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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:17:13 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:17:15 PM EDT
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Radio Shack TRS - 80
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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:19:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:21:28 PM EDT
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TRS-80 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:21:47 PM EDT
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TRS-80 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 10:37:24 PM EDT
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It was a DEC Vax-11/730 IIRC around 1982 or 1983. It was in my Dad's office (which was our basement) and I used the hell out of it for school. It had a daisy wheel printer and it actually had a fairly decent word processor and some pretty entertaining text based adventure games. Dad had it to process actuarial stuff and rate books for insurance purposes.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:00:03 PM EDT
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Commodore C20
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:08:21 PM EDT
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Timex-Sinclair ZX-80 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:11:11 PM EDT
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Commodore 64
1985 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:14:15 PM EDT
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It was an Apple, I think a IIc. The school had them.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:16:51 PM EDT
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Learned on an IBM/PC with two 5 1/2 floppy drives, one for DOS.
and I liked to play with my WANG. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:16:54 PM EDT
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TRS-80
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:19:12 PM EDT
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The Night Driver video game in around 1976-77. If it has to be a computer I could program that would be the TRS-80 Color Computer my dad bought for the X-mas of 1980.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:20:21 PM EDT
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Hewlett-Packard HP3000 Series II and I feed my first program through the card reader on it. It was written in Fortran/3000.
The first computer I designed and built from scratch was a 6809-based single board computer. It had RAM, EPROM, PIO, plus TTL devices for things like latches, etc. I used wire wrapping, and turned it in as for my project in college. We had a choice to do a project, or intern. I did both. |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:26:23 PM EDT
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Commodore 64 |
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:28:08 PM EDT
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Like many 80s children, Apple IIe.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:28:12 PM EDT
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It's not the first one I used but I still have the first one I owned.
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:28:50 PM EDT
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Timex Sinclair 1000
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:42:47 PM EDT
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No pictures but it was EMDAS - Expanded Minuteman Data Analysis System
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Posted: 12/5/2018 11:46:33 PM EDT
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Dad was stationed in Korea, and mom got a job with an architecture firm to help buy the family a computer (very expensive back then). They ordered an Apple IIgs from the PX, and had to wait what seemed like forever (at least to me) for it to be delivered. It came with the front of the CPU box signed by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; I think they said it was because he signed the first product delivered to a country. Years later, when I was in high school, my parents donated the old IIgs ... Wished I still had it - not to sound corny, but it was such an important part of my childhood and I would have objected to giving it away. Anyway, looking back, that machine gave me and my friends some of the most profoundly awesome times of our lives. It was the best of times - 1/4 of my childhood with my computer, 1/4 with my daisy powerline, 1/4 fishing, 1/4 playing war with our toy guns. It makes me a bit sad to I think about how great it was to be a kid back then.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 12:08:06 AM EDT
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For me, it was a family computer. I don't remember much about it. It had a 386SX processor (no math co-processor). I remember it was called 386SX, because it sucked! It had DOS on it, and it was a beige box. And you? My watch has more computing power than that old VIC-20 did. No monitor, so it was hooked up to an old black and white TV. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 12:12:23 AM EDT
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Some Apple from the mid-late 80's. It had a turtle that you drew with. "Pen up", "pen down" and "hide turtle" were some of the commands. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 12:14:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/6/2018 12:20:27 AM EDT
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Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 model III
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Posted: 12/6/2018 12:28:55 AM EDT
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Hewlett-Packard HP3000 Series II and I feed my first program through the card reader on it. It was written in Fortran/3000. The first computer I designed and built from scratch was a 6809-based single board computer. It had RAM, EPROM, PIO, plus TTL devices for things like latches, etc. I used wire wrapping, and turned it in as for my project in college. We had a choice to do a project, or intern. I did both. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 12:44:09 AM EDT
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The first computer I had at home was a Leading Edge Model M, a Korean-made PC XT clone with a 20-30MB HD and CGA graphics. Must have got it some time around 89-90. Dad got it used from a print shop that handled his business documents. It came loaded with a lot of cool stuff like XTree, WordPerfect, Lotus. I had no idea how to use any of those programs but they were fun to play with. I quickly filled it with games from a friend of mine who lived up the street, who had a shitload of old games. I remember playing Alley Cat, Bouncing Babies, Gauntlet, some random CGA vector graphic flight sim that had a carrier landing, and probably lots of others I forgot. I remember having two copies of Adventure, ADVENT.EXE and CADVEN.EXE and I have no idea what the difference was.
