What was your first computer?

[Splum]

I have been buying old computers lately, and just got my hands on my very first computer.

[Randyyy]

ibm thinkpad i believe

[stickyfingerz]

I have been buying old computers lately, and just got my hands on my very first computer.

hehe, that was mine too. Trs 80 Model III with a tape drive. We upgraded to the 5 1/4" drive later on.

[GrouchyAdmin]

At school, an Apple ][ clone, Franklin Ace 1000. First I personally owned, a Mattel Aquarius.

[After Shock Media]

An abacus.

[johnydo]

Commodore PC10 - great mashine and worked until it was to old.... I never forget it.

[Splum]

At school, an Apple ][ clone, Franklin Ace 1000. First I personally owned, a Mattel Aquarius.

Haha nice

[Splum]

hehe, that was mine too. Trs 80 Model III with a tape drive. We upgraded to the 5 1/4" drive later on.

When I opened the box today and touched it I got a hard on. Yes I need a life.

[tabasco]

C64 like this one, except I had the old skool tape drive. By the time a game loaded I'd have gotten bored or forgotten about it and would be out in the backyard kicking the footy around.

[Webby]

An abacus.

That advanced?? Hell.. I used grains of sand on the beach


PS Tho remember the first calculators (handheld) - they cost around $250 at the time...

[perfectodollars-gabrio]

it was an old 386/16 mhz, i think it got 40 mb of hdd and MAYBE 16 mb of ram eh eh

[stickyfingerz]

When I opened the box today and touched it I got a hard on. Yes I need a life.

My parents recently sold ours on Ebay lol. Sat around since about 84 unused. We got it I swear in early 79, but most places online say it came out in 80... Shrugs..

[ffmihai]

i had a 286

[JenniDahling]

Apple II and Commodore 64. Damn, I'm old!

[Webby]

it was an old 386/16 mhz, i think it got 40 mb of hdd and MAYBE 16 mb of ram eh eh

First box I bought was allegedly a biz thing using CP/M os - nice furniture came along with it (embedded in a desk console) and cost about.. shit.. dollar value $26K. That lasted almost a year and dumped it in the trash *lol*

First PC-based were 286's with.. can't remember, but little RAM.

[gangbangjoe]

hey i'm still young ;)

[CunningStunt]

zx81 FTW!

[Eyes_Without_A_Face]

Mine was a Sprectrum 48k
It took 6 minutes to load a game from a tape. LOAD "" <ENTER>, anyone remember that?

[hzoltan]

It was a 286 with 20 MB hard disk and a stunning 16 MHz or something like that. And Grand Prix was my first game on it
I miss those days...

[Fresh_Designs]

Spectrum ZX 48

Craked by Bill Gillbert!

[SexualDragon]

besides the comodore 64. my first internet used computer was an NEC Ready. 100 mega hurtz

[D]

Learned to program BASIC on this sucker.

[wyldworx]

my very first was an IBM olivetti. 1987 i think...?

[D]

Actually... I take that back.


This was my first computer:



Was a kit one that my dad bought.

I remember learning to count to 100 in binary before I knew how to count to 100 in natural numbers on this sucker.

[LiveDose]

The Vic20

[Martin3]

I have been buying old computers lately, and just got my hands on my very first computer.

We had those in elementary school. About all we did on them was play oregon trail

My first computer at home was a Tandy 1000

[FlowerKid]

My first computer was a Commodore C-128 D. After two years i killed it with a short circuit on an attached relay card. My project was a light show with 220V light bulbs. After that, i had to save money for a replacement computer and buyed a C-64. This one still works, but is stored in my basement :-)

[KaliC]

Damn that is bnice compared to mine. I have a texas instruments calculus calculater that I thought was cool even though I never knew what any of the signs meant. I eventually got my commodore 64 though and joined the royalty.

