What was your first computer?

[TomAiello]

Do you all remember the days of the 386 and 486 computers, when internet searches were all text and not graphical?

What is this "internet search" thing you speak of?

[TomAiello]

Speaking of text, does anyone else remember using Lynx to browse the internet? Back when there were like three web sites, and you'd hunt around trying to find a major company that had one?

I think I was on an original Macintosh by that point, though. Huge upgrade from the Apple II.

[shunsui]

Fun reading through this thread. Memory lane.

My first computer was a XT clone of strange design, processor was on a plug in board. It had lots of compatibility issues so I soon built another XT clone with a 20 meg HD and a "turbo" button that boosted clock speed to 6 Mhz. Yeah, those were the days.

I'm currently building a new Z97 system, 3.5 Ghz quad core, 32 Gig of memory, solid state boot drive. Things have gotten better and it was a fun ride.

[Pinetreebbs]

I built my first computers, a simple analog computer that could do simple match and a switching logic computer that electrified the old riddle of a farmer with a bushel of corn, a goose and a fox that he had to move across a river. His boat could only carry one item at a time and he had to prevent the goose from eating the corn and the fox from eating the goose.

First commercial computer: TI-99a 16k of memory, it was pretty capable.

First PC was a 286 clone with an entire 1 meg of memory of which I could only use 640 until I got a memory expansion card. It ran DOS 3.2 and had a 5 megabyte hard disk.

[razorsharp]

my first desktop is a custom skylake build with a 980Ti :). Before that I had an Acer Craptop

[kbuzbee]

Do you all remember the days of the 386 and 486 computers, when internet searches were all text and not graphical?

I remember 80286, 8086, 8088.... And I remember when there was no internet to search.

Ken

[Donut]

A Spectrum + 2.
128k with cassette.

That's a good point!

I had something, I believe before I ever had an Apple 2, that had some sort of external cassette storage to it.

If I remember correctly, it had a "normal" audio port out on it. I would hook up a normal cassette player to it, press record, hit save and it would beep onto the tape for the storage.


I would spend a couple hours typing in a basic program that I got out of a book. Then spend like 10 minutes recording it to a normal audio cassette tape.

[Doc Dan]

Do you all remember the days of the 386 and 486 computers, when internet searches were all text and not graphical?

I remember 80286, 8086, 8088.... And I remember when there was no internet to search.

Ken

Yeah, many of us are old enough to remember Al Gore slaving away in his garage to invent the internet. :rolleyes: :p

[kbuzbee]

Do you all remember the days of the 386 and 486 computers, when internet searches were all text and not graphical?

I remember 80286, 8086, 8088.... And I remember when there was no internet to search.

Ken

Yeah, many of us are old enough to remember Al Gore slaving away in his garage to invent the internet. :rolleyes: :p

Yep, that was amazing work he did.

Ken

[valenciamanu]

A Spectrum + 2.
128k with cassette.

That's a good point!

I had something, I believe before I ever had an Apple 2, that had some sort of external cassette storage to it.

If I remember correctly, it had a "normal" audio port out on it. I would hook up a normal cassette player to it, press record, hit save and it would beep onto the tape for the storage.


I would spend a couple hours typing in a basic program that I got out of a book. Then spend like 10 minutes recording it to a normal audio cassette tape.

It might still be at my mother.
If I see when I go take a picture.

[LC Kid]

Hi Folks!


For me it was a Fat Macintosh 512, back in the 80s. :)

Always thought it was kind of a boxy squared machine. :rolleyes:

The real blast for me was my first Laptop. Since then I never looked back at anything else. :D

[Surfingringo]

TI 99/4a.

-Before that I actually bought a atari game called "basic programming". It came with two controllers that fit together to form a terribly cumbersome input device.

Speaking of Atari, have any of you guys read Ready Player 1? Pretty fun read.

[Donut]

A Spectrum + 2.
128k with cassette.

That's a good point!

I had something, I believe before I ever had an Apple 2, that had some sort of external cassette storage to it.

If I remember correctly, it had a "normal" audio port out on it. I would hook up a normal cassette player to it, press record, hit save and it would beep onto the tape for the storage.


I would spend a couple hours typing in a basic program that I got out of a book. Then spend like 10 minutes recording it to a normal audio cassette tape.

It might still be at my mother.
If I see when I go take a picture.

I did a little googling, I believe it was a ti99 like Gringo.