What was your first computer?

[Dennis Travis]

Very first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 followed by a Commodore 64 with 3 1541 Drives and a 1581 3.5". After that a Commodore 128, Atari 800, 800XL and later 130XE with 512 K RAM. First GUI machine was an Atari 1040ST followed by Amiga 500, then Mac Plus at the same time. When I used the Amiiga I built a 286/16 with 1 Meg RAM to learn the PC. That little Amiga was so impressive graphics wise for it's time though. Applications in a lot of cases were not that good but it sure multitasked for a system with an 8Mhz 68000. I really at the time wanted a faster Mac but could not afford one till years later.

 

[LtPage1]

apple lcII

 

[Zebo]

apple macintosh $4500 for the whole fam..we kids faught like Iraqi insurgents to get a shot on it.

 

[LifeStealer]

Tandy made a pc didn't they? FIRST computer was an adding machine that took up more space than my pc now does. No idea who/what made it though.

 

[Bonesdad]

hah, an Osborne II. And I still have it.

 

[sharkeeper]

CCS S100 (4.77MHz Z-80) with 64KB ram and a pair of 8" (512/512) floppies. That was a lot of power in 1979. Ran CP/M.

Cheers!

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Amiga

486 DXII

P1-166

P4-450

AMD 1700+

Etc

 

[Thoth093]

My first real computer was a Commodore 64.

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. It had 2k of Ram. 2k. Black and white screen. No sound. We upgraded it to 16k, and I thought I could rule the planet.

I had my C-64 for years. Loved it and still run a lot of the old games in emulation. (God bless emulators!)

Moved into PCs after that. First one was a 10mhz (yes, again, you read it right) with a vga card. I think it had 640k of RAM. A massive 30 gigabyte hard drive.

Just last week I got my latest, an Athlon 64-based machine with a gigabyte of RAM and a 9800 pro video card (which I'll probably update in about six months).

We've come a long, long way.

Brian

 

[FishTankX]

Originally posted by: Thoth093
My first real computer was a Commodore 64.

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000. It had 2k of Ram. 2k. Black and white screen. No sound. We upgraded it to 16k, and I thought I could rule the planet.

I had my C-64 for years. Loved it and still run a lot of the old games in emulation. (God bless emulators!)

Moved into PCs after that. First one was a 10mhz (yes, again, you read it right) with a vga card. I think it had 640k of RAM. A massive 30 gigabyte hard drive.

Just last week I got my latest, an Athlon 64-based machine with a gigabyte of RAM and a 9800 pro video card (which I'll probably update in about six months).

We've come a long, long way.

Brian

30GB is quite massive for a 10MHz processor.

 

[Texun]

Premier 1600 ? Whatever that was. It had a 268\16 with a whopping 4 megs of memory with shared on board video and a 40meg hard drive with DOS 4.0. I was in awe when I saw the color DOS shell. My first game was a shareware floppy called Pharaoh's Tomb. Great game!

 

[heartsurgeon]

Data General SuperNova (#2 off the assembly line)

this is at least 9-10 years before the IBM PC became available.

4K of memory covered a board 16" square.

maxed out, the machine had 64K of memory (man, you could rule the world with that much memory)

 

[jtusa]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
first machine was an IBM PS/1 286 /8MHz with 640K RAM, and a 40meg hard drive.
even had a 3.5" floppy instead of a 5.25.. it was futuristic!!

Pretty much the exact same here except mine was a PS/2. I played the original Sid Meier's Civilization sooo much on that computer.

 

[Regs]

Hah @ the mono chrome PC's

 

[DGath]

Wow... I feel old. There's definately some computers before my time, but I was expecting to be newer than most. When I ehar first computers with Win95, brings back good memories of how insanely cool it was the first time I booted that P.O.S. operating system. I watched every percent of that installation in anticipation. Anyways.... Like many on here, Commodore 64 was the bomb. I was way too young to remember any sort of specs, but I do remember playing all sorts of games on it, like Moon Patrol, MISL soccer, some maze game, and a ton of others. Prior to that I had a Texas Instruments game console that rocked! After the 64 we stuck with commodore and got an Amiga and I played Red Baron and Strike Aces to death. Then a 386, then 486, then Ps I, then II, then II, now IVs. I think the first computer that was actually mine was one of the P-1s. I remember getting on AOL and bulliten boards and downloading porn, getting on my DOS picture viewer and wating 10 seconds for pictures to load up. Face........ Neck...... Boobs...... stomach...... etc..... We got our first CD-rom in probably early late 80's/early 90's (wasn't any special speed, cause they only had one speed at that point) and I had this "Animals" CD-rom that actually had movies of Cheetahs running on it, and I was blown away that I could actually watch video on my computer. Kept myself entertained in those days by playing Civ, Jobes in the Fast Lane, and getting on the Sierra Network and playing games.

