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TriBob
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 Posted: 10/20/03 - 07:45 Post subject: Your first computer
TI 99-4A
Other oldies but goodies:
Radio Shack Color Computer.
Apple II
TRS-80
IBM PC 8088 I even upgraded to 512K of RAM with duel 5 1/4 disk drives  It even took 4 AA bataries to run the clock.
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kobyj
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 07:47 Post subject:
My first was a Commodore 64.
I do remember the Trash (I mean TRS) 80's. That's what my elem school had until they bought Apple IIe computers.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 08:00 Post subject: Re: Your first computer
Didn't those have the chicklet keyboards?
My first was an Atari 440XL (the cool silver and black cases, not those dopey beige things). I later upgraded to an 800XL with 64K of RAM! 
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brie k
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 08:02 Post subject:
Our first puter was a P/S 2. I don't even know what that means anymore. We bought it from his hotel for $250. It came loaded with DOS, which hubby learned right away so he knows all of that stuff. We loaded windows 3.1 on it, and then word I think. It had very little memory. Hubby got into gaming with Chips Challenge. LOL, fun game. That was 1996. His mom ended up buying the Aptiva for us not long after, seeing that he loved that first computer so much. We are both now computer junkies.  We have 4 hooked up now, 1 in the closet, and we gave the P/S 2 to Salvation Army I believe, except for the keyboard. While in Office Max one day, I heard an older couple asking the gal there if they had a keyboard for a P/S 2, so I offered them ours.
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akern
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 08:14 Post subject:
I'm still using my first computer. 
Don't ask me for specifics. It's got a monitor and a keyboard.
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 08:22 Post subject:
Tandy. One of the first ones with a hard drive.
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copteacher
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 08:31 Post subject:
Crap we have had a TI something, C64, Several Tandy stuff, Gateway now we have HP
laptop likely to be next
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 08:47 Post subject:
We bought a 286 PC clone. We thought we were so cool because we splurged and bought an amber monitor. 
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RangerG
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 09:22 Post subject:
IBM 8088
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Pug
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 09:30 Post subject:
I have still never owned a computer.
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 09:43 Post subject: Re: Your first computer
| TriBob wrote: | | IBM PC 8088 I even upgraded to 512K of RAM with duel 5 1/4 disk drives It even took 4 AA bataries to run the clock. |
"640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates
My first was a Tandy of some sort back when I was in 5th grade, then an Apple IIe, followed by a Mac. Classic.
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thegman
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 09:46 Post subject:
I had a TRS-80 and thought I was the bomb until a friend of mine got an Apple II.
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elkid
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 11:02 Post subject:
I have no idea what it was - that was nearly 20 years ago. I do remember we had a dot matrix printer that always jammed, and that the PC was considered an "IBM compatible" (GO BIG BLUE).
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purple hayes
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 11:05 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | I do remember we had a dot matrix printer that always jammed, |
We still have a dot matrix printer in our office. It prints a whole line at a time and it's L-O-U-D!
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TimRuns
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Posted: 10/20/03 - 14:44 Post subject:
I don't exactly remember the brand of my 1st computer but I think it had windows 3.1 on it..
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