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What was your first PC

What did you start your computing life with??

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Allright, I think I'll start one of these get to know your community threads.
What was the first PC you owned or worked on? 286, 386, Pentium I, II, III etc.
Mine was a Radio Shack TRS80 Model 4 (basic language computer) my company bought for me to do survey closures, roadway design applications and some basic drainage programs. I believe it was 1983 or late 82.
There been a whole lot of others since. Currently I use a Pentium IV Laptop. What a ride it's been.
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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A Coleco ADAM...CPU, Keyboard, and printer all in 1 box. What wasn't included were earplugs for the daisy wheel printer that sounded like a war zone.
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Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first computer was a commodore 128D. The cost of the external 5&1/4 inch floppy drive was more than the computer. I have to spare a thought for a friend of mine. His parents paid a fortune for an Australian made computer called a Microbee.
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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I know someone who still has a Microbee ......bit sad....
Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Commordore 64. Still have the damn thing.
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I know someone who still has a Microbee


Cut my teeth with Z80 assembler on one of those puppies!

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Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i find it kinda funny, al of the people in here saying "it had only so and so Gigabyte hardrive..."


Still got the first HDD I ever bought: a Quantum 50Mb!

Less than the smallest USB memory sticks out there!

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Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I threw away my 20 meg behemoth ....decided it was a subsidence risk to my floor structure...
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A Coleco ADAM...CPU, Keyboard, and printer all in 1 box. What wasn't included were earplugs for the daisy wheel printer that sounded like a war zone.


Wow! I didn't think anyone else here would've had one of those!

I was actually one of the first people in the world to have a Coleco ADAM. My dad was the head of that branch of Coleco, and he brought one home for us before they were available. What a piece of crap. Used cassettes, which took like 10 minutes to load a game or program. And yes, that printer would wake the dead. My parents still have that bad boy sitting on a desk back home in Amsterdam, NY where they were produced. I now have a custom built computer which was top of the line for mostly all components when I built it 18 months ago, which we all know means it's pretty much obsolete. But I love it!
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum
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Amstrad 464
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Apple IIc with dual drives  
Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

8088 running DOS (I do not recall the brand name).

Word for DOS was the most advanced program run on that one.

Upgraded to a hand-me-down IBM box running the 486 processor and Windows 3.1 a few years later.

Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first computer was a Radioshack Tandy 8088 with an RGB Monitor - I don't want to even remember what I paid for it.

The first game I bought was King's Quest and I had to keep taking the disks out and put another one in when I would go off the visible screen. I was living high tech at that time!

I also remember it had a program on it called Deskmate. At the time there was this other company that I had heard about with a program called "Windows" or something like that - of course I knew nobody would pay that much for software so it was doomed to fail.
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A hand built 286 12Mhz, 512k RAM upgraded with SIPP memory to 2Mb at $50 bucks per meg, 40Mb hard drive, Hercules Monochrome Graphic Adapter, 5 1/4 floppy, 3 1/2 floppy, standard 101 keyboard.

There was no such thing as a mouse back then, all keystrokes.

My OS was DOS 5.0 running X-Tree Pro Gold, WordPerfect 5.0, Lotus 123, dBase IV and GWBASIC.

I was in Geek Heaven!

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Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top
$50 per meg - wow - forgot about that!
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Can anyone else here remember how to edit the autoexec.bat using the EDLIN command?

  
Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can but I am not willing to admit it - this is all making me feel WAAAYYY too old!

Wait until I get my hands on whoever started this thread - I need therapy now!!!
Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A Coleco ADAM...CPU, Keyboard, and printer all in 1 box. What wasn't included were earplugs for the daisy wheel printer that sounded like a war zone.
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Wow! I didn't think anyone else here would've had one of those!
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Alright! Two more folks that owned an ADAM! I had one back in...what was it? 1983 was the year it came out. Summer, if my memory serves me. Had the complete package (not the silly expansion module #3 that connected to your ColecoVision). Even had the memory upgraded from 64kb to 144kb. Best part of the whole thing?

It had the power supply IN the printer!!!



I found this pic online. I had everything but the two 5-1/4" floppies. Ah, the good old days.....  
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first computer was a Radioshack Tandy 8088 with an RGB Monitor - I don't want to even remember what I paid for it.

The first game I bought was King's Quest and I had to keep taking the disks out and put another one in when I would go off the visible screen. I was living high tech at that time!

I also remember it had a program on it called Deskmate. At the time there was this other company that I had heard about with a program called "Windows" or something like that - of course I knew nobody would pay that much for software so it was doomed to fail.
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Oh God. We bought the same computer and game. It was called the Tandy 1000. I upgraded it to 384KB of RAM. It had no HD and 2 floppies. With a monitor and printer it cost about $1100. I later added a 20MB HD and upgraded the RAM to 640KB.
Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thats right I had forgot it was called the Tandy 1000. Of course you didn't need to remind me what I would have paid. Do you know how much money that would be in today's dollars. Ah - the price of being first - huh?
Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my first was one chinese abacus...without OS ..and without probs..
maybe that I like it because of this onto so much Brainiac's Slider skin?
all of my newest pc's not work so good.
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VIC 20.   
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Sinclair ZX81.

Still got it kicking around somewhere...
with 64K RAM pack.

That's 64 Kilobytes...
only came with 1K Ram as I remember:)
Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my first pc was, I won it in a raffle draw.lol. pentium 3 with windows 98 and built in 125mb of memory.