What was the specifications of the first computer you owned?

Question

today is the 25th birthday for the first pc ever produced, so i would like to know what your the specefications of the first computer you owned were, if you remember!

Answer 1

I would have to say my Texas Instruments SR-10 electronic slide rule calculator, which I had to purchase used because they were $99.00 in 1974!! You might not consider this a computer, but it is, and I still have one which I purchased from Ebay.

Now, the next pc I purchased was a Texas Instruments 99???? It worked using a cassette tape recorder with the programs on it. I only used it for a couple of games and never really used it to compute with. This was just before the Commodore 64 took off.

Now my first real PC personal computer was an IBM clone purchased in 1991. I bought all of the power you would ever need. An Intel 386 with 32 mg of ram! Believe it or not, that was more actual computing power than what was used to place a man on the moon. I learned DOS which is how it operated, and signed online to look at bulletin boards. The internet was only being used by the government, and not accessible as it is now.

In 1992 the company I worked for had an office network and the computer was a reel to reel, 8 feet tall, 6 feet length and about 3 feet wide. It was replaced with a 486 networked. The daily backup went from taking 20 minutes, to 20 seconds.

The one other interesting story is speaking with a computer guy setting up a network for American Airlines in Miami. He started working on IBM computers when you used to climb inside and change the tubes. He had an old laptop hooked up to the server to monitor things as he worked, had 132 programs up and running in the background, and never used more than 6% of the laptop resources. He knew how to configure things better than we do as average users!!

Be well.

Answer 2

Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user. These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business, scientific or engineering-oriented computers of the time such as the IBM PC,[1] and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability. However, a home computer often had better graphics and sound than contemporary business computers. Their most common uses were playing video games, but they were also regularly used for word processing, doing homework, and programming,

Answer 3

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Answer 4

NCR

6 MHZ speed
640 Kb Memory
20 Mb Harddrive
1.44 Floppy Disk

Answer 5

Moho16,
you would probably not relate here
but it was 30 years ago, the computer
took an entire office, it was DOS, and all
the info was entered thru perforated paper tapes/rolls.
How's that for old. And it worked wonders!

Answer 6

Sinclair zx81 2k ram, I think it had a processor speed of 3 mhz

Answer 7

Sharpen your number 2 pencil students

Answer 8

Commodore 64..oh the classics.

Wind that tape deck...press play..and hope the bastard FINDS the game.

Answer 9

Mine was a Packard Bell from HELL LOL

Answer 10

electricity.