What was your first computer?

[Jza]

my first computer was a comodore 64, then it was an IBM PS/2, then a Pentium Aspire. Finally we went whiteboxing to this day.

[Linc]

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!

I still have one of those disk notchers. A decent single hole punch and even a pair of shears could be used in a pinch though.

Speaking of computers though, my first was a Vic=20. And I still have one. Along with some tandy stuff, around 15 Apple 2's (various models) and another couple hands full of Commodore 64's, 128's and a +4. Those were the good old days when computing was really fun and innovative. Then that crack head Gates ruined everything by stealing CP/M and th rest is history...

[Anonymous]

Hi,

My first computer was a Sincliar ZX81 with 1Kb of ram and 4Kb rom with Basic as the the built in computer language. You will be surprised what you can do with 1Kb, I had a Chess program you could play with the computer.

[Karl]

My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

[Gomer_X]

My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

Ooooh! The CoCo! That was quite a machine. I really wanted one, but it was more than I could afford.

[thebear]

My first computer was a vic 20. god I loved those scott adams adventure games. didnt have a cassete so i had to type in my programs every time i wanted to play them. Loved compute magazine. Then one christmas my grandmother surpised me and got me a printer that printed on reciept paper. A cassete player and a 300 baud modem with compuserve. Then when the 64 came out I got one for christmas with a floppy drive. who would have known that when I would goto the local computer meeting to get my floppies filled with great games. I was doing something bad. Then I hit the bbs scene and spent many nights dialing in to access the boards. The best were in other states. man my mom was pissed when she got that bill. Does anyone remember the dynamic duo. they cracked a lot of 64 games back then. Are they still around.

[schotty]

My order of systems was this:

Atari 2600
Commodore 64
Canon Intel based 486DX4-100
Plethora of AMD procs to this date.

[pbmax]

Hi all.
Throw me in the Vic-20 ring. I tried to revive it when I was in H.S. but couldn't find the power adapter. So I plugged my stero cable into it because it had the same size prongs. Unfortunately it had no adapter. House current straight into the board was not a good thing.
pb

[karst]

The first one I was allowed to use at home was a Ti99-4A. My dad had one with all the expansion stuff. It was actually pretty neat although I'm sad to say I mostly used it to play Tunnels of Doom. In School at the time we had TRS-80 Model III's.

Later When I moved out My dad who had upgraded to a PS/2 486 33SX gave me his Tandy 1000SL (8086)which I used all the way until February of 2000 when It refused to boot after a move(Y2K maybe? or possibly just bouncing around in my Car from Pittsburgh to Abilene,TX to Nashville to Albany)

total order of systems was

Ti99-4A(won a Vic-20 at an Arcade, but never claimed the "prize")
Tandy 1000SL till 02/2000
Whitebox AMD K6III-400Mhz till 02/2003
Self built Athlon XP 2100+
Present day includes that one and way more various boxes than I can justify needing. My next upgrade will probably be an AM2 socket system sometime in 2007

[Gomer_X]

Ti99-4A(won a Vic-20 at an Arcade, but never claimed the "prize")

I remember the TI as "the" machine to have at the time because of the speech synth, but it was too expensive ($500 with no disk drive, versus C64 at $300).

Whitebox AMD K6III-400Mhz till 02/2003

I've STILL got one of these (now running 384 megs of PC100 RAM) soldiering away as a home server. It has been up for at least 2 years straight.