What was your very first computer?Post Date: 2007-10-08 |
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Bigdog 
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 Topic: What was your very first computer?Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 1:39am |
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mine would be a commador64 I think it was. If that doesn't cound my mother also got a macintosh...remember Oregon trail?
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AsTheStormClears
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 1:44am |
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Atari 800 XL
was alot of fun back then building games in DOS Edited by AsTheStormClears - 08 Oct 2007 at 1:46am |
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Bigdog
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 1:56am |
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so much as I know, I never even heard of that, haha.
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Tyler Lowe
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 2:03am |
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Atari 520ST
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AsTheStormClears
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 3:10am |
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Atari 800 was Atari's attempt at combing a computer desktop and a video game console in one. game cartriges plugged into the keyboard :)
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thecomplex
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 8:17am |
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Apple II GS.
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 9:10am |
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I still have my TRS-80 model 3 from Radio Shack with a big 16k of RAM.
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 9:35am |
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commodor 64
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67alecto
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Mine was upgraded to a whopping 128k by the original owner!
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67alecto
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 10:36am |
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My first computer was a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4a. 3Mhz processor, baby!
I actually still have it, but it's in pieces.
"At the end of 1982 the TI-99/4A is the number one home computer in America, with approximately 35% of the market share, and producing 150,000 consoles a month. "
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1970: Xerox Sigma 7
1972: IBM 370, DEC PDP-8, and DEC PDP-10
1975: DEC PDP-11s
1979: Atari 800
1985: Amiga 1000
1988: Zeos 33 MHz 486
For Ever After: faster and faster PCs
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 12:06pm |
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I think the first computer my family had was a Commodore 64 (provided you don't count the Magnavox Odyssey 2, which despite being primarily a video game console, did at least have a keyboard).
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 12:50pm |
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Ah yes the Zeos - first one out with that amazing invention the 10mB, yes kids, that an "M" hard disk drive. And we were in nirvanna...no longer had to hassle with the 5 5.25" floppies that really were floppy, each of which stored a massive 365 kB in order to load your program every single time.
Ah,...good times. Mine was an Atari 800XL too - with F-15 Strike Eagle where your imagination was the GPU. I couldn't afford the new IBM PC Jr. with it's chicklet keyboard and that blazing 4.7mHz processor. Where was Digital Storm then? Oh ya, they were likely no more than a twinkle in their fathers' eyes. I'm going to go put on my Earth shoes and walk even further down memory (and not RAM - if it wasn't part of the processor, we didn't get any dedicated memory) lane. |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 1:04pm |
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Whatever my dad gave me. I think my true first computer was some sort of a P3. I remember using 486's back in the day. 486 DX2 Baby!
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 1:20pm |
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Atari 800, RIP
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67alecto
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 2:26pm |
My first "real" computer was a 486 SX 25mhz with a 100mb hard drive. I bought a 2400 baud modem that came with a year free of Prodigy.net (woo hoo).
I remember that Ultima 7 took about 1/5th of my hard drive with it's 7 floppies.
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 3:31pm |
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Mine was a Mac SE followed by a 486 SX 25mhz
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 3:37pm |
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IMSAI 8080. Still works, but only fire it up to see if it's still alive |
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 4:36pm |
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Well I had a ZX Spectrum 16K.
Yes a wopping 16K and a tape cassette to load the latest greatest game, Centipede!
Rubber keys and all. :)
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 6:47pm |
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I had a Tandy! My dad worked for Tandem at the time, so we were all using Tandies.
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 7:07pm |
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The old Apple computer with funky metal hard floppy drives.
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Posted: 08 Oct 2007 at 8:10pm |
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Wowza, this thread brings back some memories! I had the COmmodor 64, a Tandy, then moved up to a Hewlett-Packard lol. I remember having this game kings quest or police quest that required VGA graphics and I was still stuck on CGA! OF course this was after the good ol' DOS days. When I tell my nephew that my old games had NO graphics, and then show him the graphics on CGA games he laughs! Nothing made me ever feel so old hehehe! Good times.
 Heres a peek at what $8500 bought you back in the day! http://www.garmana.com/blogs/mark/images/oldcomputer.jpg |
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thecomplex
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Wow.. is it just me or was a 386 w/ 2MB of RAM pretty intense in 1989? I think I was playing Facemaker in 1989. Chris |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 9:15am |
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^^hehe, "our most powerful computer EVER!!!....20mhz, 2mb RAM.
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thecomplex
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 9:22am |
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Nearly SIMULTANEOUS transfer of data between peripherals! haha.
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 1:13pm |
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Funny stuff that that was a powerhouse back then. lol, I get a kick out of seeing that ad every time; Lightening fast 20Mhz processor! Thats the stuff dreams are made of!
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 2:07pm |
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I still have the receipt where I paid $979.00 for 128mg of ram for my Amiga
Amiga 1000 was my first real computer
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 2:20pm |
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What's even more comical is that the $8500 20MHz, 2MB RAM system didn't even come with a mouse or monitor. Factor in inflation and that $8500 is pretty insane, cost-wise.
Compare that to, say, a Palm TX with a 312MHz CPU, 128MB RAM, bluetooth + 802.11 wireless, and 320x480 touchscreen all for $300 (retail). Or, even funnier, compare it to a TI-84 graphing calculator with a 15MHz CPU, 128KB RAM, and a 1.5MB flash ROM. I think that's pretty telling right there - 1989's most powerful desktop PC only has slightly more computing power than a scientific calculator that was first released in 2004. |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 2:35pm |
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^True. Thats why I lmao when I think about the technology/computers/radio systems that NASA used to send people to the moon!
 Thats whats great with their being so many more integrators now-all the competition and competing technology really helps with making the cost reasonable. Back then there weren't too many choices or competition-thus paying a grand for 128megs of ram or $8500 for a calculator! Amazing how far we've come.
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 3:21pm |
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Im not a star trek fan but this tread made me think of that for some odd reason.......
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 3:41pm |
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Beam me up Brandon! Soon we'll have holographic televisions and our kids kids will laugh when they see how people used to have to watch TV inside a box. I love technology!
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Quantex P133 with 32MB RAM and 1.6GB HDD.
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007 at 4:26pm |
We could still tell them that there are little people in that box Edited by Bigdog - 09 Oct 2007 at 4:27pm |
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