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Posted: 3/19/2017 12:34:31 PM EDT

Aaaaaaaand go!

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:36:49 PM EDT

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ETA: I taught myself programming in BASIC with it. Then I took a "computer science" class (which turned out to be nothing more than learning how to program in BASIC, so the class was a breeze) in high school ('83-'84) after I got my C64, and we were trained on these:

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:38:14 PM EDT

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First computer I ever bought.

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:38:23 PM EDT

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This. Came with 4k, upgraded by me to 16, 32, and finally 64k with disk extended color basic and OS/9 level 1.

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:39:20 PM EDT

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Looked something like this. 286!

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:39:38 PM EDT

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Atari 400, I still have it upstairs

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:40:49 PM EDT

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Amiga 500

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:41:18 PM EDT

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My parents bought Apple because of the teacher (mom) discount.

Oh, the hundreds of hours spent playing Ultima I through V, Wasteland, Moebius and a healthy handful of other 1980s games.

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:42:31 PM EDT

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this below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:45:06 PM EDT

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486dx2 with win3.11

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:46:50 PM EDT

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This. I had one. Didn't know how to use it, but it counts doesn't it? (It was my Dad's from the 50's.)

This was mine in 87 or 88 ish

Posted: 3/19/2017 12:48:41 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/19/2017 12:58:05 PM EDT

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First one I remember using in school:

First one we owned:

Posted: 3/19/2017 1:05:43 PM EDT

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Built from a kit in 1977. It worked the first time I turned it on.

It had 4K of RAM which seemed like a lot to me at the time. The mainframe IBM at the local Junior College where I worked part time only had 8K of core.

Posted: 3/19/2017 1:08:22 PM EDT

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Thats the same thing I had, mom bought it for close to $4k, I paid $200 to upgrade it from 4MB of RAM to 8MB.

Posted: 3/19/2017 1:10:52 PM EDT

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Did a lot of Basic programming on it. Saved up and got the tape drive. Eventually got a SX-64, followed by an Amiga 1000. Then I built my first computer (to play Wolf3d, of course) and have been doing that ever since.

Posted: 3/19/2017 1:11:20 PM EDT

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This one.

I think I just got a new gray hair just thinking about that.

Posted: 3/19/2017 1:12:38 PM EDT

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Company Presario! Made in Houston!

Posted: 3/19/2017 1:13:14 PM EDT

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I don't have a picture of it, but it was a Gateway tower with an Intel Celeron processor.

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Packard Bell 286. Don't really remember what it looked like.

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50 GOTO 10

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I continued using BASIC with it.

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Posted: 3/19/2017 1:44:20 PM EDT

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Beat me to it, OP.

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Posted: 3/19/2017 1:57:35 PM EDT

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Same here.

Posted: 3/19/2017 2:00:46 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/19/2017 2:04:22 PM EDT

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Oh, the hundreds of hours spent playing Ultima I through V, Wasteland, Moebius and a healthy handful of other 1980s games.

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Same here with all the Ultimas, it was all I played all the time. I still have my C64 that I played it on as well as the games. Back in the early 2000's I bought the Ultima games for pc but it just wasn't the same...getting older sucks.

Posted: 3/19/2017 2:07:51 PM EDT

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Was 1997 and called a Compaq Presario 550mb or something like that

Cost $2K at Costco

Took me a week to figure out how to get AOL dial up modem to work and actually get 'online'

Posted: 3/19/2017 2:21:48 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/19/2017 2:23:09 PM EDT

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My first computer?
They didn't have cameras back then...

Posted: 3/19/2017 2:44:52 PM EDT

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Ordered in September of '97 and got it in December. About $6,300 at the time, but I got $700 back when they upgraded to the 350mHz Pentium II within 3 months of purchase.

Gateway Destination D6 300mHz Pentium II, second gen. Toshiba DVD/CD-Rom drive with 36" Toshiba tubed monitor, Harmon Kardon Dolby Pro Logic surround receiver, Inifinity Cubes and Center Channel speakers and 8" powered subwoofer. RF wireless pistol mouse and keyboard.

It was great, and I could open up a TV picture in up to a 27" window while still surfing the web. I soon thereafter added a 450mHz Pentium II, upgrading it a bit.

Still use the wireless RF mouse and keyboard to this day, on my newer Gateway SX-2850.

Couch surfing in the extreme.

Chris

Posted: 3/19/2017 3:02:10 PM EDT

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TI-99

Posted: 3/19/2017 3:04:36 PM EDT

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TI-99/4A...with tape drive, and it was hooked up to a B&W TV....

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Posted: 3/19/2017 3:10:10 PM EDT

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I still have it.

Posted: 3/19/2017 3:19:47 PM EDT

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First one I programmed was an analog computer at college. Programming was done with patch cables, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. The readout was an X-Y plotter or oscilloscope. Those little thingies on top are vacuum tubes.

First home computer was Radio Shack Color Computer w/tape drive, quickly upgraded to floppy disc.

Posted: 3/19/2017 3:23:33 PM EDT

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First one I programmed was an analog computer at college. Programming was done with patch cables, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. The readout was an X-Y plotter or oscilloscope. Those little thingies on top are vacuum tubes.

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what year was that? Crazy to think over the short period we went from that to the capabilities and size of a smart phone.

Posted: 3/19/2017 3:25:44 PM EDT

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