Yes you are dating yourself Jo Ann and your right about the comode 64 but in my case it was the TRASH 80 and Atari 800....i feel old

yep Still have a desktop with an A drive and a B drive for those 5" floppies. I hardly use it now though.
But anyone remember working on tabulator machines 16K memory, no disk no tape just 80 column punch cards and the old IBM card sorter.

ohh Dave now you're dating yourself even before my time! LOL, I heard "about" them but never saw or used one.

Hey Dave you mean like the IBM-360 or 1432 computers? I was a fast keypuncher!! Love to shuffle the deck on others

Yep - right before we upgraded to an IBM mainframe running RPG and 9inch floppies - no more dropping the stack on the floor and getting the cards in the wrong order just a huge stack of disks that got loaded in cartridges and slotted in the little door in the room sized puter.

Boy am i glad i dont need to program in RPG anymore

Punch cards???

You people are soooooo old. Better go sit down and put the feet up.

I remember when...... But not saying what or you will know how old I am

oh tassie - a slate is not a puter ok?

I always have my abacus within easy reach.

Sure we will, but you first, old fella !!!!

My 1st computer was a Sinclair ZX80 with a whopping 4kb of RAM, inbuilt Basic, B&W TV as a display, and a seperately-purchased cassette player/recorder to handle the "sophisticated" programs I used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80

Before that I had started to assemble bits & pieces to build my own computer (4-bit processer) from an electronics magazine article, then along came the ZX80 - I was in heaven!
When I bought the RAM expansion pack, a whopping 16kB yes you read correctly it was all of 16kB, I nearly wet myself!*

Since then I progressed through a series of computers, from the Tandy TRS-80 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 through various IBM compatibles & finally to my current machine which is chirping** at me as I type on it now.
I played with the Apple II (didn't like the display) and early Macintoshes (nice) at the local Uni but they were outside my price range.

* Now I'm at the age where soon I won't be needed a computer to wet myself.
** I thought I'd cured that by removing & reinsterting the 2 hard discs, looks like it's back to the repair shop again. (sigh)