Title: First Computer?
Post by: cjbriare on December 03, 2008, 10:35:29 PM
Post by: cjbriare on December 03, 2008, 10:35:29 PM
Hello Everybody. Just a quick question for all of you.
What was the first computer you ever used?
Don't just say: Mac.
Be specific! Say it like this: PowerMac 7200, back in 1998!
:D
What was the first computer you ever used?
Don't just say: Mac.
Be specific! Say it like this: PowerMac 7200, back in 1998!
:D
Title: First Computer?
Post by: cjbriare on December 03, 2008, 10:43:40 PM
Post by: cjbriare on December 03, 2008, 10:43:40 PM
Just for the record..
The first machine i used was a PowerMac 7200. Ahhh... those days playing brickles. My dad gave it away due to hard drive issues.
^^^ I lied. It was a 7100.
The first machine i used was a PowerMac 7200. Ahhh... those days playing brickles. My dad gave it away due to hard drive issues.
^^^ I lied. It was a 7100.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: pentium on December 03, 2008, 11:16:29 PM
Post by: pentium on December 03, 2008, 11:16:29 PM
Some XT clone my dad had.
I don't remember the specs but it had a hard drive at least.
I don't remember the specs but it had a hard drive at least.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: pergamon on December 03, 2008, 11:23:33 PM
Post by: pergamon on December 03, 2008, 11:23:33 PM
It was either a Timex Sinclair 1000, or TRS-80 MC10. I was too young to remember for sure, but probably the TS1000...
Title: First Computer?
Post by: cjbriare on December 03, 2008, 11:45:51 PM
Post by: cjbriare on December 03, 2008, 11:45:51 PM
Speaking of TRS-80, my cousin had one when she was little, and my grandma saved it for my sister when she got to be 10 or so, but she is 19 now, and my grandma gave it to me!
It's a TRS-80 CoCo 2. The cassette player doesn't work though.
It's a TRS-80 CoCo 2. The cassette player doesn't work though.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: niteshooter on December 04, 2008, 08:45:48 AM
Post by: niteshooter on December 04, 2008, 08:45:48 AM
The first computer I used was the North York board of Educations mainframe back in 73 and then the mainframe at U of T a year or two later. No idea what the model numbers were but these were the fellows that had their own rooms. Back then you programmed on punch cards....... it took a box of cards plus batch header to run 1 program.
The first 'computer' I owned was the Colecovision Adam in 1984. I still have it along with the Mattel Intelevision computer that I bought at Big Lots in Florida back then as well.
At work in 1989 I started to use Macs starting with the IIfx.
Recently I picked up an Amstrad PPC640 with dual floppies and an Epson HX-20 plus some spare parts for the collection.
The first 'computer' I owned was the Colecovision Adam in 1984. I still have it along with the Mattel Intelevision computer that I bought at Big Lots in Florida back then as well.
At work in 1989 I started to use Macs starting with the IIfx.
Recently I picked up an Amstrad PPC640 with dual floppies and an Epson HX-20 plus some spare parts for the collection.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: helf on December 04, 2008, 09:11:25 AM
Post by: helf on December 04, 2008, 09:11:25 AM
I'm trying to remember. I think it was an IBM XT my dad bought used. My dad is a bit of a tech nut and was always bringing home computers, so its kinda hazy.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: it68000 on December 04, 2008, 10:44:08 AM
Post by: it68000 on December 04, 2008, 10:44:08 AM
this is my timeline :-)
First computer (in the early '90): Olivetti PCS 286,
awful, gotten this instead of the first assembled 386s that were much better.
First Macintosh (at university '97): Powermac 6100
(I've done on it my thesis with Mathematica and LaTeX)
later only Macintosh and NEXT.
First Macintosh at home ('99): imac G3 266Mhz
First notebook (2001): A Powerbook G3 Pismo
First NEXT: some years ago, a NEXTstation Color inside a NEXTstation mono case.
First computer (in the early '90): Olivetti PCS 286,
awful, gotten this instead of the first assembled 386s that were much better.
First Macintosh (at university '97): Powermac 6100
(I've done on it my thesis with Mathematica and LaTeX)
later only Macintosh and NEXT.
First Macintosh at home ('99): imac G3 266Mhz
First notebook (2001): A Powerbook G3 Pismo
First NEXT: some years ago, a NEXTstation Color inside a NEXTstation mono case.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: emond on December 04, 2008, 10:45:36 AM
Post by: emond on December 04, 2008, 10:45:36 AM
The first computer I use is The Commodore PET 2001 (in 1978) !
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?st=1&c=191
After I use : Tandy TRS80, Apple II...
And my first own (at this time "1980" I have 12 year old) computer is a ZX80 in kit (because no money) !
Later I use and have :
Acorn, Dai, Oric, Synclair, Amstrad, Commodore, Amiga, IBM, Apple, Sun, Dec, NeXT, Sgi, and many other...
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?st=1&c=191
After I use : Tandy TRS80, Apple II...
And my first own (at this time "1980" I have 12 year old) computer is a ZX80 in kit (because no money) !
Later I use and have :
Acorn, Dai, Oric, Synclair, Amstrad, Commodore, Amiga, IBM, Apple, Sun, Dec, NeXT, Sgi, and many other...
Title: First Computer?
