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The first one I used for work was an IBM PC. 8088 processor screaming along at 4.77 MHZ with 128k of RAM. I talked the boss into adding a 2nd 5-1/4" floppy - a whopping 256k each! I was so happy to not have to swap the disk every 45 seconds. We mostly used VisiCalc (spreadsheet) and some antique software I don't remember the name of. It had something like a 12" CRT monitor.

A couple of years later we upgraded to an XT (80286) and I bought the old one for my personal use.

If I may change the question to "what was the first computer you worked on?, then my answer would be an IBM 7094 at the University at Buffalo in 1963. This was the first generation scientific mainframe. I wrote in Fortran IV.

My first job was developing software for the Apollo space program in 1967 on an IBM 360/65. It had 64K memory and filled a room.

The first computer I played around on was a MODCOMP mainframe. It was installed in 1964, and housed in a 3 story building (Bldg. 6000) at Union Carbide's Technical Center in S. Charleston, WV. The OS was written in house by Carl Sagan's brother-in-law, Bill Greene, and used to test the software written by the Process Control Engineering Group...

My mother worked for the group. I'd come in a play around every day after school, while waiting for her to get off work...

My first programming language was IBM370 Assembler. But that came later on...

QS, a good friend of mine, Sam Feldman (RIP), worked on the Apollo and Skylab programs. Perhaps you knew him...

Tandy Color Computer II. I've been hooked onto computers ever since.

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686 running Windows 3.1 ... most of the games I had ran in pure MS-DOS mode. I think it had 64 MB RAM.

Commodore 64...I was a Telengard pro

commodore VIC 20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20

I was 12 or 13, 80486sx 33Mhz with 4MB of RAM. DOS 6 I believe. I tore that thing apart, learned how to build computers, got into networking, decided to go into computer science in college until I decided to switch to something that was more database and network based (Information Systems) and I've never looked back.

Macintosh. It was black case, maybe the first one

It wasn't my first. But I had an old Panasonic luggable with a 3" screen. The damn thing weighed a ton too...

Leading Edge - 8086 processor with two low density floppy drives, 256k of RAM and no hard drive. My dad and brother upgraded it to 640k of RAM later on. I don't remember much about it other than playing some awesome DOS based games.

Texas Instrument

(09-30-2013 02:25 PM)GrayBeard Wrote: [ -> ]

Tryin to sneak some monochromatic areolas in eh?

LOL...totally missed that.

Commodore 64 with a tape drive. Still have it along with 2 - 5.25" and 1 - 3.5" floppy drives, a color monitor, 1200 baud modem, and a color printer.

at school



not sure what it was, just know it was IBM and looked like this

The family PC

IBM Aptiva S



It cost a fortune (I think my parents paid like $3000), but I was the coolest kid on the block with it and its joystick playing P.O.D. and Mech Warrior 2...

good times


Its sad (and amazing) that for as cool as it looked and as much of an impression it left on me, my $99 smart phone could run laps around it.

From the mid 90's a Micron laptop. It sucked.

(09-30-2013 09:15 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: [ -> ]686 running Windows 3.1 ... most of the games I had ran in pure MS-DOS mode. I think it had 64 MB RAM.