Computers in 1989

[Pyre]

Had a commodore 64 when I was a kid.

My first PC was a Packard Bell 480sx (?), 25mHz, 1 meg ram, 20 meg hard drive. I remember I was excited when I bought DOS 6.0 because it had double space! Double your hard drive.

It cost 4 times what my P4 3.2ghz gaming machine cost me.

 

[lucasbuck]

Amiga 1000. What a great system that was. I got a lot of mileage out of it. I think I bought it in '86.

 

[alexgtp]

Tandy for me
and a commodore 128

 

[The Master]

Bought a Tandy 1000 for my business in 1990, paid around 2500.00 for it. My first home computer was a Gateway 133 MhZ for 2400.00 in 1996 with all kinds of stupid software.

That Gateway lasted a long time and it was great when I got my first cable modem in the beginning of 1997. Back then I was hooked up to @Home.

 

[stevehawk]

Vic-20 for me. Then I used Wang Word Processors in the Army. Bought a Mac Classic around '89 or '90.

I remember when WIndows first came out thinking, "This is just a s-l-l-o-o-o-o-w Macintosh."

 

[PetersCreek]

I had a Commodore VIC 20. Taught myself Commodore BASIC, then 6502/6510 assembly language on it. Also had a C64 and briefly, a C16. Got my first PC sometime around '93...a Packard Bell 486sx-something-or-other.

 

[Maggs44]

My first computer was a 486sx25 with 4 mg ram from Packard Bell. It cost me $2500 without printer. It was 1992 if memory serves me right.

I took a desktop puplishing class at MATC and wanted to impress the teacher with a color project (all the printers were B&W at school), so I spent $600 on a Canon color printer. My $50 Canon printer today has better resolution than that one.

 

[Fast4Dr]

My 1st PC was a Texas Instrument TI99A

I remember having to write code for days if not weeks in order to play games

Edit* I think I still have the external cassette deck somewhere

 

[57Strat]

The Trash-80...

(TRS-80 Model 1)

 

[AVB]

I had one of these in 1975.

 

[Roy R. Frush]

in the mid 80's, we got an apple II-gs instead of a mac. it was supposedly "better". it definitely looked really cool, especially compared to the apple II, but that thing was a bear to use, especially because all development $'s were going into the mac. just the thought of it gives me chills...

 

[PetersCreek]

I had one of these in 1975.

Holy cow! I remember those from Popular Electronics among other models (IMSI, et al.) that I lusted after as a teen. There was even one with a 4-cassette storage device and a tiny monochrome screen. Never had the scratch to put any of 'em together, though.

 

[AVB]

I think it was $475 delivered in kit form and it didn't do a whole lot but was fun to play with. The already assembled version was $150 more.

I had one of these in 1975.

Holy cow! I remember those from Popular Electronics among other models (IMSI, et al.) that I lusted after as a teen. There was even one with a 4-cassette storage device and a tiny monochrome screen. Never had the scratch to put any of 'em together, though.

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[gandolf565]

I had one of these in 1975.

Pic of Altair 8800 removed for space...

I remember drooling over the write up they got in Popular Electronics. It looked sooooo cool. All those switches and blinky lights
Alas I was 10 years old, and didn't have the money to purchase the kit, but I dreamed about it.

edit:
hehe!, I just echoed PetersCreeks' post

 

[Wascal]

Don't remember the year, but was a 286 put together by a local computer company. No hardrive, 31/2 and 5 1/4 floppy drives, B/W monitor, operated on dos. Asked the guy about a hard drive, he told they were $800.00 for 10 megs and I didn't need it. They were only selling HD's to factories using computer run machinery. Price was $3800.00

 

[inflatus]

Like some of the others mine was an Apple IIc.

I have never owned a Windows PC or any other brand for that matter.

 

[ggiese]

I had one of these in 1975.

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Oh, God!!! I remember playing football and artillery on that computer!!! You did everything on a thermal printer (we went through ROLLS of paper at the company I worked for...) Throwing all the switches to "boot" the computer up (get it ready to accept commands... That thing brings back GREAT memories!!!

 

[Peter_K]

Apple II+ in 1979

 

[Lopaka]

1985 Apple IIGS

Turn on that bad boy....leave, get some coffee, eat breakfast and when you are done, maybe just maybe it might be loaded.

Ohhhh the memories!

 

[loanshark]

I had a Commedor 64 with a 13" tv as the monitor. Had a AV switch in the back to go from TV to Computer. I learned how to run repeat with dirty words I felt like a computer king