Has anyone kept their very first computer for sentimental reasons?

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I haven't kept my Desk top from 26 years ago .., I've had several since then.. but my one and only laptop.. a Toshiba , which now is archaic, weighs a ton compared to new ones .. I've had it 16 years and it still works.. slow as a tortoise, but still works, and the picture is fantastic..

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I no longer use it, because it's so slow....I have a Mac desktop and I have modern lightweight Laptop.... and I was thinking that I ought to take the toshiba to the recycle centre /waste site.... but I don't feel I can... I know it sounds nuts but that laptop has been all over Europe with me and unlike my desktops, has never let me down.. it's just got old now... I know it makes no sense to keep it, but I feel like a traitor to throw it out...

...any of you still kept your first computer ?
 

No. It was a 1988 MAC, the size of a shoebox or two...all my computers since, my hard drives/files/photos etc have been copied to my permanent external file; then the clean computer resold or given to a grandkiddo....or two mac.jpeg
 
I didn't get a computer (laptop) until 2010. Sometimes I forget if that is really the year, but around that time. I still have it and it runs on Windows 7. I don't use it very much, but it's here as a backup if needed. Unfortunately, the battery is shot, but it keeps going as long as it's plugged in.
 

My first computer was an IBM XT with a green monochrome monitor that I got used in the early-'90s. It's long gone.

We do still have my wife's Macintosh from the '80s sitting out in the garage. I saved it because it looks like the one from Seinfeld. I threw out the keyboard by mistake, though.
 
I wish I but that was back in the 90s. I think HP even went by another name. It was my first desktop when computers came with tons of free software. I do still have a HP 1260us 17.5 inch laptop with dual operating systems from 2010 that still works good and good condition. It's on proud display in my living room, while my newer laptops are closed and sitting in different rooms.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I didn't get a computer (laptop) until 2010. Sometimes I forget if that is really the year, but around that time. I still have it and it runs on Windows 7. I don't use it very much, but it's here as a backup if needed. Unfortunately, the battery is shot, but it keeps going as long as it's plugged in.
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I have one from 2010 still runs, but what cracks me up is that I've had a few conversations with young know it alls who say there is no way a computer will last more than five years.šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
 
HermitHogan said:
My first computer was an IBM XT with a green monochrome monitor that I got used in the early-'90s. It's long gone.

We do still have my wife's Macintosh from the '80s sitting out in the garage. I saved it because it looks like the one from Seinfeld. I threw out the keyboard by mistake, though.
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Can sell it on Ebay for $1K
 
Wish I had one with a disc drive in it...now.
A month ago the VA sent me all my evaluation records on a disc!
When I opened the envelop they sent it in I was: "WTH?" The VA - still behind the power curve. (Crying)
 
My first computer was a Packard Bell desktop which was a hand-me-down from my nephew when he upgraded. I used dial-up with it at the time. While it was super slow, I used it to do research of realtor websites which got me the home I live in now.

You could access DOS with it and I gingerly messed around with it. I also was able to download a version of QBASIC too and wrote a few programs on it.

Eventually one of the guns in the CRT monitor began to fail and the picture colors were no good, so I dismembered the monitor and computer and placed it in the trash pickup a little at a time. The metal frame and covers I took to a guy who sold scrap metal.
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Wish I had one with a disc drive in it...now.
A month ago the VA sent me all my evaluation records on a disc!
When I opened the envelop they sent it in I was: "WTH?" The VA - still behind the power curve. (Crying)
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Buy a portable disc drive. (External Hard Drive).I bought one when I crashed my laptop a few years ago. They come in handy. My new laptop doesn't have one either.
 
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I miss writing programs with Apple basic on my Apple II. I was a lot of fun commanding my computer to carry out useful tasks. I remember a guy more advanced than myself telling me, "Some day you won't have to write any of these programs. They will all be done for you." And I thought, "Yeah, right. I'll believe that when I see it." A few years later he was right.

A smart woman I worked with said, "People think the future of computers will be in math, but it's not. It will be in word processing." Both of those claims were wrong. It was neither. OK, those things are still there, but a couple of years later, the future turned out to be the internet, with AI on the horizon, and from my own experience, it will probably be something I haven't even thought of two years from now.

My second computer was a hot one, the Apple II GS. I upgraded it with a built in hard drive that I bought from a secondary supplier, Applied Engineering. At the time, computers didn't do anything without a floppy disk, but my II GS now had a built in hard drive, with a whopping memory of 10 whole megabytes. and I seldom needed a floppy for anything. How much did a massive 10 megabytes of memory cost? $400, but it was worth it. Yikes. Look where we are now.

Computers that penetrate every area of our lives sure had what seems like a pathetic beginning.
 
I didn't keep my original. It was a Commodore Vic 20. Very archaic by today's standards. The only storage system was a cassette tape drive (an extra cost option).
The first computer I had for work was a Compaq "portable." It could be closed up to suitcase size, but it took a gorilla to haul it around!! It had 2 5.25 floppies, no hard drive, 256K of RAM, and a 1200 baud modem, no Windows either; I think it was DOS 3.0 or thereabouts. I learned to do spreadsheets on this thing... Lotus 123 for DOS, sheer torture and frustration. DOS had no "undo" button; if you made a mistake, it had to be manually corrected. I learned to hit the save key prior to the enter key every time.

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Oldeagle66 said:
I have one from 2010 still runs, but what cracks me up is that I've had a few conversations with young know it alls who say there is no way a computer will last more than five years.šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
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well that's exactly what people say to me when I tell them that the toshiba is still in working condition..good working condition..after 16 years

I'm met with laughter and derision.... even had it on here once when I meantioned when it was about 12 years old...
 
Naturally said:
IBM Aptiva desktop from 1996 ... and AOL dialup ... long gone.
First laptop, DELL Latitude D830 from 2007, lives in a drawer.
Use the laptop now, only as a test bed for Linux operating systems.
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Same here AOL Dial up.... HP something computer... its 26 years ago so I can't remember exactly... after that my husband built my computers, it became his hobby.... but the Toshiba is the only Laptop I've ever owned, until this last year when I upgraded.

I don't use the laptops...except when I'm travelling...
 
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