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« on: October 21, 2011, 04:00:00 EDT »

Mine was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A
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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2011, 04:03:03 EDT »

Mine was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A
That was my 2nd
Timex/Sinclair, with the 2K memory expansion to 4K was my first
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2011, 04:13:57 EDT »

Apple 2E

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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 04:14:19 EDT »

Radio Shack TRS80....then I moved up to the big time with the Apple IIc.
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 04:16:14 EDT »

Apple 2E



Same... basically a TV wired into a CPU / GPU with an external 5.25 floppy drive.
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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2011, 04:20:05 EDT »

Radio Shack TRS80....then I moved up to the big time with the Apple IIc.
Ahhh, Trash80!
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2011, 04:20:26 EDT »

Mine was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A

I know we had an Atari . . . I believe the 800XL. I remember playing around on that when I was 7 or 8. When I was 10 or 11 I seem to recall we had a 286 PC with MS-DOS, which may have been the first one we had that wasn't used primarily as a gaming device. After that we had at least one other DOS system, maybe 2, before we had a system with Windows 3.1 and MS Bob (anybody else remember that product?).

The first computer I bought for myself would have been a Pentium 4, built by Computers, Etc. in 2001. I believe it ran Windows ME.
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2011, 04:24:00 EDT »

The first I USED was an Apple II, because we had them at school.  The first we ever OWNED was an Atari 800XL. 
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2011, 04:32:55 EDT »

The first computer I ever owned was a Pentium II 200 with MMX and 32 MB of EDO RAM... built by Royal PC and it ran Windows 95. I remember thinking that it SCREAMED.

When my wife and I were dating she had a Packard Bell all in one that was a 486 with a 13" monitor.
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2011, 04:39:18 EDT »

That was my 2nd
Timex/Sinclair, with the 2K memory expansion to 4K was my first
Those were the first I owned.

The first computers I used were a DEC 11/15 and a UNIVAC 1110.  In the same time period I also operated DEC 11/T45, DEC 11/55 and a DEC 11/70 (spent a lot of time PEEKing and POKEing the DECs and using FORTRAN 4 to run programs on the UNIVAC (via punch cards)).  Also, we had an entire single bay chassis from Control Data that just did Fast Fourier Transforms, something today is on a single chip and much, much faster.
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2011, 04:42:09 EDT »



Used or owned?  Either way, I don't remember.    Something in the late 80s for used, and early 90s for owned (Compaq, I think).
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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2011, 05:27:53 EDT »

Mine was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A

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« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2011, 05:50:42 EDT »

My first was a Timex-Sinclair(wonder if they are worth anything now).  The first one that was worth using was a Commodore 64.
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