First Computer
From nslog():
Question: What was your first computer?
My Answer: My parents bought a Packard Bell 486 SX 33 running Windows 3.11 my sophomore or junior year of high school. I proceeded to learn all I could and even caused it to be unusable for short periods of time. But I did learn a lot from it and know a good bit about PC trouble shooting. Too bad a lot of that knowledge is worthless when it comes to Macs!
September 27, 2003 | Filed Under Quizi
My first computer was a Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 1 (the “1″ is implied). It was silver, with a “chiclet” keyboard. I was blessed enough to have a cassette tape “drive”, two floppy drives, and scads of presumably pirated software.
From there, I had every intention of getting the new, amazing Color Computer 3, but some wheeling and dealing by my stepfather got me a Tandy 1000 SX, which was software-compatible with an 8086. (The deal was this: I was promised a CoCo 3 for Christmas, and in July, he said we could get a new computer “now” if I’d “settle” for a Tandy 1000. I’ve always been too weak to resist instant gratification…)
I miss my CoCo :( …
My first computer was a TRS-80. It was cool, I even went to TRS-80 summer camp (for geeks) with my brother. I think I was 10 yrs. old.
Those tapes drives crack me up now. it would take like 5-10 mintues to load up a program, and you’d have to keep track of where on the tape stuff started using the counter on the drive.
I guess a couple of years later we moved on to the Atari 400. Color! and it had those cartridges you could plug in for instant use. The 800 offered expandable memory slots, IIRC. big-time!
Lisa/2 … external HD about the size of my (current) entire computer, 3.5″ floppy, black / white display built-in.