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Bought myself a new Apple IIe when I graduated college in '83.
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My modern day equivalent is MATLAB. mmmmmm I love me some MATLAB. I just was reminded of all the spreadsheet programs that used to exist. Now it's just Excel. But I remember the spreadsheet haydays- there were ads for Lotus 1-2-3 in Playboys for god's sake.. |
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Radioshack Tandy 1000 back in 1985 or 86? I remember the firt two games I bought. Test Drive and Leisure Suit Larry.:D
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TRaSh-80 err... I mean TRS-80
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Intel SDK-80
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1252016365.jpg IIRC, onboard memory was 1.2K BITS. I was able to get Tiny BASIC burned to the ROM and the local computer store had a KSR-33 so I could give it instructions and get output... |
Glad to see all the Apple IIs. I was lucky enough to work on the introduction (logo, ad brochure, etc.).
That bearded guy is me in the lower left corner of the right page (we were out of money for models!). I used to have the 5th preproduction prototype Apple !!. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1252016713.jpg |
Family had a vic-20, I got an apple2 from a friend of mine after high school. I modded it into a 2+, I remember making a joystick interface so I could " fly" MS flight sim. I also remember Leisure suit Larry!
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We later got a Mac with a laser print around '87. Too bad I didn't know how to use it back then. |
I got a used Apple II europlus in 1986, that my dad bought me for about half the cost of new.
I spent a long time looking in the ads for the right deal. It was the best choice because it had the largest library of pirated software any computer had! Hackers loved it... I was about as excited getting it as I would later be getting my 911. Two legendary products, IMO. |
IIGS Woz
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My apple 2+ also had a 300 baud modem, man that first upgrade was like lightning speed!
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I still have my Apple II Plus.
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Used the venerable slide rule throughout college, then picked up the Timex Sinclair 1000 with a cassette tape drive.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1252031190.jpg Followed with the Apple IIE, http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1252031573.jpg then a late 90s Dell Dimension...been assembling them myself ever since. |
My 1st PC was a used Apple IIc, the next was a used IBM PC 5150.
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Thinking back, about 10 years ago we discovered an Altair 8800 derivative packed into a refridgerator - sized 1970's CNC controller. It may have been some sorta IBM copy, but I recognized the front panel inputs to be just like the altar 8800.
Instead of extracting it from the giant machine, we scrapped the whole thing for parts, unfortunately. I wish I had taken pics, it was a sight. |
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My family's first computer was a Commodore PET - one of the first 1,000 made. This is the first computer you didn't have to build yourself and I think my dad got it in December 1977 or 1978 (the box is in their attic and the USPS shipping label is on there somewhere).
The cool thing about it is that it's been in the museum on the bottom floor of the Texas State University Library a couple of times for a computing history exhibit. It's the first personal computer used on the university campus - my dad used to take it back and forth between home and the university every now and then. Think I win the oldest non-homebuilt PC contest! :) http://www.commodore.ca/history/comp...t_et_oct78.JPG |
That was your dad's computer not yours :)
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My parents gave it to me when I was a kid around the time my dad upgraded to an Apple ][+ with a color screen in the early '80s. Great computer, I learned how to program basic on it. Its only flaw is that it went through tape drive belts every few months.
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Our first computer was a BBC something or other. We could not get it to work. Returned it for a ZX sinclair. |
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