My first PC

**SrKen** · 02-23-2009, 11:16 AM

My first PC: 32K Radio Shack Color Computer

I have fond memories of this little beauty. Must have been around 1980-82. Great graphics but awkward storage to a cassette recorder.

**tripy** · 11:36 AM

This was my first one

with his 5 1/4 " floppy disks:

The ratio is correct, the floppy disk unit was almost as big as the computer...
Ah, and the keyboard...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

Quote:

CPU: 6502, 1 MHzRAM: 4 or 8 KB / 8, 16, or 32 KB
ROM: 18 KB, including BASIC 1.0 / 20 kB, including BASIC 2.0
Video: discrete TTL video circuit, 9" monochrome monitor, 40×25 character display
Sound: none / single piezo "beeper" (optional external speaker driven by MOS 6522 CB2 pin)
Ports: 2 MOS 6520 PIA, MOS 6522 VIA, 2 Datassette (1 used / 1 on the back), 1 IEEE-488
Notes: 69 key chiclet keyboard and built-in Datassette / full-sized, full-travel keyboard, no built-in Datassette

**SrKen** · 02-23-2009, 02:44 PM

Wow! That was a neat package that I probably eyed up around that time. When PCs first came in I couldn't afford one but I visited a group of several shops off and on and drooled over them for about a year.

**tripy** · 02-23-2009, 03:34 PM

Well, I was 4 at the time of those beasts, but my father worked for Unisys in 1979.
It meant that I had a lot of that stuff to play with.

Ahh, my first "you will write 100 times 'I will not look through the windows during the courses time and pay attention in class' ", a matrix printer, and wordperfect for dos where on a wrote on a transportable compaq (that was almost as big as me and heavy as a horse):
http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

When I see the price of that today, I really am grateful to my dad to let me play with those.
3'500$ where a lot, in the 70's...
Since that day, I "love" those machines....

**beeadvised** · 03-08-2009, 11:04 PM

Wow! PC's before looks weird and those keyboard is so classic. I wonder how much that thing cost before...

**Ginger6** · 03-09-2009, 12:02 PM

Excellent that's Good !!!
I am new member in this forum..

**igniz** · 03-10-2009, 03:50 AM

welcome to the forum Ginger6. My family didn't own a computer until 2000 because of the high price of PC in our place. and the Typewriters is always the one that we're using. Having computer in the past is for selected people only

**shoaaib** · 03-10-2009, 12:18 PM

My first computer was 486DX4 with 100Mhz processor, 4MB ram, 1MB Vga, 1GB seagate HDD, OAK tech. sound card with SuperVGA Black and white monitor. and it was a year 1996 when I bought my first computer

**super_ox** · 03-12-2009, 12:46 AM

My first pc was bought in 2002 , I DIY from the computer market , compared to the 80's pc , it is far more better in every aspects , although it has been out of usage ,I have lots of fun with it .

**gabrielle06** · 03-12-2009, 01:29 AM

I didn't own a pc until 2008 but for three years I managed to write and earn online...

That's true!

**zeruel** · 03-12-2009, 11:06 PM

Yay! That is sooo old school. :P Sure thing it doesn't work anymore...

**hotelaudit** · 03-14-2009, 09:01 PM

My first computer was the Commodore 64 with the regular 1541 floppy driver. I have many good games

I don't know the reason why but I enjoyed much better the playing with C64 than PC. Anyway I've a fair C64 emulator on my PC and I can also use my old 1541 floppy driver thanks to my USB adapter, so the feeling is totally same than ages ago

I've something similar solution for this connection (PC and old original 1541 driver) like on this page:

http://truechiptilldeath.com/2009/01...loppy-adapter/

**chrishirst** · 03-15-2009, 02:50 PM

My first PC in 1987/88 was a 4.7 Mhz 8088 (IBM/XT) machine with a 8087 maths co-processor, (nobody should ever need more than) 640k of RAM, 5 1/4" floppy drive and a massive 10Mb (yep that's Megabytes) hard disk drive. running MSDOS 3.3.

The first computer I had was an Oric-1 with 48k of RAM in 1983, followed soon after (85/86) by an Amstrad CPC 464, with colour monitor and built in tape drive

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I still have the Oric-1

**davemies** · 03-15-2009, 06:06 PM

my first pc/computer was a Toshiba MSX
like this one
http://www.retrogames.co.uk/stock/as..._MSX_Boxed.jpg around 1985 i think. i nearly bough a spectrum 16k in the early '80s...

**NullPointer** · 03-15-2009, 06:17 PM

My first computer was a commodore a500
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500%2B

My mom bought it in 92 I think (I was 5). I learned to type on the thing but that's about it. My first PC was a pentium 4 machine that I bought in 2004. I still have both.

**dannythekid** · 03-17-2009, 03:07 PM

My first PC was a Packard Bell Multimedia E300 or something along those lines.

Pentium 150MHz
32MB EDO RAM
2GB HDD
33.6 Kbps fax/modem

What a fine machine. $2,400 in 1997. Man I can't believe computers were that expensive then!

**Generator** · 03-17-2009, 03:42 PM

Commodore 64 was my first

danny, they were even more expensive a few years earlier than that. 486s were around $4000 when they first came out

**hostings22** · 03-21-2009, 09:50 PM

Very good antiques. I started using my computer was a 4.7 Mhz 8088 (IBM/XT) machine running with MSDOS version 3.3.

**woolgang** · 03-26-2009, 06:25 AM

Wow that one hell living PC legends I wish I have one of those stuffs. But you know Based on my own experience old PCs are immune to Virus. Is it true because I'm using a Pentium II 400mbps which is I'm using right now for over 3 years and still I'm not having any problems with it.

**riderbabygurl** · 03-26-2009, 10:17 AM

Quote:

My first PC: 32K Radio Shack Color Computer

wow very classic

BTW I'm 14 years old when my mom bought me a PC and it was year 2003 the Hp pavilion f1503 my monitor and the cpu is Hp pavilion t112d... until now I'm using it..