What was your first computer?

[Disney845]

I had an original Apple //e. Must have been an 83-84, since I know that I didn't have the enhanced version which came out after 85. I actually still think about that computer and wish that my mother had not gotten rid of it when I moved out It had some great games, back when the games were actually on those huge 5.25" floppy disks!! And you played with a very simple joystick, so you didn't have to worry about mastering 50 buttons at once!! Ahh when computers had black screens and green text/graphics!

So what was the first computer you owned?

 

[Grog]

Also an Apple IIe. I have a friend who bought one around the same time and his is still working. He doesn't use it for much, Just plays the occasional game when he is feeling nostalgic. We were pretty big into some of the wargames put out by SSI back then. Most of them involved a lot more thought than many of the "run and gun" games on the market today.

 

[Shutterbug]

Commadore 64 for me. Had a joystick and one of those things that looked like a tape recorder to run the programs on.

 

[snuggles]

Mine was a TI 99.4A. You hooked it up to the tv set for the monitor and later on we got a speech synthesizer to go with it. To play games you had to use a tape deck that connected to the keyboard.

 

[bambii]

a Commadore 64. including the tape player...You hooked it up to your regular T.V.

 

[GailT]

Compaqu (SP) Now I just bought a Dell and I love it, by far the best computer I have ever had.

 

[*Flower*]

Vic 20 and tape drive for us also!!!!!

Ah, the memories.........

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

I had a Commodore Vic 20! YIKES!

(although sometimes I think it worked better/faster than my new Dell on our crummy dial up service!!!!

 

[Serena]

I don't know, but I remember a small creature had to be fed to keep it running.

 

[browneyes]

My first one was an Apple, not sure what kind, I'd say of the "piece of junk" variety. It was an early 80's model, but I didn't get it until the early 90's (my brother decided I needed to have a computer-one of his junkers). I like to think that computer is why I detest Apples/Macs now.

 

[Kitty 34]

I think it was a Compaq

 

[Grog]

I like to think that computer is why I detest Apples/Macs now.

With me, it was the fact that one day in the early 90s I woke up and suddenly finding Bigfoot was easier than finding software for the IIe. All my friends were switching to PCs, so I eventually followed suit.

 

[piratesmate]

Our first one was a 286 "clone." I can still remember the people at our church office saying "Windows!?!? You have Windows?!?!?" because it came with Win3.0. Up to that point, we were using one at the church office - an IBM 8088. Not only did it use 5 1/4" floppy disks, but it used 2 - there was no hard drive!

 

[SusieJane]

Commodore 64.

 

[circus slim]

Mine was a Kaypro.

I had an itty-bitty screen - I think it was something like a 9" screen. The keyboard folded up into the computer. To make that happen, the top of the computer overhang (overhung??) the screen, so you had to scrunch down to see the screen under the overhang.

It was considered a portable machine even though it weighed something like 30 lbs!!

I did a search and came up with these specs....

"...two 5 1/4-inch floppy disks, and a 9-inch (diagonal) green-phosphor video screen that displays 24 lines of 80 characters. A 6-foot coiled cord hooks a high-quality, 76-key detachable keyboard to the Kaypro's chassis. It uses a Z80 microprocessor running at 2.5 MHz and has 64K bytes of RAM (random-access read/write memory) plus an RS-232C serial port and a Centronics-compatible parallel printer interface."

I wrote a lot of mbasic code on that old beast....

 

[DoeWDW]

TI-99, complete with the cassettes for storage....LOL! Actually, I enjoyed it so much (and the Commodore 64 that we got next) that I majored in computer science in college. The Commodore 64 had SO MUCH MORE MEMORY!!

Now I write programs for huge IBM mainframes - who worries about memory???

 

[KathyFP]

Canon Pentium 75

 

[crazelion]

All man I remember my first computer it was a TI- ?? and Commedre 64 computer.

Those was the days.

 

[PenskeSth1]

Gateway, biggest piece of garbage we ever bought!

 

[Dan Murphy]

TI 99.4A