The first one like many was a ZX81, then moved on to an Oric 1, then got an Amiga, remember spending a fortune on a floppy, then even more on a digitiser to capture colour clips from a vcr, it even captured black and white footage, ah those where the days.
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Sinclair ZX-80. 1K RAM including video. Cassette tape storage (had to turn TV off to prevent interference when saving/loading).
Got my first program published in a mag - it must have been a prediction of things to come - it was a highly efficient way to invert video...Got 15 pounds for it - a lot for a 15 year old.John Miller -
My first computer was a Commodore VIC 20, but the first computer that I actually used was a WANG that they had in my High School ( circa 1976 ) - I do not know the model number.
"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own" - the Prisoner
(NO MAN IS JUST A NUMBER)
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I had a friend in school that came up with the following computer joke: "I went over to my friend's home to play with his WANG"
We thought it was funny at the time
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
EXPLORE THE FILMS OF LUCIO FULCI - THE MAESTRO OF GORE
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Atari ST that I won in a contest. I had used friends' Apple II clones (remember those?), Commodore Vic-20's and C64's as well as the mainframe computer at the university here previously but the ST was the first computer I owned myself. The ST really allowed me to become very interested in modding things which continues to today. It's still around here in it's box along with all it's apps and games. Fun times long gone by...
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Originally Posted by Verify
Actually, I COULD use one of each of those!!
As soon as I figure out what they are ......
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Commodore 64. My parents bought it in 1984 when I was 3 and it was our primary computer until July 1993, when I got my first PC, a Packard Bell "Legend 2000". I believe that was a 486 SX 25mhz, 4MB of RAM , 170MB HD... and a 1x CD-ROM drive. I remember it had CD-ROM in giant letters on the front, as it was a new technologly for the bargain-bin masses at least. Not too much of a bargain at $1900 though!
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Timex-Sinclair 1000,I think I paid $50 for it.It was fun learning BASIC and writing programs for it,the cassette backup was a joke though.
A couple of years later I bought a Commodore 64 which was pretty powerful for the time,I used to sell them at a store and customers would ask me if it would automatically do their taxes...LOL.
My first real PC was a refurb with a PII,4GB HDD,32MB RAM and Windows 95. -
I started with a 48K ZX Spectrum (5 mins to load a 48K program from a cassette player - the cheaper the better!) Then went to a twin-floppy (720K 3.5" floppy) Apricot then went to the wonderful Apricot Zen (286 cpu and an external PSU that kept your feet nice & toasty in the Winter!). Then came the Amstrad 1512 with a colour EGA screen and a 32Mb hard drive. Then came the Amstrad 1640 (which we upgraded to a 286 with an add-in board), then a Multiplex(?) 386 followed by a locally built 486DX which I think I upgraded to a DX-2. After that I started building them myself and ended up doing it as a job. I've still got my ZX Spectrum sitting in it's box somewhere but I think I'll stick with my Intel Quad-core for the time being.
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mine was a no name computer, it was 8 mhz processor with a turbo button to kick it up to 16 mhz. 640 kb memory max. cga graphics, 2 15 mb hard drives (these things were the size of cd drives today, and were mfm drives). had two 5.25 inch floppy drives, one i had to make an external drive (actually worked). no modem, no windows operating system. dos only. also it was a xt motherboard, can't remember the make. i still have have all the 5.25 inch floppies too.
If it's an ambulance...you got a chance. If it's a hearse...it's even worse!!!--Judge Alvin "JP" Valkenheiser
Want to extract audio from .vob files? Read my guide at https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=187078 -
I wrote my first computer program on the school's TRS-80 Model 1 (Level 2). I was 10 years old at the time.
My first computer was a 16k TRS-80 Color Computer (not the CoCo 2, which was in a white case, mine was the gray case!). Later I got a Coco 3 with 128MB memory.
My first PC was a 16MHz 386SX running DOS 5.0. My current one is a 2GHz running WinXP SP2.
CogoSWSDSOld ICBM Coordinates: 39 45' 0.0224" N 89 43' 1.7548" W. New coordinates: 39 47' 48.0" N 89 38' 35.7548" W. -
Hewlett-Packard HP-85, early in 1980. 32x16 screen, thermal printer, cartridge tape, and built-in HP-Basic. My employer had HP-85s everywhere, embedded in data-acquisition systems. I think the last one was retired six years ago, still running.
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... Coleco Adam, tha add-on not the stand-alone. Eventualy with CP/M.
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Originally Posted by Kayembee
Someone from my family (reader of this forum too LOL, but not a member) emailed me to say:
his was DEC PDP-11/35 in 1973
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Originally Posted by DereX888
And why isn't this person a member of videohelp?Donadagohvi (Cherokee for "Until we meet again") -
386 with a whopping 4 megabytes of ram.
I also remember my first computer at work.
It was also a 386 with 4 meg ram. It was a kickass work machine.
We had also purchased a plotter for work and wanted to upgrade the builtin ram.
