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

[Tripleshot]

TRS 80 then commdore 64 then Atari 400 then atari 2600 then atari 1040st that I beefed to 2.5 meg of ram,then in 95,when Msoft introduced Win95 and mouse OS,I spent $4700 for my first PC clone, a Zeos Pantera Wildcat P133 with 32 meg ram and 1.2 gig HDD.

I had the first game console in the magnovox oddysy and to really date myself,I had a 4 track tape deck in my cadillac when I was a senior in High school,Aretha Franklin tape blaring down Bellflower Blvd. all before the invention of the 8 track tape deck.

I am an ol' timer,folks!

 

[WombatWoman]

<< I remember when you could double the capacity of a floppy by snipping a bit off the side off. >>


Ah, yes, I remember turning a so-called &quot;single-sided&quot; floppy (only one side of which was certified for data storage) into a &quot;double-sided&quot; floppy by cutting a new write-enable notch. The resultant disk had to be removed and flipped over in order to utilize both sides, so they were often referred to as &quot;flippies&quot;. Worked like a charm most of the time, and back when 5 1/4 inch floppies sold for 3 bucks each, this was well worth doing.

 

[Pacfanweb]

TRS 80

 

[Squisher]

Late to computers, a p133( in '95), but I took a ton of computing classes '76 in Fortran. I use to do my homework in the computing lab because it was so empty.

 

[pulse8]

Don't remember the year, it was 7th grade, though and I graduated in '97. You do the math. Anyway, it was a 386/16 with I don't remember how much RAM, a 40MB hard drive and a 5.25 and 3.5 inch drives.

 

[sohcrates]

apple IIE....scary stuff!

followed that sucka up many years later with a 75mghz beast of a compaq!

 

[dwil]

Vic 20 w/ Cassette tape storage option

 

[Bimmer318i]

Family computer, not sure when, but I imagine in 92 or so?..
maybe earlier, but no later.
386 16 mhz with turbo to turn it into a 25 mhz, or 33, not sure..
5 1/4 &quot; floppy, premium one that read 1.2 &quot; floppies, no 3 1/2 inch, 54 meg hd, dos 5.0, then later dos 6.0, which of both I still have copies, and manuals, haha.
hmm, 14&quot; monitor, 640X480, umm, 512k video card, (at a premium in the day) 2 meg ram,
subsequently that computer started my tinkering, and is currently in pieces, and the case serves as the stand for my current computer, check my rig.

 

[Mattatron5000]

My first computer was new compared to some ppls - the beast that is the 286. w00t

 

[hans007]

we had an epson qx-10 a long time ago.

 

[Robert01]

Some Packard Bell 486 ...

 

[RossGr]

Apple II+ in 1980, I also used a TRS80 at work, boy did that thing suck. I used the Apple to progarm my way through numberical Analysis courses on my way to a BS in Math, a great machine truly a classic and the &quot;original&quot; PC all others followed in the path blazed by the Apple.

A friend had a Timex Sinclair, truly a cute little machine, thou I did not feel it was nearly as useful as my Apple.

We used a hole puncher to notch the other side of the &quot;flippes&quot;
and I got a pretty good deal on my first box of 10 5 1/4 folppies, only $26.00

I lost one disk to my 2yr old son who snagged it off the computer table and tried to take a bite out of it, now he just completed his computer engineering degree at CMU, you might say he cut his teeth on computers!

 

[woodly6]

Mac Classic.

 

[rseraji]

commodore 64


haha. ...
syntax: load file 8,1

 

[jdavis71]

Our first computer was the TRS-80 model 1, later upgraded with a whopping 128k expansion!!! I was later blessed with a Tandy COCO 2 with dual floppy drives!

 

[JediKnut]

Years ago, back in the early 80's my dad got me a Sinclair Spectrum. Since then we've been upgrading &amp; getting new stuff all the time. I remember using the ZX Spectrum + too
Grey machine with audio tapes as floppy drives, connected to the TV playing Mr. Men educational games... ahhh those were the days!

 

[kingz]

You guys are old My first was a Compaq Presario 4784. 200MMX, 32MB PC66 SDRAM (Upgraded to 80MB), 4.3GB HDD (Upgraded to 20GB), 2MB S3 ViRGE (Upgraded to 16MB TNT), 16x Max Slot-load CD-ROM. That with the upgrades lasted me 4 years.

 

[kingz]

<< I use to do my homework in the computing lab because it was so empty. >>


LOL, probably due to the lack of games

 

[metallibloke]

The first computer in our family was a ZX81.

The first I bought was a Packard Bell 486DX2-50MHz.

 

[Kindjal]

First computer &quot;obtained&quot; = IBM PC circa 1985

First legally obtained computer = Leading Edge D3MC 386 16mhx Microchannel

 

[virtuamike]

Apple IIGS. Pirating with a 5.25&quot; drive, those were the days.

 

[IJump]

An atari 800 with a basic cartridge and a (cassette) tape drive.

 

[Blundar]

apple IIc baby!

 

[JediKnut]

Whoa! Back up a minute? Someone called me 'OLD' back there? I'm 20! Gimme a break! I just started off early! MetalliBloke - I can relate to that! heh

 

[mmaleki]

Commodore 64 around 1987.