Post by: slomacuser on December 04, 2008, 02:56:13 PM
Post by: slomacuser on December 04, 2008, 02:56:13 PM
first computer I played with was Atari 520 ST in late 80'
first computer I got was MicroBee in '93 and next year the first Macintosh came, it was LC 4/40 and first computer that I bought was Performa 5200 in '97 ...
first computer I got was MicroBee in '93 and next year the first Macintosh came, it was LC 4/40 and first computer that I bought was Performa 5200 in '97 ...
Title: First Computer?
Post by: mgtremaine on December 04, 2008, 03:50:21 PM
Post by: mgtremaine on December 04, 2008, 03:50:21 PM
First computer I ever used was DECwriter [terminal] into main frame of San Diego City School District 1979-80.
They look like this... yeah Paper!
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html
Then in the sumer of 1980 I got to borrow a Commadore PET 2001 [with out the tape drive built in] and finally I bought [or paid for half] an Apple II+ 1981...
-Mike
They look like this... yeah Paper!
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html
Then in the sumer of 1980 I got to borrow a Commadore PET 2001 [with out the tape drive built in] and finally I bought [or paid for half] an Apple II+ 1981...
-Mike
Title: First Computer?
Post by: Nitro on December 04, 2008, 06:11:48 PM
Post by: Nitro on December 04, 2008, 06:11:48 PM
The first computer I used was my Commodore Vic-20. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20) I think I still have it somewhere in the basement. I also had the Commodore Datasette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasette), which allowed data storage on audio cassette tapes. I don't remember the year, early 1980's I think. :)
Title: All four sides...
Post by: cubist on December 04, 2008, 08:24:52 PM
Post by: cubist on December 04, 2008, 08:24:52 PM
Quote from: "mgtremaine"Yep, save money by printing on all four sides of the paper...
They look like this... yeah Paper!
Title: First Computer?
Post by: un on December 04, 2008, 08:51:48 PM
Post by: un on December 04, 2008, 08:51:48 PM
First computer I ever used was a Sinclair ZX81 my dad built from the kit. I typed in programs on too, can't say I programmed it as I never really learned Sinclair BASIC (good thing too, it was brain-dead compared to BBC BASIC).
First computer I bought *for myself* was an Acorn A3000 (in 1989). You got a (co-operative) multi-tasking desktop environment in 256 colours with an outline font manager out of 1Mb RAM and an 8mhz ARM 2. Had to clean narrow boats and deliver papers for a year to pay for it.
First computer I bought *for myself* was an Acorn A3000 (in 1989). You got a (co-operative) multi-tasking desktop environment in 256 colours with an outline font manager out of 1Mb RAM and an 8mhz ARM 2. Had to clean narrow boats and deliver papers for a year to pay for it.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: cjbriare on December 04, 2008, 10:09:03 PM
Post by: cjbriare on December 04, 2008, 10:09:03 PM
It got me thinking. The Commodore PET looked like a computer from the future. That triangular monitor. Very modern.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: scarecrow on December 05, 2008, 11:07:47 AM
Post by: scarecrow on December 05, 2008, 11:07:47 AM
My brother's LC 475 then my very own Performa 5200 and NeXTstation TurboColor
Title: First Computer?
Post by: neozeed on December 05, 2008, 03:19:13 PM
Post by: neozeed on December 05, 2008, 03:19:13 PM
I had a very sad & denial commodore 64...
With a tape drive, floppy drive, 300 baud modem, the mouse & geoworks...
Then I bought a 286 peicemeal. It wasn't years later that I bought an Amiga 500. Happy days.. to only see how limited it was storage wise like the commodore 64.
I've owned far too many machines, and given them away... From big SUN/RS6000's to a small sun ipc..
Right now my retro source of fun is a Macintosh Quadra 950 with A/UX... it's ... so almost usable. Think Mac OS X in the 1980s..
It's no nextstep by any stretch though ;)
With a tape drive, floppy drive, 300 baud modem, the mouse & geoworks...
Then I bought a 286 peicemeal. It wasn't years later that I bought an Amiga 500. Happy days.. to only see how limited it was storage wise like the commodore 64.
I've owned far too many machines, and given them away... From big SUN/RS6000's to a small sun ipc..
Right now my retro source of fun is a Macintosh Quadra 950 with A/UX... it's ... so almost usable. Think Mac OS X in the 1980s..
It's no nextstep by any stretch though ;)
Title: First Computer?
Post by: stevebez on December 06, 2008, 03:25:13 AM
Post by: stevebez on December 06, 2008, 03:25:13 AM
Ti 99/4a.
The funny thing is in one way it looked much like the majority of todays computers: It was all black and brushed nickel.
The funny thing is in one way it looked much like the majority of todays computers: It was all black and brushed nickel.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: blackcube on December 06, 2008, 11:20:44 AM
Post by: blackcube on December 06, 2008, 11:20:44 AM
The first computer I used was a Reliance Electric uDAC control computer. It ran CP/M 1.1 later upgraded to 2.2 on 8" floppies. This was in a Standard Brands margarine plant and we were allowed to use it for personal purposes after hours. In 1978 I bought a single board 8080 computers, a used 8" floppy for $500 and used a cast off Teletype terminal from GTE until I could afford a used terminal. In 1980 I upgraded to a TI99/4 which was traded for a TI99/4A in 1981. That was replaced with a Tandy Model 100. I used that to log onto Compuserve at 300 baud. In 1984 I purchased a Tandy 1000HD which I still have.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: neozeed on December 06, 2008, 11:30:09 AM
Post by: neozeed on December 06, 2008, 11:30:09 AM
Quote from: "blackcube"The first computer I used was a Reliance Electric uDAC control computer. It ran CP/M 1.1 later upgraded to 2.2 on 8" floppies. This was in a Standard Brands margarine plant and we were allowed to use it for personal purposes after hours. In 1978 I bought a single board 8080 computers, a used 8" floppy for $500 and used a cast off Teletype terminal from GTE until I could afford a used terminal. In 1980 I upgraded to a TI99/4 which was traded for a TI99/4A in 1981. That was replaced with a Tandy Model 100. I used that to log onto Compuserve at 300 baud. In 1984 I purchased a Tandy 1000HD which I still have.
