What was your first computer?

sflemings

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Well my first game console was an NES that I got sometime in 1994 when I was only about a year old. Still play on that thing from time to time.

First computer I ever got was an old packard bell back around 2000. I remember my parents choosing to wait until after the millenium just in case the Y2K bug actually occured.
It had a 1GHz AMD Thunderbird (It's as kickass as it sounds ), 128MB ram, a geforce 2 graphics card, 40GB HDD, CD-RW and a big bulky 19" CRT. It was top of the line back then.

Ah nostalgia

People own socks older than you in this forum! You were born in the good times! Back in the 80's we had green screens, tapes and cartridges!

opinion guy

Commodore 64 in like 1982/3 or something.
Damn that was ages ago.
Anyhow - this topic deserves a poll no ?

Blueboyd

My first was C64

But few years before that in high school I had a teacher who was well before his time - he arranged a course of the subject and had bought a computer with his own money - I'm not sure - but I think it was a Philips - it had a memory of 4 kb

Later he also brought some guy in who sold PCs at the time - I remember that guy telling us that the write-only-once 10 MB drive was so big that it could hold all the texts you wrote in your entire life so there was no need to write and erase.

Whybin

The first computer I clearly recall was the beautiful Amiga 1000, scintillating 8-bit sound and only one floppy drive, so playing Cannon Fodder 2 meant swapping disks every few minutes.

I vaguely recall my brother owning an amstrad of some description, with a greenscale monitor and a depressing 80s boombox plugged in for ages just to load the original Lemmings or Batman:the movie.

Great days.

This_Years_Love

The first computer I ever owned was a Commodore 64 and I got it as a christmas present when I was about 7 or 8. I absolutely loved it. I still remember playing mario bros and pacman for hours and hours on it. The first PC type computer was an old compaq I got when I was around 13/14 with a 12" screen, a 16MB HD and it had window 3.1 on it. The computer started up in DOS mode and you had to type DOS codes to open up windows.

Kotek Besar

ZX Spectrum +2. Loved it.

Flaccus

Apple II in 1979. Still in perfect nick and works including the 2 external 5.25" floppy disk drives. Have since upgraded it to 128k ram. I learned 6502 assembly, Applesoft basic and Fortran 77 on that pc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series

opinion guy

Flaccus wrote: »

Apple II in 1979. Still in perfect nick and works including the 2 external 5.25" floppy disk drives. Have since upgraded it to 128k ram. I learned 6502 assembly, Applesoft basic and Fortran 77 on that pc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series

Wow I imagine thats worth some money ?

Anyhow for those Amiga enthusiasts who want to play their old favourite games again emulation software for this is brilliant. Check out Amiga Forever:
http://www.amigaforever.com/

Lone Stone

comador 64 with tape deck !!! :eek:
ow the loading ........ the loading......never again.

robinph

Pretty sure it was a TI99/4A, can't remember one before that anyway.

lizardfudge

Lone Stone wrote: »

comador 64 with tape deck !!! :eek:
ow the loading ........ the loading......never again.

Ah but sometimes you had Invade-a-load to keep you busy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCR6xnv1kE

StudentC

Amstrad CPC6128, green screen but with discs, not cassettes!

We used it for the joys of Logo - typing commands to get the cursor to draw a square, or maybe a rectnagle if you were being extra ambitious.

We had a 4-disc set of 17 games - Roland in Time, Doors of Doom, trivial pursuit and the truly brilliant Supertest Day 1 and Day 2 - skijumping and cycling etc with chariots of fire music if you won.

I also remember the books with code you could type in for adventure games.

opinion guy

lizardfudge wrote: »

Ah but sometimes you had Invade-a-load to keep you busy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCR6xnv1kE

Awesome:D Totally forgot about that!! Thou that guy needs to learn to shoot up thru his shields!!

lizardfudge

opinion guy wrote: »

Awesome:D Totally forgot about that!! Thou that guy needs to learn to shoot up thru his shields!!

Hey.. the game could actually load at any moment... no time for subtleties.

BrianJD

landsleaving wrote: »

I had an Amstrad CPC464. It was a glorious beast, with a green and black monitor and games like Harrier Attack and Match Day II. You only had to wait 10-30 minutes for them to load as well.

Amazingly I get more angry now when my computer freezes for 10 seconds than when I'd wait 30 minutes for a game to not work. At least then you knew it'd work eventually.

My god the memories!!

Harrier attack was 3.5 minutes to load.
Match day was brilliant with 2d characters that took 10 mins to go from one end of the pitch to the other
We had those 2 plus Ghost n Goblins, Roland in the caves.Roland on the Ropes, Oh Mummy. Animal Vegetable Mineral, Manic Miner and Fruit Machine!

Ardent

dilallio wrote: »

A Commodore PET.

I remember when the pope came to Galway in 1979, people walked up to 15 miles to see him. I lived close to Galway and couldn't be arsed - I only wanted to play Lunar Lander on the PET.

Billiant!

My first PC was a 386, Olivetti I think. I remember my first game on it - Paperboy. Then my world changed forever when I got the shareware demo of Doom. Bought a Sound Blaster soundcard shortly after and couldn't believe my ears!

blackbox

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16k.

Soon upgraded to a massive 48k.

Unlimited data storage space as long as you kept buying cassette tapes.

I still have it.

I also bought the dedicated printer (worked with electrostatic sparks to blacken the special metallised paper.

It was actually amazing how good the games for it were: those developers really managed to squeeze the maximum out of limited resources. No bloat in those days!

Yi Harr

peasant wrote: »

This

Sharp MZ 700 ..still have it

Haha, yeah, had the same. It's also still around gathering dust somewhere, as are some of the tapes that came with it.


