What was your first computer?

Damokc

Some make of a Gateway...Had an 8GB Hard drive!:cool:

Underdraft

Sindri wrote: »

An abacus.

Nice.

I built my first computer out of lego
http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/38530

the_syco

386 with either 640KB or 1MB of RAM

The amount of ways to make the DOS think it had more RAM than it actually had was... weird.

starlit

Some ancient dell yoke.

Mickey H

HP Brio BA410.

PII Celeron, 64 MB RAM, 10 Gig HDD, Win '98SE.

Year was 2001. Still have it but running Win XP Pro SP3 now.

eth0

Underdraft wrote: »

Nice.

I built my first computer out of lego
http://spectrum.ieee.org/image/38530

ah young whipper snapper! In my day we din't have lego

kwalshe

where do i go from here wrote: »

Amstrad CPC 464.

Disk drives were for woofters.

Did that have Manic Miner on it?

Sindri

eth0 wrote: »

ah young whipper snapper! In my day we din't have lego

You were born before 1949?

eth0

Sindri wrote: »

You were born before 1949?

1849.

CrazyRabbit

Can't recall the name, but my dad brought home one of those consoles that played 'pong' using two twiddly knob controllers. Glorious 2 colour display....black and luminous green.

Eventually got a C64, and started programming in assembly (yes, I skipped Basic). Move to Amiga 500 & 1200 next followed by a low spec PC.

Chuck Stone

Sinclair Speccy 48K.

There used to be Sinclair Spectrum 48K versus Commodore 64 arguments back then. I defended that piece of shit as if it were a brother but the Commodore was by far the superior product.

patwicklow

Wow this really showing are ages whats going to be around in 20/30 years time when you think about it :eek:

The tax man

Sharp MZ700. Still have it and it still works.

kwalshe

First computer was Commodore 16 because Santa "ran out of" Commodore 64's . But he made it up to me by getting a Commodore 128 which you could boot into a C64 mode.
My first grown up PC was a IBM PS Model 386 with 129 mb HDD and 1 MB of Ram. All I did on it was watch my Fractal Generation software and it complimented my smoking career.
every PC since then has been a mongrel..

Underdraft

patwicklow wrote: »

Wow this really showing are ages whats going to be around in 20/30 years time when you think about it :eek:

They'll be half the size, 50 times more powerful and will make porn so abundant and quickly downloadable that masturbation will lose all thrill or value.

starbelgrade

I'm still using mine (I was very late to the computer "revolution"!) HP laptop, reasonable spec. Had it about 5 years & never had any problems with it, besides the battery which is dead. Can be a bit slow with heavy usage programs.

Just bought a new laptop yesterday: http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5084942/Trail/searchtext%3ETOSHIBA+LAPTOP.htm

Intel Core i3 380M.
2.53GHz processor speed.
4GB DDR3 RAM memory.
640GB hard drive.

Haven't opened it yet. I'm still very attached to my HP.

Sindri

Wow

Some of ye are real nerds.:p

Snowie

dermiek wrote: »

Sinclair zx81
:eek:

:eek:


right on man :cool:

dermiek

Snowie wrote: »

:eek:


right on man :cool:

Wish I still had it.

Kids would be well impressed.

Snowie

dermiek wrote: »

Wish I still had it.

Kids would be well impressed.

have you seen the computer museum in germany I wanna go soooooooooo

bad

there cool

joshrogan

http://images01.olx.com/ui/1/34/25/2972925_1.jpg first actual computer looked like this.

Eric Cartman

An IBM PC AT was the first house computer , i remember the massive power switch that made a lovely clicking noise , then my first computer that i owned was a compaq slt 286 , It had a floppy drive and a 120mb hard drive , managed to run windows 3.1 , the detachable keyboard was great

QBasic was the best part

revell

i don't have my own computer yet, i m using my mate;s computer.

LaVail

Commodore 64 then an amstrad appeared from somewhere. I was young at the time so they were just for playing games really. I remember putting a tape game in and waiting 20mins just to see if it was gonna work. As we're going back in time might as well throw in some dial up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

Reamer Fanny

Amstrad CPC beast!

Snowie

justryan wrote: »

Amstrad CPC beast!

