What was your first computer ?

[alexino2]

Hello,

I was wondering what was the first computer you ever had in hand ?

Mine was a Macintosh when I was about 8 years old. I used to play Dark castle or Kareteka with a wood joystick, that is maybe why i hate Apple today lol.

[CPUShack]

IBM XT, and I played alot of LHX Attack Helicopter on it haha

[H3nrik V!]

When I was like 10 years or so, my parents had an Amstrad of some kind, with 2 built-in floppy drives in the monochrome monitor. (don't think it was 3½" as we know later)
Later they upgraded to a Philips XT, 8088 and a whopping 20 mb harddrive, and "more than usual memory" - I don't know excactly how much, but it was able to run Word Perfect on the green monochrom monitor - which apparently needed "more than usual" memory. It was later upgraded with a 3-button mouse and a 3½" disk drive, which actually required a driver to run (DOS 3.xx I think)

My own first was probably the Commodore 64, which I didn't have long, before i lend a Commodore PC/10 for some months and then bought the awesome Amiga 500
Gaming on the Amiga and writing school assignments on my parents' latest machine - a 486 DX/2 with 4 mb of RAM, until I bought one my self - with 8 mb and a 420 mb harddrive. For some reason it came without cache chips, and when I found out, the store was out of business. I found 256 kb cache chips in the local electronics hobby store. What a difference, that made.
That machine followed me for several years, through the start of high school, until being replaced by a K6/233.

Short story long Sorry

[debs3759]

I was a technophobe until '93. I then accidentally deleted everything off a friends computer (DOS compressed drive looked like it was taking up all the drive space). I then build a 486SX-33 based computer and decided I was going to make the darn thing do what I wanted it to (which meant learning x86/IA32 assembly language).

[Libkin]

It was custom (garage) made 286 with 40Mb HDD and EGA monitor. 5.25 floppy (no 3,5). It was in 1993 I think. I made an upgrade by myself to 386SX with 4MB RAM in 1996-1997. But EGA still and I installed Windows 3.1 the last version supported EGA.

[Robev]

VIC 20 around 1981

[Foxtail]

Lol i had Pravetz 8C.

[monoxrom]

We have computer at home in 1998
This is 386 SX-40, 4 mb ram, 120 mb HDD and daewoo low radiation monitor LOL)))))
then upgraded to Pentium 1 and celeron 366 next

But really my first computer is Celeron 1100, 128 ram, 40 gb HDD in 2002 when i had 16 years old

[naked1300]

Commodore C64 with tape drive. 😂

[rjluna2]

IBM PCjr that I brought it from a friend in late 1980s and IBM PC XT without HDD that I salvaged from my old college in the same era. I bought myself 10 MB HDD for about US$ 55 to upgrade my IBM PC XT

The first computer that I have played around was Apple ][ in the winter of 1980 when I was freshman in high school

[fritsp2007]

This was my first one.

[max1024]

Asus P2B-S 440BX + SCSI, P3-450Mhz, RivaTNT 16Mb +, Yamaha 724 Sound, HDD 20Gb +CDROM 44x and 15" Tube ))

[cvandijk]

A Power Turbo XT with a 20MB ST225 HD and a Hercules monochrome card, amber monitor. To bad I take it apart for parts.

[max1024]

[smithy]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum (which I still have).
In year 11 at high school I started the Australian ZX Spectrum Users Group with two friends. We'd put out a monthly newsletter and had about 300 members who paid an annual fee (I think it was $20 lol)