I got my first PC in 1990, when I started working for a computer company.
It was a 386, with no hard drive a 3/4 floppy disk!
Then I upgraded it to a 486 with a 40 Meg hard drive and man it was the best thing in the world.
FYI since I worked for a computer company all my PC's were free for the 10 years I worked there. I worked from 1990 - 2000
When did you get your first home PC?
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Thread: When did you get your first PC?
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11-11-2012, 07:42 PM #1
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When did you get your first PC?
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Im wondering with all these "When" threads is BH gonna start a "When did you get your first beej" thread
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11-11-2012, 08:28 PM #7
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11-11-2012, 08:42 PM #8
Commodore 64.... mid-eighties.
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11-12-2012, 12:31 AM #14
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1988. I had an Amstrad 8086-based machine running at a cracking 8Mhz. It had no hard drive (we - my boyfriend at the time and I) later added a 32MB hard card (which you had to park before turning the thing off) and the very first model of SoundBlaster. It had a mono monitor but was at least VGA. 640K RAM. I was able to play Midwinter, Populous and Sim City on it.
I was (and still am) into games so I wanted an Amiga but he said a PC would be a good move. And it was - 5 years later I started a 10 year career working on PC games magazines, which was one of the best periods of my life.
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11-12-2012, 12:41 AM #16
I had a personal VIC-20 and a TRS-80 back some time in the mid '80's, ('83/'84?). I was using the Mac's and Kaypro's at the office. That Kaypro was a 20 Lb luggable, and handy as hell.
Moved up to a personal Apple 2c+ around '89/'90. Man, that thing was a screaming speed demon. I used it to run a construction company until the 386 came along around '94 or so.
I remember using cassette tapes as storage. They were handier than programming using Hollerith cards.
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I had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4 in the early 80s, probably after they discontinued it as my parents would have never bought me something new and full price. I had friends with the Vic or Commodore 64, both of which were pretty cool.
My first home *** type PC was in either late 1995 or early 1996, it was an Acer with a Pentium 100, SWEET. Ok I had a 'computer' in probably 91 but it was a freebee and didn't really do anything.
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11-12-2012, 07:09 AM #25
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1983, Apple //e...dual drives, 80 column card, grappler+ graphics printing card and an Apple Imagewriter printer, tilting green screen monitor, 300 baud modem, Kensington system saver.
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11-12-2012, 09:11 AM #28
I had one of these as well. I loved the tank game though I wouldn't call that game console a PC.
Wasn't there a way to use the Atari game controller on the C64? I seem to remember playing the olympic video game on the C64 using the Atari joystick. Maybe my memories are criss-crossed.2 + 2 = 5 (for extremely large values of 2)
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11-12-2012, 09:19 AM #29
Yup, me too. I think the tank game was called Combat (IIRC), and it also included a game where you had airplane battles -- Three small airplanes flying in formation against one big airplane. They were completely mismatched, so the person playing the big airplane pretty much always lost ... lol.
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11-12-2012, 10:00 AM #30
Can't recall but it was a brand new tandy 1000 with a whopping 128k
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