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Posted: 12/6/2018 9:26:29 AM EDT
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Wang desktop at work, late 80s
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Posted: 12/6/2018 9:27:05 AM EDT
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Apple IIe.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 9:28:30 AM EDT
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In college in the early 70's...…..IBM mainframe...…..used punch cards to input stuff.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 9:30:06 AM EDT
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TI\94A
Then in hmm 1991 a clone by Aberdeen Systems DX50 64MB RAM, VESA Video Card and a 100MB HD. (was pops workstation for CAD etc but I did game on it ;p) |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 9:38:54 AM EDT
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TRS-80 |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 9:43:10 AM EDT
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Tandy 1000
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Posted: 12/6/2018 9:57:48 AM EDT
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Sinclair Z-80, Atari 400, Apple. I also built a microprocessor trainer and wrote code for it. Probably 8086 or something. I could write player missile graphics routines for the Atari.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 10:03:24 AM EDT
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Commodore PET
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Posted: 12/6/2018 10:14:27 AM EDT
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Apple IIC at school as a little kid. There was a program called "Logo" that let you move a little "turtle" around on the screen.
My first home computer was a 286, then a 386 and on down the line to the i7 I have now. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 10:36:47 AM EDT
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IBM System360. I assumed it would be x86. 
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Posted: 12/6/2018 1:28:37 PM EDT
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Commodore 64. It sucked.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 2:27:39 PM EDT
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TRS-80 |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 2:55:02 PM EDT
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Does turning in a stack of punch cards for a statistics class to the operator of the computer the size of a building at the University of Texas in 1976 count?
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:24:40 PM EDT
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In school it was always fun to load up some Oregon trail or lemonade stand on an Apple ][. But the first computer i owned was a:
Pacard Bell 486SX 4MB Ram 102MB hdd 2400 baud modem Preloaded with DOS and Windows 3.1 I learned tons about computers from that old hunk of junk, and after losing it to a surge during a storm, I've been rolling my own ever since. Its replacement involved an old Cyrix CX 5x86 chip... back when that was a thing. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:29:46 PM EDT
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A lot of trash-80 peasants in this thread
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:31:41 PM EDT
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Input/output with timesharing to county mainframe 1976-77 BASIC and COBOL in H.S. Computer Science 1 & 2 https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/332308/Teletype-IMG-7287-145805.jpg |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:32:37 PM EDT
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Fortran punch cards in high school, not sure which mainframe they were compiled on.
The first personal computer I used was a TRS-80 at work for a short time before moving on to an IBM PC 5150. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:34:56 PM EDT
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The very first one I ever messed with was a Digital Equipment Corp, PDP-8S with ARS-33 teletype and 8-channel paper tape punch/reader for I/O.
The fist one I owned was a Commodore VIC-20. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:39:48 PM EDT
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I don't remember the brand of computer, but I used a B&W TV for a monitor and saved the programs on a cassette tape. Programs were written in BASIC, you entered them yourself and got them from a magazine article. You saved the programs on the cassette and then loaded them each time you played them. The programs were mostly games. There was no internet.
ETA: I think maybe a Commodore. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:43:00 PM EDT
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Commodore back in the 70s (if that counts) ..I remember doing the Mavis Beacon typing tutorial on it.
Our school also had TRS-80s back then but I mostly used that for playing Asteroids |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:46:18 PM EDT
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Apple Macintosh, we had them in school.
We didn’t get a computer at home until much later, it was an NEC with a 200 MHz Pentium w/MMX and 32 MB of EDO RAM. Even had a 2 MB GPU. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:48:15 PM EDT
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Commodore motherfucking 64 bitches
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:48:37 PM EDT
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Only that it was a Commodore model something or other. At work they just got in the latest computers with those wonderful DOS based systems.
 And the Teletype system for NCIC/NLETs record searches.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:54:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We’re somewhat similar  There were no combined or integrated programs on that tiny machine. Sadly, the business version was continued for several years and didn't have the functions needed for Real Work. My last year of school would have been simplified with a VIC 20, and a Commodore 64 with a printer would have been a dream. That would have cut down on dozens of hours spent just going back and forth to the computer center with card decks and printouts. I worked for a fellow about 1983 that brought in a TRS-80, printer, cassette tape drive, and a portable tv that he programmed in machine language, and was just as proud as a puppy with two peckers. Another on during my co-op days bought an early Commodore, paid about $600, and had to run it through a burn in cycle before it could be used. At work we were using dumb terminals and a VAX with virtual memory, i.e., a huge stack of memory disks, and it was awesome. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 4:01:11 PM EDT
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Pet computer with tape drive.
Not for long though, TRS-80 several years after that, Apple II+, and IBMs. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 4:02:03 PM EDT
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TRS-80 Model III in 1980
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Posted: 12/6/2018 5:13:57 PM EDT
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A TRS-80 with a monochrome monitor.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 5:16:44 PM EDT
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Time Sinclair 1000....
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Posted: 12/6/2018 5:19:44 PM EDT
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An Apple 2e with an 80 column (video) card, green and white display and two 160 Kb 5.5" floppy drives.
The next was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4 Microcomputer with 64K of RAM (I have the case badges from that one plastered on my my Intel i9-7980XE Processor with 32 Gb of RAM.) |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 6:10:19 PM EDT
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A 6300? I had one of those also. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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AT&T. had early DOS. Filled out the memory chips and add ons like that fine tractor feed printer that feed out of a box on the floor. Paid maybe around $2000. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 6:51:04 PM EDT
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That was my first PC. I miss it. Especially liked the documentation. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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AT&T. had early DOS. Filled out the memory chips and add ons like that fine tractor feed printer that feed out of a box on the floor. Paid maybe around $2000. |
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