What was your first computer

Backward compatability.

Early stuff didn't use a timer as they didn't come often enough; as a result on faster machines some of the software was unusable.
Other way round now, you can't play the latest games on your PC because it's too slow - you must have had that at least a week, mate!

Radio Shack TRS-80!!

I think I'm dating myself here...

Timex Sinclair AND Commodre 64 [won em both at work] and ya, the timing stuff was funny. Try playing chips challenge a great c64 time waster on an emulator on ANY machine from Amiga or IBM.... damn little piece mover is on crack laced with pcp and filtered through heroin. hehe

tfh wrote:

Yeah, I know what you mean - I had to stop playing a pacman game cause the ghosts were on speed. "Start...erk...Game over"

I'd forgotten Chips Challenge - is this the same game?

First computer I had was a hand me down from my older brother to my cus and then on to me... sinclair spectrum 48K... it was well dated when I received it aropund 1990... then I got from santa a commodore 64...just played games on it like all the otuer k_1dz (1991

Then super nintendo came along... it ruined my computer ways, nintendo 64, playstation, nintendo gamecube and playstation 2 then followed.

It wasn't until April 2001 that I got my first dell and then the interwebs took over and eventually here I am!

gonzo57 wrote:

Same here - at the time I was told I was the first one to order from my city in '83.


Then rocked it with the Amstrad CPC64, which I still have!

I had a Didaktik M. It had no HD, but I had a floppy drive, instead of a casette player. The sheer capitalistic decadency of it!
And my first real pc had a monumental 3 GB of HD. It shold have been 5 GB but Ive got mugged...

anikan wrote:


Mine didn't even have a monitor hooked up to b&w 12in TV.
Timex Sinclair 1000

http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html

Timex Sinclair 1000
Introduced: July 1982
Price: US $99.95
How many? 500,000 in first 6 months
Weight: 12 ounces
CPU: Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz
RAM: 2K, 64K max
Display: 22 X 32 text
hooks to TV
Ports: memory, cassette
Peripherals: Cassette recorder
T/S printer
OS: ROM BASIC

nitrocomplex wrote:
Ha, me too, I did find a compatable printer for it though. It definitely had it's limits, but no worries of viruses or crashes was a plus. The built in newsreader was the best though, opened up a whole new world of porn surfing

timan84 wrote:

I forgot about those things. Do they even still make them?

buckethead wrote:
They changed the name to MSN TV several years ago. When I was able to get DSL I got a real computer because the WebTV was so slow and some web pages just wouldn't load. About that time they came out with MSN TV2 which is capable of broadbrand connection and is still on the market (just did a quick google out of curiousity). Unfortunately I believe they dropped the free newsreader which was popular with the porn hounds
Some of the newsgroups got to be to spam filled anyway

toshiba laptop t1900 i think specs were

pentium 90mhz
800 mb hdd
4 mb ram
fdd
i think although i may be wrong

first computer I ever owned was an IBM 386 -- with the annoying IBM micro-architecture that prohibited one from buying any additional upgrades unless they were also made by IBM.

Don't recall all the details of the machine any more, but it was out near the leading edge at the time...

Now the first computers I used where older than this, but I didn't own them, and thread asked what was first you ever had...

Nobody else had a Heuristic Algorithm 9000?

First computer I remember was the Apple IIE in grade school and writing idiotic choose-your-own-adventure style games in Basic.

First home computer was a Gateway in the early 90's.

Side note: the mention of gaming consoles pisses me off even almost 2 decades later. I saved up money for months to buy myself the Atari 3600/7800 (top of the line at the time). Then the first Nintendo came out a few months later. Argh. On the other hand, I never got sucked into the world of computer games like the rest of my generation (you just coudn't play Atari all day). Plus, I can still hook that old sucker up and play a few games of Joust or Xevious, or play Larry vs. Dr. J in One on One.