what was your first computer

Apple IIe
64k ram + 64k ramdisk
2x 5 1/4 floppy with 143K / side
green monochrome monitor.

then atari 520 STfm, 1040 STm

ICL 370/2 Mainframe

then

Tandy TRS-80 from Tandy's Level 1 Basic from a small start-up called
Microsoft (what happed to those guys?)
4K Ram, cassette tape drive

upgraded by Tandy to Level 2 Basic and 16K Ram ( more money for that
start-up)

then later upgraded myself to 48K Ram with Lowercase mod
added Exatron stringy floppy (tape) drive

just to play Scot Adams adventures

those were the days

friends coming over and asking WHY I had a computer in my house
and me saying one day we all would...........................


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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

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:45:52 +1300, "The Black Wibble"
wrote:

"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.

heheh.... yep... AMIGA... killed from within...


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Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

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


First computer I used was an Apple II at school.
First computer I owned was a Vic-20, with tape drive.
First PC was an IBM 5150. (I forget if I had the 10 Meg HDD in that
one, or the Epson turbo XT I had later)

Sinclair ZX80 - Bought through a magazine subscription and had to build it
myself.

Z80A/3.58 MHz - 8-Bit

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - 48K RAM, rubber keyboard that had bubble mat under
which used to burst with frantic gaming (Daley Thompson's Decathlon), later
upgraded to hard plastic keyboard a la 48K+ model. 16 colour display, only 2
colours per 8pixel x 8pixel sprite. Cassette player for loading/saving
stuff, later added a Waferdrive (similar to the Microdrive that was
available). Kempston and Sinclair switchable joystick interface with 2
joysticks. Sinclair thermal printer (remember watching fascinated as the
little needle sparked on the silver coated paper burning black marks). Also
added a lightpen at one point, but drawing with it was a nightmare. It all
still works too, except it is now a 16K RAM model due to an accident
involving the 5V and ground wires in a joystick experiment :\

Dan

Commodore Amiga 1000, circa 1985. Still working, with original Amiga
1080 monitor.

John Lewis

Apple IIe
64k ram + 64k ramdisk
2x 5 1/4 floppy with 143K / side
green monochrome monitor.

Those were great also. Remember when the IIe's came out with color monitors
and hard floppy drives? You'd have thought the world ended.

"Blaedmon" wrote in message
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... a mere Commodore c16... nothing special, although after that I got a
Commodore Plus4... no idea why. Then went onto the legendary Commodore
C64's
which I still have about 7 of, most working. Its still the best pc ever ;D

"Andrew" spamtrap@localhost wrote in message
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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

Sinclair ZX81 4Mhz, 1K ram, shared with video buffer, cassette port,
monochrome display, no sound, membrane keyboard.

You youngsters, *sigh*.
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You younguns have it easy. In my day I had to make do with an Etch-a-sketch
strapped to a cardboard box, with a pocket calculator inside!

-=Matt=-

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

Sinclair ZX81 4Mhz, 1K ram, shared with video buffer, cassette port,
monochrome display, no sound, membrane keyboard.

You youngsters, *sigh*.
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spamtrap.
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please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text.
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You younguns have it easy. In my day I had to make do with an
Etch-a-sketch
strapped to a cardboard box, with a pocket calculator inside!

-=Matt=-

Now son, I've told you not to bring that up. But you know perfectly well
that the first computer in the house was the dirt floor. Never could recover
any deleted files from that old computer, and the graphics did kinda suck
;-)