper for I/O. Later, the college library got in some Apple ][s, which we were NOT supposed to use to play Wizardry, so as far as they knew we never did...
First owned was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, about the size of a smallish hardback, with a membrane keyboard and all of 2k main memory on board. (I also had the 16k expansion pack that plugged into the back.) Cassette tape storage, and you provided your own cassette player, and the graphics were black and white (s'okay - so was the TV I had at the time, from a garage sale). Long afternoons carefully typing in programs from a magazine... you kids today got no idea how soft you got it...
First one I bought for myself was a C-64, back in '85 when they were cutting-edge computing machines. I was in the Air Force, living in the dorms, eating in the chow hall, and having more money than sense, and they had them in the Exchange. I kept that for a number of years - even ran a BBS on it (the Time Warp, in Omaha, NE - if any of you were there at the time, I was Timmorn Yelloweyes).
First computer I ever touched was a teletype terminal connected to a DEC PDP-8. This was on a field trip when I was around 4th or 5th grade.
First computer I ever owned was an Apple ][+. 48K RAM, a 5.25" floppy disk drive, and a color monitor. Eventually expanded to 64K, two floppy drives, and a dot matrix printer.
If you want to go there, my introduction to computers was via a teletype, connected via a110 Baud (not KBaud - Baud) acoustic modem (IE you took the phone handset and popped it on to the modem after rotary-dialing the number) to an HP2000 mainframe in 1975 (I was in 7th grade).
There was one game we LOVED called "STTR1" - which was a Star Trek game where you sheared an 8X8 grid (64 sectors) for Klingon ships that were invading, and you blew them up.:eek::D
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Back in 1984, i believe it was.
Amstrad CPC464, with colour(!) monitor.
Really fancy stuff. Got hold of a matrix printer, sounding like a machinegun.
It actually had a decent amount of games, eventhough the Commodore 64 was THE best when it came to games. Oh I wonder how many joysticks I smashed due to silly sportsgames. You know, slamming the stick right<->left to make that sucker run his 1500-meter distance.
My first gaming console was the Atari Home Pong console in 85 and the first computer I was introduced to was an Apple II. That green machine had one game and it was the turtle game, which was a triangle.
Our next computer was a Mattel Aquarius and then a Commodore that I cannot remember, but the only thing I remember about that thing, it took like 20 minutes to load. My grandma got them at a rummage sale.
My first computer I used in elementary school was an old IBM all-in-one unit with 5-1/4" floppies.
My first personal computer of my own was a Microsoft with a 386 processor that ran Windows 3.1 and looked more like a surge protector than a CPU. And was about as useful as a surge protector.
My first computer I used in elementary school was an old IBM all-in-one unit with 5-1/4" floppies.
My first personal computer of my own was a Microsoft with a 386 processor that ran Windows 3.1 and looked more like a surge protector than a CPU. And was about as useful as a surge protector.
Sounds like the first computers we got in our office when I was in the Air Force.
The 1st computer I played on was a C64 playing amazing games like frogger and boulderdash.
I was lucky that my father was kinda a computer geek back then and so I enojyed a 386 with 21 MHz (without Turbo-Button 16 MHz). A few years after that we got a 486DX2 66Mhz which was breathtakingly fast.
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TRS-80 (Model I) with a whopping 4K of system RAM and a cassette deck for saving/loading software.:eek::D:)
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Choplifter and Space Taxi forever.
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And for the record, I bought my first non-old man car just last year, having driven Buick Park Avenues and Pontiac Bonnevilles since High School. I turned 30 and celebrated with a Nissan.
Me too! Lucky my Dad was an electronics engineer, he upgraded mine to a blistering 16k.:D
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A Zilog Z-80, 2.03 MHz processor, 16K RAM, 12-inch B/W 64 X 16 text display, Single internal 178K Floppy drives and an external cassette drive port
Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio (which was THE BOMB!!!) took about 30-45 minutes to load with the cassette drive, yahooooooo
1st one Ibought personally was a C128
I had a Tandy 1000 RL
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/images/RL_WakaWakaTandyLarge.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000
No hard drive, no embedded OS, and you felt lucky when you got a GUI.
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First computer I ever owned was an Apple ][+. 48K RAM, a 5.25" floppy disk drive, and a color monitor. Eventually expanded to 64K, two floppy drives, and a dot matrix printer.
First owned was a Timex-Sinclair 1000, about the size of a smallish hardback, with a membrane keyboard and all of 2k main memory on board. (I also had the 16k expansion pack that plugged into the back.) Cassette tape storage, and you provided your own cassette player, and the graphics were black and white (s'okay - so was the TV I had at the time, from a garage sale). Long afternoons carefully typing in programs from a magazine... you kids today got no idea how soft you got it...
First one I bought for myself was a C-64, back in '85 when they were cutting-edge computing machines. I was in the Air Force, living in the dorms, eating in the chow hall, and having more money than sense, and they had them in the Exchange. I kept that for a number of years - even ran a BBS on it (the Time Warp, in Omaha, NE - if any of you were there at the time, I was Timmorn Yelloweyes).
We used the college computer to download Doom and the whole campus got motion sickness.
If you want to go there, my introduction to computers was via a teletype, connected via a110 Baud (not KBaud - Baud) acoustic modem (IE you took the phone handset and popped it on to the modem after rotary-dialing the number) to an HP2000 mainframe in 1975 (I was in 7th grade).
There was one game we LOVED called "STTR1" - which was a Star Trek game where you sheared an 8X8 grid (64 sectors) for Klingon ships that were invading, and you blew them up.:eek::D
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
Amstrad CPC464, with colour(!) monitor.
Really fancy stuff. Got hold of a matrix printer, sounding like a machinegun.
It actually had a decent amount of games, eventhough the Commodore 64 was THE best when it came to games. Oh I wonder how many joysticks I smashed due to silly sportsgames. You know, slamming the stick right<->left to make that sucker run his 1500-meter distance.
Our next computer was a Mattel Aquarius and then a Commodore that I cannot remember, but the only thing I remember about that thing, it took like 20 minutes to load. My grandma got them at a rummage sale.
My first personal computer of my own was a Microsoft with a 386 processor that ran Windows 3.1 and looked more like a surge protector than a CPU. And was about as useful as a surge protector.
Sounds like the first computers we got in our office when I was in the Air Force.
The 1st computer I played on was a C64 playing amazing games like frogger and boulderdash.
I was lucky that my father was kinda a computer geek back then and so I enojyed a 386 with 21 MHz (without Turbo-Button 16 MHz). A few years after that we got a 486DX2 66Mhz which was breathtakingly fast.
Oregon Trail too.
They had barely enough educational value to be acceptable I guess. :-)
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