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Old 07-16-2010, 05:50 AM   #1
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Default What was the first Computer you ever owned ?
Just curious to see how many of you remember what was the very first computer you ever owned ?

This was mine

Commodore 64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

But interestingly enough my first computer I learned to program and work on was YES ED.. And Apple II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series
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Old 07-16-2010, 05:54 AM   #2
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Mine was a Zenith laptop I bought back in 1994. I forget the model. It lasted me 11 years.
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Old 07-16-2010, 06:18 AM   #3
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Mine was a Commodore 64 too.
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Old 07-16-2010, 07:56 AM   #4
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TRS-80

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Old 07-16-2010, 07:59 AM   #5
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I wasn't a rich kid who got the newest greatest electronics when they came out, BRAGGERS!











and yes im kidding around
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Old 07-16-2010, 07:59 AM   #6
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This is only my 2nd. I resisted getting one for years and only got my first about 10 years ago...no idea what type it was...hang on, it was an Acer
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Old 07-16-2010, 09:22 AM   #7
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I don't know, all I know is we got it around 1996 with Windows '95 on it and had Frogger and 3-D Ultra Pinball, yippee!
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Old 07-16-2010, 10:39 AM   #8
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The lovable ZX81 from Sinclair way back in '81:



1K of RAM!! Black and White Graphics! Brilliant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
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Old 07-16-2010, 04:18 PM   #9
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The lovable ZX81 from Sinclair way back in '81:



1K of RAM!! Black and White Graphics! Brilliant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
Mine was better than yours those because I had two 16K RAM packs on the back. Used to love loading games from a tape recorder which made funny screeching noises for about 5 minutes and then failed to load because the volume wasn't at exactly the right setting and the instructions never told you what that was anyway! Not! Remember the fun of writing out a long program in BASIC for hours on end to play some crappy game, not being able to save was a bastard for this too! My cousin once spent 12 hours non stop trying to make a cricket game, he had nearly finished when his sister ran in the room and accidently kicked the plug out of the socket!
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Old 07-16-2010, 08:59 PM   #10
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I had an Apple IIc... I still have it even, sitting in my garage.
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Old 07-16-2010, 09:00 PM   #11
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Spectrum 48k.
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Old 07-17-2010, 02:35 AM   #12
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Mine was better than yours those because I had two 16K RAM packs on the back. Used to love loading games from a tape recorder which made funny screeching noises for about 5 minutes and then failed to load because the volume wasn't at exactly the right setting and the instructions never told you what that was anyway! Not! Remember the fun of writing out a long program in BASIC for hours on end to play some crappy game, not being able to save was a bastard for this too! My cousin once spent 12 hours non stop trying to make a cricket game, he had nearly finished when his sister ran in the room and accidently kicked the plug out of the socket!
OOOH! I learned how to write BASIC programs in high school one year. I would write programs for mad libs. It was grand fun!
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Old 07-17-2010, 02:59 AM   #13
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I had an Apple IIc... I still have it even, sitting in my garage.
I've been really wanting to convert this thing into a modern computer... I've just never gotten around to doing it.
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Old 07-17-2010, 03:08 AM   #14
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I had an Amiga with a load of games on floppy discs. Haven't got a clue which model it was.
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Old 07-17-2010, 03:15 AM   #15
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286 with a monochrome monitor. Had a whopping 20 meg harddrive. I had a guy upgrade it and he added widows 3.1. That was in 1989.
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Old 07-17-2010, 03:44 AM   #16
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My father bought me a Tandy TRS-80 from Radio Shack. I mostly played games on it. Then I had an Apple 2 on which I used to make video games that were like ATARI's Space Invaders.
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Old 07-17-2010, 04:35 AM   #17
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My first computer was an Atari 2600 but I had to share it with my two brothers. All I could do was play games on it but that's all I wanted to do anyway.
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Old 07-17-2010, 06:03 AM   #18
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I remember our first household computer was bought just as Windows 95 was released.

A few weeks ago, I was walking by a dumpster at school and saw a box for Microsoft Office 95!
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Old 07-18-2010, 09:00 PM   #19
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Apple IIe- loved it for 9 years before I moved onto a Mac Performa. Loved that too. Then I PPC...
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Old 07-18-2010, 09:22 PM   #20
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Mine was better than yours those because I had two 16K RAM packs on the back. Used to love loading games from a tape recorder which made funny screeching noises for about 5 minutes and then failed to load because the volume wasn't at exactly the right setting and the instructions never told you what that was anyway! Not! Remember the fun of writing out a long program in BASIC for hours on end to play some crappy game, not being able to save was a bastard for this too! My cousin once spent 12 hours non stop trying to make a cricket game, he had nearly finished when his sister ran in the room and accidently kicked the plug out of the socket!
oh I still miss it to this day! By the time I had upgraded (well, my parents upgraded me to a Commodore VIC20) I had the memory pack, and a proper keyboard for it. So cool. I was still using my ZX81 for BASIC programming up to the late 80s... just for kicks! Hey, remember a TV show called "The Whiz Kids"? They hacked into NASA on a ZX81!!



My full computer history:

ZX81
Commodore VIC 20
ZX48
Amstrad CPC464
Commodore Amiga A500
Compaq Windoze computer
Apple LC475
Apple PowerMac
Apple iMac
Apple Lombard Laptop
iBook G3 Clamshell
Apple G4 titanium Laptop
iMac G5
iMac 27" & MacBook & iPhone

damn, a lot of computers...
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