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  • Re: What was your first computer?

    From mary4@21:1/166 to Malvinas on Fri Aug 23 04:11:47 2024
    No way!! And you're on a 56k dial-up?

    yeah way! i am useing an ethernet card because i have no land line! XD

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  • From Rixter@21:1/242 to mary4 on Sun Sep 8 22:30:35 2024
    A Tandy colour computer 2 with 16k of ram.

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  • From Codefenix@21:4/141 to Rixter on Mon Sep 9 16:17:17 2024
    Re: Re: What was your first computer?
    By: Rixter to mary4 on Sun Sep 08 2024 10:30 pm

    A Tandy colour computer 2 with 16k of ram.

    CoCo here as well. My family had a CoCo 1 I think, pretty sure it must have had 16k at least, since it ran just about all programs available at the time.

    (my dad was the Radio Shack store manager in my hometown, so we had Tandy this, Realistic that, all around the house.)

    We moved onto the Tandy 1000 after the CoCo for the family's main computing needs, but I did get a CoCo 3 for Christmas one year when I was like 12 I think. Still have it, and it still works.

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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to Codefenix on Tue Sep 10 20:46:38 2024
    (my dad was the Radio Shack store manager in my hometown, so we had
    Tandy this, Realistic that, all around the house.)

    That had to be pretty cool. Radio Shack was really into computers back in the day.

    My first computer was a Tandy 2500 sx. I came to the game late :)
    Although The first computer I used was a TRS-80 model 3 at work back in the 80's

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  • From Codefenix@21:4/141 to Cozmo on Wed Sep 11 11:26:29 2024
    Re: Re: What was your first computer?
    By: Cozmo to Codefenix on Tue Sep 10 2024 08:46 pm

    My first computer was a Tandy 2500 sx. I came to the game late :) Although The first computer I used was a TRS-80 model 3 at work back in the 80's

    Ah yes, we had the 2500 sx as well. Whopping 20 MHz! It was our first computer with VGA graphics, and we later got a Sound Blaster for it. It also had an internal modem and I used it to call BBSes all the time.

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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to Codefenix on Wed Sep 11 17:38:00 2024
    Ah yes, we had the 2500 sx as well. Whopping 20 MHz! It was our first computer with VGA graphics, and we later got a Sound Blaster for it. It also had an internal modem and I used it to call BBSes all the time.

    Yeah, I discoverd BBSes using that computer and the Deskmate terminal app, whatever it was called. Good Times!

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