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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:12:43 PM EDT
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Apple IIe Rocking that Castle Wolfenstein. Waiting for the game to load sucked. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:12:59 PM EDT
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I believe it was the Apple IIe dad bought in about 1986 or so? I was 10 years old.... all my friends had Commodore 64/128 computers with tons of cool games. I had like 2 games. Dad got me a book with games in it. Literally written out programs you had to enter.
I learned Basic on it well enough to write a password protect program for a disk. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:13:39 PM EDT
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TRS-80 in school, then Dad built an 8086 machine at home and it was on!
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:14:21 PM EDT
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IBM PC jr
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:14:51 PM EDT
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PET
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:14:52 PM EDT
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TRS-80 
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:16:32 PM EDT
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Atari 400, still have it upstairs. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:17:44 PM EDT
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A kid in elementary school brought one of these in to show the class.
This was the first real computer we got at home. It didn't do anything fun and I never leaned any programming beyond 10 PRINT "HI 20 GOTO 10. 
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:18:13 PM EDT
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Apple IIGS, I still have it and the printer but no printer paper or ribbon
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:18:14 PM EDT
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Honeywell DDP-516. Used to to some machine code programming with one. It controlled a T-28 flight simulator. I'm old too.
First home computer was a TI-99/4A. Then a IBM PCjr. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:18:15 PM EDT
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LOAD "*",8,1 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:18:30 PM EDT
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Atari 400, then Atari 800. Learned Basic on those. We had a tape drive and the modem that held a telephone handset, and a fancy 5.25” floppy drive- we used a hole punch to make them double sided, and tape to write-protect them.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:19:12 PM EDT
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Ohhhh, yeah.
TRS-80. In a Radio Shack store. It's how I got into programming. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:20:26 PM EDT
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386 my mom brought home when I was 4. She had computers before that, but that was our first real family computer.
My kid isn’t even a year old and she’s used a computer, albeit haphazardly. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:20:33 PM EDT
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The first was the one I built form a book that used a cigar box, 3 potentiometers and a VU meter.
After calibration: You would dial in one value on the 1st, then dial in the 2nd value on the 2nd and then using the 3rd with reference to the meter null out the values of the 1st 2 and from there read the position of the 3rd potentiometer to infer the answer. The next one I was going to build involved a rotary phone dial but I was not able to acquire one at the time. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:20:45 PM EDT
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Yep, the machine was built by Olivetti. Might have been this one -
That was circa 1972 or 1973. The next one was a mainframe at VPI programmed remotely from The Tidewater, and a PDP-8 on site in 1976. I think the PDP-8 had 12 or 24 kbytes of memory shared amongst three departments. After I learned FORTRAN and BASIC, I was quickly able to do rudimentary programming in ATLAS on the F-15 test stations. I don't believe it was this model, but I suppose it's possible: 
By the time I owned a Commadore 64, I had moved on to better machines and never used it much. I was thankful I didn't buy an Apple IIE, the cost was impressive in 1983, and a McIntosh was just plain stupid. I used a Sharp pocket computer like this one for work until it got crushed: 
By that time I couldn't buy a replacement. Then I bought a hot rod, a 386 processor with a 120 Mb drive. Woo hoo. The clock speed was sllloooowwwww. And expensive, around $3k. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:21:14 PM EDT
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A slide rule
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:21:31 PM EDT
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Tandy 1000
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:21:34 PM EDT
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Pretty sure it was this:
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:21:38 PM EDT
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It was an IBM XT at the Sunrise Museum in Charleston WV. Old school green screen with BASIC.
My first PC was an IBM PS1 386. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:22:09 PM EDT
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The computer that changed everything for the industry, it still lives on in the pockets of millions around the world
 Attached FileHard to believe that was 1988/89 
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:23:13 PM EDT
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TRS-80 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:23:17 PM EDT
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TRS-80 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:24:55 PM EDT
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Atari 400, then Atari 800. Learned Basic on those. We had a tape drive and the modem that held a telephone handset, and a fancy 5.25” floppy drive- we used a hole punch to make them double sided, and tape to write-protect them. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:26:09 PM EDT
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80s dumb terminal green screen modem to corp mainframe in next city.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:26:41 PM EDT
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The first one I owned? It was a Commodore Amiga A600.
The first one I entered a program and it ran? TRS80 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:27:33 PM EDT
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IBM in '67, in 4th grade making a tape
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:27:48 PM EDT
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Vic 20
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:28:09 PM EDT
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Sure do. Ours had a telephone hand set to connect to the actual computer. Early 1970s. Screen? We don't need no stinking screens.
