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[dominique355]

My first home computer was a Sirius Victor with 2  5 1/2 inch floppy drives. 32 KB RAM.  It came with 2 OS on floppy, PC DOS and another, I think something like CPM86, not sure, too long ago.

I learned a lot, especially programming in Basic86.

Then I switched to IBM PC, also 5 1/2 inch floppy. Harddisks were too expensive, 1  MB for 1,000 Swiss francs! Imagine!

[USNret]

As google ads on my browser display "Get 1 terabyte of online storage -- free trial".  Back in the day, we were happy with 16K RAM, and a dual-floppy drive (so you didn't have to keep swapping the OS floppy & data floppy in & out.)

I think I had some kinda Zenith; all I remember is that the operating system was CP/M.  I found a very expensive word processing program for it, maybe $200, and used this on the Navy ship in Japan where I was stationed.  As far as I know, I was the only one on the ship with an actual computerized word processor.  The admin staff was lucky to have IBM Selectric typewriters with correction tape.

Some of your recollections brought tears to my eyes of happy memories, and amazement of how far we've come in our lifetime. We truly have a bunch of crusty old bastards on this forum.

[T_Dog]

For me... A Z80 followed by an AIM 65.    Nothing like running that code through the cassette recorder twice to run the assembler.

[Thighlander]

HP Vectra 286  8 mhz.  640 k   40 mb hd

[cdnvic]

Vic 20 at home, Apple II at school.

[dionys]

bino, on Yesterday, 00:09 , said:

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Ditto for me

[Javabear]

I had an Atari 800.  Played hours of Dig-dug on it.