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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 03:10 AM

Jazzgirl (3,340 posts)

28. My first was an IBM PS2.

I thought I had the shit with a 40 meg hard drive and one meg of ram.

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162 replies	Author	Time	Post
Post a photo of your first computer. Tell us all the details! [View all]	LynneSin	Apr 2012	OP
Amiga 500, 1 MB of RAM, no HD, 2 floppy drives	jakeXT	Apr 2012	#1
Still have mine.	HopeHoops	Apr 2012	#9
I had the 1000	Defectata	Apr 2012	#45
Wow, I had an Amiga too	onlyadream	Apr 2012	#101
that was my first computer too	Tunkamerica	Apr 2012	#120
At Youtube, look up "Eric Schwartz animations" and "Eric Schwartz art."	Archae	Apr 2012	#128
My first one also..	Johnny Noshoes	Apr 2012	#131
The Trash-80 Model 1!	Archae	Apr 2012	#2
I've got you whippersnappers beat: Behold the VIC-20.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Apr 2012	#3
You forgot;	greiner3	Apr 2012	#6
I remember that ever so well.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Apr 2012	#7
The tape drive wasn't the only way to load programs.	harmonicon	Apr 2012	#47
Yep...that was my 1st one, too. nt	Old and In the Way	Apr 2012	#34
That was my first one	laundry_queen	Apr 2012	#93
Thnx for posting the picture.	ChazII	Apr 2012	#94
Hey, I was on the BASIC standards committee.	tru	Apr 2012	#133
My first computer class	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#149
My first computer was the Apple IIC	Tony_FLADEM	Apr 2012	#4
Don't have a photo, but mine was an Apple IIe. n/t	RebelOne	Apr 2012	#8
Apple II+ here. Then C=64. Wife's was a VIC-20. All still work.	HopeHoops	Apr 2012	#10
Me too. I was the first kid in fifth grade to have a computer!	Papagoose	Apr 2012	#77
Mine was an Applee ][ - not +, C, E, just ][	csziggy	Apr 2012	#148
This message was self-deleted by its author	benld74	Apr 2012	#5
Luxury	CBGLuthier	Apr 2012	#11
Man, I thought I knew a lot about synth history, but that one's totally new to me!!	harmonicon	Apr 2012	#68
Yes, had to build it all	CBGLuthier	Apr 2012	#108
that's pretty incredible, man	harmonicon	Apr 2012	#110
Luxury!	Nostradammit	Apr 2012	#96
Sinclari ZX81	Rob H.	Apr 2012	#12
Me too	Dead_Parrot	Apr 2012	#22
I had the American Version ...	the_chinuk	Apr 2012	#53
I loved mine...	Unca Jim	Apr 2012	#78
Does it make me weird	Rob H.	Apr 2012	#113
Me too	JCMach1	Apr 2012	#100
Yup. . .	bobhuntsman	Apr 2012	#115
bunch of Johnny-come-latelys	hobbit709	Apr 2012	#13
Very impressive!	MannyGoldstein	Apr 2012	#138
Five minutes of flipping switches on the front panel.	hobbit709	Apr 2012	#139
Paper tape? Wow!	MannyGoldstein	Apr 2012	#141
First I used? DEC VAX 11	X_Digger	Apr 2012	#14
:	ohiosmith	Apr 2012	#15
ROF	haydukelives	Apr 2012	#155
1960's Hasbro Think-a-tron	Xipe Totec	Apr 2012	#16
My second computer was an IBM PS/1	Xipe Totec	Apr 2012	#17
Oh wow!	Johnny Noshoes	Apr 2012	#134
Commodore 64	OriginalGeek	Apr 2012	#18
We also had a C-64	kentauros	Apr 2012	#26
I was RonT9 on Quantum-Link	Thor_MN	Apr 2012	#87
THIS!!!	ElboRuum	Apr 2012	#102
I had a system exactly like that, minus the joystick and monitor.	demilib	Apr 2012	#124
Packard Bell 386sx (I think the sx stood for SEXY)	denbot	Apr 2012	#19
