First Computer You've Owned?

[EphesiaNZ]

Haha, the ZX81 - I remember my friend having one of these. Must admit I hated that keypad but the ZX80/81/Spectrum was a low cost way to enter the cutting edge computer world back in the good old days

 

[Cute Tink]

Wow it says New Line instead of Enter or Return

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Yes, I'd prefer the key label to be more geeky - something like "\r\n"

And some people have far too much time and money as I found this modern ZX81 mod,

 

[Cute Tink]

Yes, I'd prefer the key label to be more geeky - something like "\r\n"

But then wouldn't that only be true on Windows? Or does Mac use the same?

 

[C-Man]

I was going to mod my SLT/286 laptop with a modern micro-ATX board(yes, it's THAT big), until I decided to repair it properly instead.

 

[Willtor]

But then wouldn't that only be true on Windows? Or does Mac use the same?

Mac used to use \r, thus rounding out the Unix \n and Windows \r\n. Apple was just thinking differently.

Today, Mac uses \n.

 

[Cute Tink]

I couldn't remember for sure and didn't feel like looking it up.

 

[Feroc]

My first one was an Amiga500... *sigh*... good old times...

 

[Johnwallace]

Mine was i386.

 

[Jazer]

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?

We connected to other computers though the phone lines. It was very expensive. The 64 only had 60 charactors (letters) on the screen at one time. There were 80 on a line when you went to print out your document. We stored everything on a soft floppy disk that was not large enough. So you were always taking out one disk and putting in another one. Then one day they came out with the hard disk that seemed to hold huge amounts of data. The modem went from 300 to 1200. So you could almost talk to people live in a chat room.

 

[AMOG]

I still have my first computer. It is a TRS-80 Model I with the expantion interface, a TAPE DECK for data (with the digital mod they offered). A 1000 dollar dot matrix printer that could only do capital letters and 2 5.25 inch floppy drives that cost 599 EACH. The most expensive computer I ever owned. <grin> I also had the vox box for voice recognition and a modem so I could get to compuserve (long distance call, cost me about 30 bucks an hour (in 1980 bucks!)

 

[EphesiaNZ]

We connected to other computers though the phone lines. It was very expensive. The 64 only had 60 charactors (letters) on the screen at one time. There were 80 on a line when you went to print out your document. We stored everything on a soft floppy disk that was not large enough. So you were always taking out one disk and putting in another one. Then one day they came out with the hard disk that seemed to hold huge amounts of data. The modem went from 300 to 1200. So you could almost talk to people live in a chat room.

Oh, the good old days - I remember them well. Modem speeds were measured in Bauds back then too.

 

[xhayatox]

Wow I don't even remember lmao. Some 1998 windows computer I think.

 

[Baconwater2]

In 2001 we got a Sony Vaio. It's still running barely. Once I get the time I'm going to upgrade it and reformat

 

[RobPhillips79]

First computer I got on was my father's. Big and small floppy disks. Big CRT green monochrome monitor desktop. I played some good games on that badboy...

 

[Gnarwhal]

First computer ever: A Macintosh SE/30 in 1989.

I was about two-years-old when my dad brought it home for the summer from work, he was a principal and Apple has always had a strong relationship with educational systems.

I think the first computer we actually bought was a Macintosh Performa 6118CD in 1994 (though it'd be another 4+ years until we had dial-up internet access).

...Sometimes I miss playing "Spin Doctor Challenger" and other silly games like that.

 

[Paul.]

My first one was an Amiga500... *sigh*... good old times...

Me too, with Workbench 1.3 that provided a full GUI years before I had even heard of Windows 95.

 

[Kanadaka]

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?

We had the same as you a 386 lol thinking back I thought it was awesome not so much today.

 

[Bob Carabbio]

Timex Sinclair 1000 followed by a TI-99/4A in about '84. Then a $2200 ACER Desktop with a 8084 processor, and a 20 Meg hard drive. and a phone modem when I jumped onto the net back about '93 or so.

The earliest one I dealt with, though, was back in '63 at work where we had a Packard Bell "suitcase desktop computer" with an 8-bit circulating mercury delay line memory that would hold about 2,300 words, and an Friden Flexwriter with paper tape to communicate with it. It was used by AFCRL Cambridge research labs in conjunction with a Radar system, to search for "ionized Meteor trails".

Then in 1971, we applied a Digital Equipment Corp PDP-8, and 14 system to automate a punch press system. It used Magnetic tape (since "floppys" didn't exist yet), and had to be loaded by hand toggling in a "Rim loader", which loaded the paper tape BIN loader, that enabled the system to communicate with the ASR33 Teletype.

 

[Cute Tink]

First computer I got on was my father's. Big and small floppy disks. Big CRT green monochrome monitor desktop. I played some good games on that badboy...

You ever play any of those games on a newer computer? I played Starflight on a Windows 98 machine and I could fly so fast across the universe that I could run out of fuel in about 10 seconds. Oops.