what was your first computer

TRS-80 Model I
(model one), with 1k of ram, I bought the "upgrade" to level ii basic, and a
total of 4k ram.
I remember typing in long 1k programs and saving them to cassette.
I finally got that sucker up to its max 48k and floppy drives (had to buy an
expansion interface, which was a box bigger than the computer).

"raj" wrote in message
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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

In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, Sunbow ordered an army of
hamsters to type:

spectrum 48k+ with `proper` keyboard. later a speccy 128k +2A with
disk drive add-on. Had a whole 780k per disk..



lol, there was a time when I wanted to get the (not so) floppy disk drive
addon. I had a friend that had one of the speccys with the intergrated
disk drive in place of the cassette player. I was jealous.

I remember typing in long 1k programs and saving them to cassette.
I finally got that sucker up to its max 48k and floppy drives (had to buy
an
expansion interface, which was a box bigger than the computer).

Expansion interface. I couldn't remember the name. That thing kicked sack.
I had one of those with a floppy drive and the sound effects cartridge.
With that, you could play games that actually *gasp* talked! One of my
earliest computer memories is making my Tandy say cuss words in a robot
voice to my friends. Sad, I know. :-p

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:18:36 -0800, "raj" wrote:

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

Geez we already went over this last month or so.

1 - 1984 - Commodore VIC 20 (1mhz / 3.5K ram / 8 colors / 3 sound
voices 20x22 character screen)

2 - 1985 - C= 128 (128mb RAM / 2mhz / 16colors, added 320K $275 floppy
drive in 1986)

3 - 1989 - Amiga 1000 (512k / 7.14mhz / 4096 colors - digital audio)
4 - 1991 - Amiga 3000 (5mb / 25mhz / 150mb HD - still works today)

5 - 1996 Various PCs from Cyrix 486-80Mhz to PII PIII AMD XP2500.


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When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

"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

I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K and cassette tapes for storage. Nothing "smokin" about any of it.

Tony.

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:18:36 -0800, raj wrote:

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

ZX-81. I thought I was a god when I got the 16Kb rampack.

"Tim-mz500r" wrote in message ...
oric !! 48k

Ha! Another pommie PC I had long since forgotten about. Two years ago I gave away a bunch of "Your
Computer" mags purchased between 1982 to 1985 to a church. @^&*!! Do I regret it. They record an explosion
of PCs that arrived in those years including the ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32, Aquarius, Oric, Atari 400, Acorn
Electron, etc.. Now they're all gone, dammit.

Tony.

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3GHz P4 (HT enabled)
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller
ADI AD1985 audio
MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0)
2x 512MB Kingston PC3500
2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors
52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer
16x Pioneer DVD-120S
Enermax 550W PSU
Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora
PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window
Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD

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"Tom Dearst" wrote in message
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Atari 256k. Wanted the 512 but it was 400 dollars more.219 dollar plug in
floppy drive upgrade was out of the question. Could play a cool tank game.
Never was able to find it again, I wish I could. I remember the smell in the
store when I bought it....excitement!

I apologise as an ex-Amiga owner for giving you Atari ST owners such a (verbal) arse kicking. You know... it
was a stooopid religious thang I had going on back then; oh, and some really quite superior graphics hardware,
better sound, and a vastly more elegant OS.

Tony.

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PDC20378 IDE/SATA controller
ADI AD1985 audio
MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (BIOS 4.35.20.22.0)
2x 512MB Kingston PC3500
2x 36.7 SATA WD Raptors
52/32/52 LiteOn CD-Writer
16x Pioneer DVD-120S
Enermax 550W PSU
Windows XP Pro & Linux Fedora
PC-70 Lian Li case w/ side window
Hitachi 174SXW B 17" LCD

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"raj" wrote in message
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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

raj wrote:

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

BBC Model B 64K RAM.