kjwinkler

Commodore 64...I even remember typing "Go 64" as some command and playing my favorite game, "ghostbusters" on it. Wow, have times changed!

paulg1957

My first computer...was the sinclair zx-81. I remember spending hours typing in programs with the membrame keyboard, only to find I had made a mistake somewhere and had to debug the whole thing.

after a while I bought the 16k ram expansion and then the keyboard you plugged the whole thing in.

it was wonderful

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Cesio

Amstrad 8512 or something... it was a word processor really but had a few games... seemed a good deal, get the printer and everything... served me well... After that it was a BBC Micro then every Amiga that came out!


Those were the days...

WindWalker

Commodore VIC-20, baby......remember programming POKEs and PEEKs?

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JakeRich

TRS-80 Model 1. 16K of memory, cassette tape drive for storage, upper case letters only. I added the 8th chip to get lower case. then built the add on 48 K memory board to get to 64k and add a floppy drive interface (160K per disk!). Remember "flippies?" I also doubled the clock to 2 mhz, and added a CP/M board so I could boot into CP/M instead of TRS-DOS. Those were the days! I got through graduate school with that one! Used a word processor I think was called Electric Pencil, if my memory serves.

VNgo

A generic PC with an 8MHz 286 processor and 4 MB of RAM (later upgraded to 16).

Sheesh. Even a *Palm* is more powerful than that!

cageyjames

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Originally posted by JakeRich Those were the days! I got through graduate school with that one!

LOL, my Thesis is still on a word processor. I need to figure out what to do with it.

JakeRich

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Originally posted by cageyjames LOL, my Thesis is still on a word processor. I need to figure out what to do with it.

Yeah, my thesis was on the mainframe. We had some formatting program that supposedly would take a text file with some flags and create the thesis in the format the school required and print it on the mainframe computer (all the other printers we had were dot matrix, and that wasn't acceptable). But the problem was the formatting was so complex that most of us hired somebody to type it in the right format and just avoid the MF altogether. I found a lady that knew the MF formatting and had her create the text file for me so that I could send it to the MF for printing. To think, we actually believed that was "high tech!" :crooked:

rickh57

My first computer was a TRS-80 with lots of bells and whistles added on. It sounds like Jake's TRS-80 was upgraded similar to mine. I also had a disk doubler (to 200kb--Wow), along with a CP/M board and a high-resolution color graphics board based on the graphics processor from the TI 99. I ran Electric Pencil and Scripsit for word processing and VisiCalc for a spreadsheet.

I still fondly remember the Scott Adams and Infocom (Zork) adventure games that I played on that box. (although I can still play Zork on my Pocket PC!)

Rick

Cheryl

My dad got an IBM something or other when I was in junior high school. He had to return it because we couldn't figure out how to run it.... hehe! We all had Apples at school and had no clue what to do with the other.

My boyfriend (now hubby) had a Commodore 64. I think it is still boxed up somewhere in the basement. Oh, the memories :D.

gozzy

I wonder how much more powerfull the axim is compared to those 2 :D

ThinkerTDM

I had a Xerox- I can't remember if it had a number designation. It had a whopping 64 k (I think) and 2 8" drives. It was a beast.

Raynman

I also had a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1.
16K Rom, 16K RAM, 1024KB memory mapped graphics, plus a cassette tape drive (which I still have).
This puppy cost $1500 at the time (circa 1980).
Star Trek was the game that got me hooked on computers and casued me to teach my self BASIC so that I could cheat the game

I also taught myself assember on this puppy so that I could make my home-made 'graphic intensive' games run faster. LOL! The Z80 was a great processor.

We also had a couple of these machines at my school at the time that had the floppy drives. I bought mjy first floppy disk at the local Radio Shack store for $15 and carried inside my shirt against my skin because it was a cold winter day so that the cold wouldn't ruin the disk. We quickly learned how to hole punch a sector guide hole on the back side to double the capacity by flipping. I kept the same floppy disk for a couple of years!

Great memories!

JakeRich

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Originally posted by Raynman We quickly learned how to hole punch a sector guide hole on the back side to double the capacity by flipping.

That's it, the "flippie!" Then they came out with double headed drives that wrote on BOTH SIDES without having to flip it. Man, now THAT was technology!

I used to run a data center where the mainframe had 4 Megabytes of main storage. Now I carry the Axim with 64 Meg RAM, 48 Meg ROM, a 256Meg SD card and a 256Meg CF card for a total of 624 Meg of memory. Now if I could just hook up 28 reel-to-reel 9 track tape drives...

Synth

You young lads with your Winchester drives, 4Kb of RAM and sound :rolling:
I also had a Sinclair ZX80, the deluxe model that came pre-assembled; £99.95 in 1980. The kit version cost £79.95.
3.25 MHz processor, 4K ROM, 1K RAM. The processor also drove the 24 lines x 32 character text display so the screen would flicker as it switched modes.

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