My dad worked for a Canon dealer so he picked up a Canon AS100. I couldn't tell you the specs, but I had it in 1986 or 87. Monitor and computer all in one deal. The dual floppy 5.25 drive attached to the side. Also came with 8.5 inch floppy drive. Few software packages. Canowriter and Canobrain I think were the two big ones I had. My dad found code to program it to do games once. He and my mom were up til 1:30 one morning inputting the code. They got done and he said "Ok, now....how do I save this?" Never did any games. 
What do you expect when it's free?
Next one up was Tandy 1000 (I think). Another piece o garbage but at least I had some games this time. Paid 100 bucks for computer, monitor, printer and all software.
What do you expect when it's free?Next one up was Tandy 1000 (I think). Another piece o garbage but at least I had some games this time. Paid 100 bucks for computer, monitor, printer and all software.
I had an AMD K6-200. 3.2G.
It still works great.
But I am on an 1.4 Athlon now! My dad adopted that thing.
It still works great.
But I am on an 1.4 Athlon now! My dad adopted that thing.
my first real computer was an Apple IIe bought i believe in 1984? for about $2,400.00; the original portable home computer with a flip up lcd screen. i have no idea what processor it had but it was 128 K of ram if you can believe that, no hard drive, just and external 5.25" floppy. great for playing those games that were all text and no graphics. I also played the original Might and Magic on this computer which did have graphics. i think i threw this away during one of my moves to a new apartment; i remember i couldn't even give it away.
My "first" was a C64, with a 5 1/2" floppy, some C64 serial-to-centronics converter (for the printer) and an Epson LX800. Got it for free from my uncle.
Edit: Oh yeah, some how I fried it, not sure how. It was just dead instantly. No, I didn't O/C it
Edit: Oh yeah, some how I fried it, not sure how. It was just dead instantly. No, I didn't O/C it
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First Computer - DEC PDP8
First PC 1994
486/66 dually with 64 MB RAM
2 - 2 GB SCSI hard drives
2X SCSI CDR
33K Modem
17" View Sonic Monitor
w/ OS and development software
~$9K - verified & itemized by IRS
First PC 1994
486/66 dually with 64 MB RAM
2 - 2 GB SCSI hard drives
2X SCSI CDR
33K Modem
17" View Sonic Monitor
w/ OS and development software
~$9K - verified & itemized by IRS
P.S.
My 2nd computer was an Atari 400. I had many cartridge games, the cartridge BASIC interpreter, and the 410 tape drive.
It took much fighting my parents, but in the last 15 years I have saved it from the dumpster literally hundreds of times. To this day, I still have the system, all the carts and tapes, and it's in perfect working order.
We even ripped out the membrane keyboard and replaced it with a real keyboard from an 800.
My 2nd computer was an Atari 400. I had many cartridge games, the cartridge BASIC interpreter, and the 410 tape drive.
It took much fighting my parents, but in the last 15 years I have saved it from the dumpster literally hundreds of times. To this day, I still have the system, all the carts and tapes, and it's in perfect working order.
We even ripped out the membrane keyboard and replaced it with a real keyboard from an 800.
Commodore 64 with a 1541 Disk Drive attached to an old RCA XL-100 TV. Christmas 1983. I was 9. I still love the Commodore. I imagine my parents paid close to $600 for the computer and drive.
A couple of years ago I started getting into classic computers and picked up a C64 and drive from Goodwill. $5 for the CPU, $1 for the power supply, and $10 for the drive. It's nice to be back.
A couple of years ago I started getting into classic computers and picked up a C64 and drive from Goodwill. $5 for the CPU, $1 for the power supply, and $10 for the drive. It's nice to be back.
A Pentium 60MHz...first one baby! w/16 mb of ram...a 500mb Conner HD...an STB Velocity "display adapter"...and a SB16 that was swapped for a Media Vision Memphis that included an SCSI NEC 2x CD-Rom...that sucker cost us close to $4,000...lol...that damn Memphis cost $800 alone...geez..oh well its still running though.
Wow, no old folks on this board.
First computer around 1982.
Sinclair 1000. Had 8KB RAM and no drives whatsoever.
Loaded and saved programs using a standard cassette tape recorder.
Booted to a command prompt, BASIC on the boot ROM.
Used TV as a monitor.
Still have it in the closet.
Cost a few hundred dollars, can't remember exact price.
First computer around 1982.
Sinclair 1000. Had 8KB RAM and no drives whatsoever.
Loaded and saved programs using a standard cassette tape recorder.
Booted to a command prompt, BASIC on the boot ROM.
Used TV as a monitor.
Still have it in the closet.
Cost a few hundred dollars, can't remember exact price.
