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SCTony:
Brings back memories of my very first computer - a Compaq Portable II 80286. Seems mine was a Compaq II Model 3 with a 10 Meg hard drive and a 5.25" floppy. It was given to me early in the 90's. I never did find much use for it and eventually threw it away.

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqii.html

D-EJ915:
nice, portables were badass.  I had a panasonic 8088 one with 360k floppies I traded for a 333mhz imac lol.  The thermal printer still works amazingly enough hahaha, shows you how crappy new junk is.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=498

TWX:

--- Quote from: SCTony;125153 ---Brings back memories of my very first computer - a Compaq Portable II 80286. Seems mine was a Compaq II Model 3 with a 10 Meg hard drive and a 5.25" floppy. It was given to me early in the 90's. I never did find much use for it and eventually threw it away.

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqii.html
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I had one of these:

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

Wasn't my first computer, but I was given it, free, when we as a family had a 486.  I had kept the 2400 baud modem out of the old Packard Bell, as well as the software.

When I was grounded from the 486, at night I'd get it out of the closet and dial up to the library system dial-in shell and peruse Usenet in sixteen different shades of green.  I had an MS-DOS 5 boot floppy and a Q-modem floppy.  My modem init string was ATM0L0S11=49 to make it dial quick and quietly.  My parents didn't know that there was a telephone jack in the room because it was one of those old four-individual-pin telephone jacks like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:4prongplug.JPG

Wow, those were the days...

Shawn Stanford:
My first PC was a Tandy something or other. I don't recall the model. More of a PCjr clone than a PC clone.

fjk61011:
I have a PS/1 TYPE 2121-C42. 386SX, 2 megs, 3.5" floppy, 40 MB hardrive. DOS 4.0, Win 3.0.

I upgraded with a CYRIX 486SX chip, added 4 megs of memory, DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11.

I also added the adapter to give 3 ISA slots. There was also a 5.25" floopy unit which I'm looking for, it went under the PS/1 unit.

I'll check the keyboard

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