Your First Computer

[dddirtman]

what i miss the most was saving files on a cassette...
ohh and those modems that u had to place the phone on the cups,then
select originate/answer switch....300 baud goodness......lol

 

[xtwombly]

Learned to program on the PDP-11 in pascal, and finally upgraded to a MicroVAX and Fortran. Man I feel old.

 

[krautzman]

OMG!!! What a blast looking at all these flashbacks.

My families TV which was a Kreisler colour model (German made Phillips TV) and came inbuilt games unit , with twin corded "joysticks" 20ft long and choice of 3 games ...tennis , hockey & soccer. This was around 1978-79 I believe. I was the best 'mate' of the whole neighbourhood back then lol.

Well my first real computer was a Vic20 , with modem cart. Sometime around 1981-82 I think.
Then came the Original Commodore 64 with TapeDrive.... hehe , followed by added 5 1/4" Floppy drives. An Apple 2e soon followed afterwards. Modems , Oki printers colour and BW
Next was a Commodore 128k , there was an old Phillips Business system with twin monitors that my dad got for me from somewhere 'cheap' .
Next was an Amiga 500 , then Amiga 1000.
IBM 286 & 386 clones........

Man I've owned alot of stuff , where have i put it all btw , ahhh good memories indeed.

 

[brams]

Cool thread, OK here goes

ZX Spectrum 48k 1981 Sold
BBC Model B 1983 Sold
Amiga 500 1986 Sold
ZX Spectum 2
Acorn/BBC A3000 1990 Sold
Atari 800XL 1990 Sold
Acorn Electron 1991 Sold
Macintosh Performa 5200/75 1996 Sold
PowerMac 7300/166 1997 Sold
PowerBook G3 Lombard 1999 Sold
Macintosh 8500/120 2000 Sold
Macintosh 840av 2000
Mac Plus 2000
Power Computing PowerTower Pro 2000 Sold
NeXTstation Color 2000
Mac IIci 2000 Sold
Macintosh Quadra 650 2000
PoweMac G4 667 DA 2001
TiBook 667 2001 Sold
NeXTstation Turbo Color 2001
NeXTstation Turbo Color 2001 Sold
Homebrew Athlon XP PC 2004 Sold
iBook G4 1.33 2004 Sold
Pismo 500 2004
Silicon Graphics Octane
BeBox 133 2005
NeXTcube Turbo Dimension 2005
Newton MP 2100 2005
MacBook Pro 2.0ghz 2006 R.I.P
MacMini PPC
Wallstreet 300 (Rhapsody machine) 2006
Homebrew dual PIII BeMachine, NeXT/Unix box 2007 R.I.P
MacBook Pro 17" SR 2008
Homebrew dual Xeon Win2K box 2009 disposed of
PowerBook G4 12" 1.5 2010 R.I.P
Homebrew i7 Sandybridge Hack 2011

Still want:

Amiga A4000T
TAM
Atari Abaq Transputer Workstation ATW-800
Atari Falcon 030
Macintosh Quadra 950
Silicon Graphics Indy

 

[KDLAB]

MSX

 

[justr]

IIsi.

 

[Koalaman]

My first PC, second hand from my dad. Also my last pre built PC. And I'm sorry, I'm a 90's baby!




The amazing thing is you can still buy it on amazon, the HP 7915 Pavilion. (Picture is not mine as it's buried in the closet)

http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-1-1GHz-Intel-Celeron/dp/B000069VB2

 

[coelo]

First computer I ever owned myself was a Dell Dimension in 2002.

 

[erik]

Packard Bell 386 25MHz. That's what I remember. Came with 1MB of memory, but we upgraded to 2MB so we could play Sim City 2000

 

[ged]

Sharp PC-1211 (1424 bytes available):

TI-57: it ate through batteries like there was no tomorrow

The classic sinclair ZX-81: with no memory extension at first, so only ~980 bytes to code

The Jupiter Ace: Forth programming!

At my high-school, I was secretary of the computer club and we had bull micral 80/22:

I coded a pac-man game in 24x80 text mode in basic ;-)

Spent countless nights at the "Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine" where we had access to (I think) those: