What were your first Three computers... In order.

RedFive · May 27th, 2004, 11:11 AM

Helping mom clean out the basement I found myself eying the old teletype machine and remember when it was working. Dad was a Ham radio guy. And he worked intel in the Navy. Helped design the early encryption code breaking systems and such. He started a computer comapny back in the early 70s.

First system was a Centurian with seperate head units.
Second was a home built "Heath Kit" system.
And third was a TRS-80 (radio shack)

ryan0 · May 27th, 2004, 11:18 AM

commador 64 with cassette tape drive
apple //e
trs-80

**Whitebeard** · May 27th, 2004, 11:21 AM

Osborne portable(right)
IBM2
P133-clone

NOITALL · May 27th, 2004, 11:22 AM

P2 400 mhz Dell
P3 1.0ghz Dell
P M 1.4 ghz IBM Thinkpad

BADVENOM · May 27th, 2004, 11:24 AM

DELL
DELL
IBM
DELL
DELL-4600C

City · May 27th, 2004, 11:30 AM

fingers
abacus
hp-12c

**McGuireV10** · May 27th, 2004, 11:33 AM

Damn Red, you're old.

TRS-80 Model I (4K RAM, 1979)
Commodore PET (8K RAM, 1979)
Heath-Zenith Z100 (1980)

BADVENOM · May 27th, 2004, 11:39 AM

I recall the punch out cards in College :doh: :doh: That sucked

RedFive · May 27th, 2004, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McGuireV10

Damn Red, you're old.

TRS-80 Model I (4K RAM, 1979)
Commodore PET (8K RAM, 1979)
Heath-Zenith Z100 (1980)

Fuck yeah I'm old.

5/29/1967 bro.

About to officially become "older"

You know what they say about getting older.....

It sure beats the alternative.

**Lawboy** · May 27th, 2004, 11:54 AM

trs 80
commodore 64
pb 133 mhz with a 50 mb harddrive and 16 mg of ram

4x4 Viper · May 27th, 2004, 12:00 PM

what a bunch of youngins'...a Trash 80 and Apple IIe at least had a monitor!

try these:

PDP-11 with up/down paddle switches for your 8 bit word,

8088 programmed in assembly language via 4 seven segment displays...

PONG, yes I count this as a computur.

Timex Sinclair with 128K of ram.

Oh the days of choices, the 4.77 mhz IBM XT, with a CGA 4 color card, or EGA and 16 colors.......

NOITALL · May 27th, 2004, 12:02 PM

I liked those computers with the turbo buttons. What the hell was the point? Would there ever be a time you didn't want your computer to be fast?

BigCarrot · May 27th, 2004, 12:05 PM

Tandy, Commodore 64, Apple.

Brad00GTS · May 27th, 2004, 01:02 PM

Compaq portable (that weighted about 40 lbs)
IBM XT
IBM AT

magicboy2 · May 27th, 2004, 01:11 PM

Craig,

The turbo button was for if you had a game or somesuch that was dependant on clock speed. Back in the day, there were no framerates... the game ran at a certain number of frames, and they came thru as fast as your processor could serve them up. If your computer was too fast, the game would run too quickly for you to play it, thus the need to throttle down the clock speed.

slaughterj · May 27th, 2004, 01:15 PM

Atari 5200
Colecovision
IBM PS/2 80286

**RockStar** · May 27th, 2004, 01:19 PM

First one I remember was a Texas Instruments Ti-99/4a

Then it was the Apple IIc

Then I had a 286 PC clone.

**Lawboy** · May 27th, 2004, 01:23 PM

atari 5200 was coool as hell!!!

and yeah we had a TI somewhere in there as well!

this is bringing back lots of memories...

my pb was a 486/25 mhz not what i said above.

Viper · May 27th, 2004, 01:24 PM

Altair 8800

RedFive · May 27th, 2004, 01:32 PM

When I first attended the University of Kentucky I can remember my proffesor arguing that there was no need for the average person to have a 486.

After all, a 486 could run an entire city. [img]/images/graemlins/laughing.gif[/img]