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Tales from the crypt: Our first computers
Computerworld editors share stories of their first PCs, from classics to clunkers
Computerworld US staff 26/03/2008 08:20:47
The TI 99/4A. The Compaq Portable. Courtesy of Oldcomputers.net. The Commodore VIC-20. Courtesy of Cbmeeks under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 and Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0. The IBM PCjr with improved (not "chiclet") keyboard. Photo © Jim Leonard, Open Content License. The author's Leading Edge Model D sits in a dark corner, ready to spring into action (shown on-screen: Microsoft Works 2.0). The black box in the drive bay up front is an after-market 10MB 5.25-in. hard disk drive; the unit originally came with two floppy disk drives. The original IBM PC (Model 5150). Courtesy of Boffy B, GNU FDL 1.2 and cc-by-sa 1.0. The Compaq Deskpro. Photo © Compaq. The Apple IIgs. Courtesy of Tony Diaz of Apple2.info. From left to right: the IBM 1402 Card Read Punch, the IBM 1401 Processing Unit, and the IBM 1403 Printer.
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