So is it really true that margarine is a grey goo more like packing grease then like a 'food' product?
Title: First Computer?
Post by: blackcube on December 06, 2008, 04:54:55 PM
Post by: blackcube on December 06, 2008, 04:54:55 PM
Quote from: "neozeed"Quote from: "blackcube"The first computer I used was a Reliance Electric uDAC control computer. It ran CP/M 1.1 later upgraded to 2.2 on 8" floppies. This was in a Standard Brands margarine plant and we were allowed to use it for personal purposes after hours. In 1978 I bought a single board 8080 computers, a used 8" floppy for $500 and used a cast off Teletype terminal from GTE until I could afford a used terminal. In 1980 I upgraded to a TI99/4 which was traded for a TI99/4A in 1981. That was replaced with a Tandy Model 100. I used that to log onto Compuserve at 300 baud. In 1984 I purchased a Tandy 1000HD which I still have.
So is it really true that margarine is a grey goo more like packing grease then like a 'food' product?
It's congealed partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and waste products from milk production with a soy based emulsifier added to hold it all together.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: neozeed on December 07, 2008, 01:48:34 PM
Post by: neozeed on December 07, 2008, 01:48:34 PM
Quote from: "blackcube"
It's congealed partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and waste products from milk production with a soy based emulsifier added to hold it all together.
Ugh. I'm glad I've always had butter.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: Nightengale on December 07, 2008, 08:58:11 PM
Post by: Nightengale on December 07, 2008, 08:58:11 PM
Televideo running CP/M at my mom's work a hospital, 1982
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=610
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=610
Title: First Computer?
Post by: Jenne on December 10, 2008, 12:09:53 AM
Post by: Jenne on December 10, 2008, 12:09:53 AM
Sinclair Spectrum ZX, but I don´t remember when I first played around with it anymore, must have been around the very early 80s
J
J
Title: First Computer?
Post by: nextchef on December 10, 2008, 04:44:17 PM
Post by: nextchef on December 10, 2008, 04:44:17 PM
Ti 99/4a, with the speech synth and big expansion chassis added later for more memory and a floppy drive. Still have it packed away in a couple of boxes downstairs (no original box though). Next was a PCjr that dad bought for the house, since he used Lotus 123 at work, and it was available on a cartridge for the jr. No longer have that one, but I have pieced together a replacement unit over the last few years, with all the memory and printer expansion "sidecar" units.
Chef
Chef
Title: First Computer?
Post by: Thrax on December 10, 2008, 06:52:58 PM
Post by: Thrax on December 10, 2008, 06:52:58 PM
1979, Apple II plus clone with dual 5 1/4" drives. Got quickly upgraded with a 128K card and lower case caps. Still have it too.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: djb on December 10, 2008, 06:54:10 PM
Post by: djb on December 10, 2008, 06:54:10 PM
Ownership in my family or me was:
Atari 800
Mac Plus
Mac LCII
PowerMac 610
Pentium 166
Next slab (still own of course)
PIII
Macbook (current)
ahh the memories!
Atari 800
Mac Plus
Mac LCII
PowerMac 610
Pentium 166
Next slab (still own of course)
PIII
Macbook (current)
ahh the memories!
Title: First Computer?
Post by: armus2112 on December 10, 2008, 10:37:26 PM
Post by: armus2112 on December 10, 2008, 10:37:26 PM
Atari 800
Title: First Computer?
Post by: pentium on December 11, 2008, 11:19:16 PM
Post by: pentium on December 11, 2008, 11:19:16 PM
I think my first mac was a mac plus but I can't seem to remember where it is anymore. I think it was thrown away but the blue bag it came in was traded off with my Mac SE (my second mac) just last year when I got my cube.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: cchaven on December 12, 2008, 07:19:26 PM
Post by: cchaven on December 12, 2008, 07:19:26 PM
The first computer I got to use belonged to my High School...they had a classroom with a network of a bunch of TRS-80 Model III's....one 64k disk based 'server' and the rest were 16k cassette based machines.
The first computer I owned, which was shortly after starting to program on the TRS-80's, was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. I used a portable TV for the display and my stereo system for data storage. It had the added 16k RAM expansion. One had to be careful though, as the contact between the RAM expansion and the computer wasn't real good, so if you bumped the computer too hard, it reset and you lost everything. All this was in the 1981-1982 timeframe.
The first computer I owned, which was shortly after starting to program on the TRS-80's, was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. I used a portable TV for the display and my stereo system for data storage. It had the added 16k RAM expansion. One had to be careful though, as the contact between the RAM expansion and the computer wasn't real good, so if you bumped the computer too hard, it reset and you lost everything. All this was in the 1981-1982 timeframe.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: memson on December 13, 2008, 03:37:39 PM
Post by: memson on December 13, 2008, 03:37:39 PM
My first was a 16K Sinclair ZX Spectrum. I then went through a bunch:
Commodore 64
Amstrad cpc464
Atari 800xl
Sinclair ZX81 (stopgap when my Speccy died)
Sinclair +2
Oric Atmos
Amiga 500+
Acorn A3000 (my parents, but I later inherited it)
First PC was in 1994.
