My first computer
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@pete-s said in My first computer:
@scottalanmiller I remember the Commodore too. But maybe another similar model. It was touted as a serious machine. Before VIC-20 and Commodore C64. Motorola clone 6502 and 6510 CPUs in those. Same CPU as Apples first computer, the one that basically started the company and made it into more than a couple of guys in a garage.
This was CBM, before they even used the title Commodore alone. This one was 1977, but business, not consumer. VIC=20 was right after it in 1980. The VIC=20 was their first consumer model. Although they were super similar in a lot of ways under the hood.
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@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:
@pete-s said in My first computer:
@scottalanmiller I remember the Commodore too. But maybe another similar model. It was touted as a serious machine. Before VIC-20 and Commodore C64. Motorola clone 6502 and 6510 CPUs in those. Same CPU as Apples first computer, the one that basically started the company and made it into more than a couple of guys in a garage.
This was CBM, before they even used the title Commodore alone. This one was 1977, but business, not consumer. VIC=20 was right after it in 1980. The VIC=20 was their first consumer model. Although they were super similar in a lot of ways under the hood.
Yes, if I remember correctly I saw "your" machine in a shop that was selling business supplies and I they had some business applications running on it. But I think it had a full size keyboard on it. Anyway, the application might have been VisiCalc, the grand-daddy of Excel. Impressive stuff at the time.
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Ahh, this was it.
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/pet/h/p200132.jpg -
@pete-s exact one in the picture that I posted, lol.
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@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:
@pete-s exact one in the picture that I posted, lol.
Except the keyboard.
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@pete-s said in My first computer:
@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:
@pete-s exact one in the picture that I posted, lol.
Except the keyboard.
OH yeah, I had the keyboard shown in yours. The one that went on to be the VIC=20 keyboard.
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My first was a Tandy 2000.
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Does an Amiga 500 count?
If not my First "PC" was a 486 Tiny Computer -
TI 99 4/A
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I have fond memories of Dig-Dug on a TRS-80. Wasn't my computer, sadly.
My first computer was a whitebox 486DX2 built by a local shop. Full height 512MB HDD, it could save all the things in a DOS/Win3.11 era.
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@hobbit666 said in My first computer:
Does an Amiga 500 count?
If not my First "PC" was a 486 Tiny ComputerHe didn't say PC, all of us posting had computers before PCs even existed. The 500 was well into the PC era, so you are unique there, but it was common at the time not to use PCs at home.
My first Amiga was the Amiga 1000, I still have it.
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@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:
@hobbit666 said in My first computer:
Does an Amiga 500 count?
If not my First "PC" was a 486 Tiny ComputerHe didn't say PC, all of us posting had computers before PCs even existed. The 500 was well into the PC era, so you are unique there, but it was common at the time not to use PCs at home.
My first Amiga was the Amiga 1000, I still have it.
The Amiga 500 was an awesome computer for arcade style gaming. It had sprites and good sound. I had one too. Motorola 68000 16/32 bit CPU in those machines. Same as Apple had in their Macintosh before the started with PowerPC.
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I bought my first computer when I was 12 (1988). It was a used 8088 with 640K memory (if memory serves), amber screen, two 5.25 floppies, no hard disk - $250. turned right around and went to Sam's club and bought a 30 MB drive for $300 - that was pre ATA (is that called Winchester?) My dad installed the drive, then I installed DOS 3.x on it.
I know I used computers before that, but I don't recall what they were though. I do remember playing with an Apple IIe in elemetry school, but we didn't have one at home. I think my computer was the first one owned by us in the house. Though my dad had a "portable" computer from the military that he brought home often. It was as large as carry on luggage today.
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@dashrender said in My first computer:
I bought my first computer when I was 12 (1988). It was a used 8088 with 640K memory (if memory serves), amber screen, two 5.25 floppies, no hard disk - $250. turned right around and went to Sam's club and bought a 30 MB drive for $300 - that was pre ATA (is that called Winchester?) My dad installed the drive, then I installed DOS 3.x on it.