Aah nostalgia. Actually think it was the MZ721 (had the built in tape player).

Ross_Mahon

Compaq Presario 5BW284, It ran the first Half Life on full spec, I was happy

mudokon

blackbox wrote: »

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16k.

Soon upgraded to a massive 48k.

Unlimited data storage space as long as you kept buying cassette tapes.

I still have it.

I also bought the dedicated printer (worked with electrostatic sparks to blacken the special metallised paper.

It was actually amazing how good the games for it were: those developers really managed to squeeze the maximum out of limited resources. No bloat in those days!

So true, one of my favourite games was Head Over Heels

Sgt Hartman

Had an Amstrad 464 complete with Street Fighter 1, Strip Poker and Barry McGuigan's Championship Boxing.

wayne0308

I got a commadore c64 back in 1990-91, didn't get my first pc until 1997. It was a Intel Pentium 100MHz, 16MB RAM, 1MB graphics card, 2GB HDD with windows 95. It was the bee's knee's back in them days. I still had it up to a few years ago, my mother sold it without asking me and only got 30euro for it.

pah

wayne0308 wrote: »

my mother sold it without asking me and only got 30euro for it.

That's pretty good :eek:

wayne0308

pah wrote: »

That's pretty good :eek:

I suppose it wasn't being used but having had it for so long... I was a bit p*ssed.

Worztron

Commodore 64 :pac:

Kotek Besar

http://goo.gl/uiA5M

Buddinplant

Worztron wrote: »

Commodore 64 :pac:

same here!! was gobsmacked when i got it at christmas, thought i was going to be side swiped for the rest of my childhood as far as getting a comp was concerned.

what i remember most was booking my mother ( sisters were younger and hence not allowed to smell the computer dont mind say touch it) four hours in advance as you had to wait for the tape deck thingy to load the game, and then it was an hour of Bubble Bobble and grabbing icecream cones and apples. oh and the blowing of bubbles, THE BLOWING OF THE BUBBLES!!

arybvtcw0eolkf

My first was a Sinclair ZX 80

The best games machine to this day has been the Amiga 500 Plus

niallo27

Commodore 64 with a games cartridge, with Flimbos quest, international soccer, fiendish freddy's big top o'fun and klax.

Anyone else type in hours of code just to hear it make a ping or show a red dot and kepy getting "SYNTAX ERROR"

ScumLord

Buddinplant wrote: »

and then it was an hour of Bubble Bobble and grabbing icecream cones and apples. oh and the blowing of bubbles, THE BLOWING OF THE BUBBLES!!

Best theme song ever it's been stuck in my head for decades now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTmJJ0lUyQc

cruiser178

acer 5930g

Late starter

Kxiii

The first computer in the house was an Amstrad PCW 8256 with a whopping 256k ram and a 4mhz processor
We had one batman game with it

Misticles

some compaq presario type thing

starlit

A Vetec computer. I started young with computers! After that first home PC was a Dell not sure of the model.

Snowie

Im putting this to the people as a hole...

we all use computer, so times you read how some person got 8 cores 32 gigs of ram hd graphics card....


cool but you know theres a past....


mine started with an Acorn Electron I got a book with it called program your own games... i spent days years months well a day programing a game to two it was utterly shot but you know what these 1990s kid who grew up during the playstation period well

what was your first computer?

D

486sx with 8MB Ram

Havermeyer

Amiga 500.

L.Jenkins

Commadore 64. Had to program a few games aswell. Moved on to a Fujitsu PC, with a 1.5gb hard drive and around < 128mb of ram.

Agent Smith

Commadore 64
then
286

Jordan 199

A Dell 386.

Hardware:

Intel 386SX CPU running @ 33MHz, 4mb ram, 40mb hard drive, 3.5" fdd & a 14" Dell Ultrascan colour monitor.

OS:

Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Microsoft DOS 5.0.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

dont remember the first specs.. i did upgrade it though to a pII 233 with 32 megs of ram iirc and an actual 3d card
**** was tight

eth0

88Hz steam powered yoke. 2 bags of coal just to get it going. Basement just had to dug out when we were building the house just to make room for it but when she was going the waste haet would heat all the rads in the house.

It had a steam powered modem too. 3bps and there were only 255 IP addresses in the world

ballsymchugh

ItsThatManAgain wrote: »

Commadore 64. Had to program a few games aswell. Moved on to a Fujitsu PC, with a 1.5gb hard drive and around < 128mb of ram.

very lah de dah! i started with a commodore 16.

El Weirdo

Sharp MZ700
BBC Micro
C64
Amiga 500

Sindri

An abacus.

dermiek

Sinclair zx81
:eek:

Jimoslimos

D wrote: »

486sx with 8MB Ram

Something v. similar myself

Packard Bell 486dx2 66MHz with 8MB RAM

Running Windows 3.11 (For Workgroups):cool: and MS-DOS 6.??

CD-ROM (Think it was 8x)

400 and something Mb hard drive. Was always amused that a single CD would hold nearly twice as much data as my "state of the art" PC!

Vaguely remember a cool skiing game that was preloaded on it.

FearDark

Had a 386

then a 486 DX 266
Then an atari 2600
SNES
Megadrive
CD32
Sega Saturn
Playstation
Sega Dreamcast
PS2
Xbox
Xbox 360

There were more!

I now have a laptop and its sole purpose is boards... (and facebook)

Where To

Amstrad CPC 464.

Disk drives were for woofters.

wellboy76

where do i go from here wrote: »

Amstrad CPC 464.

Disk drives were for woofters.

+1 boulder dash. Best game ever!