Apple IIe
My first was a Kaypro. It had a NEC V20 processor. There was a switch on that the back that put the processor in turbo mode. Jacked that baby from 4.77 upto 8mhz. Back then games didnt compensate for clock speed. It was fun playing DigDug with everything moving twice as fast as normal pace.
Whoa.... more nerdy folks here than I ever expected. But Jedi, I think you might have had 32K of RAM not 32MB. Cool stuff.
Wrote Fortran & Assembly using punched cards on an IBM 360/70 at SMU in '66. The operator was not amused by the playboy bunny printing out on the system console. First home computer was a 32KB of core RAM DEC PDP-8/e with high speed paper tape & a VTO5 CRT terminal. I bought all the pieces from DEC's scrap bin & debuggeed it myself. (Was an Engineer at DEC at the time). I had my future wife over for dinner one evening in 1973. She had never seen a computer, much less touched one. She ended up playing Hammarabi until 2:00 AM. She's been hooked on computer games ever since! A couple of years later I brought home Prototype #0 of the PDP-11/55.(I was the 11/55 project lead). Was quite a machine for a home system, 16 users RT-11/M, 128Kb RAM (96K core RAM, 32KB of 30nS bipolar RAM). 2 RK05 2MB disc drives, sual TU56 dectapes, My old VT05, LA36 dot matrix printer. Required a 32A dedicated power run. Used to joke that when it was turned on the smoke went down the power plant's chimney. When it came out we bought one of the first TI-99/As with full expansion box. I got Cindy's buy-in by getting her to try a couple of games on the store's demo system. In the mid '80s we gave the TI99 to the kids & got an Amiga2000, followed a couple of years later by an Amiga4000. Finally in the late '80s I broke down & got a Gateway with Windows 3.2. What a regression it was from the full multitasking Amigas.
I had a gateway something or other, with windows 95! That thing was the coolest...LOL [SARCARSM] Minutes of entertainment with paint on that thing, and never mind the video games which where still printed on floppy discs! [/SARCASM]
My first computer experience was in college on a Honeywell(not sure of the model, in was 1967-8) and an IBM 360. My first PC was an Amiga 4000 with a blazingly fast 25MHz processor.
Hi all, My mother bought a computer in '04, an gave me her old one! A 2001 Gateway Select 1100... 20 GIG HD, 256 ram, upgraded to 1 GIG... Upgraded to a Sony DVD player/burner, like 3 years ago... It came with ME, bought XP Home, scv pack 2.... Only that has gone wrong with it, the org. power supply went dead, replaced with a 300 watt.... I think my sound card could use replacement, that or my speakers....... Sometimes I have to keep pushing the power button on and off over and over to get it to werk again! Dunno which.. Thanx all, for your time! E.. edit: I am currently lookin at another PC though... Another Gateway infact.... We've had two, mine, and my mom's....... Since nothing really has gone with either one, I figure they were made well back in tha day, or still are! The PC I am lookin at is an SX Series, with only 500GIG HD, won't even need that.. It comes with 4gig RAM, will automatically upgrade to 8GiG total... Will upgrade to a Sony DVD player/burner..... And will also upgrade the speakers too!
That's the first computer I got much "hands on" with - but didn't own. I was working at Radio Shack in Tacoma, WA when the Model I first hit the shelves. I'd stay after work often just to type in BASIC programs and save them to my own cassette tapes... I remember selling my very first system - for $499.00... and the 2.3% commission was singing pretty songs in my 19 year old ears.... Jedi
When I was in college, I was told that the "job of the future" was key punch operator! It would be a job with a future since no one at the time could see any other way of inputting data. Guaranteed job security, lol! If I had to do that for a living, I think I would have shot myself. Glad they found easier ways to input data.
When I was 12 or so my dad bought me an Apple II plus with 32k of memory and an external floppy drive. It cost $2800 in 1979 or 1980, I forget the exact year. It was great and had a tutorial on how to program it. The last instruction was always "save:file". I did not understand that you had to give the file a name and extension, so my attempts always failed. I would run my programs for a few hours and when I shut the machine down at the end of the night the programming was lost. Good times though! BT Image Unavailable, Please Login
My first computer was an Apple IIE too! Mostly, I just used that to learn how to type and play little action/adventure games such as The Oregon Trail. After that, the company my dad was working for (Intergraph) started giving away old work terminals that were out-of-date and they didn't think worth trying to sell on. Many employees already had the up-to-date computers provided at work and for their home offices for work purposes, so the old machines (just gathering dust otherwise) were given to employees' children. I wish I could remember what the model was; it was essentially equivalent to a 386 processor in terms of outright performance. It came with Windows 3.1 already installed on it, and my dad later managed to upgrade the memory and get Windows 95 installed on it for me when Windows 95 first came out. That computer went through quite a number of upgrades over its service life, with virtually everything getting upgraded on an individual component bases over a long period of time. My dad probably remembers what the computer model was originally called, but by the time it was replaced (~2000) it was most definitely a different machine altogether. All the best, Andrew.
