| Choose Your Color |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Science and Tech Discuss questions of science, science and progress, that do not speak as loud as your heart. Also, tech stuff. |
| |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
10-30-2009, 12:33 PM
| #1 (permalink) |
| Emergency Mustelid     Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,073
| Your first computer My first computer. Well, not this particular one, and I never actually saw the computer itself... just the GE TermiNet 300 this end of the multiplexor.  My first personal computer.  What's yours? |
|  |
|
10-30-2009, 12:39 PM
| #2 (permalink) |
| Neko-licious™       SLU Supporter    
Um, er...what now?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 7,907
My Mood:  SL Join Date: 8/8/06 Blog Entries: 3 XBOX Leaderboard: 38th   | Vintage iMac similar to this one: 
__________________   |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 12:40 PM
| #3 (permalink) |
| Sansarya's Firebird 
Derailer
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Rosebud
Posts: 3,986
My Mood:  SL Join Date: 02-25-2005
Business: Five59 Graphic Design | IBM XT clone, 8086 cpu, 4.77 mhz (or 10 mhz in Turbo mode!), 1mb of RAM, 32MB hard drive, 5-1/4" floppy, 4 (yes, FOUR) color CGA graphics, 14" monitor. Cost me $1200. It didn't even have a modem until I took the plunge and dared to open the case and install a 2400bps myself. P2
__________________ Five59 Online Graphic Design Phoenix's Plurk | Phoenix's Flickr| Phoenix's Rarely Updated Blog |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 12:43 PM
| #4 (permalink) |
| Fortuna vitrea est 
enjoying the victor's spoils
| My Neighbour had one of these in the room above their Garage  The first one I had at home was similar to the OP one of these plugged into an acoustic coupler, talking to a Vax somewhere else 
__________________  Vanguard of the LolCatz Revolution This Post was financed by The National LolCatz Archives Clancy Sullivan :Yeah. YEAH! The sultry seamstress of mirth is definitely in charge now. Certified 7.8 on the Official Non-Arbitrary Trout Algorithmic Slut scale A public copy of my Second Life Main Grid Survey Database can be found at http://www.gridsurvey.com - Now with added Second Life Incidents !! |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 12:43 PM
| #5 (permalink) |
| Free, not cheap 
Buttercup without a witty
retort? Huh, imagine that!
| My first computer was an IBM PC-AT clone, and looked a lot like this one:  It had 13" green screen... Yum! It was a hand-me-down from my brothers. No hard drive, but two floppy drives, upgraded to 3.5". I ran that thing into the ground. |
| |
|
10-30-2009, 12:48 PM
| #6 (permalink) |
| Backroom Bureaucrat 
Is it wicked not to care?
|  I always hated the overloading of the arrow keys... two arrow keys and you had to hold shift to go in the other two directions.
__________________ - - "It is the paramount duty of governments and of politicians to secure the wellbeing of the community under the case in the present, and not to run risks overmuch for the future" - JM Keynes |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 12:51 PM
| #10 (permalink) |
| Neko-licious™ SLU Supporter
Um, er...what now?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 7,907
My Mood: SL Join Date: 8/8/06 Blog Entries: 3 XBOX Leaderboard: 38th | The Geekitude of this thread is blinding.  |
|
| |
| 3 Users Laughed: |
| 1 User Agreed: |
|
10-30-2009, 12:57 PM
| #11 (permalink) |
| BUY TREES MOAR1 
Iz a timeout
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alabama
Posts: 4,819
My Mood:  SLShopper Ads: 2 SL Join Date: November, 2003
Business: Fate Gardens Flowers and Trees | When I was in junior high, my IBM Explorer group built an IMSAI for a science display at the state fair. We had to solder the chips to the boards, until we mistakenly set a board on fire, ahem. Anyway it was programmed from tape, OS and all, to ask people a few questions and "guess" their age. It was a silly fair trick after all; great experience though.  My first seriously owned it in my room was a Commodore 64 complete with cassette tape drive and thirteen-inch colour television. There was much excitement and merry making when I upgraded a few years later to an Apple IIe with two (2!) floppy drives and a colour Imagewriter printer. Come to think, I did have one of the strip programmable TIs in the mid-seventies, don't remember the model number. I suppose that was my first, but not fully programmable, machine.
