What was your first computer?

philologos · 13-03-2010 03:55PM #1

This may have been done before, but I'd be interested to hear about what computer people used first, and what was it like

The first computer I used was a 1992 Acorn RISC OS 3 system that my dad had bought. It had a ribbon printer, a handful of games and the basics. Everything was on floppy.

alwaysadub · 13-03-2010 03:58PM

We got an Atari 500 when i was younger. There used to be a programme on it to read out your text-used to frighten the crap out of people

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EDIT:i've just been informed it was actually an Amiga 500. The Atari we had before that-actually,still have it, i wouldn't quite class as a computer-it had that tennis game,Pong, that consisted of a couple of White lines on the screen for the tennis bats and a white dot for the ball. Had hours of fun with that!!

silvervixen84 · 13-03-2010 04:00PM

An Amstrad that Santa brought us, but turned out to really be our cousin's hand-me-down.

Got loads of games with it though, Impossible Mission, Mummies and Rainbow Island ftw!

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 04:01PM

It was an Amiga. Can't remember the exact number, possibly a 500.
I honestly don't remember much about it, other than that there was feck all you could do with the thing.

I was only a wee lad at the time. Think it was around 91/92.

My name is URL · 13-03-2010 04:02PM

Mine was an Amstrad 464plus.. I used to spend days on end typing lines of BASIC to be able to play games.. those were the days

The Pontiac · 13-03-2010 04:02PM

Atari 800XL. The games were mostly on cassette and took an eternity to load (when they actually worked), and made all sorts of noises in the process.

Biggins · 13-03-2010 04:06PM

Sinclair ZX81

SomeGuyCalledMi · 13-03-2010 04:06PM

Sinclair Spectrum 16k ram and 3.5mhz cpu. Got it with confirmation money around 1984.

Jesus Wept · 13-03-2010 04:19PM

Commador 64.

Later, a Wang. lol.
It was a 386. Amazingly I think it had 16mb hard drive if memory serves. Crazy stuff.

peasant · 13-03-2010 04:20PM

This

Sharp MZ 700 ..still have it

Overheal · 13-03-2010 04:20PM

Damned if I remember. It was old and it ran Windows 3.1

cynder · 13-03-2010 04:21PM

cant remember weve had a few,

sinclair zx spectrum 16k
sinclair+2
amstrad 464
some games could take 45 mins to load.... remember writing in DOS and doing commands, we could make small games by doing 100 lines of code.

yoshytoshy · 13-03-2010 04:21PM

Olivetti 286 was my first proper machine ,even managed to run a bbs off it for a while:)

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 13-03-2010 04:22PM

Jakkass wrote: »

Everything was on floppy.

But then they invented porn..

AARRRRGH · 13-03-2010 04:27PM

Sinclair ZX81 - 1Kb

Yes thats 1Kb.
When you ran out of memory as you typed letters used to start disappearing off the screen.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ZX81-doorstop.jpg

cynder · 13-03-2010 04:28PM

AARRRRGH wrote: »

Sinclair ZX81 - 1Kb

Yes thats 1Kb.
When you ran out of memory as you typed letters used to start disappearing off the screen.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ZX81-doorstop.jpg

Now used as a door stop. priceless.

cant say that was a waste of money at least its still of some use.

donkey balls · 13-03-2010 04:31PM

sinclair 128k spectrum, games took for ever to load via cassette i think my parents still have it stored in the attic someone.
would love to show my mates kids it there so use to psp, nintendo ds lite etc

robby^5 · 13-03-2010 04:31PM

We had a PC and a Mac G3 when I started using computers.

I always had access to both but the first computer I ever actually owned was my dads old Macintosh 128K. It was about to go into a box to be stored in the attic but we were addicted to playing Glyder and Smashing Windows (space invaders where the invaders were winodws logos and you were the apple logo!) and wanted to be able to them when my Dad was using the G3.

The first computer I actually bought myself I also built myself with mostly standard parts of which I can only recall the graphics card, Radeon 9200SE.

ChocolateSauce · 13-03-2010 04:32PM

The first computer in the house I couldn't name, but it had a 230 MB HD, 8 MB ram, and started up in DOS, so you needed to manually launch windows 3.x. This would be 1992?

The first computer that was mine was a power PC mac with Mac OS 7, 800MB drive 16MB ram and it weighed a tonne! This was 1994. It was with this computer I first discovered internet porn around 1996, but it took like an hour to load a single boob....

biko · 13-03-2010 04:36PM

Amiga 500

mailforkev · 13-03-2010 04:39PM

Atari 65XE back in the late 80's. I had it and my two best friends had a Commodore 64 and an Amstrad CPC464, so we had all bases covered.

We had an Apple II in the house at some stage too, wish that hadn't been chucked out before eBay was invented. My first PC was an early Windows 95 machine, can't even remember what brand or spec it was (I just remember Weezer's Buddy Holly video being on the Windows installation disc).

It's been Macs since 2004.

RayM · 13-03-2010 04:42PM

I got a Commodore 64 when I was nine. Loved it at the time. Although I kind of tarnished my memories of it by digging it out of the attic a few years ago - and being thoroughly horrified at how crap it was.

frodos63 · 13-03-2010 04:43PM

First one was a speccy 81. My first one was a wang that was bought from the ESB 1990 or so had a 32 MB hard drive and was only 16mhz speed cpu. How it all has changed now lol

pikachucheeks · 13-03-2010 04:45PM

The first one I memember was an Apple iMac G3 ...
Sweet computer!

Using a crappy Acer laptop these days just doesn't compare

mike65 · 13-03-2010 04:45PM

First in the house was a something that loaded BASIC from a cassette tape with integrated monitor (70s brown), my first PC was a DX100/8mb Win95 v1 BSOD jobbie.

Spear · 13-03-2010 04:51PM

Like quite a few here, an Amiga 500, Kickstart/Workbench 1.3 and all the Guru Meditations you could want.

donmeister · 13-03-2010 04:56PM

Mine was a Gateway something

, couldnt even run windows 95, BSOD was quite a regular occurrence!

OutlawPete · 13-03-2010 05:14PM

RayM wrote: »

I got a Commodore 64 when I was nine. Loved it at the time. Although I kind of tarnished my memories of it by digging it out of the attic a few years ago - and being thoroughly horrified at how crap it was.

Same here, can't for the life of me remember what the fuck I was doing all those hours when not playing games on it.

I remmeber a book came with hours with programmes in it that when you typed them into the computer (took hours) stupid things would happen, like a baloon floating.

The slightest mistake typing in the code meant starting all over again also.

Anyone old enough will remember the classic War Games which made us all think we could hack into banks and the CIA's computer system and cause WWIII.

Then Ferris Bueller made us believe we could change our exam grades .. damn liars, the whole lot if 'em :mad:

kraggy · 13-03-2010 05:21PM

Amstrad CPC 464. Green screen. 1984 I think.

Used type basic code to draw triangles and pyramids on the screen.

Games were on cassetted tapes and took anywhere between 5 and 20 mins to load.

Favourite game was "Monty on the Run".

dilallio · 13-03-2010 05:35PM

A Commodore PET.

I remember when the pope came to Galway in 1979, people walked up to 15 miles to see him. I lived close to Galway and couldn't be arsed - I only wanted to play Lunar Lander on the PET.

ejmaztec · 13-03-2010 05:43PM

Atari 800XL for big bucks. I even got an Atari printer for more big bucks, where it took 27 keystrokes to produce a £ sign - a problem solved by cutting the rubber $ and £ off with a stanley blade, then swapping them round, and gluing the feckers back on again.

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