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Golfdriver97

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This thread started due to someone finding an Apple 2e in their attic, and fired it up. The first thread sparked the one I linked, which was a discussion of the first computer everyone got.

I figured why not start the same here?

My first experience with computers was with an Apple 2e. My first computer was about 10 years later, and was a Compaq Presario. I can't remember the specs exactly, but I'm pretty sure the RAM was in the MBs, and the storage might have been 1 GB.

Anyone else?
 

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Atari 800 with dual external floppy drives. Next was the Compaq luggable. weighed over 30 pounds if memory serves, Yes, I'm an old guy.
 

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Atari 800 with dual external floppy drives. Next was the Compaq luggable. weighed over 30 pounds if memory serves, Yes, I'm an old guy.
I remember seeing a YouTube video of someone building a modern PC in an old console case. I'm pretty sure it was an Atari.
 

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This thread started due to someone finding an Apple 2e in their attic, and fired it up. The first thread sparked the one I linked, which was a discussion of the first computer everyone got.

I figured why not start the same here?

My first experience with computers was with an Apple 2e. My first computer was about 10 years later, and was a Compaq Presario. I can't remember the specs exactly, but I'm pretty sure the RAM was in the MBs, and the storage might have been 1 GB.

Anyone else?

Kaypro 10, it was: Xmas, 1983 present to myself -2 years into microcomputer history. I worked in a research operation at the time, and one of the lead guys had brought in a Kaypro II earlier in the year. These early Kaypros ran CP/M OS, my only and last non-Windows OS computing device. The 10 featured a 10 MEGAbyte hard drive!! One of the very first truly portable ("luggable") computers to come with a hard drive. It cost about $3000, and for years that was the price of the state-of-the-art PC. Years later, I lent it to a priest friend, Charlie, who never returned it.

Kaypro was slow to move to MS/DOS and soon lost to Compaq in the luggable PC market.
 

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