I had one of those 386-25	hobbit709	Apr 2012	#30
Mine came with a 40mb hard drive, and I think the sx was a math coprocessor.	denbot	Apr 2012	#97
not to be a noodge....but	Tom1960	Apr 2012	#122
1986: Dad brought home an Amstrad PC-1512	TheMightyFavog	Apr 2012	#20
No	UTUSN	Apr 2012	#21
Wang PC clone	malmapus	Apr 2012	#23
MOS KIM-1	pokerfan	Apr 2012	#24
Apparently so.	eppur_se_muova	Apr 2012	#60
The Truth About Bender's Brain	pokerfan	Apr 2012	#61
Thanks! I suspected a personal connection. nt	eppur_se_muova	Apr 2012	#63
Yeah, I couldn't remember the episode so I googled it	pokerfan	Apr 2012	#71
Me too!	ThoughtCriminal	Apr 2012	#85
First "modern" computer I built, COSMAC ELF	hunter	Apr 2012	#25
I don't remember what model it was	sakabatou	Apr 2012	#27
My first was an IBM PS2.	Jazzgirl	Apr 2012	#28
Wow!	Meiko	Apr 2012	#29
Its was a Atari can't remember the model.	MichaelMcGuire	Apr 2012	#31
Macintosh Performa 475 - I bought mine in 1994, It sold me on Macs from that point on	MrScorpio	Apr 2012	#32
A Pickett slide rule. Still have it, can still solve triangles on it...	lastlib	Apr 2012	#33
I had one of those as well	Sherman A1	Apr 2012	#59
Used one in school. Crazy thing actually worked.	Hoyt	Apr 2012	#62
Probably aluminum--Magnesium...	lastlib	Apr 2012	#67
I have an alloy one. It's frozen.	BiggJawn	Apr 2012	#89
I remember using a lot of graphite to keep mine smooth, and the black hands afterwards.	Hoyt	Apr 2012	#140
Somebody stole	tru	Apr 2012	#135
Still have my husbands slide rule.	Paper Roses	Apr 2012	#145
Leading Edge Model D computer in 1994	Submariner	Apr 2012	#35
No photo - just a story.	bluedigger	Apr 2012	#36
Cool, I love it! I don't remember the brand of my first computer, I just know it make a sound like	DesertDiamond	Apr 2012	#37
I also remember I could never leave it sitting on or whatever text was on the screen would be	DesertDiamond	Apr 2012	#39
hence the existence of screensavers. n/t	tru	Apr 2012	#136
My first owned computer	GiveMeFreedom	Apr 2012	#38
That was my first game too.	JoeyT	Apr 2012	#95
LynneSin	Diclotican	Apr 2012	#40
Banana Junior 6000!!!!	greendog	Apr 2012	#41
Obsolete, but user-friendly	FiveGoodMen	Apr 2012	#66
Sometimes not so user friendly.	greendog	Apr 2012	#81
PDP-10	padruig	Apr 2012	#42
Oooo! A DEC System-10!!	longship	Apr 2012	#44
We used to play that on the EE department's HP-3000	pokerfan	Apr 2012	#74
Wow! Impressive	longship	Apr 2012	#79
Install the 'bsdgames' package	pokerfan	Apr 2012	#80
Yep this looks like the one	Sedona	Apr 2012	#154
IBM 1620	HERVEPA	Apr 2012	#43
+10000 I'm still a mainframe programmer as well!	sinkingfeeling	Apr 2012	#54
I program in COBOL and IDMS, but	HERVEPA	Apr 2012	#107
GE 415 mainframe. Octal,not hexadecimal. Still have the "Instruction Card" with all	SharonAnn	Apr 2012	#88
First was a Texas Instruments TI-99 4/A	Defectata	Apr 2012	#46
I still have my TI-99/4a with PE Box	Paulie	Apr 2012	#83
One of the original Compaq portable PC's	rox63	Apr 2012	#48
This was my dinosaur	Hepburn	Apr 2012	#49
Kaypro 16	obxhead	Apr 2012	#50
My first computer was a Kaypro.	hay rick	Apr 2012	#84
LOL	obxhead	Apr 2012	#105
1994 Packard Bell with Pentium processor.	Odin2005	Apr 2012	#51
But you could have had a Mac!	denem	Apr 2012	#69
YUCK, they used Macs in my school and they crashed all the time.	Odin2005	Apr 2012	#109
