CONFESS!!!!! What was the first computer you ever owned?

[LynneSin]

Me?

I had one of those Compaq Presarios that were the "all-in-one" units (ie the monitor was attached to box). It had a 13" monitor, 8megs of Ram, 486 processor and a whooping 550meg HD. It came with Win3.1 but eventually a friend felt pity on me and got it upgraded to Win95 with and 12mgs of RAM. It had a 14k modem and all of this I paid $999+tax for back in 1995.

BTW, my current computer which is a Sony with Intel4 and tons of bells & whistles I paid $600 for (it was an open box buy - normally it was $900)

[KitchenWitch]

1. I had an old Ohio Scientific

No hard drive (stuff was saved on cassette tapes) I think it had like 4 K of RAM. Used Wordstar as a word processor (nasty proggy that one). Monitor was the amber on black.

[billyskank]

2. Hey KW!

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

3. Hi billy!

:hi:

[Kashka-Kat]

110. duh posted in wrong place

[Kashka-Kat]

111. did it again oh fergit it.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Packard Bell Pentium 200mhz...it was an awesome machine then.

At least for the couple months it worked right. After that I saw the light. Once you go mac, you never go back. Working computers that last forever are awesome!

[riona]

77. Love my Mac too

[Mutley]

5. A Tandy 2000.

It wasn't mine, it was my parents', but that is the first computer I ever used. If only I could remember more than three commands on DOS. :cry:

The first one I ever actually owned myself is the one I'm using now. :D

[China_cat]

6. Commodore 64

[billyskank]

9. Now THAT was a classic computer

Its sound controller could produce bass to put hairs on your chest. :smoke:

[NewJeffCT]

119. That was my first computer, too!

We didn't want that crappy Commodore VIC 20.

[billyskank]

7. Technically it wasn't mine

but as a kid I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. It had rubber keys. I shit you not, it looked like this:



Notice how all the programming keywords are on the keys. It was supposed to make programming faster. In practice, when typing in a program from a listing in a magazine you would spend five minutes looking for one obscure keyword..."is it shift-inverse mode-oh, you fucking bastard where is it???"

They had dodgy power connectors that always managed to cut out just as you typed in the last line of your 1500 line program. :)

Permanent storage was on cassette tape, of course. :)

[KitchenWitch]

8. Yeouch!

:hi:

[billyskank]

11. Classic British engineering circa 1980

:bounce:

All the coolest kids had Commodore 64s, but those of us with Spectrums were cooler than the ones with BBC B micros.

[KitchenWitch]

13. You are a true geek

And I mean that in the best way!

:loveya:

[billyskank]

15. From you that is taken as a compliment!

:loveya:

[Frank Cannon]

23. I used to see ads for the Timex version of this in OMNI magazine

Yes, THAT Timex watch company tried to get into the computer business in the late 70s/early 80s by selling a version of the Sinclair. I wanted one really badly, but of course I never got it. I always wondered what they were like.

[billyskank]

33. They were shit

:rofl:

They had a good CPU, the Zilog Z-80 (I think they still even make them), which was pretty fast for the time. Apart from that they were pretty naff. The keyboard was awful, there were issues with the power connector that I mentioned, and the peripheral connector was totally non-standard. The Sinclair printer was tiny; it printed on heat-sensitive toilet roll, by the look of it.

:crazy:

The graphics were kinda strange as well. The makers had this beezer idea to save on display memory, whereby the pixels and the colours were held separately. Each pixel was represented by a single bit, so it was either on or off, and a colour map was held separately which defined two colours (from a palette of 8) per 8x8 pixel block.

This is why, when you were playing games, when one sprite overlapped another, one of them took on the colours of the other. For this reason most game makers stuck to two-colour graphics.

That wasn't where the wierdness stopped, either. The pixel map was laid out in a strange way. The pixel map stored the first line of pixels, then the 9th line, then the 17th line, like this about 1/3 of the way down the screen. Then it went 2, 10, 18, .. and then 3, 11, 19, .. until the first third of the screen was filled. Then the next third was filled in the same way, and finally the last third.

I think Sir Clive must have been on LSD when he designed this thing. :rofl:

[Frank Cannon]

45. Ah, yes, I remember reading about the weird graphics

Kind of a strange pre-interlace kind of thing. I can't even imagine what they were thinking. Maybe trying to speed up graphic applications that used only the top third of the screen? :shrug:

And you're right, the Z-80 is still around. Like the 555 IC timer or the 741 op-amp, it's a chip that has stood the test of time and will never go away.

