First computers

[Scott Huish]

What was everybody's first computer?

Mine was an Apple IIe.
It had a whopping 64K of RAM
and the biggest joy was when we finally got the second floppy drive (they cost around $330 at the time).

 

[Domski]

Sinclair ZX81.

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/zx81/zx81_specs.htm

What a beast!!!

Dom

 

[Thorin]

Toshiba MSX

http://www.gondolin.org.uk/hchof/machines/toshiba-hx10.html

 

[litrelord]

Spectrum 48k for me. Then upgraded a couple of years later to the Spectrum 128k (with built-in tape drive).

 

[Richard Schollar]

An Acorn BBC Model B for me. I was greatly annoyed at the time that I didn't get a Commodore 64 - since the Beeb only had 32k which seemed a massive drawback to games.

I wish I'd spent a bit more time programming it, and rather less time playing games on it...

 

[starl]

Commodore 64, then upgraded to a 128.
When PCs with Windows 3.1 came out, we got a Packard Bell (big mistake) - but I remember upgrading the chip to a Math coprocessor.

them was the days

 

[Oaktree]

You guys are old

Mine was a 386. 25 Mhz of ram 100MB hard drive. Sooooooooooo fast.

 

[CyberGuy2004]

First computer I owned: Commodore 64, two external disk drives and a Gorilla Banana printer. After a couple of years I got an actual brand X 8088-based PC, with 640K of memory.

First computer I worked with was the Control Data Corp 6400. I think it had 64K of hand-strung core memory. Two card readers, one in the computer room, one at the academic computing building. By my second year there, they added actual video-display terminals, with sound! (if you consider high-pitched annoying BEEEEEEEP a sound.)

 

[QuietRiot]

You guys are really old..

my first computer had windows 95

it was Compaq Presario don't remember the model number.

don't remember much but it had a pentium, 16mb ram and like a 2gig hardrive.

and I was 12 yrs old

 

[Lewiy]

Mine was a Dragon 64 (anyone else ever heard of it?). I think the 64 referred to the number of minutes it took to load a game! Games came on cassette tapes which were loaded into an external cassette player, or alternatively, there was a 5.5 inch floppy drive (why did those things never take off!). Game highlights were Cuthbert Goes Digging and Frogger.