[Toni]

Commodore 64, I loved the games

[Sarah_Jayne]

My folks bought a texas instrument something...then we had an Adam computer...and then we got an Apple IIe which is what I really learned on.

[Chr0makey]

Vic 20 and then an Amiga 500

[Goodings Media]

it was the family computer so I used it a lot as a kid. My dad bought it for &#163;900 at the time, because....wait for it.... it could program in C!!!!!! :D

I can remember him n my eldest brother (who was at that time about 13) taking it in shifts for like a week to copy out code from books as big as the bible to program in games, then record them onto tapes, then run them and........ SYNTAX ERROR! lol awww the memories....

I know it was an old old amstrad (green monitor etc) and then he upgraded it to the one with built in floppy drive when it came out.

Worryingly, my eldest brother still has it, and says he still fires it up every so often to play"A Bards Tale" and "Dizzy" lol

[Goodings Media]

My own personaly first computer was a self built P166 with a whole 32mbs of ram! lol Everything was scavenged, I used to do my writing in notepad because typing in word seemed so slow, it used to lag behind sometimes if anything was heppening in the background!

[More Booze]

Hmmm. I did have a Amiga 500 and a 286 PC. Don't know which one I did get first but I did like the Amiga most.

SuperFrog, Hunter, Lotus, Outrun... The list of quality games is long. It's funny that I rather play some of the old Amiga games instead of some of the new supergraphic 3D games.

Some of the games they make these days just look good, no gameplay at all.

[adultseo]

The first computer was a Commodore, a Cassette player with joysticks.



The second an Atari Game Computer.



Then I received the first real computer, a 286 with MS-Dos

[Goodings Media]

the amstrad looked like this, although it might not be the EXACT model as there were two that had the disk drive on....

4mhz CPU and 128kb ram :D

[Aussie Rebel]

Commodore Vic20

[tabasco]

The first computer was a Commodore, a Cassette player with joysticks.

Long before the younguns here had their fancy torrents we ripped off the man old school with a double tape deck!

[Mr Pheer]

zx81 FTW!

I had the same thing, except it was called the Timex Sinclair 1000 in the USA



I had the 16k ram expansion pack and the cassette drive. Damn, that thing sucked.

[Fucked Beyond Repair]

My first was also a Commodore 64, started up with just a casette player but in the end I had floppy drives, a 2400 baud modem and 512kb extra memory, the 512kb was so overkill that the only time I had any usage of it was when copying disks.

I really loved that computer and the demo/cracking scene that came with it, there's no way that I would had ended up as a webmaster if I hadn't bought it as a kid.

[zandre]

I had the same thing, except it was called the Timex Sinclair 1000 in the USA



I had the 16k ram expansion pack and the cassette drive. Damn, that thing sucked.

i still have somewhere at home Sinclair ZX Spectrum lol

[ico]

a myginie desktop

[Mr. Manson]

My was DELL notebook Pentium 133, 1,4GB Hard drive I bought it in 1994 in Statesfor nearly 4k

[zalka]

T.R.S.80
What a machine played adventure games on it for hours.

[suesheboy]

TI994a is the first I owned but I already spent years working on a Dec system 10. By the time I owned my computer I worked on IBM main frames

[Lykos]

PC 286 here
and had commodore and Amiga before that

[Gabriel Night]

c64 rulez

[Gerco]

My very fist was the TI 99 4a.. When it was new.
http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=236

Moved up to the Atari 800 when it came out then I got a

Northstar Advantage http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?c=652&st=1

Funny story about the Northstar.. My house burned down with the computer in it. When it was recovered it was a black shell, the heat had actually melted part of the box, I took it to the car wash, after taking it completely apart and used cleaners for soot to spay everything clean, let it all dry out, repainted the box and replaced the 2 floppy drives, and it worked for another 2 years! (I had the 10 meg MFM HD also and it also survived the fire)

[StuartD]

This was my first computer:

http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435/trs2500.htm

[Angelo22]

I had a commodore 64