What Was Your First Computer?

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  1. ComputerJohn

    ComputerJohn Panda Puffer

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    Great posts folks. Ah I remember cassette drives. If you ever tried to play them on a regular cassette player, you would hear beeps and hisses. LOL

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  2. ComputerJohn

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    Ah yes the early years of the internet. It was used by the military only then made available to the rest of us, but was used by colleges and hackers. The great BBS (bulletin board system) world. I built quite a few of them and was a Sysop for a ton of them. Remember FidoNet (email and news feeds at its early years)? God how things have changed.

    Downloads were painful back then. Photos loading a line at a time at a blazing 1200bps, then 2400. You were the man having a US Robotics 9600bps!

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    I was on top of the world. I didn't need to stand in the bow of the Titanic to declare this.
     
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    Had to save up for one of those.
     
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  5. Ron P

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    Early years? I think I thought that like last week..lol
     
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    Mine was a Texas Interments. I don't remember the model. Long time ago. Yes with the cassette recorder and the speech synthesizer. Very cool at the time.
     
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    Texas Instruments with a cassette tape for a drive.
     
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  8. ComputerJohn

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    Damn thing was expensive. I want to say around 1500.00 or so. I had one on my main number on my BBS and had two 2400 on two other phone lines.

    Think about it. That was like having three users at once using 3reef. LOL

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    Apple 2c, can't remember the exact year, but it had the first production mouse.
     
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  10. duoc9119

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    I think my first was an eMachine with Windows Millennium. haha
     
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