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The first computer I can remember being in our house was the Deskpro 386. The first computer I bought for myself was a Windows 98 machine in 1998 with a 3DFX Monster video card! Played Diablo and and was soon hooked!
lekh2003 said:I feel like an odd one out, everybody here has first computers from the time when computers were classified as items which did calculations
Well then, is the human mind a computer?jedishrfu said:That's okay just tell them about your abacus and counting stones... or the antikythera device which ever is older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
or rolling stones for rounded calculations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones
lekh2003 said:Well then, is the human mind a computer?
That was my second computer. The first was a Radio Shack hand-held computer that I bought in 1980. It had BASIC in ROM, and a whopping 2KB of RAM. I bought a printer/modem unit for it so I could print out the programs I wrote, and store them on a mini-cassette. One of the programs I wrote calculated an amortization table for a mortgage.Nidum said:Apple IIe was first personal computer actually owned by me .
I never hit the bug, but I submitted a short x86 assembly program to "PC Techniques," a magazine published by Jeff Dunteman, in the June/July issue in '94. The program would tell you whether the CPU in your computer had the broken division logic. As far as I know, this was the first program published about this problem. Although Intel at first brushed it off, the flaw eventually cost Intel over $1 Billion.jedishrfu said:Did you hit the famous pentium bug?
Hey, don't be trashing CP/M ... that was a major upgrade for me from my first DOS machine. It was a lot better than DOS and I re-wrote much of the BIOS and added some extensions of my own. Had my own EPROM-burner and UV eraser.QuantumQuest said:An Amstrad CPC 6128 with an "OS" - I can't resist putting quotes for that operating system, CP/M loaded from a floppy. Then a 386 and I went on in the path of Intel for the last 28 years for both desk - and lap - top.
phinds said:Hey, don't be trashing CP/M ... that was a major upgrade for me from my first DOS machine. It was a lot better than DOS and I re-wrote much of the BIOS and added some extensions of my own. Had my own EPROM-burner and UV eraser.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I've watched the evolution of personal computing from the earliest days and it has been truly astounding to see it evolve. I can remember things like my excitement when I got my very own hard drive, 10 megs. Today that's not even enough for a single raw image file and barely enough for a couple of JPEG files straight out of the camera, but it was a super thing to have back when I got it.QuantumQuest said:Yes you're right, I just couldn't resist to put it in quotes comparing to what an OS is today but of course it was very good for its time.
I had a ball with a mouse in it... that way, I could just useDS2C said:Had one of the mice with the ball in it...
And they were quite expensive at the time, somewhere around $5000, based on my memory of ads in computer magazines back then (~1982). I didn't get a hard drive until my 4th computer, a PC clone with a 386 CPU around 1987 or so. It came with a whopping 30 MB HD that I thought I would never fill up. About a year later, I upgraded to a 120MB drive.phinds said:I can remember things like my excitement when I got my very own hard drive, 10 megs.
You betcha, grasshopper! Pre-baby boom, for myself.DS2C said:Everyone in here is very old LOL.
jedishrfu said:Did you hit the famous pentium bug?