Hmm...my dad got an IBM XT for the family when I was in HS - no idea how much it cost (but he got a huge discount being an IBM employee). The first computer *I* owned:
Macintosh SE/30
68030 16Mhz chip
1 MB RAM
40 MB HD
14.4k modem
1.44k SuperDrive (floppy)
bought: Sep 1989
RIP: Apr 1997
Cost me well over $3000 in 1989 (and that was through UT-Austin student discount!)
Course the thing lasted me through my entire college career (6 yrs) & 2 years of grad school before the monitor finally died.
Macintosh SE/30
68030 16Mhz chip
1 MB RAM
40 MB HD
14.4k modem
1.44k SuperDrive (floppy)
bought: Sep 1989
RIP: Apr 1997
Cost me well over $3000 in 1989 (and that was through UT-Austin student discount!)
Course the thing lasted me through my entire college career (6 yrs) & 2 years of grad school before the monitor finally died.
My very first computer was:
Radio Shack TRS-80.
What's a floppy drive? I used a cassette deck, plug into the headphone jack to load programs.
It came with 4k of memory I think, we did the 16k upgrade at home.
The good old days of typing in programs from the back of the Radio Shack magazine in Basic are some of the fondest of my childhood.
Then I upgraded to a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. Ran a BBS off of that. Then I got my super fast 1200 baud modem... Smokin! Commie graphics were hot!
Then on to the 286/12Mhz, the computer cost $2000, then I added a 120meg HD for another $2000. I had the biggest NPD BBS in town!
ohwell now that is suck
Paul
Radio Shack TRS-80.
What's a floppy drive? I used a cassette deck, plug into the headphone jack to load programs.
It came with 4k of memory I think, we did the 16k upgrade at home.
The good old days of typing in programs from the back of the Radio Shack magazine in Basic are some of the fondest of my childhood.
Then I upgraded to a Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem. Ran a BBS off of that. Then I got my super fast 1200 baud modem... Smokin! Commie graphics were hot!
Then on to the 286/12Mhz, the computer cost $2000, then I added a 120meg HD for another $2000. I had the biggest NPD BBS in town!
ohwell now that is suck
Paul
My first was a Cyrix 200 (Really a 150) with 32 mb of ram and an 850 meg hard drive. I paid $600 for it.
I remember beating on my dad's C64 when I was really young. First PC was a Wang Technologies 386sx/33? with 2meg ram, 40meg hd, both 5.25" and 3.5" floppies, NO modem. It also came with a nice big 14" monitor and a VGA graphics adapter. Dos 5.0 and windows 3.0 came on 5.25" floppies. All in all, it ran $1400 in 1991. The 5.25" floppy still sees use today in another machine(not to mention my dad thinks dos is easier to use than windows 9x).................
Wow, this thread brings back great memories.
Mine was :
an IBM Compatible 486DX/33 (/w a math-coprocessor) (and I remember the Turbo switch on the case, haha)
4MB(or was that 8) RAM
2MB video card (Trident, I think)
120MB HD
a 5 1/4" floppy drive (double density)
13" color monitor (WEN or something)
8bit SB soundcard
no modem
Win3.1/DOS 5.1 (or something close to that)
a Dot Matrix printer (still have it in my parent's house, and that thing is loud)
keyboard and a 2-button mouse, ...
My cousin (who is younger than me, and many thanks to him) helped me buy all those parts and showed me how to custom build my very 1st computer.
Don't remember the price but it was (lunch,tuition,book) money well spent. Since then, I have been building computers for me and my family.
So, if my cousin, Alan, can see this, many thanks for your help and it changed my life.
Mine was :
an IBM Compatible 486DX/33 (/w a math-coprocessor) (and I remember the Turbo switch on the case, haha)
4MB(or was that 8) RAM
2MB video card (Trident, I think)
120MB HD
a 5 1/4" floppy drive (double density)
13" color monitor (WEN or something)
8bit SB soundcard
no modem
Win3.1/DOS 5.1 (or something close to that)
a Dot Matrix printer (still have it in my parent's house, and that thing is loud)
keyboard and a 2-button mouse, ...
My cousin (who is younger than me, and many thanks to him) helped me buy all those parts and showed me how to custom build my very 1st computer.
Don't remember the price but it was (lunch,tuition,book) money well spent. Since then, I have been building computers for me and my family.
So, if my cousin, Alan, can see this, many thanks for your help and it changed my life.
Apple II+
Motorola 6502 (1MHz)
48KB + 16KB card
5.25" floppy drive (143KB) hacked w/switches to override write protection
Videx Ultraterm video card
Pcasso printer card
Epson FX80+ dot matrix printer
12" amber monitor
rf modulator for 12" color tv
around $2,000
Motorola 6502 (1MHz)
48KB + 16KB card
5.25" floppy drive (143KB) hacked w/switches to override write protection
Videx Ultraterm video card
Pcasso printer card
Epson FX80+ dot matrix printer
12" amber monitor
rf modulator for 12" color tv
around $2,000
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