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Texas Instruments TI99-4a was my first computer. Ran a bunch of cartridge type games plus had BASIC and a tape recorder for storage. Did my first bit of programming at the age of 12 on that machine. At school we had Apple ][s which I used through High School. In college, I bought the Apple Mac when it was first released. There was nothing else like it.
http://www.btinternet.com/~shawweb/stephen/ti99pic.jpg
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I had that same one as bribo...
http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/ti994-a.jpg
then a
commodore vic-20
http://oldcomputers.net/pics/vic20.jpg
I know that was backwards, but the ti pc adapter overheated (and blew the pc), then i got the vic20 secondhand.
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First computer I worked on was in 1964. A Burroughs 200 with magnetic ferrite core (little donuts), 1800 vacuum tubes, 6 1/2 inch tape drives and a paper tape program loader. Took and hour and a half to power up and 45 minutes to shut down. Once saw a Burroughs Engineer get thrown 15 feet and live when he gounded out a capacitor to the cabinet frame. The thing was huge.
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I think my first computer it was made by Texas Instruments I think it was called the Ti 180. It was silver with black keys and had cartridges for programs and the monitor was my TV. That was back in 1983 ahhh the good old days no worrys back then. Then my second computer was a Apple IIc slim line one not like the bulky ones. This had the keyboard and a disk drive all in one. After that system I moved up to a Used IBM PS2 386SX. First time playing with windows and after that one I moved up to an HP Pavilion 125MHz system. I played with that for a few years I think that even had Windows 95. That was my last prebuilt system I purchased for myself. Now I just buy what components I want and assemble it on my own. If I was to go through something like :uzi: Dell my system would run around $3,000.00 instead of maybe $900.00 that is markup I tell you.
After looking at Bribos computer that looks like my First Ti system. I have no idea what I was on to think it was a 180 I do not think they even came out with that model number...