Childhood, wow... good times. In 20 years, this same thread will pop up again and people will be talking about their first computer that was a P5 4.8 ghz and all the replies will be "OMG, STFU, that's sooooo lame."

Off to go play with my new Dell Axim X30.

 

[Maggotry]

Originally posted by: Heretik
Commodore 64 with 1541 floppy drive.

Had mine plugged into a B&W TV. I think it was a 13" or maybe a 15". Later I got a color TV, same small size though. I remember using a hole punch to make another notch on the other side of the 5.25" disk so you could turn it over and double your capacity! My favorite games on that thing were Defender of the Crown, the Phantasy series, and The Bard's Tale series. Also enjoyed the D&D game Pool of Radiance.

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Man, you guys are new-school.

The very first? The oldest one I remember being in my parents' house (that I used, anyway) was an IBM AT 8086 running at a whopping 4Mhz (I think, or maybe it was 2Mhz...)! Yay DOS 3.0 and 4-color CGA graphics!

IBM PC = 4.77MHz

 

[bluemax]

Texas Instruments TI99 4/a.

Started with just the base unit, but would eventually snag up (for a song!) the ENORMOUS expansion box with 5.25" 180k floppy disk, 16k RAM upgrade and enhanced TI basic!

I started with cartridges and the requisite tape deck. Anyone else remember;

>LOAD CS1

*BEEP* "press ENTER when you are ready, then press PLAY on cassette deck."

boooooooooooo-beedeelleedeelleedeelee(for 1-5 minutes)deelee-dooo-dooo

*BEEP*
*BEEP* "press STOP on Cassette desk"

RUN

 

[moretoys]

Haven't seen one in the post yet, a TI99-4A with cassette drive (Texas Instruments). Could get freeware games & type in the programs
Even wrote a simple drawing program for it. Think it is still kicking around somewhere...unless casualty of a move.

then a 286, various cyrix processors (166+, 233+),AMD K6-2 500, intel Cel 333 OC, AMD Duron 700 OC, Amd Duron 900 OC, AMD 1.33 OC, 2200+, now at 2500+ oc3500+. Expect to go 64 within 6 months

 

[madogvt]

Apple II +

 

[moretoys]

Hey, and you could listen to the latest Foreigner tape on the data cassette drive to boot! actually I think Juke Box Hero was a few years later

 

[SonicIce]

celeron 300
voodoo3
128mb ram
10gb total hd space
Still using it now

 

[screw3d]

An abacus.

 

[skyeclad]

1st Computer - Timex Sinclair - No real use. A computer! Cool! What do I do with it?
2nd Computer - Commodore Vic 20 - Wow, a new computer! Again what do you do with this thing?
3rd Computer - Atari 800XL - Ah, games, graphics and word processing! That's what a computer is for.
4th Computer - Amiga 500 - The Holy Grail of computer gaming!!!!!!
5th Computer - Gateway 486DX - Um, why is the Amiga section of the gaming store getting smaller?
6th Computer - Dell P133 - Um, what happend to the local gaming store? They went out of business?
7th Computer - Alienware Athlon 700 - B&M is for sissies. Internet buying rules!
8th Computer - Upgraded Alienware to Athlon 1600+ - Premade computers are for sissies!
9th Computer - Upgraded Alienware to Athlon 2400+ - Hmm, I feel another upgrade coming on!

 

[moretoys]

True 3d graphics on that, ehh screw3d!

 

[imported_Bunter]

In order:
Mattel Intellivision
IBM PC (8088-4.77 MHz, 128KB RAM (I went all out), 2 x 5 1/4" floppies, monochrome)
IBM PC AT (8086-6 MHz, 640KB RAM, a whopping 20MB hard drive that turned out to be a 30)
Homebuilt 80486-25sx, 12MB RAM, VGA, 270MB hard drive
Homebuilt Pentium 133MHz, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB Hard drive
Homebuilt Pentium 200MMX, 128MB RAM, 6.4GB Hard drive
Homebuilt Pentium II 450MHz, 256MB RAM, 10GB Hard drive
Homebuilt AMD 2500+, 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard drive


The most expensive of all was the IBM PC. I could build a couple of A64 3800+ systems for the cost of that screaming machine.