[hunter]

88. It was an elegant design for what it was trying to do.

The goal was to reduce the part count, and thus the price of the computer. They did this by eliminating any separate video processing. The microprocessor and the memory produce the video directly through just a few gates -- the CPU "writes" the video directly onto the screen, and all the other computing (your program in other words) takes place during the gaps of a normal NTSC or PAL video signal. Remember the "fast" mode that scrambled the video screen, or the weird video when you loaded and saved programs? These worked by turning off the video write cycle, which gave the CPU more time to devote to other processing.

The Z-80 processor itself was a more rational version of Intel's 8080 microprocessor. The 8080 had evolved in a messy fashion from a four bit processor designed for calculators into a complex and quirky processor used for traffic light controllers and such. The Z-80 was much easier to use in a general purpose computer, and most people thought it was much easier to program.

Unfortunately IBM went with the 8080 family for the first PC, and this has been a drag on computing progress ever since. It's a grim joke among engineers that Scotty and Jordi of Star Trek are still cursed with IBM PC legacy code.

[billyskank]

91. The 48K model that I had didn't do that

I have heard about the no display controller thing, but mine had no "fast" mode. I believe that was an older model, maybe the ZX-81.

About the Intel 8080; as I understand it, IBM chose it precisely because it was weak. They didn't want the new desktop micros from challenging their mainframes. (The march of progress did just that anyway - in the long run, never bet against the cheap plastic solution).

In fact didn't they specifically request an 8-bit version of the 8086, which became the 8088, for their first PCs?

[hunter]

99. The Spectrum was rare in the U.S.

I think it was the Timex/Sinclair 1500 here. The video was a little bit more sophisticated.

But most people in the U.S. think of a "Timex" as the British ZX-81. They sold them at K-Mart.

I have a Timex/Sinclair 2068 in my collection. Now that was an interesting machine. The manual is a gem, all excited about data channels and streams.

I also have a Hong Kong knock-off of the Spectrum.

IBM did a lot of things to hobble their PC. The breakthrough for the clonemakers was the reverse engineered BIOS. Once the clone makers had that, they could make machines faster or cheaper than the IBM PC, and that's when the race really started.

[southernleftylady]

10. Commodore 64

[Left_Winger]

12. Mac Plus

1 meg of RAM with a separate 20 meg hard drive; and it cost about $3000.

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. Dell Dimension 4100

As far as a computer I bought with my own money, that is. The first computer I ever used was an Apple II, back in 2nd grade.

[riona]

16. Packard Bell

:argh:

[Frank Cannon]

48. The only desktop computer that was harder to upgrade...

than a laptop. You almost had to disassemble the entire computer just to put in a new memory chip. And forget about a new graphics card; the onboard graphics would conflict with whatever you put in about 50% of the time.

Even with all the headaches I had with my PB, I still liked it. I used it for about five years before I finally got a new machine.

[NewJeffCT]

120. I had a Packard Bell once (not my first)

Not my first computer... but, it was so terrible that it sat in a repair shop for months waiting for replacement parts from Packard Bell. So long that I ended writing to the Connecticut Dept. of Consumer Protection and found that I was covered under the state's Lemon Law and ended up getting a brand new HP as a replacement. And, since it was 9 months later, I got a PC with better specs.

[RebelOne]

17. Apple IIe with all of 64k memory and a floppy drive.

And I thought that was really state of the art.

[Neoma]

18. We called it Frankenstein.

My dad made it, i don't know what it was...

[Serial Mom]

19. Precursor to Commodore - VIC 20

[AmyDeLune]

131. Me too! n/t

[eyesroll]

20. Family? An Apple IIe.

Bought on my behalf? A Mac Performa 200 in 1992.
Bought with my own money? A Mac Performa 6400 in 1996.

[cmf]

21. Some sort of old 386 my mom bought from surplus at work

Although my mom was a computer engineer by trade, we were the least technologically advanced family I knew. She got me that computer when I went off to college. I'm pretty sure that most PC processors at that time were at least 486's or even Pentiums. I graduated High School in 1994 and did all of my reports on a typewriter. I was a dying breed.

