Your first computer

[White_Noise]

old IBM with the 5.25 floppy green/black screen. we used it for super munchers and word perfect. still laying at my dad's shop. i have a kid that is supposed to trade me an atari for it. had that until 96. then another IBM, then in 2k1 got an HP. this year i built my own for college.

[Bolter]

I had an Oric 1 computer. I think I win on the old computer stakes.

Theres a link to it here http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=180

We played packman and pong etc on it. Im pretty sure we upgraded to an Oric 3 at some point :)

[LudavicoSoldier]

Mine was an old Digital workstation that took 1x1 (foot) disks (had a form factor like this: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=369). THe thing was HUGE: about half the size of a washing machine. I also had an Apple II and an IBM 5150. Suffice to say, I work in technology now.

[Muzikman]

I had an Oric 1 computer. I think I win on the old computer stakes.

Theres a link to it here http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=180

We played packman and pong etc on it. Im pretty sure we upgraded to an Oric 3 at some point :)

No you don't, you might win on the oddest, but not the oldest. That beast was make in 83', by then I already had a PC for almost 2 years and my TI99/4a for almost 4.

[Bolter]

No you don't, you might win on the oddest, but not the oldest. That beast was make in 83', by then I already had a PC for almost 2 years and my TI99/4a for almost 4.

damn.....Muzikman>Bolter :)

Hey come on......its pretty old :)

[lopxtc]

Hell yeah :) ... I had a 300 baud for a long time, used to get kicked off of the local multi-line BBS because I couldnt keep up with everyone else LOL ... The day I moved up to 1200 baud was incredible.

I remember spending four days downloading a ASCII capable terminal program for my C64. Took one hour to download, and write to disk, each of the four parts to the program. The only BBS in the area with it only allowed non-paying member to access the board for 1 hour a night. We would usually jump on around 11pm and talk to midnight then jump on again when the clock rolled over. The download was worth it though since it allowed me to have a 80 character screen that could handle ASCII code on a C64.

I used to run a WWIV board and remember spending hours using "The Draw" to create an opening splash screen for other WWIV boards. Would spend hours just playing Trade Wars and Studs :) ... for anyone that remembers what doors are back in the WWIV days.

Aaron

Hell man, I remember when 300 baud was the thing!

As for BBS's yes, I ran a Renegade BBS for years. Ya know, I honestly miss BBS's. Since most of the ones ya called were local, you got to meet some cool people.

[gibby]

Mine was a Commodore Vic-20 with the tape drive...and a small black and white tv to hook it up on. I'm not even going to begin listing all the computers I've had in the past...just too many to mention!

[Boski51]

I think your correct. I really enjoyed the BBS community. The internet before the internet was big.

[Miscue]

No, the turbo button did it job. The computer was designed to always run with the turbo on. The idea was, you turned it off to run some of the apps that ran too fast on the full processor speed. This was handy for the early games who's timers were based on processor cycles:)

Yeah, but it's purpose was to give ability to slow it down.

Turbo = normal mode really. Turning it off = slow mode!

[Muzikman]

The Draw...OMG, I nearly forgot about that program. I sucked at Ansi art, but a good buddy was a ansi god...I still have some of the menus and welcome screens he did, I need to find those disks:)

[undescriptive]

first one here was a Commodore C16 that I owned...

however, I used to regularly watch my uncle blow up BBC micros (masters and model B's - 4 I think)

plus the spectrums, hotly followed by a C64 then an amiga 500 (with 4Mb of ram!), then a bit of an upgrade and a downgrade in one go - an amiga1200 (only 2Mb ram)

then I started building PCs

my first built PC was a Cyrix DX66 with 8Mb ram and a 200Mb HDD(ish had some bad sectors!) running dos 5

from there it was far too many upgrade to what I have today...

[Halliday]

Commodore 64 and a floppy drive back when they were floppy. I remember waiting about 1/2 hour to load Stealth Fighter or Airborne Ranger

[RamboPreacher]

vic-20 was my first purchase of a "manufactured" computer. my first computer, though was one I built from a kit. had to manually flp switches to boot it up. AN altair. wish I still had it. I used to have a couple Apple Lisa's as well, but they got trashed in a local flood some years back. course went through the entire line of apple I/II(series), had a commodore exec and a couple osborne I's as well over the years. Was the TI 994a considered a computer or a video game system? had two of those. I had an oddesy system that was more of a computer, I think than the TI, oh well. should have seen my old sinclair kit, I had so many modules connected out the back it was too long for my desk. Several personal Xerox systems. I think I still have some 8" floppies left. I remember when I bought my first "Hard Drive" - it was a 5meg (yup, a full five megabytes), full-height 5.25 external system for my 5150 that cost nearly $6000; and wondered if I could EVER use all that space!

now that I think about it, I have been blessed to be part of teh computer industry since the "beginning". :) (kinda like my Paintball experiences) - now I am feeling old.

[Muzikman]

RP, the TI99/4A is more of a computer than an Oddesy. My TI had a cassette drive and it actually had it's own version of BASIC. BTW, I had an Oddesy too, but I didn't really think of that as a computer and more a game system with a touch pad keyboard.

BTW: you are old:)

[purple]

my first was in like 86, a IBM PC Junior. I'm pretty sure it had an 8086 in it, or whatever the hamstrung version of the current chip was back then. i think it was like 4 Mhz or somesuch. it had these neat bus cards that were the size of the side of the computer, and you had a port you could snap them onto, i had 64 K of ram and a printer card snap on. also it had two card ports, kinda like a small nintento cartridge that boosted speed, etc. it had NO hard drive, and ONE 5.25 inch floppy drive. The coolest part was the keyboard, it was wireless infrared, so you could type in word perfect from across the room on the amber monitor. man, that thing took like 2 minutes just to boot to the dos prompt. i played breakout and some other games like dave brown's flight simulator on it. it had an okidata thermal transfer printer that needed special paper and really rare ribbons. man, that thing was neat. i gave it away to some army guy.


Purple