What was your First Computer? :)

Steve Mayfield

first computer used (1970): Control Data 3150 Corporation (using punch cards) first computer owned (1980): Smoke Signal Broadcasting (Motorola 6809 based...cost me ~$5K) had one of the very first floppy disk controllers available (disk was 5.25" 360K capacity)...I still have some of the prototype Western Digital Floppy Disk Controller Chips (WD1771) we used to design the controller for the Smoke Signal system. first printer owned: NEC Spinwrite 5500 (1980...cost me ~$3K...still in use...ribbons are getting hard ro find though :) Steve

Luis Alonso Ramos

I'm 23. I bought Windows 95 the very first day it was released (Aug. 24th, 1995), but I bought it on CD!! :) -- LuisR

Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!

code frog 0

The first IBM PC that came out (I think) it was the one with the green screen and cost about $10,000 if I remember. After that the Vic 20, Vic 64 and Vic 128 then an Apple IIe (Dark Castle was a great game for it's time.) - Rex

I know you can't become if you only say what you would have done and you'll miss a million miles of fun." - Len Work hard, play hard. Don't forget who you are and don't forget where you're from. Do all these things well and you won't have to wonder where you are going. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.

C0d3_P03t

Good old memories hehe I remember playing lemmings, which got abit boring after a while, and i remember i grabbed a copy of Wolfenstein 3D which was super hehe. Doom was the best though. I had sensible soccer too, anyone remember those? Back then games where more fun, they were really actually stress reliefing, now a days its all about powerfull 3D graphics and puzzles(which im not complaining about) but i miss the old days) Space invaders!!! I wish i could go back in time Always trust your techno lust

benjymous

Depends on how you define First Computer My first computer experience was playing in Mac Paint on one of the original all-in-one Apple Macs (which happily babysat me in my Dad's university while he was doing some phd work) Our first family computer was a Tandy TRS80 that my dad rescued from a skip from his university when they were having a clear out The first computer of my very own was a ZX Spectrum +3 -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!

Michael P Butler

Sinclair ZX81, (without the 16k expansion for the first year.) It was the turning point of my life that led me down the slippery road of computer software development. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

Michael P Butler

Ian Darling wrote: and a bit of board to stop it wobbling Ah, those were the days. Press one key too hard and your days work would disappear in a flash. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

Lost User

Her first computer was a Nascom 2 (british Z80 based) Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

Baconbutty

BBC Model B with a whopping amount of RAM - 28K (I think). Bought a floppy disk drive and many ROMs to insert into the motherboard. Good machine and, of course, the computer that ran the best computer game EVER - Elite. I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

Alsvha

Olivetti 2x86 10mHz, 1 MB RAM, 20 MB Harddrive (partioned into 11 and 9 MB - I didn't opt for the 40MB harddrive, because ... who needed *that* much space :D). I bought it in 1992 when I was about to go to "high school", using money I'd earned from my paper-route :D It surprisingly still runs today, although with a Y2K error - and the original monitor is dead I recall. Ahh - the memories ... :D --------------------------- 127.0.0.1 - Sweet 127.0.0.1

J4amieC

Acorn Electron C.1985 No Disk drive (tape drive only), no Hard Drive, 32K of memory and thousands upon thousands of lines of BASIC for the simplist of games. them was the days.

Rob Manderson

My first was a kit computer based on the National Semiconductor SC/MP chip from the June 1977 issue of Electronics Australia. 256 bytes of RAM. Amazingly the /MP part of the chip's name meant MultiProcessor - way back then some people were thinking of how to do multiprocessor systems. Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]

jonathan15

48k ZX Spectrum :). God that was fun. The best bit is i still have it. Its in my mums attic. The only problem with it is the membrane has gone by the Z key which means it needs a good thump to get it to work (hense a large dent in that corner). that made it prety much impossible to program on as the spectrum ahd allt these extended unction keys which i couldnt use without the left ctrl key :((:(. I might hve a look at it now though. Jon

Juan Carlos Cobas

None owned an MSX one? I bought a Sony 201P with 48 Kb. At that time (1985) was a fantastic computer. I really had fun with it.

Niall Barr

Yamaha CX5M[^]

KaRl

ZX81, 16K RAM extension and a nice rubber keyboard[^]

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GDavy

When I was 12 I got a Commodore 64. Only with the tape-recorder though... A year after I got my 64, I upgraded with a Floppy-drive and a super-duper speed cartridge... I still remember my first program I wrote: 10 print "Hello Commodore64" 20 goto 10 ;)

Giles

The first I used at home was my dad's a Commodore PET 90. My own was an Atari STe 520. Saying that not sure if an Atari 2600 games console counts?

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realJSOP

Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

ProffK

Ye Olde Sinclair ZX81, 1k RAM. Gene Roddenberry was a legendary pioneer of thought-provoking, futuristic science fiction. George Lucas created Jar Jar Binks.