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« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2008, 01:04:15 AM » |
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Oh, I know the advantages of being young so I'll stick to that while I can!  I wouldn't trade that in so I could have been around the release of the original Atari to be really honest  (Although give me a time machine any day and it'd be well used  ). It was a classic period indeed, some might say the prime of the PC, before Windows 95 ruined it all. |
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« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2008, 06:29:31 PM » |
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I am also a bit too young, the first computer I can remember clearly that we had was a 286, in the early 90's we upgraded to an 486DX/66 with 32MB RAM and a 120 MB harddrive, and we hid it in the old heavy steel shell from the 286 to fool any thieves who could be looking through the kitchen window (we had our computer at the kitchen table), since at the time those computers where incredibly expensive, at least here in Sweden. the price was comparable to something around $7000 USD. We also had a Sun SPARC 4 (I think) hidden in a closet upstairs.
The 486 ran MS-DOS 5, and then 6.22 + Windows 3.11, which we kept using until 1999 when we got a Windows 95 computer which was replaced with Windows 98 in a couple of months.
Sadly, we never had the older classic computers. A neighbor had a TRS CoCo 3, which I was extremely impressed by.
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« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2008, 04:29:05 PM » |
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I am also a bit too young, the first computer I can remember clearly that we had was a 286, in the early 90's we upgraded to an 486DX/66 with 32MB RAM and a 120 MB harddrive, and we hid it in the old heavy steel shell from the 286 to fool any thieves who could be looking through the kitchen window (we had our computer at the kitchen table), since at the time those computers where incredibly expensive, at least here in Sweden. the price was comparable to something around $7000 USD. We also had a Sun SPARC 4 (I think) hidden in a closet upstairs.
The 486 ran MS-DOS 5, and then 6.22 + Windows 3.11, which we kept using until 1999 when we got a Windows 95 computer which was replaced with Windows 98 in a couple of months.
Sadly, we never had the older classic computers. A neighbor had a TRS CoCo 3, which I was extremely impressed by.
Welcome to the forum, fisk0! My biggest question is this: did you really have that big of a problem with thieves, and why didn't you put curtains on the kitchen window? |
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« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2009, 03:48:41 AM » |
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My first computer that belonged to me was my Amstrad CPC6128. I love this machine, and I still have it and it works perfectly!
2nd computer of my own was a Pentium 75Mhz. Had to wait a few years until I got it.
There were other machines in my house that belonged to my dad. They included IBM PC clones, VIC-20 and a few more.
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« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2009, 08:35:02 AM » |
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My first computer that belonged to me was my Amstrad CPC6128. I love this machine, and I still have it and it works perfectly!
2nd computer of my own was a Pentium 75Mhz. Had to wait a few years until I got it.
There were other machines in my house that belonged to my dad. They included IBM PC clones, VIC-20 and a few more.
Welcome to the forum, Andy. By your computer choice, I'm guessing you live in the UK. That that right? I don't think I've ever used any Amstrad machine -- they're very rare in the US. Actually, I do have a weird dedicated Amstrad console called something like "GP4000" (forgot the name exactly). |
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« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2009, 09:29:13 AM » |
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That would be the GX4000 then! Its based on the Amstrad CPC plus range. I have a 6128 plus which has the cartridge socket on it so I can play the games.
And yes, im in the UK.
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« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2009, 07:30:15 PM » |
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My first pc was a used Atari 400, came with a BASIC cartridge and the tape drive. The original owner had a bunch of books on programming for it. I had Zaxxon and Fort Apocalypse for it, and even a 747 flight simulator game, but otherwise I spent alot of time making programs in BASIC. I later upgraded it to 64k (48k with 16k bankable through poking to it) and replaced the membrane keyboard with an aftermarket keyboard with "real" keys.
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« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2009, 05:58:46 PM » |
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My first pc was a used Atari 400, came with a BASIC cartridge and the tape drive. The original owner had a bunch of books on programming for it. I had Zaxxon and Fort Apocalypse for it, and even a 747 flight simulator game, but otherwise I spent alot of time making programs in BASIC. I later upgraded it to 64k (48k with 16k bankable through poking to it) and replaced the membrane keyboard with an aftermarket keyboard with "real" keys.
