Take Yourself Back to the Beginning
What was your first experience with the PC?
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 by pelaird | Discussion: Everything Else
Ahh, fond memories of my first experience with the PC. The IBM PC. I was working for a software company selling mainframe utility software for the IBM 303X series. I remember there was also a hardware company in the building, and if I recall, a Megabyte of RAM for these machines was $10,000.00 US.
Please show your age and share your first experience with the PC.
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Reply #2 Tuesday, July 2, 2024 12:01 PM
I'm older than dirt...pic of me back in med school, me doing my cavework on my Abacus 64.
Reply #4 Tuesday, July 2, 2024 12:50 PM
I'm older than dirt...pic of me back in med school, me doing my cavework on my Abacus 64.
Good one Doc. I always enjoy your humor.
Tbh, my first machine was an IBM clone, with a dot matrix printer...in the late 80's. Floppy disks. Next to zero RAM. But it was a miracle...word processing...my kids got their start early.
Reply #5 Tuesday, July 2, 2024 1:39 PM
I used Zenith and IBM computers like that when in the U.S. Air Force, but my first personal computer was an Apple IIe. 
Reply #9 Tuesday, July 2, 2024 4:19 PM
I've been programming computers since the late1960s, but my first PC was one of the first IBM PCs, in November 1981, with 64K memory and one floppy drive.
Reply #10 Tuesday, July 2, 2024 4:30 PM
I've been programming computers since the late1960s, but my first PC was one of the first IBM PCs, in November 1981, with 64K memory and one floppy drive.
That probably would have been the model 5150. This was the predecessor to the XT.
Reply #13 Wednesday, July 3, 2024 10:29 AM
Thanks to everyone who shared their experience. It was fun to see all the computers.
Reply #14 Wednesday, July 3, 2024 10:46 AM
pelaird...this was our first same as yours. I'm still old, btw.
https://www.neowin.net/news/a-quick-look-back-at-the-first-ibm-pc-that-launched-42-years-ago-today/
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Reply #17 Wednesday, July 3, 2024 2:03 PM
My Dad an I put one of these together in a plywood box.
8088 Processor, Z-100 Bus, CP/M OS, 32K. 8" Floppy Disks.
Software:
Wordstar, dBaseII, Lotus 1-2-3.
Long and long ago.
Reply #18 Wednesday, July 3, 2024 5:20 PM
Picture it, Sicily 1980 something. Married with two children. My sister sent the kids an Atari, which is probably not considered a computer. I used to love playing pacman, space invaders, etc.
1995 I moved to Arizona and had a Windows95.
I am old, but not an old fart, thank you!
Reply #19 Wednesday, July 3, 2024 6:11 PM
Picture it, Sicily 1980 something. Married with two children. My sister sent the kids an Atari, which is probably not considered a computer. I used to love playing pacman, space invaders, etc.
1995 I moved to Arizona and had a Windows95.
I am old, but not an old fart, thank you!
Had a TRS 80 in about 1980 did not stick with it.
Then in 1995 while in Phx bought a Compaq been addicted ever since.
No longer in Phx but near were Coronado crossed AZ on the way to the GC actually live on the Little Colorado.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, July 2, 2024 10:58 AM
I had that exact same XT...the 1 meg ram card was about 15" long ...full depth of the box.
Wasn't my first computer...that was an XT clone...and before that a CBM64...
Oh...before that again was a Fortran [not mine, naturally ... I didn't have the building big enough] ...