Oh my gawd - "Tandy" computers. I once purchased a Tandy computer, biggest load of junk I even spent money on. No wonder they went bust soon after.
Your first pc?
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...steven
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intel p3 512mhz ram 128 in 2000
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But at the time, in the early 80's, they were technologically on par with IBM machines and noticeably less expensive.
Although $800.00 USD at that time was quite a bit of change.
Come to think of it.
It's still quite a bit of change!Comment
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What the hell to do with that huge harddisk and 2MB memory?
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Mine was the first "portable" computer... an original IBM 5155 PC/XT with 256KB of RAM and two 5-1/4" 360KB floppy drives. I decided on this unit because I was starting up an industrial automation business and needed something powerful and easily transported to customer sites.
It cost me over $4000.00 at the time. It had a keyboard that snapped closed to cover the front where the screen and floppy drives were, and was truly portable in the fact that it had a fold out handle so you could carry it like a suitcase. Never mind the fact that it was as big as a suitcase and weighed close to fifty pounds... it was portable.
Soon the software that I was developing started to exceed the memory capacities of the machine, so I shelled out another $2000 or so to bump it from 256K to it's maximum of 640K. Man... I had a boss hog machine at that point, until the files I were trying to save exceeded the capacity of the floppy disk drive. At that point I bought my first hard drive. It was 10MB and it cost me another $2000.00 or so. At that point I had to move from CP/M to DOS, because CP/M didn't understand hard drives. I'll never forget my first experience with FDISK and trying to get that hard drive working... but once I got it working I *definitatly* had the baddest machine anybody could own at the time. That was around 1985.
To think that I invested around $8000.00 dollars back then on a machine that today would be less powerful than one of those $20 throw away phones that you can buy at Wal-Mart sort of boggles the mind.Last edited by bigwater; Sun 19 Dec '10, 12:38am.Anybody who says "it can't be done" will usually be interrupted by somebody who is already doing it.Comment
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Ah the memories...I believe my first computer was an Amiga. Actually it was mine and my brother's. It still had a game cassette player. No disks! Haha. Then it was Commodore 64, then Atari. For the first PC, Im not sure. But I believe it was a very basic Pentium with Windows 3.1.1, given to me by my dad. 56K Modem and AOL was my world!Comment
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...steven
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Ah the memories...I believe my first computer was an Amiga. Actually it was mine and my brother's. It still had a game cassette player. No disks! Haha. Then it was Commodore 64, then Atari. For the first PC, Im not sure. But I believe it was a very basic Pentium with Windows 3.1.1, given to me by my dad. 56K Modem and AOL was my world!Comment
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