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My very first PC (1995-1996):

White midi tower with:

- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander

Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.

Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆

#retrocomputing #retro #firstcomputer #nostalgia #windows

My very first PC (1995-1996):

White midi tower with:

- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander

Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.

Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆

#retrocomputing #retro #firstcomputer #nostalgia #windows

My very first PC (1995-1996):

White midi tower with:

- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander

Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.

Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆

#retrocomputing #retro #firstcomputer #nostalgia #windows

My very first PC (1995-1996):

White midi tower with:

- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander

Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.

Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆

#retrocomputing #retro #firstcomputer #nostalgia #windows

My very first PC (1995-1996):

White midi tower with:

- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander

Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.

Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆

#retrocomputing #retro #firstcomputer #nostalgia #windows

About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer

About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer

About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer

About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer

About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer

Back at the beginning…
#colossus #FirstComputer

Back at the beginning…
#colossus #FirstComputer

Back at the beginning…
#colossus #FirstComputer

Back at the beginning…
#colossus #FirstComputer

Back at the beginning…
#colossus #FirstComputer

@adafruit
I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.

My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm

For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.

I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.

#firstcomputer #retrocomputing

@adafruit
I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.

My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm

For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.

I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.

#firstcomputer #retrocomputing

@adafruit
I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.

My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm

For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.

I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.

#firstcomputer #retrocomputing

@adafruit
I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.

My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm

For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.

I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.

#firstcomputer #retrocomputing

@adafruit
I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.

My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm

For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.

I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.

#firstcomputer #retrocomputing

Thinking back, pretty sure the first programming I got to play with was Logo, then Basic, then Pascal... Late 80s into 90s our first computer was an IBM PS/2 #firstcomputer #retrocomputing

Thinking back, pretty sure the first programming I got to play with was Logo, then Basic, then Pascal... Late 80s into 90s our first computer was an IBM PS/2 #firstcomputer #retrocomputing

Thinking back, pretty sure the first programming I got to play with was Logo, then Basic, then Pascal... Late 80s into 90s our first computer was an IBM PS/2 #firstcomputer #retrocomputing

🎄💾🗓️ Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Apple II 🎄💾🗓️

We kick things off with the legendary Apple II! Released in 1977, it was one of the first highly successful personal computers, known for its revolutionary design, colorful graphics, and expandability. Created by Steve Wozniak, the Apple II sparked the personal computing revolution.

#retrocomputing #firstcomputer #electronics

🎄💾🗓️ Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Apple II 🎄💾🗓️

We kick things off with the legendary Apple II! Released in 1977, it was one of the first highly successful personal computers, known for its revolutionary design, colorful graphics, and expandability. Created by Steve Wozniak, the Apple II sparked the personal computing revolution.

#retrocomputing #firstcomputer #electronics

🎄💾🗓️ Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Apple II 🎄💾🗓️

We kick things off with the legendary Apple II! Released in 1977, it was one of the first highly successful personal computers, known for its revolutionary design, colorful graphics, and expandability. Created by Steve Wozniak, the Apple II sparked the personal computing revolution.

#retrocomputing #firstcomputer #electronics

What was your #FirstComputer?

Mine was midi tower with a Cyrix Cx486DX4 (75Mhz), 8MB of memory, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card and a whopping 850MB hard drive. Display was a 14“ CRT that could only output up to 800x600 pixels. The operating system on it was Dos 6.x and I was a regular Norton Commander user.

Later that computer got upgraded by my brother to a Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 16MB ram and a 2,x GB hard drive with Windows 95, before I discovered Linux on a CDRom in a magazine and broke everything while trying to install it but not understanding the concept of partitions😅

Later that computer was running on dual boot with #Suse #linux and Windows 95 and I leaned C programming on the machine.

#computer #retrocomputing #linux #childhood

What was your #FirstComputer?

Mine was midi tower with a Cyrix Cx486DX4 (75Mhz), 8MB of memory, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card and a whopping 850MB hard drive. Display was a 14“ CRT that could only output up to 800x600 pixels. The operating system on it was Dos 6.x and I was a regular Norton Commander user.

Later that computer got upgraded by my brother to a Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 16MB ram and a 2,x GB hard drive with Windows 95, before I discovered Linux on a CDRom in a magazine and broke everything while trying to install it but not understanding the concept of partitions😅

Later that computer was running on dual boot with #Suse #linux and Windows 95 and I leaned C programming on the machine.

#computer #retrocomputing #linux #childhood

What was your #FirstComputer?

Mine was midi tower with a Cyrix Cx486DX4 (75Mhz), 8MB of memory, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card and a whopping 850MB hard drive. Display was a 14“ CRT that could only output up to 800x600 pixels. The operating system on it was Dos 6.x and I was a regular Norton Commander user.

