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Points: 401 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2007 at 18:49
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:




You also ot a nice colour show whilst each program loaded (or was it a brian washer ?). - "listen to me"

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Originally posted by Trademark Trademark wrote:

Pretty bloody pricey too,
Oh you mean Apple Lisa, at $10,000 in 1983 it was too rich for my blood.
 
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Pretty bloody pricey too, but yeah it's great! It's so fast it does things before I think of telling it to do them. I do a fair amount of video work and the extra horse power is really great.
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Points: 3118 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2007 at 20:56
Originally posted by Trademark Trademark wrote:

Apple IIc. Then a Mac in '85 and nothing but Macs ever since. On a MacPro 8 core Xenon now.





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Apple IIc. Then a Mac in '85 and nothing but Macs ever since. On a MacPro 8 core Xenon now.

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Originally posted by Atomic_Rooster Atomic_Rooster wrote:

I had the amazing Etch'n'sketch Deluxe.

and I'm using it right now!
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A: He turns it upside down and shakes it.
Now you can get a 3-axis USB accelerometer for your laptop and do exactly that LOL
 
My first home computer was a Nascom-1 - I've still got it Geek
 
1st one I touched in a work environment was a Xerox Sigma 8 with an Analogue Computer bolted on the side.
 
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Originally posted by NutterAlert NutterAlert wrote:

At the time my day job was writing real time code in Coral-66 on DEC PDP 11 systems.
Now that was a real computer
I learnt Coral on a VAX-11/780 - the PDP-11 was a bit long in the tooth in '83


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I dont remember much about the first I had, only that the monitor was in black and yellow and it has Windows 3.1.

The second one was a:

Pentium MMX with 166 Mhz
16MB RAM (upgraded to 64)
Windows 95 (upgraded to Win 98 SE)
Hard disk with 1.5 GB (upgraded to 3.2)
Floppy drive
24X CD drive
15" CRT Monitor

And used only for video games Big%20smile


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Although the Timex-Sinclair was my first computer, my first legit IBM compatible was the Columbia Data Products MPC (circa 1984).  At the time it was touted as the most "IBM compatible".  Being a clone made it a little cheaper than the IBM and it ran anything and everything.  Compatibility was a big thing back then.
 
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perfect for programming with macroassembler
 


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http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5155.html

 

 
 


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Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k - less memory than a floppy disc!!  made in 1986, you connected it to the TV.
 
 
 


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in '83 I bought an Oiric-1, bit crappy really..
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At the time my day job was writing real time code in Coral-66 on DEC PDP 11 systems.
Now that was a real computer
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A%20Apple%20IIc
 
An Apple IIc. The golden days of Applesoft Basic, Logo (with Leo Logolover: "Logo! Logo! Logo!" LOL ), Space Quarks etc.
 
After that an Apple Mac, but I went for an IBM compatible after that, because I did a lot of editorial work and in those days (early nineties) it cost me too much time to get everything from Apple to Word format. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem anymore today.
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My very first computer was a Spectravideo, but I can't remember which one. This looks familiar though:
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My Mother had a Kaypro that I used a bit. I also used one of the original Apples in High School.
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Apex Epson XT without hard disk, only floppy disk with a rebootable one, basic language, no Windows of course..
 
I wrote all my thesis in Wordstar, you had to memorize almost 50 commands. LOL
 
BTW: No mouse.
 
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Timex-1000, I still have it and it still works.  Taught myself Basic on it.
 
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The badass  commadore 64 for me also. It came with three voices! It could actually play chords while  your pc and its clones languished in the  world of monophonic despair.

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I have a computer graveyard also. My first pc clone was also a packard bell 486 btw. Everytime id upgrade the motherboard or cpu there'd be the old one lying there. couldn't let it go to waste so Id buy a new case , grpahics card, mem to go with it and have another computer.  New monitor made me happy but then there was the old one laying there... better throw together the cheapest computer I can so that monitor wont be wasted... In the hieght of my computer geekdom I had 5 running and several in disrepair. Right now just my main, a laptop, and my wifes 'websurfer' computer.  havent upgraded in a few years cept for last year when my Motherboard fried.



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My first computer was an Apple III word processor I got when the company I was at upgraded the front office to PCs.  I still have it gathering dust in my music room in the futile hope that it may be worth something someday as a museum piece.

My first home PC was a Packard Bell 486.  I'm starting to get a computer graveyard in my music room though.  Just b
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