Log on was Y176, Password was Wolf. I don't remember what I had for dinner two days ago, but I remember the access from almost 50 years ago. LOL 
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:28:33 PM EDT
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We had a desktop with a Pentium at 100mhz but I never used it. First one I used was a Pentium 2 at 350mhz. First one I used regularly was a Dell laptop with a Pentium 3 at 900mhz.
I think the desktops were both HP. Windows 95 and 98. Dell was XP. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:28:41 PM EDT
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First computer used was a Genigraphics D in the early-mid 1980s, used to make 35mm slides. Five-button controller for the left hand, pen and drawing tablet for the right hand.
It was a big fucker. Hard drive was 10MB (huge!), was about 10" diameter, and had a carry handle for removal. Saved files were sent to a separate console, an Agfa film recorder that was about the size of a nightstand. It had an actual Nikon 35mm camera inside and the images would paint up on a tiny screen at 2000, 4000 or 8000 lines per inch. A keyboard let you control the film recorder with Unix commands. This is a picture of an earlier version. 
A few years later, we switched to IBM desktop PCs with Microsoft PowerPoint and early Macs with Aldus Persuasion. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:29:00 PM EDT
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Apple IIe |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:29:05 PM EDT
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The first machine I ever did anything on was a DEC PDP-11/34; remotely, as the company I worked for had a Teletype/ Terminal with an acoustic coupler. We wrote some BASIC programs on it.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:31:16 PM EDT
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SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:32:40 PM EDT
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Apple IIe..it wasn't my first computer but it's the first one I remember using. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:32:59 PM EDT
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I started out on a Raytheon 704 back at tech school in 1975. It used an ASR-35 teletype machine as its interface.
My first home computer was a 400MHz Cyrix 686 based machine back in 1995. It probably had 100 times the processing power of the Raytheon. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:33:19 PM EDT
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Commodore 64
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:33:59 PM EDT
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Timex-Sinclair ZX-80 I was 9. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:38:04 PM EDT
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TRS-80 
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:38:21 PM EDT
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Probably a CDC 7600.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:38:31 PM EDT
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Radio Shack Trash 80.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:39:34 PM EDT
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Yes. I remember it well. In 1977, at my second Coast Guard assignment, I was responsible for inputting SAR incident/accident/fatality/cost information into a data base by a telephone modem connection to a computer data bank at Cambridge University. Each entry had to be key coded and the display was 14 characters.
When I visited the computer labs at Cambridge, the computer equipment filled enough room for a 4 bedroom house. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:41:57 PM EDT
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Child of the 70s so pretty much all the ones listed here via friends.
First memory was my dad dragging me to a TRS-80 display in the mall. He was blown away by what we were seeing. He was in the Navy and knew all about computers but never thought there would be one you could buy for the home. We eventually got an Apple II plus. It along with a printer was probably 3k. A fortune at a time new cars were starting at 5-7 k. That $11,000 today |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:44:20 PM EDT
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IBM Mainframe with a Winchester Disc, 30MB, about the size of a trash can lid.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:44:29 PM EDT
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TI-99/4A
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:45:00 PM EDT
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A kid in elementary school brought one of these in to show the class. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Commodore_2001_Series-IMG_0448b.jpg/280px-Commodore_2001_Series-IMG_0448b.jpg This was the first real computer we got at home. It didn't do anything fun and I never leaned any programming beyond 10 PRINT "HI 20 GOTO 10. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/TI99-IMG_7132.jpg/220px-TI99-IMG_7132.jpg |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:45:03 PM EDT
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Apple IIe |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:46:06 PM EDT
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... and a PDP-8 on site in 1976. I think the PDP-8 had 12 or 24 kbytes of memory shared amongst three departments. After I learned FORTRAN and BASIC, I was quickly able to do rudimentary programming in ATLAS on the F-15 test stations. I don't believe it was this model, but I suppose it's possible: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/PDP-8e%2C_inside%2C_2.jpg/800px-PDP-8e%2C_inside%2C_2.jpg By the time I owned a Commadore 64, I had moved on to better machines and never used it much. I was thankful I didn't buy an Apple IIE, the cost was impressive in 1983, and a McIntosh was just plain stupid. I used a Sharp pocket computer like this one for work until it got crushed: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sharp_pc1211.png/1920px-Sharp_pc1211.png By that time I couldn't buy a replacement. 
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:46:22 PM EDT
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Commodore Vic20
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Posted: 12/5/2018 6:46:33 PM EDT
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A Tandy TRS-80 III my first day of computer camp. I came down with appendicitis later that day and ended up missing the rest of the course, which pretty much ended my interest in the inner goings-on of computers.
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