Comments on: What Was the First Computer You Ever Used?

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Jessi

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:37:11 +0000

My first computer experience was at about 5-6 years old on my dad's CompuAdd. It was pretty nice at the time, with a built-in 3.5″ floppy drive, DOS, Windows 3.1, original SoundBlaster, dot matrix printer, and later on dad would buy Sony Laser Library, with an external (1x?) CD-ROM drive. You would have to put the disks in a plastic case and insert the case into the drive. I LOVED the Mixed-Up Mother Goose CD-ROM, and spent hours playing Broderbund's Treehouse game. I also played things like Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Commander Keen, Astro Grover, Carmen Sandiego, etc. I also recall a program with a crudely rendered parrot that would "speak" lines of text typed below.
I used the machine for school until the mid-90s. Unfortunately, it was completely obliterated due to a startling mistake on my mom's behalf (putting the computer OUTSIDE for no reason — I came home during a rainstorm to see the now-destroyed whole system sitting next to the door step, being pelted by water).

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Chert

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:05:15 +0000

Heh well the first computer i ever saw was a trs 80 a rich friend had. He played some kind of dungeon game it where the computer gave text descriptions of the dungeon. Some time later my brother bought a Hurceles something or other with DOS.
The first computer i ever owned was a toshiba something or other SL. This had a nice blue monochrome screen, MS DOS 3. something in a rom chip, and a high density floppy drive. I think it had 168 k of memory. I bought it at a yardsale for 80 dollars. I was thrilled to be able to write on it with some basic text editor. Way better then a typewriter. Wow even had italics! Learned all about save save save! I had several fun little programs that my brother loaded on floppy disks for me.
This machine worked great until the floppy drive bit the dust. The battery had died also but still could be plugged in. The keyboard was fabulous.
By that time I had purchased a new toshiba with 330 megabyte HHD and windows 3.1 with MS Word.
In fact i found this site by looking for a picture of that old toshiba.

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Mark

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:55:06 +0000

My friend had a TI-99/4a way back in the early 80′s. I was hooked straight away, I had to get one of these. I paid one off over a short period of time. Finally I had one, this was the first computer I had ever owned. I still have fond memories of the countless hours of gaming and programming.

I had this for quite a few years until I sold it in 89 I think it was, A decision which I now regret. I have just recently acquired another one and am working on building up a collection to equal that of which I had or better.

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Aaron M

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:37:22 +0000

The first computer I ever used was a VIC 20 - my brother learned BASIC on it and I wanted to but I was too young. By the time I was interested in it it was packed away and we lost the power adapter in a move. Still, it would have been fun.

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Esteban

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:08:54 +0000

I used several Apple ][s in school growing up, but MY first computer was a Tandy 1000HX with 256k RAM. My parents gave it to me for my tenth birthday (in 1990) with a major caveat. It was my birthday present, but it wasn't my computer. It went in the living room, and I had to share with my little sister. Still, I was the main user of the system. It came with Tandy Deskmate, a crappy Windows knockoff where the entire desktop worked like the sliding puzzle game for the original Macintosh. One thing I miss. This computer had MS-DOS 2.11burned into its ROM, so it booted up instantly. Those were the days.

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Raphael Barbosa

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:07:49 +0000

I used a brazilian TK-90X, it was the first ever. I think it's Sinclair "anything" in USA. It was a friend's spare computer! The first computer I had was MSX Expert (brazilian too) and after that I had a clone of Apple II with green video and 2 drives.

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Brett

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:00:41 +0000

First Computer: ATARI 800

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: farthead

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:43:37 +0000

the firts computer i used was my butt

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: Michael

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:03:06 +0000

memories memories my first computer was a compaq althouhg i am only 12 i had lots of programing memories it was a desktop one of the first computers compaq made it was called something 750 i learned to program and hack using its ms-dos

Comment on What Was the First Computer You Ever Used? by: David

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 06:44:03 +0000

im not very old so my first computer was windows 3.0