__________________ But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song. - Quenta Silmarillion Please Visit Our Gardens and Our Website |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 12:57 PM
| #12 (permalink) |
| Junior Member 
EdIt StAtUs
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: UK
Posts: 2,112
My Mood:  SL Join Date: 2nd January 08  | Acorn Electron...  I only got this as they were giving it away as a sweetner to buy a portable colour TV! I learned loads of Basic from this machine.....All forgotten now  |
|
| |
| 1 User Said Yay!: |
| 1 User Said Thanks: |
|
10-30-2009, 01:02 PM
| #13 (permalink) |
| Eclectic Randomness 
Predictable Experience
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pod Six
Posts: 1,200
My Mood:  SLShopper Ads: 5 SL Join Date: 7/13/2006
Business: Eclectic Randomness  |  Family budget.. whee! But.. they did have a convincing spokesman...  That side power port on the earlier model (top one) may be just the right size and shape for a spare power cord from your boombox or window fan... Trust me, it's REALLY not the right cord. 
__________________  Inworld Store: http://slurl.eclectic-randomness.com Website: http://www.eclectic-randomness.com Twitter: WinterVentura |
|
| |
| 1 User Agreed: |
|
10-30-2009, 01:11 PM
| #14 (permalink) | |
| Wannabe J-Rock Star 
Bass on 11!!
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: カナダバンクーバー
Posts: 4,975
My Mood:  SL Join Date: March 2008
Business: Rock'n Japan
| An old Sony Vavio that was so old it didnt have a DVD player! would just play CD's! and the monitor was really thick like an old TV!  err.... I'm not doing this right am i?
__________________  Quote:
| |
|
| |
| 3 Users Laughed: |
|
10-30-2009, 01:17 PM
| #15 (permalink) | |
| Eclectic Randomness
Predictable Experience
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pod Six
Posts: 1,200
My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 5 SL Join Date: 7/13/2006
Business: Eclectic Randomness | Quote:
 | |
|
| |
| 3 Users Laughed: |
| 1 User Agreed: |
|
10-30-2009, 01:19 PM
| #16 (permalink) |
| Lurker Extraordinaire 
Fringe Dweller
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Australia
Posts: 111
My Mood:  SLShopper Ads: 15 SL Join Date: 05/07/2005
Business: Neptune's Kiss - Jewelry & Emotions |  I'm with the Commodore crowd, although I was lucky enough to start with the 64! 
__________________ . . . . . [2:28] Nicole Linden: "Attention, people of Second Life. I regret to inform you that in order to make way for the new hyperspace express route, your region has been scheduled for demolition. Have a nice day."  |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 01:22 PM
| #17 (permalink) | |
| Sansarya's Firebird
Derailer
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Rosebud
Posts: 3,986
My Mood: SL Join Date: 02-25-2005
Business: Five59 Graphic Design | Quote:
P2 | |
|
| |
| 7 Users Laughed: |
| 1 User Agreed: |
|
10-30-2009, 01:27 PM
| #18 (permalink) |
| Sansarya's Firebird
Derailer
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Rosebud
Posts: 3,986
My Mood: SL Join Date: 02-25-2005
Business: Five59 Graphic Design | OK, to add to the "OMG I'm so old" theme of my previous post: - I added a 720k 3.5" diskette drive to that machine.  - I bought a kit to tun it into a "Multimedia PC" (sound card and CD-ROM drive). I remember when CD drives had headphone jacks and play buttons on the front, and if you actually wanted to be able to listen to music CDs through your sound card and speakers there was a special ribbon cable that you had to add that went from the back of the CD drive to the sound card. Shut up, Kyllie. Respect your elders.  P2 |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 01:51 PM
| #19 (permalink) |
| Senior Member SLU Supporter 
I refuse to edit my status
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 2,353
My Mood:  SL Join Date: 19th May 2006 XBOX Leaderboard: 31st   | My first computer:  and my second:  I loved the Speccy 128k. I used to spend hour after hour playing Dungeon Master (a text based thing) and discovered that if I got killed in the dungeon then pummelling the BREAK key as if I were having a seizure would jump me back to the point directly before I was killed. I thought I was Clive Sinclair after that  |
|
| |
| 1 User Laughed: |
|
10-30-2009, 01:58 PM
| #20 (permalink) |
| aircraft manufacturer 
in the clouds
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 582
SLShopper Ads: 12 SL Join Date: September 2003
Business: Abbotts Aerodrome | The first computer I ever used was a DIGITAL PDP-11 (PDP-11 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). I was little and my dad let me play Lunar Lander and Space Wars on the university computer.  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.