[crispini]

22. TI 99 4/A

being from Texas and all. :bounce:

[windlight]

42. Used to save programs on tapes i'd use for music

then i got the upgrade to the Apple IIe

[SmokingJacket]

127. My family had that one too!

I couldn't remember what it was, but I recognize it in your picture.

I loved changing the screen color. That's all I remember being able to do with it, besides playing Adventure...

[realisticphish]

24. A Macintosh Quadra

probably circa 1997

[nuxvomica]

25. A TRS-80

I learned BASIC by tweaking Hammurabi so that I could produce megabushels of wheat. The line of progression was TRS-80, TI99/4A, and Commodore 64 followed by a series of Wintel machines up to the present day.

[YankeyMCC]

26. Commodore 64

with a cassette tape drive

[DS1]

27. Apple 2+

[lpbk2713]

28. TI-99/4A

Still have it in the original box out in the garage.

[GOPFighter]

90. That was my first, too

Do you still have any of the games? We're trying to find "Hunt the Wumpus"

[lpbk2713]

103. I doesn't sound (or look) familiar

I had to Google it to see if I could refresh my memory. I don't think I have it.

Link: http://www.videogamehouse.net/huntwumpus.html


My TI-99/4A is under a lot of junk and not easy to get to. I haven't even opened the box in years. But I know that when I put it away I had a lot of cartridges, games and app software plus a lot of books and manuals pertaining to the TI-99 and TI-Basic. I thought it might be nice to save it all just to one day show what PC's "used to" look like. It was actually interesting doing my own programming. The average user doesn't do that much any more but having a background in the fundamentals of programming helps to understand present-day PC's and OS's.

[Dave Reynolds]

138. I have it, somewhere.

Next time I'm at my parents' house I will look for it.

[graywarrior]

29. Same as you LynneSin

Now I have a Shuttle

[Ramsey]

30. Radio Shack TRS 80

That was back in the 70's. It had a modem cradle for the phone hand set and used a cassette tape for uploading programs. I could write programs for it in Basic, they were so simple. The only games you could play were word games, like Star Trek or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (in which i always got stuck in oblivion unable to move, see, feel, taste or hear). My dad belonged to all these bulletin boards, the precursors of online forums like DU!

[Frank Cannon]

52. IMHO, the TRS-80 got a bad rap

People used to call it a "Trash 80". My neighbor had one and let me learn BASIC programming on it, and I just thought it was great. There were the usual headaches with saving/loading programs from the cassette tapes, but all computers with tape drives did that at the time.

[Random_Australian]

31. This one.

[SacredCow]

32. Atari 1200XL

It was the shiz-nit!!!

[Deja Q]

36. And a sexier case than many computers of today.

:D

Those were the days.

[SacredCow]

55. I still have it, actually...

Unless Mom and Dad went on a cleaning binge that I don't know about.

Loved that row of brushed stainless (yet utterly useless) buttons....

[hunter]

64. That was a beautiful machine...

I loved my Ataris.

[LynneSin]

34. Here's a picture of my old presario

This isn't mine but mine was pretty much the same body style. Only difference is mine did have the CDrom in it but this one does not

[Deja Q]

35. Atari 600XL.

Upgraded to an Atari 800XL to make use of a whopping 64bb of RAM. :9

Later got an Atari 400, 800, 1200XL, and eventually a 130XE clearance-priced in Spain in 1989. PAL didn't work so hot, but it worked.

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. It was/and is a Commodore 64...The only computer I could ever

program on. :hi:

[billyskank]

38. That is so cool

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. MrG just asked me if we could get rid of it...

Heck No!!! I loved that computer.

[SaveElmer]

40. Timex Sinclair...

Had a key pad and an optional memory upgrade to 16K from the standard 1K. You had to hook it up to a TV to use as a screen. No memory storage, so you had to hook it up toan audio cassette tape recorder to save anything you wrote. Only purpose was to program in BASIC.

[seemunkee]

43. Same here

[SnohoDem]

62. And here

[no name no slogan]

85. Me four

The first home computer to sell for under $100, IIRC. Beastly keyboard, unstable, and you loaded programs via a cassette player. Those were the good old days...

[beyurslf]

41. Tandy 1000. It was my parents I suppose but I used it too

I don't know the memory exactly, but I know when we looked for games they had to have 486K or less to play on the computer. (Yes I said K not M!)

