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What Was Your First Computer?

Boy! When I look back at the age of computers, s-o-o-o-o much has changed! Nowadays, computers are getting smaller, badder, faster and are capable of running multiple programs as compared to the older versions. Looking back, I purchased my first computer in 1982. It was a Commodore 64. About a year later, I upgraded to an IBM compatible that had 2 floppies, an 8088 processor with a clock speed of 4.77 mHz; 1 meg of memory and a whopping 20 meg hard drive, a modem, and DOS 2.0 OS! Quite an impressive computer for it's time. Price tag? $2500.00! Needless to say, it was the latest and greatest business computer.

My latest and greatest love is my iMAC. 2.8 Ghz processor, 4 Gig Ram and the list goes on...

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With that being said, let's take a trip down memory lane! What was your first computer?

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Posted by Michael Thornton - Nashville, TN area Home Inspector on 01/11/2009 06:42 AM

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JAN

I am right there with you. I actually worked at Apple for a short time in 1979 on the Apple II and Lisa...

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My first computer was in 1995, but I remember finding an old computer in my step dad's office. No monitor, it was just a GIANT tower, had to be 4 feet tall and weighed at least 80 lbs. When he told me how little it did and how much it cost him I just had to laugh!

I remember that Commodore 64 hooked up to a 9 inch black and white TV. I was high tech!

Michael,

My first computer was an Atari with a cassette tape drive.

Mike in Tucson

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I remember the Commodore 64 also, had one.

In about 1989 my employer made my district the "test district" for a rollout of a sales force computing program. They were about the size of an electric typewriter, then they switched to some smaller Toshiba's about the size of today's current notebooks.

They were, of course, DOS based. I had access to Word Perfect, Harvard Graphics and the propriatary program that the company made available. And of course, it was on dial up.

I may have had one of the first "personal" computers. I had an Atari home computer, yes Atari. I won it in an Atari video game competition, can't even remember the year. That computer had like no memory, all the "programs" had to be typed as lines of code, obviously no modem, and I think it had cartridges instead of a floppy disc. I guess I should have sold it because it would have been worth thousands of dollars back then and I hardly used it. The Apple was the first one I remember using.

Michael,

My first computer was an Amiga with no hard drive at all - just floppies - but it had a great windows system before Microsoft had even mentioned the idea. :)

Steve

I remember the commodore 64, but never had one. My first computer was a used computer *no real name, built by a computer store) that I paid more for than I just did my new replacement. It had windows 3.1 and a harddrive with 4 MB of Ram. New computer 320 MB

Michael, I also had a Commodore 64 as my first computer. It was great, I did word processing, spreadsheets, and even my taxes on it. Then I went big time and purchased an IBM AT clone. Technology sure has come a long way. Now my phone has more computing power than my first computer.

Morning Michael,

My first computer was a Gateway. Had a tape drive back-up system. Cost for that baby, just under $3,000 processor, monitor and printer. Wow! What a deal!

I came on board after the commodore 64 and had a Packard Bell. I purchased it in 1990 in Buffalo New York. It was a great learning experience.

I started at a job in the late 1980s and was given a laptop - the size of a briefcase but heavier - to use. Not sure of the manufacturer. I sat and looked at it for at least a day - I had no idea how to turn it on. I had taken an hour long seminar on Wordperfect that was on my resume so I was in trouble. Luckily, there was a drop-in center down the street - with their computers and the help of a book or two I taught myself in a week or so.

My first computer was a TRS-80 made back in the early to mid 80's.

Michael - my first computer purchase was also the commodore 64. I remember hooking it up to my 13in. T.V. It is unbelievable how thing have changed.

My first computer was also a Commodore 64. It is amazing how much technology has changed in just the past 10 to 15 years. 10 to 15 years ago how many people had laptops, cell phones, ipods, 52" TV's? Today every house you go to has all of these items.

I did have a commodore 64. Must have been in the late 70's . However, eventually got an Apple Mac II , which was so advanced , I think it had the first floppy drives

I don't even remember my first computer... all I remember is my biggest nightmare - - AOL!!

Michael, Commodore 64 as well. Did you know "they" are working on computer memory that can reproduce itself and has something like 4 times the storage capacity and even faster than current computers? While what we have is so amazing compared to where we started with the Commodores---we are still in the infancy of what is possible I think.

An Apple....1991

My parents bought me a Commadore 64C when I was in grade school. I was one of the only kids to have one. But my best friend's Dad worked for the DOD and he had some fancy computer with this crazy web thing and AOL. In the late 80's. We used it as an online enclyopedia. We were quite forward! Now, in my home (hubby, 8 month old daughter and me) we have 3 laptops and 1 desktop between us. Crazy right?!?!

Im not sure sure what my first was, It ran Win95 though. I had a gig of HDD space though, a gig was just 2 expensive. AOL was my first internet provider though.

Prior to Real Estate I worked in the IT field. The bank was upgrading the system to a Windows based system, but we still has many, many DOS based machines and and servers that needed worked on (this has been in the past 10 years). There was only a few of that new DOS and how to navigate through the shell of DOS 2.0-5.0. The techs would constanly call as they were unfamiliar with how to break into the shell, or what to do within the shell of DOS.

I remember that 64 Meg HDD was more space than a home PC would ever need. A gig HDD was a waste of money as no PC could ever have so much space. ISDN was hi-tech but only afforable to big business. (I was actually in a property last year where there was an original ISDN line. I mentioned it and the owners always wondered what it was. When I told them it was an ISDN connection they gave me a blank stare, they had no idea!).

My past is littered with dead computers and floppy drives. Wish I had your new Mac!

Apple IIe.....wow, that brings back memories. I was the coolest kid on the block, probably in Tacoma, because not many had computers.

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My first computer was an Osborne. Dual floppy drives, built in green screen. I had a Kaypro shortly after that. Wow, brings back memories.

Gosh Y'all! I reckon I'm telling my age as I can remember the Atari's, Trash 80's, Apple MAC ll's, and I can even remember the apple computer commercial when the gal threw the sledge hammer through the screen. (Hillary had a take off on that commercial during her campaign)...

I first used an AppleIIe at the school where I was teaching. This was mis-eighties. I remember takin a class in programming in DOS. Then I got married, had two kids, quit teaching, and got away from computers for a few years. Came back to an off-brand PC with Windows.

Michael,

I can't remember the brand, but it was slow. I remember celebrating when I was able to save my first document. I recall saving just about everything on a floppy. That was 1985 - I was lucky I knew how to turn the power on or off those days. WOW - technology as come a long way. Come to think of it... so has my ability to operate these things.

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I hade a commodore also, but I also had an IBM PC, before windowsm DOS only. Every operating system microsoft ever had, and a lot of other junk just because I am always curious. Never a MAC though, at least not yet.

I can't remember the brand either but I remember I was so happy to get a computer (1992) - it was huge, expensive and had a floppy disk. I remember doing some school papers and saving them on the floppies. I actually just found the box of old floppy disks with my school work on them - LOL. Not sure why I had saved them. ~Rita

JAN

Hi Michael. My first computer cost about $2000. Being earth and waste conscious I still use the desktop monitor!!!

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