First Mac was in 2000
Commodore 64
Amstrad cpc464
Atari 800xl
Sinclair ZX81 (stopgap when my Speccy died)
Sinclair +2
Oric Atmos
Amiga 500+
Acorn A3000 (my parents, but I later inherited it)
First PC was in 1994.
First Mac was in 2000
Title: First Computer?
Post by: cjwallgren1s on December 23, 2008, 12:58:54 PM
Post by: cjwallgren1s on December 23, 2008, 12:58:54 PM
The first computer that I remember seeing was an AT&T 6300+ 286.
The first computer that I ever used had to be an IBM PC/AT at home and a PC/XT at my dad's office.
The first computer that I ever used had to be an IBM PC/AT at home and a PC/XT at my dad's office.
Title: My Precious
Post by: ErikTheHack on February 25, 2009, 06:13:37 PM
Post by: ErikTheHack on February 25, 2009, 06:13:37 PM
197x: I actually know for sure what the first computer I used was -- it was in elementary school in the 70s. Someone once told me they knew it was a PDP11. We were of course tied in via 160 column paper terminals. It was all about Star Trek, Horoscopes, and Lemonade Stand.
1980: The first micro computer (what we now call a PC in a generic sense) I used was a friend's father's Apple II+. That was all about Gorgon (a Defender-like game) Ultima, Castle Wolfenstein, and programming various joke programs in Applesoft BASIC or 6502 assembly. I think the best one was a random fart sound generator. Ahhh, to be 11 again ;-)
1980 (xmas): The first micro computer I owned was an Atari 400 with 16k RAM and the gawd-awful Atari 410 cassette drive for storage. I used an old 12" Sony Trinitron TV for my display. Used to play lots of games (of course). I began developing games and utilities in Atari BASIC and Atari Assembler/Editor.
1981: My dad realized that I really needed a real keyboard and a floppy drive so he took me out to get an Atari 800 w/48k, Atari 810 floppy drive, Atari 835 "direct connect" modem, and a Sears color composite computer video display. Started hitting BBSs. Hacking, Cracking, Phreaking. Lawless times they were on the home computer frontier!
1982: Atari 800XL + Atari 1050 FDD etc.
1985: Atari 130XE
1987: Atari 520ST
1988: Atari MEGA2 ST
1990: Atari TT030
1991: NeXT Cube '030
1994: NeXTStation Turbo Color ADB
1996: Self-built dual-processor Pentium 200MHz system
1999: Power Macintosh G4 @ 450MHz -- anticipating upcoming Mac OS X
2001: Power Macintosh G4 Cube @ 500MHz
2002: Titanium PowerBook G4 (DVI) @ 667MHz
2004: Aluminum PowerBook 15" @ 1.5GHz
2005: PowerBook 12" @ 1.5GHz (Ran over my prev PB with my truck)
2006: MacBook (Black) @ 2.0GHz /
3 x MacMini upgraded to Core 2 Duo @ 2.16GHz
2007: MacBook (Black) @ 2.16GHz
2008: MacBook Air (SSD) @ 1.8GHz
2008: MacBook (Unibody) @ 2.4GHz /
EFi-X based Hackintosh @ Quad Core 2.83GHz (OC to 3.4GHz)
1980: The first micro computer (what we now call a PC in a generic sense) I used was a friend's father's Apple II+. That was all about Gorgon (a Defender-like game) Ultima, Castle Wolfenstein, and programming various joke programs in Applesoft BASIC or 6502 assembly. I think the best one was a random fart sound generator. Ahhh, to be 11 again ;-)
1980 (xmas): The first micro computer I owned was an Atari 400 with 16k RAM and the gawd-awful Atari 410 cassette drive for storage. I used an old 12" Sony Trinitron TV for my display. Used to play lots of games (of course). I began developing games and utilities in Atari BASIC and Atari Assembler/Editor.
1981: My dad realized that I really needed a real keyboard and a floppy drive so he took me out to get an Atari 800 w/48k, Atari 810 floppy drive, Atari 835 "direct connect" modem, and a Sears color composite computer video display. Started hitting BBSs. Hacking, Cracking, Phreaking. Lawless times they were on the home computer frontier!
1982: Atari 800XL + Atari 1050 FDD etc.
1985: Atari 130XE
1987: Atari 520ST
1988: Atari MEGA2 ST
1990: Atari TT030
1991: NeXT Cube '030
1994: NeXTStation Turbo Color ADB
1996: Self-built dual-processor Pentium 200MHz system
1999: Power Macintosh G4 @ 450MHz -- anticipating upcoming Mac OS X
2001: Power Macintosh G4 Cube @ 500MHz
2002: Titanium PowerBook G4 (DVI) @ 667MHz
2004: Aluminum PowerBook 15" @ 1.5GHz
2005: PowerBook 12" @ 1.5GHz (Ran over my prev PB with my truck)
2006: MacBook (Black) @ 2.0GHz /
3 x MacMini upgraded to Core 2 Duo @ 2.16GHz
2007: MacBook (Black) @ 2.16GHz
2008: MacBook Air (SSD) @ 1.8GHz
2008: MacBook (Unibody) @ 2.4GHz /
EFi-X based Hackintosh @ Quad Core 2.83GHz (OC to 3.4GHz)
Title: Re: First Computer?
