what was your first computer?
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Grad school, circa 1995. A Packard Bell with a lightning fast 60MhZ Pentium.
Kaypro II, early '80s. State-of-the-art. Had an internal 300 baud modem and two floppy disk drives.
Some Packard Bell computer that had Windows 3.1 and DOS. Early/Mid 90s. Remember that it had one of those "turbo" buttons on it too.
Those damn cassette tapes, seemed like half of the time they didn't work.
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This was the biggest POS I have ever seen. The thing would constantly randomly crash to the blue screen of death. I can't tell you the number of papers I had to retype because the f******g thing would crash in the middle of typing. Had I known anything about computers at the time I would have gotten something different. My next computer was far better.
I took a computer programming class in high school in the early 90s with this computer, which was considered old as hell back then.
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Damn I am jealous. All we could afford was the commodore VIC 20.
Side note: until I found this picture online I had forgotten all about the Omega race game (one of the cartridges shown). I spent many late night hours as a pre teen mastering that game.
Mine was an HP that my parents purchased when was in college back in 1999
then in 2005 I switched to a laptop and left the tower computer behind
That top one is the one my grandparents bought me for graduation. Windows 98! I remember upgrading it to Windows 98 SE. WinAmp blaring pirated music from Napster, Audio Galaxy, Limewire, etc. Those were the days. I've worked in IT from about 2004 until present so I don't really ever own my own computer these days. I still have an older desktop serving up my Plex Media Server but nothing to write home about.
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First personal computer
the TI 99 was our first too. I just payed games and tried to program some simple graphics. Not sure what my dad used it for.
First computer my family got when I was a kid..
The first computer I actually bought when we got married was this Packard Bell with Windows 3.1...
What we paid for that was insane. As a function of our income, it would be like my spending $10k for a computer today.
The first computer I actually bought when we got married was this Packard Bell with Windows 3.1...
What we paid for that was insane. As a function of our income, it would be like my spending $10k for a computer today.
My father picked it up for $100 when they went out of business. I used it a decent amount, same as you, simple programming, a couple of games. Had a tape recorder hooked up.
I bought something very similar to this in 1991/1992. It’s still in a closet at my office and would probably still run. Seems like $1200 which was a lot back then.First computer my family got when I was a kid..
The first computer I actually bought when we got married was this Packard Bell with Windows 3.1...
What we paid for that was insane. As a function of our income, it would be like my spending $10k for a computer today.
Yeah, we bought ours in I think 1995, and with the monitor and printer, it was about $1600 with tax. Insane.
But it wasn't frivolous...we were recently graduated, married, and moving to a new city. It was essential simply for creating resumes and researching where to move, even with the internet in early days. I'm not sure what we would have done without it.
Here’s what HROT would have looked like back in 2003 on a lot of our old computers
The same as a few others - the TI 99/4A
It plugged into the back of the TV - well, not really "plugged in", as the wires screwed into the back of the TV using one of these:
Also, you used a tape recorder/ cassette player to record/read programs. At the time it was pretty state of the art though!
It plugged into the back of the TV - well, not really "plugged in", as the wires screwed into the back of the TV using one of these:
Also, you used a tape recorder/ cassette player to record/read programs. At the time it was pretty state of the art though!
Me too. Still have a Kaypro collecting dust in the basement.Kaypro II, early '80s. State-of-the-art. Had an internal 300 baud modem and two floppy disk drives.
There are only about 4 political posts on the whole first page?! Maybe going back in time wouldn't be so bad...!Here’s what HROT would have looked like back in 2003 on a lot of our old computers
Me too. We had one in the basement when I was a kid. I was awesome at Summer Games, Winter Games, Hardball, Dr. J vs. Larry Bird etc......
Mine was remarkably similar to this except for a Compaq (believe Compaq had been bought out by HP by then). But yeah, purchased Black Friday 1999 at Best Buy. Looks exactly the same except more an eggshell white color.
256MB of RAM, woo hoo! I remember installing another 128 MB into it an it seemed like such a rocket ship of a computer back then after. I remember learning how to operate the scanner, and it'd take whole minutes to process a 4x6 photo if you had the scan settings set to full.
The entire package...printer, PC, monitor, scanner, surge protector = $1200. I got about 5 years out of it. It mainly was an internet surfer, CD ripper, Napster downloader, and scanner/printer of my picture albums.
I can hear the dial-up modem rattling off connecting as I type this out...
I still am using the surge protector (Belkin) right at this moment on the PC I'm typing out here. 20+ years old, all outlets still work, no item ever plugged into it has ever fried despite power spike hits galore through the years. Damn thing is bullet proof.
Timex Sinclair 1000
i remember those. i was about 10 years old and i wanted one. my dad asked me what i was going to do with it, and i told him i'd just figure it out when i got it. i probably sounded a lot like my 9 year old that begs for his own phone every couple hours.
This was my first personal computer when I went off to college - it's the IBM PS/2. Mine had the color monitor, so very fancy:
It had it's own operating system. I tried to install Windows but found out the hard drive wasn't big enough - I believe it was 20MB. It was basically a fancy word processor/typewriter, but it lasted my for a good part of college.
It had it's own operating system. I tried to install Windows but found out the hard drive wasn't big enough - I believe it was 20MB. It was basically a fancy word processor/typewriter, but it lasted my for a good part of college.
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