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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. Everyone remembers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    their first first post (and their first failure)

  2. First Wilhelm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    AAaaa-aaahhhhhh!

  3. My first first post. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll never forget it. Until then I thought first posting was only something for those "power users", something that could never be acomplished by a mere mortal.

    Then one day, I visited Slashdot and there it was: A new story with no comments! I became super nervous and quickly clicked my way through to the reply button. Okay, now I had 20 seconds and absolutely no idea what to write. So I just typed "Heil Hitler and death to the USA!", clicked submit and reloaded the comments page. I had done it! My stupid post throned above all others!

    Boy was I proud! From that day on, I was hooked.

  4. Re:The Anti-CoCo conspiracy by MonkeysKickAss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i like monkeys very much

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    MonkeysKickAss