What was your first computer by brand.

[monkeydelmagico]

Heathkit

Pretty sure my first computer was a copy of the Heathkit. I had a Zenith Z-151.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Pretty sure my first computer was a copy of the Heathkit. I had a Zenith Z-151.

I had a mighty 8086 with 2 mb of ram soldered to the mb.

 

[Thebobo]

Found this online pretty interesting

 

[Genx87]

Apple IIc

 

[IronWing]

Found this online pretty interesting

Interesting. I would have thought Blackberry peaked much sooner and I didn't know Android was so dominant.

 

[ElFenix]

hit apple and submit before reading the rest of the poahl, it was really macintosh (SE!)

Found this online pretty interesting

what the heck happened in 1991?

 

[DietDrThunder]

hit apple and submit before reading the rest of the poahl, it was really macintosh (SE!)




what the heck happened in 1991?

Desert Storm

 

[IronWing]

what the heck happened in 1991?

Mainstream transition from DOS to Windows started. Mac released the Mac IIsi in late 1990. Maybe folks held off on buying MS until they saw what was needed for Windows. <shrug>

 

[KeithP]

You missed Texas Instruments with the TI-99 4/A

Yep…that was my first.

-Keith

 

[Thebobo]

Yep seems the year Amiga, C=64, Commodore, Atari ST, Next, Apple II all started to crash.
/sniff rip Amiga.

 

[FerrelGeek]

First purchased PC for home use. Gateway 2000 P75 with a 1 gig HDD. Came with win 3.1 and later got the free win 95 upgrade CD.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Yep. Played with one of those in college. Built Z-80 micros during my co-op job.

Very first computer I played with was an Apple IIe at school. The first I really learned to use was my dad's Kaypro II, a CP/M machine. As an old prof put it, "IBM didn't do anyone any favors by adopting DOS over CP/M."

 

[Jon-T]

Atari 800 --> Atari ST ---> Packard Bell 386sx --> hazy cloud of clones

 

[OutHouse]

Gateway 386

 

[Ryland]

My currently in use home computer is a direct descendant of a computer I built around 1995. Each upgrade has taken parts from the previous machine...

 

[Scarpozzi]

My first was a C64, but after that, I acquired a bunch of Vic 20's and a Timex Sinclair.

I played with an Amiga 500 often and eventually got an IBM PS2 (50z)....then a Dell....Then a CompUSA, 486...then an AT&T Pentium 75 (mainly for the TPC combo card that allowed it to do some cool audio/phone stuff) ...then I started building my own to make the jump to PII....then Dell undercut the parts market and it was cheaper to buy again. By the time I got to PIII and dual core PC's, I was buying Dell and HP systems mainly.

 

[bfun_x1]

Epson Equity iie. 286. I played a lot of Kings Quest and Leasure Suit Larry on it. It looked like this.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I ordered my first pc from the ads in Computer Shopper magazine. $2,048.
Featured a Pentium 100. Wow. Such megahertz. Very powerful. Whoa. Super processing!
The brand was ..... Wonderex ... lol.

 

[Ketchup]

Computer Shopper was the bomb!

 

[Sonikku]

Does this count?

 

[sdifox]

Does this count?

Only if it came with blow

 

[olds]

Coleco Adam.
My dad had a Kaypro.

 

[Ken g6]

Technically, I think my first computer was an Atari. Somehow it didn't work right and got returned to the store in about a week. I barely remember it.

My second computer was a Commodore 16. Fairly useless as those things went.

My third computer was a Commodore 128.

All those were bought by my parents, though, as I was under 10 years old or so. My first computer I bought myself had a Cyrix chip in it.

 

[Herr Kutz]

First in every I used was one my parents bought...Zenith I think.

 

[LikeLinus]

The first one I remember was a Tandy. This was mid 80s and we got it at Radio Shack, I think? My first own computer was a Fujitsu laptop in the early 90s. Ran Win 3 if I remember correct. I think I used prodigy or concentric? Wow, it's been a long time and hard to remember. Lol