What was the first computer that you, your parents or some else bought for you?

[yasha]

My first one was a Mac LCIII. I was like..."Woaw, look at that smiley face at bootup!" *LOL* That was the first and last Mac I ever owned and also the first and last manufactured computer I ever bought. I'm on my 6th computer that I built (for my self.)

 

[Viper GTS]

Commodore 64

Traded a $7.50 pair of axle pegs for it.

And my PC is an ongoing project, so there's no way to tell what generation I'm on.



Viper GTS

 

[HansXP]

My first computer was a NorthStar Horizon. Anyone remember that? No hard drive, 2 onboard 5.25" floppy disk drives, and 2 outboard floppy drives, too. I don't think the processor even had a MHz rating, lol. The computer ran the CP/M operating system, which was a command line of course.

From there, I moved to a laptop. And by laptop, I mean a computer that absolutely FILLED your lap. It had 2 3.5" disk drives that could only read 720K disks, and no hard drive. 640K of RAM, which was like having a gig of it today. I made a RAMDISK as drive letter "C" and referred to it as the hard drive.

I still have both of those, packed away somewhere

 

[bozo1]

1978 or 79. Was this thing called a "CompuColor". CP/M was the OS. Actual EGA like graphics way before even CGA was around. CPU was inside the monitor case. $4500 for 4K RAM. No hard drive, no floppy. Optional 5GB hard drive for $10K. (12" platters) Thing was marketed to businesses for CAD, Desktop Publishing use.

scary

 

[yasha]

Viper GTS> I guess I'm the same way. I'm always upgraded or changing something. I just got a ATI 64 meg Radeon. I love this card, and it loves me

 

[shiner]

TI-99A

 

[IcemanJer]

LOL wow that was a long time ago.
First compy was a custom-built 486-66DX. Ran Windows 3.11 and a bunch of DOS games before it died on me in '96 and we went out a bought a P-166 Aptiva (*gasp* yeah I was dumb back then), which is still very happy as of today, acting as a server or something.. (joohang has it now) Since then, a Sony laptop and a Duron (see rig), and a Dell that my sister's using right now.

 

[Elledan]

First a Commodore 64, then a 286 (12.5 MHz, 4 MB RAM, 40 MB HD, DOS 5.0).

From there I got a 386, 486, P133, Celery 400 and am now on a Duron 600, which is also an ongoing project. I upgrade it almost monthly

 

[MrCodeDude]

Uhh. It was an old 75mhz Pentium that barely loaded Windows 95. I had this comp that ran 3.1, but I forget the specs of it.. The only memorable computer is the 75mhz Pentium though. Like 3 years later, I'm here sitting in my room with a 600mhz AMD Athlon Compaq machine. But this will be an ongoing project, since each important upgrade is now only $500 or less.
-- mrcodedude

 

[WombatWoman]

The first commercial, pre-fab computer I ever had was a Timex Sinclair. I wrote nifty programs in BASIC on it, and I was happy as a clam until I began to lust after a Commodore Vic-20, which had a colour display and 5K of RAM...

 

[XMan]

I got a Commodore 16 for Christmas when I was 6.

No floppy drive, it had a tape drive, though - it used audio cassettes. We played a lot of Mille Bourne, HERO, and Choplifter on that bad boy.

 

[yasha]

WombatWoman Is that the same Timex company that makes watches?
When did they make those thing? I know a lady never tells her age but... *LOL*

 

[Nekro]

First computer was a Macintosh LC II with a 12 in screen

 

[kassy]

Commodore Vic 20 then a 64.
I still have both.

 

[raven82]

first i had a 64, than a colt, than a packard bell, then ....

 

[trmiv]

Commodore 64. I actually still have it up in my closet, along with the 5 and 1/4 floppy drive that is bigger than the computer.

 

[bugsysiegel]

Atari 400.

Begged Dad for an 800XL, had a real keyboard, not the "membrane" type. and 64K. I disctinctly remember saying "64K? I will NEVER use 64K, what could anybody need 64K for???"

lol. I just put 3 80GB HDD in my server, my buddy goes... "240GB? what would anyone need that much storage for?" lol. full cirlce.

 

[Aves]

My first computer was a Macintosh Plus.

My first PC consisted of:

AMD 586 133MHz (PR75)
16MB of RAM
500MB Seagate Hard Drive
4x CD-ROM Drive
1MB Trident Video Card
Sound Blaster 16
28.8 US Robotics Modem
15" Monitor

I was proud of that system, it was the first one I ever built.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Apple IIGS, my parents bought it.

 

[GL]

The first computer our family had was a TRS-80. But the first computer I really started using was an Apple IIc with a really small monitor (I think a 10 inch monochrome).

I remember when you could double the capacity of a floppy by snipping a bit off the side off. Heck, I remember when floppies were floppy!

Of course, the family took a gigantic leap forward when we got our first PC - an IBM clone 386sx 16MHz with a Cyrix math co-processor and 2 hard drives (a 10MB and 20MB drive).

 

[snakesnfrogs]

First one I got was a Commodore 64 that my uncle gave me when he got his first Amiga.

 

[Moonbeam]

Wombat, a lusting clam is just something I know I'm gonna have dreams about.

My folks bought me an HP Pavillion7055.

 

[WombatWoman]

<< WombatWoman Is that the same Timex company that makes watches?
When did they make those thing? I know a lady never tells her age but... *LOL* >>


Amazingly, you can still buy the 2K Timex Sinclair ZX81, which was indeed marketed by the Timex watch folks.

I got mine in 1981 for a hundred dollars, and now you can get yours FOR THE SAME PRICE!!!

(By the way, I was born in 1948. A lady never tells her age. You do the math.)

 

[HansHurt]

IBM PC/XT , and an IBM PC/AT
Memory: 640KB
Hard-disk: 20 MB
Floppy: 360Kb 5.25&quot;
CPU: 4.77 MHz AMD 8088 w/ AMD 8087 co-processor






Before that though my sister had the Comm-64

 

[Ryan]

My current RIg