What was your first Computer?
Canadaka @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:12 pm
My first computer was a PC my family bought used from a friend.
I really wish we kept it, I had sweet old dos games on it and cool custom DOS menu systems I programmed.
I can't remember 100% what the PC was, but i'm pretty sure it was a:
Tandy 1000 (IBM PC Compatible)
4.77MHz 8088 CPU
128K RAM
MS-DOS 2.11
5.25-inch floppy disk drive
Monochrome monitor
ohhhhh yeaaah
So what was your first computer?
Scape @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:20 pm
Pong
Thanos @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:21 pm
Atari 600XL. Hoo boy, what a waste of my paper route money...... 
Canadian_Mind @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:25 pm
We had an old 286, that's the earliest I remember. 
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:26 pm
Mine was an Adept Micro (IBM clone) A 286 with a 16MHz processor (that I upgraded to a 386SX), 2 MB of ram and 20 MB hardrive I later upgraded to a 40.
Brenda @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:52 pm
The first thing I remember seeing was when I moved in with my ex 23 years ago, it was a Commodore 64. He used to play Pong on it. When I moved into my own home years later, I got my parents old 286, when they got a "new" 486 from my dad's work
ShepherdsDog @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:14 pm
A PET 32. All that it could handle for games was alien invaders.
SprCForr @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:30 pm
C64 then on to an Amiga. Falcon 3.0, what a game!
xerxes @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:49 pm
A Mac LC 580. Bought just before Pentium chips first hit the market and was obsolete in a big hurry. Still, it was great for a 10 y.o. and I learned a lot.
saturn_656 @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:01 pm
Our first was a custom built (from a small local shop) 386 DX powered computer. This was back when it wasn't abnormal to buy a computer without Windows. Ran on MS-DOS 5.0 (or was it 6.0?) with a Text-based GUI (I can't remember the name of the program).
Oh so long ago. Favourite game from that era was Ultrabots. Anybody old enough to remember Ultrabots?
raydan @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:03 pm
In 1984... The IBM PC Junior...
Operating system - IBM PC-DOS 2.10
CPU - Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz
Memory - 64 KB
No hard drive and 2 5.25 floppy drives
16 color monitor - VGA graphic chip
raydan @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:09 pm
Even before the PC, I had what was called a pocket computer.
I think it was this one but I'm not 100% sure, the Radio Shack TRS80.
You could program in Basic on this.
I also had the optional printer dock... this was a tracer with 4 pens (colors).
herbie @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:11 pm
Commodore Vic20. Spent $399 for an extra 4 kilobytes of RAM so it had as much as the PET.
Never did escape that damn Grue.
I still have it, in working condition in my store's "Computer Museum" along with the 64 and my Amigas.
Regina @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:51 pm
SprCForr SprCForr:
C64 then on to an Amiga. Falcon 3.0, what a game!
4.0 was better........total classic!! Came with a binder and each key had 4 functions.
Regina @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:52 pm
raydan raydan:
Even before the PC, I had what was called a pocket computer.
Pocket pool doesn't count.