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What was your first computer by brand.

What was your first computer brand.

  • Amiga

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Commodore 64/128

    Votes: 21 19.6%

  • Radio shack / Tandy

    Votes: 11 10.3%

  • Apple

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • Atari

    Votes: 16 15.0%

  • Timex

    Votes: 4 3.7%

  • Altair

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • IBM/Clone (PC)

    Votes: 25 23.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 21 19.6%

  • Macintosh

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Total voters
    107
Thebobo

Thebobo

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So as the title says. I was think along the lines of OS when grouping them in the poll I'm sure I missed a lot of brands just these were off the top of my head. You can list the models here.

Mine was the C=64 but returned it a couple weeks later and got a C=128. My friend who got me into computers had a timex sinclair. He was always typing in the machine language programs from magazines into that horrible keypad.
 
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C 64 connected to a Magnavox TV, what do I win?

Storage was a tape drive, couldn't afford a 5.25" floppy until a few years later.
 
First computer was an apple (classic?) that we bought at an auction at our school. It was $300 and came with a 5.25 floppy and a dot matrix printer and a handful of games. I remember that there was one game we got with it that never worked, Frisbee or something, and it always made me mad.
 
C64, although i did own a Intellivision before that - but i guess that qualifies as a console, not a PC.

not that i did any "PC stuff" on my C64, i think the closest i ever got to coding was looking at a program printout you were supposed to type yourself. Yeah right. i was like 10yo.

a friend of mine ... well, a friend of mine's dad had a Apple IIc, and he could run Dark Castle, which was like, mind-blowingly better than anything else in existence at that time.
Thing is, to aim, you had to use this thing called a "mouse" and i was like wtf, this is impossible.
 
Timex Sinclair, then TI-99, Atari & finally a Vendex Headstart Explorer 8086 PC..
Started building my own afterwards.. First one was a 286 w/1meg RAM & 80 Meg. HDD..

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Tandy Trash-80, followed by a Commodore 64, an IBM PS2 Model 50Z, a professionally built 486 clone. Then I started building my own.
 
We had an Apple II at some point when I was quite young. Don't recall doing much on it other than word-processing and playing Frogger.
 
Acer Aspire in 1996

Where is "Acer" in the poll?

Well, I had an Apple Mac Plus or something before that and a TI-99/4A before that, but those were already obsolete when I got them.

Where is "Texas Instruments" in the poll?
 
Ichinisan said:
Acer Aspire in 1996

Where is "Acer" in the poll?

Well, I had an Apple Mac Plus or something before that and a TI-99/4A before that, but those were already obsolete when I got them.

Where is "Texas Instruments" in the poll?
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Acer would fall under IBM/Clone, I'd think.
 
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."

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