[NewWaveChick1981]

44. My mom got a Commodore 64, and it was state of the art!

That was back when little color tvs were used as the monitors. Geez, that was a long time ago! :)

[liberalpress]

46. Welcome to the days of stone knives and hatchets...

VIC 20, anyone (other than me)

[Blue_Tires]

47. my parents bought an

IBM PS/2 386 in 1989...with the printer and all the additional software,it think it cost in excess of $3500!

[ProfessorGAC]

49. Commodore VIC 20

Yeah, i go back that far!
The Professor

[NYCGirl]

50. A Compaq Deskpro, and then I switched to Mac and never went back!

[anarch]

51. TRS-80

The Color Computer! Wheee!

[SteppingRazor]

53. The first computer my family ever owned was an Apple IIgs...

that my parents bought. The first computer I ever purchased with my own $$$ was a Gateway

[begin_within]

54. Macintosh Plus, 1989. In fact, all 7 of my computers have been Macs.

[XemaSab]

56. Mac Plus baby!!!!

[JitterbugPerfume]

57. mine was a crappy

web tv

[Hugin]

58. It's hard to say... I came of 'puting age in the calculator/computer cusp.

The first computer I programmed on was a govt owned PDP-11. Just like
the Astronauts had!

I have a jumble of old electronics in, as my sweetheart calls it...
"My Museum of Obsolete Electronics".

I guess I'll claim a TRS-80 or a Tandy Color Computer (AKA... COCO)

[ContraBass Black]

59. I's a young'un.

[KeepItReal]

60. C=64 !!

I asked for an Atari 2600...dad gives me the Commodore 64 and said "There won't be any game machines in this house!"

I'm thinking "what am I gonna do with this?" (if I had *said* that I would not be on this earth right now). Thanks to that machine I ended up being a programmer and now software consultant.

Thanks, Dad that C=64 really paid off!

:thumbsup:

[Hugin]

61. I have a similar story...

Dad said... "If you want video games, you'll write them."

[KeepItReal]

63. Lucky for us they printed them in magazines

Until I got a tape drive for storage (Which was state-of-the-art!) I only had one cartrige game. All the rest I had to type in each and every time I wanted to play them.

[Hugin]

72. weeeeeee oooooo weeeeeeee oooooo weeeeee ooooo... etc.

LOL!

I had a cassette tape storage too!

I remember writing an elaborate program to load each
subroutine/level as needed. The game would stop and
there would be about 5 minutes of "Whale Calls" while
more of the program loaded.

One could almost hear each bit loading. Same with
my first modem.

[LSK]

70. i remember in grade school swapping games with kids

There were tons of games out there for the C64.

[qnr]

65. KIM-1, then Atari 400 & Atari 800 (all in 3 months in '79-'80) n/t

[Left Is Write]

66. I'm not sure. I used a computer at my parents' - an old 286 maybe?

I remember when I got a 486 at work. I thought I was cool.

I used to play the text game "Trinity" on my parents' computer.

[hunter]

67. My eighth grade science fair project...

I'd built things that were sort of computers before that, but this monster actually could compute something.

I made it out of old surplus telephone relays, and got an "honorable mention" from the IEEE in the county science fair.

I must've breathed a lot of lead soldering these kinds of things together...

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

68. Commodore 64

Then Amiga 500.
Then Amiga 1200.
Now I've got a Windoze machine, but I still miss my Amiga.

[Hugin]

74. The Amiga was amazing...

I was in college when it first came out and
I couldn't afford one... But, the graphics were
truly amazing.

I wanted one so bad. :P

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

83. Want one now?

:P

I've got three of them sitting around...(my brother got a 1200 a while back, which somehow fell into my possession)

Of course, then Doom came out and my Amiga started feeling left out. They could have gone to the moon with that computer...

[Hugin]

92. Don't tempt me...

One of my co-workers is still really into the Amigas.

Almost all of the software/hardware is available.

You're correct on the moon thing! :thumbsup:

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

100. If you don't want to get the hardware...

You could try this route: www.amigaforever.com
I bought a license a year ago and it runs pretty good. Needs a few tweaks here and there,
and there's a few problems with the audio at times (depending on the applicaiton I'm running)

(Games not included of course)

[LSK]

69. commodore 64

[mongo]

71. Apple II+

before they came out with the floppy disk drive. Cassette tape interface.

