Sorry - just thought it would be interesting, plus I was breaking the ice.
I had an Atari ST after my 65xe!
No worries. Even though there has been similar threads in the past, I always love to see what users started with and some of the old systems people used.
Like I said in my first post in this thread, I went from an Atari 800XL to the 65XE and then 130XE then the 1040ST. The ST gave me a lot of use and I still have it in my closet. Just could not part with it after all this time. It's like an old friend!
Mac Specs: 2009 Macbook White 2Ghz 2Gig RAM 120Gig HDD
My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-994A.
Even had the speech synthesizer module!
First learnt to program on that using TI-Basic, and then got the TI Extended BASIC module which upped the RAM from 16k to 32k.
Remember many a long night copying out game code from a magazine and stored all my games on a C-60 audio cassette :-)
__________________
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
I wanted an Apple II+ (which I had starting using at school about a year or so before), but we couldn't afford it, so during mid 1980ish my mom got me the TRaSh-80 CoCo.. Was mostly bummed because most of what I had acquired up to that point was for an apple, and of course wouldn't work
__________________
My Macs: Early 2008 8 core 2.8GHz 8gig ram Mac Pro; Mac mini G4, 1.25 GHz, 512m ram (server); Early '09 Mac Mini, 2GHz, 4Gig Ram, 120Gig HD, 9400m; 2008 Macbook Unibody 2.4GHz, 2Gig Ram, 250Gig HD, 9400m, Aluminum
Mac Specs: iPod Nano 4gb, 20" 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of ram, ATI HD 2600 pro
For my mother her first computer was a simple little device that had some leds(I think) and switches below those lights, it was for simple binary math. The name of it escapes me right now, but I thought it was kinda cool.
I don't remember the model but it was an old Tandy, dual-floppy. Man at the time I did not think I would ever need anything more! I ran my business off of it.
I don't remember the model but it was an old Tandy, dual-floppy. Man at the time I did not think I would ever need anything more! I ran my business off of it.
Did it totally work off the two floppy's or did it also have a hard drive? I remember the Dual Floppy machines with no hard drive. IBM 5151 is one that comes to mind.
Mac Specs: White 2009 MacBook 2 Ghz | 733 Mhz G4 Quicksilver
Mine was an AST 486 computer back in the mid 90s, ran the truly awful Windows 3.1, but also had OS2 Warp installed.
Something went wrong with it so I took it back to the store and changes it for the only Mac in the place - an Apple LC 475 (I loved that Mac - but it died 6 months after I overclocked it from 25 mhz to 33 mhz)
__________________
New here? Make sure you read the forum rules | Use the Rep system
The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64. Bought it for $5 from my old public school, which included the monitor, disk drive, and the C64 itself.
After that was a Pentium 386, pretty much stock. Then upgaded it to a 386DX after about a year of having it..
Got rid of the 386 and went with a 486.. Then the 486SX, then finally the 486DX running DOS/Windows 3.1.1
About a year before my parents split up, my dad purchased a PIII 450mhz/256mb/40gb/cd-rw system for this college course he took. So, my brother and I used this whenever he wasn't bogarting it to cheat on my mom.
After we moved out, I picked up a used PIII 450mhz/512mb/60gb/cd-rw at a pawn shop and used that for about a year, then upgraded to 1gb of ram and a PIII 666mhz chip
Once I turned... Uhh.. 17? My older bro got me a good deal on a P4 mobo/Celeron 2.4ghz/1gb ram, which I built using a 60gb hdd, cd-rw, and an ATI Rage 128 Pro
I used this PC for years, and continually upgraded it, which I then sold last year standing at a P4 dual-core 1.60ghz/1gb OCZ gaming ram/80gb SATA drive/Super Drive/eVGA 6800GT 256mb (o/c waaaay passed Ultra specs).
In college of 2005, I purchase my first Mac (mind you I've used them since teh 1st grade). It was a G4 TI Powerbook DVI, running 667mhz/40gb hdd/1gb RAM. I miss this thing, and my ex-gf kept it when I moved out of her dad's place. She also managed to drop it off my bed... Twice.. And it still worked.
Before I moved out from above, I bought a G4 iBook 14", 1.42ghz PPC/1.5gb RAM/60gb HDD/wifi/bluetooth/etc
Eventually sold that to my friend after I bought a 15" G4 Powerbook (1.33ghz PPC/2gb/60gb/cd-rw/wifi/bluetooth).
I actually just sold this one not even a year ago, in hoping to upgrade to one of the new Mac Mini's. However, that didn't go through as I had some financial troubles.
Currenly, I'm using an HP DV4000, 15" 1.70ghz/1gb/60gb/wifi/super drive, running WinXP Home. This computer is pretty good. It's solid, and I've had it for about a year and the only time I had to format it, was after I received it from a friend in a trade, so I could wipe her stuff off it. I traded a really nice skateboard for it, straight-up.
I'm currently trying to sell the HP so I can get some funds to move at the end of August.
To be honest, I use my 3G iPhone for most of my "computing" needs, like email/IM/the little web-browsing I do.
Once the HP is sold, my gf has offered to share her G4 Powerbook (same as one mentioned above), so I can use it for my audio engineering.
*wipes sweat off forehead*
__________________
---
"When you can feel music flow through your veins, you know it was meant to be."
Mac Specs: Mac Pro 2x Quad-Xeons, 10Gb, 8800GT. 30" ACD. iPhone 3G 16Gb
Mines was a Parkard Bell bought in 1994.
Intel 486 SX2 @ 50MHz, 2 Mb RAM, 500Mb HDD, 1Mb VRAM, Creative Labs 16 ISA sound card, CD-ROM drive running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups hooked up to a 14" color monitor.
Was the business back then. In-fact I used it up until Dec 2000, still worked great.
Moved to Mac last summer with a second hand PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7GHz.
