Your First Computer

[Schniposa]

My very first one was this:

http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_Laser200.HTML

 

[lore]

This was mine

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[minamitek]

Mine was an Apple II Plus clone made by Redstone. This isn't mine, but it looked exactly like this:

I'm completely clueless as to the exact year or specs (think it was 1983-4). It was good for word processing (Wordstar), making birthday cards with Print Shop and games like Conan, Lode Runner, Super Bunny & Karateka.

Well-intentioned parents & relatives kept giving me books full of BASIC programs so I could learn how to use it, not realizing they were completely inappropriate for an Apple. Nor did I at first, so I'd diligently type them all out & then get the inevitable error message when attempting to run. To be honest it led to a minor hatred of Apple for a while as I came to think of them as the machines on which nothing would work. Luckily my school came to the rescue with an Apple II lab.

 

[tonymacx86]

I'm completely clueless as to the exact year or specs (think it was 1983-4). It was good for word processing (Wordstar), making birthday cards with Print Shop and games like Conan, Lode Runner, Super Bunny & Karateka.

Conan! Lode Runner! Karateka!

I had those as a tiny kid on my folks' Apple IIc, along with other favorites like Choplifter, Sammy Lightfoot and Hard Hat Mack!

By the way, you can play alot of those old games in the browser- check out virtualapple.org if you haven't:

http://www.virtualapple.org/conandisk.html
http://www.virtualapple.org/karatekadisk.html
http://www.virtualapple.org/loadrunnerdisk.html
http://www.virtualapple.org/hardhatmackdisk.html
http://www.virtualapple.org/choplifterdisk.html
http://www.virtualapple.org/sammylightfootdisk.html

 

[drwhy]

Comodore 64
sadly i sold him some years later to get a Amiga 500 !

 

[blackshore]

Microbee Computer!
Black and orange it was, and no Internet!

 

[mrengles]

My First Computer

1. Macintosh Classic II

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A few years later a Macintosh Performa 6200CD, another few years PowerMac 3G QuickSilver... PowerBook 13-Inch... Original Intel iMac... MacBook Pro 13-Inch (SSD)... My First Hackintosh (Take a look at my Signature).

Believe it or not, I've never owned a Windows PC, always been a Mac guy. Windows in not installed on my Hackintosh. I love my trusty Mac OS, and The Macintosh Desktop Experience.

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[Catahula]

The Cutting Edge Quatro 850. I thought I was buying a Mac clone, turns out it was a Centris 650 motherboard in an IBM case with more RAM and a bigger HD than Apple put in Quadras. With upgrades, I got about 6 good years out of that thing.

Hack Life.

 

[PIETROMETER]

mine was a custom athlon tower my dad ordered when i was about 9/10 i didn't like it when i got it but now i realise i was lucky to have a 2.0 ghz Athlon 2000+ 512mb RAM and ATI 64 MB graphics and an 80gb HDD with XP lol but oi hardly used it which now i regret it i tried to fix up the old beast no luck but anyways my favorite computer was my first core 2 duo hackintosh !!! whith snow leopard :headband:

my first mac was a 2008 macbook gma x3100 and 2.4ghz core 2 duo
it was far from good i had many issues with it and shortly sold it after apple were useless and frankly rude too me

 

[thelostswede]

The standard Swedish school computer, the Compis, although admittedly it wasn't mine... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compis
Turns out it might not all have been in vain though, as the programming language we used - COMAL - is available for OS X http://diden.net/comal/

As for the first computer at home, a 386SX-16MHz with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive from Mitac, but that's not as odd as the beast pictured below.