First *computer* was an Atari.

I don't know the model because I was far to young to remember. It was cartridge based, and I had an 8-inch floppy drive hooked up to it. Ran it off a 10 inch sharp television, to which I still use today.

I then moved onto a 2mhz (!) 286. Not sure how much memory it had. Standard floppy, as well as an 8-inch. Not sure what kind of video it had either.

Upgraded that to a 33mhz 386, CD-Rom (!), VGA video card, and all the goodies. Eventually plugged a sound card in, and it was good to go.

After that came a steady stream of Intel, with a 486, VESA, etc.

Since them I've had a plethora of processors, including (regretably) a Cyrix (which was short lived), and numerous Intel and AMD procs.

oh, and i'm 21

A Tandy 5000. Thats where it all started. I took it apart one day and I was hooked on PCs. The HD on that thing was a double tall 5 1/4 and held less than ten megs(?). I actually own two double tall 5 1/4 HDs now but they hold 23gigs each and are external scsi's. Ahh, the simple days.

My next computer was a 486DX 66 from my brother. He had given it to my parents for some money that they loned him (about $1500). I still have the case from it. Thats when a CDROM ran off the sound card. Man, was that rough to work on. I remember installing a Norton product and it had all these gauges to monitor your computer with. It bogged it down so much that I cried to my father about it. I was only about 10 years old when I got that thing!

TI 99/4A I was about 7 years old. That thing had a smoking 16k under the hood.

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Tandy 1000 TL, 16 color video, 3 voice sound, and the gui (cannot remember the name) was loaded by pushing the F12 key and it was on an EEPROM, talk about speed.

I was in the 6th grade, it was 1988.

2 3.5" floppy drives and a 300 baud modem, a local BBS run by the guys at Radio Shack.

Memories.

I am 25 and my first computer was an Apple IIGS, it was even a Wozniak edition. I remember upgrading it to half a mb or RAM or something so I could run the new Print Shop. The first computer I actually bought was a P166 with 16MB of RAM. I spent $2000.

TI99/4a & an Apple IIe, and of course a Laser 128. I was in fourth grade when I really started going computer crazy. Dad was a Computer Science teacher. Oh, I'm 25

First was an Atari 800 with the fully upgraded 48k of RAM plus a floppy drive. Cost around $1000 if I remember right. I was about 12 (1980) and wanted it mainly to play Star Raiders. Still have it somewhere...

1st computer ever owned was an IBM PS/2 Model 25 8086 w/512Kb Ram and a 30MB HDD. I upgraded the RAM with an actual IC chip and bumped it 128Kb to 640K

Mine was a C64 - With all these posts wonder why Commodore went out of Biz (Discounting Satan Gates)...

Next PC was a PII Deskpro. (Yeah I had a big long vacation called High school and University :) )

Timex Sinclair 1000, baby!

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ts1000.JPG


Shortly thereafter I got one of these:
http://oldcomputers.net/pics/C64.jpg

Ours was an Aquarius (I know no one seems to have ever heard of it) It had no way of storing memory - not even a connector to use a tape player to record on. So in order to get it to make concentric circles or even more difficult stuff lol I had to type in the whole program in basic every time I turned the thing on. Learned my Basic language well though. That was back in 4th grade about 20 years ago. Yikes! Next computer we had about 4 years later Dad, brother and I put together from the parts ourselves. Lasted for about 8 years before my parents actually purchased one.

C64 for me, too. I was about 5, and my Mom was remarrying, so my stepdad impressed me with his C64 and let me use it constantly. I remember playing a game where it gave me $20,000 for winning... and I was so excited, I thought the money was really coming to me in the mail.
First I owned outright wasn't until I was about 11 and they bought me a 386. I still chuckle, it had 4mb of RAM, and for getting As on my report card, my parents upgraded it to 8 MEGABYTES!!! It seemed like such a great thing at the time. Now I have 4mb of RAM in my soundcard :-P

1983 Kaypro II. Wordstar ruled!

I still remember playing Ladder on that thing. . and the G key was labelled "Bell G" for some reason. The thing was built like a brick shithouse. You could almost shoot it with buckshot and it wouldn't break. Ran on CP/M, which was a lot better than MSDOS.

God Im OLD at 43, first PC was a Alltair kit in the late 70's had to build it yourself and program all funtions, even had a wooden case and cost several thousanfd dollars, No screen flashing lights only. Next real PC was a Kaypro 2 portable, running CPM and large floppy disk, Portable meant it was a 9inch by 26 inch metal box that weighed almost thirty pounds had a five inch screen built into the lid. After that original MAcs Apple 11e on and on and on, up to current with about five pcs right now including Sony Vaio PC Apple dual G4, 12 and 15 ich powerbook G$ and a couple of the new XP tablets

I had one of these for a short while in 1984. You could program it in Basic. You could use any cassette deck to store your work. It had no internal drives. I think my HP programmable calculator at the time could do a lot more.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...ndy_mc10_1.jpg

I am with the masses, I too had a C64, but my first was a Packard Bell (Pack-it-to Hell) 486/66, crashed my first HD on Doom :).

...was an x86 piece of crap, with a 14" orange monochrome monitor, 640KB RAM, 21MB HDD, a 1400bps modem (that I never was able to get to work), running MS DOS.

The only programs that I had that would run on the thing were WordPerfect 5.1, and Jeopardy.

