Woo-hoo! Spiffy. My first PC was very similar to the IBM PC.......
My first one was a TRS-80 Color Computer. With 64K memory. And I had to use a tape recorder to save programs, no 5 1/4 floppy for me. Ah, good times...
I got my first Heathkit H89 in 1980. CP/M and Zeinth OS ran on it. It had a 90K per side hard sector floppy drive, which gave me 85K of use after boot section. It had 64K of memory, which when it was upgraded to the 90a got 96K of memory. I owned a Hayes 300 baud Smartmodem, which then I bought the first generation US Robotics 1200 baud modem. After about 8 upgrades to the modem, it finally was stable enought to use.
Previous to that I worked on a DEC teletype dialed in at 110 baud to a PDP11/43, and then several iterations of playing on PDP machines (11/23, 11/70, 8 and some other things), IBM Systems 3, 34, 36, 38.
I had the luck to play with many of those computers in the day, from Tandy machines (TRS-80 Model 1-4, color, etc), Commedore machines (Pet, Vic 20, C64, C128, etc), Amiga, Apple (II, III, C, Lisa, Macs from the first iteration), Timex Sinclair, TI-99/4, Elf 1 and 2, etc. My first IBM Compatible was a 4.77Mhz with 128K of memory, owned everything from 8086/8088, 286, 386, 486, P1, P2, P3, P4.
The amount of money I put into the computer industry since my early days starting with them is too much to think about.
My first one was a TRS-80 Color Computer. With 64K memory. And I had to use a tape recorder to save programs, no 5 1/4 floppy for me. Ah, good times...
funny how fast stuff becomes obsolete....
I learned programming on a C64 and Apple IIc/e when those were still new and state-of-the-art
I feel old now, I'm going to bed and cry a bit....
My family's first 'puter was an apple iic. Lots of great edu software.
Used II, II+ and IIEs at school until I got to highschool. then we had macs with mice (imagine that).
My senior year I bought my own puter. A Packard Bell 25 mhz running Win 3.1. Used it right through college.
Grad school bought a lightening fast 300 mhz Packard Bell. That puppy came loaded with Win95 and I upgraded to Win98. A year later bought an IBM thinkpad with a 333 mhz processor. That still works aside from the fact I can't get any power to it because the jack in the back of the computer needs fixed. Won't be doing that any time soon. When that died my bro's friend gave me his old IBM 333 mhz box. Might try installing Linux on it when I get back to the states and attempt to crunch a few WUs on it. Depends if I can get a phone line up to that room.
Now I've got a Compac P4 2.8 ghz with a gig of RAM. A hand-me-down from my computer enginnering major brother (different bro). I like it a lot. Crunches nicely.
I'd really like to buy a nice dual core box, but alas I'll have to get a job back home first.
I used Apple II's and IIe's quite a bit in the early 80s, since most of my friends hand them. My family finally outdid them all by getting a IIc. We had that for many years, computers being as expensive as they were, when I finally "upgraded" to a used Amiga 500, with a 1200 baud modem (that I swapped for a 28.8k) which got me online from home for the first time. After that came a very used 486, which I purchased for 50 bucks, but then had to spend about 600 bucks to get a modem and hard drive, keyboard, and mouse for. (At least I could re-use the 28.8 modem!) Finally, in 2002, after an inheritance came in, I was able to go nuts to my heart's content, and dropped three and a half grand on a no-holds barred, top-of-the-line, carefully selected parts system I use to this day.
We started using computers at my hometown radio station in about 1980...It was from radio shack...I don't remember the model number...But i do remember playing a game called "space lander"...Where you try to control course, speed, fuel, and altitude to land your ship on the moon without crashing...That was all i really got to do on that computer...The owner of the radio station and the program director were always busy working with it...They were writing the first ever computer billing program for radio stations...We used that program...and it's updated version for more than 20 years...They also licensed the program for other stations for more than a decade.
For the 80s children/geeks
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Woo-hoo! Spiffy. My first PC was very similar to the IBM PC.......
