First computer

[danrak]

what was your first computer experience?

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[Rodney]

My first computer was an Atari 1200XL .

It had a sweet floppy drive, a tape drive, and I used to mess around with that thing all day.

Instead of going to the toy section in stores, I would gravitate towards the computer/electronics section

[remember]

Mine was a ZX Spectrum 48k with a separate tape unit and those wonderful rubbery keys!

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[Rains]

Commodore 64, we got it from Dixons for my daughter. I stole it out her room the next day


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[PhoenixDown]

My parents bought me a Intel 386 as a present for graduating 6th grade. I used that computer until I bought a Pentium 3 - 500mhtz when they came out. I had that sucker so tweaked out and optimized, it was amazing I got half the things I had to run.

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[Elmo]

I had a ZX81 first, the black one with membrane keyboard. Then I moved onto a Vic 20. I still have this and it works !! Tape deck, 16K memory cartridge etc.. Classic

[Rains]

I had a ZX81 first, the black one with membrane keyboard. Then I moved onto a Vic 20. I still have this and it works !! Tape deck, 16K memory cartridge etc.. Classic

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What's a membrane keyboard Elmo?

[remember]

This picture shows you the membrane keyboard. Its basically two membranes or plastic sheets with electrical contacts between them instead of proper moving keys. I remember the contacts on the membranes would break quite easily if you used them too much

[Rains]

Thanks for the info. Not sure I'd like using a keyboard like the tbh.

[tekkitan]

my first computer was a Packard Bell 66mhz 486 with 4mb of ram and i think a 500mb hard drive (maybe smaller/bigger i cant remember). i remember when i came home and my mom had set it up, i started playing this futuristic racing game and i was instantly hooked. now i'm a computer nerd