[pauld315]

The first one I had in my house was a TI-99A. I bought that back in 1982, had it connected to an old black and white tv and used a casette tape recorder for storage. You could buy solid state cartridges to plug into the thing, mostly for games.

I started working on computers that were sold to busnesses in 1973. Memories of what size some of those mid range computers were and the capacities of the memory and hard drives are amazing. Suffice it to say your iphone far exceeds anything we developed for companies back in those days and they were huge and very expensive. I have been in development of hardware and software since 1973 and the advances in technology during that time are just incredible in all aspects. Three more years and i will retire and move to the Villages and the only hard drives i will be talking about will be on the golf course...I just can't wait !!

[Avista]

Radio Shack TRS-80

[k2at]

Mine was a Commodore 64 and for 28,000 bytes of available space it was an amazing machine at that time.

[Talk Host]

Commodore Vic-20.

The first Dos computer was a Hyundai.

[meridana]

Had tape storage, even had spread sheet.
tossed it when I moved to TV last year. It still worked

[aljetmet]

Originally Posted by macro

Didn't anyone else get the TI-99A? Got mine for $50 with the rebate, total cost after all the programs, expansion box, memory upgrade, floppy drives, etc. almost $2k. Those cheap computers really get expensive! Still have it but afraid to plug it in. would probably blow my flat screen. MelZ, did you run the RCA's or did you work on them? I was a tech in Chicago for them before Sperry bought us.

My first home computer was the TI-99A as well. I spent about $75 for a cassette player that I used to save my programs. I had some games and an extended basic module which allowed you to program games. I wrote a black jack program with graphics. I found some kind of algorithm that I programmed to shuffle the deck. I even wrote a primitive shooting game. I enjoyed it. My first PC at work was one of the first IBM ATs distributed in 1984. I worked for AMAX Inc. a major mining company at the time and the first AT for the company some how landed on my desk.. I thought dos was great but hated windows when it first came out. Didn't like using a mouse. I am a convert...

[dkcm33]

Mine was a Hyundai; man it was a biggy to. It had a 30 mb harddrive; can you imagine?

[KayakerNC]

Commodore 64.
It was a "free" gift for attending a Time-Share presentation. The computer was fun, but not worth the aggravation of the high pressure sales.

[Mikeod]

Eagle II. Two, yes count 'em, two 5" disk drives. And a whole 64K of RAM. Wow!

Poor guy who started the company in Santa Clara county, took it public and made millions on the IPO, died in a car wreck shortly afterwards. They later came out with an IBM clone version, then went belly-up like a lot of other start-ups.

[John Hammack]

I built 3 Heath kits, H89&90's, a large dot matrix printer, and a monster dual 8" external drive. Best computers and most fun I had (CP/M), with cpu's. Gary Kildow (sp) was a CS instructor at USNPGS when I was there. John

[brostholder]

first IBM pc with 32k and a single floppy. Used to do my own programming in BASIC

[rjm1cc]

Commodore 64 and MultiPlan for a spreadsheet. Was it ever grate to get on the computer.

[tudacee]

gosh..so long ago, I think it was an Apple IIc. Then later, we got a newer model...was it performa? can't remember, but since then, I've been a mac fangirl.

[Jim007]

Abacus

[2newyorkers]

COMPAQ at home. In work we had dummy terminals that only accessed the state computer.