Remember that 1st computer

[Bryce W]

Commodoore 64 in 1987. Then an Amiga 500 in 1990 with a whopping 1mb of RAM.

 

[repairit]

My first was the Tandy 1000tx. One of the first games I picked up was the original Ghostbusters game. The only downside..... had to upgrade my onboard memory.... the upgrade..... flipping a pin connector to go from 320kb to 640 kb.

 

[jj2000]

my first was a sinclair zx80 in around 1980,closely followed by a zx81 in 1981 complete with the 16KRam pack "oh the POWER".
these were then followed by a couple of commodores (vic20 & C64),then around 1985 got promoted at work and used acorn archimedes machines until i left in 1995, i still have my old archimedes machine along with various pc compatibles from 386's onwards somewhere around here.

 

[ell]

my oldest tech memory, its the 70's, (had my long hair!) LOL! I'm enrolled in horticulture, the college receives their first Apple mac computers, but no one knows what to do with them! I globbed on and wrote the greenhouse database (ugly, I didn't have a clue) the following year they hired me back as a teacher in tech and hort, good ol dayz! things were soooo simple then.

 

[RicoS]

Man you all are bringing back some memories from wayyyyyyyyyy back!

 

[NWPhotog]

386sx that I paid $2100 for! That was a fortune then but it opened a new world to me and I passed it on to my step kids which has helped them (1 is a web designer and the other worked for IBM for a while).

 

[JW The Computer Guy]

The first computer that was actually mine not my parents, was a Dell Dimension 8250, P4 2.4ghz, 512mb ram, 120gb hdd, geforce 4 mx 420 w/tv-out.

Still have it today, hooked up to giant tower speakers and a TV, runs lots of games (Upgraded) it now has a geforce 6200 video card. I will occaisionally play Far Cry on it MAX SETTINGS!!!

 

[dannyict]

First started with ZX80 then Vic20, Commodore64, Amiga, MSX, 286,486 and so on

 

[ATSCF]

I have no idea what the first computer my family had was cause I was so young. The first name I remeber is a Packard Bell though. We also had the Sierra Network to get online and chat and stuff which I think was around before AOL. Does anyone remember them?

My parents moved a couple years ago and while helping them pack I found a AOL 1.0 disk. I was tempted to keep it for some reason but threw it away.

 

[BryanLee]

I remember when i got my first hard drive that was over 1 gb. I thought "how will i ever fill up 1gb?" On a side note...i just got my 16gb thumb drive in the mail today. Oh how things change.

 

[stidham]

My first pc was an IBM XT with the 8088 chip in it, 4 color monitor and a 10 meg harddrive.

 

[Courtesy]

I still have my Dell Dimension 4300 w Windows Millennium installed on it. Yuck. I hated that OS. I also had a dedicated pots line for my AOL. Downloaded music on Napster and Audio Galaxy to my hearts content!

 

[DarDar]

I started off with a Amstrad CPC 464 with a green screen. I used some 386/486 at school, and then the first home pc was a Mitsubishi Apricot - 200MHz Pentium Pro!

 

[Seatek]

My first computer was a Commodore 64c, no hard drive, it had a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive (sold seperately for $200) and my monitor was my HUGE (at the time) 19" T.V.

 

[grundel]

my first computer was a tetris game ))

 

[stevenamills]

pcjr - the Vega of computers - never owned another IBM - never owned another GM.

Anyway, did run a FIDO BBS on it. Pretty incredible coding done in "those days".

 

[KompuKare]

Let me join the list too.

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k. Loading from tape was so much fun Had quite a good BASIC in many ways - well suited to such a bad keyboard.

Years later moved on to an Atari STe with 2MB and a mono monitor (no HDD) which was my first proper computer - although sometime it would suffer the indignity of being plugged in the TV to play games.

After that, I had a Mac IIci for a while. With a 40GB and (I think) 4MB. Quiet a nice machine actually but like everything Apple it was expensive.

Next was an 'upgrade' to 80MHz AMD 486 with all of 16MB and 800GB HDD and Windows 95. And that was the last PC which I bought pre-built. But despite the huge improvement which was Win95 vs Win3.11 compared to Apple System 7.1 it was hardly an upgrade :-(

Still PC hardware was much cheaper and from then on I always build my own. All my old machines are long gone but not entirely forgotten: on me desktop I have MacOS in the form of Basilisk II and Atari TOS in the form of ARAnyM. And on my WinCE phone I used to have a Spectrum emulator...

 

[Xander]

Those were the days!

c. 1981. The $399 (US, not CDN) would have been for the 4KB ram. As I was getting it as a gift, my granny paid hundreds more for the 32KB expansion.

Audio cassette storage (what are these 'floppies' you speak of?)

Got a subscription to CLOAD Magazine which came with a monthly cassette. WOOO!

I taught myself some machine code and tons of BASIC.

As the cartridges were ridiculously expensive back then, I don't recall ever owning one.

(Kept trying to make the pic smaller and it seemed to take it until I pressed Submit)

 

[tsolorio]

Mine was a 486 w/ 4mb RAM (I think), 170MB HD, Win 3.1. Can't believe we paid so much for it but back then I didn't no much about computers. The only thing I did prior to that was take peeks at my uncle's qbasic programs he'd been working on that day for work when I was a kid and try to figure out what it was suppose to do. That's when I got hooked but I didn't have a computer of my own then to program on. Now I have the hardware and software to program with but no time to do it. I'm trying to get allegro set up in Code Blocks but something comes up everytime I sit down to figure out why it can't find allegro.h. Ah well, maybe this weekend I can get some peace and quiet to work on it....yeah, right.

 

[Courtesy]

Got a subscription to CLOAD Magazine which came with a monthly cassette. WOOO!

Wow!!! Now that's hilarious! Technology never ceases to amaze me.