What was your first computer?

jahalpin

My first computer was an Amstrad 6128. It had 128k of ram, green monitor and a floppy drive. This was in the mid-80's

I had a few games for it, but it was difficult to get games for because;
- most software for the Amstrad's was on tape
- my dad didn't really want me to use it for playing games.

Mr first real pc was my dad's old 286 with Windows 3.0. It was a huge box and had a tiny hard disk and 3.5 and 5.25 in floppy drives.

TPD

First in the house was a Windows 3.1 job. I can't remember the specs, but it was pretty dire.

First computer I bought myself is the one I'm at now. Holding up suprisingly well.

stovelid

Atari 800 XL.

Nifty tape job with it for loading "games".

red_ice

amega 500
then we had a pentium (something or other)

my own first was a p2 350mhz. srs bsns.

Andy-Pandy

An Amstrad CPC 464, long long time ago.

ejmaztec

stovelid wrote: »

Atari 800 XL.

Nifty tape job with it for loading "games".

Has your first game finished loading yet?

CrazyRabbit

A Commodore 64 unless you count the abacus I got as a present when I was 2, or the 'Pong' game system my dad got in 1982 for us (2 colour bat n' ball game with twistie knob controllers)

I had hundreds of games for the C64 and wrote 7 games myself. I even had 1 published which brought in a good bit of pocket money for me!

I had everything possible for it...dot matrix printer, Action Replay IV cartridge, Floppy Disk Drive etc. I was the 'cool' one among the geeks for a while.

Crazyivan 1979

Got a ZX sinclair spectrum 48 K around '84. It had a cassette player, you'd have to type in "Load", then press play on the cassette player and hit enter at the same time, then sit back and relax for 5 mins while it loaded, only to be told "loading error" :mad:. But some of the games were class: manic miner, cyclone, knight lore.

dlofnep

Commodore 64 = First computer.

Sega Master System = First games console.

mudokon

AARRRRGH wrote: »

Sinclair ZX81 - 1Kb

Yes thats 1Kb.
When you ran out of memory as you typed letters used to start disappearing off the screen.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ZX81-doorstop.jpg

That was my first computer too, had the memory expansion though which took it up to a whopping 16k. :cool:

Classic gaming like this was available back then. :pac:
http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm65/pioneertrail.jpg

Jesus Wept

OutlawPete wrote: »

Same here, can't for the life of me remember what the fuck I was doing all those hours when not playing games on it.

I remmeber a book came with hours with programmes in it that when you typed them into the computer (took hours) stupid things would happen, like a baloon floating.

The slightest mistake typing in the code meant starting all over again also.

lol!! That brought back a memory.
I remember my 2 older brothers spending an entire day typing in code for some sh1t program and then when it didn't work - accusing one another of messing it up and having a physical fight about it.

lolcommador64aments!

jayteecork

The-Rigger wrote: »

lol!! That brought back a memory.
I remember my 2 older brothers spending an entire day typing in code for some sh1t program and then when it didn't work - accusing one another of messing it up and having a physical fight about it.

lolcommador64aments!

I did that with some program that came with the Quest monthly enclycopedia.

Fkn thing never worked after I spent the day at it.

For Forks Sake

Commodore 64

then Atari 520ST. You can stick yer Amigas

dlofnep

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Commodore 64

then Atari 520ST. You can stick yer Amigas

Posh boy!

joolsveer

Sinclair Spectrum 48K

For Forks Sake

dlofnep wrote: »

Posh boy!

:cool:

kowloon

I didn't own a computer until much later than my friends. I remember the tapes taking so long to load that we usually went outside to play and found something better to do. A lot of the time, when we finally made it back in, the tape had failed to load, and the process started again.

I don't think I would have been as active if the computers/consoles of today had been around back then.

I remember having a 20Mb HDD with a disk in it the size of a vinyl record.
Remember when floppy disks were actually floppy?

bnt

1988: a PC-XT clone, 10MHz 8086 CPU, 1MB of RAM, 20MB hard drive. A year later I paid a lot of money to upgrade it to PC-AT spec, with a 20MHz 80286! I got a lot done with Framework III , but then I installed Windows 2.0, and things went downhill from there ... :pac:

cynder

jayteecork wrote: »

I did that with some program that came with the Quest monthly enclycopedia.

Fkn thing never worked after I spent the day at it.

I love Quest.

i remember doing lines of code that began with a number for instance

10 if 5 go to 20.


ha just found it on wiki

10 INPUT "What is your name: ", U$
20 PRINT "Hello "; U$
30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: ", N
40 S$ = ""
50 FOR I = 1 TO N
60 S$ = S$ + "*"
70 NEXT I
80 PRINT S$
90 INPUT "Do you want more stars? ", A$
100 IF LEN(A$) = 0 THEN GOTO 90
110 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
120 IF A$ = "Y" OR A$ = "y" THEN GOTO 30
130 PRINT "Goodbye "; U$
140 END



did that loads of times

KnifeWRENCH

Have absolutely no idea what first PC was; it was only about 11 years ago or so when my parents splashed out on one, so it wasn't anything too old fashioned.
The first and only console I've loved was the NES; it was my sister's but I claim squatters rights over it because I played it much more. No game will ever come close to the level of awesomeness that isSuper Mario Bro.s 3.

