[PluggyRug]

SprCForr SprCForr:

DOS 5 rocked. I learned so much when trying to squeeze the last byte of RAM to game with.

Ha yes 640K.

Serviced IBM360 and 370, DEC, Burroughs, Texas Instrument.

The first micro computer I serviced was a Casu Electronics with Motorola 8 bit processor, 64k ram, two 8" floppy drives. We then added a 5 Meg hard disk Just purchased a new video card with 1 Gig ram.

[raydan]

You guys are young...

My first computer was the PC Jr. with DOS 2.1 and 64 KB of memory, no hard drive.
Actually had a 16 color monitor though.
I bought this because, the place where I worked had large incentives for buying computers.
Learned how to program in Basic and Assembler on this.

[Curtman]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Vista is to W7 as 2000 was to XP.

No.. Vista is to Windows 7 as Millennium Edition was to XP.

They're all crap though.



Linux: Built by The Internet.

[herbie]

You probably need another computer to do assembly language these days... if MSoft or Adobe offered one it would come on 18 DVDs and require 640 Gigs RAM...
I wonder what Windows8 will be like. Unable to use anything at all if you're not connected to the Internet? 7 is bad enough if you just want to write a document, something pops up every 3 seconds needing updating...

[dino_bobba_renno]

My first computer was portable! It even came with its own handle.


It fit nicely into a breifca............ well it fit better in a box, but still it had a handle.

It was also my first leason in not having enough ram

[Curtman]

I started with:

Vic 20:


And a 300 baud Master Modem.

[ShepherdsDog]

The first real computers we used were the Commodore PET 4032s which replaced the key punches used the year before. In Grade 12 they upgraded to 64s.

[Public_Domain]

[herbie]

I took a night school BASIC course on the PET. Bought a Vic20 and I remember spending $399 for 4KB of RAM so it had as much as the PET.
I just bought 4 Gigs of RAM for $40.... that's over 1,000,000 times as much for 1/10th the price.