Your First Computer

Thanks to a post by Kris Kringle I got to thinking about computers and how they have changed.

Thought it would be interesting to look back and find out about first computers for our members.

We started out with a Timex Sinclair....Below is a link to a pic and some info on this machine:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=477



It looked like had about as much power as a calculator but it was interesting nonetheless. I remember my Dad spending hours programing this machine to do even the simplest task.

When I was about 4 or 5 my parents got an Apple IIe. We had it for about a year or two then they traded it for a boat! And then we got a Tandy 1000 PC.

Texas Instruments back in about 1982. It didn't work out so well. I didn't own another computer until 1999. I did use some Tandys in high school.

Pentium 2 433mhz, 8meg memory, and 5 gig HD. Before that we had a brother word processor that displayed everything in yellow and black and you had to load all the applications via floppy. I'm only 25 so it was the mid 90's that I finally got in touch with my techie side. I still remember trying to cyber the ladies via BBS. You had to wait 2 days for her to post back she was unbuttoning your shirt. It was hot! This is going to be an interesting thread...

My 1st computer was a Gateway with windows 3.11 in it, sometimes I still miss that thing but at least I still have the hard drive so I didn't lose anything.

My first computer was an ADAM. Man did we have fun programmng our own games in basic.

The nearest thing I could find was -

I started with a Commodore Vic-20. It had a cassette tape drive.

Then I ended up with a Coomodore 64 and that giant 1541 5 1/2 inch floppy that sets next to it. I remember a program that made the drive "hum" bicycle built for two.

I eventually upgraded to the commodore 128 but tired of that rather quickly as PCs as we know them were coming on the scene.

My first PC I mail ordered from Gateway. I don't remember what all it had, but it was a whole new world.

I remember in high school (this was around the vic 20 era) I think the high school had either a PET or a CBM. Something along those lines. I remember a conversation with a friend about what was possible in the future. I asked the question if he thought computers would ever be big enough to play dungeons and dragons on. He said no way. Too much information to track. Well, between all of the advancements and the internet, Everquest eventually came around. No with voice and everything else, it is just like setting around the table with friends and playing. Sans the dice.

I know this is getting past the initial subject of the post, but since all of the advancements, I have made some very good friends on forums and in games from all over the world. And to think that it started for me with that Commodore Vic-20 that I begged for at Christmas back around '82 or so.

my first computer was an amiga 500. i used it mostly for gaming. somehow i had much more fun with it, than i have now when i play last chaos or remanum. probably because i was younger

I still have my first PC and it works.

IBM PC, http://www.vintage-computer.com/ibm_pc.shtml

Doesn't look this new but it's still kickin.

I fire it up every now and then to make sure it still works and to play some games.

we had an Apple IIc

wrote my first book on a radio shack tandy in 1984 it didnt even have windows in those days, MS doss, but it had a great desk top app.

I had a ZX Sinclair Spectrum 48k, hard to believe but they were all the rage at the time. It had a separate tape cassette player and you'd have to press play on it and enter on the keyboard at the same time. Then wait up to 5 minutes for it to load whilst it made screeching sounds as it was loading up accompanied by screen changes that looked likely to set off epileptic seizures.

My first computer (1985) was an IBM 286 with 512k of ram and a huge 20mb hard drive and black and white monitor. Only cost $4300!!! Wish I had that kind of money to spend these days.

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