| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/9/2005 10:33:22 PM | TI 99/4A, awesome little machine. Ahead of it's time. IBM didn't like that, told them to make calculators. :)
Had a Sony Cassette drive, and a whole bunch of cartridges.
Now I got me an IBM PC here (original, '81) and a Kaypro still in the plastic. Just got rid of 3 Mac Plus's. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/10/2005 1:02:43 PM | my 1st computer was an Abacus  , or was it pencil and paper? I don't remember
actually I had an Alttair, don't remember anything about it other than I never used it.
I got into puters when the 286 came out, then bought a 386, then 486, and the 486 is the only one that I remember the specs in... 74 MHz cpu (if turbo was on) 8 MB EDO ram, 512 MB HD
now I have 12 puters (not including the really old ones I no longer use) 1 of them is a server :) el Beefy is lovingly named Pandora's Box | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/11/2005 9:47:35 AM | | Commodore Vic20. Then a Vic12, C64, 128D, original XT (256k ram, 20mb hdd, green screen monochrome), 2nd series XT (640k ram, 20 mb hdd, cga graphics, then ega, then vga), 286 with 20mb hdd and 8mb ram, 386 with 8 mb ram and 256mb hdd, 486SX33 with 8mb ram, forget what hdd (small though), 586 133 with 24mb ram, 2.6gb hdd, SVGA graphics, 3D accelerator (a whole 1mb), 4mb video card, SB16 (SB 8-bit mono at first), and my first CD rom drive - a twin spin Panasonic compatible. Then I entered the world of Pentiums after that. I've been computing for way too long really. Probably why I don't bother too much with trying to modify hardware any more. Shove a good size fan in your comp, and stuff around with fine-tuning your software. 20-odd years of computing has taught me that. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/20/2005 12:56:00 AM | My first computer was a Radio Shack DIY. I used a Sony cassette tape recorder as my hard disk, an old B&W TV as my monitor and did everything in BASIC Onboard memory was 512k and we didn't have internet, e-mail or all these other gol'durned newfangled thingamabobs you young whippersnappers have today. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/25/2005 5:07:33 PM | Commodore 64...
LOL My first real computer, windows wasn't even invented yet... 8088, with 100K Harddrive, 4mhz Processor, 640 memory... MSDos OS... It had the Yellow and Black screen...
Man I'm feeling old... | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/25/2005 11:09:46 PM | Quick story:
My Dad had part time/over the weekend computer business so I grew up with them during the 80's
The first one I played with was a SX (I think it was an 8088) 5 1/4 floppy with dos 3.1 (I think).
He showed me how to load Donkey Kong  and the dir command
OH baby Orange Text on black screen.
And now I am an IT geek go figure 
My first computer I bought myself: was for school 4 years ago and actually I am using the same one today: 1.2 gig atholon etc.... (insert geek here) | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/27/2005 8:27:15 PM | TRS - 80 Model III, with a floppy disk drive - WOW! LOL. lets see the year was 1982 or 81. This was the first computer I owned.
The first computer I used was an IBM 360 and Amdhal 470, I think those are the correct numbers...could check my resume, but hey...I remember them having 32K of RAM. Yes an IBM mainframe with a huge 32K of RAM, too many TSO users 10 - 20 would bring it to a slow crawl. Worked as a Computer Operator at the University of Florida in Gainesville, while pursuing a degree in programming. Punch cards, 7, 8 and 9 Track Tapes, lol, glad those days are behind me!
My first programming job, years later was on a Commodore 64 doing apps for a government contractor! Made it work too!  | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/29/2005 6:45:26 AM | My first pc was a 286 16mhz with 2MB ram and 20MB hard drive ... lol yeah i can laugh about it now ... but back then .. wow baby that amber montor was smoking .. well maybe not.
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/31/2005 7:32:17 PM | I had an old Texas Instruments pc. Couldn't even tell you the model anymore but the thing use to boot from a cassette tape. Ancient.
And for those of you slandering the 286 machines running DOS, I would take the 286 against any of the speed demons today in a floppy formatting contest. LOL Used them in the Army and man could those things spit out the formatted floppies. 
Kevin | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/8/2005 9:09:22 PM | | this is an old thread, but had to add mine. I had a TI99-4A (with voice synthesizer), just after that I got my first laptop, a Tandy 102, it had a small 3"x8" black only LCD screen, and i was a member of compuserve when it was technically still a bulletinboard! Nowadays I'm into computer forensics, do consulting and work for the Gov't on projects-I've got a lot of cool toys I could not have even dreamed of then...... | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/9/2005 2:08:02 PM | Tandy Models 1 and 3. No floppies, had to load stuff from cassette deck.....oh that sucked.
Commodore 64, and a Sinclair.
Now I am on a Mac, a Dell, and whatever I have built around the house to play with.
I have 13 machines in my house, ISP UPS setup, cisco switchgear/router, and Linux on more than half of it. Looking for a good Raid array used.....
I need more storage!
Doc | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/10/2005 2:56:21 AM | I still have mine, but never use it anymore..still goof around on it for fun, but there's not a whole lot you can do with it. It was given to me by my best friend's (at the time) dad who got me into computers because his son wasn't interested.
It's an Osborne 1 with a zilog cpu at 4.0 mb
has 64 k RAM
a monitor buiilt in with 53x24 text
dual 5 1/4 inch 91 k drives
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dino12
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Joined: 5/31/2005
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/10/2005 10:19:06 PM | heehee! fun thread!
the first computer I purchased was an IBM 386 lol! no CD-ROM on that sucker - had 2 floppy drives, think I had a 14whatever-they-were modem & ran a BBS on that thing!
The first computer I used was a Texas Instrument with a tape casette drive that my dad wrote programs for! Went to computer camp as a kid *blush* and can remember writing BASIC. eeek!!! | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/10/2005 11:28:23 PM | | Wow, alot of Vic 20's in the audience. And to think, I owe my career to that little unit. If I dig hard enough, I could probably find my first programs (which I wrote over my sisters mini-pops tape - shoulda saw her face when she listened to that one next. Vic 20 killed the radio star) | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/10/2005 11:36:46 PM |
I remember the Osbornes! Those were the cool kids on the block at the time, and expensive.
I miss the old BBS days
Yeah Doc..it's still pretty cool to play with, can't do anything with it really, but it's fun to bust it out every now and again and play with it.
I remember playing on BBS as a kid, still amazes me how far things have progressed. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/14/2005 7:48:31 PM | well my parents had a Tandy 1000, but MY first computer was a 286 with a whopping 40mb hard drive (i never imagined what it would take to fill all that space) and i believe a whole 360 k of RAM. it even had TWO 5.25 floppy drives. talk about your KILLER Zork box.
next came a 486sx 33 with win 3.11 that slowly (and painfully) became an amd k6-2 500 running XP.
Currently:
P4 2.53
1024mb RAM
1x 40GB HD
1x 200GB HD
1x dvd-ROM
1x cd-RW
Win 2k3 Server
Next up - AMD Athlon X2 - hopefully
I STILL play Zork :) | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/16/2005 11:40:40 AM | I had one superficially like that, a single board computer, but it had the old 6800 chip,
just 1K but no TV driver at all, it had just a Hex key pad and an LED display. I also
had a similar one with a 6502 CPU instead.
dpw | |
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