__________________ . . . . . Cubey Terra Terra Aeronautics @ Abbotts Aerodrome Terra Aeronautics @ XStreetSL www.cubeyterra.com  Last edited by Cubey Terra; 10-30-2009 at 02:01 PM. Reason: fixed typo |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 02:01 PM
| #21 (permalink) | |
| Backroom Bureaucrat
Is it wicked not to care?
| Quote:
| |
|
| |
| 3 Users Laughed: |
|
10-30-2009, 02:08 PM
| #22 (permalink) | |
| Eclectic Randomness
Predictable Experience
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pod Six
Posts: 1,200
My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 5 SL Join Date: 7/13/2006
Business: Eclectic Randomness | Quote:
 We were lucky enough to buy one used, and it came with two 5.25" floppy drives. (my best friend's family had a C64, and cassette drive, luckily my spare stereo cord spared us from that indignity.) 88k of file storage.. per side!   Last edited by Winter Ventura; 10-30-2009 at 02:14 PM. | |
|
| |
|
10-30-2009, 02:21 PM
| #23 (permalink) |
| Senior Member 
I am THAT crazy
| The first computer that I actually owned was an eMachine desktop that I bought in 2000. I was housebound for a spell and a friend made me buy it to keep from going crazy. Up until then I never really cared about them. I used them when necessary for work needs, mainly to look something up or as a word processor, that was it, I didn't even have email. It had a Pentium II I think, 566Mhz, 8MB of RAM,an 8GB HD I think, WindowsMe and a 15 inch monitor. I think I paid $300 for it at Circuit City. I did the free AOL thing and pretty much said OK, what next? It was around the time of the World Series between the Yankees and Mets, so I found a lot of places to go to in that regard and stumbled upon online shopping in the process. I kept that machine for about 4years, I added a bigger Hard Drive, and brought the RAM up to 32 and that was it. It finally stopped working one day, so I junked it, and went computerless for a couple of months before buying the Dell I use now, which will also be scarpped at the end of the year. So eseentialy I have owned 2 computers in 10 years. Some of you guys seem to go through 10 computers in 2 years.
__________________ http://brenda-connolly.blogspot.com Last edited by Brenda Connolly; 10-30-2009 at 02:34 PM. |
|
| |
| 1 User Said Thanks: |
|
10-30-2009, 02:25 PM
| #24 (permalink) | |
| Backroom Bureaucrat
Is it wicked not to care?
| Quote:
| |
|
| |
| 1 User Agreed: |
|
10-30-2009, 02:30 PM
| #25 (permalink) | |
| Senior Member
I am THAT crazy
| Quote:
Yeah....My memory is really failing. It was an ETower 566i2...CeleronII 566 Mhz, 32MB Ram, and a 7.5 GB HD. I brought the RAM up to 64 from 32 and added I think a 60GB Hard drive. I still have both HD's from that machine, removing them before junking the computer. Last edited by Brenda Connolly; 10-30-2009 at 02:42 PM. | |
|
| |
|
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
| |
Addiction Solitaire Champion!
Linear Mode