Run_to_da_hills

First family computer was a Sinclair ZX 81 Spectrum. Piece of unusuer friendly crap that ended up as a door stop before it got binned.

First "real" computer was a Intel 486 DX 2 66 which cost an arm and a leg. almost £2000 (1/10 the price of a house in a rough part of Dublin at the time.)
Single speed CD rom, 4 megs ram.

I upgraded it from original specs to 8 megs ram at a cost of nearly £200quid. :eek:

BTW a 128K modem was £250, basic HP 550C Printer £500 and colour scanner was close to £400 in 1995 :eek:

beardo81

Amstrad 6128Plus off Santy. Discs and cartridges, hated waiting for tapes to load up!
Burnin' Rubber rocks!!!

Chel_boy

Comodor 64

El Weirdo

Thought I was gonna be the first one with one of these but was beaten to it after a couple of posts... Sharp MZ700

Had a BBC Micro and a C64 around the same time...


10 Print "El Weirdo" is GOD
20 Goto 10
30 Run


Think ^^^ that may be wrong...


Edit: Great thread...

Coriolanus

Technically the first computer was a Commodore 64. First PC was an IBM 386.

Edit: 64, not 65 <<

madraalainn

commodore 64, i would put in a tape in the cassette to play the games

madraalainn

really i thought it said commodore 64 on mine.

moonpurple

an xt
then a 286

SEPT 23 1989

commador 64

remember all the boxes when you opened it

****ing tapes ha ha

but was there a commador 128??

El Weirdo

Vic 20?

AARRRRGH

mudokon wrote: »

That was my first computer too, had the memory expansion though which took it up to a whopping 16k. :cool:

Classic gaming like this was available back then. :pac:
http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm65/pioneertrail.jpg

Remember the ram pack wobble.

El Weirdo

Me mate had one of these.

rainbow kirby

Sinclair Spectrum 128k, I got it third-hand for my 7th birthday from my uncle and it was already older than me at that stage.

tallus

My first computer was one of these

El Siglo

My first computer was one of these...:rolleyes:
Then we got a normal pc in 1999, fairly standard for the time, 4GB hard drive, 32mb ram with Windows 98.

bonerm

Commodore 64.

This was my first game .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yHcoudVJY

Yes, things could only get better.

byte

Atari 400.

El Weirdo

Amiga 500 then... Played a lot of this game.

Dudess

Sinclear Spectrum (well it wasn't mine but it was in the house) - about 1985. Oh the deafening noise of the tape game thingies loading... on a portable cassette player, which was hooked up to a black and white portable TV.

gandalf

Speccy 48k here as well until I bought my first PC. It was a 386sx 16mhz I think it had 2mb of RAM and a 40mb hdd LOL. It cost an absolute fortune.

pickarooney

Atari 65 XE and then a major upgrade to an Amiga 500+. I remember we had to sell the pool table, a Super Ser gas heater and a couple of other bits and bobs to make up the difference between the present budget and the price of the machine.

Two things - 1. the Amiga was a truly awesome piece of kit and I really wish I hadn't come home one day and found it had been given away and 2. We had a ****ing pool table, I really wish that had stayed.

Tigger

zx81 but it was crap
first real computer was cpc464 animal of a machine

Ruu_Old

It was a WANG computer! 386 processor, I think it had 2MB RAM and very little hard drive space..actually, it was probably very similar this little gem!

D4RK ONION

The-Rigger wrote: »

Commador 64.

Later, a Wang. lol.
It was a 386. Amazingly I think it had 16mb hard drive if memory serves. Crazy stuff.

Ruu wrote: »

It was a WANG computer! 386 processor, I think it had 2MB RAM and very little hard drive space..actually, it was probably very similar this little gem!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEF1F-VswsM

Do you like my Wang?

tallus

El Weirdo wrote: »

Amiga 500 then... Played a lot of this game.

Dude my brother and I used to have KickOff competitions on my 500+, it was the canines genitalia!

I sometimes play Kick Off 2 on an amiga emulator, it's still great!

Coriolanus

For anyone who had an Amiga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoJBerFDsA

BrianJD

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3.5 mins to load Harrier Attack. Typing a page of computer gibberish to get a beep sound. Loved it.

bonerm

BrianJD wrote: »

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I can't see the contents of your hard-drive .... yet.

punchdrunk

a packard bell taht we bought in PC world in '97
twas an awful expensive piece of ****!

kleefarr

<Ollie> wrote: »

Atari 800XL. The games were mostly on cassette and took an eternity to load (when they actually worked), and made all sorts of noises in the process.

Same here.