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What was the first computer you worked on?

Mine: Sharp MZ80K - father bought it when he started to get involved in computer automation for his work.

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I used to work on my brother's x86 and 286 at home... but when I moved out my very own was a 386 laptop with a Black and White LCD screen. It had 4 MB of Ram and a 20 Mb HDD. :D That was in 1992. I sold it in 1994 for about $800.00.
 
We had those sharps st school. But my first comp was a zx spectrum 48k
 
Dom1n8tr1x said:
Mine was a 286 with a whopping 20mb hard drive and Turbo Boost for extra speed. :D

Still have the case lying around somewhere...
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I had a Commodore 64 (1985).
My girlfriends folks had a BBC computer.
Used to play around on my buds XT, until eventually getting my own PC. Also a 286 with a 20 meg harddrive.
My bud had a 5meg hdd (I think).
I still remember him asking what the heck I intended doing with all that harddrive space.
 
I had a 386. It booted into DOS and had some menu thing with games listed. I used to spend hours playing Space Quest, Word Rescue, Duke Nukem, and Cheesy Invaders.

It also booted into Windows 3.1 I think.

I also remember screwing around in DOS and messing up the cool game menu :(
 
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My first PC was a Pentium 1 166mhz, 48mb ram, WD 1.6gb HDD, Win95
Played with friend's 486? running windows 3.1 before we had one can't remember the proper specs.
 
Pooky said:
I also remember screwing around in DOS and messing up the cool game menu :(
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My dad did that for me on mine one night when he played on the computer. Woke up the next morning and my menu was gone! I wasn't impressed with my dad at all.

I just got it so I weren't all up to date with the workings of DOS, so my dad had to take it to a computer shop to get fixed.

I remember how the technician commented on how fast my pc was. Lol
 
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1981 (80?)

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ZX Spectrum. First computer of my own was a XT with a broken hard drive. Had to boot from floppy and once booted swop the disk to what ever I want to run, for my next birthday my parents bought me a 20MB harrdrive it was awesome! This was 1992 and 386 pcs were the norm but I loved my little XT.

I also learned to "program" using spectrum basic and then GW-Basic on the XT. Good times ...
 
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First line of code in a language called PL/I in 1982

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aedro said:
First one was ZX Spectrum, 48k.
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+1

Sadly for me though i bought it almost 8 years later than when I really needed it. When I became aware of the ZX (whatever year GhostBusters came out) my dad did not understand. I still remember him saying that he wont have a nerd for a son ... something to that effect. It hurt but I have never brought it up. 8 years later I was an 'Appie'; saw the spectrum in a pawn shop, bought it on the spot!! I started reading up looking for material to remind me how to program in BASIC. Alas ! things had moved on quite a bit as the 286 was ruling the world and the rolls royce of home computing was just coming out.... the 386 DX 25 Mhz !!! <<-- with 4 Meg RAM i think.

It would be another 4 years when I would own a 'real' computer ... and over clocked amd processor that required that I operate my computer without the cover for as long as I had it.... those were the days.
 
My dad in SA still has one of these in the cupboard, I think its a ZX Spectrum.

It's basically a keyboard but it takes tapes in the corner.

I think it still works. :D
 
My first laptop was this really crappy Proline TW3 Notebook. Had an Intel Core Duo 1.6GHz, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 60GB HDD 5400RPM, Nvidia GeForce Go 7400, 1280 x 720 LCD Screen. It had Windows XP, then I put Windows 7 and added another 512MB ram stick.

As for the first PC in my house, my dad bought one way back. It was this lexus PC Tower....had Windows 98 on it. It had a 250MHz processor, 128MB DDR RAM, 40GB Hard Drive, floppy drive, CD-ROM Drive.

Surprisingly, the PC was upgraded to Windows XP....yoh you had to wait for 5 minutes after logging into Windows, for it to be ready to open stuff. CPU usage was always at 100% on this PC....only game it could run, that I installed was Revolt (the racing game).
 
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