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View Full Version : When did you get your first computer?
1cooldude
April 5th, 2009, 02:59 PM
When did you get/buy your own personal computer (that also includes all other brand of products)?
My first computer was an Apple clone with an 8-bit 6502 micro.I built it with all my money that I had earned during the summer in 1979. I was learning "Basic" and had built a few more summer contraptions.
fleecy
April 5th, 2009, 04:57 PM
we had a really old DOS beast that was mostly used for mahjongg... well, okay, so is this one, to be fair.
rainbowdemon
April 5th, 2009, 05:51 PM
Got a Dell about 7 years ago. It's been downhill ever since.
Don't remember the model, but it had:
CPU was 1.86 g Intel
256 megs of memory
40 gig hard drive
Windows 2000 Pro
And a CD burner
I was happy!!
YWD67
April 5th, 2009, 05:53 PM
Commodore 64 1983, cost about $500.
1cooldude
April 5th, 2009, 05:58 PM
Commodore 64 1983, cost about $500.
lol..I had one of those too.:wiggle:
mountain_rage
April 5th, 2009, 06:03 PM
I was 4 and it was an Intel 386 assembled by a local company. If I remember correctly my dad had updated it the year after with a Sound Blaster card. It had windows 3.1, remember playing a lot of worms, reversi, gorillas (http://telcontar.net/Misc/Gorillas/), and sierra adventure games on it. Still remember the line from Space Quest 3. "You get the ladder and put it in your pocket. Ouch."
mfgbypooter
April 5th, 2009, 06:19 PM
I was given an abacus when I was a kid.
Didn't use it much other than to slam the beads back and forth.
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Potato
April 5th, 2009, 08:07 PM
Hmm... I like how some of you guys had a computer before I was born.
1cooldude
April 6th, 2009, 01:26 AM
Hmm... I like how some of you guys had a computer before I was born.
Potato, we're just old pharts.
RACKnRAIL
April 6th, 2009, 12:38 PM
I first had a 486 and then in 95' my first decent computer with, if my memory serves me, 9 floppy disks with WIN95. Then did an upgrade to WIN98, which was cheaper than the ram upgrade. I think I went from 32mb to 64. I remember it being expensive.
rainbowdemon
April 10th, 2009, 04:37 AM
Hmm... I like how some of you guys had a computer before I was born.
It's the other way around. I was born before computers!!
ROMANTICGUY50
May 6th, 2009, 06:55 PM
My first computer was an old commodore- That was quite awhile ago...Also had Web Tv for a while too(lol)
sister_sue48
May 8th, 2009, 05:28 AM
June 1997 my first was a compaq loved that puter.