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Atari 800, with a tape recorder.. (Later upgraded to an external 5.25" disc drive.) Later moved up to an 800XL, 130XE, and then finally into the PC world with a portable 8086 with a 10MB drive, and a 2-color LCD screen. Countless PCs since then, though I dealt with a 286 long enough to bypass the 386 phase altogether and jump into a 486DX2/66.
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The first computer I used was my dad's (Radio Shack) TRS-80 , much like Jason , but it was a monochrome (not color)  . He later went through several different models of TRS computers . He then went to a Digital "Rainbow" computer , which was a pretty kick-butt computer of the time , but was made obsolete by IBM's dominance & their refusal to cooperate and use a "common" language  . A shame , because he had a buttload of $$$ wrapped up in that computer  .
My first computer I "owned" was a Commodore Vic-20 , with the external cassette tape drive .
My next computer was a Commodore 64  . That one had an external floppy drive , much better graphics & more power  (relavively speaking ) . I still have it & once in a while bust it out & fire it up for a laugh . I kinda like the C-64 .
Then I moved up to an IBM clone 286 computer (pre-pentium) with a small monochrome monitor & an internal floppy drive .
Then I got my HP computer that I'm using now . It's been upgraded with a burner , and some more power , but is still a POS !
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i don't even know the specs, we a Tandy 3000
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My first computer was free. It was a used one from the government. Got it in 99'.
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Originally posted by ZetecNinja:
i don't even know the specs, we a Tandy 3000
In case you were curious:
http://www.machine-room.org
Search for your old machine!
For Sale:
- Sony PSP with a Baseball 2k6 and the movie Crash. $100
- 1973 Karmann Ghia Convertible w/ Auto-Stick. Needs Restoration. $1200 OBO
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Great site , Brian !! Good find .
~~~~~~~ Phil
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 Apple 2e BASIC and silly games...
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Originally posted by Cartman:
Countless PCs since then, though I dealt with a 286 long enough to bypass the 386 phase altogether and jump into a 486DX2/66.
Again, I've got you beat here: Straight from 8088 to a 486 DX2/50, and from that to a P2 that might as well be a P3 (450 MhZ). Most 486 DX2s pulled 66 MhZ like yours did, we had a weird one.  It even had a "turbo" button on it to run it at 50 MhZ; they thought you might want to run it at 25 MhZ most of the time... 
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 That was my first desktop.   Actually, this is a photo similar to the first Commodore 64 I ever used..  From that, we had plenty of old MacIntoshes, Tandy's, and 8088's at school. I believe the next home PC I got my hands on was an old 286 Compaq laptop, then a 386SX Packard Bell Legend Supreme, then a 486SX Packard Bell Legend Supreme (with the old, "America grew up listening to us; they still do" logo splash screen), then a 486 DX2 66, then another Packard Bell Legend Supreme 166mhz Pentium Pro(which I now use as a makeshift unix firewall), then I went AMD: K62 350mhz. For a while I used that until I made the jump straight to a 1.4ghz P4, then 1.7ghz AMD Palamino, which I now use.  Tim
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Originally posted by TJSwoboda:
It even had a "turbo" button on it to run it at 50 MhZ; they thought you might want to run it at 25 MhZ most of the time...
The original IBM PC, IBM PC-XT, and all the earliest clones all had 8088 processors running at 4.77 MHz. In those days, if you were writing a program that was timing-sensitive, you wrote it to waste as many CPU cycles as needed, by executing spurious instructions, in order to run at the desired speed. This, of course, depended on being able to make solid assumptions about what processor you were running on, and at what speed. (I have some memory of using a similar technique when I wrote a program for the Apple ][ to drive a homemade 300 bps modem through the joystick port. I needed, in a few places, to have loops that took exactly 1/300 of a second to run through one iteration; so I inserted the necessary numbers of NOP instructions and other spurious instructions in order to eat up exactly the right number of CPU clock cycles.)
When the PC clones started pushing the 8088 to speeds beyond 4.77 MHz, timing-sensitive programs written on the assumption that they would run on a 4.77 MHz 8088, started breaking. That's where the ??Turbo? switch originated. Clones started utilizing a switch that would allow you to choose to run either at 4.77 MHz, or at whatever higher speed the machine was capable of. You'd use the 4.77 MHz speed for running timing-sensitive programs that broke at the higher speed, and the higher ??Turbo? speed for runing everything else.
Once PC compatibles started moving to other processors beyond the 8088, the whole ??Turbo? concept really became rather meaningless. You couldn't step an 8086, an 80186, an 80286, an 80386, an 80486, or a Pentium back to any speed that would exactly duplicate the performance of an 8088 at 4.77 Mhz. By this time, any software that still depended on being able to make that assumption about processor speed was screwed. But as a matter of convention, the ??Turbo? switch remained a feature of most of these machines at least into the early Pentium models; allowing you to switch the machine into a ??non-Turbo? mode that would, in some way, reduce the machine to somewhat slower performance. I think this only really ended with the newer ATX-style cases and motherboards.
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