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My first one was a TRS-80 Color Computer. With 64K memory. And I had to use a tape recorder to save programs, no 5 1/4 floppy for me. Ah, good times...
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I got my first Heathkit H89
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I got my first Heathkit H89 in 1980. CP/M and Zeinth OS ran on it. It had a 90K per side hard sector floppy drive, which gave me 85K of use after boot section. It had 64K of memory, which when it was upgraded to the 90a got 96K of memory. I owned a Hayes 300 baud Smartmodem, which then I bought the first generation US Robotics 1200 baud modem. After about 8 upgrades to the modem, it finally was stable enought to use.
Previous to that I worked on a DEC teletype dialed in at 110 baud to a PDP11/43, and then several iterations of playing on PDP machines (11/23, 11/70, 8 and some other things), IBM Systems 3, 34, 36, 38.
I had the luck to play with many of those computers in the day, from Tandy machines (TRS-80 Model 1-4, color, etc), Commedore machines (Pet, Vic 20, C64, C128, etc), Amiga, Apple (II, III, C, Lisa, Macs from the first iteration), Timex Sinclair, TI-99/4, Elf 1 and 2, etc. My first IBM Compatible was a 4.77Mhz with 128K of memory, owned everything from 8086/8088, 286, 386, 486, P1, P2, P3, P4.
The amount of money I put into the computer industry since my early days starting with them is too much to think about.
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My first was a Vic 20. 20K memory...
good old days :)
Anders n
funny how fast stuff becomes
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funny how fast stuff becomes obsolete....
I learned programming on a C64 and Apple IIc/e when those were still new and state-of-the-art
I feel old now, I'm going to bed and cry a bit....
And all that stuff was far
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And all that stuff was far more expensive...now it's all Made in China.
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Glad ya'll enjoyed
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Glad ya'll enjoyed this.
My family's first 'puter was an apple iic. Lots of great edu software.
Used II, II+ and IIEs at school until I got to highschool. then we had macs with mice (imagine that).
My senior year I bought my own puter. A Packard Bell 25 mhz running Win 3.1. Used it right through college.
Grad school bought a lightening fast 300 mhz Packard Bell. That puppy came loaded with Win95 and I upgraded to Win98. A year later bought an IBM thinkpad with a 333 mhz processor. That still works aside from the fact I can't get any power to it because the jack in the back of the computer needs fixed. Won't be doing that any time soon. When that died my bro's friend gave me his old IBM 333 mhz box. Might try installing Linux on it when I get back to the states and attempt to crunch a few WUs on it. Depends if I can get a phone line up to that room.
Now I've got a Compac P4 2.8 ghz with a gig of RAM. A hand-me-down from my computer enginnering major brother (different bro). I like it a lot. Crunches nicely.
I'd really like to buy a nice dual core box, but alas I'll have to get a job back home first.
Kathryn :o)
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That brings back the
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That brings back the memories.
I used Apple II's and IIe's quite a bit in the early 80s, since most of my friends hand them. My family finally outdid them all by getting a IIc. We had that for many years, computers being as expensive as they were, when I finally "upgraded" to a used Amiga 500, with a 1200 baud modem (that I swapped for a 28.8k) which got me online from home for the first time. After that came a very used 486, which I purchased for 50 bucks, but then had to spend about 600 bucks to get a modem and hard drive, keyboard, and mouse for. (At least I could re-use the 28.8 modem!) Finally, in 2002, after an inheritance came in, I was able to go nuts to my heart's content, and dropped three and a half grand on a no-holds barred, top-of-the-line, carefully selected parts system I use to this day.
At least this system runs Quake 4!
We started using computers at
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We started using computers at my hometown radio station in about 1980...It was from radio shack...I don't remember the model number...But i do remember playing a game called "space lander"...Where you try to control course, speed, fuel, and altitude to land your ship on the moon without crashing...That was all i really got to do on that computer...The owner of the radio station and the program director were always busy working with it...They were writing the first ever computer billing program for radio stations...We used that program...and it's updated version for more than 20 years...They also licensed the program for other stations for more than a decade.