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


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http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5155.html

 

 
 


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perfect for programming with macroassembler
 


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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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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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Originally posted by Atomic_Rooster Atomic_Rooster wrote:

I had the amazing Etch'n'sketch Deluxe.

and I'm using it right now!
There's an old joke:
Q: How does an accountant clear the screen on his laptop?
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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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 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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That Mac looks awesome!!!

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Points: 1009 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 25 2007 at 15:37
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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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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Ah - memories

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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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commodore 128... too old... and I was too young... only 4 years old
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Amstrad PCW with 256 Kb RAM. Around 1987. With green phosphor screen and matrix printer. It worked rather good as a word processor.

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Atari XE System
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2007 at 09:57
an Apple ][. Oh how I miss those days...
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Points: 1497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2007 at 12:06
48K ZX Spectrum for me, although I got to play with a Honeywell Bull mainframe running Basic and also a large IBM Prime using PASCAL.
 
Clive Sinclair did a great service to the computer industry with the ZX range and got an awful lot of people started on the IT route,  It's a sad comment on we British and our media that he'll always be remembered for the C5 instead.Disapprove
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