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What was your first computer?
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My first was an IBM PC in 1990 with 1 MB of Ram. We made a big upgrade after a year to 2 MB of Ram. We were rich!!!! I was lucky because my son was a genius at computers. He created a program that used keyboards to make music. If it weren’t for him, I would still be typing!
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My first computer was a PC Jr, made by IBM. It was a hand-me-down from my sister in the early 90s. my children learned about computers and the 5 1/4 floppies used to run it.
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Texas Instruments 99/4a until TI troubles
Followed by Commodore 64 until company went away
Followed by Radio Shack 4P had two 5.25 floppy drives in it
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I had a Atari 400. Games is all I remember and some programming. Moved up to Atari 800.
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First Computer; Commodore vic 20.
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Commodore Amiga 500. First bought it in 1988 great machine.
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The first computer I used for work was a compact lugable with the 9″ green CRT. It was a great computer. I ran data aquistion software, terminal emulation software, and some industrial automation programming languages. I remember how cool Xtree pro was. At about the same time I used a “Lunch Box” style computer as well. That one was a 286 and it was before mice were being used. They existed, but almost no programs supported them. I used my digitizer board as a mouse. Did you ever run a fractal video program to see how good your monitor was?
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Ah, bygone days. My cute lil Tandy 1000 (costlier than any computer one would buy now!) — with Deskmate, a color screen, a 300-baud modem (and you paid an arm and a leg to go online!)
I was not too much later a beta tester for America Online (and who here remembers a great program called GeoWorks Ensemble).
For those who I deal with in a rowdy comment section at our TV station who think everything was better 20-30 years ago, I say, ya know why? You were 20-30 years YOUNGER! Of course it was “better” in the eyes of youth.
The stuff we have now is downright amazing – but that sense of discovery I shared with my late great brother Pete… was just wonderful -
My first computer was an IBM 5110, 2 2.4 mb disk drives and 120 character printer at a cost of $20,000. Used in my CPA practice to do bookkeeping and prepare financial statements. I also thought that IBM would expand the use to home computing but they went the PC route. My next computer was a Compaq luggable at a cost of $3450.
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TI 994a 16 bit . Still have it and some of the program cards
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Mine was a Hong Kong special (I was in Japan) and I bought in 1987 a PC that everyone was buying. At work, we started off with CROMENCO and CPS Word Processors both had 8″ disks.
The CROMENCO had a 10MB hard drive, 640K RAM, the box was 3 feet by 2 feet by 18 inches tall.
Later the DoD purchased Zenith 100s, then 240Z. In 1991 while in Korea a Packard Bell for Home.
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# IBM-1130
# I didn’t own it. I couldn’t touch it. I could sort-of see it through layers of special glass at my college.
I could type out punch cards, which white jacketed (and masked?) techs collected.
My clumsy Fortran IV card deck would return to my mailbox marked “syntax error”.
The computer was a leased IBM 1130.
The punch card chaff (punched out pieces) made terrific confetti. -
My first computer was an IBM Aptiva from Radio Shack. Very slow. Little memory. 28K modem. But some very nice Bose speakers that I still have. Half hour to connect to the internet and up to two days to download a single picture. Used AOL to connect and that slowed me down too. I am on my forth computer now. HP notebook. $1200 computer for $747 at Sam’s Club. Not bad. Need to find out how to upgrade my processor in order to get Windows 11.
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Mine was an E machine. I think it was in early 90’s . I absolutely loved hearing the sound of my phone connecting to the World Wide Web. Boy, have we come far. I am 68 yrs old
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First computer was a TRS 80 with 2 5 1/4 floppy drives and a whopping 64K of memory. I used it for spreadsheets on a program called Visicalc (I’m an accountant) and games. I took it to my job and it was their first PC.
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