What was your first Computer ? any Pics ?

[cygnusx1]

I have still got my first computer , can't throw this away

what computer did you first use or own ? any Pictures is a bonus ....


Here's my first Computer :

Amstrad PCW9512

 

[gord44]

no pics but my first computer was a 486 66mhz with 4 megs of ram and a 150mb HD. lol. oh how things have changed.

 

[file13]

My first home CPU was a Tandy 1000 EX:

(not a personal pic, but that's what it looked like). It had awesome GWBASIC and you could get a decent assembler from shareware.

Sadly, my mother threw it out once upon a time without asking. Otherwise I'd probably still keep it.

 

[cygnusx1]

no pics but my first computer was a 486 66mhz with 4 megs of ram and a 150mb HD. lol. oh how things have changed.

cool , did it look like this ?

.....

 

[cygnusx1]

My first home CPU was a Tandy 1000 EX:

(not a personal pic, but that's what it looked like). It had awesome GWBASIC and you could get a decent assembler from shareware.

Sadly, my mother threw it out once upon a time without asking. Otherwise I'd probably still keep it.

cool ! where's the cdrom slot ? mine didn't have one but it did have one or two games

 

[gord44]

cool , did it look like this ?

.....

very similar, but it was a tower.

is that Wing Commander? oh man does that bring back memories.

 

[file13]

cool ! where's the cdrom slot ? mine didn't have one but it did have one or two games

WHAT IS CD-ROM!?

It was the first home PC to have a 3.5 floppy disk as I recall. No hard drive, no mouse (they had them, but this is before they were common)! MS-DOS and if you wanted to pay for it, you could get a dial-up modem to get on Prodigy.

It did have all the awesome Sierra games of the time though and had a 16 color (EGA?) monitor and even a three voice built in "sound card."

 

[JustAsIam77]

Radio Shack all the way!

I used this for a business I was in at the time, it operated in MS-DOS but I had a friend who wrote custom windows programs before windows was cool, loaded by floppy disc of course..

 

[nobdysfool]

I still have my old Commodore 64....don't have any pics, though. Next was an old whitebox 286, 1 MB RAM, with MSDOS 5.0. I added a mouse just to do it. It had a 20MB hard drive with a MFM interface. I upgraded to MSDOS 6.0, and did some early college papers on it in the PFSWrite software I got with it.

I also made a newsletter for the band I was in at the time. I still have some copies of those newletters. Hard to believe I did it on a 286!

My first Windows computer was a P66 with 8 MB RAM, and Windows 95.

 

[cygnusx1]

I still have my old Commodore 64....don't have any pics, though. Next was an old whitebox 286, 1 MB RAM, with MSDOS 5.0. I added a mouse just to do it. It had a 20MB hard drive with a MFM interface. I upgraded to MSDOS 6.0, and did some early college papers on it in the PFSWrite software I got with it.

I also made a newsletter for the band I was in at the time. I still have some copies of those newletters. Hard to believe I did it on a 286!

My first Windows computer was a P66 with 8 MB RAM, and Windows 95.

thanks Jim !

something like this ?

I think I started with windows 98 . still got the disk

 

[freezerman2000]

No pics, but mine was an ADAM...tape storage, printer was impact wheel, and you could either use a 9 inch monitor (included) or any TV....no internet.(on an edit, I managed to find a pic)
http://oldcomputers.net/pics/adam.jpg

My first internet enabled machine was an IBM E-16. 1.7 gig HD and 16 megs of RAM...when new, it was state of the art!

 

[file13]

No pics, but mine was an ADAM...tape storage, printer was impact wheel, and you could either use a 9 inch monitor (included) or any TV....no internet.
http://oldcomputers.net/pics/adam.jpg

My first internet enabled machine was an IBM E-16. 1.7 gig HD and 16 megs of RAM...when new, it was state of the art!

Oh man, I remember tape drives!

 

[freezerman2000]

Oh man, I remember tape drives!

They were almost as clunky as 5.5 inch floppys!

 

[drstevej]

My first computer

Serial number was 1600 or so.

I made my own non-glare screen and sold enough to pay for my computer.

 

[nobdysfool]

thanks Jim !

something like this ?

I think I started with windows 98 . still got the disk

Pretty close! LOL!

I learned Windows 95 by breaking it so many times and having to reload it, that I started digging into it and figuring out what made it tick. I had already learned a lot about DOS, so I had a starting point, as Win95 was built on DOS 6.22. I got a copy of Win98 Beta 3 when it became available, and started to really learn how it worked. I learned to customize the OS, tweak it for better performance, etc. When Win 98 SR2 came out, it had a memory leak that caused it to lock up if you let it run for a few days. I figured out how to fix it, and asked a tech at Microsoft if they had figured out how to fix the leak, He said they hadn't come up with a solution, so I told him what I had done. A month later, when the company I was working for got a new shipment of SR2 CDs from Microsoft, my fix was already incorporated. I didn't get any official credit for it, but I'm the guy who fixed the memory leak in Win 98 SR2.

I haven't had the time to dig into XP, Vista (yuck!), or Win 7 as much as I did Win98. Since they're built on NT, the underlying architecture is completely different. My work now doesn't have me fiddling with things too much, just imaging systems, and configuring them for the closed network they attach to. The retail software interface is already installed on the image, which runs on top of Win XP SP 2.

My next endeavor is to get the new tablet I just got set up and start playing with it. It's an HP Touchpad (got it really cheap) running WebOS. Supposedly there will be an Android version worked up for the Touchpad sometime, at which point I will probably switch to that, since I have an Android phone.

I still think back with great memories of the 4 years I worked at Skyline Microsystems....that's where I got 99% of the knowledge I use now in my work.

 

[cygnusx1]

Just watching Dallas (season 9) and ;

"Do you know anything about computers Mr Ewing"

"we have one at the office but nothing as fancy as this" replies JR

"ar a beauty the Apex 2000 stores up to 5000 billion bites of information with a random access of 20 mb " replies the computer OP

I nearly spat my tea out !!!

 

[Faith.Man]

My first computer was an IBM PC with an 8088 processor and a 8087 coprocessor, dual 5-1/4" disk drives and 640 K of memory. I had a Hercules monochrome graphics card and an IBM monochrome monitor. For printing, I had an Okidata Microline 92 printer. I still have it, just can't stand to part with it even though I haven't used it in many, many years.

That was my first computer. Since then, I've mostly built my own except for my Fujitsu laptop and my wife's HP. It's one of my many hobbies.

 

[drstevej]

My first computer was the KayProII (ABOVE). But prior to that a friend let me use his Commodore Pet,

This rascal had a 40 character line, a cassette tape for storage, a whopping 4k of RAM and a word processor chip soldered on the mother board.

 

[heymikey80]

Well, if you don't include my brain ...

TRS-80 Model 1, cassette drive.

4KB RAM!

 

[oworm]

Commodore VIC 20