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Argent Stonecutter · 10-30-2009, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Cristiano

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

Well, yeh, but that was different. That was an Amiga.

Argent Stonecutter · 10-30-2009, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Pamela Galli

Cute, but I was running UNIX-based Mac OS (A/UX) on a Macintosh SE/30 years before OS/X. I wonder what would have happened to Apple in the '90s if they'd gone that way instead of following Copland down the rabbit hole.

Fmeh · 10-30-2009, 10:03 PM

Commodore 64 from '83 until '88

Amiga 500 from '88 until '91

Amiga 3000 from '91 until '97, but still used it for music until late 1999

Compaq Presario with Windows 95 from '97 until '99

Home built machine with Windows 98 (a crappy Soyo board) in '99, upgraded in '00 (switched to Win2K, upgraded a little bit again in '01 (and switched to xp), '03 upgrade, '06 upgrade , '09 upgrade (and switched to Vista 64).

LoganBauer · 10-30-2009, 10:18 PM

Argent Stonecutter · 10-30-2009, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LoganBauer

Robert Jung · 10-30-2009, 10:30 PM

Tandy 1000 SX dual floppy ( no HD ) I surfed the interwebs with that

**Psyke Phaeton** · 10-30-2009, 10:35 PM

Fade Languish · 10-30-2009, 10:38 PM

A TRS80 Model III that my mother bought and rapidly lost interest in.

Hunt Highfield · 10-30-2009, 11:18 PM

I have no photograph of my first computer. But this one is a similar model.

My first electronic computer was a TRS80 Model Three. It had no modem and no disk drive. It did have a cassette deck.

**Psyke Phaeton** · 10-30-2009, 11:39 PM

I remember getting a 40MB harddrive for my Amiga 500

**Bard Jameson** · 10-30-2009, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Jung

Tandy 1000 SX dual floppy ( no HD ) I surfed the interwebs with that

You beat me to the Tandy 1000!

DOS on one diskette, WordPerfect on the other...then the WP doc diskette is placed in the DOS drive until a DOS prompt disk command is invoked *sighs*...oh those were the days!

The first one I ever messed with was a Trash 80 (belonging to my younger brothers, dammit) but the first one I owned was the Tandy 1000...* weeps quietly*

Ariane · 10-31-2009, 12:47 AM

Well the first computer I ever used was a Commodore Pet (see post 44). I even remember my first program

10 LET A = 0
20 LET A = A + 1
30 PRINT A
40 GOTO 20
RUN

ooh watch those numbers fly!

But the first computer I actually owned is the same one used by Molly on Rocketboom

Robert Jung · 10-31-2009, 05:46 AM

So who remembers what Coleco stands for and what it was most famous for before the "Adam"

Robert Jung · 10-31-2009, 05:48 AM

I didn't own this. But I did use one:

Persephone Milk · 10-31-2009, 05:58 AM

Although I had used computers at my father's office and even learned a bit of programming on very early PCs running CP/M (before MS-DOS) the first computer I owned was a VIC 20. I got it for Christmas the year it came out (1981). Later I got the Super Expander cartridge with enhanced graphics and a cassette tape recorder so I could save programs.

Ciaran Laval · 10-31-2009, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Humps

My first computer:

Which was great fun:

And my second:

Teeny Leviathan · 10-31-2009, 06:43 AM

Epson Apex. It was an IBM PC clone, no hard drive, two 5.25 floppy drives, 4mhz (I think) 8088 processor. I picked it up at a liquidation sale for $10 back in 1995. Its next to useless, but I still own it. Its packed away somewhere...

**eku Zhong** · 10-31-2009, 09:19 AM

**Jesse Barnett** · 10-31-2009, 09:29 AM

1st:

Hey do not laugh! Slide rules put the men on the moon!

2nd:

It was literally decades before anyone came out with a pocket calculator that could do even half of what this baby could do!

Nibb Tardis · 10-31-2009, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pamela Galli

I sense some photoshopping...

I remember playing floppy toaster on one of these when I was in school.

Serious Cat · 10-31-2009, 12:29 PM

Argent Stonecutter · 10-31-2009, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nibb Tardis

I sense some photoshopping...

No, a lot of people have hacked modern Mac motherboards inside classic Macs, and look at the edge of the floppy slot and the mouse connector, that looks like one of them.

Most have been based on the Mac mini.

Eg: Mac mini --> Mac SE/30

Richie Waves · 10-31-2009, 12:48 PM

Teeny Leviathan · 10-31-2009, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argent Stonecutter

No, a lot of people have hacked modern Mac motherboards inside classic Macs, and look at the edge of the floppy slot and the mouse connector, that looks like one of them.

Most have been based on the Mac mini.

Eg: Mac mini --> Mac SE/30

It is an obvious hack. There were no USB mice in the 1980's.

MissKillian Barbosa · 10-31-2009, 03:20 PM

I defied my parents and bought a Mac.. Because I was an artist, gosh darn it, and all artists used Macs.. specifically a Macintosh Performa 6116cd! Stop trying to stifle my creativity and stuff!! Raaawr!

I mainly used it to play Doom and Duke Nukem and was introduced to my very first computer pron on my 14.4k modem

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