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.

my first computer was slow

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/aquarius.jpg

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!

same company as barbie? :)

Yup! .....

wow :thumbsup

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

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! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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.

http://www.v3.co.uk/IMG/342/178342/i...JPG?1306494700

http://cdn.jazjaz.net/wp-content/upl...tark-thumb.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HdXqgcAyU_...2008%2529.jpeg

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

Amstrad then Commodore 64 then a 8 MHz 286 Olivetti machine..

msx 1 from philips.
I was writing my own games!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ips_VG8020.jpg

Man I forgat a lot about BASIC

:thumbsup
I remember that!
I always made errors makiing the game act funny!

I'm not that old but I started really early. Around 1992 with a Packard Bell 286 with a COLOR monitor. Dialup Prodigy in DOS and Mr. Halo was our photoshop.

BBC Model B in about 1992. 2MHz (or was it 1MHz?) 6502. It was already a 10-11 year old design by then.

Then a 286 10MHz PC with 40MB HD a year or two later. Also somewhat obsolete.

Both were free, so I wasn't complaining. :D

I didn't get started quite as early as you did, but I built a couple of single board Z80 computers in the late 1980s from scratch. Didn't bother to do any real design since they're so simple to interface, just wired it as I went. Programs were entered in a similar way, except I used tiny DIP switches.

http://thsrv.com/hl/http://upload.wi...rDipSwitch.png

My first one was a total birds nest of wiring on the back, I ended up throwing it out years later, wish I hadn't now. :(

My first computer was in high school, the TRS-80. I took "introduction to computers" which was two quarters long and taught us how to draw a picture of a house on the screen - four lines for the house and two lines for the roof. I wasn't able to take the next course because my math grades weren't "high enough" but by the end of Freshman year I was writing small little programs on my own, phone books, and word processing stuff.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/trs80-iii.jpg

My first home computer was this, which we hooked up to an old black and white tv. It was $600, which was a good sum of money back then.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...dy_coco1_1.jpg

My first real computer at home was a home built job my friend and I put together. I think i started with like four megs of ram; We used to buy memory in back alleys in those days.

AMIGA 500, no hard-drive lol

ZX Spectrum 48+. (1983) than c64, amiga 500, 2000, 3000, 4000, 1200
than pc and mac

Also had atari's 600xl 800xl, st

I had an Atari 800, then an Atari 600XL, then an 800XL. The floppy disk drive for the 800XL cost more than an entire budget desktop does now.

My first "PC" was a Leading Edge 486-66 DX2 with 4megs memory, a 40MB hard drive, and a 13" colour monitor. I THINK it ran Microsoft Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

Doom ran beautifuly, but I had to buy another 4MB of memory to get NHL Hockey to work properly. I also had an Aerosmith game that came with a guitar. Man, I'm flashing back.

First pc was in 83 I had a IBM pc jr with a 12" CRT.. Didn't have the net but had fun learning basic language..

Didn't get another pc till a friend helped me build one in 98.. It was a 400mhz AMD, 12gig hd, 128mb ram, and a ATI all in one wonder video card..

Haha computers have come a long way!

Apple IIe, had a modem the size of a large VCR (haha) forget the speed of that thing.

Atari 2600. With those cartridges. Then c64 with a huge amount of games, demos and software. Still can't believe i sold it ages ago :(
Then a 8088 pc. Bought the first soundcard for it. Was like 300 dollars for a 4 channel piece of shit hehe. 386 after that etc.

Love it. Still have mine + a Model 3

One of my first jobs was writing software for that thing (I was about 14). The keyboard was terrible. I was a really fast typer on anything and everything but that thing was the worst.

In my high school we had Decwriter Terminals just like this one

http://www.woffordwitch.com/images/LA36a.jpg

There were 3 or 4 of these in the "computer room", eachconnected to a modem like this one

http://www.salvomag.com/new/images/a.../15stevens.jpg

All the terminals in all the schools (PSBGM) were connected to a "time sharing" computer which was an HP-2000 F

http://home.iprimus.com.au/geremin/HP2000F.jpg

The terminals had no screen, only a printer. We could write software in basic, use a forum etc, but one of the coolest things we did was play a game called "space.g803", which was an online multi player space game where people commanded spaceships to attack and destroy other ships. It had no graphics. To know where we were in the universe compared to other ships, it printed stats that looked something like this :

T SPEED COURSE BEARING RANGE
1 100 180 90 10000 GRIMALDI
2 090 090 45 20000 ENTERPRISE
3 000 045 45 30000 DESTROYER

Which of course always printed, wasting tons of paper. It was lots of fun.

I refused to use the first Windows and kept on using dos for a long time until i had no choice anymore.

A vic 20 I believe but after that one of the first mac...

Oh for FFS , when i started the old boyz were pissing around with 4004's and I made mine with 8008's and a wire wrap tool.

Once got a police escort back from RAF farnbourough with a steel case of 8k EEPROMS handcuffed to my wrist. Managed to work out in the back of the car that I could slip the hinge pins out and open it from the bottom and kept myself two of them for a college project :)

Radio Shack Trash-80 with a chain of floppy drives running Visicalc and a mail program.

We only had punch cards which we wrote on in class with a pencil on a monday and got the results back on a friday and then had to rub them out for the next lesson as if you punched them with holes it was too expensive.

Colecovision ADAM. After I seen all my friends with c64's I was so jealous of all their free games. I was stuck with my buck rogers on cassette tape.

I was 3 y old back in 1988, when I got an amiga 500 (with a color screen) as a gift.
From what I was told, it was a big hype thingie that everyone wanted to come and check out :)

I've used a Commodore 64, but it was my cousin's so I didn't get to use it much. My 1st actual PC was a P75 with 8MB of ram, an 800mb hard drive, Trident video card with 2/mb, 14.4 modem (upgraded to a 28.8 6 month later then a 56k) and for the OS: Windows 3.11.

I wish I still had it! It was an 086, 4mhz, 640k conventional ram, (no EMS) with a 3mb hard drive that took up 2 5 1/4 drive bays. :)