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What was your first Computer?

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spectrum 48k......followed by a few atari games consoles (2600 &7200??not sure) then was the commodore amiga.....

Then I convinced my parents to part with £2500 for a Pentium 133Mhz...were we ripped off.....was right at the top of the line then!!! with the 3dfx voodoo graphics!
 
AMD K6-2 400 overclocked to 430
PC Chips M598LMR motherboard
onboard video, upgraded to a PCI Radeon 32MB SDR
10GB 5400RPM WD hard drive, upgraded to a 60GB later on
Crappy 14" Dell monitor (still works actually 😛)
64MB PC100 (upgraded to 128, then 384)

Then I moved up to an Athlon XP 2600+, 512MB RAM, GF4 Ti 4600, 17" Sony Trinitron monitor and all was right with the world
 
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Ha! How about a TI99/4A? I learned BASIC on that thing. Memorizing the code for a quick bubble sort helped my team take 3rd in the state computer fair back in like '83 or something. Forgot most of it though...
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Talk about bringing back memories. I still have a 99/4 (as well as the 'A' version) laying around. And the joysticks and tape cable and a few decent game cartridges 😀

I remember the thrill of saving my banking data to a cassette tape. It was so exciting. And writing in BASIC...


 
First one the family had was a 286. First one I bought and owned by myself was a 386SX 20Mhz with 105MB hard drive, 4MB RAM and both 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppy drives. CD-ROMS hadn't come out yet. Later upgraded the system from DOS to Windows 3.11 for workgroups and added a 1 Speed CD-ROM. Before I was done with it, I maxed out the memory at 8MB RAM, and added an x586 processor that upped the CPU speed to around 100MHz.
 
Kaypro "lug-able". One of very first portable. Mono screen (about 5"), 1 5.25 floppy, no hd, and want to say it only had 64k ram.
 
I got the cheap 1 @ $3500 from a local pc shop in 1990

pentium 60
420 mb hd
onboard 1mb video
14.4 us robotics
8 mb ram...lol
14" vga monitor
lexmark color printer
2x creative cdrom


 
Orginal IBM PC with 4.77MHz CPU, 16Kb of RAM. We bought RAM chips to fill the on-motherboard RAM (64KB I believe), and installed two full height 360K 5 1/4 floppies.

After a couple of yearas, it had been upgraded with a new crystal (~6-7 Mhz), 2 half-height 1.2 Meg HD 5 1/4 floppies, and a half-height 10Meg Hard drive. Also had about 2 Meg of expanded memory on a card for a RAM disk. We could load all of Wordperfect into the RAM disk. Boy was that fast!
 
A Packard Bell 486-SX2 50Mhz. It was a sexy beige color, came with a whopping 4MB of RAM and a 350MB hard disk, and proudly proclaimed via a sticker on the top that it met the latest multimedia standards. It was a gift from my mom. Like all Packard Bells, it only accepted proprietary-format PB cards.
 
Tandy 1000...it had no hard drive, no modem, nothing...but it came with Prodigy online service prepackaged??? Nice of them to package something you needed a modem to use...hehe
 
First computer was the Vic20, still have that thing sitting around at my Dad's house, should check it out sometime 🙂.

First PC was a clone DX2/66 machine, 16mb ram, 1mb video, 512mb hd, 14" monitor, 14.4k USR sportster, Windows 95. Cost me around $2300 CDN!

First expierence with a computer was a Commodore Pet & Apple II back in public school in the late 70's or early 80's, still remember seeing Centipede on the Apple II, first time i've ever seen a game on a machine other than from the arcade & I was in awe.
 
My very first was some really old IBM I cant even remember the name of it but I took it apart and when I put it back together it never worked again lol. My first windows pc was a 200mhz p1 with 32mb ram 1.5gb hdd a all in wonder and win 95 lol.
 
Okay, I'm really going to date myself, but my first computer (that I really used) was a Leading Edge. My first, first computer was this bizarre little keypad thing made by Timex in--believe it or not--Scotland. It hooked up to the TV. Can't remember much about it, but it probably just used a simple, BASIC-type language, and didn't really do anything.

The Leading Edge came w/two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I remember at one point I upgraded to a 10 MB hard drive--and that was a big deal at the time, not to have to keep swapping out 5" floppies!

Boy, green monochrome screens--now that takes me back!
 
OH man the good old days... some kind of com64 with the tape drive and if you screwed up and grabbed the wrong unlabled tape you were lost for life...
 
Family = Apple 2e

Before that a friend had a some sort of Tandy. Don't think it was a TRS-80 but maybe. If not it was in that era.
 
My first PC was a leading Edge model D with an 8088 processor circa 1987. The first microcomputer I used was a Wang tape drive unit circa 1974.
 
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