Post by: chancehooper on February 26, 2009, 10:58:54 AM
Post by: chancehooper on February 26, 2009, 10:58:54 AM
Quote from: "cjbriare"Hello Everybody. Just a quick question for all of you.
What was the first computer you ever used?
Don't just say: Mac.
Be specific! Say it like this: PowerMac 7200, back in 1998!
:D
Ooooh, this makes me feel old. BBC Model B, possibly - certainly first at School (Aged 8, in 1985). I think my dad bought I/him/us a Toshiba MSX machine a bit before then, though - maybe '83?
Then I got a ZX80 (the white wedge with a rubber keyboard), dismantled it for components, as it was a) awful and b) broke..then a commodore 64...then, school 286 12MHz RM Nimbus PCs (they had a lovely keyboard action, I recall), a generic 386SX 33MHz PC, Nintendo Gameboy, ( then Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Colour, and Advance...N64, Saturn and an old Atari Jaguar whilst at School and Uni)...Then I had a Pentium 90 ex-server...first machine I ever had a modem with - thta was an adventure (although a bloody awful machine), after which I had a Dreamcast, then XBox, Gamecube and an old Gamegear for gaming, whilst working on my brand-new PowerMac G4....
Now the fastest boxes I own are a Dual-xeon workstation with 4GB of Rambus memory and my PS3....but the retro/workstation collection is coming along well!
Currently I have (and use) an SGI 320 with 1600sw screen (absolutely lovely for photoshop!), an SGI Iris Indigo, an SGI O2, an iMac G3 (600Mhz, Blue Dalmatian) and a 500MHz hot-rodded G3 "Pismo" PowerBook (nicest keyboard and ergonmics on a laptop EVER!)...
I've worked coding software on SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, HPUX, Linux, Irix, and god knows what else...I loved working on SGIs then and I still do now - great hardware, great compilers, good developer support and frankly awesome end-user experience. I love NeXT for the same reason - the object orientated environment is great, but basically, they just work. Watching the "Interpersonal Computing" demo just makes you realise how far ahead of the curve NeXT was - when that "expensive" machine launched, the only thing I know of that was capable of matching it for actual through put of work would have been something like a Personal Iris machine and they started ar around the $30,000 Mark. The "Cheap" Iris Indigo debuted in '92 and cost $15k-ish and only had 8-bit colour at that price. If you wanted 24-bit "Elan" Graphics with 3-D texture capability, you were looking at a lot more!
NeXT failed because idiots in the press thought it was an expensive Mac although, I can recall a Macintosh LC with 13" colour screen being priced in excess of £2000 in 1992! (which was equivalent to about $3500 and had half the spec of a Colour NextStation Turbo that sold for $4000), but the truth is it was a dirt cheap workstation with a great User Interface and development environment. Gotta love NeXT and Mr.jobs vision - collaborative workflows and the like about...what, 15-20 years ahead of Windows 7? hahaha!
Title: First Computer?
Post by: dai_vernon on February 26, 2009, 06:54:53 PM
Post by: dai_vernon on February 26, 2009, 06:54:53 PM
My first computer was a powermac 7100 (BHA) that my dad's work had remaindered. I mainly used it to play Sky Shadow and Armor Alley. The first computer I ever owned was an iMac G3 Snow for my 13th birthday.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: rpangrazio on March 03, 2009, 10:49:00 AM
Post by: rpangrazio on March 03, 2009, 10:49:00 AM
The first computer I ever used was a Tandy Color Computer 3, it was about 1988 or so. It was my brothers, but he is really cool and we both learned BASIC. I got him one at a garage sale for like 5 dollars about 8-10 years later, so he had a backup.
The first computer I ever owned was a Compaq portable, the one shaped like a suitcase and weighed ruffly the same as a small bull elephant. Made the same year I was born. I got it second hand somewhere in the early nineties.
My first Mac was a Mac II. I have had quite a few macs over the years, some working some not. A Quadra 630, a Umax J900 - both at about 1999. A 512k in 2002. A Powerbook g3(walstreet) 2003. And a Powerbook 190cs that I still have.
My first Next machine was not a Next but a HP 712 I got about 6 months ago.
My favorite machine I ever owned though was an SGI Octane i had in college. I really wish I never sold it. My 712 is quickly becoming number 2 though.
The first computer I ever owned was a Compaq portable, the one shaped like a suitcase and weighed ruffly the same as a small bull elephant. Made the same year I was born. I got it second hand somewhere in the early nineties.
My first Mac was a Mac II. I have had quite a few macs over the years, some working some not. A Quadra 630, a Umax J900 - both at about 1999. A 512k in 2002. A Powerbook g3(walstreet) 2003. And a Powerbook 190cs that I still have.
My first Next machine was not a Next but a HP 712 I got about 6 months ago.
My favorite machine I ever owned though was an SGI Octane i had in college. I really wish I never sold it. My 712 is quickly becoming number 2 though.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: idylukewild on December 17, 2009, 09:34:18 AM
Post by: idylukewild on December 17, 2009, 09:34:18 AM
First computer used: 1979, Univac mainframe at U of Md. in introductory programming class. Used IBM punchcards. Still have a 'batch' printout for a graded project!
First computer owned: 1986, PC XT clone - when the clones came out there was a store around here you could go to and buy all of the parts to make a clone -cheep! A great improvement over punchcards!
