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This is by far my favourite computer

Starring the Computer - IBM AN/FSQ-7




I have noticed it in so many old sci-fi movies and TV shows. I never knew that it was a real computer until just recently - I always thought it was just a cool movie prop. I credit this computer for getting me interested in computers in the first place.

This is pretty cool

Starring the Computer - Sharp MZ-80K

This one was the first I had access to in late 1979... But mine had a 5.25 floppy drive in place of the cassette deck

EDIT: Plus the first Comppoter I actually owned Starring the Computer - Sinclair Research ZX81

Great Memories...

This is my favorite computer




I've had many over the years from Dell - IBM - Acer etc. never an Apple. Brings back some memories but I still can't get that squealing out of my head from dial up internet access LOL and porn was mostly message boards (where I found LightSpeed cash and HornyRob).

What saddens me today is the idea when you think you bought the best then a couple of months later something else comes out that makes yours look old. I do have a laptop I bought 6 years ago and still running strong (my son uses it for games and online schoolwork if needed)

So many people bought computers and never used them as was all too hard to type commands you could buy them new second hand.

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1. It ran at 1.77 MHz, had 16k of Ram, and used a cassette tape recorder for storage.

When I first turned it on, there was nothing apperently to do with it because it had no software. It booted BASIC from a Rom, and that was it.

As it turns out though, that was the best because it forced me to learn how to code. I bought some books that contained software as lines of code that you had to type in, one line at a time, error free, then RUN to use, or SAVE to save to a cassette. It took hours to enter lines for some games, and even 2 days to type in a complete Star Trek game. It sounds terrible by today's standards, but it was super-fun for me, and really educational.

I still have that machine as well as a spare Model 1, plus a Model 4, with disk drives, floppies, and yikes - even some cassettes.

And just for fun, I sometimes connect the Model 4, a machine from 1982, to my Network and to the Internet, and use it to run Terminal to connect to Amazon AWS or other servers I am running. So cool.

I wrote my first applications in basic language on an Apple II in the early 80s...

My 1st PC was an IBM PC jr in early 80s

My first computer was a Commodore C64. What a nightmare it was to type in every freakin line of code. If you typoed, you were screwed. Sometime around the early 80s, I upgraded to an Apple2. I used it to MIDI an old Minimoog. The Minimoog is in my cellar and the Apple 2 is long gone.

There are some retro computer fairs that are gaining momentum. I think I might go to one soon.

Do you still happen to have it? If so its probably worth alot. A friend of mine has an original IBM PC XT, complete with monitor, IBM Keyboard, and even the manuals. Someone offered him $12,000 for it and ... he turned it down!

haha I wish I still had it. I had it for like 3 years but once I was old enough to drive it went bye-bye and I didn't get another PC until I built my first one in 98