What was your first computer?
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Topic: What was your first computer?
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Subject: What was your first computer?
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:47
Let's talk about vintage computers! What was your first computer? This was mine: The Timex Computer 2048 was a ZX Spectrum clone and featured: - Z80A CPU clocked at 3.58 MHz - 48KB of RAM - 16 KB ROM (Almost the same as the ZX Spectrum) - Edge connector compatible with the ZX Spectrum, but missing RGB signals, and the /BE signal. - RF out connector. - Ear / Mic Connectors - Kempston Joystick Connector. - Extended screen modes when compared with the ZX Spectrum; - On/Off switch.   ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:48
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I had the mighty ZX81 complete with programs loaded from tapes and a really early version of BASIC. =) peek poke goto
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:49
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I had the amazing Etch'n'sketch Deluxe. and I'm using it right now! ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:50
My first computer was a BBC B, unfortunately we've no longer got it. 
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:50
What's that?  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Atomic_Rooster wrote:Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:50
Commodore C64.
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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:51
a device utilizing knobs that are used to spell out letters on a screen - very high-tech ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:55
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I bought my first computer only in 2002. It was an Acer notebook. It had a 2-year warranty which was to expire in October 2004. In December 2004 its screen went completely out of order... ------------- 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:55
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Apple //c with 128K of RAM and a 65C02 processor (1.4 MHz). Got it for Christmas in either 84 or 85. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:57
I had one of those. It came with a massive 1K of memory, which I expanded to an enormous 16K with the expansion pack which fitted (loosely) in the back. I bought a few games on cassette but could never get them to load. And the keyboard was horrible. Still, it got me into programming and here I am many years later, still programming in (Visual) Basic.  |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 16:01
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I've got a spectrum emulator installed in my PC and I use it from time to time to play old games like Manic Miner, Nightshade or Bubble Bobble. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ - World of Spectrum ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 16:02
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I play old-school RPG's with my emulator ------------- I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers. |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 16:10
world's best game ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 16:11
        ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 18:47
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 20:23
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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 ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Flyingsod
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 22:11
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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. Load 8,* hehe. 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. _popupControl(); ------------- This space intentionally left blank |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 23:30
Timex-1000, I still have it and it still works. Taught myself Basic on it.
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: May 03 2007 at 23:52
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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.
 BTW: No mouse.
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: May 04 2007 at 00:33
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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. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 04 2007 at 04:19
My very first computer was a Spectravideo, but I can't remember which one. This looks familiar though: |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: May 04 2007 at 04:37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Apple_iicb.jpg">
An Apple IIc. The golden days of Applesoft Basic, Logo (with Leo Logolover: "Logo! Logo! Logo!"
), 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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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: May 04 2007 at 04:51
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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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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 04 2007 at 04:53
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k - less memory than a floppy disc!! made in 1986, you connected it to the TV.
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 02:51
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http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5155.html - http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5155.html
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 11 2007 at 22:26
perfect for programming with macroassembler
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 12 2007 at 08:56
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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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 04:18
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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 ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 05:03
There's an old joke:
Now you can get a http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS9481803023.html - 3-axis USB accelerometer for your laptop and do exactly that
My first home computer was a Nascom-1 - I've still got it
 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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I learnt Coral on a VAX-11/780 - the PDP-11 was a bit long in the tooth in '83 ------------- What? |
Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 15:38
| Apple IIc. Then a Mac in '85 and nothing but Macs ever since. On a MacPro 8 core Xenon now. |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 20:56
 That Mac looks awesome!!! -------------
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Posted By: Trademark
Date 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. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 25 2007 at 18:23
Oh you mean Apple Lisa, at $10,000 in 1983 it was too rich for my blood.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 04 2007 at 07:36
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Ah - memories
...or lack of... 
If all else failed, you could just leave it switched on for more than 15 minutes & use it as a room heater ------------- 
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Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: June 04 2007 at 18:49
You also ot a nice colour show whilst each program loaded (or was it a brian washer ?). - "listen to me" ------------- 
"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?" |
Posted By: Marcos
Date Posted: June 06 2007 at 18:16
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commodore 128... too old... and I was too young... only 4 years old ------------- www.postmortemweb.com.ar |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: June 06 2007 at 19:45
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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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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 09:54
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Atari XE System ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: June 22 2007 at 09:57
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an Apple ][. Oh how I miss those days...
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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 12:06
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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.  ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 12:08
| Commodore c64, I think... |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 13:36
Neither Sir Clive nor Sir Alan have done themselves any favours since the 80's really.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: June 28 2007 at 13:54
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Acorn Electron
with early BASIC, a cassette player and if I remember rightly, a plug transformer the size of half a brick it was very good for writing
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: August 25 2007 at 02:12
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An Atari 400 ... still got it ... and it still works.
I play Star Raiders every now and then ... a truly awesome game from "back in the day"!
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Posted By: MrHiccup
Date Posted: September 04 2007 at 15:17
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Back in 1992:
IBM-PC 286, 4MB of RAM, with DOS, no HD, no mouse, Hercules video card, no sound card...I used to play Space Invaders, Alley Cat, Pac-Man, Hard Hat Mack, Prince of Persia, Maniac Mansion, among others.
However, the keyboard was the best I've ever seen. It still works (with exception of the left Shift key). ------------- Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends... |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 14:45
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Wooohooo!
I can't believe I am the only one that had the first computer with a 16bit processor as their first computer.
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
With the power of 4KB of storage.....in your faces!!!!  ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: jimidom
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:16
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Acer 486 DX2 ------------- "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:20
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:21
An abacus. God I feel old.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:41
yep. but your 4K memory was only 8-bit, so in reality you only had 2K of program memory with twice the access time. - still, it was a very nice system, but frighteningly expensive once you started adding periferals.------------- What? |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:45
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We had a Commodore Vic-20, and then a Commodore 64. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:47
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I had a Vic 20 too, followed by a Commodore 64. I could program that baby to flash a dot on the screen and move the dot around in a random pattern. Needless to say, I got all the girls when I was young. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:47
Which we did not have, not even the game cartridges. So basically it got used for....
10 print "I like boobies"
20 goto 10
Shortly after I got it my neighbor got a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive and "Jumpman". I never turned the TI on again. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:51
The amount of games made for C64 is mindblowing when you think of it... We had over 600, easily. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:55
My first colour computer was the Camputers Lynx...
brought out to rival the Spectrum (but without the dead-flesh keyboard) it was similar to the Apple 2 but used a Z80 processor.
after that I bought an Amstrad CPC6128 and then finally an Amiga 1500 (which I still have somewhere in the loft). ------------- What? |