The good old times .. my first computers? and you?
 

I had a sinclair zx81 in 1981 and a commodore 64 in 1982. Later in 1986 or 1987 I bought a commodore 128.

Harddrives ??? hahahahaha. Damn what a time. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Commodore Vic20 with a datasette drive hooled up to a 13" black and white TV... think I was 10
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...re_vic20_1.jpg

http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-108...874538-13.html

Yep I remember the Vic20 ... :winkwink:

ZX 81 here as well :-) than the Spectrum.. than vic20, c64, atari 800xl, amiga's. atari's, apple's mac's.. pc's.. you name it :-) i miss those magic days..

Mine was a Kaypro 4-84 with a Z80A 4Mhz processor, and 64k...not mb.. of RAM. It used CP/M OS, and had two DS/DD half-height floppy drives (390 kb), and a built in...get this...300 baud modem. WOW!

The only one I clearly remember the specs on was my PC-XT (mid/late 80s).

640k ram, 20mb harddrive, dual 5.25 floppy drives. But it was incredibly fast cuz it had that funky TURBO button (snicker). The monitor was a 14" Packard Bell monochrome, that I later upgraded (more snickers)...to a 14" RGB Sperry monitor. 1200baud external Zoltrix modem.

Oh how those GW-basic games rocked! :1orglaugh

I had that with a screaming 300 baud modem...with absolutely no one at all to call.

ahh the good old days when you had to copy code from the back of magazines to play games.

vic20 , was my first , then commodore 64 , then amiga 500 with the beefed up memory addon , then came the wizz bang super fast 386

I can't remember for shit what model, but it was Texas Instruments.
I had it same as when Intellivision & Atari were around

Commodore 64:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...64c_system.jpg

...then on to the Graphic Powerhouse

Amiga 500:

http://content.answers.com/main/cont...500_system.jpg

First computer I programmed was a PDP-8 using a language called Focal-8 with a paper tape punch and a Teletype 33 terminal... 1971... long before the first CRT monitor.

First computer I owned was a Timex-Sinclair 1000 (ZX81 in the UK) with a Zilog Z-80 processor.. A great machine to learn assembler on. Then I got a TRS-80 Model I, Level II, (I actually ended up with 4 of these), 2 Commodore 64's, a Vic-20, Tandy 1000SX (which ran my first BBS without a hard disk using a RAM disk and one floppy disk.) and then a PCJr and then on from there.... it's been a wild ride ever since... now I have too damn many computers and keeping up with all of the software updates and what is installed on what machine is driving me nuts...

A sinclair ZX81 had a 9V DC power suply ...
3.5 MHz speed and 1KB (901 bytes) RAM.

Can ya fucking believe that shit? And in 1981/1982 that box was a small miracle.
I coded day's and day's on that zx81 just to have a stupid guy walking from left to right on my screen etc etc ...

Hmmm :)

I was in highschool.

I think it was a Texas Instraments IT4A if I remember correctly.
I had one that had cassette tapes to record to and took me about 3 days to
program mr. bojangles to dance.

my first was a 66mhz pos packard bell lol.

My first computer was a M24 Olivetti, got it from my dads friend, I still have it and it still works.
This pic isn't of mine, I am too lazy to look through the cd's for the pics of it.

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/olivm24.jpg
Specs
Manufacturer Olivetti (Italy) Type Desktop
Production start 1985
RAM 128kb - 640kb ROM 16Kb
CPU 8086 - 8 Mhz
Operating System MS-DOS, CP/M 86, PCOS (with Z8000 card), UCSD
Text (Cols x Rows) 40/80 x 25
Graphics 640 x 200, 640 x 400, 512 x 256 16 colours
Sound
Storage memory Floppy 5,25" 360Kb x 2, Hd 10Mb
Serial port RS232C Parallel port CENTRONICS
Others port IEEE488 (OPT.), 7 ISA slots

My second computer was an HP Pavilion desktop computer
thing was way better than the M24, but now it a slow piece of shit. ....lol

First computer was a "timeshare" typewriter-like terminal that sent commands to some mainframe in Chicago, 2,000 miles away. Mid-70s. My first program printed my name 10 times in a row, and I became a god (haha).