Made a better doorstop than a computer.

I'm 27, and I distinctly remember using some trs-80's that were in the math hall of my high school. Punch card heaven!! Of course our school was way out of date anyways. We also used some 286 in the computer lab, and one of the classrooms had some brand new apple's in it my junior year. Anybody remember playing DarkCastle? :D

SecretMethod70, you sure pack a lot of knowledge for such a relatively short time in this hobby! Glad you are around here to help answer my questions.

Around 1988 I bought an IBM 8088. I used to use Prodigy with no hard drive, 256k ram, and a large 300baud external modem. I bought a Seagate 20mb hard drive for it and thought that was the last hard drive I would need.

I first computer I remember using was a 386 with 2mb ram. My grandfather is like an old tech guru and has been doing tech stuff since the early 70's. He always had 10-15 TVs taken apart on his porch with 2-3 atariis and lots of computers but I can't really remember anything else since I was probally only 5 or 6 years old.

An IBM XT clone. Don't remember when that was though

Apple ][c in '82. Then I got a Mac Plus in '85 and have owned Macs ever since.

Should we? Quit trying to be the moral police and let the kid be. This IS a computer section anyway. I am curious though to find out how long he stays since I thought you had to be 18 to register. I could be wrong and to tell the truth there are worse things going on than a 13 year old looking at tits and ass every once in awhile.

/end rant

The first was a pong game .. that's all it was .. the first computer you could enter stuff on was an Atari 400.

First computer I ever used was an Apple IIe in elememtary school. The first computer my family owned didn't come until I was 14, it was a Compaq 486 with 4 mb of RAM and about a 200 mb hard disk. The first computer I owned is this homebuilt I'm typing this on that just turned 2 years old. Wow, my computer is almost as old as some of the posters in this thread :)

Oh, I'm 23

I started kinda late. My first comp was a packard bell 66mhz DX-2. I thought I was the shit cause I had the math co-processor. I remeber when I did some raytracing on it and it took about an hour to render one frame. Boy am I glad I am not using that thing anymore.

Damn Apple ][ in Kindergarden... I loved playing number munchers... wow that brings me back to the day... i'm 19 now.

At 33, the first computer I had access to was an Apple ][ in about 5th grade or so. The first copmuter I bought was an Apple ][e. Those were the good days!

IBM 5150
green monochrome......mmmmm....

First computer I remember using was a Tandy 1000. I was about 5 or so, don't remember many of the programs other than a basic paint program and a text editor. I played my first games on that computer (gauntlet and king's quest).

I am 20 now.

I guess the first computer I used was a
Burroughs mainframe -- don't know the
model. I'd fill out COBOL coding sheets at
home, my dad would take 'em to work and
have the keypunch ladies punch 'em up in
their spare time, and he'd bring the printouts
home with him.

That would have been about 1967 or 68.

First machine I ever laid hands on was a
Data General Nova, I think. Programmed
in machine language using the front panel
switches. Results read out of memory, one
lamp per bit.

I'm 47. Please please please let there be
an older old fart here than I am.

First computer I used was probably a BBC Master at school, and I eventually got a second-hand BBC B at home.

First PC was a 386 my dad bought, I think I was the only kid at school with a 'proper' computer at home around then (around 1990)

For the record (and since everyone else seems to be doing so) I'm 21

Timex Sinclair 1000 with 1 KB of RAM - we bought the 16 KB memory expansion and a tape drive.

Commodore VIC-20 with tape drive.

TI 99/4A. Nice machine at the time but $ to expand.

Atari 800, 800XL, 1200XE, then ST modded out with hard drive and the awesome Magic Sac to emulate MacOS. I used the MacOS far more than the Atari TOS.

By college we went with 286 and it was Intel/Microsoft from there out. Oh, I did run OS/2 2.0 for awhile at work until NT 3.51 came out.

im 17 and i can only remember have an old crappy pc my dad got from his job than ran on basic. I new how to use basic when i was 5 and now im havin trouble usin xp at 17 thats kindaa funny

Some weird computer, think it was a c64, too young to really remember to pay attention, but other than than an old computer that ran off of cartridges and hooked up to your tv and had an printer that needed the holely paper. used apple IIEs and got a feel for them more than the other 2. But first computer I REALLY owned was a Apple Performa 630CD, one of the first with cd roms, 8 mb of ram, 256mb hd. also my first laptop was an apple powerbook 165c, THE VERY FIRST COLOR LAPTOP!!! Anyways, now I've crawled out of the stone age and am running a highly modded Compaq Pressario 900mhz Athlon, where i think the only stock parts are the lan card, motherboard, and cpu, nothing else including the case is stock anymore. runs like a champ, gonna keep it and keep using it til it dies, came close a couple times, but I saved my baby.

First computer for me Im 26 was atari 400 then a comadore 64 was loving life then

I'm forty-fuckin-one. First computer owned was a 386 with 2megs of RAM running DOS. I upgraded it to death. I distinctly remember buying a 4meg memory upgrade for $200

First computer used was in "computer lab" in high school in the late 70's. It was wired to a main frame somewhere. No screen, just everything printing out on a paper roll. Man it was slow, but it was alot of fun! After a couple hours of using it, you'd have these piles of paper built up all around you!

heh
 

Apple 2c, 1982, and im 35