[maxdakota123]

I have dell Inspiron 1545 with Intel's Core 2 Duo processor since a year and it is my first Laptop and I have never purchased desktop or any other Laptops. It is with 250Gb HDD SATA and 3 Gb of RAM.

[ncl_knight]

For me it was a Vic-20. Went to DJ's Kotara with my Mum and we bought one. Still have it. Still works! Then Commodore 64 and a long line of Amigas (still have them all, all still work).

Jumped on the Mac bandwagon when I had to when I was a support guy at a publishing firm. Liked them, and now have a long line of Macs!

Still have a soft spot for Commodore. Hate when bad management kills an innovative company. Funnily, was starting to be a Mac user, when they were in dark days.

[ncl_knight]

Hmm. Trip down memory lane continues. Anyone have a Microbee? Did you build it your self (the old brown case) or have a sexy black and white 32Kb or 64Kb machine? These were awesome in their day.

[blizzard]

Just like Mars Fenix, I too had an HP (dv2000). It also blew up after 14 months - due to the nVidia GeForce 8 series fault.

[Islandhead]

Commodore 64 for me.

I remember my dad got it 2nd hand from a friend. I still remember writing my first program in BASIC. Calculate the 3rd angle of a triangle if you know the first two. 180 - ( a + b ) with the user inputting the two angles. Very basic indeed but a very proud moment for me

[Geoffals]

I had wanted a Tandy TRS 80 but too young to afford it. It wasn't til the later part of college that I could afford
an Apple 2c. A great little computer that i still have in a box somewhere! It really was so compact. I wrote many
essays, learnt how to use a spreadsheet, did some BASIC, put titles on home movies, (just at the beginning of VHS with out any
overlaying of course!) and played some games. With colour TV adapter it was one of the few colour computers/game machines of it's time.

[klytia]

Ok I can add on to this, my dad was right into electronics and if he was alive today he would be just amazed at the progression of the past couple of decades, I remember the Commodore 64 being the first one in our home, dad used to think it was the bees knees...

Mick

[Pelle-Plutt]

I too had a Sinclair ZX81 computer at home (with the massive 16kB expansion memory), which I bought second-hand from a friend but never paid for...
Anyways, I stopped using it after entering BASIC code for a couple of hours for a game that I found in a magazine. Just when I was about to start the game the expansion memory fell out...

In school we had a dozen or so ABC80 computers. On these I taught myself BASIC and even wrote myself some games. Great computer despite the cassette deck "HDD". Apparently quite a bit faster than contemporay Apple and IBM computers, according to the wiki.

[Stubzee]

I figure i would be one of the oldest members here on forums by many years but a real babe in the woods when it comes to owning a computer.
The iMac 20" was my first.
No photos needed as everyone knows what they look like.
Gordon

[gazza]

Stubzee, on 09 January 2011 - 05:35 AM, said:

I figure i would be one of the oldest members here on forums by many years ...
Gordon

About three years ago I started a thread on "Who was the oldest Forum Member?" (I've just searched for it with no luck.) At that time I thought I was the oldest at 61 — wrong, there were 3, I think, older, the oldest in 70's. I'm now 64, what about you?

[Ken Gracey]

Maybe the opposition has croaked gazza




TL

[Stubzee]

I confess to being on the verge of 72 years young.
Get lots of looks from the those of my generation when traveling with my iPod Nano and iPad.
Gordon

[gazza]

TLCAUS, on 09 January 2011 - 09:03 AM, said:

Maybe the opposition has croaked gazza

Hopefully not, TL, but I haven't seen any of them about here for a while now!

Stubzee, on 09 January 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I confess to being on the verge of 72 years young.
Get lots of looks from the those of my generation when traveling with my iPod Nano and iPad.

Just a youngster, Gordon!

Ditto about the "looks."

[Stubzee]

Thanks Gazza the cheque is in the mail.
Gordon

[cdeeble]

My first personal computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A — the first 16-bit machine on the Australian market, I think.

I used to plug it into my TV and stored BASIC programs on a cassette tape unit. (The computer plugged into the microphone socket and fed buzzes, burps and squeaks into the tape machine. No idea what the data rate was but the file sizes were counted in bytes. No, Victoria, not even kilo-bytes, just bytes. It was another decade before I heard the prefix 'giga' being used in anything more than a sci-fi context.

I can't post a picture of it because it disappeared out of my world years before digital photography became a personal tool. At the time some REAL computers were doing vector graphics but only a very few specialist supecomputer-driven systems in research establishments were starting to be used for what was then called raster graphics. There are bound to be images out on the web somewhere though...

[cdeeble]

DragonFire, on 28 April 2010 - 07:40 AM, said:

Mine was a BBC Model B (made by Acorn Computers in the UK) in around 1982/1983

I taught myself to program on this machine using the rather good (and very structured) version of BASIC that came with it.

Hey, yeah? I worked briefly at the Bureau of Mineral Resources where we used BBC micros as graphics terminals for viewing ocean-floor survey data. Great little machines, The BASIC environment was pretty sophisticated in the graphics area, at least for the time.

[gazza]

Stubzee, on 09 January 2011 - 03:30 PM, said:

Thanks Gazza the cheque is in the mail.

[klytia]

Stubzee, on 09 January 2011 - 10:25 AM, said:

I confess to being on the verge of 72 years young.
Get lots of looks from the those of my generation when traveling with my iPod Nano and iPad.

Great stuff Gordon, I laughed when I read this, breakout the iPod pop's & hang off the iPad, next time I see the three key ingredients together I will certainly pop over and say Gidday ,




Mick

[klytia]

TLCAUS, on 09 January 2011 - 09:03 AM, said:

Maybe the opposition has croaked gazza

Loved this too TL, speed is the essence of time, and you were on to this like a Thunderbird on a mission..






Mick

[petert]

I wrote my first computer programs during a summer camp at Uni of NSW in 1973 using a language called Euler (which was similar to BASIC). A couple of years later, when I commenced work,I had sole access to a SPC16 "mainframe" for some months (~1976). After that, at work, I had my own HP25 desktop (from 1977 to 1981). About 1979 or 1980, I built a PC board based Motorola 6809 "computer" which had about 128 bytes of RAM and a numeric keypad for program and data entry. It was a 16 bit machine. My first "real" personal computer was a Dick Smith System 80, which was modelled (read "rip-off") on the TRS80 (1981).