What was your first PC?
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I was 8 years old when my uncle worked for a company in london, he got me my first computer which had a 8086 processor, this machine is the one that got me interested in computers.
I remember this great huge brick having a big orange switch on the side. He also gave me loads of 5.25 inch floppy's. this is where I first learned how to use ms-dos, which was version 3.3 I believe, I got hooked on the gwbasic that was included with the O.S.
I then moved up to a 386sx/25mhz, wow! this one had 3.5" floopy drive.which had msdos 6.2 and windows 3.1, there were a considerable amount of disks just to install Dos. Back then I remember I had a thing about formatting and reinstalling dos and windows, and friends started to get me to reinstall theirs lol.
and after that I believe I had an olivetti 486dx2/66mhz with about 8mb of ram, I had ms-dos and windows 3.1 on this machine to begin with, until I got my first windows 95 CD
wow, windows 95 was the bomb! and it even had some dodgy music video included lol.and that was my history of my first computers.
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I bought my first computer when I was 12 $300 for a Hitachi 8088 with two 5.25 floppy drives and an amber screen. I then spend $350 at Sam's club for a 30 MB HDD that my dad installed for me. Of course DOS (don't recall the version) which was upgraded to 6.5 or better before I retired it.
From there I built a few dozen PCs from spare parts that to this day I have no clue where my dad got them from. Everything from 286-486 over the next several years.
My uncle had a Commador 64 which I played with a bit, it had an audio cassette deck for storing data.
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The first that I had was...
First Computer I Used: CBM SuperPET (1979)
First PC I Used: Was the first PC, IBM PC 5150
Also Used: Pre-PC Apple Mac (1984)
First Computer I Owned: Commodore Amiga 1000 (1987)
First PC I Owned: DEC Starion P75 w/ Windows 3.1 (1995) -
@scottalanmiller I never got to try an Apple mac when I was younger, were they just as expensive back then?
I remember my friend had the Atari ST, never tried the Amiga.
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First computer I used: TI-99
First Computer I owned: TRS-80 -
First computer I used: TI-99
First Computer I owned: C64. -
I think first used with either the Commador or an Apple II-e. But my dad worked at a computer terminal in the airforce and I was allowed to dink around a few times, no idea what it was though.
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Sinclair 1000. Z-80 Early 80's.
Then TI_99 -
486dx2
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TRS-80 with a joystick, cassette deck, and a word processing cartridge. Don't remember what year it was. Wish I still had it to show my kids.
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@stuartjordan said in What was your first PC?:
@scottalanmiller I never got to try an Apple mac when I was younger, were they just as expensive back then?
WAY more expensive then. Like 3x as much by comparison.
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First used: TRS-80 (I think)
First owned: Apple II -
I see the T-99 mentioned a few times, was this machine only available in the states?
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Anyone remember the Apple Lisa?
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@danp Wasn't the machine named after Steve's daughter, I'm sure I see that in a documentary.
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@danp said in What was your first PC?:
Anyone remember the Apple Lisa?
Of course, but I never had one.
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I had a TI-994A that was my first computer then moved from that to a Zenith/Heathkit 286 as my first PC clone. I still have Microsoft Windows 1.4 on 5.25 Floppy from that machine!
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HP Pavillion with Windows 95. Acquired either my freshman or sophomore year in high school.
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@popester said in What was your first PC?:
Sinclair 1000. Z-80 Early 80's.
Then TI_99Same here,.. only it was a 'custom' in that it had a keyboard from Radio Shack, and my dad had built the box for it,.. the box / case was similar to the Apple IIe in shape... Even had a 300 baud acoustic modem.
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I really loved the Sinclair QL I thought it was neat with it's internal tape drive.