Luke
First computer owned: 1986, PC XT clone - when the clones came out there was a store around here you could go to and buy all of the parts to make a clone -cheep! A great improvement over punchcards!
Luke
Title: First Computer?
Post by: victormeunier on December 17, 2009, 11:25:44 AM
Post by: victormeunier on December 17, 2009, 11:25:44 AM
for personal work :
1996 : Pentium pro PC with windows 95
1998 : Pentium II PC with windows 98
2001 : Pentium III PC with windows XP
2006 : Acer aspire 9410 with windows XP
2008 : iMac aluminium intel with OSX leopard
2009 : macbook pro intel with OSX snow leopard + virtualized windows XP and NeXTSTEP 3.3 CISC.
for collection or partial work :
macintosh 512k
macintosh plus x3
macintosh plus titanium
macintosh LC
macintosh IIci
macintosh SE FDHD 1/30
macintosh SE FDHD 1/40
Atari 1040 ST
Sinclair Spectrum +
Newton messagepad H1000
Newton Messagepad 130
1996 : Pentium pro PC with windows 95
1998 : Pentium II PC with windows 98
2001 : Pentium III PC with windows XP
2006 : Acer aspire 9410 with windows XP
2008 : iMac aluminium intel with OSX leopard
2009 : macbook pro intel with OSX snow leopard + virtualized windows XP and NeXTSTEP 3.3 CISC.
for collection or partial work :
macintosh 512k
macintosh plus x3
macintosh plus titanium
macintosh LC
macintosh IIci
macintosh SE FDHD 1/30
macintosh SE FDHD 1/40
Atari 1040 ST
Sinclair Spectrum +
Newton messagepad H1000
Newton Messagepad 130
Title: First Computer?
Post by: domiel on December 22, 2009, 12:07:07 AM
Post by: domiel on December 22, 2009, 12:07:07 AM
My high school had a lab with two Apple II's a ZX-81 and two Microbee's (a local Australian Z-80 based system)
I think the first thing I ever programmed with one of the Microbee's.
My father then got me a Commodore64 and the rest as they say is history :)
I think the first thing I ever programmed with one of the Microbee's.
My father then got me a Commodore64 and the rest as they say is history :)
Title: First Computer?
Post by: OpenToNeXT on December 28, 2009, 10:09:56 PM
Post by: OpenToNeXT on December 28, 2009, 10:09:56 PM
First computer for my 16th birthday: TRS-80 Pocket computer, with a generous 1.9K memory and a cassette tape drive. Utterly useless to me since I didn't enjoy basic programming. I used it more of like a calculator. Though I worked on Apple IIe and AT&T PC clones, my first computer I owned was the Mac XL in 1986, given to me by my parents. I loved that computer. The first one I bought myself was a Macintosh Portable. I had to choose that over a NeXT slab because my first middle school teaching assignment didn't include a single classroom and I couldn't lug the NeXT from home to school and back.
Since then, I've had PCs, Newtons, Macs and Mac Clones until the Intel generation. My favorite was having a classroom full of NeXT slabs and cubes in the middle school, all hooked to a NeXT laser printer and the Novell Network and internet. Sure confounded my English students when they tried to figure out what kind of operating system it was.
Since then, I've had PCs, Newtons, Macs and Mac Clones until the Intel generation. My favorite was having a classroom full of NeXT slabs and cubes in the middle school, all hooked to a NeXT laser printer and the Novell Network and internet. Sure confounded my English students when they tried to figure out what kind of operating system it was.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: bkmoore on December 29, 2009, 02:30:12 AM
Post by: bkmoore on December 29, 2009, 02:30:12 AM
The first computer I had was an Apple IIe that my parents bought in 1983. I played lots of Wizardry and Ultima 2 on it. I also learned Basic and Pascal. I later on used Apple Fortran in my first year of college. The first computer I bought with my own money was an G3 Powerbook Wallstreet in 1998.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: skaffloth on January 03, 2010, 05:28:58 PM
Post by: skaffloth on January 03, 2010, 05:28:58 PM
One of the first "computers" I was programming was the Olivetti Programma 101... I still have the original manual and a magnetic card with a program I wrote... OK, it was made when I was born, but I did program on it when I was 10-11 years old...
Se here: http://www.silab.it/frox/p101/
I also used the Sinclair Cambridge Programmable as well...
My own real computer was a Sinclair ZX80 kit, I then added memory, upgraded it to a ZX81 and got circuits to get the screen to display while I pressed the keyboard etc.. I still have it but it is broken, maybe I just need to exchange all components on it to see if it will boot up...
Otherwise PET 2001/ABC 80 was a lot.
The Sinclair Spectrum, Acorn BBC.
Unix wize I think I have touched over 40 different Unix dialects... Started with Unix on a PDP11... Loved the big Lauderdale 88K machines... the Nixdorf ones was great, their terminal systems was the best.
I did love the Sharp PC-1500, it is a full computer in that little case, had a 4 color plotter and communication device, had? still has it.
I owned the first IBM PC when released, I bought it using my own money, it was very expensive... Had access to Macintosh already (128k).
Have run it from DOS 1.0 up... Someone stole it from my work, still mad about that one.
