Your first computer?

What was the first system you or your family ever owned? We bought our first computer in 1996. It was a 486, 32mb RAM (i think), 1.2 GB HDD and color monitor.

How about u?

I actually owned a TRS 80 with a cassette tape drive.

Mine was a Sinclair ZX80. I then had a Spectrum, then a Dragon32 then Dragon64... then BBC Model B, then Commodore Amiga which was superb and I still have tucked away somewhere.

I then bought my first PC and ended up now with a Dell Latitude Laptop and loving it. We do have others in the house though too for the wife and son... they have an Acer and a Toshiba.

I remember the sinclair!!!

mine was a commodore 16 followed by a spectrum 128K+2

Wo Wo!
What's Sinclair ZX80 and TRS 80. I feel I am the youngest here :D :p





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My first computer was given to me about a year or so ago. It was a compaq presario. About 3 months after I got it, it died on me. I'm now on my 5th computer since then.

First computer I actually bought was a Packard Bell 286 I bought in 1990. Before that I was working on computers at work for about 3 to 4 years.

I now own 2 laptops and 7 desktops which are all used on a regular basis. As well I have 6 Dell Poweredge Servers in a datacenter in Florida.

First computer i had was a 118mhz i think

but that's crap compared to what i'm getting next week

2 geforce 6800gt's
2gb ram
amd 3800+ processor

it's gonna be sweet :p

A Gateway 200Mhz in 1998. Had a whopping 64 Mbs RAM, and a 2 GB HDD that we had to pay extra for. I still own it, and use it to format drives for others...

Mine was a Victor. I forget the model. It was an 8088 processor at 6 MHz IIRC.

I did a memory upgrade once where I desoldered chips to add higher density chips and it worked!

I learned to code in C on that machine. :)

We bought our first in '98.

It was a 400mhz, 64 meg, Windows 98.
Strangly enough, my laptop crapped out so now I am typing this on the same machine but I upgraded the RAM to 192 megs, added some usb 2.0 ports, and an ethernet card, and Windows XP.

ZX80, then ZX81, then Vic-20, then Spectrum, then Comodore 64. Then an Amstrad 1512 (Upgraded to 640Kb of RAM)

Now there's 5 desktops and 1 laptop in the house and don't even START on how the house is networked ;) :)

ZX80, then ZX81, then Vic-20, then Spectrum, then Comodore 64. Then an Amstrad 1512 (Upgraded to 640Kb of RAM)

Now there's 5 desktops and 1 laptop in the house and don't even START on how the house is networked ;) :)

Probably like the rest of us, with wire. :P

Not all of it is wired :p

Apple IIc. That bad boy had 16K of RAM. Oh yeah. My buddy had the Sinclair with the 1MB memory upgrade. He was so stoked when he bought that lol. Other friends had TRS80s in different configurations as well as a bunch of Apple IIe's. I still have the IIc with about 400 games on 5 1/4 floppies.

The first "computer" that was in my house was a TRS-80 Model I (before it was called the "Model I"), that my pops picked up about 35 seconds after it was announced. He was really into it... 4K, upper-case only monochrome screen, cassette tape, etc (woohoo!). Eventually we had 3 of them, with all sorts of bizarre attachments. Stringy Floppy anyone?

Years before that we had a IBM 026 in the living room. That's not really a computer, though. My mother used to punch up stuff for my father to feed into the 360s at his job.

After the TRS-80's went away we had a bunch of other oddball machines. A Fortune 32:16, a few Toshiba T100's and T300's, a IBM System/23 and then finally some PC type machines.

Now I've got 2 wireless laptops, 1 wireless desktop, 1 wired desktop and 2 Ultra 5's in my house. Plus I have a PDP-11 under the bench in my office that I have no use for but thought would be cool to have around. I don't think it even works, though...