What Was Your First Computer? What Do You Use Now?

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Bill16

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Trs 80, comadore 64, Texas instruments 99 are the computers I had! Then nothing until the laptop that was given to me recently, other than one tablet and several smart phones starting with blackberry curve. Lol :)
My smart phones all had more memory than these computers I had back then! Lol :D
 
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J-see

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Vincent said:
I thought you were younger then that.
For me Commodore 64, Amiga before ending up on PC a 286 I believe.
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I'm still as pretty as a youngster but decomposing regardless. ;)

I'm from 66, most of my youth here I spend outside oblivious there was even such a thing as computers.
 
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aroy

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I started on Mainframes, and for quite some time that was all I could use.

My first personal computer was a PC clone - 8086, 640kb RAM, 20MB HDD, 1x51/4" floppy.

Now I have a Dual Xeon - 8 cores total, 8GB ECC RAM, 2 x 1GB Radeon video cards, 6 x HDD (1-2 TB) in the cabinet and another 6 older ones outside, 2x24" 1200x1920 and 1 x 19" 1024x1280 monitors, DVD writer and a host of external USB disks.

My sons have 3 Apples between the two of them.
 
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Woodyg3

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I remember when color monitors came out, and I thought it was silly. I mean, why would anyone need a color monitor? The thought never occurred to me that color monitors would replace my darkroom. :)
 
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Sandpatch

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Don Kuykendall said:
The TI-99/4 series holds the distinction of being the first 16-bit personal computer.[2] The TI-99/4A had a 16-bit TMS9900 CPU running at 3.0 MHz. No storage until they cMe out with a floppy drive you could add on to it. This was about 1980 or so. ...
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The TI-99/4 was my first computer too. Cost about $700 as I recall and worth every dollar. I had a fine time writing programs, playing games and even wrote code to use my cassette recorder as a serial-read database for work for my employer. Remember the magazines that had hundreds of lines of code that readers could manually type in to their machines to program them? It was a rather neat era; that home brew pioneer spirit has long since died.
 
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Sandpatch

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Horoscope Fish said:
I remember going to Data Processing A-School back in my Navy days (back when "computing" was called data processing) and learning how to use 80-column punch cards and Hollerith code. ...
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In my first computer class we too used Hollerith cards. We learned how to manually read them and the teacher had a final exam question which answered a riddle reading "What did one Hollerith Card say to the other?" If you had studied and were able to decipher the cards, the answer was there -- "I'm tired of your holier than thou attitude". :D
 
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WeeHector

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The ZX81 was also my first computer. 1k memory which I upgraded with the 16k module and a fantastic 64x40 screen resolution. There was even a flight simulator which worked on it. Games were on tape and used to take about 7 minutes to load, if all went well. The Civil Service in Britain supplied it to many workers as it could do some calculation faster than more sophisticated models.
 
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davebike

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Started with a PC clone 8086 128k I upped it to 256K on and twin 51/2@ floppy Drives
running DOS 3

Current is a home built not that hot 3gHz 8gb on Win 7 I guess it will get up dated next year ?
 
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SteveL54

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TRS 80 about 1980 - 1981, and a lot in between, Commadores, Texas instruments, etc...

First "real" pc was 386 DX40 with 4 meg ran and a 170 meg HD and a 1200 modem. It was smokin' fast at the time. Cost just over $2000.


Went into the business building custom systems on a small scale, until suppliers like Dell and HP squashed us little guys.
I still have my installer copies of MS-DOS 5.0 amd Windows 3.0
 
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cbay

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Trs 80 when i was a kid. Made it through college with little requirement except some wp, lotus, etc. Had a P3 866ghz right before i sold my business for a very short time (2002), and then nothing until a few years ago.
Now a lenovo g580, 3rd gen. I5, 8g ram, 1TB hdd.
 
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fotojack

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My first PC was a 386 DX40 with 4 megs of RAM, 200 meg HD, 1200 modem DOS 5, then Windows 3.0. Cost me almost $4,000 at the time! But I learned a lot since then. Been building my own ever since. Now run Windows 7 Pro on an I5 machine with 8 gigs of RAM and 1 TB HD.
 
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YOT

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I started with an IBM Aptiva running Windows 95. WebTV before that.

Now this is it. I talk to my wife weekly about getting a new PC. This one has it's quirks and is the oldest one in the house. Perhaps a new one will come in 2015. LOL

Time to start researching, I think.

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