Old School Computers You've Owned

[WillyBrandt]

Me:

- Color Computer 3 -- no disk drive, just the ROM port!
- Tandy TL/3 -- with DeskMate!

[bookman]

1. My first computer...

Apple II+

EVERY THING I TYPED LOOKED LIKE THIS!

Not to mention a Thermal Printer.

:)

God, I'm old.

[eyesroll]

9. Don't you mean:

EVERY THING I TYPED LOOKED LIKE THIS!

[sir_captain]

12. haha

nice

[sir_captain]

2. Apple IIe

coast more than $10,000 originally!

[WillyBrandt]

5. How much did you pay!?

[sir_captain]

10. I didn't pay anything

It was a handmedown from my uncle. I was 4.

[NewHampster]

3. Still Own

C 64 in original boxes with software and tape.
Apple //e

Had Lisa, Mac 512, Mac SE 20, Osborne and a Kaypro

[eyesroll]

4. I still have a Mac Classic II

in my posession. (I also have an Atari 2600, which I guess is technically a computer of sorts.) My first computer was an Apple IIe.

[kodi]

6. old school? a slide rule

still know how to use it.

[Earth_First]

7. Commodore 364

old school

[tekriter]

8. 1988 model Mac Plus...

with one ENTIRE meg of ram, and a 30 meg hard drive that cost $630 - or $21 per meg.

At that rate my 80 gig HD would cost over $3900.

[eyesroll]

11. I remember, in 1995 or so, when a friend of mine showed me a card

"See this? This is a gigabyte. Be careful. It cost thousands of dollars."

(He worked for the college's IT department, and was set to install it on a school server.)

[DBoon]

13. TRS 80 Model IV

with trsdos! 48Mb memory, 2 floppy drives, dot matrix printer

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. I built an Altair in 1976 or so. Had an Apple ][C until 81 then

went to an Osborne-1 portable then Bought a TRS-80 (coco) in 83 and my first IBM PC in 1984

[sir_captain]

15. An Altair...

that's awesome. I'd love to have done that.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. I wish I still had the thing. traded it for the Apple

-sigh-

[NewHampster]

20. love the Avatar

eom

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

26. thanks, feel free to steal it... I am changing soon

[NewHampster]

19. Did it do anything

the Altair

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

25. whatever you wrote in BASIC, and there were a couple of

games it did, if you can consider them games

[DBoon]

23. You built an Altair!

I worship you at the altar of geekiness!

[NewHampster]

16. HELLO

Apple Basic. The breakthrough to make the Apple truly functional with Visicalc...

Know who wrote it (compiled it)?

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Timex sinclair 1000!

Completely unusable!

[RC]

21. My first was an Apple ][+

DID THE SHIFT KEY MODIfication on. Bought a "Apple //e", an later a 3 1/2 floppy drive. External modem, could dial up the local library. All kinds of reading on any subject in several dozen libraries around the state.

I gave the ][+ to the kids.

[RoyGBiv]

22. Tandy

My first computer was a Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) II with a tape drive and the ROM port of course. Had a whopping 16k of memory, but for my b-day Mom got me the 32k upgrade, which was accomplished by piggybacking one 16k chip on top of the other since the thing only had one memory "slot."

I loved my CoCo, especially after a floppy drive became more affordable. The best thing was when something frizted out in the power supply. I fixed it with a paper clip.

[trotsky]

24. Commodore VIC-20

A whopping 3.5K (yes, K as in Kilobytes) of RAM. Molasses-slow tape drive (so at least I could save my work after typing in a BASIC program for a few hours).

But I loved it all the same.

On edit: I have also owned a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 128. Kept moving up in the world! The 128 was actually a pretty sweet machine - they finally sped up the 1571 floppy drive to the point where it was usable, and 128 KB of RAM was more than enough for everything I needed to do in 1988.