Some other stranger machines, Nokia MIKRO MIKKO 1 up to 3,
using FASOS Operating System and the FAS language (Fortran Assembler),
also used their state of the art Mini Computer Systems to build the Security Systems for the Security Conference as well for the Swedish Security Police (SÄPO) and Interpol. These was nice machines! FAS is byte code compatible and you could move between CP/M, PC-DOS, Mini Computer and also IBM Mainframes without even re-compiling! Long before Java... I can't even find a single reference on the web about these nice machines... Not even Wikipedia tells you that Nokia actual produces mini computers back then. It had a nice Control Data 50+10MB Hard drive (BIG ONE)...
I worked a lot on mainframes between 1982 and 1984 as well...
Next was introduced to me on a demo in 1991? Got sold, could not convince anyone to buy a machine for me, had a lot of HP and IBM RTs to play with already.
Sona s NeXTSTEP for Intel was released I got it and bought a VERY expensice 3DLABS GLINT card to get 32 bit color and full resolution. That was heaven...
I now own two black HW, a cube 040'25 and a Turbo Color Slab...
I am trying to port Hercules onto NeXT and run MVS 3.8J, anyone have 3270Vision :)
Se here: http://www.silab.it/frox/p101/
I also used the Sinclair Cambridge Programmable as well...
My own real computer was a Sinclair ZX80 kit, I then added memory, upgraded it to a ZX81 and got circuits to get the screen to display while I pressed the keyboard etc.. I still have it but it is broken, maybe I just need to exchange all components on it to see if it will boot up...
Otherwise PET 2001/ABC 80 was a lot.
The Sinclair Spectrum, Acorn BBC.
Unix wize I think I have touched over 40 different Unix dialects... Started with Unix on a PDP11... Loved the big Lauderdale 88K machines... the Nixdorf ones was great, their terminal systems was the best.
I did love the Sharp PC-1500, it is a full computer in that little case, had a 4 color plotter and communication device, had? still has it.
I owned the first IBM PC when released, I bought it using my own money, it was very expensive... Had access to Macintosh already (128k).
Have run it from DOS 1.0 up... Someone stole it from my work, still mad about that one.
Some other stranger machines, Nokia MIKRO MIKKO 1 up to 3,
using FASOS Operating System and the FAS language (Fortran Assembler),
also used their state of the art Mini Computer Systems to build the Security Systems for the Security Conference as well for the Swedish Security Police (SÄPO) and Interpol. These was nice machines! FAS is byte code compatible and you could move between CP/M, PC-DOS, Mini Computer and also IBM Mainframes without even re-compiling! Long before Java... I can't even find a single reference on the web about these nice machines... Not even Wikipedia tells you that Nokia actual produces mini computers back then. It had a nice Control Data 50+10MB Hard drive (BIG ONE)...
I worked a lot on mainframes between 1982 and 1984 as well...
Next was introduced to me on a demo in 1991? Got sold, could not convince anyone to buy a machine for me, had a lot of HP and IBM RTs to play with already.
Sona s NeXTSTEP for Intel was released I got it and bought a VERY expensice 3DLABS GLINT card to get 32 bit color and full resolution. That was heaven...
I now own two black HW, a cube 040'25 and a Turbo Color Slab...
I am trying to port Hercules onto NeXT and run MVS 3.8J, anyone have 3270Vision :)
Title: First Computer?
Post by: allisa on January 22, 2010, 11:26:49 PM
Post by: allisa on January 22, 2010, 11:26:49 PM
My first pc was a assembled machine. And my best friend had given me that on my birthday.
Title: First Computer?
Post by: applefreak on January 23, 2010, 03:33:25 AM
Post by: applefreak on January 23, 2010, 03:33:25 AM
first computer
begin 1985, have seen 'at work' a mac 512k, one without an external diskdrive
it seemed to me, they didn't anything else than swapping floppys
nevertheless, i bought it second-hand, and the imagewriter II with feeder, an external diskdrive, a numeric keypad
begin 1985, have seen 'at work' a mac 512k, one without an external diskdrive
it seemed to me, they didn't anything else than swapping floppys
nevertheless, i bought it second-hand, and the imagewriter II with feeder, an external diskdrive, a numeric keypad
Title: First Computer?
Post by: NeXTsociety on March 03, 2010, 12:43:59 AM
Post by: NeXTsociety on March 03, 2010, 12:43:59 AM
Commodore Pet for me also in the late 70s early 80s.
tj
tj
Title: First Computer?
