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What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:14 AM
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I had a Timex Sinclair 1000. Smaller than an iPad. You wrote your own programs in Basic and saved them on a cassette tape.
Then came Compuserve and the IBM PC Jr. - it had color text. Wow.
What was your first PC?
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:14 AM
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Commodore 64. Great little computer.
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:21 AM
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I guess I never have owned a computer.
I do remember shooting the hell out of buffaloes on some ancient computers in grade school. I think I was supposed to buy a bunch of flour and beans and [censored] with my money. Nah. I just need some more bullets and enough oxen to get me to them good buffalo hunting spots.
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:22 AM
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A 8080 chip and a breadboard. First after that was a Commodore 64
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:23 AM
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PC Jr was the first my family owned. Dual floppy and the extra sidecar's of RAM. I used a TRS-80 and then an Osbourne in HS.
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:24 AM
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My mom gave me a Commodore 64 back in 84 (or 85-86, sometime around there). I remember writing the "if-then" instructions and a few others.
Rick
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:29 AM
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:31 AM
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My parents bought us a Tandy at the Sher-Den (not to be confused with Midway) mall in Sherman, TX in 1988
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:32 AM
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:36 AM
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NEC rebranded for the company I worked for at the time. Had the big boy 20 Meg hard drive and I did the $100.00 upgrade for the 1.44 floppy drive. Had enough power to go to the moon in those days. Too funny now takes more than 20 Meg to boot up a machine now. I paid $2600.00 for that bad boy
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:37 AM
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Apple IIe. Dual diskette drives, I was ballin’.
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:40 AM
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Ah, the 5.25 floppy
A wonderful upgrade. I had some 3.25s until a few years ago.
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:44 AM
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:44 AM
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Big arse apple. Command line to play pong
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:52 AM
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I guess I never have owned a computer.
I do remember shooting the hell out of buffaloes on some ancient computers in grade school. I think I was supposed to buy a bunch of flour and beans and [censored] with my money. Nah. I just need some more bullets and enough oxen to get me to them good buffalo hunting spots. Yup, been there done that I think mine was a Gateway back in like 97' when I was in 7th grade.
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:54 AM
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:55 AM
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I don’t know but I remember to play a game I had to do some ms-dos crap
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 01:57 AM
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I guess I never have owned a computer.
I do remember shooting the hell out of buffaloes on some ancient computers in grade school. I think I was supposed to buy a bunch of flour and beans and [censored] with my money. Nah. I just need some more bullets and enough oxen to get me to them good buffalo hunting spots. Yup, been there done that I think mine was a Gateway back in like 97' when I was in 7th grade. Oregon Trail, used to go play that in the neighborhood library back when that was the only place in town that had a computer. Think that was like 96-98ish Loved that game, ahhh the much simpler times.
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 02:00 AM
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 02:00 AM
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Apple ][ plus, back in 1982. Just a broke high-school kid then, traded a good working dual-trace Heathkit Oscillioscope and some cash for a broken Apple2+ (couldn't afford a working one) - but got it working a month later!
Stored programs on mom's cassette recorder. Took another year before I could buy 2 143k floppy drives, a 300 baud Volksmodem, and a 9-pin dot-matrix printer!
Best deal of my life - led to me becomming a career computer-wiz.
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 02:02 AM
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Can’t remember what it was. The screen was black with green characters, early/mid 90s. Played a lot of asteroids games on it!
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 02:04 AM
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 02:11 AM
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An Atari. Wrote if then.. or nor... who cares and saved on a cassette. I wrote a program that would plot the ballistic ark of a 30.06 bullet. Teacher was not impressed.
Then the famous Commodore 64. Then nothing for years. Then had an HP with Windows 95. All more my software was on 5 1/ 4 floppys, so I exit Windows to go to DOS.
If the 2nd amendment was written just to include guns for hunting, why is there not an amendment to protect fishing poles?
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 02:11 AM
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Apple ][ plus, back in 1982. Just a broke high-school kid then, traded a good working dual-trace Heathkit Oscillioscope and some cash for a broken Apple2+ (couldn't afford a working one) - but got it working a month later!
Stored programs on mom's cassette recorder. Took another year before I could buy 2 143k floppy drives, a 300 baud Volksmodem, and a 9-pin dot-matrix printer!
Best deal of my life - led to me becomming a career computer-wiz. Brothers / different mothers
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
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Re: What was your first computer?
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08/18/22 02:18 AM
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I wanted one of those bad.
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