Old Gray Man

[david3941]

I have had computers since the TI-99A.  Had to switch to Commodore 64 belong to a couple of clubs. Bought a C128 and ran a small bulletin board off it. My father gave me his orginal IBM 2 floppy disk machine with green screen. Then I wanted color so I bought a 286 Packard bell from Monkywards out of their computer department. Down the road I wanted to update what I had but being the way it was built I could not. So I bought a scrape machine(386) added ram pulled pull floppy drive from the 286 and the hard drive. Found a modem and started a new bulletin boards. My wife use to get mad when I would start tearing the coumputer a part on the dinning room table. Fast forward to today I have  Computer with AMD Ryzen chip enough ram for me with many hard drives for backups. I did go to school for programming but never could get a job. The degree was as good as the paper it was printed on. 

David

[Steven P. Administrators]

Welcome! My first computer was a Commodore 64 I think in 1985 😛 

[+Good Bot, Bad Bot Subscriber¹]

Lucky you! I had to experience the TI-99A and Commodore 64 via neighbourhood friends. Our first PC was later which was a Northgate 286 with a turbo button. LOL It had a whooping 20MB HDD which was large for the time. It came with MS-DOS 4.0 with a free upgrade to 4.01. Great times...

[Stuman]

Started out building an Altair 8800 for a friend, about 1975. Went to Sinclair ZX80 with an icepack on top to keep it cool. ZX81, Spectrum, Timex 2068 with a 3.5" floppy (home made interface). Finally in late 1985 a IBM XT clone. I may old but I still love technology. 

[Barney T. Administrators]

Welcome! My first computer was a Kaypro II back in the day! Glad to have you here!

 

[Som]

mine was Amstrad CPC, although the screen was green. Took 20 minutes to load a tape

[david3941]

Ah yes the days of MS-dos. Now windows 11 and it just works.

[+primortal Subscriber²]

I was the odd ball 🙃  Mine first was an Atari 1200XL

Then went to an Atari ST