What Was Your First Computer?

[Taosman]

Computers and computing have really advanced in a short time.
What was your first computer?
Mine was a OSI Challenger 32k! It had the old large floppy drive.
Played "Pong" on it, but not much else. Software was extremely crude.

 

[mooktarr]

Mine was given to me. I don't know what it was besides s - l- o- w
20 gig drive, 28 speed modem , I don't know how I got hooked on computers after using that one.

 

[Buckeye Buh Nim]

Ours- The TI-94A. Cartridge games, tape player for recording data/programs.

Programs written in BASIC. Ahhh the good ole days.

 

[CCI]

Dude I had a Dell

 

[BrutusMaximus]

Ours- The TI-94A. Cartridge games, tape player for recording data/programs.

Programs written in BASIC. Ahhh the good ole days.

Ditto, this was my first as well. Learned Basic pretty well from just messing around with it. Course I went to an Apple IIC after that. hated it cept for the fact that i could play wolfenstein 1 and 2

 

[starBUCKS]

Don't remember the name... but, I was young and at the Columbus Academy and remember CompuServe was the big name involved.

 

[Muck]

Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III...Christmas morning 1981...my mother actually recorded the entire event on audio cassette.

16K RAM when I got it and it didn't have the 5 1/4" Floppies (there were just plastic covers on the bays) and loaded software off of a cassette (CLOAD baby!).

Later upgraded to 48k & added a floppy drive.



Second computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) that was a hand me down from my grandmother.

Spec wise it was actually worse than the Mod III...but it had color! lol

Third was an Apple IIe with a massive 64K of RAM (another hand me down...the IIe was the one that replaced by grandma's CoCo and was itself replaced by a IIc).

Next was a Tandy 1000 that saw me through HS (8Mhz 80286, 640k ).

Somewhere along the line I ended up with a TRS-80 Model 100 that I took with me to Desert Storm (12+ hours on 4x AA's!)

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

Commodore 64

 

[BB73]

IBM-370

 

[OSUsushichic]

It was a Tandy from the local Radio Shack, probably one of the 1000s.

 

[utgrad73]

Gateway 2000 386 -20 mHz with a 20 MB HD and 30 MB of ram. Dual floppy drives. I won't tell how much this it cost. But you could buy 3 for the price of that one today that run circles around it.

 

[Mike80]

We used Apple II's at school and had this

At home....

 

[Muck]

IBM-370

You owned an S/370?!

 

[osugrad21]

It was a Tandy from the local Radio Shack, probably one of the 1000s.

Ditto...and a library of the old Sierra games.

 

[Taosman]

The OSI was so crude computing. We had to get a subscription to a
news letter for software. Aardvark Software.
Then you TYPED in instructions.