I had a modded Atari 400 computer before the term was even invented...

This was in 1980.

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I briefly worked on programming an 8086 back in about 1983. Ironically, its purpose was error detection in an analog control circuit.

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I feel old when I look at today's children. Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, tablet...
In my days we were playing with dolls and footballs...

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My first real computer in about 1986-87

The Amstrad PCW 8512. No hard drives just 512kb ram and two floppy drives, ran CP/M operating system and the screen was a "green on black"

Printer was included in the price of £399 ($608 - €469) lot of money for 27 years ago.

It was killed off by DOS and IBM clones in the late 90's

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I got my first MS-DOS machine sometime around 1986. A Radio Shack 8086. The 286 was out by then, but I didn't think I needed it. I have never had $0 in credit card debt since then.

I don't think I owned anything with Windows on it until my first XP box in early 2002.

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David
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Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Amstrad's PCW 8512 was the first real UK business computer, with a real Word Processer, a Spread sheet, etc, and running the first OS - CPM. An excellent machine amongst the rash of 8 and 16 bit hone computers - The Atari 400 to 16 bit ST, Dragon, Sinclair ZX81, the Sinclair Spectrum, the BBC Micro and others.

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

I can't even remember the brand of my first computer. I know it was a Windows '95 though...

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Amstrad's PCW 8512 was the first real UK business computer, with a real Word Processer, a Spread sheet, etc, and running the first OS - CPM. An excellent machine amongst the rash of 8 and 16 bit hone computers - The Atari 400 to 16 bit ST, Dragon, Sinclair ZX81, the Sinclair Spectrum, the BBC Micro and others.

Ah yes, CP/M (Control Program/Monitor), the OS that MS DOS wiped out, that's one I never had the pleasure of running.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M

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My first computer was a second hand Apricot running Windows Version 1, can't remember exactly when i was bought it, i was quite young so early 90s.

It's probably still at home in the Attic.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

My first home computer was a Dragon 32, later upgraded to the Dragon 64. This was swapped for an Atari ST 512 and then upgraded to 4 MB of RAM and it had a 105MB hard drive and twin 1.4 MB floppies. All that is in the loft and still works ....

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The first computers I worked with were Computer Automation minis.

The core memory in the earlier models was non-volatile storage. We could power a system down, take the memory board across Cambridge and restart it where it had left off, but in a different computer.

My 1st hdd attached to a computer was an ST4096 mfm 80MB FH 5.25" hdd that used an Antec 4000 MFM to SCSI controller adapter board, that was in turn attached to an ICD MIO device that was hooked up to the Atari 800XL PBI bus slot on the back of the computer. I had to go through 10 of those ST4096 drives before I found one that worked, pretty high failure rate back then for that drive at least. An MFM hard disk drive(hdd) used a 34 pin cable and a 20 pin cable.

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And who remembers them large old floppy discs?

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I have a brand new unopened shrink wrapped box of 1.2MB 5-1/4 floppies, and a box of new 8" floppies. My College students had never seen 8" disks before, and couldn't believe that I was using them in 1980!

I never had any 1.2MB 5-1/4s, but I think I still have some 360Ks around. That was when a floppy disc was really floppy! I may even have a drive for them I could transplant in a newer machine... I wonder if any of the discs would still read after all this time.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

My Atari ST 16 bit computer was able to reformat 1.44 MB floppies to 1.6MB. Excellent for largish files ...

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My Atari ST 16 bit computer was able to reformat 1.44 MB floppies to 1.6MB. Excellent for largish files ...

I know the Amiga could do that, but which version of TOS could do that?

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Man...is that Chinese you guys are speaking or is it just me?

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Man...is that Chinese you guys are speaking or is it just me?

Nope, that's just intense geek...

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这是所有希腊给我！

Now THAT I understand better...

@Victor: and I thought I was a geek, djeesh...;)

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这是所有希腊给我！(This is all Greek to me!/provided by Google translate)

Funny, doesn't look Greek to Me, not enough Olive Oil for Popeye... ;)

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