Campquake Senate

Either owned or used.

Here's mine.

First one I wrote programs for in 1977 was a Data General Nova:



The switches on the front were used to load a binary bootstrap program in, that would load the OS from a paper tape drive. Had 6 terminals, most were TTYs and a few CRTs.
To save your programs, it would punch paper tapes.

I still have some of these tapes around someplace.

Tandy TRS80, with a whopping 8 kilobytes of memory. It was serial-networked with a master that had 16 kb memory and a 5.25 floppy.

My partner was Craig Kelly (yes, the snowboarder) who used POKE and PEEK commands and fried the network. LOL.

The first one I owned was a XT clone that had a NEC V20 8086-alike as it's processor, an amber monochrome monitor (12"), and a 10MB RLL HDD.

BTW, I used the exceedingly advanced Data General DG10 minicomputers at work for a while - those Winchester Drives sure were fun to maintain and replace.

Well in comparison to what some have had I think I am relatively new to computers. My first computer was an Apple IIGS believe it or not. I had that for a year until I was overtaken by a PC. Havent looked back since then

My first was an Apple II also, then I got a GS...
After that came a 386sx with 8mb of RAM 450mb HDD running windows 3.1
From there I bought a Pentium 100mhz with a 2gb hard drive and 64mb of RAM, which cost me about $2100 (this was my first quake machine)
Then I got a Neo built AMD K6-2 300mhz with a Voodoo2! I still have 2 of those voodoo2s lying around actually...
Then I got a P2 650mhz that I put together in the same case
After that I went to an AMD athlon XP 1700+ which was upgraded (thanks to my work) to 1800, 1900, and eventually 2100+ where it still sits at my feet doing nothing.

Currently I'm running a P4 3.2ghz 1gb RAM, Gefore 6800GT, 4 120gb SATA hard drives (2 as RAID 0 and 2 as RAID 1)

I think I got this when it first came out, in 1983.
Used it for my statistics homework at the
community college I was attending at the time.
There was no monitor or mass storage; it used
a TV set and a cassette recorder.


But the first computer I ever programmed was
this one in 1969 at my high school. It had a
TTY interface... literally. There was no monitor,
just a teletype for output, and a card reader for input.

Geez Data, you make me feel like a newbie!