Desktops: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer?
- 7/13/07 1:22 PM
first computer
by Falconias - 7/13/07 10:29 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
AMIGA 1000 baby! YEAH! So much better than the other machines out at that time. AMIGA forever! Total shame that they couldn't compete in that market. Amiga games were awesome!
Retrieval of deleted files
by penelope skea - 7/13/07 10:34 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Windows XP & deleted some digital photo files. Can I retrieve them from the hard disk?
First Computer
by fonfara - 7/13/07 10:35 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1982 Televideo TS-802 running CP/M OS. It ran a terminal emulation. Visicalc and Wordstar were the only programs it had on it
I first started using a home computer in the early 1980's
by Allan M - 7/13/07 10:35 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The Timex/Sinclair ZX80. Was available as a kit that you put together yourself and sold for $100.00.
It came with 1K RAM and 16K ROM and for another $40.00 was expanable to 16K RAM.
I was a great way to learn BASIC programming and for a time was a very popular computer based ob the Zilog Z80 processor.
Allan
Atari 400
by Diva_Dew - 7/13/07 10:58 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
First computer I used was an Atari 400 in the early 1980s....I also have used a Tandy TRS-80 (in school & in the early 90s at the Veterinary clinic I worked for).
SOL Processor Tech 20
by jimupdike - 7/13/07 11:12 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My first PC is one I built for a company I worked for, it came in kit form. It was a SOL Processor Tech. I believe main memory was 4 or 8k. You loaded each piece of software with a cassette deck. We used it run software in a chemical lab. It's side pannels were made of wood, very decorative.
My first PC
by shohom67 - 7/13/07 11:24 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I saved up money from my paper route and bought an Ohio Scientific OS2. It had a 6502 chip and 8K of Ram, which I had to install myself. I used an old BW Television for the monitor and a Monkey Wards Tape Recorder. My next computer I got with money from selling my X-Men comic book collection. I bought a Commodore Vic20. I already knew a little Basic, so I had a lot fun with that one. Even learned a little Assembly Language. I traded it for an Atari 400. Worst decision ever!
Back in 1981-82...
by owilde - 7/13/07 11:30 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I was about 4 years old, and while I can't remember what that first computer was specifically, I am pretty sure it was an IBM. A couple ??? of years later we got a Tandy 1000, and then we had many different upgrades, new(ish) systems and accessory add-ons in the years after that (another approx. 12 or so years while I was still at home with my parents).
1983 or '84
by santuccie - 7/13/07 11:34 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The first computer I ever touched was an Apple iie at school. A year or two later, my uncle bought a Commodore 64, the first computer in the family.
The first computer I ever owned personally was an Acer 286 SX2 (I think it was 16 MHz) with 640 KB RAM, 5-1/4" floppy (A:), 3-1/2" floppy (B:), 40 MB hard drive, and DOS 6.2. My grandpa gave it to me in the early 90s (I think it was '91 or '92), when he replaced it with a 486 running Windows 3.1. My first printer was an Epson 9-pin color dot matrix with 9 fonts. :P
Osbornes and other memories
by newkiwi - 7/13/07 11:54 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My first personal computer, when personal meant self not corporate solutions, was an Osborne CPM with 2 floppies 180K each, 64Kbytes, Wordstar, SuperCalc, and Basic. It cost 1,800. My first work computer was a TR(ash)80 Model II. We had electric typewrites everywhere. I even remember the debates over replacing manual typewriters with electric and the incessent arguments of Apple vs IBM. Visicalc with no commas and my MD-MDOT budgets were 1.2 billon dollars. Oh spreadsheets were limited to about 32 kbytes. It really amazes me that Excel still has never picked up some of the finer aspects of the long line of spreadsheets.
I worked on a variety of computers including Univac, RCA and SDS in the 60's. My first experience with memory costs is the story of two Univac engineers who bumped into each other and dropped two 4K blocks of core memory costing an estimated 100K dollars. Nothing but hand wound cores on the floor. Wonder if they got fired? High speed lines in the military were 1200 baud.
For those who mentioned Wang, he was Dr. Wang, and he developed the single capstan tape drive. Up to that time tape drives had to have two power capstans one each direction of the tape.
Does anyone remember "I remember Mama"?
newkiwi
baud
by teddy18104 - 7/14/07 12:28 AM In reply to: Osbornes and other memories by newkiwiI remember when I got my first HIGH speed modem. It ran at 72 baud! Good for nothing but text. Remember the good old days when you could truly share? Boy I must be getting old! My bones are starting to hurt. It must be all those gigahertz getting to me.
Sharing
by newkiwi - 7/14/07 1:04 AM In reply to: baud by teddy18104I remember when the local computer club had a bulletin board. A programme or file would make its way across country from board to board in two or three days. PacMan was high tech games. I remember spending a whole day customizing Wordstar. And what about that 5 inch monochrome character based screen...sexy
newkiwi
old computers
by teddy18104 - 7/14/07 12:09 AM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My first computer was home made from an old POPULAR SCIENCE magazine! It explained how to use neon bulbs and a two 90 (YES 90) volt batteries and toggle switches! All it could do was add and subtract in binary! Not good for anything but it worked and never crashed...Just worked. So if anyone wants to know the sum of 100 plus 100 let me know.
Ted
Compac Ultimate Multimedia Machine
by srd416 - 7/14/07 12:11 AM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I can't remember the model # but it was called the Compac Presario Ultimate Multimedia Machine. I had VERY limited computing experience through my job but I didn't know much at all. This was in Feb 1997. The Computer had 24 megs RAM and a 2 gig HD. It wasn't the fastest even then. But then, I didn't really know enough to need anything faster.
C-64
by egor - 7/14/07 12:25 AM In reply to: Poll: When did you first start using a personal computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In the early 80's purchased a c-64 with a monitor.printer,floppy drive. that still works perfectly. My son who is in 3rd yr of college
as a programmer used it not to long ago and worked super. Also have a mess of c64 mags and games and programs. I originally purchased it to do secretary work for bowling leagues.
Anybody have a idea what it would be worth?
might be interested in selling.
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