Later that computer got upgraded by my brother to a Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 16MB ram and a 2,x GB hard drive with Windows 95, before I discovered Linux on a CDRom in a magazine and broke everything while trying to install it but not understanding the concept of partitions😅

Later that computer was running on dual boot with #Suse #linux and Windows 95 and I leaned C programming on the machine.

#computer #retrocomputing #linux #childhood

What was your #FirstComputer?

Mine was midi tower with a Cyrix Cx486DX4 (75Mhz), 8MB of memory, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card and a whopping 850MB hard drive. Display was a 14“ CRT that could only output up to 800x600 pixels. The operating system on it was Dos 6.x and I was a regular Norton Commander user.

Later that computer got upgraded by my brother to a Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 16MB ram and a 2,x GB hard drive with Windows 95, before I discovered Linux on a CDRom in a magazine and broke everything while trying to install it but not understanding the concept of partitions😅

Later that computer was running on dual boot with #Suse #linux and Windows 95 and I leaned C programming on the machine.

#computer #retrocomputing #linux #childhood

What was your #FirstComputer?

Mine was midi tower with a Cyrix Cx486DX4 (75Mhz), 8MB of memory, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card and a whopping 850MB hard drive. Display was a 14“ CRT that could only output up to 800x600 pixels. The operating system on it was Dos 6.x and I was a regular Norton Commander user.

Later that computer got upgraded by my brother to a Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 16MB ram and a 2,x GB hard drive with Windows 95, before I discovered Linux on a CDRom in a magazine and broke everything while trying to install it but not understanding the concept of partitions😅

Later that computer was running on dual boot with #Suse #linux and Windows 95 and I leaned C programming on the machine.

#computer #retrocomputing #linux #childhood

In the mid 1980s in my early teen years, I had an Epson HX-20 notebooks for a few months. I remember that I created wild iterated colour math plots with the in-built printer using experimental combinations of trigonometric functions in simple BASIC programs.
Had access to Apple computers before that and bought an Atari computer later.
#FirstComputer #VintageComputer #Epson

In the mid 1980s in my early teen years, I had an Epson HX-20 notebooks for a few months. I remember that I created wild iterated colour math plots with the in-built printer using experimental combinations of trigonometric functions in simple BASIC programs.
Had access to Apple computers before that and bought an Atari computer later.
#FirstComputer #VintageComputer #Epson

In the mid 1980s in my early teen years, I had an Epson HX-20 notebooks for a few months. I remember that I created wild iterated colour math plots with the in-built printer using experimental combinations of trigonometric functions in simple BASIC programs.
Had access to Apple computers before that and bought an Atari computer later.
#FirstComputer #VintageComputer #Epson

In the mid 1980s in my early teen years, I had an Epson HX-20 notebooks for a few months. I remember that I created wild iterated colour math plots with the in-built printer using experimental combinations of trigonometric functions in simple BASIC programs.
Had access to Apple computers before that and bought an Atari computer later.
#FirstComputer #VintageComputer #Epson

In the mid 1980s in my early teen years, I had an Epson HX-20 notebooks for a few months. I remember that I created wild iterated colour math plots with the in-built printer using experimental combinations of trigonometric functions in simple BASIC programs.
Had access to Apple computers before that and bought an Atari computer later.
#FirstComputer #VintageComputer #Epson

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@EVduckR @SinclairSpeccy

I had a nifty C64 word processing program from Compute magazine and some other productivity shareware (like Lucid).

I used the 64 at home until I eventually got a PC.

I did do a video project on a college Toaster once.

#FirstComputer #C64

@EVduckR @SinclairSpeccy

I had a nifty C64 word processing program from Compute magazine and some other productivity shareware (like Lucid).

I used the 64 at home until I eventually got a PC.

I did do a video project on a college Toaster once.

#FirstComputer #C64

@EVduckR @SinclairSpeccy

I had a nifty C64 word processing program from Compute magazine and some other productivity shareware (like Lucid).

I used the 64 at home until I eventually got a PC.

I did do a video project on a college Toaster once.

#FirstComputer #C64

@EVduckR @SinclairSpeccy

I had a nifty C64 word processing program from Compute magazine and some other productivity shareware (like Lucid).

I used the 64 at home until I eventually got a PC.

I did do a video project on a college Toaster once.

#FirstComputer #C64

@EVduckR @SinclairSpeccy

I had a nifty C64 word processing program from Compute magazine and some other productivity shareware (like Lucid).

I used the 64 at home until I eventually got a PC.

I did do a video project on a college Toaster once.

#FirstComputer #C64

This was the families first computer that we ever had. :) #firstcomputer https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3073/retro-scan-the-tandy-sensation