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[KWSN - Sir Brian C.......]

The Commodore Pet...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/10/tob_commodore_pet_2001/

what was your "first time"?.
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[Killerrabbit]

Can't toally remember my first one. It was pre-Pentium, a 486 I believe. I had a 9600 modem, and I thought that was fast. I was the first person in my school to have a computer and I helped with the computer class when the school finally got a computer lab. I had a early Win 3.x.

Ni
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[Pooh Bear 27]

First computer I used PDP-11/23 on the DEC LA36 Terminal.

First computer I owned Heathkit H-89 (was upgraded to the H-90).

First modem Hayes Smartmodem 300, which I still own.

I also own a Texas Instrument Silent 700.
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[mohrorless]

I don't remember what the first computer I used was (it was in school, 8th grade (1982-1983)). It had a tape drive and it was for an hour a week. We learned some BASIC. Not much more than that.

The first computer I owned was .....



A Commodore 64
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[KWSN - Sir Brian C.......]

Here's the first ine I ever owned...

Sinclair ZX81, I got it for christmas in 1981 with the standard 1k RAM!, had to wait till easter to get the 16k RAM expansion...




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81
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[Sir Papa Smurph]

Mine was a Intel 386 with a 340 meg hard drive and 2 meg of ram and Windoze 3.1. I used it to play Doom & Doom 2. I would have to delete the games and reinstall them to play because of space issues. That was the first machine I ever overclocked. I used the jumpers and trial & error.

Btw: I loved 3.1, but now I don't remember how to use dos commands. I smoked the OS one time trying to get more space and it took me 2 weeks to fix it.
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[KWSN Sir CADCAM]

In 1965, I started working with these -

The first 'real' computer I worked on in 1967 was an ICL 1903 similar to this ICL 1906A.
That could even be me in the backgound at the tapes 'cos thats pretty much how I looked back then, but, I don't remember the nice set of legs on the girl at the console, DAMN !!

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[mohrorless]

[Sir Papa Smurph]

Some where about that time I went on a tour of IBM or Control Data or something like that and they let us use a punch card machine. I remember thinking "you type here, and it punches holes in a card that can be read by another machine.......Big Deal.
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[Al Dente]

I left school at 16 (mid-60's) and went to work at the National Gas Turbine Establishment, working on hypersonic ramjet research. The first computer I used was an Elliott 803, which I learned to program in Elliott Autocode (very Basic-like but very simple - you even had to write your own maths functions, Square Root, Log, etc.) and later Algol-60.


Then I moved on to an IBM 7094 (which used an ICL1902 to convert punched cards to tape and vice-versa), programmming in Fortran.


As an aside, I also helped with development work for the engines eventually used to power the Concorde, with the data collection being handled by an Elliot 405, an old valve computer programmed with patch cords! (Yes, I'm afraid I do go back that far.)

The first computer I owned was a South-West Tech 6800 (I know Ohiomike remembers these!)


Then a SuperBrain (8080 processor, DR-DOS, 2 x 5¼", 120k floppies)


followed by an ACT Sirius (an IBM PC "me-too" machine, running MS-DOS2 & dBaseII, with 128k RAM and a 10MB!!! hard disk), and the farm has been growing ever since.
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[Grizzly]

Ooo Err !! Not gonna say !

Well allright then , first computer used , it was an Olivetti (hell forgetoed the model number now ) , that me Dad got for his business in 1965 , hard wired it was and great fun to watch the various engineers who kept coming to fix it !!! (Semi analog , glorified typewriter to do the invoicing using punched cards and paper tape !! - no vdu , just a printer and LOTS of wires )

First computer owned (1978 or 9 - married now you see , her indoors did not approve of these new fangled boys toys - until the kids nagged her as well ) , a Sharp MZ 80K , with 36 K ram (HUGE ! - later upgraded to 48 K with the aid of a soldering iron )
The list is almost endless - Amstrad 1540 anyone ?

Gonna stop now , tears welling


Regds Grizz .
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[KWSN Im Not Dead]

The first computer I owned was a TI-99/4A. That is the machine that caused me to love programming. I went on from that to Vic 20. At the time, this is a pretty good graphical programming machine (only when compared to other home machines).

Then in 1986(ish) I got my first "real" PC. It was a 8088, ran at 4MHz, 6MHz or 8MHz (cant remember) in TURBO mode, had 512k of ram in 16k Ram Banks on the MoBo, had MS-Dos 2.1 hardcoded into a chip on the motherboard, came with 2x 5 1/4" floopy drives (both were 360k format, no 1.2MB for me), a 1200 baud modem, 20 MB hard drive (which you had to PARK when you were done), and a CGA monitor using a CGA graphics card. This machine was great because when booting it would count through the RAM in "clicks" as it checked each 16k chip.

Those were the days.

**update**
Upgraded that machine in 1989 to a 286, running at 20MHz, had 1 MB of ram (one really large chip that fit into a socket on the motherboard), MS-DOS 4.1 (i think), 1x 5 1/4" 1.2MB Floppy Drive and 1x 3 1/2" 1.44MB Floppy Drive, 2400 Buad modem, 2x 20MB Harddrive, VGA Graphics card with a VGA Monitor, MATH CO-PROCESSOR, and an Ad-Lib sound card.
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[Sir Furry Mark]

First computer I ever programmed was a KDF9 at Salford University in 1972.

First complete compuer I owned was a BBC Model B in 1981

Currently don't own any...


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[ohiomike]

College- Microprocessors 101 (project was to write a traffic light controller that would "learn" about traffic patterns):

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[Dagger]

First computer i've ever started fiddling around with was a Tandy TRS-80. The keyboard was connected to the monitor. That was followed by a 286 DX and 386 XT. In elementry school we played with Apple IIe's. First computer that I bought was a lil P3 633 back round when I first joined the Knights shrubbing classic Seti shrubs. I then built my first system, a Althon 64 3200+ with 512 Megs of Ram and 80 Gb HD. My current system is an Althon 64 X2 4200+ with 3Gb of ram and 250meg Hd.
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[KWSN_hgs]

A "nova" -- I think it was actually a DEC PDP-8. Fortran with those fill-in-the-blank sheets, assembler and what we called "SLOBAL", a COBAL interpreter. Punched card decks... and I dropped our class project one time and scattered a bit over 3000 unnumbered cards with assembly language punched into them all over the floor. Classmates were not amused. Lusted mightily after Ohio Scientific's offerings (4kx8 RAM module was $4000!) but settled on a Sinclair which was really nice because you could turn off the display and the thing ran lickety split wicked fast.
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now, where was I???

[KWSN - Sir Brian C.......]

[Justin_Wells]

another ZX80 followed by a ZX81 with the 16k RAM expansion pack then a 48k spectrum with a microdrive and the silver toilet paper printer.

Mock me as I was living in Spain amd buying a LED was a big issue
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