I know I used computers before that, but I don't recall what they were though. I do remember playing with an Apple IIe in elemetry school, but we didn't have one at home. I think my computer was the first one owned by us in the house. Though my dad had a "portable" computer from the military that he brought home often. It was as large as carry on luggage today.
Before ATA I think it was ST-506 interface. "Serious" computers used SCSI disks though.
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@pete-s said in My first computer:
@dashrender said in My first computer:
I bought my first computer when I was 12 (1988). It was a used 8088 with 640K memory (if memory serves), amber screen, two 5.25 floppies, no hard disk - $250. turned right around and went to Sam's club and bought a 30 MB drive for $300 - that was pre ATA (is that called Winchester?) My dad installed the drive, then I installed DOS 3.x on it.
I know I used computers before that, but I don't recall what they were though. I do remember playing with an Apple IIe in elemetry school, but we didn't have one at home. I think my computer was the first one owned by us in the house. Though my dad had a "portable" computer from the military that he brought home often. It was as large as carry on luggage today.
Before ATA I think it was ST-506 interface. "Serious" computers used SCSI disks though.
lol - I'm pretty sure the 8088 was considered a PC, not sure about the 'seriousness' of it.. but I wouldn't expect most home users to have SCSI.
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@dashrender said in My first computer:
Before ATA I think it was ST-506 interface. "Serious" computers used SCSI disks though.
lol - I'm pretty sure the 8088 was considered a PC, not sure about the 'seriousness' of it.. but I wouldn't expect most home users to have SCSI.
With "serious" I meant workstation/servers contrary to desktops. When IBM brought the PC to the market, every machine was serious money, I think around $3K to $4K.
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@pete-s said in My first computer:
@dashrender said in My first computer:
Before ATA I think it was ST-506 interface. "Serious" computers used SCSI disks though.
lol - I'm pretty sure the 8088 was considered a PC, not sure about the 'seriousness' of it.. but I wouldn't expect most home users to have SCSI.
With "serious" I meant workstation/servers contrary to desktops. When IBM brought the PC to the market, every machine was serious money, I think around $3K to $4K.
Around that time was also the time when servers actually took off in the PC market. First it was networks cards with twisted pair and drivers on top of MS-DOS. More peer-to-peer type file transfer. But when Novell made their Netware 286 it started to take off. You would then run IPX/SPX drivers on top of MS-DOS and a server running Novell Netware would do file sharing, login and what not. Network was then coax cables.
The file server was born.
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@pete-s said in My first computer:
@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:
@hobbit666 said in My first computer:
Does an Amiga 500 count?
If not my First "PC" was a 486 Tiny ComputerHe didn't say PC, all of us posting had computers before PCs even existed. The 500 was well into the PC era, so you are unique there, but it was common at the time not to use PCs at home.
My first Amiga was the Amiga 1000, I still have it.
The Amiga 500 was an awesome computer for arcade style gaming. It had sprites and good sound. I had one too. Motorola 68000 16/32 bit CPU in those machines. Same as Apple had in their Macintosh before the started with PowerPC.
But the Amiga crushed the Mac. It basically had GPUs before they were cool.
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@dashrender said in My first computer:
@pete-s said in My first computer:
@dashrender said in My first computer:
I bought my first computer when I was 12 (1988). It was a used 8088 with 640K memory (if memory serves), amber screen, two 5.25 floppies, no hard disk - $250. turned right around and went to Sam's club and bought a 30 MB drive for $300 - that was pre ATA (is that called Winchester?) My dad installed the drive, then I installed DOS 3.x on it.
I know I used computers before that, but I don't recall what they were though. I do remember playing with an Apple IIe in elemetry school, but we didn't have one at home. I think my computer was the first one owned by us in the house. Though my dad had a "portable" computer from the military that he brought home often. It was as large as carry on luggage today.
Before ATA I think it was ST-506 interface. "Serious" computers used SCSI disks though.
lol - I'm pretty sure the 8088 was considered a PC, not sure about the 'seriousness' of it.. but I wouldn't expect most home users to have SCSI.
Some 8088 were PC, some were not. Only the PC ones got famous in years later. But at the time, there were loads of non-PC 8088 based computers.
