View Poll Results: Your first Computer?

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  • IBM PC Clone (Boring)

    13 38.24%
  • BBC Micro, Acorn Electron or Archimedes

    1 2.94%
  • Sinclair ZX80/81

    0 0%
  • Sinclair ZX Spectrum

    5 14.71%
  • DEC PDP

    0 0%
  • Commador Machine (i.e. VIC20 or 64)

    4 11.76%
  • Apple Machine (i.e. Apple II or SE)

    1 2.94%
  • Amiga

    0 0%
  • MSX Based Machine

    0 0%
  • Atari ST

    2 5.88%
  • Tandy TRS 80

    1 2.94%
  • Oric

    0 0%
  • Dragon

    0 0%
  • Amstrad CPC

    1 2.94%
  • Other (too numerous to mention)

    6 17.65%

Thread: Poll: What was your vintage first computer?

  1. #16
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    Not exactly vintage, but old enough.

    1991
    486/66mhz
    8mb RAM later upgraded to 12
    202mb hard drive
    DOS 6.22
    Windows 3.11 later switched to Windows For Workgroups

    Qbasic was fun at the time.
    The world is waiting. I must leave you now.

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    A 1998 Hewlett Packard was the first computer my family owned.

    P2 350
    96MB PC100 RAM
    ATI RagePro 8MB AGP2x
    Ensoniq AudioPCI
    9GB HD

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    IBM PC. I still have it. And it runs too!

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    my grandpa still has an old Amstrad lying around ... its funny becuase it sounds like it has a lawnmower engine inside it

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    No wait I forgot one. My real first...and this one takes the prize!!!

    Laptop. Made by RadioShack. Ran on 4 Double A's.

    OS: Basic

    Functions:
    Basic
    "notepad"
    "phonebook"
    "calculator"
    games if you made them
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    I HAD THE UNIVAC AHAHAHAHAHAHA

    sorry i honestly couldn't help it.

  7. #22
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    My first computer I ever used I belive was an Apple of some sort and no I never did program on that.

    My next computer was an AST Advanture/Advantage 60/60 and I used that one until up to a little less then a year ago. Now my brother owns it.

    In my closet I have an intergrity. and the sweet thing is that it works, though I have no clue on how to use it.
    I shall call egypt the harmless dragon

    -Isaiah 30.7

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    ICL 1904.
    Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity unto the dream.

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    Mine was a ZX Spectrum....it had rubber keys, loaded from cassette, and made lot of funny noise when loading....only used it for games though

    I could take a shower while loading some games.....My friend had one with a floppy disk drive......he was god for that summer

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    Am I really the only person to start with an Amstard CPC 464?? That green screen was cool way before the gameboy made it so!
    Couldn't think of anything interesting, cool or funny - sorry.

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    286 IBM PC (Clone)
    4MB RAM
    5" FLoopy
    47(?) MB HDD (Cigarettes)
    Cannot remember much....
    In 1992 .. It was costly in BD.
    [ Never code before desk work ]
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    386, 33MHz
    640KB (updragded to 1MB)
    Win 3.1
    256 colors display card
    40MB HDD (upgraded to 80MB)
    monochrome monitor
    2 x 5.25 FDD

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    speccy 48k.

    it was the tops..bbc had no decent games out, and the c64 came out slightly later if i remember correctly.

    I can also remember the wavy lines at the sides of the screen and the god awful noise it made.

    But the games-oh wow.


    I even had a thermal printer for it. Couldnt afford a 'micro drive' though-they were expensive.
    Such is life.

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    i feel the need to quote weird al...

    "You think your commodore 64 is really neeto, what kinda chip u got in there a dorrito?! Your using a 286 don't make me laugh, your winodws boots up in what a day and a half, u can backup your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette, your the biggest joke on the internet. Your database is a disaster, your wax'n your modem trying to make it go faster. Hey fella, i bet your still living in your parents cellar dloading pictures of sarah michelle geller."

    -All about the pentiums.

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    NEC Power Mate 2

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