Mine was the Apple II Europlus. Bought it in 1979. Loved that thing.
Amstrad PCW 9512+. Green screen thing with a daisy wheel printer that sounded like a machine gun.
Got a PC with a Celeron 333MHz a few years later. My memories of that are much fonder.
I was an amstrad pcw 8256. Still have it in the loft along with that noisy printer.
Ratta-tat-tat
I can’t tell you the exact made and model, but my first computer was an old one that was a hand-me-down from my dad. It ran Windows XP and looked something like this
I played of lot of educational CD ROMS on that thing. Good times.I don’t remember the brand or specs. I only remember that it ran MS-DOS and had an orange monochrome monitor.
Don’t remember the brand or specs either. But I remember it took 5 1/4 inch floppies. That was the first and last time I used that size. Circa 1995
A Timex-Sinclair 1000 in ’82.
Intel 80286.
That’s a processor, not a computer.
My first computer was the Tandy 1000 RLX which also had a 286 processor in it.
yeah i don’t know the rest of the specs.
Don’t worry, that was plenty of information for most of us. I spent all too many hours on an i286 machine, but I recall nothing else about the system.
Commodore 64!
Commodore 64 … Same here … but it was with a family friend that I went to visit often … every I saw the, we spent hours on their system. I remember sorting through all the ASCII characters to try to make a drawing on the screen … hours and hours of tip tapping to find the right character for the flag of England I was drawing.
With a cassette drive, baybeeee
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
Commodore… 128! (But it was always in GO64 mode for the games)
One of my friends had one and they always did the same. I don’t think any computer has ever seen its power intentionally turned off as often as the Commodore 128.
IBM PS/2. Got it for free along with an original HP Deskjet printer. It originally ran MS-DOS until a family friend gave us an old floppy set of Windows 3.1.
The PS/2 was ancient by that point but it probably helped convince my parents that a PC was a worthwhile investment. Creating documents in Word was a lot easier than using a typewriter.
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Had something that was an Apple II or IBM clone…ran floppy floppies.
I couldn’t even save my documents, as I had no spare floppies and my parents didn’t understand we need blank ones as media lol.
Yet they were able to record TV to blank VHS’s…
But I learned
BASICon it. And played Garfield and Spiderman and Oregon Trail a lot.Our second one was a Compaq, with a Pentium III, onboard motherboard GFX. 56k that never went beyond 4100 on the best of days, 1200 when raining. It fried eventually after a botched RAM upgrade by my brother.
It did run Merchwarrior III, FFXI and Tribes 2 swell when we got it a PCI graphics card before the botched RAM incident.
Off topic:
My brother coached me in PC building in ~02. Most recently built a 5950X3D system. Thanks Microcenter. And R.I.P. my brother.
First one I used was a Commodore 64.
First home computer was an original Macintosh.
First one I bought for myself was a Performa 6290.
The Leading Edge Model D. An 8088 from the late 80s that we got 3rd hand
It had 2 double density 5.25" floppy drives and 256K of RAM! If I let it warm up 10 minutes it could even run Print Maker Pro.
ZX-81 which my brother and I built from a kit. I was astonished when it actually worked.
I had an 81. Thought it was the rebuild one and it was the 80 you could get in kit form?
No - you could get the 81 both prebuilt or as a kit. The kit was cheaper, clearly, and was the only one we could afford.
I was really young and was given it as a hand me down. Only ever saw old ads for the 80 in kit.
The more you learn etc
The Gibson
I’m a Fender guy myself
And did you hack it?
Naw I worked with a guy named Mr. Plague
Commodore VIC20 with a stonking great 5k of RAM
Part of which was stolen by the OS.
A friend of mine had that, he was blown away that I could play pac man on the commodore 64
Same
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
For high school graduation I got an Apple IIe with all the bells and whistles - the color monitor, dual floppy, ram/80-column card, 1mb ram extension, even the 5mb hdd, it was great.
