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My first computer is a Legend pc(now legend called lenovo).
for now,i am using a ASUS notebook only.

I know I'm posting a lot, but I have a lot of memories...

I remember using an XT with Turbo when I was in college. Turbo made it go from 4mhz to 8mhz, I think. It was an Xtra, I don't remember who make it. I was taking a Finite Math class and we were programming in Pascal (anybody remember that?) We were doing permutations and probability. I remember kicking off a program that looped through 50k rolls of a pair of dice before I went to bed and it just finishing before I had to go to work in the morning. Now, it would run in seconds.

And to think that went to the moon with this kind of stuff..

Programma 101 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IBM 1401 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I gained access to both of these in high school. I think the 1401 came first, but it was off-site and our instructor took card decks to it and ran them. The 101 was in the library and I could come to school early or stay late to use it.

My first "computer" was a Casio FX-702P with is 2KB or RAM quickly followed by an Oric 1 and a larger 48 KB.

Dave, the original poster asked us to reminisce a little:

So, please let some funny stories or give more details about what you did with your first computer or some other story from the past.

It's more interesting if you tell some funny, personal, or tragic "way back when" computer story!

As IBM FE in early 60s got to see all the old stuff still installed prior to the 1401s. Was supposed to go to 7080 school but cancelled at last minute and sent to fixing EAM stuff. Got to "penny a day" on a 1401 and hands on repair on some 1402s if it was card drive stuff. Amusing stuff was not paying attention to signing with penny a day, comparison for last day failed, the high speed 1403 probably went through 30 pages before I got it stopped.
First owned was 6800 SWTP starting with 1 K, ending with 6800 and 6809 mixed manufacturers, up to 48K and hard drives. Proud of hardware hacking a bitbanging serial port to make it SASI and driving up to 3 hard drives and 4 floppies on a WD controller. And the software hacks to patch in the drivers, most of which I wrote in assembler or machine language. Did the full TRS line as a leasing and service company with some basic programming for quick & dirty jobs, then transitioned into PC stuff when I finally saw the handwriting on the wall. Missed the MCA fiasco because the ISA stuff was still selling.
Jumped into a hardware problem when 3 other companies had failed to fix a machine, had to learn Xenix in the process, and ended up with a life consumed by SCO stuff.

Mine was Soviet-made POISK in the late 80`s...It is based around the 1810WM88 CPU a clone of the i8088. It has 4 slots for expansion carts like Floppy-Cart (in this case one could use CPM), Printer, Memory-Expansion (512k), HDD (MFM) controller, ROM-disk, EEPROM programming, RS-232/Centronics.
On long winter nights I still hear how it`s spinning the cassete with Basic on it...I miss that baby..