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Sleepy Wobbit · 10-30-2009, 02:34 PM

My COLLEGE computer. Learned Fortran on this. See the tape coming out of the left side? That's what we handed in at the end of the week to the professor, so he could take it 25 miles down to University of Tennessee to run it and make sure it worked! Fun times!

And this was my first personal at home computer Apple IIe. Loved it!

**Cristiano** · 10-30-2009, 02:54 PM

My first computer was the Coleco Adam:

Then, after a brief stint with a C64, I got the upgraded C128:

Argent Stonecutter · 10-30-2009, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Pol

That's almost as old as my first Mac.

jacqueline trudeau · 10-30-2009, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Archer Braun

TIMEX SINCLAIR FTW!!!!

Oh, yeah. Oh, YEAH...that's the 16K EXPANSION PACK ON THE BACK. LOOK AND WEEP, BIATCHES!!!

And if you just so much as look at that memory pack crosseyed, it would lose it's connection and crash your zx.

(I know, I know I had the same rig

).

Not counting the Sinclair, my first computer:

BDOS error reading drive b: FTW!

Spaceman Opus · 10-30-2009, 03:05 PM

Apple IIc

Argent Stonecutter · 10-30-2009, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by jacqueline trudeau

I had one of these from work for a while:

It was great, the video memory was at a higher address than on a standard PC clone, so you had 768k of available memory, not 640k. I could fit the compiler and libraries into a RAM disk which really sped up development.

Quantum Destiny · 10-30-2009, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Humps

My first computer:

jacqueline trudeau · 10-30-2009, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argent Stonecutter

I had one of these from work for a while:

It was great, the video memory was at a higher address than on a standard PC clone, so you had 768k of available memory, not 640k. I could fit the compiler and libraries into a RAM disk which really sped up development.

Osborne I beget the Kaypro II beget the Compaq Luggable which beget every PC to this day without an IBM badge on it. So... your Kaypro there is full circle.

Catti Ninetails · 10-30-2009, 05:02 PM

Amiga 500. Still got one, and some parts from the first one...

Edav Nomad · 10-30-2009, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Cubey Terra

The first computer I owned was a Radio Shack TRS-80 MC-10 "Colour Computer" (OOOH IT'S IN COLOUR!!"): TRS-80 MC-10 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It came with BASIC. That's it. That's all it did. You wrote programs and saved them to a tape recorder.

Cool, that was my first computer as well.

Nibb Tardis · 10-30-2009, 06:50 PM

First was this: a quite rare Commodore 16 (no, it's not a C64 or a VIC20)

Then I had this: Amstrad 464 with a green screen

Then I had a bunch of Atari STs:

And my last pre-PC computer was a Falcon 030 (another rare beast):

**Envoy Costagravas** · 10-30-2009, 07:01 PM

Commodore Amiga 1000 - got one of the first ones that came into town when they were released:

**Cristiano** · 10-30-2009, 07:04 PM

I loved the Amiga, probably more than any other computer I've owned.

Argent Stonecutter · 10-30-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Cristiano

I loved the Amiga, probably more than any other computer I've owned.

Irving Gould and Max Tramiel have much to answer for.

Kyllie Wylie · 10-30-2009, 08:09 PM

My Grandpa has you all beat!!

**Carthalis** · 10-30-2009, 08:19 PM

That was my first one at home. At high school we had RM Nimbus pc's and would make fancy spiral patterns on them. My computer teacher was disappointed that I didn't take computer tech for an exam, so was I. Such is the way things work out.

Ace · 10-30-2009, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Humps

My first computer:

and my second:

Ditto

Dancien Graves · 10-30-2009, 08:29 PM

My dad was a huge nerd. We had two.

The Trash 80 and the Commodore Pet. I have both still tucked away in a closet.

Khamon · 10-30-2009, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Gigs

Back in my day, we didn't need no darn fancy switchering power supplies! We just slapped two capacitors, a bridge diode and a brick of a transformer together and we damn well liked it!!

It hummed I can tell you and yes, it would slap you silly with its high voltage self. We suffered for our art!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jacqueline

BDOS error reading drive b: FTW!

I remember my first linux installation booting to a message that said 8:01 boot device and I was like um yeah okay well um let's push this button and see what happens. You really don't wanna know.

**Cristiano** · 10-30-2009, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argent Stonecutter

Irving Gould and Max Tramiel have much to answer for.

Agreed - god, I was such a fan of the Amiga - like Mac fanboy zealot kind of fan.

Pamela Galli · 10-30-2009, 09:40 PM

Edav Nomad · 10-30-2009, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dancien Graves

My dad was a huge nerd. We had two.

The Trash 80 and the Commodore Pet. I have both still tucked away in a closet.

When I was in High School the TRS-80 was the computer I first learned how to use.

jacqueline trudeau · 10-30-2009, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Khamon

I remember my first linux installation booting to a message that said 8:01 boot device and I was like um yeah okay well um let's push this button and see what happens. You really don't wanna know.

Not quite as bad

the BDOS message was the CP/M's way of telling you you changed the floppy in b: without telling the operating system. Ah... good times.

Argent Stonecutter · 10-30-2009, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyllie Wylie

My Grandpa has you all beat!!

Oh, well, if you go by that my first computer was a slipstick.

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