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First Computers

Posted by michael on 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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  1. The "Home Computer Museum"... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...has a list of most of the candidates, including the Mattel Aquarius.

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

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    The Army reading list
  2. Atari! by ZorinLynx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Everyone remembers Apple II and C64, but does anyone remember Atari 400/800?

    I dug this up in my closet recently. Very amusing little book:

    http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~flynnj/ComputersForPeople /

    I never had an Atari, but they had neat graphics ability. It was more of a C64/128 competitor than an Apple II competitor. I do remember the 810 disk drives being gawdawful slow, and only holding around 90K per disk. Apple II drives held 140K!

    We're fricking' SPOILED now, folks. }:)