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Originally Posted by TDK1044
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Originally Posted by JSLTIGER
The first machine I used was my grandfather's when I was two...
The first computer that we had at home was a $3K+ beast in 1994. My dad and grandfather both bought one of these at the same time.
Intel Pentium 100MHz
16MB RAM
1.2GB HDD (World's first 1GB+ HDD)
4X TEAC CD-ROM
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy
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Yeah, that one is similar to my first Pentium, got mine in 1995.
My intro to comupters was a TRS-80, OS was Basic. You had to load the program onto the computer with a cassette recorder. It took about 6 minutes, almost as long as it takes a netbook to load Windows Vista today
Hard drive? What's a hard drive??
I also had a Timex Sinclair, but it was not user friendly, and data entry was a chore with the flat keyboard
I went for a while without a computer in the 80s, but my buddy had several so I would buy games (Blue Max, 688 Attack Sub, Das Boot, Silent Service) and play them at his house. When we got Windows 3.1 at the plant, I got back into them.
Man, those were the days!