Braggin\' time!(oldest system)

[Space Between]

Oldest i can get is my grandmother\'s...no idea...looked for serial, tag, logo all sorts of stuff..the computer itself is about the size of a 19\' monitor and the readout thingy is blue and about the size of a matchbox.....no keyboard and still havent found a way to turn it on without risking a smoke out...was my grandfathers...no newer than 1965 (he got it from the navy along long long time ago...he\'s dead)

[OldTimer]

Wellllll..... the oldest I have used was an IBM 1401 Autocoder from back in the late \'50s....  I remember that it had actual core storage and I programmed it to play music on a radio by flipping bits on and off and causing interference..

[Anonymous]

oldest machine I ever had was a Tandy Color Computer 2 with a whopping 32k of memory and a tape recorder interface to store stuff on.

I thought I was the [censored] when I figured out that you could cover a pin on the rom cartridges for it then type in a couple of peek and poke commands then type in another command and dump the rom catridge contents onto the tape drive so you could play it later without the cartridge installed.

those were the days... http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Cleeetuss]

I still have my TI99.
In the origional box with the Data Cassette Recorder and all.
Also Have my Commodore 128 with 300 baud Mighty Moe Modem.

[Anonymous]

gorilla.bas is still included with NT, how weird is that?

[joe pribish]

oldest computer i worked on was in 1972, in the air force. they sent me to school to lean how to input information into an IBM 1050-2.
this was one of those that took up a whole room, and all the people in the room looked like doctors, and the room was air conditioned all the time. the computer was a 64k memory total and the info was stored on drums that where 10-12 feet long and 2 feet in dia. they would change these drums with a crane. and the info was input from those big IBM teletypes with the  letters on a big ball. these were called \"remotes\", and every place that need computer support had one that the would type info to the main frame computer......

[Slider]

My first computer was a C64, cost me $500 Aussie dollars.
and your not going to beleive it.. I went back to Australia not so long ago and my Mother was still using it....

[zImage]

Tandy 1000, atleast under a meg of ram, hard disk dig enough only to hold bootfiles (command.com...) under a meg was too young to figure out how to access it, but I knew it was a hdd because I couldn\'t write to it...

[mrfizz]

I still have my coleco adam.  Fine machine.  Buck Rogers game was cool.

[Anonymous]

I started my love for this thing when I was 7 and started playing with my first machine... an APF Imagination Machine, ROM Basic with a built-in cassette, plugged into my spare B&W TV... but soon after my parents bought me a C64 at a garage sale when I was 8 and loved every second of Commodore BASIC. But then it was time for the big leagues and bought an IBM PS/2 Model 25 with a built-in monochrome monitor, no hard drive and one of the earliest 3 1/2 drives around (believe it or not). That thing didn\'t last very long cause i managed to come across a Vendex HeadStart 80286 with (get this) A 30 MB MFM HD!! Amazing, having DOS run without a floppy!

Otherwise, I have used (but never owned) an ancient computer that ran CP/M and used an 8\" floppy drive (remember those anyone?) It also had a 300 baud Hayes coupler modem. ;-) I\'m 22 now and just built myself a P3 1GHz system with 256Mb of RAM (or is it 256K?)  :-)

[Anonymous]

TRS-80 Color Computer

[vandoric]

Sinclair ZX81.  1k RAM until the shops opened after xmas then I bought a 16K RAM pack - I never ran out of RAM!

[jbraddoc]

If i remember right, my first computer was a IBM umm.. 8088 i think. I think it was slower. well We rigged a little switch into it and when we\'d turn the switch to a number, it\'d load a game or progie, or sumthin. It was cool! http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[jbuff]

Sphere 6800 in mid-1975. Imsai 8080 that fall. Followed by Polymorphic systems, TRS CoCo, Tandy 2000, XT286-Clone, 486-50 tower (later upgraded to AMD 586/133Mhz MB) which was just retired in favor of a 950Mhz Athlon system.

First computer programmed was GE-635 in 1966. Along the way, I have programmed for the IBM 1620, 8080, Z-80, 6800, 6809, 68000, 8086, 80286, NS32000, Fairchild Clipper, 80386, 80486, and many others.

[biff]

How about an 1990 \"Ambra\" 486 w/ 8mB of RAM NETWORKED with a 1996 Compaq p-90 w/40 mB of RAM and running on a high- speed cable connection? Seems pointless, until you can\'t afford to replace them.............

[JED]

First Computer, Commodor Vic-20, I expanded it and got a cassette drive.  I did however find some memory modules to an old Univac computer system.  I know they\'re old because the chip says Made in the USA on it.

[cholla chomper]

I still have my slide rule that I used in electronics class in highschool in the sixties that was before calculators and the computers filled a entire hall and had the speed slower than a comodore.
cholla

[Anonymous]

Still have my Amiga 500 in a box if ya want it hehehe

[Tomash]

My oldest machine was the good old Commodore 64 with tape recorder...Can you beat it?

[Chris]

As  junior in high school (1981) we learned Basic on a Data General minicomputer with a teletype terminal.  It had a roll of paper instead of a screen and the keys were so hard to push there was no touch typing.  There was no security so each class shared a directory.  We had to use weird names for our assignment files so classmates wouldn\'t delete or edit your programs the day they were due (early form of script kiddies).  After we got Bell & Howell black Apple II+\'s they tried to move the minicomputer and it died, never to work again.