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Your first computer

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by kyoujin, Aug 24, 2015.

  1. kyoujin

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    What was your first computer? What operating system did it run on?

    Mine was an IBM Thinkpad running Windows ME. Had to connect to dial-up for Internet.
     
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    I don't know what kind of computer mine was but it ran Windows 98. My grandpa still has it in his office. I think the damn thing still runs.
     
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    My first computer was an Emachines of some sort, back when Windows XP was THE new and greatest operating system. It didn't even last a year if my memory serves correct...
     
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    IBM XT from 1985 or so. The first one I really learned how to use and put in a lot of time with was a 90 Mhz Pentium 1 from 1995 or so. DOS games FTW :slight_smile:
     
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    An LG computer (can't remember the model) my mother bought when I was 1 or so and which lasted till I was 8. It changed 3 or 4 operative systems, was repaired an infinite amount of times and, most important of all, I started playing videogames with this one (Project Eden, my very first game, absolutely mind–blowing, loved to see my mum playing it). :slight_smile:
     
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    Commodore 64. I still have it and it works great. Diskette reader getting temperamental but the disks themselves are over 25 years old now! lol
     
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    Apple II c+.

    Usually, it used ProDOS, though sometimes it used AppleDOS
     
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    Macintosh SE. One of the 1980s Macs with a built-in monitor. Sort of like an iMac, except the monitor was black and white.

    My computer ran some version of System 6.
     
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    I didn't actually "own" a computer until the year 2000, however, I did learn how to program a little in 1977, using cards upon which I would pencil in the code and it would be read on a terminal that was installed at the back of the class (the terminal was connected to a VAX computer at McGill University).

    A few years later, I learned a little more, using BASIC language on a Commodore Vic 20. Yes, dear friends, this was a computer that stored your precious program on an audio cassette...
     
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    I know what the Vic 20 is along with its infamous 16 kB RAM cartridge expansion. The good old days! :slight_smile:
     
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    Not mine, but my "family" computer was an idek but it ran on Windows 95 and was from Best Buy~~ I didn't get my own personal computer until I bought an Asus netbook (with Linux) for 250 dollars when I was in college XD;;;;; The computers at my school were even older and ran on DOS... what a nightmare XD;;;;
     
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    I used a lot of computers when I was little, but I think the first one I used was a Windows 98. I tore that hunk-a-junk apart so I could use the hard drive in my PlayStation 2 rather recently.
     
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    Ah, the good old days of cassette drives! Many here wouldn't remember those, but it was a standard form of data storage on home computers once. Floppy disk drives were much faster; however, they were considerably more expensive. Hard drives were even more unaffordable--I think hard drives might have been an option for some home computers (Apple II), but probably quite rare.

    I remember reading an article on how to get started with cheap word processing ca. 1988. You could get started for $500, it said, but one of the tricks was to get a Commodore C64 and partner it with a cassette drive.

    Another memory: in 8th grade, my science teacher took us down to use the computer lab regularly. This lab was outfitted with TRS-80 Model III computers. None of the student computers had any sort of storage (no floppy, no cassette, and certainly no hard drive). Everything was networked to a master computer. The master would send out program data to all the student computers. I think in one mode, it acted like on the student computers as if it was loading from a cassette drive. In one mode, it was possible for the student computers to upload data to be saved on a floppy disk.
     
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    Windows XP was the first one I remember using..as for personal computers, my first is a windows 7.
     
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    Windows XP as first pc? You're making me feel old. :frowning2:
     
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    And I feel positively ancient. :lol:
     
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    Mine was a K6, with Windows 98.

    Good ol' times.
     
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    Dunno - Windows 98 I think. We got our first computer some time in 1999 or 2000. We had windows 95 or 98 at school before they upgraded to XP many years later.

    As for the type of model - not sure, a bulky grey one with two large speakers on either side is all I can say.

    The first one that a actually belonged to me - if I remember correctly, a HP laptop the ran windows Vista.
     
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    The first computer that I learned how to use was a second hand Pentium I machine that my mom got around 1997. We still have the machine somewhere at home.

    p.s. It still works, it has win98 installed, btw. I upgraded the RAM to 40MBs from its original 8MBs and I installed a new hard-drive with a maximum of 20GBs. The problem is that there's not a lot you can do with it anymore.
     
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    And I am inconceivably ancient, I actually did programming with computer punchedcards...programs kept in little stacks of flexible cardboard..