Amstrad	RedEarth	Apr 2012	#52
It was a Hyperion, given to me by my mother	Thumper79	Apr 2012	#55
It was a Packard Bell from Service Merchandise if I remember correctly	Renew Deal	Apr 2012	#56
DAI	hauweg	Apr 2012	#57
IBM with dual floppie drive. For my husband, IBM 360/91	Kadie	Apr 2012	#58
PowerBook 170. Still works.	eppur_se_muova	Apr 2012	#64
My first computer has long been an ex-computer, pining for the fiords; but it looked like this	LeftishBrit	Apr 2012	#65
My first love, and still my only love	Loki	Apr 2012	#70
Epson QX-10	primavera	Apr 2012	#72
Some clone of some sort.	LiberalAndProud	Apr 2012	#73
Does anyone remember the Timex Sinclair? (circa 1980)	femmocrat	Apr 2012	#75
I had one.	BiggJawn	Apr 2012	#90
First one I remember was by (the) KRELL	FailureToCommunicate	Apr 2012	#76
piece o crap trs80	elana i am	Apr 2012	#82
Puters	nahant	Apr 2012	#86
DIALUP WARNING!!! Which "first"?	saras	Apr 2012	#91
yea...I first started programming on paper tape and decks of cards...	Sancho	Apr 2012	#104
IBM Luggable	2Design	Apr 2012	#92
Mine was a Commodore-64	Shankapotomus	Apr 2012	#98
Macintosh IICi	Auggie	Apr 2012	#99
Apple 2+	Sancho	Apr 2012	#103
TRS-80	caraher	Apr 2012	#106
Atari 400. 4KB of RAM, "membrane" keyboard, tape drive for memory.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#111
I had one, too!	OnyxCollie	Apr 2012	#114
This was my first.	EverHopeful	Apr 2012	#123
Macintosh SE30	CountAllVotes	Apr 2012	#112
My first computer as well.	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#146
First computer	Major Nikon	Apr 2012	#116
That one had the Famous Y0K bug. :) n/t	Gore1FL	Apr 2012	#129
It was an Apple Mac Performa 400 - circa 1992	Initech	Apr 2012	#117
First computer I used: BBC Microcomputer.	mwooldri	Apr 2012	#118
Macintosh 7100/80	alfredo	Apr 2012	#119
I had (still have) a Quest Super Elf	aka-chmeee	Apr 2012	#121
Mac II with a 20mg hard drive...	Historic NY	Apr 2012	#125
Looks like an original Mac (512 kB RAM?) to me	caraher	Apr 2012	#153
I used that one at work. I created my first digital drawing on one.	alfredo	Apr 2012	#160
8088 like this one but offbrand	Doremus	Apr 2012	#126
When floppy disks were really flopy! (12" flopy only storage!)	Devil_Fish	Apr 2012	#127
Good old Commodore 64.	LeftOfSelf-Centered	Apr 2012	#130
IBM 7044	tru	Apr 2012	#132
IBM 360	drmjg	Apr 2012	#137
Osborne 1 is the first one I owned	relayerbob	Apr 2012	#142
Epson Equity I*	MineralMan	Apr 2012	#143
I had a Tandy 1000 HX	47of74	Apr 2012	#144
Does this count?	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#147
OMG! I'd completely forgotten!	Rhiannon12866	Apr 2012	#159
It was a CPT word processor, but had dual diskette drives for	japple	Apr 2012	#150
One of the original Web TVs	JonLP24	Apr 2012	#151
Atari XE	MichaelMcGuire	Apr 2012	#152
I typeset my first book on a Mac Plus with Pagemaker, a used IIFX (too F**king expensive) was next.	diane in sf	Apr 2012	#156
Well, here's my recently departed "Mac-enstein"	rocktivity	Apr 2012	#157
That was my second computer. It lasted forever.	alfredo	Apr 2012	#161
Macintosh LC - first owned model	radhika	Apr 2012	#158
My wife's first computer Rev B iMac in green.	alfredo	Apr 2012	#162

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