Your First PC

[UKBusinessLive]

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

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

for sale for ?82.25



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



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

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

[Wayne Luke]

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.

[Paul M]

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

[UKBusinessLive]

@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

Certainly brings back memories

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Originally Posted by Paul M

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

Was it like this Paul ??



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

Did you have a good job Paul???

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Certainly brings back memories

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.

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

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 , 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

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

[Roms]

Atari 800, in 1980
Atari 800xl, in 1985

[dismas]

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

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

[jlew24asu]

you people are old!!! hehe

mine was a Dell POS in 1997

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Was it like this Paul ??

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

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Did you have a good job Paul???

Yes, and I also still lived at home.