I used my dads computers in the 70s, but MY first one was this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GsF6XkE-qi...600/Compac.jpg

and I loved it!

Not bad for a first computer :pimp

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...x-Mikrosha.jpg

1,77 Mhz CPU
32KB RAM
2KB ROM
Monochrome Video (64x25 text mode and 128×50 "pixels" in pseudo-graphics mode)
Storage type: Tape recorder (700 bit/sec)
Display: TV

That was a real beast :pimp

some of you guys are really old ... :)

The one above was my truly personal computer, but I've started writing my first programs (mostly games of course) using this one:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/tap34_n.jpg

Two(!) 8-inch floppy-disks was a super cool feature for that times.

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

I had a lot of fun with it :)

Indeed :pimp

You're lucky one. I got my first 48K Speccy in 1990 :(

before i had my first own computer i did a course on this one

http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/...er_4032_01.jpg

i also had two friends i was visiting all the time - one had a C64, the other had an Atari 400

and then i finally got my own - a C128 with 1571 floppy and real color monitor - i was in heaven :1orglaugh

Same. I was still using DOS 6 and Desqview (multitasking) until about 2002. I had a little windows 95 then W98 machine I used occasionally, but my main desktop still ran DOS.

I remember buying obsolete 360k 5 1/4" floppy drives from a scrap metal dealer in the late 80s and early 1990s. $5 each... they would have been worth hundreds only a few years prior.

I first used an XT in the lat 80s. My buddy owned it, and I taught myself how to use Wordperfect on it. 2 x 5.25" floppy disks!

My own first computer was a 386. I think it had 1meg of RAM, and a Hard-disc of 105 megs. It ran Windows 3.1.

http://www.churchm.ag/wp-content/upl...puter-ads8.jpg

The prices were pretty incredible for what we were buying... :helpme

ADG

Commodore Vic 20 and later a Laser 128 Apple 2e clone at the time my father had an Apple 2e.

commodore 64 in 1986. i was 8 years old and had tons of fun with it. a few years later we also got an amiga 400 or 500, which was fun too but not as fun as the commodore. we also had one of these things to take with us.

http://www.harbaum.org/till/c64/sx64_neu.jpg

it wasn't until 1994 or so when we got our first windows based system, windows 95 was on it. i don't remember the specs though.

Paul Markham 64 ...

Radio Shack TRS-80... VIC20, C64, Macintosh... Amiga 1000, AMIGA 500, AMIGA Video Toaster... XT with a DigiBoard running 16-line BBS... lots of Linux machines and CISCO routers... every Mac... now MacMini, iPhone and iPad.

Am i the only one who had one of these?

http://www.fhm.nl/upload/content/image/atari2600a.jpg

A 486, in 2001 :)

i had one similar to this - i could play Pong and 3 other games

http://archive.computerhistory.org/r...7.01.01.lg.jpg

i still have it somewhere and the last time i tried, it still worked

We had one of those. My brother and I loved it.

:1orglaugh

Mine could play all kind of games but most of them were so fucking bad. The few good ones were a lot of fun though. They were expensive as fuck as well. And besides the drawing on the box and maybe a screenshot on the back you had no way to know what kind of game it was.

first in the house - TRS-80
first that was mine - 386 DX40. Think it had 16 mb of ram and a 40 mb hard. Just enough to run autocad and windows 3.1

I counted from 0 to 1 on my mothers boobs from quite early on.

As for my first experience with computers it was in the early 70's at my dads work.

I used them at work in the 80's and finally bought a Tandy Color Computer 2 in the late 80's.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...VIC_20_box.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20

Dude, same thing! What a coincidence..remember NEO GEO emulators? :pimp

RyuLion, I remember. Cool! We had the same PC...

I'm surprised... I just wanna say thank you guys for answering this topic.

When the subject is something related to our first days with something, the discussion is always cool, and very nostalgic.

There are some computers that I never heard about...

GFY is a nice community with cool people, we're just tired of so many dumb topics with repetitive questions.

Hell, I think I'm gonna cry.

I just remembered a few things...

I had a TRS-80 Model 1 and then later a Model 3. I connected each to a modem and to their own separate telephone lines, both running a BBS that I wrote myself (called Datamate). Each computer could handle only 1 user at a time, but the users could chat with each other because I had hooked up the Cassette ports to each other. My friend Rick wrote a protocol that would let them send and receive to each other, and voila! Chat!

i just used it for missle command and star raiders ...so i didnt use the keyboard very much.

totally forgot. When I had my IBM XT's and TRS-80's I also had some of this hardware:

Epson FX 80 Printer.
http://www.ixbt.com/printer/history/his/images/04.jpg


Hayes Smartmodem:
http://weblog.sitepros.net/stuff/hayes.jpg

Radioshack DUMb Modem (no auto dial, no auto answer, 300 Baud
http://www.trs-80.com/adver/ad-direc...2]-(rs)-PO.png

Expansion Interface (held 48k Ram, Floopy Disk Controller, Parallel Printer Port, optional Serial Port
http://www.vintage-computer.com/imag..._mod1_sys2.jpg


Serial Modem expansion board (for TRS-80 Expansion Interface above). This is NOT a modem - just the expansion board necessary to add a modem. Yikes.
http://www.trs-80.com/adver/ad-rs-23...5]-(rs)-PO.png

And of course, the TRs-80 Cassette Recorder:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/r...2689994.lg.jpg

This was used to load and save programs to cassette tape. Yes, Cassette tape. The TRS-80 could read and write to the cassette tape at a whopping 62.5 Bytes Per second. Thats BYTES PER SECOND, not KILObytes or MEGAbytes or GIGAbytes, you spoiled youngin's....

Ah the good old days.

Btw: If your vintage computers still work, why not connect them to the Internet? I found a resource site that shows you how. http://www.8bit-micro.com/coverstory.htm

i used a fucking abacus in 1926 fools

i remember Prince of Persia well, hate him for not jumping as good as Lara Croft

Comodore +4

z80 in 1980

It was an IBM ps/2 286 with a 30 meg HDD and 1M of ram and it had a 2400 modem too.

Mac Plus in 1986 or 87. Upgraded to 2MB of RAM.... Woohoo!!






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Atari 400... got it in the summer of 1982.

My first was a
Intel 386
I remember the case had a "boost" button that would push it to 25Mhz. Woot! Dialup was at 2800bps. I played Carmen Sandiego on that beast so much. Made my own ms DOS menus, too. Fun times.

The first computers I had were Wang point of sale, retail use.