Remember your first...?

[therealnickb]

TI 99-4A, cassette drive. Literally a cassette player is what I saved to and loaded from, hitting Play/Record buttons.

Then moved up to Columbia Data 8086 with full height 10MB HDD and MS-DOS, 64k ram. Had to add a Persyst BOB board to get battery backed clock and 256k.

Then came 20MB drives, then RLL 30MB drives, every iteration of 286, 386, 486.

Anyone who started with a 3.2GB drive was way late to the party.

LOL. You were always late to the party back then. ( unless you rolled your own)

By the time a box got to the store it was outdated.

My kids used the heck out of that ps1 for about a year. Then we spent another $1500 on something better. A few years later, repeat. And again. And again.

Got us by the balls they have.

[Cokebottle]

LOL. You were always late to the party back then. ( unless you rolled your own)

By the time a box got to the store it was outdated.

You can say that again.
286, 386, 486, Athlon/Pentium, Thunderbird....

DIY was half the cost and twice the power of anything OTC, AND you didn't lock yourself into proprietary motherboard interfaces or power supplies that couldn't handle the addition of a 2nd CDR... one of my bosses bought an e-Machine, it lasted a week before it blew up. The Dell that replaced it didn't do much better... THEN he sent me to Multiwave with the credit card.

[sealocan]

Computers are a just a fad.

I mean they're fine for big businesses but what are regular people going to do with them at home?

You guys will see in a couple of years all of these things will be collecting dust in the back of closets.

[Romeo_alpha01]

Packard Bell Platinum II circa 1995, lol

[Dragunov]

Altair 8800b Had to build it myself, and write my own Altair DOS. This was late 1977.

Been hooked ever since.

[Dragunov]

Computers are a just a fad.

I mean they're fine for big businesses but what are regular people going to do with them at home?

You guys will see in a couple of years all of these things will be collecting dust in the back of closets.

This is exactly what my Dad said in 1977. He was wrong too.

[theLBC]

we still used terminals in hs
i think first pc i used was an xt.
we were using that when we (the company i worked for) helped another company develop the 3.5" floppy that was bought by kodak/verbatim and eventually sold braziillions.

[the86d]

XTs on a Coax IPX/SPX Novell Network in High School, of which I was the Supervisor, as teach. typed password in "Not really the Novell Login", but that was a non-comp. Science teacher that enhanced that idea. 1st useful DOS .EXE application I wrote in QB.

Kaypro at my Stepmom's... just looked it up, and they were SD based, in Cali.

1st home rig was Maw and Paw's 286, running DOS 3.0 (OLDEST I recall being on it), 1MB of RAM, and a whopping 40MB HDD that was partitioned into 2x20MB partition (32MB cap per partitions, as I recall), and Sidekick was the cat's meow. Oh the days of the DOS Keypress Virus...

I recall I traded an ALICE pack, and some other stuff for one of these CGA bad-boys:

[Exile Machine]

I probably have more compute power in my Moto Droid now than that entire VaxCluster.

Hate to quote my own post but I got curious and did some digging. Not only does a modern smartphone have more computing horsepower than a university engineering VaxCluster circa 1989, but it has more compute power than a Cray supercomputer of the same vintage.

Still it would be cool to run VMS on my phone and load up those big tapes for old times' sake.

-Mark

[mike415stone]

Apple IIe with memory upgraded to 64k and I spent an extra $500 of a 5.25" floppy drive.

[MaHoTex]

TI-99/4A then upgraded to a Commodore 64 and then moved into the PC realm with a 286 that had a Turbo button for more power!

[CSACANNONEER]

My first was a homebuild that my 5th grade teacher built in 1976. We were so excited when he added a cassette drive to it so we didn't have to reprogram it every time we turned it on. The first one I owned was a TRS-80. Yes, I've programmed with punch cards but, that was in 1980 and, I don't remember much about it.

[therealnickb]

This is exactly what my Dad said in 1977. He was wrong too.

I worked with a brilliant guy a few years ago. Seriously brilliant surgeon.

While complaining about all the money I'd spent on computers over the years, he says " I still have my first computer. It works fine, and the Internet is just a fad anyway".

His yellow pad and a pen was all he needed to accomplish amazing stuff.

[therealnickb]

XTs on a Coax IPX/SPX Novell Network in High School, of which I was the Supervisor, as teach. typed password in "Not really the Novell Login", but that was a non-comp. Science teacher that enhanced that idea. 1st useful DOS .EXE application I wrote in QB.

Kaypro at my Stepmom's... just looked it up, and they were SD based, in Cali.

1st home rig was Maw and Paw's 286, running DOS 3.0 (OLDEST I recall being on it), 1MB of RAM, and a whopping 40MB HDD that was partitioned into 2x20MB partition (32MB cap per partitions, as I recall), and Sidekick was the cat's meow. Oh the days of the DOS Keypress Virus...

I recall I traded an ALICE pack, and some other stuff for one of these CGA bad-boys:

Looks a lot like an Apple!

[Kyle1886]

Apple IIc then on to the IIe. Latter part of 1984 or early 85 for the IIc.

(Still have DOS 6 laying around but no ProDos for Apple)

Kyle