Which antique computer do you remember?

[DutchMaster]

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/default.asp

I found this link somewhere in the tech forums. So I took a look around the site. Whow this brings back memory:

Philips VG 8000 We had those in elementry school. It was I think the first computer I operated at the age of 11.

Apple IIe Tis was my first computer, learned to program with it and loved the space invaders game!!

Commodore C64 This one is unforgetable. I see them still sold on junksales for about $5-

Amiga 1000 I remember making house music together with a friend with this one back in the days (1990/91) It had great sound!!

I am missing the PC's on the site otherwise my list would be longer. As of 1990, PC's where dominating the European market.

[storm2k]

i remeber apple IIc's from grade school... oh yeah and the tandy's too... with logo and the turtle!

and i had a pc xt way back when...

i'm not old enough for anything before that...

My first:

Circa 1994.

386, 4MB Ram, 200MB drive, VGA color monitor (13 in.) windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22, 4X CD drive and sound card. Keyboard and Mouse!!.
Software: Norton Navigator, Lotus 1-2-3, Office 4.3, PC Tools for DOS....

Cost $1200.

[desmocat]

Mine was the Tandy TRS-80. it was the stuff in 1981.
My geometry teacher had it in his classroom, had the cassette recorder to load programs on it..
I'm kind of dating meself here.. how far we have come, huh?
whats funny, my alpha-numeric pager probably has more power than that computer..

[Herb]

1972 an MBO LED pocket calculator, simply with the 4 basic math operations, 4 AA batteries for one hour operation, have it still somewhere in the garbage

1974 an IBM ???? fortran computer, size of 2 fridges with 8k RAM, operated by Holerith-cards. I wrote a sinus-table print program with about 80 lines of code, which produced 136 errors on the first debug

[ragtop]

My first was a Coleco Adam in 1983. I got the optional 300 baud modem so I could use it as a terminal and connect to the mainframe computer at college from my home. You just couldn't beat that Zilog Z80 (4 Mhz) processor, or the dual tape drive setup, or the daisy wheel printer, or the way it hooked up to your TV so you didn't have to buy a monitor.......

Oh well, it was useful for writing and printing my resume's and cover letters while I was looking for a job. The daisy wheel printer was slow, but the output was "typewriter quality", so the documents looked professional. Most other printers at the time were dot matrix, and weren't high quality enough to print a decent looking resume.

[Tomteriffic]

Back in the mists of antiquity.....a Coleco Adam. Got it at Target. It was the big competition for the TI at the time, I remember. Ran CPM and had not one, but TWO microcassette drives. Lasted about 3 months, died and Coleco had abandoned it and gone outta business by then.

[MDS]

My first was a commodore vic20 it had a tape player hooked to it to save files and hooked to the TV.

[caddmannq]

Ehhhh...you really wanna know?

1967 model kit from Radio Shack. A printed cardboard base. A box of jumper wires. Several light bulbs, switches, flashlight batteries. A clock motor. A 600 page manual on setting it up.

Did binary up to sum of 1111 (15 base10) addition, subtraction, multiplication, but did not divide (no registers available for that.)

Went from that to the Burroughs 6700. Big as a house!
TI SR-50

HP-99

IBM Systems 32

Zeineth/Sinclair 100

Apple ][

etc...etc...etc...

[Daft_Ghosty]

first pc I owned was a Tand 1000 HX no hardrive.. just a lowD 3 1/2 drive.. and I upgraded it to 640k of ram.. from the 320kit came with.. ohh it was a EGA screen.. ahead of its time haha