Why did your parents buy you your first computer?
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Nobody bought me a computer ever. I built my own with money I'd earned. I was on computers many years and years before that happened though.
Interesting question here: How many of the GFYers remember 300 baud accustic modems and dumb terminals with thermal paper output instead of a monitor? How many remember punch cards or even know what that means? I'm betting 0.15%, but that's just a gentleman's bet.
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There very fist computer that I owned myself was a Tandy 1000:
With this monitor:
I cant remember the first computer my family had.
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Originally posted by venturi
Nobody bought me a computer ever. I built my own with money I'd earned. I was on computers many years and years before that happened though.
Interesting question here: How many of the GFYers remember 300 baud accustic modems and dumb terminals with thermal paper output instead of a monitor? How many remember punch cards or even know what that means? I'm betting 0.15%, but that's just a gentleman's bet.
I used to go into my father's office when i was young and he'd be using punch cards to run his programs..
My current boss relates stories of punch cards to me often also.. getting all the cards in the right order took a while... and sometimes someone would switch one out of place and the whole thing would be fucked up.. they only had once chance per day to run a program because of the demand from other departments to use the 'computer'.
At home we had a pre 286 computer that i was allowed to use to play crappy old games on - space invaders, zork, alley cat, lode runner etc) and before that he had a sinclair/tandy type clone with no drive input that plugged into the tv that you could program yourself eg; 10 print "hello world" 20 goto 10 etc. i used to program sounds into it and type out code for simple games from books.
I bought my first computer - 586 second hand and modified it over time.
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I had every computer out throughout my younger years. My cousin bought a proper PC in 1997 and got the internet and of course I had to have it, so mum bought me my computer and got me the internet. Its kinda went on from there. I think I was 14 or 15 when I got my first pc and internet
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dam thats like one of those original bitches from radio shack and shit right... i got my firts comp 7 years agoOriginally posted by steve90
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When i eventually got a decent computer. I remember playing quake on my 14.4
And yes, I pwned all.
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I bought my own computer 6 years ago..still have this power house, never had to take it to a shop ..only had to format once..
It's now my kids computerComment
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82 or 83ish I got a tandy 486. I LOVED LOVED LOVED it
My parents got it for me, they thought it was like my atari 2600 or someshit, to this day they have no idea about computers
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Wow, shows how old I am - by the time PC's came out, I was no longer young enough to have my parents buy me stuff.
My Dad worked for IBM and got one the first PC Juniors - before they were released to the public. I remember going to house to use it.
My ex-husband had one of the Atari's, but I never used it.
The first PC I bought was an 8088 - sometime around 1985ish.Comment
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Got my first computer some time in junior high. Horrible machine, but it did come with a key and a turbo button.Comment
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my first comp was a 486 DX2 80 mhz with 8nb ram and a 1mb vga card LOL..cd rom players were the crop of the crop ..paid $400 for a double speed
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My first computer was from Radio Shack - It was a huge keyboard that you plugged into your TV. It had a cassette recorder to store data on. Fun times. Didn't do much.
I got into computers when I was in high school. We had those computers that were a monitor and keyboard all in one - A Tandy I think it was. I remember writing a program where I stored phone numbers and addresses, where I could hahahahaha one letter, pick and choose which parts to include in the letter, and print up dozens of different letters to differnt people.Herschel Savage
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My dad didnt want to teach me about the birds and bees so I assume he gave me a computer and access to freenet so I could do it on my own ;-)
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this post makes me feel very old.Originally posted by Rhino22
Because I wanted to play StarCraft soooo badly and I wouldn't leave my dad alone until he bought me a PC of my own.
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Description
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Manufacturer Coleco
Model Adam
Date Announced 1981
Date Canceled 1983
Number Produced Unknown
Country of Origin USA
Price About $600
Current Value $25-$100
Specifications
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Processor Zilog Z80
Speed 4 MHz
RAM 64K
ROM 32K
Storage Custom Digital Data Packs that look surprisingly like audio cassettes (but aren't the same). 5.25 disk drives optional.
Expansion 3 expansion slots, cartridge slot.
Bus Proprietary
Video RF Modulator to Television
I/O Proprietary
OS Options CP/M, BASIC (on tape)
Notes The Adam was Coleco's all-in-one solution to home computing. It competed with the Apple II Plus, Atari 800, IBM PC, Commodore 64 and TI 99/4A. It was fully compatible with Colecovision cartridges.
The Printer is a required component. It powers the rest of the system.
Related Items in Collection 2 5.25 disk drives, some manuals, tape software, cartridges.
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