Do you remember your first computer?

[gearhead]

Or even what its specs were? I recall having a commodore clone (i think) sometime in the 80s. It was pre-windows days and you had to boot it yourself or rather run the executions by commanding the comp. I can't for the life of me even remember the speed of the processor or how much HD space it contained. I thought 1 gig was a lot. Maybe even far fetched and not needed. Now it is nothing.

Any tales from your first foray with your first comp?

Floppy drive anyone? Cobol classes? Basic? Or is this too jurassic for most?

[n2knee]

my first computer (yung akin talaga) was a Compaq Presario Pentium I with one gig of hard drive. that was in the early 90's.

[nicolodeon]

gearhead, I can relate. Took classes in BASIC, PL/1, Fortran, Pascal, Assembly and COBOL. I still know how to code in COBOL, he he he. The first floppy disk I used was a single sided, single density disk measuring 8" which we used on an ICL mid-range computer. Marunong din ako dating mag-puch sa puch cards, he he he. Nakagamit na rin ako ng magnetic tapes on a Borroughs/Unisys machine, he he he..

Although, my first computer was a 1st gen Pentium: P-166, 64MB mem, 2GB HDD, S3 Virge card, Canopus Pure3D 3DFX card, 14x CD-ROM, Yakumo bookshelf speakers, Aureal Vortex sound card plus the usual FDD, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.

[BlueBimmer]

.....XT clone

[alwayz_yummy]

apple computer nung inuwi ng dad ko from saudi noong 1986/earlier... floppy drive, windows 1.1, dos 5 pa ata...orange monitor, kb, not tower...

[meledson]

The first PC that I brought was an AMD 386DX-40. 40Mhz, 14" paper white monitor, 1.2MB and 1.44MB FDD, 2MB Memory, 2DMAX Video Card.

Upgrades:
387 Math co-processor
Seagate 40MB HDD
16-bit Sound Blaster
4x CDROM Drive
80MB QIC tape drive

[ineedmorehp]

IBM XT desktop - green CRT, 4MB HDD, 386sx, 5.25" FDD, DOS
Clone XT tower - paper white CRT, 8MB, 486dx, 5.25" & 3.5" FDDs, MSDOS
Compaq Presario - colored CRT (built-in everything), P1 60Mhz, 600MB HDD 16MB RAM, 5.25" & 3.5" FDDs, WIN95

then mga modern na... grabe evolution ng computer. hehehe

Portables:
APple mac & some sort of tablet pc (very thick)

[niky]

Oops... doble.

[niky]

Pweh... mga noobs kayong lahat!

Like Nico, I've used magnetic tape... but I can't for the life of me remember any of the programming language I used when I was a kid.

[badsekktor]

commodore 64.... early 80's grade 1 yata ako nun. di pa uso floppy since cartridge type pa bala. wala pa os nun. had my share of programming in basic... remember those line numbers and the goto command? hehehe!

[kimpOy]

yep kaso hindi ko alam specs, it was my dad who bought it at the old virra mall

siyempre clone PC siya
green monitor
interesado lang ako sa games
1-on-1 Dr.J vs Bird
Olympics games...bilisan na pag pindot
serpentine
10k yata bili ni daddy
and ofcourse kailangan mo ng DOS to run all of them he..he

[torque2006]

i was six when my dad brought home a 386 computer. i played mario PC, and wolfenstein 3d on it. hehe.

i also cried when it got a virus. a friend of mine dropped by to install a batman game. turns out his floppy had a virus, and it caused the PC to crash. i was crying my heart out because i thought my dad would kill me for destroying the PC. but all went well when a computer technician my mom called fixed it.

[nicolodeon]

I remember writing lines of COBOL code on a sheet of paper similar to a graphing paper, where each block represents an alhpanumeric character. Most of the time, one app amounts to a thick wad of these things. We either then punch them in on the machine, or ask any of our juniors to do it for us. However, nothing beats the sheer time consuming activity of punching code on punch cards. One mistake, that's it and since each card has to be arranged sequentially, you better have a numbering system in place on your cards because you might trip on your way to the computer room and scatter every single bit of card on the floor - arranging them would be next to impossible.

[kinyo]

Commodore 64 ... using cassete tape for storage and cartridge for games ... last thing i remember was programming it as a frequency counter, it worked up to 30kHz, good enough for audio signals

[Galactus]

First ever PC - AT286, paper-white CRT, 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disk, no HDD, and 1 megabyte of RAM. I configured the extra 384 KB ram as a virtual drive. Yung usong MS-DOS nun Version 6.0

[Mguy]

I had a lot. Sharp MZ80A, Sinclair ZX81, an Taiwan made Apple compatible computer similarly shaped like a Commodore/Vic 20, an Apple compatible computer and an IBM PC XT compatible.

[red07]

Ang naaalala ko is yung printer namin, dot matrix....ang ingay, pero high end na yun dati.

[1D4LV]

Commodore 64 ... using cassete tape for storage and cartridge for games ... last thing i remember was programming it as a frequency counter, it worked up to 30kHz, good enough for audio signals

+1 here. this is my first computer.
i remember programming in it using Basic.

my second one, is an IBM Compatible PC/XT, with green monitors, 64 KB RAM with no harddisk. Everything runs on a floppy disk.

i remembered too, working with an IBM S/34 mainframe computer. To be able to IPL it, you have to insert a very big floppy disk inside its huge floppy disk drive.

[falken]

My first computer was an Apple II+, with only 64kb of memory, 5 1/4" floppy disk drives and monochrome monitor.

[Bogeyman]

Heck, another ex-Commodore 64 user here.

Used it primarily for games when I was a kid. And before I had any real chance to use it to learn programming language, my cousin had to go and short it out, permanently damaging it in the process. :cry: