Show us your first computer
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Sanaz
Gorilla Joe
TI-99/4A
Here's some pictures from a website (not mine) :
http://www.geocities.com/sonic2000gr/994a-photo.html
Here's some pictures from a website (not mine) :
http://www.geocities.com/sonic2000gr/994a-photo.html
joespaniel
Unescorted Settler
We had a commodor 64, and something even funnier before that...
Cant remember.
Cant remember.
Crazy Eddie
Genial drunkard
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The first computer I owned was a Sinclair Spectrum+ (the model without the rubber keys) but the first IBM PC clone I had was an Amstrad PPC like this...
I've still got it.
I've still got it.
anarchywrksbest
Deity
My Amstrad CPC464! The cassette drive still gives me nightmares!
Load time 17 minutes. Block 45........load error....load error.....
But i loved it all the same
And my first console! Atari 5200!
Load time 17 minutes. Block 45........load error....load error.....
But i loved it all the same
And my first console! Atari 5200!
Lucky
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Don´t have a picture! 
It was completely self-assembled, built partly from east and partly from west-german parts. Put together by my father, plugged into the TV. Attached a joystick and a cassette deck and it worked fine, better then the C-64 and HUGE fun to play!
It was completely self-assembled, built partly from east and partly from west-german parts. Put together by my father, plugged into the TV. Attached a joystick and a cassette deck and it worked fine, better then the C-64 and HUGE fun to play!
GenghisK
...
Raaaah those were my first computers...
(it was damn heavy and huge but so solid and reliable. Imagine, it was released in early 80s and 10 years after when my uncle brought it home for me, the power supply still worked!! and so did the 30gig HD!! amazing. Considering the machines now, with HDs that die after 3 or 4 years
And power supply too...
and
(it was damn heavy and huge but so solid and reliable. Imagine, it was released in early 80s and 10 years after when my uncle brought it home for me, the power supply still worked!! and so did the 30gig HD!! amazing. Considering the machines now, with HDs that die after 3 or 4 years
And power supply too...
and
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
I don't remember the model, but it was an old Gateway, from around the late 80s. It had the old 8 inch floppies and some "new" 3.5 inchers!! 
CG
CG
Cartouche Bee
Appropriations Consultant
Originally posted by cgannon64
I don't remember the model, but it was an old Gateway, from around the late 80s. It had the old 8 inch floppies and some "new" 3.5 inchers!!
CG
Now your're making me feel real old. Those were 5 1/4 inchers on the gateway. The 8 inchers were in the 70's.
Perfection
The Great Head.
When I was two I played on an Amiga
I still have my 486 from when I was five, its a reliable computer that still runs
I also own two timex sinclairs that my dad used to work on.
I still have my 486 from when I was five, its a reliable computer that still runs
I also own two timex sinclairs that my dad used to work on.
Crazy Eddie
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Originally posted by IceBlaZe
Looks more versatile than today's computers
Indeed. It's very handy for propping doors open.
The portability is somewhat ruined by the fact that it needs eight D-cell batteries.
Portuguese
Vassalising Spain
Mine:
Commodore (1991)
386 - 20Mgz
17MB of Hard Disk
64Kb RAM
5 1/4 disks
Those arcanoid times...
Commodore (1991)
386 - 20Mgz
17MB of Hard Disk
64Kb RAM
5 1/4 disks
Those arcanoid times...
Fool Inc.
Back from the Dead
funny I have the same one as civ1_addict
First computer I used was a Ferranti Sirius in 1971 - size of a ballroom. All input was via paper tape; all output was via papertape too. It used its own language called Ferranti Autocode. Then came the ICL 1900 and I learned to program in Fortran and passed A level Computer Science. At uni I used IBM 360s. In 1977 I had my own terminal to the DEC10 and one day a Commodore Pet arrived on my desk. The micor age had arrived! Had more fun writing programs for that until Crowther's Adventure arrived for the Dec10 and all work at the uni ceased.
I still own a BBC B micro, an Acorn Archimedes (damn fine machine), a Dell PC, + the Biggun - a mammoth Supermicro box crammed with bits and pieces. Its like Caesar's knife - entirely original apart from a new blade and handle. I built it from separate bits and it has undergone many upgrades. Time for a new board, processor and graphics card soon methinks.
I still own a BBC B micro, an Acorn Archimedes (damn fine machine), a Dell PC, + the Biggun - a mammoth Supermicro box crammed with bits and pieces. Its like Caesar's knife - entirely original apart from a new blade and handle. I built it from separate bits and it has undergone many upgrades. Time for a new board, processor and graphics card soon methinks.
First I wanted to show you the Amstrad 2386 that my father bought in 1992. I had that one until 1999 when my parents wanted to make a nice present to my then 5 years old cousin. So they told me: give him the Amstrad. The computer was at that time in a plastic bag in the attic split into a dozen pieces as at some time I took the 2 Mb RAM and the 120Mb HDD out. I spent 2 days to put it back together but I missed the hard disk jumper that switched the HDD on Master. The HDD had been on Slave for 3 years. Did you know that old jumpers were larger than the present ones? I had to bend the wires and make an improvisation. Curiously the PC did work and my cousin could even use it for 6 months. Then it fell apart.
But actually I had a Sinclair Spectrum clone in 1988. It was called HC 85 and it looked very much like the HC 91 presented in the link below. The thing different was that the front cover with the keyboard was missing and someone had built a metal cover with keys from other computers, some handmade plastic keys and some handmade wooden keys. Eventually I dropped it (I was 10 at that time) and the guy who took it for repairs never brought it back.
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But actually I had a Sinclair Spectrum clone in 1988. It was called HC 85 and it looked very much like the HC 91 presented in the link below. The thing different was that the front cover with the keyboard was missing and someone had built a metal cover with keys from other computers, some handmade plastic keys and some handmade wooden keys. Eventually I dropped it (I was 10 at that time) and the guy who took it for repairs never brought it back.
Click here
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