What was your first computer?

[raildogg]

my first was a compaq with a gigantic 6gb hard drive

 

[bobsmith1492]

mmm... the first was a top-o'-the-line Tandy from Radio Shack for some $2500.... 486sx 33MHz, 4Mb ram, 212Mb hdd, integrated video and audio, and a COLOR dot matrix printer! That thing was da bomb man... keen 1 and 4 and Castles 2. Why don't cool old games run on new computers....

Anyway, my favorite computer though was some tandy or something all-in-one; it had like a 4.something MHz processor, 64Kb of ram (yes, 64 kilobytes), no hard drive, and two 5 1/2 inch floppies. Since it didn't have a hard drive, it didn't boot up and i didn't have a dos disk, so you had to do everything in Basic. It also had a printer that moved a pen back and forth and rolled the paper up and down to make images.

 

[AngleDust]

pentium 100
16 meg ram
2 gb hard drive

paid about 2 grand for it.

 

[WebDude]

Huh. Nobody's mentioned Kaypro. Real state of the art. No hard drive. Just 2 5.25" floppy drives, one for the OS and apps (word processing), another one to save your documents on.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

IBM PC XT 8MHz.
CGA monitor.
Dual 5.25" floppy drives.

I tried recalling what was the hard drive, then I realised there was none.

 

[Metron]

Let's see....

First computer I used was a Molecular, which ran CP/M (the dominant O/S before DOS).

Specs:
Z-80 processor at 2.5 Mhz
64k of RAM
Dual 8 inch floppies (WOOT!)
150 bps Modem

It had Wordstar, dBase II, and SuperCalc.

 

[Macro2]

The one with the moth.

 

[Don66]

Amiga 2000:music:
Awsome computing back in the day!

 

[Metron]

Originally posted by: Macro2
The one with the moth.

So we should start calling you Grace Hopper?

 

[Macro2]

Grace died in 1992.



Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator

 

[zodder]

Mine was a brand new Tandy XT. 8086 processor, 10MB hhd, 4 MB ram. It ended up being the most expensive one I've ever bought, too.

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: zodder
Mine was a brand new Tandy XT. 8086 processor, 10MB hhd, 4 MB ram. It ended up being the most expensive one I've ever bought, too.

Was that the Tandy 1000SL/2? Or something from the professional lineup? I don't remember the 1000's going up to 4MB - unless you got it on a special card.

Anyone reember Hard Cards? Hard drive AND drive controller combined on one VERY LARGE internal card.

 

[Shagga]

TRS80. Think I got that right it was a long time ago...

 

[overclock]

Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
TRS-80 Color Computer with 4k of ram and a cassette tape drive.

Mine had 64k and the upgraded chip. It was awesome!
Did you ever listen to the programs stored on the tape? They sounded funny.
Back in 1983 when I was in 4th grade.

 

[zodder]

I just took a guess on the memory size, but it wasn't much.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: bluemax

Originally posted by: zodder
Mine was a brand new Tandy XT. 8086 processor, 10MB hhd, 4 MB ram. It ended up being the most expensive one I've ever bought, too.

Was that the Tandy 1000SL/2? Or something from the professional lineup? I don't remember the 1000's going up to 4MB - unless you got it on a special card.

Anyone reember Hard Cards? Hard drive AND drive controller combined on one VERY LARGE internal card.

I remember them, but never had one. It was a good idea, I wonder though how reliable they were.

 

[D1gger]

1983 IBM PC 8088 2 x 180 kb floppy Drives 4.77 mHz

1986 IBM PC-XT 286 12 mHz

1991 IBM 486-33 33 mHz

1995 IBM Aptiva P1-200 200 mHz

2000 Micron PIII 733 mHz

2002 Alienware PIV 2.2 GHz

2004 DIY AMD64 FX-53 2.4 GHz

 

[Arcanedeath]

I think my first computer was an Atari 800 dual 5 1/4" floppies lol plus it played games via cartridges that did not even store as much as the floppies.

My first actual PC that I owned was a 486SX25 w/ 8meg of ram

 

[Brutuscan]

Going all the way back .... have to include my trusty slide rule

1974 - Slide Rule, then a Lloyd's calculator without scientific notation...

1975 - Texas Instruments SR71A, slightly programmable

1987 - IBM XT Clone, 8 Mhz, 640 k ram, 20 meg HD, 13" mono monitor

1994 - Compaq 486, 4meg ram, 210 meg hd

1996 - NEC Laptop, Pentium 133, 2gig hd, 32 meg ram.

1998 - P2 350, 64 meg ram, 8 gig HD

2004 - P4 3.0E, 512 meg ram, 80 & 160 gig HDs, LCD Monitor

 

[azilaga]

386-33 DX, 640 KB RAM, and a 40 MB hard drive that ran Desqview! Wow, that was a while ago

 

[imported_Bunter]

Some other blasts from the past, computers or peripherals:

SuperBrain (Don't remember the manufacturer)
Commodore PET and SuperPET
Apple Lisa
NorthStar computers
NEC Spinwriters
Diablo 630s
Epson MX-80s and 100s
TecMar (Makers of external hard drive units and 8" floppies for IBM PCs)
Tallgrass Technologies (External hard drives for PCs)
Osborne Portable Computers
The Z80 processor

Sadly, I'm old enough to have seen, sold or serviced any of these. Ouch.

 

[boomerang]

Another Commodore VIC-20. I splurged and bought a FLOPPY DRIVE for it! That thing was about half the size of a toaster. I got frustrated trying to do anything in Basic. Hooked it up to an old TV I had.

I think the 64 came out shortly after I purchased the 20.

Oooo, I just remembered I had the Cassette Deck too.

 

[ScottMac]

First purchased?

Apple II (added a MS Z80 card with CPM to make it better later)
IMSAI 8080 (now in the Boston Computer Museum)
IBM XT
IBM AT
(there was an Apple Lisa in around here somewhere)
Compaq DP286
Osborne One
PS/2 Model 80
Compaq 486/33 L (the best desktop chassis ever invented - SIX drive bays, but heavier than a dead priest)

(countless other U-Build em's since)

The first one I played on was an Intel MD8080 development system. Star Trek and the Skiiing game were facinating at the time.....

FWIW

Scott

 

[theblackbox]

my first was a timex sinclair. then i pickedup a coleco adam onclearence. then a ti 99/4a

that was a long time ago.

 

[KeithP]

Haven't seen one in the post yet, a TI99-4A with cassette drive

That was my first computer as well.

-Keith