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your first computer ......
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BOJAX said:
The Toshiba T3100 'Laptop'
complete with orange screen
That's pretty funny. Wow, that thing is pretty heavy looking.
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xMinionX said:
not only was it unbelievably heavy, it also was HOT. You run that thing for an hour with it sitting on your lap and it will burn you.
it was a cool comp though. I spent all day with it.
Had two fonts which were changed by a little DIP switch at the back.
took low density 3" floppy disk. Used DOS 3.11.
The only programs I had were Wordperfect 5.11, Lotus 123 spreadsheet and my favourite game Stellar 7!!!!!
at the same time my brother ran one of these (IBM PS/1)...
the matching printer he had was EXTREMELY LOUD!
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BOJAX said:
They probably still had the power supply built into the chassis. Modern laptops build the PSU into the charger cord. Reduces weight and heat.
Let me guess: Dot matrix printer, right?
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xMinionX said:
i guess so. The power supply on that thing must have been the size of desktop power supplie's today
as for the printer, yep it was a dot matrix.
but it was WAY louder than your usual dot matrix
p.s. I just downloaded stellar 7 and played it and WOW i never played it THAT fast before. It uses the system speaker for sounds!
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We had a TRS-80 from Radioshack. It used a TV screen and a tape deck. Man, that thing was old! Probably slower than a calculator also.
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The first machine I cut my teeth on was a PDP10, a 36 bit machine running DECSYSTEM20. It was not mine, I just had a timeshare account on it.
Then I played with an Apple IIplus, then an Atari 400. Even built a cable modem back in 1981 that allowed us to transfer files across the cable tv network.
The first machined I owned was a Atari 1200XL. I still remember paying $389 for a 140K floppy drive for it. That really hurt!
The coolest one though was a Tektronix 4052
Then I played with an Apple IIplus, then an Atari 400. Even built a cable modem back in 1981 that allowed us to transfer files across the cable tv network.
The first machined I owned was a Atari 1200XL. I still remember paying $389 for a 140K floppy drive for it. That really hurt!
The coolest one though was a Tektronix 4052
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I waited for it to come on the market, resisted the Commodore 64. I did not use it to go online... wasn't much on line in 1985-88.
It had a 5.25 floppy disk, an rbg monitor, and I was envied by my friends. It cost so much money and only lasted three years. Oh... it did NOT have mouse.
It had a 5.25 floppy disk, an rbg monitor, and I was envied by my friends. It cost so much money and only lasted three years. Oh... it did NOT have mouse.
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