1st Computer
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- level2
k geeks, what was your first?
PC:
IBM PC/XT , 25MhzMac:
PowerPC 8600, 300Mhzawwwwwwwwww
- scarabin0
some kinda atari-made thing. it had an "art program" that you could draw with by entering x/y coords to make line segments.
and it played frogger.
- DutchBoy0
Games:
Philips Videopac G7000
(early 80's)Real computing:
Apple Performa
(early 90's)
- fugged0
TRS-80 Color Computer
16K RAM!
- BonSeff0
1st real machine was a motorola starmax 3000 mac clone
back in 96, i thought it was the sheeeit
- canuck0
Not sure if it can be classified as a "computer" but I would have to say commodore 64. such a beast, had some fun games though.
- sureshot0
PC 486, 66 MHz, 16 MB RAM.
- level20
hell yeah, I love how 256kb of RAM was awesome back then.. Comm 64 ruled too, had programs on cassette
- toastie0
Sinclair Spectrum 128K w/ tape drive.
- save0
Cant believe this peice of shit
cost me over a grand...jeeze!!
- save0
Cant believe this peice of shit
cost me over a grand...jeeze!!
- level20
oh man, Never Ending Story...
- DutchBoy0
aaah the memories..
- ribit0
Commodore Vic20
Wrote aircraft combat game in Basic (somehow)Digital PDP-11 (school)
Paper printout and 300baud modem connection to the timeshared mainframe on other side of town...Programmable calculator with punch cards. (I think anything before that was just lines of rocks, right?)
- contra0
BBC-B then a Commodore Vic-20 and a book on programming games, none of which ever worked.
Apple Mac Performa 6320
- helloperson0
Apple IIe... my first real Mac for doing design related work was an Apple LC II however.
- rasko40
first 'computer' sinclair zx80
first mac: performa 475
I still have a philips videopac, but no power adapter for it :(
- iDp0
386
- DutchBoy0
first mac: performa 475
I still have a philips videopac, but no power adapter for it :(
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we are so alike.
i literally played my videopac to pieces.. :(
but still i have the noises, bleepbleeps in my mind as if it was only yesterday, and the endless days of playing it.
:)
- nuxxx0
Macintosh 512K. back in 87 i think. I loved it--macwrite..macpaint and no awkward numbers to get it to work! $2500
performa $2200
quadra $1900
7300 $2000 (+ram+)
G3 550 $1600
G4 800 $1500
- mg330
This is a long post, but you might enjoy it. :)
Radio Shack TRS-80
Given to me by my Grandfather in probably 1987. I was in 4th or 5th grade.
Used to think I was David Lightman in War Games!But seriously, my grandfather was so into computers, engineering, the first generations of CAD, electronics, etc. I remember learning how to program in Level II Basic, lines of code to make a cursor blink, or move at random, etc. and other things.
Interestingly, when I got into Flash in 2000, actionscript seemed a bit easier to understand becuase of that long ago knowledge of basic coding language.I was into the computer, played some games on it that were on cassettes and the big floppys.
Then got into sports, basketball, growing up, and suddenly computers were not all that cool to meanymore. I remember taking all the hardware back to my grandfather and to this day I have always felt that he must have been dissapointed and a bit saddened to have it returned. His only two other grandsons were and are total morons, one of which a huge drug addict, and my grandfather appreciated my interest in his computers, drafting, etc. when the other two could care less.
I used to set up all his osciliscopes in the living room and pretend I was Han Solo in the Falcon! :D My grandmother would often throw a jab back at him for all his "tinkering" by shouting, are you ready? "MegaByte!! MegaByte!!!" to him as he walked through the room.
They did not have the best of friendships, though married for over 50 years. They kind of drove each other nuts.In high school, in 1994 my parents bought what was probably a 386 and I first got into computer art with *gasp* MS Paint. I did art projects for school and such and got on BBS sites.
Didn't get going with computer again until 1998 when I got one of my own during college. Everything else came after that, learning design stuff, HTML, etc, etc...
And now, like many of you here, computer are just this second nature thing. Technology is just this second nature thing. As common in daily life as washing hands, eating, waking up every day.The grandfather I talked about above passed away of lung cancer in 1995. He was a tremendous dreamer, an inventor, so many things that I never realized until I got older. He designed a prototype variation of the Chrysler Northstar engine that was electromagnetic, many years before the Northstar was in a car. He was an impressive person, to say the least. I just never stood back and saw it that way. As I got more and more into computers over the years, I've always had a sense of pride that if he's looking down on me, he's got to be pleased at what I've learned. Writing this, it makes me miss him in a way I never have. Cancer and cigarettes really suck. He could have done so much more if not for that killing him.
Anyhow, that's my computer history. Thanks for reading if you got this far. :)