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I remember starting out with a Commodore Vic20, complete with a tape drive!! Later I got two paper routes going so I could buy the NEW Commodore 64. It had 64K of memory and an optional 1541 Disk drive, which I also had to have....<woohoo>....5.25 in floppies.
Makes me laugh now but atleast I remember my roots. My intro to Basic programming.
Anyhow, as dated as it sounds, they really were good machines to begin on.
Good ol' Commodore Vic20 with the "external tape drive" (LOL) and then on to the Commodore 64.
Man, I'm glad those days are over! It was fun, but, uh, no thanks!
I would give my left little toe for an Altair! Anyone wanna deal?Quote:
Mine was an old 8086 @ 12 MHz. 640KB of RAM, 20 MB hard drive, running on DOS 3.2. It was made by AT&T.
My first computer was a Leading Edge 8086, 512k of RAM, Monochrome monitor, 40mb HD, in about 1992 we got a 486DX2 - 66 , 8mb of RAM, Windows 3.1, 800mb Harddrive. After that I got a AMD K6-133, I had a Cyrix 200, then I got rid of all my computers and concentrated on my stereo for a while. Then I built a Celeron 400, which burnt out, it became a underclocked PIII 450, which was replaced with an AMD XP 1700+. I also recently rescued an Emachine 900 mhz Celeron for a linux box, and bought a 900mhz AMD laptop. Upstairs I believe there is a 1000ghz Desktop AMD, and there is a GW2k 500mhz PIII upstairs I received for free...... Lots of PC's at my house I guess....
My first computer was based on an Intel SBC 80/30 running an 8085 at 6.144mHz with 4k rom and 16k ram on board. It had an additional 32k of RAM on an option board along with a ROM based editor/assembler. The console was a Teletype ASR 33 with a paper tape reader/punch. It was fun. Come home for lunch and turn on the system. Start a paper tape load, eat lunch (15 mins), edit program, start paper tape punch to save work, wait 15 mins, turn off machine and go back to work. And you guys thought cassettes were slow.
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/appleiic.html there's mine. I had a pile of options for it too. I wish I still had it
first the C64, just the tapes, my dad didn't want to buy the tapedrive.
then a 286 16Mhz with a monochrome monitor, i had 320x240 256 shades or 640x480 16 shades
then we had a 166 Mhz Pentium
followed by a 300Mhz PII
and an AMD 1Ghz we use @ home right now,
the best I got to work on now is an AMD 1800+XP with a Gforce3 and 1GB of memory
Tandy with a tape drive...........
it was a.....486dx 33mhz with 32megs of ram runnig 95...i think i still have it somewhere in teh basement.