First Computers

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Posted by michael on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @09:15AM from the thanks-for-the-memories dept.

theodp writes "You never forget your first love. Or your first computer. Good Morning Silicon Valley readers share fond memories of their first computers, including SuperELFs with 256 bytes of RAM, $99 Timex Sinclairs, 26-pound 'portable' Osbornes, 'high-speed' 300 baud modems, Apple IIs running COBOL, and even a Mattel Aquarius (complete with Microsoft Aquarius-BASIC 1.0!)."

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First kiss? by AtariAmarok · 2003-12-23 09:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Some remember their first kiss. However, for the 43 year old virgin still living with mother (and who salivates over Galactica remakes), this question will do instead.

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1. Re:First kiss? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 09:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hello AtariAmarok, this is your mother. You spend far too much time posting to Slashdot ! Now leave the computer alone and come and watch a nice episode of Galatica.
Microsoft and Mattel.. by fanatic · 2003-12-23 09:20 · Score: 3, Funny

now that makes sense...

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The Anti-CoCo conspiracy by RevMike · 2003-12-23 09:24 · Score: 5, Funny

No TRS-80 pics, though... odd...

I sometime get the feeling that the computer industry is trying to deny that the TRS-80 Color Computer ever even existed.
1. Re:The Anti-CoCo conspiracy by telekon · 2003-12-23 09:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  My uncle has two of them!! The evidence cannot be silenced!! I will show the world, there WAS a CoCo.
  I'm scared. Do you think their assassins are coming now? Go, my friends, find the CoCos. Trust no one. The truth is out there.
  
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Re:Ti-99 4/a by kenjib · 2003-12-23 09:26 · Score: 5, Funny

I see your Ti-99 4/a and raise you a voice modulator. "Fuelling station ahead" in a lusty female voice... Who needs to remember your first kiss, anyway, when your first computer sounds totally hot?
P4 by WordUpCousin · 2003-12-23 09:28 · Score: 5, Funny

"My first computer is a P4 3.2 GHz, 1 Gig Ram, 2 120 gig HDs, a 20 inch LCD monitor, ATI Radeon 9800 XT and a 8x DVD-R Burner"

If a 10 year old kid said this to me I'd give him a high-five for having a nice computer, and then punch him in the nuts for being spoiled. (Mine was a 8086) =)
Re:Trash-80 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 09:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Boy, wasn't I styling once I got the 64K upgrade and the floppy!

No, you weren't.

Sincerely,
The girl who never wanted to go out with you in school
my first pc by erikdotla · 2003-12-23 09:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Since this thread is likely to degenerate into a "my first PC is older than yours" competition, I'll try to win right away:

My first PC was a block of wood with keys etched into it using a sharp rock. We had to press the keys and draw pictures really fast into the dirt with sticks.

We were very poor.

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Re:Timex Sinclair by magarity · 2003-12-23 09:35 · Score: 4, Funny

A friend of mine had one of those. When he first got it I went to his house and he asked if I wanted to play a game.
"Sure," I said.
"Hang on," he replied, "I have to program it."
So the next 10 minutes were taken up by him typing in a racer-type game in basic.
Re:Atari! by gobbo · 2003-12-23 10:05 · Score: 3, Funny

Hey man, it's no mystery, the Woz was a zen master of simplicity and efficiency. He saw the straightest path to the solution, and found the fewest chips to get in the way.

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