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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2011, 06:41:44 AM »
we actually had a used comadore 64 as our first family computer but I don't remember using it as much.
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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2011, 06:48:12 AM »
TI99/4A. Boy, that thing sucked. I think I still have it somewhere.

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #17 on: December 29, 2011, 07:05:15 AM »
I wish I still had my old machines. The last old one I had was "Stonehenge", it was a Gateway something I will try and look it up later.
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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #18 on: December 29, 2011, 07:53:31 AM »
we actually had a used comadore 64 as our first family computer but I don't remember using it as much.

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2011, 10:58:07 AM »
My family had a comadore 64 but I honestly don't remember it.  I'm not sure if I even used it.

When I was in high school Mom came home with a TI computer from 1979.  That thing was massively heavy.  Was fun tearing it apart.

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2011, 11:47:34 AM »
Commodore, y'all

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2011, 11:51:27 AM »
Commodore, y'all
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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2011, 05:49:47 PM »
Tandy 1000.

Amber screen.  512k on board cache.  Two.  Yes, two 5.25" floppy drives.

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2011, 06:36:06 PM »
compuadd 325.  386sx 25mhz

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2011, 02:56:48 PM »
Tandy 1000.

Amber screen.  512k on board cache.  Two.  Yes, two 5.25" floppy drives.

My gateway had two. Was fun to play with functions between the two and different tricks for increased storage at the time.
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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #25 on: December 31, 2011, 07:02:01 AM »
My first PC was a 386sx (i think it was an olivetti) - though I did have one of those commodore 64 things from a long time ago (think its still in my mothers attic - though she did ask if she could install windows on it)... cant remember why i bought it probably as it was a new gadget and i am still gadget queening. Thinking how much time I spend on the PC when at home I wonder what I would be doing now if I had never bought that first one (maybe we could do a film 'its a wonderful life' but instead of james stewart never existing it would be our PCs)
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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2012, 09:37:54 PM »
Tandy 1000.

Amber screen.  512k on board cache.  Two.  Yes, two 5.25" floppy drives.

Holy crap, I never knew what my dad's old office computer that then became our first was, but I think this was it. Amber screen and everything. AND it had a turbo button  :cool2:

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2012, 09:39:08 PM »
what did the turbo button do?
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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2012, 09:40:23 PM »
The turbo button was basically an overclock button.

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Re: If you think about it...
« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2012, 09:43:24 PM »
thats pretty cool. Was it a software kind of thing, or was it more or less like the "jumper number 2 pencil pin connecting" tricks we used to do?
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