What was your first computer?

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:53 pm

I was only 8 years of age when I got my Macintosh Performa 6200 way back in 1995. I wish I still had it today, since Linux would run great on it. Just seeing this photo brings back so many memories of playing Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and the original DOOM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_6200

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:10 pm

The first computer I can remember ever using was a Commodore PET.

The first computer our family ever owned was our trusty ol' Commodore 64. That computer lasted me through three years of high school, two years of college and several years after that.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:13 pm

I was like 4 years old, when I started tinkering with an old Pentium <something> machine running Windows 3.1 that my dad had at home, it was equipped with WordPefect and Lotus AmiPro, I had a weird racer game on it and that was about it.

Later we got a Win95 PC, and that had the classic Hover gamer, plus I got Lion King, Aladdin, Jungle Book, Warcraft II, and a few other games running on it, it was really fun.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:42 pm

Me and my brother shared a Commodore Vic-20:

I remember loading programs via the casette drive. We used to code the programs that would come in the Commodore related magazines every month. Soon after that we upgraded to a Commodore 64 and eventually an Amiga. I had friends that had Apple II, Atari 400 & 800 and TRS-80s. After that I got into PC's. The rest is history.

Chess · Post by **Chess** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:00 pm

I was lucky to grow up with a lot of computers. The first computer my family bought was an Apple ][+ in 1979/1980. My own first computer was a TI 99/4 and then I got a Commodore 64 in 1982. That thing rocked. I had a Sinclair at one point, and we also got an Apple IIe and IIc. We then bought a first generation 1984 Macintosh.

Those were the days...

jsusanka · Post by **jsusanka** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:45 pm

My first computer I bought was a hot IBM ps1 386sx with 2 meg of memory and a huge 125 meg hard drive.

If I remember right it had dos 3.x and windows 3.1

I bought it when the prices drop sub $1000 circa 1990 - 1992.

Played with some friends comodores 64 when I was a little kid.

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:17 am

For its time it had great games (pirated on cassette tape of course) and the sound on the Atari left every other computer at the time in the dust.

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:38 am

Compaq 486/25mhz w/ 4mb RAM. 1992 @ 1,300.00

Had just got out of the Navy and started working in Industry. Wanted a computer so I could learn/work on Automation Software (Siemens S5) at home. Had to have a non-dos partition for CPM (if anybody remebers that) to do it.

no1important · Post by **no1important** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:58 am

I had some old IBM hunk of junk.

8 mb ram
win 3.1
1.01 gig hard drive
28.8 modem
14" monitor

The I upgraded to a 5 gig hard drive and it cost almost 500 bucks and bought 32 mb more of ram for 230 $$ But that was back in 94. I remember when my modem died it cost over 300 to get a 56.8 modem

My how times have changed, for the better.

It is too bad I did not know of linux back then, I knew of Apple but not linux until late 90's and never used it until Judland liberated me from the evil grasp of Bill Gates......

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:25 am

First computer I OWNED: Commodore 64

First computer I USED: TRS-80 model I (16K of memory!!)

If you never carried 5.25" floppies with your OS and data on them, you're not old!

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:29 am

no1important wrote:The I upgraded to a 5 gig hard drive and it cost almost 500 bucks and bought 32 mb more of ram for 230 $$ But that was back in 94.

The first hard drive I bought was a 1 Gig, and it cost $400.
For the same machine I bought 16 megs of memory (4 x 30 pin SIMMs) for $400.
It was a 486 at 120 MHz and it was smoking fast running OS/2!!

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:02 am

Gomer_X wrote:First computer I OWNED: Commodore 64

First computer I USED: TRS-80 model I (16K of memory!!)

If you never carried 5.25" floppies with your OS and data on them, you're not old!

And real computer geeks carried around a 5-1/4" disk notcher, too.

tarball · Post by **tarball** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:11 am

My first computer was an Acorn BBC model B.

The first HD I bought was a 20MB for the Amiga for £399 ($730 at today's exchange rate!!!)

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:20 am

Judland wrote:And real computer geeks carried around a 5-1/4" disk notcher, too.

To make their Elephant brand disk double sided right?! Man we're dating ourselves here!

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:30 am

Patrick wrote:To make their Elephant brand disk double sided right?! Man we're dating ourselves here!

Yeah, that's it. Well, in my C=64 days it was to make any single sided floppy into a double sided disk, so one could flip the disk over and use both sides of for storage. Double the storage capacity at no extra cost.

Them were the days!