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

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WeeHector

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papafrankm said:
Sinclair zx80 I think, cassette great flight simulator and spreadsheat.
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There was also a text-based adventure game which was called something like "Mystery Island". It started with you on a plane which was on fire and you had to jump out. You had to find the exact phrase to get onto the next stage. I got to the bit about meeting a native woman but could get no further. Couldn't speak to her, make signs to her - nothing worked. Eventually, I typed in "F*ck woman" and the reply came back "Her husband has jumped out from behind a tree and stuck an axe in your head. You are dead." ;)
 
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weebee

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Tandy TRS80. Took three hours of programming to make a stick man walk ten paces.

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Fortkentdad

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Me too. ... another old CoCo owner.

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Radio Shack TRS-80 It was a colour computer - "chicklet" keyboard - plugged into your TV for display and storage was done on an ordinary cassette tape. Oh the memories. took me a while to learn how to program a "wink" .

Now - well I'm running three monitors on a A10 diy rig with 64gb RAM (yes overkill) and 2 SSD's 2 HD, total storage over 6 TB, inside, more than 5T in external drives - and that is my main PC, there are several others in the house, laptop, desktop, tablets (3) and my phone is far more powerful than my first computer.

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papafrankm

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I took Fortran at northeastern with punchcards. I remeber you had to code 100 cards to hopefuly print a christmas tree. Hackers bach in 1969 would run the program to compute pi and that would tie up the machine for an hour.
 
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Rock Daddeo

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Apple IIc at work in the late 80s. Had a Commodore 64 at home for a short while.
Now use a 22-inch iMac (late 2009).
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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I almost bought an Apple II C. I decided to get the Windows Packard Bell and I was on my way to hell. Been using Windows ever since. WIndows 8 now with an i7, an Nvidia Graphics Card, and 8 mb of Ram, with 1 TB of HD space. Asus makes damn good Windows computers.
 
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Steve Bell

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When home computers started appearing I held out for a while until a floppy disk based model appeared that would undertake word processing, database and basic graphics and bought the Amstrad CPC 128. I wasn't interested in programming, games or taped based systems.

Now using a 15" Apple MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz (Mid 2009), upgraded to 8GB, 512 GB SSD and 1TB 7200 rpm data storage drive and running Yosemite. Still running very well for its age.
 
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