What was your first CPU?

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Serious Lee
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Serious Lee
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compaq presario 1990. anyone have a coleco?
Aggie369
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lol....also my first computer.

I had forgot about that giant ON button
ursusguy
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A used Commodore 64
tk for tu juan
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My first memory of a family computer was the IBM PS/2 in the late eighties.

Played a lot of Papyrus Indy 500
Liquid Wrench
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Also a compaq presario, but I think it was a couple years later.
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I remember that game!
ursusguy
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Dambusters is the first computer game I can remember.
Serious Lee
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since this is a nostalgia thread...anyone else play "leisure suit larry"?

did you have to get your parents to answer the "child-proof" questions to unlock the game?
tk for tu juan
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Yes, we had Leisure Suit Larry. Forgetting to use the prophylactic when with the hooker was the first life lesson as a kid.
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The Fife
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It was one of the first 1,000 made so I was told. Also it had a massive 8K memory upgrade.
MOS 6502, 1MHz


Claude!
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Intel 8088
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Does anyone remember having to use a boot up disk?
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In 1984, I was the only guy on my floor that had a computer in my room. It started up with a boot disk (floppy), then you had to load the program disks (WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3) each time. I think it had 20mb hard drive.
The Fife
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I'm getting ready to send 6 boxes of the things off to somewhere in NY to be imaged for this massive archival project. Apparently people just tossed old software over the years so a lot of it basically no longer exists as far as anyone knows.
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Commodore 64. Then an Amiga 500 deluxe with a full megabyte of memory!
HollywoodBQ
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Apple IIe - with European keyboard layout and 220v power supply.
We had "Apple II plus" at school.
Tree Hugger
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1984-ish, IBM PCjr 128K RAM all for playing Zork

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TRS 80
https://goo.gl/images/S4URZj
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Wheel of Fortune!!!
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Uncle Gunnysack said:



compaq presario 1990. anyone have a coleco?


This was my 2nd computer (family computer). The first was also a Compaq but didn't have a CD Rom. I was so hyped for this one though... CD-Rom... The future! I bought wing commander 3 starring Mark Hammil!
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386
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VIC-20 then Commodore-64. Parents could barely afford it, but I convinced them computers would be big someday.
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TRS-80, then later an Apple IIc. Took a 386-20 to A&M and even got the math co-processor!
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Apple IIe.

Frogger
Oregon Trail
Hardball
Winter Games
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Commodore 64. No disk drive at first. They gave me a big book of BASIC computer games. I'd spend hours typing in code only for a stupid game that I would lose when I turned it off. Man I loved that thing!
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Osborne 1
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My earliest family PC I remember in the early 90's was running DOS, had a dot-matrix printer, ran dial-up and could barely run prince of persia. No clue on the CPU at the time though.
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Family's first computer:



ahhhh, the Commodore 64.

Of course, my Dad didn't spring for the floppy drive. No, he went with the tape drive:



which took an hour to load a game.

My first CPU in college was a Compaq Presario like this one:

Bruce Almighty
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saw em off
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GiveEmHellBill said:

Family's first computer:



ahhhh, the Commodore 64.

Of course, my Dad didn't spring for the floppy drive. No, he went with the tape drive:



which took an hour to load a game.


Had the exact same setup as my first. Only game I had was Radar Rat Race.
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Bruce Almighty said:




That's in Philippine Pesos. Converts to about $2,000
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