Did you use a computer before Windows 95 and the internet? If so, what did you use?

Question

My first computer was a C64 in 1985. My neighbors had an Atari 400 and a Vic-20. After the C64 I stepped up to an Amiga 500.

Answer 1

First computer was an IBM mainframe located somewhere in New Hampshire. I connected to it with an accoustic modem and an old fashioned black rotary telephone. The display was a roll of yellow paper and programs were stored on paper punch tapes. I learned BASIC language.

My first home computer was a VIC-20 with 3000bytes of memory connected to a 5" b&w TV. Great 4 channel sound though.

Answer 2

Yes i did but i can't remember what it was.All I can remember is it had the 5 1/4 floppy on it and every time you wanted some thing different you had to put in another 5 1/4.LOL The windows 95 computer was the best.Than the windows 98 computer was than the windows ME vary shortly after the windows 2000 was the best than XP for MANY years now vista. We started off with just a couple of MHz now we can get to over 5GHZ over clocking

Answer 3

My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80, which were affectionally known as "Trash 80's", somewhere around 1978-79. 16 kilobytes of RAM and a cassette tape drive. Next was a Atari 800. Moved into IBM PC's in the mid 80's.

Answer 4

I had played around with friends commodore 64's and TI/99, but the first computer I owned on my own was a Commodore Colt IBM PC clone. it had no hard drive, just two 5 1/4 inch 360k floppy drives. MSDos 3.2.
Before windows 95 came out, most power users and gamers never used windows 3.1, most people I knew actually deleted windows off their hard drives to make more room on our 20 meg hard drives for Doom mods.
Getting online meant getting on our 14.4 baud modems and dialing up local BBS's with Telemate so we could download Doom mods, and play Legend of the Red Dragon.

Answer 5

Oh Man !... back in 1984 I had a Tandy TRS-80 Color computer. It had 16KB, (Yes KB as in kilobytes !) which was upgradable to 32KB. It was on this machine I learned my first computer language, BASIC. I still remember accessing BBS's (the precoursor of the Internet) via a Acoustic Coupler with my Compuserve account. Back then it was all simple text. The term "Broadband" wasn't even a word yet !!

Answer 6

I used to work in a Real Estate office. and what we Had were called terminals. which will connect to the MLS central computer where we could see al the multiple listings.
I don't remember the brand but this terminals would look like a today's desktop.
!982 - 1985

Answer 7

yes, I had a little-known Timex 2000 which used its own version of BASIC. I also used a few different types of DOS word processors like Xerox and IBM computers that didn't have hard drives. Later I used a mainframe IBM system 36 for my job. That wasn't too long ago and computers have come a long, long way since then.

Answer 8

c64 with cassette, then 386 packard bell running dos 6.0 / windows 3.1 then 486 windows 3.1, next 95a, 95 b and 95c running p3 350, then p4 and windows me, then 98, then 98se
next p4 and win2ksp4, finally 4400+ and xpsp2

Answer 9

Commodore C64.....

Answer 10

yeah i had a tandy 1000(used basic programing) and a c64