your first PC?

**crash** · 16th November 2011, 07:52 AM

What was your first PC you owned?

In the 80's I bought my first pc from Radioshack (Tandy), called an MC 10. It was a minuture keyboard, with word shortcuts using the tab key and had an amazing 4k memory, I later expanded this to 8k with cassette tape memory storage. I then traded it in on a TRS80 which I think had 16k of memory. The "rich" kids had 32k TRS80s or comadore 64s then. Can not remember what our computer lab at school had.

**OrangeZXr10R** · 16th November 2011, 07:59 AM

ZX Spectrum 16kb Tape Driven

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum"]ZX Spectrum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
1984, what a year .... lol

**crash** · 16th November 2011, 08:14 AM

In school when we had the 7" floppys we would buy the single sided recordable floppy then cut out the notch on the other side of the disc to make it a double sided recordable. Of course the single sided ones were cheaper to buy than the double sided ones.
I am trying to remember what the speed of the high school modem was - 300baud I think it was.

d@rk51d3 · 16th November 2011, 08:39 AM

C64.
Started with the cassette drive, and bought a twin cassette deck for, ummmmm, backups. Then got the 1541 FDD. The updated model with the twist knob to engage the heads and lock in the disk.

**incisor** · 16th November 2011, 08:41 AM

atari 800 and an atari 600xl modded to 256k ram

and they still work

**solmanic** · 16th November 2011, 09:43 AM

Dad was an engineer and pioneered computers in schools in the 1970s so we had all kinds of "cutting edge" stuff:

The first was around 1976, homebuilt using a Motorola 6800 CPU with cassette tape and no hard drive. Ran 8k BASIC. The case was also home-fabricated aluminium with a keyboard in one box and the processor and power supply in the other. There was a very well used red reset button on the front.

Next in about 1979 was another homebuilt unit with a Motorola 6809 processor and this was in a sexy, all-in-one homemade aluminium box that was actually powdercoated! It originally had two 5.25in floppy disk drives but on was eventually replaced with a 1MB hard disk. I remember programming BASIC games which used to have their scripts published in various nerdy computer mags and playing Star Trek and Lemonade Stand.

**JDNSW** · 16th November 2011, 10:29 AM

My first computer was an Altos, running a modified version of CP/M, with 8k of memory and two eight inch floppy disks. These held, from memory, a capacity of 640kB. The box was about four times the size of a typical modern desktop (weighing perhaps 40kg) and I had a non-graphic terminal with a built in keyboard in addition. The printer was a hefty dot matrix one weighing about 30kg.

John

**djam1** · 16th November 2011, 11:53 AM

Toshiba T1000 4.77 Mhz 8088 CPU 512K of Ram

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/pc/h/t1000.jpg

**Scallops** · 16th November 2011, 12:17 PM

My first computer? My Grandpa's base 10 blocks....got them in 1968....

Buy Invicta Base Ten Group Set (Dienes) from Junior Scholars

scanfor · 16th November 2011, 04:43 PM

My first computer was a PDP11 that no-one else wanted - no screen but a teletype with fanfold paper running MUBASIC.
Not really a PC though, so I'd have to admit to a Commodore Amiga 1000. In 1985 it had GUI and a mouse, stereo sound and colour monitor, a meagre HDD and a 5 1/4 floppy.

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