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Title: What was the first computer you used? Post by: 10EC on October 21, 2011, 04:00:00 EDT Mine was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A
Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: PirateVOL on October 21, 2011, 04:03:03 EDT Mine was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A That was my 2ndTimex/Sinclair, with the 2K memory expansion to 4K was my first Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: Volznut on October 21, 2011, 04:13:57 EDT Apple 2E
Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: Stogie Vol on October 21, 2011, 04:14:19 EDT Radio Shack TRS80....then I moved up to the big time with the Apple IIc.
Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: ReVOLver 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. Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: PirateVOL 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! :old:Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: Clockwork Orange 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. Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: Black Diamond Vol 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.
Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: ReVOLver 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. Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: PirateVOL on October 21, 2011, 04:39:18 EDT That was my 2nd Those were the first I owned.Timex/Sinclair, with the 2K memory expansion to 4K was my first 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. Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: TheRealOrange on October 21, 2011, 04:42:09 EDT Used or owned? Either way, I don't remember. :wink: Something in the late 80s for used, and early 90s for owned (Compaq, I think). Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: Quasi EVol on October 21, 2011, 05:27:53 EDT Mine was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A DEC Rainbow 100 (pic below): (http://sourcemaking.com/files/sm/images/anchor.jpg) Title: Re: What was the first computer you used? Post by: volmeister 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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