What was your first computer

tekky29 wrote:


I remember dreaming about having a Commodore back in junior high school.
Then in high school, we had Apple 64E's and TRS80's in the computer room, and I was in heaven!

tekky29 wrote:

Ditto - in retrospect a great machine only surpassed for games by the Amiga.....

First "real" computer I worked with was an IBM 3090 - using COBOL - what a beast!

A Gateway 486dx with a big 8k of RAM, a 14.4 modem, and a new fangled 2x cd-rom drive. Windows 3.1 and DOS and later Windows95. Made some other upgrades to it through the years and it should still be storage waiting for me to play some of the old favorite DOS games.

Mentioning the CD-ROM and some of the other old machines mentioned in this thread reminded me of my TurboGrafx16 system that I got the CD-ROM upgrade for back in 1991 which also played CD+G music CDs (standard music CDs with various visual animations and text). I sold that a few years ago for a decent enough price.

Ya, it's fun to remember the old computers, but as they fade into the past, so do we...






otiscleotus wrote:

My sister had an old Apple II and my dad was still using it for word programs until just a few years ago when the keyboard on finally went to hell.

Monkey D. Ruffy wrote:

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oldies goodies. ı had a c64 too

A Dragon 32.

At the time in the uk you could pick from one of 3. The Sinclair spectrum, rubber keys but lot's of games. The BBC, which the schools used and was more expensive or the Dragon, which no one but me bought because it was crap!

it ran off DOS and it had both a 3.5 and 5 inch floppy drive

I bought my first computer in early 2000. It was a HP Pavilion xe736 Desktop PC.



Intel Celeron 600 MHz processor (Socket 370)
64 MB SDRAM standard
10 GB Hard drive
48x CD-ROM drive
1.44 MB Diskette drive

I upgraded just about everything I could until its death in 2005.

proud owner of a vic 20. The guy that wrote PIII made me feel pretty old lol

doak wrote:
As did I, god i feel rather old now:(

And I still have it in it's original box. My First 'proper' computer was BBC Model B and my first work computer was an Amstrad PCW512.

That's gives my age away!!

Do u mean first computer I had or first computer I had in my house?

When I was born there was an 386 already at home...

my first one was a Pentium II.

CarolPrincex wrote:

So...it's not just your avatar that makes me feel old, then...

CarolPrincex wrote:
I had a 386 with a turbo button. Apparently you could choose to run it at 4 mhz or 44...wtf, why choose 4?