[LeftyMom]

73. Commedore 64, mine was extra special 'cause I had floppy drives not tape

I still have it and it still works even. :woohoo:

[Hugin]

76. I still have feelings for my COCO...

No floppy drive, tho.

The computer I used at school had floppies. If I remember correctly
blinking my eyes caused enough static to blow away a sector.

;)

[billyskank]

93. Floppy drives?

That WAS high falutin'. :hi:

[LeftyMom]

97. Two, even.

And a dot matrix printer. :D

[billyskank]

98. You were a privileged kid!!

:rofl:

[Jazz2006]

75. Something called an Adam computer, if I recall correctly

it had something resembling cassette tapes for data storage - before the time of floppy disks even. I think my Commodore 64 was after that.

Oh, how far we've come!

hee hee

[Hugin]

79. An actual Coleco Adam owner!

Those were interesting... They were the first home computers
which had a "scanner" option. A little matrix of light sensitive diodes
to connect to the line printer which would read in images and text.

Black and white only if I recall.

I saw a demo of it at a mall.

[Jazz2006]

84. Yes! :)

Black and white only.

And the "printer" didn't even have the ball type of thing that was on electric typewriters at the time, but emulated the other style - you know, where you keys are attached to those long skinny metal rods that strike the paper? You would type as usual and see the text in a LED screen and then the printer would bang away with those stupid old fashioned keystrokes.

Pretty funny, looking back at it now.

:hi:

[Fredda Weinberg]

78. I soldered together a Sinclair ZX-80

and "programmed" in machine code.

[Robbie Michaels]

80. IBM PS Note 125

The original "ThinkPad" notebook with the little pencil eraser mouse in the middle of the keyboard.

1. Monochrome 11"(diagonal)screen
   
2. 40 MB hard drive
   
3. 128k RAM
   
4. internal 56k modem
   
5. weighs about 10 lbs
   
6. ran Windows 3.22 (but I installed O/S 2 because it was more stable)
   
7. Intel 386 chipset
   
8. my name engraved on metal plate affixed to the hinge
   
9. battery died after 90 minutes
   

State of the art when I bought it in 1994. God, I do not miss dial-up! :rofl:

[LynneSin]

82. I still have a thinkpad - thoselil pencil eraser mouse thingie

spoiled me for anything with a touch pad =(.

[Hugin]

96. I have a "Thunk Pad"...

It has already done most of it's thinking.

I wrote a graphics driver for it and loaded Linux.
The keyboard is still one of the nicest keyboards of any notebook
I've had. Great action on the keys.

[Radical Activist]

81. Tandy TRS-80

I loved it.

[WCGreen]

86. A Leading Edge 8086.....

[hunter]

94. I still have one, and the strange Leading Edge monitor too.

Lately I'm afraid to start my old PC clones if I haven't used them for a few years. The old cheap capacitors in them tend to go off like popcorn when the machines are powered up. A few of my old Ataris don't work either, probably because I couldn't afford good eproms when I modified them.

[WCGreen]

101. Mine are all gone....

I'm on my seventh computer now......

I have two left in the house right now.....

[RetroLounge]

87. Leading Edge Model D with 2 floppy drives

Wrote BASIC code on it...

RL

[Jersey Devil]

122. Same here - did you get a virus with it?

I bought a Model D, think it was around 1987-88, bought it from PC Warehouse,then a few weeks later got a letter in the mail from PC Warehous that said it might have the Michaelangelo virus, which was designed to wipe out your hard drive on Michaelangelo's birthday. A few weeks after that Leading Edge admitted it had made computers with a virus on them (some employee brought in a disk with games and used it on a computer that made the hard drives) and sent a free copy of McAfee Viruscan, which was on disk at the time.

[RetroLounge]

126. Mine had 2 floppys, no HD...

RL

[TheBaldyMan]

89. A tie between my fingers and an abacus.

Not a super cool Japanese or Chinese abacus but still cool.

I also mastered multiplying with my fingers. Fingers rock.

[dpbrown]

95. Mac SE/30

And I still own it and it still works.


:bounce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

102. 386-25

No brand; I got it from a shop that built 'em. It had four megs o' RAM and an 80-meg hard drive that I thought I'd never fill up. After a couple years (I got it in 1993) I upgraded it to a 486-66 DX2, which was nasty fast for its time.

