QOTD: What Was Your First Computer?

[Purrorritt]

Mine was a PDP-11/03. 56K RAM, Hazeltine terminal and all the Macro-11 goodness you could enter into TECO.

 

[Wgfalcon]

AT&T pentium 60, 2 hd 400mb and 500mb, 16 mb ram, a cirrus logic 1mb vid card, 2x cdrom and a floppy

 

[Cuddles]

I came from a poor background thus computers were not an option. A teacher had a Radioshack Tandy that I used which was the first one I had used. When I turned 18 my best friend's family took me in for the rest of my school year. They never said they were taking me in and I never really asked it just happened. They had an Apple 2 which I used all the time and then I went into the Army.
Came out I built my own which was an AMD. Then I think I built an Intel and boy it ran sweet. Then I went to an AMD and that lasted for about three years before it was struck with a surge. It was real bad and the computer really blew up. I decided not to get another but then I shattered my back. I rebuilt two systems that run everything and looking at a third.

 

[TheFace]

I first used a IBM PC junior when I was growing up in the 80s. My dad had gotten Monster Math and Gertrude's Secrets which were simple learning games (edutainment?). It only had a green/yellow screen on it though. Pretty sure he still has it in storage.

 

[Guest]

My first computer was a Compaq Presario 486DX @ 33MHz, it had 8MB of Ram, 1MB onboard VGA (1MB was like WOW! those days), and a 110MB Quantum HDD of course with a 3.5 Floppy drive (I still have my first ever floppy disk I used with that drive ),it didn't have any optical drive though. oh just remembered it had a 90W PSU.. lol..

 

[michaelahess]

First computer I could call my own was a CompUSA 386SX-16 with 1MB of ram and a 40GB hard drive. No sound card, and an ATI Integra video card with I believe 512KB of ram. 5.25 and 3.5 HD Floppies and a 14" VGA monitor, Packard Hell.

First PC I used and subsequently started programming on? Apple IIe and Laser128 (got a couple of each in the garage) at the ripe old age of 7.

 

[Guest]

I first owned a 386/40mhz with 512k of ram and a 40 meg hard drive. Wow how things have changed. Running windows 3.0

 

[cruiseoveride]

486SX 33

But i mostly used Apple LC2s

 

[copenhagenlc]

haha my first was a IBM aptiva in 1996
A fast pentium 133, not mmx
at 28.8 modem
1 meg of video ram
40 megs of ram, was a TON of ram
and all i would ever need in a hard drive 1.16gb

remember playing red alert and doom 2 untill my mother would come screaming at me, god i was 7 back then lol

haha, damn cellphone is more powerful now, my oh my how times have changed

 

[spiralsun1]

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 which I soldered together from a mail-order kit in 1981. About a year later, I got the 16k module for my birthday. I first learned to program on that -- you did not buy software back then. It was cool, because the computer did exactly what you told it to. If it did not, YOU changed the program... I programmed some text-based responsive AI programs and a few graphics programs that were pretty simple. It was fun though. Felt like I was a member of the Starship Enterprise crew. I was COMPUTING! No one had computers back then.

 

[shades_aus]

I saved and saved and saved and got an AMIGA 500 that had only 512KB memory but would format a disk at the same time as print or word process!
I was the popular one amongst friends with over 32 colours in normal mode and 4096 colours in Hold And Modify mode. Yes REAL multitasking in 512k of memory!
It was just awesome but cost a fortune and only had 880k single 1.5" floppy. 512k expansion cost me $250

 

[Guest]

pentium pro 100mhz
10 gb hard drive
cirrus logic video
32mb ram

was using it until 2003

 

[pirateboy]

Acorn BBC Model B
Nuff said !!!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

First computer was a C64 with tape and 5,25" floppy, but that was my parents, not mine. My first very own computer was a 25mhz 468sx (upgraded to that) with 8mb ram (upped to 24mb fastpage), a 150mb and a 90mb harddrive, and later a sound blaster 8bit with a 2x cdrom drive attached. I still remember trying to play theme park on it. Wasn't quite fast enough for that, but it was good enough to play nascar over a serial link with my dad on his much faster dx2 ; ah it was nice to be 13 ... sooo long ago.

 

[Maxor127]

Technically it was a TRS-80, but I was too young to really use it on my own, so I might have to say Commodore 64 instead.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]jwl3[/nom]A 286 12mhz with a "turbo" button that halved the speed to 6mhz. Why in the world would anyone want to slow it down is my question. I destroyed 384k of the 1 MB memory when I attempted to remove it and found out too late that the memory was soldered on and not upgradeable. Oops.[/citation]
From what I recall, the turbo button disabled the math processor. I wasn't aware a 286 even had support for one of those!

