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| Thread ID: 71697 | 2006-08-14 01:41:00 | Your first PC? | sarel (2490) | PC World Chat |
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| 478312 | 2006-08-14 01:41:00 | Hi all I just read this post in the smh about the birthday of the modern PC - and yes, the battle between PC/Apple and Unix/MS still rages on. blogs.smh.com.au I found it very interesting - and I remember I got the "Ping-pong" virus from an infected floppy disc (remember them). All you had to do to fix it was to find the exe file and delete it. Even before that I learnt my Basic and Fortran on punchcards, running overnight loops on the Uni Olivetti computer and printers. I used to include a repetitive loop in my program so that I got a lot of *waste* paper that I used to study on in the Uni days. Those were the days. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 478313 | 2006-08-14 02:38:00 | My first PC was a Commodore 64. Then I got an Amiga and had Amigas for the next 8 years. I never got an actual PC until they got to 486s. Mainly because in comparison they sucked, no stereo, no million colours, etc etc. | pctek (84) | ||
| 478314 | 2006-08-14 03:06:00 | My first was a second hand 386sx 25 with a monochrome monitor which cost me $1200 (my entire savings at that point) |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 478315 | 2006-08-14 03:40:00 | My first computer was an IBM 1630 or 1650 (someting like that) which I kindly allowed the University the use of. It occupied a whole room with lots of flashing, blinking lights and had a retinue of lasses in the next room making strange holes in little slips of cardboard then you gave the IBM a little dose of (in this case Fortran), slapped it full of the cardboard slips and bingo an answer fell out the other end. Mostly I just watched the awesome little lights. |
dvm (6543) | ||
| 478316 | 2006-08-14 03:51:00 | Mine was a Burroughs E8000, circa 1969. Still got parts of it. The main equipment cabinet is about 1500mm h x 1800 mm w and 600 mm deep and in use as a shed cupboard. It too occupied a complete room, with card punch machines and card readers. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 478317 | 2006-08-14 03:56:00 | And this was #2, from 1977 The processor cabinet is now a garage storage cupboard, the line printer (behind the woman standing) is a workbench. The rest was sold off. images.google.com IC:2006-22,GGIC:en |
godfather (25) | ||
| 478318 | 2006-08-14 04:22:00 | My first real PC was one of those 4086 or later jobbies, and I think it had a massive 64 kb ROM and a similar massive HD (can't remember the size). For about a month I had THE latest in the area, and I quickly started to lose out. Mind you, it was also exceedingly expensive in those days. I remember I had a never-ending problem with one of the ports - usually got an "interrupt" error of some sort and the mouse wouldn't work. Had to clean the mouse ball every week or so and then try and get the cr*p out of the mouse cavity. At work, in the begining of the 80's, we had a PC with two floppy drives and you had to save, backup and backup again all the data we generated on the PC. Many a time the fingers were a bit too fast (yes, del *.*) and you had to do everything all over again. Mind you, it was quite easy to backup, all Win files sat on one directory and I remember faintly using a program called Mimage to mirror a HD (one we installed one). My first internet connection was also sooooooo sloooooooow compared to today - I think it was a 9600 baud modem but I rarely achieved 25% of that. You also had to *know* any URL and address you wanted to email to/visit - no Googling, search facility, nothing. One of my worst experiences was when I had my whole thesis on a few floppies, "masters", and some or other *rseh*le with a magnet in his back pocket sat on my desk, on the floppies, and wiped it completely. My curses were foul and ran for hours. Luckily the lady who typed it all up had a backup edition of one of the "final" versions and it needed about a month's work to get it to "master" state again. One game I played in those days was a game called Montezuma's Revenge - remember it? Took me ages to finish it but we did eventually. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 478319 | 2006-08-14 19:02:00 | I must be a late starter! 8088 XT @ 4.77 MHz | straitjacket (9698) | ||
| 478320 | 2006-08-14 19:44:00 | My first was a 386, briefly. Got a 486 shortly after. Could play DoomII on it, so was all good :) | Greg (193) | ||
| 478321 | 2006-08-14 21:45:00 | Commodore 64 for 3 years then Amigas for 10 years and PCs for 8 years. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
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