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Michael Picard wrote:
Timex sinclare 1000 "raj" wrote in message ... just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1 meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol Commodore Vic-20. 5k ram, but after it booted you only had 3.5k to actually program I still have it incidentally, along with the ZX-81, ZX Speccy, BBC Model B, Master, Compact and others. |
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Michael Picard wrote:
Timex sinclare 1000 "raj" wrote in message ... just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1 meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol Remember when 1k total ram was alot? |
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Nick (no dashes) wrote:
Michael Picard wrote: Timex sinclare 1000 "raj" wrote in message ... just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1 meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol Remember when 1k total ram was alot? Remember when it was a lot for a mainframe? -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:55:52 +1100, "Nick (no dashes)"
wrote: Michael Picard wrote: Timex sinclare 1000 "raj" wrote in message ... just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1 meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol Commodore Vic-20. 5k ram, but after it booted you only had 3.5k to actually program Actally 5.5K The firsk K was system RAM.(you could store and execute some ML come in there, or use portions of it to store small bits of data). The user (AKA BASIC) RAM, was 4K, with 512 bytes taken off for the screen character ram. You also lost some if you wanted to use custom graphics. There was aslo 1Kx4 bits for colour RAM. I still have it incidentally, I have one too, I just need to get a Basic ROM for it. along with the ZX-81, ZX Speccy, BBC Model B, Master, Compact and others. |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:48:12 -0500, "Hackworth"
wrote: My first *serious* computer was an IBM XT/286 which, as you may expect, was a hybrid between the IBM PC XT and the IBM PC AT. Even had a 20 MB hard disk. Wooohoooo! That was my first system with a hard disk drive, and was I ever amazed! Later, I put a Hercules monochrome graphics adapter in it so that the system could render graphics and upper-ASCII characters (if the software app supported it, of course). Also added a 3.5-inch 720K floppy drive in 1987. Those were the days... seems like yesterday. Was actually an AT motherboard (perhaps a custom one), in an XT case. You had to used lower profile add-on cards, as some AT cards were too high. |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:56:39 +1100, "Nick (no dashes)"
wrote: Michael Picard wrote: Timex sinclare 1000 "raj" wrote in message ... just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1 meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol Remember when 1k total ram was alot? I did part time work in the early 90s at a company that had old IBM servers - where total, this computer had about 16 mb of RAM - it was the size of 6 refigerators - not including the DRIVES - each HD was the size of a fridge - holding about 20mb of data. I thought it was silly to pay for all that CRAP... when a good modern Amiga or 386 computer(s) would be faster. If you thought our HDs were loud, these things sounded like JET engines when the spun up. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 09:42:00 -0500, Gary Tait
wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:55:52 +1100, "Nick (no dashes)" wrote: Michael Picard wrote: Timex sinclare 1000 "raj" wrote in message ... just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1 meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol Commodore Vic-20. 5k ram, but after it booted you only had 3.5k to actually program Actally 5.5K The firsk K was system RAM.(you could store and execute some ML come in there, or use portions of it to store small bits of data). The user (AKA BASIC) RAM, was 4K, with 512 bytes taken off for the screen character ram. You also lost some if you wanted to use custom graphics. There was aslo 1Kx4 bits for colour RAM. I still have it incidentally, I have one too, I just need to get a Basic ROM for it. Snif... I WISH I still had MY Vic20 TODAY!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! OLD Computer I still have in my closet! - Commodore 128 and 1571 (I assume they still work, havent powered them up in 5+ years) I wouldn't know how to USE IT ANYMORE!!! - Commodore +4 (DEAD - lost my working one, helping someone) This was really A COOL PC for 1984, it HAD 128 colors!!! Too bad they didn't cross those graphcs over to the C128. - Amiga 1000 (1.5 units) - one is working + 2mb card ($1200 when new) - Amiga 3000 (5mb) - works, needs battery. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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Atari 800 with 48K and a Atari 410 tape cassette to load and save programs.
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Boroughs 220. Console with hundreds of blinking lights. (They
liked to use the consoles from this computer in Sci-Fi movies in the late 60's.) Computer was based on several hundred radio (vacuum) tubes. TELTRAIN wrote: Atari 800 with 48K and a Atari 410 tape cassette to load and save programs. |
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