I got him beat! My first computer was an HP200F which was the size of a fridge, 8 KB core memory, 64 KB drum memory, 5 MB Winchester hard drive…well, my high school owned that. MY first computer was a TRS-80 with a 1.7 MHz processor, 16 KB RAM, and a tape drive!
my first work digital computer was a Raytheon 703 (I worked with analog computers before & after that), my first purchased computer was a Commodore 64, quickly followed by a Kaypro 2… eventually I got around to a DOS box of my own. Kids these days think they know so much about computers but all they really know is how to drag and drop… now get off my damn lawn! 8^)
news_techren about 8 years ago
Welcome to the 1990s!
wildfiregal about 8 years ago
the computer that I bought last year is already vintage…
Ricky Bennett about 8 years ago
I got him beat! My first computer was an HP200F which was the size of a fridge, 8 KB core memory, 64 KB drum memory, 5 MB Winchester hard drive…well, my high school owned that. MY first computer was a TRS-80 with a 1.7 MHz processor, 16 KB RAM, and a tape drive!
AlanM about 8 years ago
Apple ][ rev. zero serial #131. Got it in August 1977 new.
AlanM about 8 years ago
OBTW – I still have it.
CougarAllen about 8 years ago
Those numbers don’t go together. Nobody ever had 16 MB RAM and a 25 MB hard drive.
frank.starrgt about 8 years ago
Read this for a trip back to almost prehistoric times:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_1050
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly about 8 years ago
The horror of dial up!
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
To something as old as Nosferatu, a mere thirty years is as nothing—so, sure, in his bloodshot eyes, he’s up-to-date, technologically….
noreenklose about 8 years ago
I remember my first 42MB hard drive. Wow, no more flipping between floppy disks. They could be copied in, and the program just ran. DOS 3.3 Wow! ;-D
Now, 4TB drives…and Windows is still a “disk space hog”.
sml7291 Premium Member about 8 years ago
my first work digital computer was a Raytheon 703 (I worked with analog computers before & after that), my first purchased computer was a Commodore 64, quickly followed by a Kaypro 2… eventually I got around to a DOS box of my own. Kids these days think they know so much about computers but all they really know is how to drag and drop… now get off my damn lawn! 8^)