edit,post shouldve read "Chuck , 'I' inherited.." Jefro, valves ? ;)

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My first home PC was a Heathkit H8. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

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Heathkit? OMG!! First was a TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo), the beige, not silver (yuck!). Had a whopping 64KB of mem. OS/9 (multi-tasking OS), 2 floppy drives, a cassette recorder/player. I later obtained free and still have in the closet a Tandy Model I (Z-80, 4KB), unit # 10,000 something. Radio Shack actually sold around 10,000 in the first month. Have manuals and catalogs for it.You could get an amazing 80KB hard drive expansion for only $500!! <heh> Search Engines Are Your Friends Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. "The Matrix"

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XP, that was fun. Thanks. :) Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!

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The first computer I worked on was the Powers Samas/ICT FCC (Ferrite Core Computer) It had separate program and arithmetic stores the size of which was 128 or 256 locations each. Note not 128K but just 128. Fault finding was down to component level, and the course on the machine was six months, and consisted of following each pulse through the machine. AJ

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Just for once, there are one or two people on here who go back earlier than me. The Timex was actually British - a Sinclair, though I can't remember whether it was a ZX81 or the Spectrum. I used Sinclairs, TRS-80, Commodore, for a while before finally getting my own machine, which was a BBC Model B, with all the extras including twin double sided 5.25" floppy discs which were the envy of everybody.

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http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/computer/ps2/8530-286.htm The above site is my first computer.I mostly looked at it in those days.My son will soon graduate college= Computer Science,IT, and Biology because of it. No one in the family went to college prior to him. Thank You, for the memories XpUser.

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TRS-80 was my first. Back then I had more memory than the computer...... ...what was I talking about? Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.

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Ah, memories - this was my first We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

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AH SO, Grasshopper!! Mine was the abacus. LOL!! http://computervitals.com/

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I'm not that old really so my earliest memories were playing games on a spectrum with 64K of ram. I used BBC's (not sure which models) at my primary school. Chucky Egg was the game of the day back then :P I used Acorns all the time in secondary school as they had this old science porgram that only ran on them :P. Finally i have my Commodore Amiga A600. That was my life for about 6 years before i moved house. But i brought it down from the attic a few months ago and all those memories cxame flooding back. So i know have my A600 and a ZX Spectrum to play around with:P

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Gosh, the first computer I used.. I knew SO little about computers at that time, that I don't even know what I used back then. LOL Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!

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Now when i was at school computers weren't really in existence - when I say above that my first real machine was a BBC, I should also say that I was about 30 at the time!

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Hello Everyone, I might as well chime in to, My first computer was the radio shack model 1, it should have been called the add-on. The basic unit was (i believe) $500, which was a b&w monitor, 4k mem, tape recorder and a z80 chip, with add-ons, added in time, my final cost was $2500. What is amazing, someone told me it is worth more now than what I paid for it, thank you antique collectors. There were 2 computers that you constructed yourself and advertised in popular science, one was Altair and I cannot remember the other one. These were the real pioneers in home computers. If you wanted to buy a computer at that time, I think the cheapest one I saw was around $10,000, which meant you did not find many homes with computers. As we travel down memory lane (outside the computer, that is)

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