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To: Stoat
My very first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 - 3.25mhz cpu, 2kb of ram and membrane keypad along with 64 columns and 48 rows of graphics. It was so weak that when it had to do a computation, the screen would blank out. Used a cassette drive to store data. $99 at the local Venture store. Man, I thought I was the bomb with that thing.


18 posted on 04/01/2012 7:13:53 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (2012 isn't an election - it's a restraining order.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
My very first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000

Mine too. Here I am on the right, with brother martyk on the left, in 1983, opening our new Timex at Christmas! Please note the hip 70's mirrored vertical blinds.


71 posted on 04/01/2012 9:01:51 AM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Mine too !

(and we're still da bomb ;-)lol

93 posted on 04/01/2012 10:02:03 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: reagan_fanatic

They beat the IPAD to the market by a long shot. lol.


94 posted on 04/01/2012 10:03:54 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Yup! That's the one!!

It wasn't much at all but it was MINE!!

I parlay'd that into a college Comp Sci Class, then into a Comp Sci Major, then into a 30 yr computer consulting career!

Saw my first game, decided "This is for me!" switched from a genetics to a Comp Sci path and never looked back.

All cause of that little Timex Sinclair!

8^)

102 posted on 04/01/2012 10:54:08 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica ("We have prepared for the unbeliever, whips and chains and blazing fires!" Koran Sura 76:4)
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To: reagan_fanatic
That's it!!!!

131 posted on 04/01/2012 10:18:15 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Kill all the terrorists; protect all the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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