Braggin\' time!(oldest system)

[Turor]

I had an Apple II until about a year and a half ago..
I still have some misc. mac 68k machines holding up my work bench. none of them are fast enough to run NetBSD tho. So they dont have any use any more. Maybe someday they will be antiques, people will put them on their coffee tables for fun..
I also have some ibm XStations and an RS but they are only about 10~12 years old.

[qajfat]

My first PC was a Sinclair ZX81 with all of 1K ram and a cassette tape deck for storage!  But it\'s Basic was beautiful!!!

[Ekko7]

Well, I don\'t remember any of the specs, but the first one I used was when I was in the sixth grade.  It was a PriterDeck.  We had to call the mainframe at FSU over a modem (had to be one of the originals... You call the number, when you hear the mainframe answer, you place the reciever on the modem.) and login...  It had no monitor.  Everything was printed on the printer (which had the keyboard built into it).  That was back in 1979.  : )

[ODY]

Hmm I started with a Pecoline and then I got a Vic20, C-16, C-64, A-500, A-1200, C-486 DX2 50Mhz, 486 DX4 100Mhz,
Pentium 90mhz, Pentium 133mhz, AMD K6-2 350Mhz, P3 600Mhz, AMD T-Bird 1,4Ghz and latest a Dual P3 933Mhz http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />
Got all system, I have newer sold a system and I newer will http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Anonymous]

Used stone tablets and a God operating system - only 2 pages of storage with write-once technology. Ten-line display.
                     -- Moses

[CanadDan]

a USED Apple II+ in 1981! Still own a IIe... can\'t decide if I should mod it or not.

At around the same time (maybe a bit earlier) my elementary school became one of the first schools with a PC Lab with over a dozen PET\'s with the external cassette tape drive.

[Sally]

Those IBM PCjr keyboards had chicklets for keys!!!!  Weren\'t they horrible.  I never had one, but I worked at IBM and I had to sell them!!  I was embarrassed.

[Dead Robot]

I have an abacus called George that hates macs, he\'s great!

Deadrobot

[Anonymous]

Oldest System to newest.
zx80
zx81
zx81 + 16k memory adaptor (does anyone knbow why it had a panda pic on it?)
commodore 16
commodore 64
zx spectrum
master system
megadrive
nes
snes
saturn
playstation
n64
pc PIII 450 8mb Graphics ([censored] Ati model -> quicker on software mode)
pc AMD 1600XP 64mb Geforce 2mx 400 ( Sweet little ride )

[Trashpad]

I came into the PC world with a homebrew running a Z-80 CPU.  I remember many hours hand wiring the motherboard just to see a few LEDs flash when I moved a few switches.  Them were the days...   I soon moved up to a rented Teletype for the user interface and a high speed paper tape reader for storage. A year later came a TV and the Game of Life.  I have been no good since.

[theMediaman]

Commodore Pet would probably be the oldest desktop I\'ve used, but what about consoles?  I\'ve still got a non-working Ultra-Pong in the basement...  16 different variations.

What about the oldest system still in regular use?  My secondary system is a P166 (sans MMX), 64 MB EDO, 3.2 GB.  Mostly used for sucking and blowing files thru Morpheus.

[wicky]

Commodore 64.  No RAM, no HDD, just floppy, and a 13 inch black and white TV.

[Anonymous]

An NCR \"iMac\" with 9\" Monochrome green built-in Monitor,
32kb RAM and CP/M as OS. Build in 2 5 1/4\" 170k Floppy Drives.

[whizcat]

Wrote my first program on a UNIVAC 1005, circa 1965.  My first micro was an Altair 8008.  Have programmed hundreds of machines over the years, the biggest was a Cray, the smallest a 4004.  Can\'t remember the names of all the languages I\'ve used. but my favorites are still GW-BASIC and 8086 assembler.

[Anonymous]

My oldest is an old wang workstation. It had dual 360k floppies. The manuals I have read says it is something around in the 70`s. But my favourite is a Microbee from Applied technologies. It is wholly Australian. It ran on a Z-80 cpu with 32k of memory in the first models exapanding to 256k a little bit later,  Tape drives for the 32k models then a floppy drive could be bought to augment the tape drive on the 64k model and it was dual 360k floppy drives with an optional tape interface for the 128k series 3 and the 128k series 3 premium then for the 256k model you could get a 10meg hard drive for it as an option in addition to the dual 360k floppies. I dont know what the frequency of these were though. I think it was aroung 4megahertz for them. All the models all had extra high resolution colour monitors. So it was very high quality graphics on them. At least they were very high quality at the time. They were supplied either pre made or as a kit. I was proud to say that I made my own computer. They just supplied all the components to me and I soldered it all together. The graphic symbol for it was a picture of an apple with teeth marks and a chunk missing with a bee flying away. The microbee was so much superior to apples, macs and ibm`s on performance and usability that people used to say it took a bite out of the apple. Hence the symbol and name. It was literarly the best home computer in the world for a while in the 80`s. It never recieved much publicity because their budget was not enough. They were only a small company of 1 or 2 hundred in total employees.
Anyway thats my 2 cents.
Me

\"Target their cargo hold, Time to take out the grabage\" Capt. Janeway, Star Trek Voyager, NIGHT

[Anonymous]

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!
I can remember as if it were yesterday. I was so proud to own the first computer on my block, the old reliable Timex Sinclair 1000. A fine machine of superior build, Z80A/3.25Mhz processor, a whopping 16k ram, and a cassette storage unit to boot. I can remember the countless hours wasted trying to load frogger from cass. onto the dumb thing. To make matters worst, my parents bought two, and I still have them both.

[Anonymous]

I had a Kaypro II, a CP/M based luggable.  I also had the good old C64.  I remember copying BASIC code line by line from magazines, to get bad games too work.

[Anonymous]

This post has just caused a 30 minute bannana chucking, crazy flashback.

[Nuntius]

The original Osbourne luggable. It was hi-tech at the time; it had a sound effect (beep) and no less than /two/ 3.5\" floppy drives. Very snazzy.

[damadprofessor]

TIMEX SINCLAIR 1000! BABY!!
with the ADD-ON 4K MODULE and the audio-tape recorder!

hehe, man, talk about old-school! I remember fast-forwarding audio data tapes to find my old Flight Simulator program!

I went from the Sinclair to an Atari 800XL [programmed my own graphic program on it in AtariBASIC, with COPY-N-PASTE routines in 2 color hi-res mode! But i got 4 colors out if it using the red/blue aliasing bug as a fill tool. I even programmed a font drawing system to render text in any size! ] WOW, I can\'t believe i\'ve forgotten about that till now!

Then at school i learned to use [in order] the Commodore 64, Apple II, the first Macintosh [ and thus my intro into hi-res graphics! ], my old trusty 8086 clone, the IBM PC XT [Deluxe Paint ruled my planet!] revolution and onward and upward to bigger better faster clock speeds and oooo the growing palettes of pretty colors!

what a LONG and monitarily justifying ride it\'s been!
 long live the 80\'s Geeks that came into our own!!
  B.Gates, don\'t be mad, it\'s a 50/50 love-hate thing for you,
   BUT thank you!!