 

[ineegma]

ZX Spectrum+

 

[voynikov]

My first machine was a 6502 based Bulgarian built Pravets 82

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=988&st=1

Later on I switched to Commodore 64 which is still my favorite piece of hardware ever. And from there I jumped all the way to an AMD 386DX with 32KB built-in L-2 cache!!!

 

[RazberyBandit]

In 1980, my older brother brought home a true classic x86 PC - the TI99/4, complete with the Zenith 13" Color TV, I mean monitor. It was our family's first PC. By today's standard, it was a slow, but programmable, color calculator. I can only recall playing Boulderdash on it, as I was only 7-years old at the time. LOL

Other PC's we owned:
Commodore VIC-20 (lovely cartridge games. The Count, anyone?)
Atari 800 (Junky...never liked it)
Timex Sinclair 1000 (more junk, but affordable junk)
Commodore 64 (Jordan vs Bird and Bruce Lee FTW!)
Commodore C-128 (Meh... I had an NES. I never used it)


But, the first PC I could ever truly call my own was an IBM Aptiva, Pentium 200-based system.

 

[katmandude]

first one in 1983 the Oric!! great little machine ^^
http://histoire.info.online.fr/images/col-oric1.jpeg

moved to an IBM clone with raaahhh!!
Intel 8088 CPU, 640 K Ram, 2 flopies 360K, 1 hard drive 40Megs, RGB Graphic card, 80 col. by 25 lines, 1 parallel port, 1 serial port
cost about 3000€ equivalent.... argh ^^

 

[issar85]

My first was an Apple II, I was 3 years old and my dad has a picture of me fallen asleep on the keyboard. LOL

 

[mitch074]

First computer I used was a Thomson MO-5, with the 64K RAM expansion cartridge (at school). Ran TOS.

First 'puter I owned was a Commodore PC-1 (yup, Commodore didn't do only Amigas, they built IBM PC-compatibles...) based on an i8088@4.77MHz, no coprocessor, no expansion bus, 512 Kb of RAM (extended to 640 Kb), a single 360K floppy drive, no hard disk, and an Hercules mono-compatible video... thingy. Hand-me-down from the older bro', who had just gotten an Amstrad PC 6386.

First 'puter I built myself was a 430TX-based P75 (recycled from a previous hand-me-down, piece after piece), which saw components replaced one after the other (CPU ended up a P133@166, it saw the Voodoo, and 64 Mb of SDRAM to replace the 8 Mb of FPM-DRAM it inherited from the previous one).

First 'puter built from scratch, was a sweet machine I kept for years: Abit BH6 + Celeron 300A@450, with 384 Mb of SDRAM.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]issar85[/nom]My first was an Apple II, I was 3 years old and my dad has a picture of me fallen asleep on the keyboard. LOL[/citation]
share that!
Proof that even small kids know apple is boring!

 

[Guest]

Sinclair ZX80

 

[akard73]

oh man, days to remember..

first computer to own was an Amstrad CPC-6128 (128kb RAM, 3" disk drive - 180kb per side), green monitor (later got colour monitor).

before that played with friend Sinclair Spectrum ZX-81, Atari VCS 2600 (ok it was a console), Amstrad CPC 464 (tape drive), Commodore VIC-20 (cartridge slot + tape drive later), Commodore C64 (tape), Atari 520ST, Amiga 500.

Next to Amstrad, I got a local OEM PC (Turbo-X PC) with 2 5.25 360k floppies.. a Hyundai 1200 baud internall modem and started my first BBS.. First floppy had DOS + Minihost BBS program.. second floppy had.. files to download.. lol.. upgraded to 84MB SCSI hard disk + controller 'cause MFM hard drives peaked at 40MB these days.. first true color VGA (Tseng Labs ET4000), colour 14" CTX crt monitor.. a sh*tload of money back in those days..

Since then I kept on going on the PC's.. skipped the 286's, went 386DX/40, 386DX/120, 486DX100, Pentium/133, Celeron 300A (overclocked at 450 -b21 pin, remember?), P II/300, 450, 600, P III/1000, P III Celeron/1200 (tualantin), P IV 2.0/2.4/2.8/3.0 and currently at E5300/2.66. Let's see where the road will take us in the next 3-5 years.. we'll see.