QOTD: What Was Your First Computer?

[Robert17]

Owned was a TRS Color-80; plugged into my 19" TV, dual 5-1/4 floppies. I had to completely disassemble/clean/reassemble the keyboard a dozen times to get the spilt chocolate milk out (thanks kids) as the kids played the goofy stickman I had written over and over. First comp I worked at was a TTY-God-only-knows in the Navy; after that a punch card comp the size of a school bus at college.

 

[Guest]

my first computer was a Pentium 75 MHz with 16 MB Ram (4 slot) and 800 MB Hard drive (Quantum) i get it when i was young boy about 12 years old have 2 floopy and creative labs 64 ( CD-Rom 12X, and SoundCard), and the movie player card. i forget the vga but it have only 1 MB vga Ram. used to play game from microphose.

 

[Guest]

My first was, an AMSTRAD 3086 XT,8MHz, 640k RAM,256 VGA monitor (Built-in Paradise VGA chipset), 40mb HHD, 720k 3.5" floppy drive. Worked on Dos. Keyboard had rock solid construction. Still have that ah heck in my closet!

 

[blashyrkh]

My first was a Sinclair Spectrum ZX128. Yea, it was the super vesrion with full 128Kb of memory!!! Yeay!!!!
My first PC though, was manufactured by Huynday (wth??) and used a 8086 by Intel running at the amazing speed of 3,75Mhz!!!
16 colours (shades of grey, not colours really) FTW!!!!

 

[Caffeinecarl]

First I ever used: Apple IIe
First in my family: Some Compaq with a 250 MHz proc and 32 MB RAM
First I owned: An HP Pavilion with a Celeron 667 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive, onboard graphics, and Windows ME... The upgrades started a week after with a bump to 128 MB and they just never stopped!

 

[Guest]

TI-99/4A with the external expansion chasse that had two 5.25 floppy’s and an 32KB ram card and speech synth.

 

[g0rilla]

Panasonic 386

 

[quietstorm]

Family PC: TI-99 4A, complete w/ the speech synth, 2 5 1/4" drives in the external expansion chassis, and the cassette drive! My first PC was a P2/233 with a huge 4.3 gb hard drive and a state of the art 128 bit 4mb vid card (circa '97).

 

[alantlchan]

AMD 80286 16MHz
1MB RAM, I still remember they were 44256 chips
40MB HDD
1.2MB 5.25" FDD
1.444MB 3.5" FDD
Trident 16-bit ISA Display card w/ 256KB (maybe 512KB)
PC-DOS 3.3
Windows 3.0
VGA monitor

 

[Guest]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K back in 1985.

 

[wishtar]

Atari 800XL for $100. The floppy drive was $180.

 

[Guest]

The first computer I ever used was my high school's IBM-360 w/IBM Dumb terminal(Don't know the model), punch cards etc....

First computer owned by me, got it as a hand-me-down gift for enrolling at DeVry in 1990, was a True-Blue IBM-PC w/13" MGA "Green Screen", 2x 5.25" 360K floppies 640K memory (Mobo w/256K + AST SixPackPlus w/364K), running trusty old MS Dos 3.3.
My First upgrade was a Seagate ST-250R 40MB HHD that cost me about $280 w/controller card!!!!!
Ahhhh, the good ole days of DMA/IRQ conflicts, 8 minute bootups, and low-fi sound from the built-in pc speaker. How I can so live without them......
My current comp:
Case: Antec SX-1040BII
MB/Proc: Abit It7-Max2 & Intel P4-2.4G sans HT
PSU: Antec TruePower Trio 650
Memory: 2x Corsair XMS512-PC2700
Video Card: ATI/Visiontek HD-2600
Sound Card: Philips Acoustic Edge PSC-706A
SATA HDD's: 1x500GB WD, 1x400GB WD, 1x200GB Maxtor(On RAID port using SATA/PATA adapter
PATA HDD's: 1x80GB Maxtor, 1x40GB WD
DVD Burner: Plextor PX-716A
CD Burner: Lite-On 48246S
This setup is slowly dying so I will be moving up to Core-i7 next month.

 

[Guest]

Dang,

I missed this QOTD, but hope it's not too late to comment.

My first computer "experience" was in a local electronics factory, where the owner had built a machine from a kit and played "Adventur", the precursor to the Zork game series. It was a text based adventure, and it was amazing to me. Some time later, the guy who brought me to that place purchased a VIC-20. He had no clue how to use it, so I "borrowed" it for a couple of months. Then I got my first machine, a Commodore 64, and eventually got all the bells and whistles for it (still have it).

My first "real" computer was a 80286-12, and with a dot matrix printer, cost me $2000 at a computer show. It eventually sported Windows 286! My kids grew up with Dr. Halo (aka Paint), and the other early programs. I kept the computer in the attic, and after my first heart attack, I lacked the ability to tell when the room was too hot. The disk drive fried, and the old tech was no longer available. I replaced the custom machine with a bare bones 386-16, and eventually built a 486 DX-100 in the old 286 case.

 

[jonnyboyC]

I think the first computer that i ever used was our families sony don't remember the name of it. But it was some hot stuff back in 1990's got a brand new pentium 2 256 ram and a massive 80gb hd. I'm pretty sure we had that computer for 7 8 years. we used it till it wouldn't boot in 2005

 

[leon2006]

Apple-IIe is my firts PC. After 6 months i built my own PC-XT.

Univeristy IBM mainframes are the first computers i use. Mainly for Advance Mathematics & circuit design related calculations.

After that i thought i need to have one at home. My XT took ~ >18hrs to process what the University mainframe crunch for < a minute. What a reality check!

 

[Miharu]

TRS 80 Model I a.k.a COCO 1.
No HD only 360k floppy disk.

 

[spinaltap775]

My first computer was a Dell Optiplex GX150, gave it to my dad then bought a Dell Optiplex GX210.