Re: What was your first computer?
By: Errol Casey to All on Thu Jul 04 2024 08:11 am

Howdy,

I started with a TRS-80 Model III. After being exposed to TRS-80 MODEL I and Apple II through school.

I started my computing on a TRS-80 Model 1, Level 2, with a cassette player, hooked up to the TV - cant remember what channel on the TV I had to tune it to.

I still have it. Its in a box in the cupboard, and I dont think I've turned it on for 40+ years. One day I will...


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The first computer I ever worked on was a TRS-80 model III. As a matter of
fact we still have one that we use everyday at work. It runs an old
engraving machine.

The first computer I ever owned was a Tandy SX 2500 386. Wish I would've
kept it just for the fact of it being my first.

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My first comp was a 286 with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB HDD. It was a supersonic fighter jet back then. Everyone in my neighbourhood came to my house to check out my supercool machine... It quickly dropped down to an old tin can when newer hardware came out. That AT 286 was a gift from my uncle. A few years after I changed it for a computer I bought myself with money I had earned working. That was a 486 DX4 100Mhz with 8MB of RAM. That machine I modded and expanded beyond recognition!! That's when my 'computers as a hobby' started to become something in my life.
I added a mouse, a trident color board with 1MB of RAM, a 128k dial-up modem, a matrix printer with a somewhat more advanced hardware (EPSON AP2000), a CD-ROM reader drive...
I got better at my programming skills, I started connecting to BBS boards and had a board installed myself, taking calls, for a few months...
I have the most dearest memories of those days and all I did with that computer.
The DX4 ran at 100Mhz. It lacked the MMX extensions, but went 10mhz faster than the then-current Pentium 1 90mhz chip.
Real fond memories...
Anyhow, cheers!!

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My first comp was a 286 with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB HDD. It was a supersonic fighter jet back then. Everyone in my neighbourhood came to
my house to check out my supercool machine... It quickly dropped down to

Awesome! You were the man of the neighbourhood with that computer.

I got better at my programming skills, I started connecting to BBS
boards and had a board installed myself, taking calls, for a few
months... I have the most dearest memories of those days and all I did with that computer.

I had a Tandy SX2500 386 it had Deskmate on it. I remember opening the Terminal program and wondering what the hell is this used for. Some how I figured it out and found a number for a local BBS which I had no Idea what A BBS was so I called it and heard that magical sound of the modem connecting. I was in amazement. I was hooked! Still am. Yes those are great memories. A magical time for sure. Kids now days missed out on all that.

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I had a Tandy SX2500 386 it had Deskmate on it. I remember opening the Terminal program and wondering what the hell is this used for. Some how
I figured it out and found a number for a local BBS which I had no Idea what A BBS was so I called it and heard that magical sound of the modem connecting. I was in amazement. I was hooked! Still am. Yes those are great memories. A magical time for sure. Kids now days missed out on all that.

Think of that amazement when the modem on your machine was installed and configured all by yourself...!!
Back then computers (motherboards, actually...) came with too few components embedded. Now there's a lot less you'd add to your machine because it already comes packed with a lot of tech right out of the box.
Cheers.

Malvinas.

Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas!

... Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas.

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the very first computer i touched was a 386 i remember the person who raised
me playing doom on - my circuits weren't fully formed for games like that yet but i had loads of fun with KYE on Win3.11

the one i first had all for myself was a pentium 166mhz with 32MB RAM where
i cut my teeth learning DOS commands to launch games, then a discarded
still mostly functional 486 NEC laptop where i first learned QuickBasic

couple of decades later and i'm an embedded systems engineer by trade and repairing vintage computers as a side gig :) can't complain much

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My first comp was a 286 with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB HDD. It was a supersonic fighter jet back then. Everyone in my neighbourhood came to
my house to check out my supercool machine... It quickly dropped down to an old tin can when newer hardware came out. That AT 286 was a gift from my uncle.

<3 286s are amazing machines! i aam using one to type this

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

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<3 286s are amazing machines! i aam using one to type this

No way!! And you're on a 56k dial-up?

Cheers!
Malvinas.

Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas!

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No way!! And you're on a 56k dial-up?

yeah way! i am useing an ethernet card because i have no land line! XD

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A Tandy colour computer 2 with 16k of ram.

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Re: Re: What was your first computer?
By: Rixter to mary4 on Sun Sep 08 2024 10:30 pm

A Tandy colour computer 2 with 16k of ram.

CoCo here as well. My family had a CoCo 1 I think, pretty sure it must have had 16k at least, since it ran just about all programs available at the time.

(my dad was the Radio Shack store manager in my hometown, so we had Tandy this, Realistic that, all around the house.)

We moved onto the Tandy 1000 after the CoCo for the family's main computing needs, but I did get a CoCo 3 for Christmas one year when I was like 12 I think. Still have it, and it still works.

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(my dad was the Radio Shack store manager in my hometown, so we had
Tandy this, Realistic that, all around the house.)

That had to be pretty cool. Radio Shack was really into computers back in the day.

My first computer was a Tandy 2500 sx. I came to the game late :)
Although The first computer I used was a TRS-80 model 3 at work back in the 80's

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Re: Re: What was your first computer?
By: Cozmo to Codefenix on Tue Sep 10 2024 08:46 pm

My first computer was a Tandy 2500 sx. I came to the game late :) Although The first computer I used was a TRS-80 model 3 at work back in the 80's

Ah yes, we had the 2500 sx as well. Whopping 20 MHz! It was our first computer with VGA graphics, and we later got a Sound Blaster for it. It also had an internal modem and I used it to call BBSes all the time.

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Ah yes, we had the 2500 sx as well. Whopping 20 MHz! It was our first computer with VGA graphics, and we later got a Sound Blaster for it. It also had an internal modem and I used it to call BBSes all the time.

Yeah, I discoverd BBSes using that computer and the Deskmate terminal app, whatever it was called. Good Times!

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