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Old 10-30-2009, 09:42 PM   #51 (permalink)
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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.
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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.
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:03 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Commodore 64 from '83 until '88

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Old 10-30-2009, 10:18 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:21 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:30 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Tandy 1000 SX dual floppy ( no HD ) I surfed the interwebs with that

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Old 10-30-2009, 10:35 PM   #57 (permalink)
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:38 PM   #58 (permalink)
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A TRS80 Model III that my mother bought and rapidly lost interest in.

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Old 10-30-2009, 11:18 PM   #59 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 10-30-2009, 11:39 PM   #60 (permalink)
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I remember getting a 40MB harddrive for my Amiga 500
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Old 10-30-2009, 11:56 PM   #61 (permalink)
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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*

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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
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ooh watch those numbers fly!

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

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

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Old 10-31-2009, 05:58 AM   #65 (permalink)
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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.

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Which was great fun:



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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...
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Old 10-31-2009, 09:19 AM   #68 (permalink)
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It was literally decades before anyone came out with a pocket calculator that could do even half of what this baby could do!
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I sense some photoshopping...

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

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Old 10-31-2009, 12:48 PM   #73 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 10-31-2009, 03:20 PM   #75 (permalink)
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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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