Then I got a Vic-20, and I became a 4.5k of memory using 31337 fool.

It went on from there... Apple II+, IIe, PC/XT, blah blah blah.

Cable Modem at 3.5kbps? Phreaking on my 300 baud modem back then was just as fun.

Vic20 all the way!

I wish I had kept it...

http://www.getviolent.com/pics/atari-130-XE.jpg

atari 130 was the first computer i had. booted up to basic. :1orglaugh


after that my parents got a 486 with 8 meg of ram and a 212 meg hard drive. hell of a computer at that time. funny enough my dad still uses it to this day. he has never felt the need to upgrade past windows 3.1

in a way, i kind of miss DOS and Win3.1

ah memories.

http://obsoletecomputermuseum.org/ibmpcjr/pcjr1.jpg

IBM's entry into the home PC market, the PC JR. Had these little cartridges that were like disks, then of course the 5 1/4 drive. I learned how to program in basic on this. This was seriously a pimp machine, ahh the memories..

You went from that Atari to a 486? That's 10+ years of technology... heh.

My folks still have a 486 60. Running Windows 98, so I know what you mean, however. And I'll bet that we all still have to support these platforms, in our own ways.

Some old macintosh pc, forgot the specs

YESSSSS finally someone who had one :)

TI 99/4a it rocked. I made my first nudie showing slotmachine on it and sold it for $25 aaah good times

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ti-994a.jpg

I remember those lol.

Owh the old times :) Look at what we got nowadays.

I was 14 years old when I played with the sinclair zx81 back in 1982 ...

23 years ago allready ... it's something huh? :helpme

Now kids are born with a cellphone in their pockets ...

Lots of things changed in the past 25 years ..

Mine was zx spectrum 48k. I still remember that damn rubber keyboard :1orglaugh

hehe
funny to see those pics again.

Also had the Commodore 64, and then the Amiga 500.
The games for the Amiga was great.

Also remember my first computer, spent most of Christmas playing Doom :)

I had my sisters Commodore Vic20, still have it.

hehe the turbo button, those were the times!

I started out on the Timex Sinclair 1000. I remember those pushpad keys like the stuff you have on a dishwasher these days. Moved up to a C-64, then got an IBM XT clone and Amiga 500 around the same time.

TI99/4A That was a kick ass computer!

I had the Extended Basic cartridge and my friend and I would take turns reading to each other from the gaming magazines. One would read and one would type. Then save it on cassette tape! Haha, those were the days.

First used a PC in 1984, but it wasn't until later that I got myself a BBC Model B...

circa 1981: 6502 @1MHz, 32k RAM, 16k OS, 16k banked "sideways" ROM
Fully optioned it included onboard interfaces for a printer, floppy drive, hard drive, analog joystick, serial, network... and also a "tube" interface which you could connect a second processor box to. You could run CP/M on a Z80 second processor and I think there was also a 16 bit second processor option as well.

It was a very advanced machine for its day... I ended up with about 4 of them, the wife made me throw them all out a few years ago. Coulda sold them on ebay for a hundred or two.

Did anyone ever try to transfer saved programs on cassette over the phone? If you played at one end and recorded at the other it would have been a crude modem. :)

My first puter was an Atari 800XL, which I still own and which still works. Forget the XBox360 or the PSP2 - One Man & His Droid on the 800XL is where it's at!

I also have a Vic20 and an Oric-1.

Time stamp it with music you listened too. I specifically remember
listening to Qiot Riot bang your head around the same time.
Also Kiss i played until the tape wore out. Ahhhh those were the days!

I wonder what we have to play with in 2030 LOL

Rocks, probably.

CoCo 2. Rigged up a cassette tape to back up a basic program I typed in.. pain in the ass, but got me going.

I'am looking at this pic and it's just unbelieveable! I can't even imagine what would the guy who worked on this monster have said if he had seen my laptop! Probably, he'd just have a heart attack!

If I only knew 25 years ago what I know today ... damn

i remember doing my high school papers using those type writers. i can't imagine how I managed to do it.