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April 1st, 2002, 04:38 PM
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Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
First computer was the Atari 400, all tricked out with a membrane keyboard and tape drive! Let me tell you there is nothing like typing on a membrane keyboard especially when you enabled the 'clicking' sounds!
Migrated through several generations after that.
XT (8mhz), 286-16, 386sx-25, 486sx-50, P100, P133, AMD 200, P200, Celeron 466, Celeron 533 oc to 800, P933.
However, I just acquired a C-64 off ebay to play Mail Order Monsters! What a great game!
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April 1st, 2002, 10:26 PM
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Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
Apple II with 16 KB, integer only Basic, Radio-shack tape drive, pixiverter (to connect with channel 3 on the TV), back in 1977 or 78. I believe it was in the low 4 or high 3 digit serial
numbers. I do know that it was before they added the slits on the side for cooling, and we had
trouble with heat buildup.
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April 2nd, 2002, 02:32 AM
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Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
Apple ][e that was older than I am
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April 2nd, 2002, 07:58 PM
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Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
ZX-81 (Sinclair) with memory expanded from 1K to 16K (!)... and a huge reel-to-reel tape recorder as a storage device...
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April 4th, 2002, 03:42 AM
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Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
An Etcha Sketch
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April 5th, 2002, 04:55 PM
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Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
Mesh 800 hertz athlon
do you get the feeling I am joining the computer revolution late?
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April 6th, 2002, 08:34 AM
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Re: OT: Complete the following statement, "My first computer was a..."
It was an IBM PC-AT, with a whopping 6MHz 80286 processor! Had the math co-processor, a Finnish-made EGA monitor (sold by IBM), a 20MB hard drive, and some sort of IBM graphics card that I could never find the piggy-back card for to increase the memory. I bought this sucker NEW in 1984, and with the fancy dot-matrix printer I picked out, the whole system came to well over $6,000.00. Still, I used the darn thing right up until about 1995 when someone gave me an old 386, which I then upgraded to a 486 DX2-66. Oh, and I bought one of those TI-99 something-or-other programmable calculators when I was in grad school about 1979. My god that case weighed a ton - it was built like they were gonna install it on Army tanks - who knows, maybe they did!
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