the oldest computer one had

[NeoGen]

I found this site that is all about old computers!
http://www.old-computers.com/

So, what is the oldest computer you guys messed with? Searching through the site's museum you should find it for sure, and with picture too.


It almost brings a tear to the eye to remember when I was a little kid playing games with my older bros in this wonderful machine here:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=183
This is truly the first computer I have memory of having messed with... too bad there wasn't Distributed Computing at the time!! (I wouldn't know it even if there was... I should be about 8 years old)

I do remember it was the one just like that on the pic, with two floppy (really floppy!!) disk drives.
And the mouse... man it was really bad. Look at it on the pic! Thank god games didn't need the mouse for anything at the time... lol
Man... how I miss the old days! :roll:

[NeoGen]

I also had one of these:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=223
and one of these
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=221

Oh joyful memories... :roll:

[NVM]

i just fired up my trs-80 a few weeks ago:

[NeoGen]

And it still works!! :D

What model is it? I found a bundle of TRS-80's on that site.

[DMMc]

I "cut my teeth" on this one.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/....asp?st=1&c=62

We used old teletype terminals with punch tape reader/writers to program and the printer of the terminals themselves for visual output.

[gamer007]

I don't know my 1st computer. All I know it was my dad's laptop when I was 3. But my dad's 1st computer was the VIC-20.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=252

[AMDave]

I started on this
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/....asp?c=68&st=1
learning about assembler, registers, peeks and pokes and then Integer Basic. (Mice? They chewed power cords and got zapped and stank up the place until you found them )

but I really spent a lot of time with one of these:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=29
graduating from Basic to COMAL and prolog. Remember typing in the programing code from the magazines so you could play the game ?! I did love it. esp. playing "Elite". Man that brings back some memories. That reminds me...All the books and cables for it are here with me but the machine is still in a cupboard at my parents place, interstate. It was still working when we last turned it on 6 years ago! I played around with an emulator of it, last year, on the same machine I am typing this on. Not quite like the real thing though.

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wow - I had a good look through - "Just for Fun" pictures are hillarious

I also had one of these when dad upgraded
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...sp?st=1&c=1002

and for a short while we had one of these monsters at home which came on it's own re-enforced steel trolley!
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=333
(much bigger than the picture looks - those were 8inch floppy drives)
The trolley was indestructible. I think my sister has her current PC on it.
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[NeoGen]

Remember typing in the programing code from the magazines so you could play the game ?!

Oh... I do... :? and how I remember that it hurt so much having to type hundreds of lines of machine code into the spectrum to be able to play the magazine's games!
And checking if everything had been correctly typed... Luckily the magazines I typed the games from had a checksum after each line of machine code, so it was just a process of summing and reviewing the checksums.

[Nflight]

What do you do when the site does not even mention the computer you first had your hands on. You admit your old, real old, OK so I admit I am over the hill to most of you.

My first experience was on a Univac -9000 this was what my father programmed back in the late 1960's. He was able to control such operations that amased me in my youth with only 8K of memory. Eight fricking K of memory, think of it real hard, we usually use a whopping 125K of memory to just manuever through the maze of trajectory in our daily click on something in the GUI and make it do something. Mind Boggling... to say the least.

Ok so my household had a fasciantaion with computers, in 1977 we owned a Apple II, by 1978 we had the APPle II Plus, I also had the experince of owning the first of the Texas Instraments calculator with an LED readout.

Step back as I Read off the list of goodies I had first dibs on, a Timex Sinclair, TRS -80 Model 4, Atari- Pong, IBM-PCXT, ZX-80 Sinclair, KAYPRO-10 ok I was not of the normal family. Each person in my family had some sort of start in programming and each to this day exists in a realm of programming. Except for my mother who resists the temptation I suppose ( plus she is over 70 and the world is not for her to care to enlist her abilities in programming).

I for one found that prgramming in machine language could cure most everything, and to this day I still find that my talents are in the minuute understanding is getting the code to make the project work. I am the odd ball. No one even to this day will touch the code in its basic form, I find this odd, even troubling. So my oddity leaves me without many who put trust in my lunacy, you have to be off the wall to allow the parameters it takes to evolve in the realm of binary code formulations.

When I don't respond right away it is not because I am aloof with the problem, it is usually that I am aloof with another problem I am dealing with.

Currently my family is employed with the likes of Cisco Systems, go figure.

[Ototero]

My first, second, third and forth computers were Zinclair ZX Spectrums. I kept breaking them. I still have the last one along with 2 micro drives shock:

Then I lashed out on an Amstrad 1640 with 32meg HD, two 5.25 inch floppy drives.

By that time I was working as programmer for HSBC, my home computer was 3 times faster than my office computer. An IBM XT running @ 4MHz.

I used to use a program called XTree as my DOS interface. Guess what, I still use it now only it's called XTGold.