What was your first computer?
 

This was mine, the Texas Instruments TI-99. The first thing I typed in was...
"Is there a god?"
It replied...
Syntax error :1orglaugh



http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ti994-monitor.jpg

atari 400

Apple 2 here... Damn that was a long time ago...:pimp

hehe
mine was a Commodore 64

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/200...64_540x359.JPG

Atari 800 XL

www.smithore.com/atari-800-xl.php

Or that was actually really my brother, the first one I bought myself were a Amiga 500.
Still miss that Wings of Fury game...

http://www.hipsterwave.com/wp-conten...500_system.jpg

in 1983 IBM PCjr
http://www.zeenanoko.com/orig/images...r_System_1.jpg

Apple IIc

tandy 1000 here :)

AT Clone :)

Paper keypunch cards.

Same !!! :winkwink:

C=64 baby

*,8,1

same here

Cray .....

http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/x...photo/cray.jpg

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apple 8500 it was 120 mhz processor i believe.
http://www.mac-man.co.uk/wp-content/...av-261x300.jpg

Colecovision ADAM. All my friends were playing cool pirated games on their C64's and I was stuck with Buck Rogers on a cassette. :mad:

Amiga video was the BOMB back in the day!

Commodore 64 till the Amiga 500 came out. I loved playing Ultima IV & Sim City on it.

ZX Spectrum 48k. Good times.

Probably something like this...
shipped with 8mb of memory. lol

And before that I actually rented a computer for a while from Rent A Center or some shit, a PC with Windows 3.1 or something.

http://wecandobiz.files.wordpress.co...-pc-xt-502.jpg

(IBM XT) I fondly remember getting hit with the Stoned virus a few times.

Apple IIgs, followed by a Macintosh SE...

http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/O...pleIIgs-6L.jpg

I think this is the GEICO caveman introducing the IIgs:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/m...4_1004673c.jpg

ADG

Some IBM when I was about 6. My parents sold it 3 days later because they heard the monitor would ruin my eyes or something. Then we got an Apple IIc a couple years after that.

wow lots of veterans in here.. am I the only Tandy?? hehe

My first PC was a IBM 8086, think the year was around 82/83.

I don't recall offhand what it was called, but all it could really do was run Pong.

Edit: I loved it.

486 processor 13 gig HD Dos with quickmenu and also windows 3.1

I was around 13 I think.

Its funny though because in school I remember using many of the computers in those old ass pics that are posted. lol

HAHAHAH that was my first computer also. I remember doing the is there god on it also. :)

Did you by chance have "Hunt the Wumpus"
http://www.videogamehouse.net/huntwumpus.html

first one I ever worked on was an appleIIc in jr high.. first one I bought was a packard bell 486 it was a peice of shit I bought it to on AOL when aol1.5 came out LMAO....

I think my first actual home computer was a Tandy from Radio Shack.

That lasted a few months, maybe a year? Those tape drives were junk, and you could not do a lot with them. So then had upgraded to an IBM. However, I learned on Apple IIc or IIe at the local high school when I was in sixth or seventh grade.

They offered the entire school system classes after school. So you could come in and learn at the computer lab on the new computers. You basically learned simple programming. I signed up and paid for the after school class. We did not have them in the lower levels yet.

I had a Vic-20 with a tape recorder drive. I wish I had kept it.

wow, I was only a year old when that thing came out :1orglaugh

I had one of these:

Timex Sinclair

http://www.adlininc.com/uxpioneers/images/ts1000.jpg

Me, too. Tandy 1000 RL to be exact.

I had used computers plenty before, but it was the first that I owned and kept in my bedroom.

I had most of the ones listed including the ZX80 as far as PCs go.

But then I had already been programming for about 10 years before that. The first one I wrote programs for was on a GE115 with COBOL.

Radio Shacks TRS-80, a TRASH 80 with no hard drive and a string of floppy drives running Visicalc, Mailbox, and our accounting program.

I traded up for 2 IBM XTs and a AT that were networked with 300 baud modems and 300 Meg harddrives at a cost of $32,000 for the set.

I still have them.

You youngin's and your modern computers. Here's my first computer:

http://www.3dnews.ru/_imgdata/img/2007/08/22/57032.jpg

It at 16k of RAM (with 5 "wait states"! (Anybody remember wait states?)), a 1 MHZ Z80 Processor, A Monochrome screen which was really a TV with the VHF, UHF and Volume control knobs removed (see picture!), and of course a cassette player to save and load programs at a speed 500 baud. It could display 80 x 24 characters per screen, and had a graphics resolution of 128 x 48 (Not much banner than a banner ad now that I think of it!). The pixels depth was only 2 bit, meaning On or Off. No colors, no shades of grey.

The coolest thing about this computer and all others of the era was actually the lack of power. It forced programmers to be very tight with their code, and game players to use lots of imagination.

Long Live the TRS-80.

TRS-80 from Radio Shack. Affectionately nicknamed the "Trash 80".

http://blogbeckett.files.wordpress.c...1/trs80pic.jpg

Oh yeah, I remember.

With different games I would have to make different boot disks to deal with memory issues. At one time there were 4-5 different boot up disks you used depending on what I wanted to do on that old IBM.

Back then, you actually had to know a wee bit of code or how to deal with configuration issues. Some basic DOS to deal with the bottle necks and different issues that would come up. I remember having to read BBS's or thumbing through code books trying to solve issues.

Ah. The bad ole days....

-Vic 20
- Commodore 64
- Commodore 128
- Amiga 500 + 52MB HD (4MB ram)

In that order.

Before there was Apple or the PC....

http://datapeak.net/images/ctc_datapoint-2200_1.gif

http://www.1000bit.it/lista/d/datapo...apoint2200.jpg

Timex Sinclair. Never heard of a Timex computer? The Sinclair was so bad I think they were done with the computer thing after it.

By the way, if anybody needs any 5.25" floppies, I still have some.

zx-81 with rubber keys... first laptop was the first apple model, black and white with a 32mb hdd, still got it and it still works, never even replaced the battery, hp and co cant boast that!

Me too. I just had to actually go check, but not one computer on my network can read them. I wonder if I have my thesis backed up on something besides those . . .

Mine had mp/m and a 8 inch disk drive. Am I old now?

My first computer was a Commodore 128, but right after I graduated high school (1989) I got a job working for Radio Shack selling Tandy computers. My mom still has her Tandy 1000 that she bought from me way back then somewhere in storage.

I had the collecovision and wanted the ADAM. My neighbor had the Commodore 64 with the tape drive. He had this Dungeons and Dragons game that would take about 15 minutes to load. When your game was over you had reload the entire thing so if you died in 3 minutes, you had to wait another 15 while it loaded again to play.