What was your first computer

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by killthesunshine, Jun 30, 2010.

  1. jnbadger

    jnbadger

    An Epson they had stacks of at Best Buy. (1990ish) Cost about a grand and had a 2 MB hard drive. Definitely doesn't get the oldest computer award.

    As a student, first one used was an Apple 2E.
     
    #51     Aug 12, 2010
  2. Coleco adam(1984), a whopping 80k of RAM
     
    #52     Aug 12, 2010
  3. Timex Sinclair ZX80
     
    #53     Aug 12, 2010
  4. solar powered abacus! :D
     
    #54     Aug 12, 2010
  5. pupu

    pupu

    Spectrum 48 and always envied those cool C64 games for the fancy color and sound.
    then moved to spectrum 128! Ye baby!
     
    #56     Aug 12, 2010
  6. luxor

    luxor

    Times Sinclair 1000

    followed by the Commodore 64 from Crazy Eddie's in the Bronx

    I still have both, and they both work.
     
    #57     Aug 12, 2010
  7. jprad

    jprad

    My bad, I/O errror, read "10," processed "11."

    Agreed, the 10 was successful. But, it wasn't the first commercial timesharing system. That goes to Dartmouth TSS which ran on the GE-200 series mainframes.
     
    #58     Aug 12, 2010
  8. jprad

    jprad

    Hold on!

    Just because it used LSI to shrink the processor down to 4 chips did not make it a microcomputer.

    The difference between a micro and a mini had nothing to do with size. It was all about the difference in processing power and an I/O bus that could support multiple users simultaneously via separate consoles.

    What killed the PDP-11 series was the 16bit architecture. The writing was already on the wall when the 32bit 68K came out in '79.
     
    #59     Aug 12, 2010
  9. Spunky

    Spunky

    Did you have Fast Hack 'em with Tough Nuts Utilities so your friends could have a copy too!
     
    #60     Aug 12, 2010