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Offline Wayout

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First Computers.
« on: September 21, 2008, 07:01:05 AM »
Timex Sinclair 1000 - 2K memory (introduced July 1982. Price $99.99).  Learned BASIC on this one.  It came with a text based flight sim. program on a cassette tape, took 45 minutes to load.



Atari 800_XL - 128k memory (introduced summer 1983. Price about $800.00). A classic. With 4 color VGA what couldn't it do.



Tandy 5000. Almost bought this one, didn't (at the time this was an excellent price).



Compact Portable - 64Kmemory (introduced 19??.  Price $???.??).  My first computer at work.




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Offline SD67

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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2008, 07:15:22 AM »
My first was a TRS80.
It was minus it's case, I found it a a local dumping point. The PCB was damaged but it was otherwise intact and the keyboard was still connected.
I have no idea where the case ended up but I repaired the PCB and mounted it in a cardboard box. I brought a replacement PSU from Tandy and it worked! :D
It was awesome! :rock
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Offline uptown

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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2008, 07:20:37 AM »
Things have really improved over the years :lol I remember my mom was a keypunch operator at a place called VIMS in Virginia. This is what she used. The whole room (12x24 or so), was filled with big reel to reel tape machines. It was the early 70s.
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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2008, 07:24:53 AM »
I made a computer program with it for a merit badge in boy scouts. How old are the computers in your pictures?
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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2008, 10:27:46 AM »
I don't have a picture of mine but it was a compaq presario, 133 mhz. I don't remember the ram, but the vc was 1 mg. The monitor I remember well. Looked so much like a fish bowl. Price $2300. Oh it had a huge hard drive, 1.6 gig. I said I would never fill that up. 6 mos later I was looking for things to delete.
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Offline MoeRon

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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2008, 10:57:38 AM »
My 1st home PC was a PB 386X, i think it had 1 meg of video memory and a 220 meg HD with 4 meg of RAM, cost me about 1400 bucks back in 1992.

The first computer i ever saw was in high school in 1976, i think it was a IBM 5100, they had a dot-matrix Star Trek game/program we played for hours. :cool:
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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2008, 11:05:36 AM »
My first computer I think I was 5 when we got it I rememberer playing flight Sims on it like F-15 Strike Eagle.
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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2008, 02:14:25 PM »
Apple 2E  Replaced around 1987 with an Aple GS.

My first experience with flight sims was on the GS.  I had a game called mail run in which you were an airmail pilot.  You had to guage your load and route and were given points accordingly.
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« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2008, 02:17:44 PM »
Played with an apple 2e in 2nd grade, but the first one i owned was a 286

20 meg hard drive, 1 meg ram
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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2008, 02:20:42 PM »
TI-99

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IBM PC Jr.
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Offline texasmom

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« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2008, 03:13:01 PM »
Comodore 64 (sp?)
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Offline Saxman

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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2008, 03:25:25 PM »
Ours was an 8088. Later we got an AST 486SX/33.

My first PC of my own was a Compaq Pentium I (133mhz, I think). I bought it SPECIFICALLY so I could play X-wing vs TIE Fighter. That was my PC for about ten years, before I built the Beast. :D
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Re: First Computers.
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2008, 03:32:20 PM »
My parents got a Packard Bell in 1995ish when I was 6. I thought it was Awsome. 100mhz, 1.2gb hdd, i dunno how much ram, but it would run ATF (advanced tactical fighters) pretty well lol. we had that think all the way up until 01 lol. My neighbors had cable internet and we had 14.4K dial up. Then we got a gateway with 900mhz and 128mb ram. it was POS.
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