Like a few others, I owned an Apple IIc

My next one was my dads Apple Laptop 1400c

BTW- logo was cool!

An IBM 8088 back in 1985. 2 5.25" diskette drives, no hard drive. Can't remember about the memory, 640K ? With the 12" monochrome monitor and an Okidata dot matrix printer, total price was around $3500. No Windoze, just DOS (I blew-off Windoze until early 90s - liked DOS better.
Didn't care about computer games back in early 80s - was into all the big arcade games back then - like Space Invaders, Centipede, and my favorite - Asteroids.

I remained a luddite for far too long. As a kid I played with my friend's 286s, Commodore 64s, Apple IIe's and such. I learned Pascal in High school on an Apple IIe for instance, but my first machine, that I owned, was a Pentium I, 200mhz.

Its sitting on my coffee table, Slackware 7.1, serving as the guest web browser/mail checker/nethack box. It probably will for years... I hope.

Cheers,

Finegan

So you were one of those anti computer sentiments out there we all heard about? Sitting in their dark caves with pencil, ink jar and papyrus? LOL

I must say I was 6 when we got the ol' Commodore so I didn't have the opportunity to choose the road I headed. The games sucked me in right away, (anyone ever play Ghostbusters? And win?) and actually writing out 200 instructions just to see a sprite bounce around the screen was enamorating! Hahaha...Oh well...To this day though, I have no interest or clue as to learning any programming language WHATSOEVER! Ack...Just give me the screwdriver and a case. Off topic post end...

Mine was a 286 laptop. It didn't have a harddrive but had two floppy drives. It probably weighed just as much as some of the desktop PC's nowadays.

all i remember about logo when i first saw it was thinking "this is what my teachers consider programming?"

i don't think i ever paid attention in class again...

The programming of logo was lame, but I liked making the mouse thingy move around.

Hey, I was like 10 years old. All I cared about really back then was the typical things, like shopping, boys, etc.; not computers or programming.

I got into BASIC at about 12 or so, and then got out of computers again for awhile. Now I am starting to get back into it.

gahh it's called a Turtle... didn't you learn anything????

Try a DEC PDP-8/L rescued from the University of Wisconsin scrap heap when the math department upgraded to the newer PDP-8/E in 1972. A 12bit minicomputer with 8K of CORE memory, a card reader, a KSR-33 teletype for a printer and a 110 baud modem.

Now that is hardcore. Did that have a 3-phase power supply? If so, did that mean you had to go without a washing machine/oven in order to plug it in, or did you just re-wire the house?

My friends have an IBM baby-36 mini-mainframe complete with 2 30lbs 50Meg Hard drives that we can't find a monitor for... and can't plug due to the power problem.

Cheers,

Finegan

well, it's certainly not mine, BUT i was quite chuffed (maybe i shouldn't have been.. ) to have got a printout from the last working pegasus computer, which was the first mass produced (hehe, for mass, read 30ish) stored program computer. huuuuuuuge green things they were. i got a printout of that greek blokes sieve.

I had a look thought the programming manuals for them, and in many of their examples of math, they'd given examples like...

04076 plus
03658 equals
07734

doesn't matter if you don't get it, the people running the exhibit denied that it was a joke when i pointed it out, but i reckon it was on purpose...

Just couldn't use my welder and the mini at the same time. If you want to know more about this beast, try here:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/pdp...section-6.html

Are those 50 meggers the original IBM Winchesters?

About the hard drives: I guess I'll have to make a point of it to find out. They kinda look like a pair of those old highschool fire-alarms welded together and painted black. They're mounted on swing-out doors from the frame of the case. I have no idea if they'll spin. We did find this thing on the street, but probably only a few hours after it had been put there.

I'm not certain, but I think UNIX was developed on that exact model variant of the PDP-8... hard to believe.

Cheers,

Finegan

i think i just hated it because of the way my teachers treated it. they couldn't figure out how to make it move without one of the students (me) correcting them, and i couldn't understand how they could get so confused... they practically went apoplectic when i turned the turtle by 45 degrees once instead of the nice safe 90 turns that they were teaching the class.

My 1st was the ol' BBC-B. Whopping 32K RAM, a tape drive, optional expansion to Pascal (which my parents never took), a bloody huge daisy-wheel printer, and a 14" TV. I've actually still got it, somewhere. Bloody marvellous games. My first PC was a PII-333 (+64Mb RAM), which I'm trying to sell, but my brother's was a 386sx-25 with 4Mb RAM.