The first PCs I ever used were a Commodore 64 and a Compaq somethin'rother that was an early version of the laptop, I guess. It was a "suitcase" model with either an 8086 or 8088 processor at 8 mHz clock speed and a monitor that was about six inches.

This is one of the first computers I ever used, the Compuwriter Jr. by Compugraphic, which made photo-offset typesetting machines. We had this one at my college newspaper in 1977. You could load one font at a time, on a film strip about two inches wide, and by flipping a couple of switches you could get bold or italic type and you could double the font size by changing a lens in the back. (All the film strips were 10 or 12 point, so the biggest hed we could make was 24 point. If we wanted a 36-point "screamer" we had to send it to the graphics department to be blown up.)





I found this page showing how newspapers were produced in the '70s and well into the '80s. Looking back, it's like we were working with, as Mr. Spock once put it, stone knives and bearskins.

http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/woverbeck/dtr5.htm

[Frank Cannon]

104. Thanks for that newspaper link

Brings back great memories of my high school newspaper days. I can still smell the wax...

[Guava Jelly]

105. trs-80 color computer 2

it was smoken fast..not

[RoyGBiv]

125. Hellyeah!!!

A whopping 2 MHz, IIRC.

Hey, it was faster than the Apple IIe. :-)

[Spirochete]

106. A Commodore VIC-20

It had about 4k of memory, onscreen display was 22 characters wide - characters were immense. Read and wrote data from a cassette drive...
I went to Commodore 64 shortly after that.

[Arugula Latte]

107. A little portable one in '91.

I couldn't tell you what kind -- I wouldn't be able to tell you what kind of television I have right now if you held a gun to my head. That stuff just doesn't stay with me, for some reason.

[Rob H.]

108. Timex Sinclair ZX-81, then a Commodore 64,

then Macs all the way to present-day.

Edit: It looked just like this:



Heaven help you if you typed in a program and then jarred it even a little bit. The memory module would dump its memory and the computer would crash!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

109. Epson with dual 5" floppies and no hard drive.

[NC_Nurse]

112. Mac LC2

...still loove Macs!

[Kashka-Kat]

113. Apple 2c w/ no hard drive & 1 floppy- great fun shuffling disks in and out

to get it to fire up! Hard to believe my boss pd several thousand for it- then a few yrs later it was almost worthless- I think I pd her $25 for it.

[bmbmd]

114. I had two-one was called

"Multivac" and the other "Deep Thought".

[maxsolomon]

115. I have never owned a computer

i don't own the one i'm typing on now.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

116. Black Apple in 1981

64 K!

[AwakeAtLast]

117. Apple IIc

[Redstone]

118. VIC-20 and a TI 99/44A First one I used was an IBM 320.

Christ, I'm old.

Redstone

[RedSpartan]

121. IBM PS/2

[originalpckelly]

123. Apple Mac SE 30 - The best computer ever!!!! (n/t)

[lildreamer316]

124. Commodore (sp?) 128.

Got it for Xmas in.....1986? 1984? I'm slipping.

[marigold20]

128. Laser 128

Oooh, 128! A real powerhouse

[DainBramaged]

129. TRS-80 4 MB

[helderheid]

130. wow you had a 14k modem?? That is the shit!! My first modem was 300 baud!

[laheina]

132. We had a Zenith green screen monstrosity,

that booted between two 5 inch floppies.

THe first computer that was mine was a Compaq Presario 120 mhz processor with a 1.2 Gig hard drive and, like, 8 megs of RAM.

[Guy Fawkes]

133. Apple I.

But nothing got good until the Apple II GS, man. Zork... Transilvania... HHGTTG...

[Kat45]

134. I had an Osborne.

Bought it used from my cousin's husband.

[BlackVelvet04]

135. Dude.......

it was a Dell.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

136. 80286 w/10meg hard drive

[Dave Reynolds]

137. Texas Instruments TI-994a.

Less computing power than a cheap Casio watch.

[NMDemDist2]

139. I had a no name box with no internal hard drive

I was flipping floppies (the 5.4 ones too) like a mad woman

and windows didn't exist, it had a snazzy DOS shell a friend set up for me

my DH insisted we get a 286 when we got married even though I told him I didn't need it for what I did on the computer

:rofl: