VOTE What was your first Computer?

[greg_way_back]

....VOTE TODAY      ....what was your first computer?    ....reply with a comment about your very first computer....

[greg_way_back]

My 1st computer was a Vic 20 and I had the BLING, a 3K expansion card!  It went well with the disk drive (added a year later).

Eventually I upgraded to an Atari 800XL that I used into college...

[sirpaul484]

I know there was a TRS-80 option, but seeing as mine was a Color Computer, and not your "standard" TRS-80, I selected "other".

[tecneeq]

Sinclar ZX81 without any type of storage. However, it was my own!

[Konata]

HP Pavilion 6330.

[extrarice]

A Tandy somethingorother...it had two 5 1/4" floppy drives, a yellow-on-black monochrome screen, and a turbo switch that would boost the processor from 2mhz to 4mhz! That thing had some awesome games... Midnight Commander (I think that's its name) was a great pinball game where you could edit the physics of it.

[Mr. Ksoft]

A lot of this makes me feel too modern.

Macintosh Performa 600.  Often rated as one of the worst Macs ever made, as it's pretty much a Mac IIvi with the Mac IIvx's processor, meaning we're running a 32 mhz processor on a 16 mhz bus, meaning slooooooow.  It was even slow after the RAM was upped to 20MB from the stock 4.

I used to play educational stuff on it, like two by Broderbund called Backyard and Playroom.  I also managed to keep myself occupied watching After Dark screensavers.  When I got older I played Myst, Glider, and Spectre on it.

I recently pulled this out and after replacing the PRAM battery got it booted again.  I'm surprised I never realized it was as slow as it was.  I tried loading up some games I found recently on the net and barely any of them worked acceptably, and ones I had played before like Myst and Glider Pro seemed to have longer loading times and more lag.  Oh well, I guess you don't notice as much when you're little.

[RockinKat]

The first computer my family ever owned was Wyse 286 clone.  I think I spent more time playing games on the Apple IIgs and Mac Plus at my friends house as my dad was not too keen on letting me use the 286 when it was new. 

In recent years I've pretty much claimed it as part of my own collection though.  The thing is huge and it's got a big ass full-hight 5.25" hard drive in it....... that's got compression installed on it and it's chock full with just DOS 5.0 and Win3.0 and a few games.... I need to look into expanding it's storage capacity with a different drive...

For me though, the first computer that was really mine was a Macintosh Performa 6115CD (PowerMac 6100/60 with built in CD rom drive and a bundled 15" monitor with built in speakers). It came with an external 14.4kps modem which was what I first used to go on the internet.  I got a lot of games off the sneaker-net going on at the school computer lab... and later got very into hotline.

[t3hfr3ak]

In recent years I've pretty much claimed it as part of my own collection though.  The thing is huge and it's got a big ass full-hight 5.25" hard drive in it....... that's got compression installed on it and it's chock full with just DOS 5.0 and Win3.0 and a few games.... I need to look into expanding it's storage capacity with a different drive...

Ever heard of norton ghost? Just wondernig because you could use that program to copy everything from your old HD to your new one without worrying abuot loss of data

[silencewordsaway]

our family's first computer was a Apple Mac Performa 630CD (it had a cd drive ). Pretty standard mid 90's mac.

I've had a thing for them since, because i feel like i was unable to really get into the workings of the computer with system 7. I felt somehow short changed by not even being able to use a command line. I still wish that i could have learned some programing then (5th grade was when we got the computer), but it wasn't thrown at me and i didn't know how to get into it. <tangent> I still don't really know any programming language, and that's after comp sci 101 back in college. But, we learned Java and i wasn't so into it. It seemed so slow and clunky and i didn't feel i was really learning what was going on. I would love to learn Assembly. but yeah...</tangent>

the games were fun. Mario is Missing, Castes II:Siege and Conquest, Spectre VR, Wacky Jacks, Spin Doctor, Oregon Trail, 5 a Day (an education game about eating your 5 servings of fruits and veggies a day), etc. Oh and hypercard games from the internet were always fun. Like one where you had to shoot barney with a machine gun. lol. oh adolescence.

[orsty3001]

I had a TI-99, I loved that machine more than life itself at the time. Then later on Dad gave me his SX-64. He used it to do the payroll at his work on. We had stacks of games for it also.

[Andrew Armstrong]

I'm too young. The family PC I recall was some IBM running DOS and Windows 3.1 (can't for the life of me remember the processor or whatever), and never was connected to any network. (Ahh, the days of 2D shooters, Doom, Sim City 2000 and Castle of the Winds...). Not an original IBM, they are much older right?

[t3hfr3ak]

mine ran Duke1,2 Commander Keen, Monster Bash, amonsgt many others i had a 386

[Andrew Armstrong]

Duke 1, 2 (both shareware I recall, and I wasn't terribly good at them anyway), and of course how could I forget Wolf3d. Pinball was my dads favourite so there was a few of them on there he rarely played too. Some classic point and clicks too - DOTT mainly. Nice to remember some of them, I should check out what old software I can grab and retry on DOSbox.

[RedWolf]

I'm too young. The family PC I recall was some IBM running DOS and Windows 3.1 (can't for the life of me remember the processor or whatever), and never was connected to any network. (Ahh, the days of 2D shooters, Doom, Sim City 2000 and Castle of the Winds...). Not an original IBM, they are much older right?

Don't feel bad, Andrew.  You'll be old someday. 

Also, the Win 3.1 gaming scene was a classic period.  So rejoice, my friend.