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tansis · 11th May 2005, 09:59 PM

Posted a little while ago, has improved with age,
now makes for fascinating reading. As both a history lesson for the newbies and a reminder to us "old folks" of just how much has changed.

http://hiqnews.megafoundation.org/Or...ABES_Paper.htm

jrz126 · 12th May 2005, 02:28 AM

I remember my first PC, my dad brought it home from work, it was a 386 (WITH the math coprocessor :lol: ) and a 129Mb hard drive. It's amazing how much this stuff has changed even in my short life...I'm only 21

kensplace2 · 3rd June 2005, 03:53 AM

first computer I used properly was a sinclair zx81 with 1k of ram, no colour, no sound, and a membrane keyboard. First pc, a standard ibm clone with v20 8mhz processor.

lord loh. · 4th June 2005, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by kensplace2

first computer I used properly was a sinclair zx81 with 1k of ram, no colour, no sound, and a membrane keyboard. First pc, a standard ibm clone with v20 8mhz processor.

I thorughly envy you man....

The first one I ever used was as 80186(I think) and had 60kb RAM 20 MB HDD (Original IBM PC XT). My father paid 1000 marks for it in Germany.

Now 15 Mb of the 20Mb is in bad sectors. It had a hercules card and an orange monitor.

mahinda jayasinghe · 4th June 2005, 10:40 AM

My first computer was Apple 11. No hard disk, 48Kram, one 5.25 flopydisk.

At the same periode I used office computer TRS80 (radio shack)

...With 8'' Flopy drive.

After that I dis not have my own PC til I bought 486. I used Office PCs.

My second computer was a 80486 with HD and 3.5 floppy, Later updated to pentiam.

spuffock · 4th June 2005, 10:53 AM

The first computer I had any dealings with was a sperry univac 1108 mainframe. It was good exercise walking from one end of it to the other, and a full time job repairing it. It had 1m*32 bit (I think) memory and a clock of about 1Mhz.

**Jay.slovak** · 4th June 2005, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tansis

Posted a little while ago, has improved with age,
now makes for fascinating reading. As both a history lesson for the newbies and a reminder to us "old folks" of just how much has changed.

http://hiqnews.megafoundation.org/Or...ABES_Paper.htm

Nice article. My first computer was in 1999, Celeron 333 32MB RAM and 4GB HDD. I liked it a lot. I am glad that many changed from 1970's. :P

**Nigel Goodwin** · 4th June 2005, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay.slovak

Nice article. My first computer was in 1999, Celeron 333 32MB RAM and 4GB HDD. I liked it a lot. I am glad that many changed from 1970's. :P

You missed out on a LOT! Jay, those were the great days! - before IBM became involved in home computers.

My first computer was a Tangerine Microtan 65, it was a 6502 based machine that you built yourself, it predated the ZX81.

You should bear in mind that a PIC running at 4MHz has considerably more power than those old machines, the Microtan used a 750KHz clock. By missing those days you missed out on a lot of stuff which you now do with PIC's, a great deal of which was developed back then.

I still have a great fondness for the 6502, I'd love a single IC (like a PIC) but based round a 6502.

**Jay.slovak** · 4th June 2005, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jay.slovak

Nice article. My first computer was in 1999, Celeron 333 32MB RAM and 4GB HDD. I liked it a lot. I am glad that many changed from 1970's. :P

You missed out on a LOT! Jay, those were the great days! - before IBM became involved in home computers.

My first computer was a Tangerine Microtan 65, it was a 6502 based machine that you built yourself, it predated the ZX81.

You should bear in mind that a PIC running at 4MHz has considerably more power than those old machines, the Microtan used a 750KHz clock. By missing those days you missed out on a lot of stuff which you now do with PIC's, a great deal of which was developed back then.

I still have a great fondness for the 6502, I'd love a single IC (like a PIC) but based round a 6502.

Hmm Actually I don't mind I missed it, I was happy when I got my first PC (BTW the fastest at my school) and now I play with PICs a lot...

I just love thoose small chips :mrgreen:

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11th May 2005, 09:59 PM	#1
tansis	The future of computing.... Posted a little while ago, has improved with age, now makes for fascinating reading. As both a history lesson for the newbies and a reminder to us "old folks" of just how much has changed. http://hiqnews.megafoundation.org/Or...ABES_Paper.htm __________________ It may seem like a good idea at the time but.. never stir your cold coffee with a soldering iron.

12th May 2005, 02:28 AM	#2
jrz126	I remember my first PC, my dad brought it home from work, it was a 386 (WITH the math coprocessor :lol: ) and a 129Mb hard drive. It's amazing how much this stuff has changed even in my short life...I'm only 21 __________________ Jeff To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

3rd June 2005, 03:53 AM	#3
kensplace2	first computer I used properly was a sinclair zx81 with 1k of ram, no colour, no sound, and a membrane keyboard. First pc, a standard ibm clone with v20 8mhz processor.

4th June 2005, 10:40 AM	#5
mahinda jayasinghe	My first computer was Apple 11. No hard disk, 48Kram, one 5.25 flopydisk. At the same periode I used office computer TRS80 (radio shack) ...With 8'' Flopy drive. After that I dis not have my own PC til I bought 486. I used Office PCs. My second computer was a 80486 with HD and 3.5 floppy, Later updated to pentiam.

4th June 2005, 10:53 AM	#6
spuffock	The first computer I had any dealings with was a sperry univac 1108 mainframe. It was good exercise walking from one end of it to the other, and a full time job repairing it. It had 1m*32 bit (I think) memory and a clock of about 1Mhz.