Your First Computer

This thread has brought many warm feelings to my heart. So many great machines.

For me, my first was the Tandy TRS-80. I was 1 years old when my Dad bought it. Started programming on it at a very early age. This thing has led me to my current career as a software engineer.

First computer I used was the Acorn Electron but I grew up in a poor family so I didn't own my first computer until I left home at which point I got myself an Atari ST. First "PC" was a Data General One laptop.

IMSAI 8080, same as "Stork" and Matthew Broderick. Got tired of flipping front-panel switches. Still have many spare ICs and mech bits and pieces, but the computer is long gone. Next was a Macintosh II.

My first was an Atari 800 with 410 tape drive. Stay a loyal Atari user all the way up the Atari TT.

Got my first exposure to Macs via a Gadgets By Small Spectre emulator for the Atari ST.

This bad boy

Feartech said:

This bad boy

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Never had the pleasure of playing with one of these... I don't think they were ever sold here in the US.

Phaedin said:

First computer that was "mine" as in, resided in my bedroom would have been this killer:

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The first one I owned with my own money was also the Coleco Adam.

This baby, with a cassette tape hard drive.

IBM XT 8086 with 2 - 5.25" floppy drives, 16K ram, I later upgraded with a 10MB HD that required removing one Floppy drive to open a bay that would fit the monster, and later a modem (that I and a friend using a Commodore 64 figured out how to communicate with from 5 blocks away, WOW, what a thrill!). I learned to write PC-DOS Basic code on it. Wrote programs/applications in dBase III+, and Wordpefect shell (PIFs) for an Occupational Health Department at a Naval Hospital in 1986. Received a Navy Commendation for my work. A year and a half later we ushered the IBM out for a Zenith 80286 with a 13" color monitor, we were so excited about our new addition.

pastrychef said:

Never had the pleasure of playing with one of these... I don't think they were ever sold here in the US.

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yes, I think they were only made in the UK

the keyboard was very clunky!

used to have a cassette tape attached to it for games and then you would run the command:

which would start the loading of the game, would takes ages but a lot of fun back in the day!