Nostalgic for your first computer? (page 3)

Sad emo

I had a Commodore 16 cuz I couldn't afford a 64

It didn't matter since I only really used it to play games on - nothing new there lol!!

My first 'proper' computer was a 386 with not a lot of memory or RAM, that's all I remember, then I switched to a Packard Bell P120 (I think!) so I could get on t'interweb, then another higher speed Pentium with much more memory - my first ISP was AOHell, who I only finally dumped about 18months ago.

My latest model is a Toshiba Tecra laptop and it's got more memory, slots and internet settings (internal modem, wifi, Bluetooth and satellite!) than I know what to do with! Fascinating to see how technology has progressed, even though I'll always be a few steps behind.

AO - it's not just you having problems posting! (emo about to make ~~3rd~~ 4th attempt!)

edit to add: HOORAYY!!!

Leolaia

Did you subscribe to the Syntax newsletter?

AlphaOmega

I seem to recall the name (maybe it was because of the dreaded "Syntax Error" ?).

They are online here : http://www.worldofspectrum.org/timex/syntax.htm

My first computer magazine that I subscribed to was "Input".

knock knock

My first computer was a TI99/4A also. Followed closely by a Radio Shack Color Computer 2. What I learned was a bit about programming that was useful for awhile. Entertaining at least. What I should have gotten from it was that there is ALWAYS something more needed to attempt to get a computer to be able to DO something! That took awhile to really sink in though.

Now with the Vista HELL that has been put on us, I am sorry I ever even started down this road. I WANT to do video editing. To attempt to get programs to actually RUN you have to be one hell of a diagnostitian and spend hours and hours and hours NOT doing what you WANT to do. I'm really hating computers these days.

I would try an iMac but somehow I think I'd be very disappointed there too. I was when I tried to see what their editing program looked like at a computer store. Two machines failed to launch iMovie. Basically, iQuit.

Midget-Sasquatch

My father was about to buy a used Adam computer system from a jw who had way too much money to spend and had no real use for the thing. But just before making the deal we needed a new furnace so it was a few years later till me, my sister and my parents pooled our money together to get our first computer - the commodore 64c (the sleeker light brown one that looked alot like the c128) and the 1541-II floppy drive.

A great computer for games and also can you believe it an office suite that ran on less than 20K! Mind you it definitely was not WYSIWYG. Later I got GEOS for it which was a GUI for the c64 and it could use either a mouse or the joystick (Wow was using that joystick horrid.). An awesome game for the c64 was AutoDuel. I loved my later computers more though (Amigas).

P.S. I did not include that link to games in this post. I've doublechecked twice and I can't find anything I've done to bring up that popup.

RisingEagle

My dad's real passion after his fade was home computers. We started out with a trash 80 type he and some co-workers put together. We also had the Timex Sinclair 8k, PC jr (peanut, interesting keyboards they had; started out as chiclet then moved 'up' to wireless but still required line of site) and a PC II. Call me weird, but I really liked the 'clicking' of the keyboard on the PC II, it reminded me of the tiperiter i lerned tu tipe gud on,

Eagle

TD

My first *real* computer was an Apple ][ --Learned Basic and then ML. Actually had a few programs published in magazines. (Nibble and Compute!) Even got paid for one of them.

I still miss it sometimes

LoverOfTruth

The first computer in our home was an Apple we bought for the kids in the early 1980s.

My first IBM clone was an 80/88 with a dial up modem. I think it had a 20 meg Hard Drive but I'm not certain. What a blessing it was though. My younger son Aaron was doing poorly in school; he was rather bored. I simply showed him how to do basic DOS Commands and he found his passion. He started writing programs and such. Today, he's a Firmware Engineer at Dell in Texas.

AlphaOmega

Now with the Vista HELL that has been put on us, I am sorry I ever even started down this road. I WANT to do video editing. To attempt to get programs to actually RUN you have to be one hell of a diagnostitian and spend hours and hours and hours NOT doing what you WANT to do.

I'll second that Knock, Knock, !

I spent a whole weekend playing around with a NEW piece of software for video editing that claimed to be Vista Compatible. Guess what ?

It wasn't ! Much as I loathe calling tech support or e-mailing them. I did - only to be told that it wasn't ever going to work and that I needed to buy the new version ?

New ???

avengers

This was my first computer :
A Sinclair ZX81 - no colour and as far as I remember, no sound either and definately no hard drive.

Mine was a Sinclair Spectrum, but then with 48k Ram. Add 16k of ROM for the Basic and you have an address range from 0 to 65535. I bought a disc drive (one of the first in existence then) which could store 178k.

I learned BASIC and assembler on this thing. It was the first computer with a complete instruction set. In the 90's when I was sent to a bakery as a mechanic I found an assembly line which still used the Z80 processor.

wow.

Andy

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