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First Computer You've Owned?

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What is the first computer you've owned? Whether it was a family computer or your own, it doesn't matter so much.

My family's first computer that I remember was a 386 at a screamin' 40 mhz, We had Windows 3.1 and MS Dos.

Now before I was born my family had a Macintosh Plus. It had a Black & White screen and 1 MB of RAM.

How about you guys?
 

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We had a dumb-terminal to MIT so my dad could do some work when he needed to from home. The first real "computer" we had in the house was a Mac II. That lasted forever. My mom was upset when we got rid of it because it had all of her Tetris high scores.

My first computer was a blue-and-white G3. I bought about a month before I went to college. It had a 300 or 350 MhZ processor with 256 MB of RAM, an 18 GB SCSI HD, and a 17" monitor. Man, that monitor was heavy.
 
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I'm not _that_ old. ;)

There was no world-wide web, if that's what you mean.

My dad could dial into a remote computer and it would transmit the data to be represented on the screen back to our house. So it was like a normal unix environment except it was running on a computer that was in Cambridge (we lived in the suburbs).
 
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Commodore 64. No floppy or tape drive at first so if you programmed it you had to leave it on till you where ready to wipe it.
I had a Commodore 128 with a 5 1/4 floppy and later bought a 3.5 inch floppy for $200 and replaced the rom chips with jiffydos, and bought a snapshot cartridge.
 
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Belk; that's pretty cool. I am still looking for a C64 just to see what it was like.

Willtor, that's interesting about the terminal. Was it connected to an early form of the internet?
there are sites that have C64 emulators and roms you can download that will give you an idea what one is like without the long waits on slow floppy drives and cassette tapes.
 
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DOS-based machine with no HDD, used 5¼" and 3½" floppies - 1993 or 1994, my mom got it through a correspondence course, and we weren't allowed to use it too much.

Windows 95 NEC, Pentium 166, 16 MB RAM, CDROM - 1995 or 1996, family computer for about 5 years, moved into my room, and then into my sisters' room. Used it for word processing, games (including Sonic CD and Starcraft), educational type stuff, etc. We still have it, although it's blocked by a bunch of junk.

Windows 98 Compaq, no clue about specs - 2000, family computer for about 3 years. Piece of crap. Would take half an hour just to boot up (even that Win95 we had took just 5-10 minutes). I took the DVD-ROM drive out of it just before they junked it and popped it into my computer.

eMachines T1110 - 2003, hand me down from my grandfather. First computer I myself have owned. Posting from it right now, actually. I listed out everything I've done to it over the years in a post a day or two ago. You can see the list here:
http://www.christianforums.com/t7483913/#post55266785

They've gotten more computers over the years, though - an eMachines in 2003 (which they still have in the living room) to replace the Compaq, an Intel iMac running Tiger (now Snow Leopard), and my mom got an iBook in 2002 and an HP laptop that runs Vista in 2007 or 2008. I'll likely be building my next computer.



This is of course discounting the fact that my school had a bunch of Apple II's (pretty much only good for playing Concentration and Oregon Trail) and early 90s Macintoshes for the students to use when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. There was also a take-home program that I remember we were part of, and got to use some type of early Mac...couldn't tell you what one, though. But it had screen reading stuff on it (could not pronounce Connecticut unless you spelled it phonetically, and even then it still sounded weird). The screen on it was probably about the size of netbook screens now, but of course a lot clunkier.
 
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What is the first computer you've owned? Whether it was a family computer or your own, it doesn't matter so much.

My family's first computer that I remember was a 386 at a screamin' 40 mhz, We had Windows 3.1 and MS Dos.

Now before I was born my family had a Macintosh Plus. It had a Black & White screen and 1 MB of RAM.

How about you guys?

I remember having an Apple II back in about 1980, with a black and white screen and a single floppy drive.

But then I also remember thinking the Atari 2600 games console was the best thing ever. At the time it probably was...

Many memories of doing battle with text-based bulletin board services. At the time the standard modem was either 300/300 or 1200/75. I had access to the top-end gear, a 1200/1200 modem. For younger readers used to broadband measured in megabits, that was 1200 baud.
 
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Started with the Atari 2600 Basic Programming Cartridge :) (Don't know if you'd call that a computer)

After that a Commodore Vic 20 (Though I did get the Tape Drive for it)
Then a C64 -> IBM PC jr -> Amiga 500 -> Amiga 4000 -> Wintell systmes from their.
 
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We got a 286-AT PC with DOS and an amber monitor.

I wanted a Mac for it's graphics, but my husband wanted to learn Lotus 123 because he was looking for work as an accountant. It also had WordPerfect installed which was wonderful for me as I was the one who typed the resumes and I barely knew how to type back then.

I remember when we upgraded from a 20M to a 40M hard drive - that was so much space! I tried one of the early versions of Windows, but it was very crashy and took up too much space on the hard drive.
 
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Ours was a TRS-80 color computer, purchased in 1980. It was the "expanded" version with a full 16K of RAM (the base model had 4K) and came with built-in BASIC from an unknown company called.... Microsoft.
 
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First was a ti-99. it was my Dads
Texas Instruments TI-99/4 computer

our school had a bunch of Comodore PET's
Commodore PET 2001 computer
I learned Basic on these.

Dad bought us a Commodore 64 in '83
Commodore 64 computer

but the first computer I ever bought for myself was a Pentium 75 in 1995 with a screaming 8 megs of ram and an 850 meg HD with a doubler to make it 1.6 gig (well 1.2 gig)


Forgot the obligatory Atari 2600 in 1979. Man I moved a lot of lawns that summer to buy it.
 
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The first computer I ever, EVER owned was a Commodore 64c that I got with my husband.

c64-1.jpg
 
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