Nicking this thread from another site. I'll start it off...

I'd worked on many computers on the Mac and PC sides of the fence for art since jump street, but the first computer I bought for myself (actually from a money gift from mom — I bought the monitor and external removable drives for it) was a Macintosh Centris 660.



When I got this, the Quadras were the hot shit but I couldn't afford those. Damn, those were the days. SCSI ports ruled the universe and USBs and FireWire was just an itch in Steve Jobs' pants.

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Ours had a 20 megabyte hard drive, 16 meg of ram, 286 maybe. It was a system my FIL put together in 1986. He charged us $900 and we paid him $100 a month for the first almost year of our marriage.

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I have yet to buy one myself. My first computer was given to me and the rebuild after it died only cost me some Captian Morgan. I'm still using the rebuild after about 3 years.

My first computer was an Atari 800 saved programs on cassette tapes but you could also use it to play games.

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it's only kinky the first time

it's not the orgasm but getting there thats fun

a shot in the bush is worth two in the hand

whip me, beat me, tie me up, break my arm, but please don't break my heart

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid people are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" -Bertrand Russell

My first computer was a Hyundai (PC compatible) with a 286 processor, one 5 1/4" floppy drive and no hard drive.

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No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~~ Francois Mocuriac

Confucius say, "He who masturbate into cash register come into money."

An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"

Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus

Did it come with the power roof & 10-year warranty?


My first puter was an HP, running Windows 3.11 with a mail-in voucher to get the Win95 upgrade when it came available...if I recall correctly, it had a 512mB hard drive, about the capacity of regular CD-ROM...don't laugh, I'm still using the MS Money program that was bundled with it...

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

My first computer was a Commodore 64

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

Me too!


But oh how I dreamed of getting a Tandy TRS-80.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Spookily, my first PC was a 386 from Tandy..... or Radio Shack, as it had only recently become in this country. It had a 128mb RAM and, I think, a 2 Gb hard drive!

I'm typing this on a laptop with 512mb of RAM and a 80Gb hard drive.

Ohhh............ Wow!!

DM

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind

My first was a Commodore 64, tape thingy, looking back was great for learning programing. (wish I still had it at time to teach the ferals on)
2nd was Toshiba XT, 5/14 drive, no hard drive, and gee was it quick.
From there, Toshiba AT 20meg drive, salesperson stated that I would NEVER in my lifetime fill the hard drive?

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Enjoy yourself!
Enjoy me!

Behind me is a Woman rolling her eye's!

The only opinion about me that matters is the one I have of myself

Hmmmm, first computer I bought was a used 486 DX2 66. 16MB RAM, 320MB HDD. I managed to do a smoke show within the first 24 hours and learning to fix it myself led to my current career path.

Growing up though we had a TRS80, Commodore 64, and a Tandy HX1000 in the house at one time or another.

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Clever? Nah, I ran out of that years ago. But if you find this, let me know, k?
"The road goes ever on..." ~ Tolkien

In memory of my friend skip...
Go then, there are other worlds than these

My first computer was an IBM knock-off 8086, with 704kb Ram, a 10Mb full height hard drive I rapidly upgraded to a half height 20Mb. It had a CGA screen, yes folks, that's a genuine three colour ( just count them, one two three) screen, and I quickly bought myself a joy-stick (remember them?) for the primitive games available. It had one 5 1/4" floppy drive. It was probably the most advanced non-business-based computer in my part of Sydney back in 1986.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

I have never purchased a computer. I was a hold out until about 6 years into our marriage. It'll be 21 years now. Hub still has a TRS-80, a couple of Model 3's and a Model 1 with ALL the bells and whistles. Right now? Well, I'm making my own scented ink, digging out my parchment paper and brushing up my dip pen skills.

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Just be yourself. The rest will fall in line.

XT (Toshiba i think)...no hard drive...ran off disks...*L*

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"that you bought?"


Why spend money when you can make your own?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.