What was your first Experience with a PC/OS ???

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    I am not sure if a Sinclair ZX80 would properly be classified as a PC. I bought a kit around about 1981. It ran its own form of DOS and you needed to know a mass of key combinations to get anything on the screen (which was usually your TV)
    I moved on to the the Apple 2, which was probably my first authentic PC, but company policy decided we would change to IBM so we, and I, moved into those. First attempt was with DR dos and then PC dos. After that the usual path 286 - 386 - 486 and on.
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    davehc said:
    I am not sure if a Sinclair ZX80 would properly be classified as a PC.
    Oh. Hell. Yes.

    The Sinclair 1000 was so cheap and ran off DC that we rigged it up in a big toy truck with the computer, batteries and four electric motors at each of the wheels and programmed it to navigate an obstacle course. If only we could have figured out how to integrate the sonar sensor we ripped off an old Polaroid camera we'd have had primitive adaptive routing autonomy for under $100.
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    darkassain said:
    Well as for me my first machine i ever touched was the Mac OS (i believe it was 6.0...)
    that was in elementary (1996... yes we were behind the times, this school didnt have much money...) then in 98 to upgraded to Mac 7 and finally to 8.....

    That was the last i saw or heard of the Mac until OSX and the Ipod ...(never got one..., now i think it was a better not spending a fortune for an mp3 player..lol)

    Well as for my machine it was a 1.2 ghz duron running with 128 mb ram (i thought that was fast..lol) IGP S3 Savage (hated that till the day it died...lol) 1 32gb harddrive (still works till this day....the only existent from my old computer...)
    had Windows 98 and then to ME (its not as bad as most people make it think i dont know why people bash it...)

    so what is/was your first computer and if you didnt own it then which was your first PC you bought and your experience???

    Lots of things in common here with Darkassain!

    The first time I laid hands on a computer was a Mac too, my english language school was using some of them for educational puproses. Unfortunately I was too young to know the OS version... (1988), but it seemed semi-hightech even then(!)
    I never heard of it again until OSx and iPod too. (Running Dual Boot Leopard and Vista now on one of my PCs at home)

    Then, my uncle (who was then my age now) had bought an Amiga 500, and I had an Atari ST/FM at that time, until I got to get my Amiga too. (1989)

    So my first PC was in 1992 , when I was experimenting new things and wanted to see what that 386 with 8MB Ram was up for...Soon, I found it could do nothing much a kid expected (CGA video I remember) and was then a year or so later replaced with a Cyrix686, 200Mhz could be...Pentium processors had just arrived, though I went for Cyrix!! I loved that PC...When it broke, I couldn't bare to wait have it fixed, so I opened it myself...that move marked my life as a computer technician ever since....
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       #14

    davehc said:
    I am not sure if a Sinclair ZX80 would properly be classified as a PC. I bought a kit around about 1981. It ran its own form of DOS and you needed to know a mass of key combinations to get anything on the screen (which was usually your TV)
    I moved on to the the Apple 2, which was probably my first authentic PC, but company policy decided we would change to IBM so we, and I, moved into those. First attempt was with DR dos and then PC dos. After that the usual path 286 - 386 - 486 and on.
    lmfao - if I can count a TI 99/4A....

    baarod said:
    Oh. Hell. Yes.

    The Sinclair 1000 was so cheap and ran off DC that we rigged it up in a big toy truck with the computer, batteries and four electric motors at each of the wheels and programmed it to navigate an obstacle course. If only we could have figured out how to integrate the sonar sensor we ripped off an old Polaroid camera we'd have had primitive adaptive routing autonomy for under $100.
    Nice - that would have been fun.

    I want to either figure out how to use a couple of play station Cell cores or else us CUDA and my dual GTX 260s to do that in a robotics competition sometime really soon - if I can figure out the place to get some grants to do this....

    limneos said:
    Lots of things in common here with Darkassain!

    The first time I laid hands on a computer was a Mac too, my english language school was using some of them for educational puproses. Unfortunately I was too young to know the OS version... (1988), but it seemed semi-hightech even then(!)
    I never heard of it again until OSx and iPod too. (Running Dual Boot Leopard and Vista now on one of my PCs at home)

    Then, my uncle (who was then my age now) had bought an Amiga 500, and I had an Atari ST/FM at that time, until I got to get my Amiga too. (1989)

    So my first PC was in 1992 , when I was experimenting new things and wanted to see what that 386 with 8MB Ram was up for...Soon, I found it could do nothing much a kid expected (CGA video I remember) and was then a year or so later replaced with a Cyrix686, 200Mhz could be...Pentium processors had just arrived, though I went for Cyrix!! I loved that PC...When it broke, I couldn't bare to wait have it fixed, so I opened it myself...that move marked my life as a computer technician ever since....
    1988 sounds like models *after* the ][C and ][e, unless I am mistaken....

    Original Macintosh machines, perhaps?
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    Yes, original Macintosh SE....They were those that had a floppy drive onboard on the crt screen/computer...as for the years, I'm not quite sure about them , just a quick estimation considering my age then and my memories from back then...

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    I worked on a few those for a friend, because different models had different ICs on the motherboard, allowing / disallowing for SuperDrive use when the SuperDrives were first introduced.
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    limneos said:
    Yes, original Macintosh SE....They were those that had a floppy drive onboard on the crt screen/computer...as for the years, I'm not quite sure about them , just a quick estimation considering my age then and my memories from back then...



    that little box design
    brings back memories...lol
    there was a room in our library with i think it was a OS 4...lol

    looks just like that...
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    El Capitan / Windows 10
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    johngalt said:
    I worked on a few those for a friend, because different models had different ICs on the motherboard, allowing / disallowing for SuperDrive use when the SuperDrives were first introduced.
    Opening one up (the right way) required the infamous "case cracker tool". We used to use the SE/30 version 60030 20MHz as email servers when I worked for CE Software.
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    60030 versus 68030?

    Yeah, case cracking tools - never used one though, as these machines I worked on were already 10 years old when I was working on them - and were already 'cracked'
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    El Capitan / Windows 10
       #20

    johngalt said:
    60030 versus 68030?

    Yeah, case cracking tools - never used one though, as these machines I worked on were already 10 years old when I was working on them - and were already 'cracked'
    I'm getting old -- what's one extra loop? Looked OK to me Have you seen this? Motorola 68060 processor family

    The original PowerPC Macs sucked so bad that people were screaming for Apple to go back to the 68000 line of CPUs at the time.
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