Awesome! The Atari 800 was my first computer experience. What are/were some of your favorite Atari 800/400 games? |
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« Reply #23 on: October 17, 2009, 01:08:26 PM » |
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Zaxxon and Fort Apocalypse were my favorites, as was the 747 flight simulator. I had Demon Attack or something along those lines on cartridge. Funds were scarce since I was in my early teens, and software and peripherals were quite pricey, so I didn't do much more with it other than fiddle with Basic programming. My next investment a few years later was a used C64, and that was a more common system at my school, so I got to trade games another other applications with my friends. There was also a mail order software place whose office was nearby, and the owner would let us rent games.
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« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2010, 09:21:32 AM » |
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Commodore 64..... I remember I had begged my parents for one and they went out a spent the $595 (I think) for one....
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« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2010, 07:06:47 PM » |
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Mine was a Tandy 1000 SX. Nice computer - it had a 5.25" drive, 640k of RAM, DOS 3.22, a 1200 bps internal modem, dot matrix printer, and a color monitor. Some people claimed they had a lot of incompatibilities, but I never had a problem running DOS PC software on it. I even went on the Internet with it in the late '90s, albeit slowly |
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« Reply #26 on: August 12, 2010, 06:45:31 AM » |
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Sinclar ZX81 without any type of storage. However, it was my own!
I had a 1K Sinclair but I soon got the 16K pak.  BTW, I still have it and I use an Apple IIc monochrome monitor with it. Tony |
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« Reply #27 on: April 18, 2011, 04:27:16 PM » |
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The Timex/Sinclair 1000 was my first computer in 1985. When I learned of the TImex/Sinclair 2068 with 64K and color, I made the switch. When I learned that Timex was pulling the plug and was not going to bring out the disk drives for the unit, I began to seek out user groups. My system grew with the addition of a 300 baud modem and the Larken Disk System. I now have the if not one of the largest Timex/Sinclair collections in North America thanks to a friend who's uncle worked at the Timex lab in Waterbury, CN. I have 22 tested and working 2068's and a pile of the 1000's that I will soon dispose. more soon....
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« Reply #28 on: April 21, 2011, 10:28:03 PM » |
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My first computer was a Commodore 64 given to me by a girlfriend at Christmas in 1986. She was a very nice and thoughtful girlfriend! I was on my own as a young adult and quite cash strapped, so I only owned the computer, and was never able to purchase a monitor, or tape drive, disk drive, etc. I would play around writing BASIC programs with it, but I had to leave it on (connecting it to the TV) for days at a time, because I couldn't save them. So, to change my story a bit, I purchased an Apple Lisa 2 running MacWorks II in December 1989, and I kind of consider that to be my first "real" computer! My first Mac too. Because I could do real stuff with it, and save it! It was also a "retro" computer from the start, which spawned my interest in the hobby. Best, David Greelish, Computer Historian Classic Computing The Home of Computer History Nostalgia http://www.classiccomputing.comClassic Computing Blog Classic Computing Show video podcast "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" audiobook podcast Retro Computing Roundtable podcast Historical Computer Society |
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« Reply #29 on: December 29, 2011, 02:08:51 PM » |
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Our first computer was an Apple IIe. Although I dabbled in a bit of BASIC programming (my most ambitious effort was a program that drew a low-resolution vertically scrolling grid), I mainly played games with it and used it as a word processor. My older brother was quite adept at programming from a young age, and wrote a cool program that drew a hi-res three dimensional cube that you could rotate, scale and translate in 3D space. My favorite game was Bolo, released by Synergistic Software. It's a bit difficult to find information on it, especially since there was an apparently unrelated yet thematically similar game released for the Mac... but here's a blog post about it that I came across a while ago, and the author of the game chimes in down in the comments! http://www.techipedia.com/2006/revisiting-the-80s-apple-ii-games/ |
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