The extract 4 meg of ram cost $400.00. UNBELIEVEABLE!!!Just my 2 cents. -
Originally Posted by Ai Haibara
After my C64 I finally got my first PC, a 8086 AT @ 8 or 12 Mhz (depending if you turned on Turbo! mode or not). At least it was faster then my friends 4.7 Mhz Tandy 1000. I had no hard drive, but was lucky enough to have two 5 1/4's. When I finally got my first HDD (10MB), I was so excited! Wow! I could put ALL of my floppies onto that bad boy! -
c=64 with dual floppy drives and a dot matrix printer all hooked up to a color t.v. It was a great setup until the Feds came and took it all. =(
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Originally Posted by Po|arbeaR
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
EXPLORE THE FILMS OF LUCIO FULCI - THE MAESTRO OF GORE
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A 086 which was a monster back in the day.
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Commodore 64 unless you count my Bally Basic that came out in 1978. It was a cartridge based video game system that was also a computer. You had to program it using a keypad like a calculator with plastic overlays and color coded keys to get different results.
It was actually the superior video game system of its day but due to high price and probably bad marketing everyone bought the crappy Atari 2600.
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First one I touched was my Dad's Vic-20. In college we had IBM xt's, which I helped upgrade from 256 to 384k of RAM. Dual floppies, no HD, Hercules monochrome. Dos 3.0.
First one I owned was a 286-12, Harris chip, 20Mb Hd which I rll'd to 30. Monochrome, then CGA, back to monochrome, finally an EGA. Many, many more followed. I think my favorite was a 386DX40. -
First computer was a Gray Coco 16k memory, later upgraded with a True lowercase kit, 32K memory upgrade etc. four floppies. I ran a BBS on it for a while with a 1200 baud modem. It was affordable...... I also ran OS9 multiuser OS on it with 128k memory
I ran it side by side with a 8088 XT clone. That ended up with dual 20Megabyte Seagate hard drives and two 6 disc Pioneer CD changers and two 1x Mitsumi cd drives also running a Wildcat BBS 2 line system. The Pioners were darned noisy when changing discs. I also paid a lot of money for the 1 Gigabyte Western Digital when it was the newest, biggest hard drive available from Egghead. I backed it up to 1.44 floppies, that took a while to do. But Idid it since Iwas running a BBS on it.
Then a 286, 386sx, 386, 486, pentium 100, Pentium II, AMD Athlon, P4, Core2Quad. Along the way alsoa TRS80 Model 4P luggable running TRSDos and CP/M.
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A GE Analog Computer Kit Model No. EF-140 (1961)
It worked like an electric sliderule.
later, a KIM and an
AIM singleboard... 4k ram...cassette storage ...had a 2-pass assembler, Basic & Forth
...added voice recognition (32 words) & an eprom burner
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Mine was a 386 SX 33 Mhz with 4 MB of RAM and a Trident 1 MB graphic card.
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Sinclair ZX81 ... then TI 99-4/A ... then Coleco Adam ... then, eventually, a 286. Yeah, I had a line of orphans for a while.
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Ahh -- a walk down memory lane.
The very first "computer" I had was a Netronics Elf -- complete with Hexadecimal keypad! Geez -- I'm dating myself, huh?
After that, I build a Sinclair ZX80 from a kit (blue membrane keyboard), eventually upgraded it to a ZX81 (new ROM, black membrane keyboard overlay) and eventually a WHOPPING 16K of memory.
Next up was the often maligned but surprisingly capable TRS-80 Color Computer ("The CoCo"). I had an original Gray-case version with a Revision E system board (scary, but I remember it). Performed all sorts of upgrades and board-level hacks to that thing. I ran OS-9, FHL Flex, and eventually an OS I wrote myself for the purpose of running a BBS. Throughout the 8-bit days, and in to the early days of 16-bit computers, I also picked up an Atari 130XE, a TRS-80 Model I and a TRS-80 Model 3. Somewhere along the line I also bought a CoCo3, but that was well after the heyday of 8-bit computers.
My first venture into the brave new world of 16-bit computers was an Atari 520ST w/TOS in ROM
As it became more and more apparent that the IBM PC architecture was going to emerge the ultimately dominant hardware platform, I purchased an 80286-based system from a mail-order place in Texas (after going through hundreds of ads in Computer Shopper).
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Reading through this thread really shows that there was a lot of interesting equipment out there over the years. It reminds me of a friend that I had in the late 80's who was in the electronics salvage business - I got my first PC from him ( a 286 with 640k ram, dual 5.25 inch floppies, 20mb Seagate mfm HD ). He picked up a lot of computers in those years, including a very strange item. It was a new Xerox computer in an open box that looked exactly like a modern PC of it's day - but there were no manuals or disks with it, and no operating system installed on the hard drive. He tried to install MS-DOS and IBM-DOS, but it would not work. It seems that it ran on a proprietary Xerox operating system, but Xerox would not give him any support for the unit and refused to even sell him a copy of the operating system - very strange! I don't think that he was ever able to get it working because he could not get the operating system for it. If anyone knows anything about this animal, please post a reply because this thread has really got me thinking about this
"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own" - the Prisoner
(NO MAN IS JUST A NUMBER)
be seeing you ( RIP Patrick McGoohan )
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