Your First PC
 

Just browsing the web earlier looking to learn a bit about my first PC which i think i got in 1988, It cost me in excess of ?500 :D

Here it is http://www.ccworld.co.uk/index.php?m...roducts_id=360

for sale for ?82.25 :eek:

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5.25 floppys with ms-dos you had to boot up the PC with the red system disk :(

Lovey CGA monitor, and a Star LC10 dot matrix Printer

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Software wise i had Locoscript, and then bought Lotus 123.

Who remembers Gem Paint Graphics Package???

Those where the days, I could remember saving up the pennies afterwards to buy a 286 :eek:

What was your first PC and Printer??? Add a picture if you can or do a google, it'll be great to see :D

My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20. That was in 1982.

Went up that line for a while then got a Apple IIc clone. Eventually moved to a second hand Mac Plus. Stayed with Apple until the Performa series. When Windows 95 came out, I switched to a PC because I felt Windows was superior than System 7. Simply got tired of seeing sad mac faces and bomb icons all the time. Built my own PCs until about 2005. Got my current computer in 2007. Its a prebuilt HP computer similar to their current 6700 line. It has a 2.6 Ghz AMD Dual core processor and 3 GB of RAM. Currently using Windows 7 beta on it.

I'll have to say that in the ten years of building my own computers and now using HP computers, I have seen the "Blue Screen of Death" less than 5 times.

Mine was an Apple II, in 1980, cost me £800.

@Wayne

I think that one came out before the commodore 64, I was looking at that as an alternative to the amstrad, but after seeing a demo in the local camera shop, I thought the Amstrad complete with Monitor was a far superior machine. Not sure who was more happy about not plugging the PC into the Television, me or my parents :D

Certainly brings back memories ;)

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Was it like this Paul ??

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?800 in 1980 is about ?2,000 - ?3,000 now :eek::eek:

Did you have a good job Paul??? :D

I remember my first computer class in 7th grade (1983). The only reason the school had a computer class is that the woodshop teacher went out and spent $10,000 dollars of his own money on two Apple IIe computers, a shared printer, monitors, drives, and software. Those were fun days... Playing Oregon Trail got me an A in computer science.

As for the Vic20. My dad bought that one day on the way home from work. Now my dad is not an impulsive shopper by any means but he saw this and felt that his kids needed to learn how to use computers. Of course he probably changed his mind when he came home one day and the television was showing this seizure inducing mass of colored blocks from my first self-written program.

Wow what a Teacher :D, Poor Dad ;)

But those were the early days of PC's and it was us shoppers that kept the dream going, I think that it was the president of IBM that once said that PC's would never kick off in the home :eek:

Can't imagine how many times he kicked himself over that comment lol

Atari 800, in 1980
Atari 800xl, in 1985

<--- Doesn't feel so old anymore. :D

My first was a Mac Classic II. I didn't have any problems with Mac System 7...

you people are old!!! hehe

mine was a Dell POS in 1997

Just the body, not the screen (or the disk drive). I connected it to my TV, and cassette recorder. :)

Yes, and I also still lived at home. :D

commodore 64

Dell Dimension 300!

My first was an 8086
and it was so bad a$$!

My first computer was an IBM 8088 Second Generation with two 360 floppy disks (hard drives had not been an option yet), an Okidata Dot Matrix printer and a Green Monitor (Color had not arrived yet either) Computer and printer was $3500 USD in 1981.

Wow, To think what $3500 could buy you, PC wise nowdays, its crazy

A couple of weeks after i bought my amstrad with CGA Monitor :eek: I bought an IBM XT, and that had a Green screen, Bought it for ?250, cos it was going Cheap :eek:

Just like the one in the picture below, Boy did that make some noise

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My first PC is collection, Intel P4 based at 2006. Still I'm using this PC :)

My first was a Sinclair ZX81 with a whopping 1K of memory.
The 16K "Ram Pack" opened up a whole new world of possibilities. :)

My first was a Tandy 1000 EX (256k ram, 8mhz cpu, no hdd, 1 internal, 1 external 5 1/4" floppy drive, DMP-130 printer)

my first was an old windows 98, IBM, 64Mb ram 200mhz processor 4 mb video card :|

TRS-80

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cyrix 150 was my 1st pc.
I hated having to load DOS just to install windows.Was very annoying and the computer was slow.I only brought a PC because i wanted to play Command and Conquer which i seen on at a friends house.