Post by: brams on June 16, 2010, 05:33:50 AM
Post by: brams on June 16, 2010, 05:33:50 AM
1981 Sinclair ZX Spectum 48k SOLD
1983 BBC Micro Model B SOLD
1985 Commodore Amiga A500 SOLD
1987 Amstrad/Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 SOLD
1990 Acorn A3000 SOLD
1992 Acorn Electron SOLD
1993 Atari 800XL SOLD
1994 Acorn A3000 SOLD
1996 Macintosh Performa 5200 SOLD
1997 Power Macintosh 7300/166 SOLD
1998 Toshiba Laptop P100 I got given SOLD
1999 NeXTstation Color SOLD
2000 2x NeXTstation Turbo Color 1 SOLD
2000 Power Macintosh 8500/120 SOLD
2000 Macintosh 840av
2000 Macintosh Quadra 650
2000 Macintosh IIci SOLD
2001 Power Macintosh G4 667
2001 TiBook 667 SOLD
2001 Mac plus
2001 Power Macintosh 6100/66 thrown away as it broke
2004 Power Macintosh G4/466
2004 Apple Newton MP2100
2005 iBook G4 14" SOLD
2005 Pismo 500
2005 BeBox 133
2005 NeXTcube Turbo Dimension
2005 Cobalt Qube SOLD
2006 Silicon Graphics Octane MXE
2006 MacBook Pro 15" SOLD
2007 Wallstreet
2008 MacBook Pro 17" Hi Def
2008 440bx PC thrown away as it broke
2009 Irwindale XEON PC for playing games on
2010 PowerBook G4 12" that needs a new logic board as the graphics broke
2010 27" iMac i7 I hope finances permitting
Still wants Amiga A4000T
1983 BBC Micro Model B SOLD
1985 Commodore Amiga A500 SOLD
1987 Amstrad/Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 SOLD
1990 Acorn A3000 SOLD
1992 Acorn Electron SOLD
1993 Atari 800XL SOLD
1994 Acorn A3000 SOLD
1996 Macintosh Performa 5200 SOLD
1997 Power Macintosh 7300/166 SOLD
1998 Toshiba Laptop P100 I got given SOLD
1999 NeXTstation Color SOLD
2000 2x NeXTstation Turbo Color 1 SOLD
2000 Power Macintosh 8500/120 SOLD
2000 Macintosh 840av
2000 Macintosh Quadra 650
2000 Macintosh IIci SOLD
2001 Power Macintosh G4 667
2001 TiBook 667 SOLD
2001 Mac plus
2001 Power Macintosh 6100/66 thrown away as it broke
2004 Power Macintosh G4/466
2004 Apple Newton MP2100
2005 iBook G4 14" SOLD
2005 Pismo 500
2005 BeBox 133
2005 NeXTcube Turbo Dimension
2005 Cobalt Qube SOLD
2006 Silicon Graphics Octane MXE
2006 MacBook Pro 15" SOLD
2007 Wallstreet
2008 MacBook Pro 17" Hi Def
2008 440bx PC thrown away as it broke
2009 Irwindale XEON PC for playing games on
2010 PowerBook G4 12" that needs a new logic board as the graphics broke
2010 27" iMac i7 I hope finances permitting
Still wants Amiga A4000T
Title: First Computer?
Post by: cjbriare on August 12, 2010, 04:23:48 PM
Post by: cjbriare on August 12, 2010, 04:23:48 PM
My dad said that when he was considering buying a computer he ALMOST went with NeXT.
But..being a graphic designer he went with the PowerMac 7100 a few years later because of the software he needed.
He said he spent over $10,000 on that whole setup.
PM 7100
17" display
Scanner
LaserWriter Select 360
Pinnacle micro MO drive
I guess it all added up. haha
But..being a graphic designer he went with the PowerMac 7100 a few years later because of the software he needed.
He said he spent over $10,000 on that whole setup.
PM 7100
17" display
Scanner
LaserWriter Select 360
Pinnacle micro MO drive
I guess it all added up. haha
Title: First Computer?
Post by: aragon on August 13, 2010, 01:39:43 AM
Post by: aragon on August 13, 2010, 01:39:43 AM
My first own computer was a Commodore C-16. I bought this cheap after hanging around my friends' C64s.
Since it was not compatible with the C64, but had a better BASIC as well as a built-in 6502 monitor, I got used to writing / porting / adapting software.
Together with a friend I upgraded this machine to 64 KB a few months later.
Sold this machine 2 years later to buy an Amiga 500. Again, ugrading the machine to Kickstart 1.3 and 1 MB RAM was obligatory at the time. The Amiga served me really well for a few years, I eventually even bought a GVP SCSI expansion with a 50MB (later 105MB) HDD!
This machine was superseded by a used Amiga 3000. This was my main computer during my student years. Later I had to work with PCs :shock:, but Linux came to rescue me from M$'s fangs...
I read about NEXT machines in the seminal Byte issue, but could not afford to buy one back in the day. However, I was lucky to find a Nextstation on my campus and was even allowed to play with it for a few days! It really outshone the Apollo workstations sitting beside it and foreshadowed the rise of the Internet.
Ahhh, memories :grin:
Since it was not compatible with the C64, but had a better BASIC as well as a built-in 6502 monitor, I got used to writing / porting / adapting software.
Together with a friend I upgraded this machine to 64 KB a few months later.
Sold this machine 2 years later to buy an Amiga 500. Again, ugrading the machine to Kickstart 1.3 and 1 MB RAM was obligatory at the time. The Amiga served me really well for a few years, I eventually even bought a GVP SCSI expansion with a 50MB (later 105MB) HDD!
This machine was superseded by a used Amiga 3000. This was my main computer during my student years. Later I had to work with PCs :shock:, but Linux came to rescue me from M$'s fangs...
I read about NEXT machines in the seminal Byte issue, but could not afford to buy one back in the day. However, I was lucky to find a Nextstation on my campus and was even allowed to play with it for a few days! It really outshone the Apollo workstations sitting beside it and foreshadowed the rise of the Internet.
Ahhh, memories :grin:
Title: First Computer?
Post by: protocol7 on August 13, 2010, 08:57:08 PM
Post by: protocol7 on August 13, 2010, 08:57:08 PM
My first computer was a 1MB A500. Bought it used with a bunch of software back in 94. I didn't have a monitor so it was plugged into my TV with the sound later going into my HiFi. I was probably more productive back in those days than I am now. Less software to get distracted with and no damn internet! After a couple of years I upgraded to a stock A1200 for the speed, extra RAM and AGA goodness, and then eventually a PC (wanted a Mac but the PC was just better bang-for-buck). I still have both Amigas. The PC was upgraded into oblivion.