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#51 2003-06-28 1:30 am
- Seidoger
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Re: Your first computer.
oh.. i forgot i had, me too, a TI
I don't remember it's exact name. I do remember a game (one of the 2 we had) where you had to climb a snowy mountain and there was skunks and eagles at the top that you had to avoid. Anyone remember the name of that game?
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#52 2003-06-28 1:57 am
- TheConfuzed1
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Re: Your first computer.
...my Dad got rid of it when my parents divorced (it was his overuse of that computer that had caused the end of their marriage)...
Such bitter irony.
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#53 2003-06-28 2:28 am
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Re: Your first computer.
Sinclair ZX80 (yes 80)
Commodore VIC20
Acorn BBC model "B"
Acorn BBC Master128
Commodore Amiga500
Commodore Amiga1200
Commodore Amiga4000 (still runs MacOS 8.6 on top of AmigaOS great!)
Apple PowerBook G3/300 "Wallstreet"
Apple PowerBook G3/500 "Pismo"
Apple PowerBook G4/800 "Titanium"
AmigaOne-XE G4/800
Apple PowerMac G5/dual2.6 "PC shredder" Next Summer
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#55 2003-06-28 4:08 am
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Re: Your first computer.
Commodore 64
Apple Macintosh Colour Classic
Apple PowerMacintosch G3 Desktop (now built into a drawer :-)
now: TiBook 1000
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#56 2003-06-28 7:29 pm
Re: Your first computer.
This has probably been done already many times, I guess I missed it.
I got my first real computer when I was about 11-12 (circa 1996), it was a Performa 6320 CD with a 120 MHz PPC, 16 MB of RAM with System 7.5.5 on it. Really sweet machine, I don't have it anymore though.
What about you?
TRS-80 model 1. I'm 46
Macbook 1.83 w/ 1gig RAM, Mac mini 1.25 w/ 512mb RAM, G3 ibook 500, 512 1sy gen. ipod shuffle, 2g iPod nano
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#57 2003-06-28 7:43 pm
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My first mac was a Performa 6116CD, at 60 MHz. It had a whopping 8MB of RAM and a huge 700MB hard drive. And get this: A 2X CD-ROM!!!!!!
I decided to buy it because I loved the Macs my school had. They had a whole lot of IBM EduQuest 486s and two Power Mac 6100/60s. The EduQuests were crap: they crashed all of the time and were unpleasant to use. But the Macs? They were "happy" computers, they played nice music and had good graphics, and I loved them. I bought one. Now, I have seven Macs in varying degrees of age.
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#58 2003-06-28 7:59 pm
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Re: Your first computer.
1978 -- $999
TRS-80 Model I
1.77 Mhz Z-80 processor (8080 compatible)
Level II BASIC (Microsoft -- 12K ROM)
16K RAM
500 baud cassette recorder I/O
64 character x 16 line black & white display (uppercase only)
Later added an "Expansion Interface", upgraded to 32- then 48K RAM, added 1 then a second 100K 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, upgraed to double density (184K) floppy drives, and a "lower case mod" which added lower case to the display.
ERROR 256: Nut loose on the keyboard.
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#60 2003-06-28 8:09 pm
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Re: Your first computer.
My family was all PeeCee. First was a Tandy, followed by a long list of others. Only thing I ever liked was playing Rampage. When I graduated from college my dad gave me an old Toshiba laptop for faxing resumes, it got stolen, and insurance bought me my B&W G3. What a deal!
Now I've got 6 Macs I use regularly, another half dozen I've "loaned" to people, and a PeeCee I took from the trash at work so I can view the porn that doesn't work on my Macs.
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#62 2003-06-28 8:52 pm
- totalcodex
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Re: Your first computer.
Apple LC II...
aaah, those were the days
Yeah, playing black-and-white Columns with those square patterned blocks...fun times.
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#63 2003-06-28 8:56 pm
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Re: Your first computer.
My first computer was a PowerMac G5. At one time someone told me that it used to be the fastest PC on the planet. It was a good computer I guess although it was pretty slow. It was like a dual 2ghz or something like that. A real POS if you know what I mean.