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

they were awesome. Who Dares wins what a game :cool::D

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


theres mine i kinda miss it

PirateShampoo

ZX Spectrum 128. It was awesome. I had a bin full of Crash games for it.

JupiterKid

My big sister had a Sinclair ZX81. Even for the time, it was pretty sh*te. My first decent home computer would have been a Commmodore Amiga 1500.

seanybiker

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.

I still have a 1gb drive somehwere.
I remember thinking at the time that I would never be able to fill 1gb up.

Rented Mule

Commodore Vic 20 - it was an 8k computer that pre-dated the Commodore 64

Tazio

Vic20
C64
Apple IIe
BCC micro (acorn?)
Apple Classic II
386
486
Apple performa 440
Apple G3 (I think) with windows emulator
Then just pcs forever.......

seanybiker

Tazio wrote: »

Vic20
C64
Apple IIe
BCC micro (acorn?)
Apple Classic II
386
486
Apple performa 440
Apple G3 (I think) with windows emulator
Then just pcs forever.......

So your first computer was a vic20?

red menace

Late to my first computer winter of 1996

P166 with 16 megs of ram
1.7 gig hard drive
soundblaster 16
1 meg gfx card
it was a beast for 3 days then ****ing mmx was released and and started a long cycle of me having out of date hardware
And it had a turbo button!

AeoNGriM

My da bought one of these bad boys for us for Chrimbo 1985

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atari_130XE_Reshot.jpg

It ran off tapes, meaning you had to start loading your game, go off and do something for 30-40 minutes while it loaded up.

Had some really memorable games for it - Boulderdash, Bruce Lee, Star Raiders, Colony and my absolute favourite, Silent Service.

Bless you Sid Meier.

shockwave

Spectrum 48k, hard to imagine how they made games for it with only 48k of memory.

stateofflux

c64. i miss the days of holding your breath to see if the paperboy game cassette loaded up

TPD

My second had windows 98, 128mb ram, 14gb hdd, not sure of the processor. The first had windows 3.1, that's all I can be certain of.

byte

First was an Atari 400 that I was handed down... it only had two game carts, damned if I cared about typing on the touch sensitvie keys.

After that, was the Spectrum ZX128. Ah the joys of enduring loads of loading screeches whilst it loaded Chase HQ or Operation Wolf.

Benny_Cake

An Atari 520STFM - a 16 bit beauty but no one else seemed to have one so I couldn't swap games.

Auvers

Sinclair ZX81 and moved on to the Speccy 48k

KungPao

Amstrad 6128+

It had it all...colour monitor, floppy disk drive, cartridge port, about 1 kilobyte of RAM.

I had Street Fighter 1. It was rubbish.

Burnin' Rubber though....wow....that was rubbish too.

Colonel_McCoy

Amiga 600

EL_Loco

shockwave wrote: »

Spectrum 48k, hard to imagine how they made games for it with only 48k of memory.

I had the 16k version for staters, so yeah, it's a minor miracle alright.

cynder

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=223&st=1

this one,


and this one

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=221&st=1

then this one

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=65

stovelid

Atari 800 XL. Around 84 or 85 I think. You loaded the games up via a tape player.

stovelid

stateofflux wrote: »

miss the days of holding your breath to see if the paperboy game cassette loaded up

No you don't.

Ben D Bus

My first was a 16K Spectrum. But I used a Tandy TRS80 in school before that.

My second machine was a PentiumIII Dell about 18 years later.

Swampy

Amstrad 1512 I think. Had some ****ty Hercules screen pc before that. Don't remember the name.

Standard Toaster

Atari 2600 (does that count?)
ZX Spectrum 48K
Atari 800XL

Used to spend hours playing JetPac & Pssst on the Spectrum.


You can play some Spectrum games online here

zxspectrum.net (needs java)

Niall_G

ZX81 with 1k memory. About enough for:
For x=1 to 1000
Print Niall_G is brilliant
Next x
before it ground to a halt. Souped it up with 16k external memory and stick on keyboard with moving keys.

Then upgraded to C64 with added memory, external floppy drive, printer, and my very first spreadsheet - about £1,000 worth at the time if I remember rightly. It's been all downhill since then.....