The first I probably used must have been an Apple II at elementary school - probably around kindergarten or first grade, in the late 80s. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 1:12:44 AM EDT
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Tandy Color Computer 2
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:01:03 AM EDT
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Commodore Vic 20 with a cassette tape backup drive. We also had a Betamax back then.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:06:07 AM EDT
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Apple IIe Our first home computer was an old Tandy from Radio Shack. Wasted countless hours playing Sid Meirs Civilization on it. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:11:49 AM EDT
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TRS80 in college. Then Xenix systems when I first got into doing computer work for a living.
Graduated to Unix, then got into Microsoft and Novell Servers and clients. Glad to be retired out of the business! Dealing with the public sux! Most were already pissed off because they tried to fix it themselves and fucked it up worse. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:15:07 AM EDT
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IBM System360.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 3:31:04 AM EDT
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The first computer I ever used was a 10mhz unit with 640k RAM and a monochrome screen. Mom used it to dial into the "mainframe" to email and that was about it. Maybe around 88 or 90?
I skipped the 286 and built a 386 33mhz box with a 100MB hard drive and 4MB RAM. It ran a 1MB WD video card and had a Viewsonic 6E screen. Dos 6/Win 3.1 and Prodigy dial-up. Skipped to a Pentium 60mhz with a 1.2GB hard drive and 8MB RAM for Win95. Heading into college 20 years ago I bought a tower with 48MB RAM and a 266mhz processor and naturally it came with W98. I forget what size HD had but I wasn't able to fill that one up either. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 4:06:13 AM EDT
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Timex-Sinclair ZX-80 |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 4:26:31 AM EDT
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Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. Circa 1984.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 4:40:51 AM EDT
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Tandy 1000
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Posted: 12/6/2018 4:58:58 AM EDT
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IBM 8088 with the clickity clack keyboard, no HDD 2x5.25" floppy, monochrome green monitor.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 5:07:45 AM EDT
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Commodore 64
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Posted: 12/6/2018 5:18:53 AM EDT
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Very first computer I used? IBM System 360 mainframe at Oklahoma State, way back in the middle 70s.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 5:23:28 AM EDT
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I have no clue what the stats were, but I remember my Dad getting a E-Machines computer around 2000 or so, and getting it in a trade for work. Seeing as we were pretty poor, having a computer and a ton of AOL CDs was the tits when I was a kid. Which, I soon discovered could easily find a lot of tits.
Thank you Al Gore, thank you for the tits. If you ever used Dial up when you were a teen, you'll understand. NSFW kinda, but better safe than sorry. Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 6:25:42 AM EDT
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Commodore 64
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Posted: 12/6/2018 7:25:06 AM EDT
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5th grade, 1981. And, I died of dysentery. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 7:26:24 AM EDT
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First PC I ever owned was an Apple IIc.
Fun little computer (at the time). |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 7:32:01 AM EDT
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First Computer I got my Mitts on was an NCR Mainframe. http://www.thecorememory.com/html/ncr_century_200.html
my dad was a Data Processing Manager at the location in Socal. . we would go in on saturdays and he would show me how all of it worked. . .first home Computer I had was a Timex Sinclair 1000. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 7:34:35 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/6/2018 7:38:11 AM EDT
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I got a vic 20 for christmas one year. Other than making a bird flap its wings it was fucking useless for a young retard like me. No ideal what reasoning was used to buy it for me. All I wanted was a colecovision.
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Posted: 12/6/2018 7:51:22 AM EDT
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Apple II+. And the first game played was "Adventure".
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Posted: 12/6/2018 7:52:03 AM EDT
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I got a vic 20 for christmas one year. Other than making a bird flap its wings it was fucking useless for a young retard like me. No ideal what reasoning was used to buy it for me. All I wanted was a colecovision. |
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Posted: 12/6/2018 8:57:03 AM EDT
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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 9:24:52 AM EDT
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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 9:26:21 AM EDT
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An old Dell desktop that we bought used off a departing college student. Didn't have any internet connection, just basic computing use.
edit: not counting high school Fortran computer classes in the 70s using IBM cards , with a slaved work station linked to a Cornell mainframe. |
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