Now though I have a Packard Bell 486sx man this thing smokes. Or is that the other way around?
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#64 2003-06-28 8:59 pm
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not sure what the model was, i do know that its code name was "Mr. T", not going to look it up now. i also remember that it was $3000 for the computer, 40MB external removable hard drive, and the printer together.
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#65 2003-06-28 9:46 pm
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Re: Your first computer.
Trash 80!!!!
I believe that's what my dad and I built circa. 1982
I was born in 1982. . .
We had that computer for years. I remeber when we first got the SE, we thought it was amazing. It even had this little tutorial on it which taught you how to use it. Why don't they have anything like that anymore?
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#66 2003-06-28 10:16 pm
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Re: Your first computer.
C64... had several until 1997, when I got a 286 (IBM PS2/30), then later in 1997 when I got a Compaq ProLinea 4/33. Had that until 2000, when I got an HP 6550 ( I think that was the number... 600MHz P3). Built a white box in 2002 (AMD Athlon XP 1800) with a combination of new and old parts (from the HP, I had upgraded it significantly). I got the TiBook 667DVI in July of 2002.
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#67 2003-06-29 12:37 am
- TheConfuzed1
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Re: Your first computer.
Trash 80!!!!
I believe that's what my dad and I built circa. 1982
I was born in 1982. . .
We had that computer for years. I remeber when we first got the SE, we thought it was amazing. It even had this little tutorial on it which taught you how to use it. Why don't they have anything like that anymore?
They do.
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#68 2003-06-29 12:54 am
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Re: Your first computer.
Ohio Scientific Kit that my Dad put together for us. The DOS was personally written by Bill Gates himself. I think it had a whopping 8K of RAM and a composite video output. Programming was done either with a very crude version of Basic or assembly. I have it in my closet, maybe I'll post a pic. My dad made a wood cabinet thingy for it. My brother and I are going to resurrect it sometime. I think it used a 6502 processor.
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Now that sounds really familiar!
Was that the kit that you hand built at home in the early 80s???? If so I had that mixed up with the trash 80 in my earlier post 
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#70 2003-06-29 2:58 am
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Re: Your first computer.
Top of the Range : Powerbook Duo 230.
I'm resurrecting it as we speak.
Proves a five-year old can use a Mac...
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#72 2003-06-29 12:53 pm
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Re: Your first computer.
I think I had the Vic for a month or two before I "upgraded" to a C-64. I didn't buy another computer for another 20 years when I got my G4.
(I used PC's in shool, library and at work and knew I didn't want to deal with that bullsh*t, so I wouldn't buy one, no way, no how. I used Webtv for years rather than suffer with a PC)
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#73 2003-06-29 7:26 pm
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Re: Your first computer.
What were those computers that you hooked in to your TV? I had one of those- with a keyboard and very limited graphics on the TV, and I remember playing one game on it. The game was something about escaping from an asylum, with different insane characters who thought they were famous people (Lincoln and the like). You typed in commands for the game- I remember being really fast at that!
Does anyone remember what that was called??
And then my first apple was a IIe in 9th grade and the internet was "irc" channels to chat on, and some kind of "graphic village" on the computer that had something to do with the internet.
Oh those were the days! 
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#74 2003-06-29 7:36 pm
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I just read through the rest of the posts and googled the computer game! What a hoot!
The TRS-80 was my family's first "computer" and "Asylum" was the game we used to play- I remember when that game was the sh*t!!
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#75 2003-06-30 12:12 am
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Re: Your first computer.
First computer I ever *used* was a TRS-80 at school. But the first one I owned was a Commodore VIC-20, with its mighty 3.5K of RAM! (Any idea how hard it is to program a game in BASIC in only 3.5K? 
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Moved up to a C-64 about two years later. Then my freshman year in college my roommate had a Mac SE (with 20MB hard drive). I was hooked - bought my own the next year (had to take a loan to do it). Now on my fourth Mac (a MDD G4).
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I tried that, but all I ended up with was higher insurance
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