Your first computer was...

[Crazy Enough]

My first computer was:

486
8 MB of RAM
14 inch color monitor
3 1⁄2-inch floppy disk
Microsoft Windows 3.1

I loved to play Prince of Persia.

In 1994 I was just a 7 yo kid.

Now it is your time!

Don't be shy... just tell us about your first computer!
I bet it was better than mine.

[loopardo]

a commodore 64 !!

[xXXtesy10]

yup ti994a definitely has you pwned

[CYF]

an Apple IIe

[EddyTheDog]

It was an Amstrad thing with a tape drive.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Worked with NCR mainframes and Apple IIgs before getting my first PC, a Macintosh SE:

NAME MACINTOSH SE
MANUFACTURER Apple
TYPE Professional Computer
ORIGIN U.S.A.
YEAR March 1987
END OF PRODUCTION 1989
BUILT IN LANGUAGE None
KEYBOARD Typewriter style, 84 keys with numeric keypad
CPU Motorola MC 68000
SPEED 7.83 MHz
RAM 1 MB (up to 4 MB)
ROM 256 KB
GRAPHIC MODES 512 x 342
COLOrsc Monochrome
SOUND 8-bit mono sound chip
SIZE / WEIGHT 13.6 (H) x 9.6 (W) x 10.9 (D) in / 19.5 lb.
I/O PORTS Centronics, ADB (2 : Keyboard, mouse), RS232/422, Internal expansion slot (96-pin Eurodin)
BUILT IN MEDIA One or Two 3.5'' disk-drives, 20 to 80 MB HDD
OS MAC OS 4.0
POWER SUPPLY Built-in switching PSU
PRICE $3700

ADG

[mikesouth]

Chromatics CG 100

512x512 progressive scan 4 bit planes, 8 colors + blink

32k Memory

1mhz Z80

8 inch floppy disk drive held 250K

First game I played Colossal Cave The original 350 point adventure.

[fitzmulti]

Radio Shack TRS-80

Yeah, say it, I'm old! ;-)

[Paul Markham]

[Django]

apple dont remember more

[Theo]

ZX Spectrum 48+. (1983)

[leg4]

c64 for life!
Bitches!

[Mutt]

Atari ST - sold if fast after realizing computers sucked at the time, even the games were lame.

next computer was a 486 my dad got from his job - internet was just happening, i looked around, not much on the web and didn't come back to it until 2 years later, by that time there were some free porn sites around, some paysites too - i guess 1997.

[sojproductions]

Sinclair ZX81 with the rubber keys. My first laptop was the first ever Apple notebook, black and white screen with a whopping 30mb hard drive, still got it and it still works!

[Vendzilla]

I got most of you beat, 1979



The Tektronix 4052 System, we had this on my submarine, used machine code and green vectors, front loading tape cartridge

[ottopottomouse]

BBC b

[Nasty]

Apple IIc

[Kicker]

Spectrum ZX

[Calico Jack]

Commodore 64. Bought it in 1986. Upgraded to an Amiga 500 when it came out.

[CyberHustler]

[Markul]

Amiga 500+

[adult-help]

c64..........

[adult-help]

Commodore 64. Bought it in 1986. Upgraded to an Amiga 500 when it came out.

same.Those days were fantastic. So good that we can now have emulators on phones and tablets..

[Mr Pheer]

Timex Sinclair 1000, in 1982

Before that, I had a Magnavox Odyssey² in 1978, which was kind of like a computer.

[Emil]

Amiga 500 or a 286 PC, dont remember.

[B.Barnato]

Amiga 500
Favorite Game: Wings of Fury

[the Shemp]

atari 400

[Phoenix69]

The Atari 400 - What a flashback ! Miss that membrane keyboard like crazy.

[the Shemp]

The Atari 400 - What a flashback ! Miss that membrane keyboard like crazy.

i wish i had kept it ...

[seeandsee]

Commodore 64, i had few games on a tape, oh jesus what a days :D

[Phoenix69]

Shemp - your post got me so nostalgic I went on ebay looking to buy one to revisit my youth :

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Atari-400...item46087e8ad6

I can't go back to the 80s.

I'll let you bid on it

[v4 media]

phillips G7000/Magnavox Odyssey
then a ZX81

[Evil1]

vic20. i so miss the days when you had to buy a magazine and type the code for a game in line by line to play anything.

[blazin]

vic20. i so miss the days when you had to buy a magazine and type the code for a game in line by line to play anything.

Yep... my first computer also. And that's how I learned to program. Basic and then 6502 Assembler on the Vic-20

[Harmon]

Commodore 64c - 1541 5 1/2 floppy drive 300baud modem

[AdultKing]

I donated this to a guy who collects old computers, it was one of many old systems I owned.



This was built as a kit. It used the National Semiconductor SC/MP processor. Originally had 256 bytes of RAM. You loaded machine code programs in one step at a time, flicked run and ran your program. I built this in 1977 when I was 10 with the help of my dad.

I had a very similar kit computer of the same era based on the Signetics 2650 processor. It had a whopping 1 kilobyte of RAM and a 4 x 1 kilobyte ROMS. When it was fully built out it had a Kansas City cassette interface, RS-232 paper tape punch and reader and connected to a Frieden Teleprinter where I was able to enter programs on an interface much like a typewriter into the 3.5 kilobyte Tiny Basic that I could load from paper tape.

[suesheboy]

First computer system I worked on DecSystem 10, then IBM 36.

First computer I owned was a Ts800 then a TI994a...still have the Texas instruments packed in an attic.

[Chosen]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K

[foulfowl]

A Radio Shack TRS-80. Still have it today. It's 30 years old and still works

[Maxxx9000]

C64 with tape and 5,25" floppy disc

[Bill8]

first year c64 with that cheesey tape drive. eventually tricked it out with everything, two 5.25s, 1200 modem, etc.

then a 286 with a ten meg hard drive, which seemed so revolutionary.

[lucas131]

my first computer was slow

[rogueteens]

Mattel Aquarius. I think i was the only person in the UK to own one!

My first PC was an Amstrad 1512 with an 8086 processor(!) with the upgrade of a hard drive on a card in the expansion port!

[lucas131]

Mattel Aquarius. I think i was the only person in the UK to own one!

same company as barbie?

[rogueteens]

same company as barbie?

Yup! .....

[lucas131]

Yup! .....

wow

[grumpy]

first real pc, an apricot 286 with two floppy drives and 720kb of mem for the whopping price of 5.000 dollars

[SilentKnight]

In the late 80s we had:

PC-XT (clone) with 56k RAM, 20mB harddrive, dual 5.25 floppy drives, monochrome monitor (later upgraded with a Sperry 4-color CGI monitor).

It had a TURBO button!

DOS machine - never saw Windows.

Went through the typical modem upgrade game with it - starting with a 1200baud Zoltrix, then a 2400, and eventually a 14.4k USRobotics sportster.

Upgraded that system to a 486-DX (forget the specs) - but I recall the monitor was a VGA. Added an HP Colorado Travan tape drive to that system at the time.

[SilentKnight]

I built this in 1977 when I was 10 with the help of my dad.

[DamianJ]

ZX Spectrum 48+. (1983)

Snap. Exactly what I had, and same year too.