QOTD: What Was Your First Computer?

[doittoit]

: TRS-80 Model III (OS in ROM, with 48k of ram and dual 5 1/4" floppies.
2: TI/4A (OS in ROM, external cassette tape drive)
3: Apple II+ (2 5 1/4" floppies)
4: TI PC (8088 with a 10 MB hard drive, color video, 2 x 5 1/4" floppies)
5: Mac Classic (80 MB hard drive 3 1/2") floppy
... which brings us all the way to 1992

 

[Snuffles]

Atari 800 - Bruce Lee never looked so bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpfv7_m7hyQ

 

[old_fart_again]

North Star Horizon w/4 MHz Z80, 64k RAM, dual 180k Floppy drives. Colorado Business School testing results showed it as 4X as fast as IBM PC.

 

[Guest]

A Salora Fellow

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=1117&st=1
http://www.tietokonemuseo.net/koneita/salorafellow.htm

 

[wikiwikiwhat]

Pentium 90MHz WASSUP!!!!
I'm not sure about the rest of the stats. I got it from my Dad when I didn't know squat about computers except for the fact that I really wanted to play Red Alert. I don't think it had onboard sound. And it didn't have a video card either. I do know that it ran win95.

I took it in to get my computer cleaned up (little did I know then that they just used windows). They were going to charge me 150 bucks so I said screw the PC. I asked them before that how much to add processing power to like (laugh) 300Mhz. He told me 300 bucks. Mmmm...nope.

 

[jfpilon]

Atari 800 XE, with a daisy whell printer that was about as loud as a machine gun.

 

[michiganteddybear]

first I owned was a sinclair ZX80.. complete with the extra 1K ram (total 2k).

first I used.. some time share mainframe the school district had, dont know what it was, but I dialed in using a DECWriter II with 300 baud accoustic coupled modem (yea, had to put the phone headset into the rubber cuffs).

 

[Guest]

TRS-80 model 4 (that's Tandy Radio Shack for you youngins) with 64K RAM, built-in monochrome monitor and keyboard. It had 2x 5" floppy drives, one for the OS and the other for my programs and data. Back in the day, it was the bomb. Some days, when I'm about to throw my Vista laptop out the window, I pine for a command line.

 

[Ambictus]

First one I used was an Epson 286 or 386... can't remember. It had a 40MB hard drive and ran DOS. The first computer I personally owned was an AT&T with a 486DX2 @ 50Mhz with 4MB RAM... Ahhh the good 'ol days.

 

[grandshadow3581]

My first computer was an Apple IIGS, no hard drive 256k memory, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives.

 

[ealfaro]

First computer:
Printaform 8086 5 MHz/10 MHz (Turbo) (you had to press ctrl + Alt + (+) I'm to activate tubo or the switch on the case)
2 Floppy drives 5 1/4 (360 kb), I don't remember the RAM but it think it was 640 kb.
Monitor CGA.
MS-DOS 3.2
My first viruses stoned and ping-pong
Best games Stunts and F1 accolade.

 

[NocturnalOne]

My dad brought home a Z80 (probably) based eval board with 6 digits and a keypad and started teaching my sister and me how computers work based on the famous Osborn book. That wasn't really 'my' computer though. I got a Sinclair ZX-81 after that and a 16K expansion pack. Fiddled with a PET and later got a C=64. I wanted a Spectrum but my dad said the C=64 had more software. I then wanted an Amiga but had to get a PC-XT instead. Software compatibility again. I then waited years until I bought my first P2 based system.

 

[geminireaper]

Well not sure if this thing counts as a pc. Had a keyboard and 2 tape drives. Required to boot the OS by tape drive. I had Buck Rodgers video game on cassette tape.

It was the Coleco Adam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coleco-adam.jpg

 

[Guest]

Mine was an Amstrad CPC464 with an integrated tape player, 64KB of RAM and a green monocrome monitor.

 

[commonlove1985]

The good old Commodore 64

 

[aceprowler]

This was my first computer. Won it out of cereal contest.

Commodore VIC-20
Introduced: June 1980
Released: January 1981
Price: US $299
CPU: MOS 6502, 1MHz
RAM: 5K (3.5K for the user)
Display: 22 X 23 text
176 X 184, 16 colors max
Ports: composite video
joystick, cartridge, user port
serial peripheral port
Peripherals: cassette recorder
printer, modem
external floppy drive
OS: ROM BASIC

 

[mp33]

Very first system was a used 286/12 1mb ram, 256k video, 40 mb hd. Next system was an amazing at the time 50MHz 486DX, 16mb ram, 1GB 5400rpm seagate hawk scsi hd, 1mb isa video, could not use the VL bus for video cause of the 50MHz front side bus of the DX50 which sucked. next system in 1995 was an animal for its day, Pentium 100, 32mb ram, 4GB Seagate barracuda 7200rpm scsi on pci bus which cost about $1700 by itself and 4mb VRAM Diamond Stealth 64 PCI

 

[xyzionz]

From what I could remember is a 386 with like 4~8MB ram with MS-Dos
Then later 486 with Windows 3.1 and my favorite game was POP

 

[kamkal]

Pentium 60mhz
8mb ram
540mb hdd

doom ran so good on this thing! lol

 

[rabidbunny]

The first computer I ever owned was a dell dimension 4550 from early 2003 (heh, old I know)

Has a P4 @2.4ghz, 256mb ram, 60gb WD hd, nvidia geforce mx 420,Creative SB Live! 5.1 card

Luckily, that beast survived a hammering (literally) when I installed a new PSU. It is now upgraded and used as a school computer for my sister.

 

[kryten42]

In 1989, I got an IBM PS/2 Model 55SX
16MHz 386SX CPU
2MB RAM
30MB Hard drive
12" COLOR monitor.
3.5" floppy
Paid extra for an external 5.25" floppy
Came with DOS 3.3, later upgraded to 5.0 and Win 3.1
And eventually added a MicroChannel SoundBlaster card

I still have the computer. I use it as a monitor stand.

 

[turboedge]

CompuAdd 316s.. Intel 386sx@16MHz, 1MB RAM, 40MB HDD, 5.25" Floppy, MS-DOS v5.0 (maybe v5.1 if there was such a thing), and Windows v3.1. Later added a 3.5" floppy, IBM PC-DOS v6.3, 2x CD-ROM (which failed under warranty and was replaced with a 4x), 4MB RAM, WDC 1.2GB HDD (which failed and was replaced with a 1.6GB I think). Ah those were the days, was great for playing the original Wolfenstein.

 

[Guest]

Timex Sinclair 2k RAM + 16k expansion pack, cassette deck for storage, B&W TV
Followed by vic-20, C-64, then a (4.7 Mhz? ) 8086 with 'huge' 30 MB HDD
I'm only 23, it was all second hand stuff

 

[theubersmurf]

An Apple IIe that my father tried to get me to learn to program on. Back when I was eight...Turned me off to computers for a long time.

 

[bourgeoisdude]

A "Drake" 80486 33MHz with 4MB of RAM running Windows 3.1 with MS-DOS 6.0. (later found out that Drake doesn't sell PCs, and that our whole PC was pirated. Woohoo.)