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#21 Postby j » Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:49 pm

IBM PC/XT.....it was probably 5 years old when we got it around 1990. Pre Windows...MSDOS operating system. Had a 5.25" floppy disk drive, had 64k of Ram if I remember correctly...the monitor was a real piece of work..really had to struggle to read text.
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#22 Postby opera ghost » Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:28 pm

Monochrome green monitor, big floppies, MSDOS. You had to have a floppy to boot it up... I was 11 (1991) when my dad picked it up at a garage sale.
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#23 Postby LSU2001 » Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:13 pm

vic 20 :lol:
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#24 Postby breeze » Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:47 pm

LOL, I was waiting for some of you folks to
remind us of DOS, PRE-Windows! Ooooh, that
had to be a blast...:eek: :lol:
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#25 Postby mf_dolphin » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:04 pm

coriolis wrote:Is this it Marshall?

http://www.gaby.de/ekay10.htm


That's it but the picture is misidentified. The Kaypro 10 had a hard drive ;-) Don't you love this? "Graphics resolution none " That's the truth! :-)
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#26 Postby coriolis » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:18 pm

breeze wrote:LOL, I was waiting for some of you folks to
remind us of DOS, PRE-Windows! Ooooh, that
had to be a blast...:eek: :lol:


C:\ format c (return)

Hey what happened?
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#27 Postby breeze » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:26 pm

LOL! I jumped in, just in time for Windows 3.1 -
thank goodness!
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#28 Postby vbhoutex » Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:38 pm

coriolis wrote:
breeze wrote:LOL, I was waiting for some of you folks to
remind us of DOS, PRE-Windows! Ooooh, that
had to be a blast...:eek: :lol:


C:\ format c (return)

Hey what happened?


Oh yes, the lovely days of DOS!!!NOT!!!!
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#29 Postby streetsoldier » Thu Sep 30, 2004 12:02 am

CyberMax, 1999; it folded within three months of our purchase, and NO service was available.
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#30 Postby Persepone » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:39 am

Sinclair
Heathkit
IBM (first model)
Compaq luggable
an early HP
Apple (just an Apple)
a Trash-80
a whole lot since then...

The Compaq still works... the apple still works... The Sinclair is around someplace--still worked last time we hooked it up for fun... The HP still works...

One of these days we will clean the cellar.
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#31 Postby drudd1 » Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:18 pm

Atari 800XL with a whopping 48K of ram, two monstrous external floppy drives that overheated if used too much. That was around about 1980 or 1981. I used a big RGB Monitor that I had to make the cable for. Thought I was in hog heaven........LOL!
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#32 Postby BritBob » Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:29 pm

Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair Spectrum 48
Sinclair Spectrum 128 (with four channel sound!)
Commodore 128
Commodore Amiga 600
Commdore Amiga 1200

By the mid nineties, the Amiga was sadly becoming a dead duck so I moved on reluctantly to the PC`s. Currently running a `home made` 1.8ghz PC from bits and pieces!

I loved the Amiga, what a great machine. The Spectrums now adorn my front door, particularly making a handy door-stop.
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#33 Postby Ixolib » Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:52 am

First computer was at work in 1981 - A Burrough's, I believe. Had to use hexideciamal codes for ANY and ALL formatting!! Very small amber screen.

First home computer was an Apple IIC (C. 1984) with attached monitor. DOS 3.0, the 6.0, then 6.2 (WOW!!). Said many times back then that Windows would never catch on and I was gonna stick with my trusty DOS. Took me a looooong time to give Windows 3.1 a try. And, of course, the rest is history!!
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#34 Postby yzerfan » Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:46 pm

Me- some sort of Tandy with a 'real' 5 1/4 floppy drive. My then future husband had one of those sweet Vic 20s with a cassette tape drive.
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#35 Postby MomH » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:31 am

Husband bought a Hewlett Packard, 5 1/4 disk, ran z-dos language. Didn't have a hard drive. Put thousands of genealogy records on disks which I could not use afterwards. Must have been in mid 80's. Lost my fear of computers and learned to do some programing on that machine.
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#36 Postby southerngale » Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:47 am

chicagopizza wrote:It was an apple from 1983. I recall being more interested in my first Atari at that point though. ET and Pong were such a blast. :)


Bring back memories?
http://www.xnet.se/javaTest/jPong/jPong.html


Just imagine your mouse looks like this...

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My parents still have one of these. :lol:
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