What was your first computer?

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

I know this might be scary for those who can remember back in the dark ages of the PC market.

I remember my first computer. I bought it from the commissary in Ft. Carson Colorado. I can't remember how much it costed but it was mine and I loved it.

My first one was a commodore 64 and I remember pulling it out of it's box, hocking it up and staring blankly at a screen that had only the cursor blinking back at me.

I remember getting a book on computer programs and having the tediously type in line upon line of the only game I thought I could play and that was Chess. Oh, dear Lord, not only did I have to retype all those commands, every time I turned the thing on, I had the humiliating experience of loosing every chess game I attempted. Great yet another thing I sucked at and this time I put out money to be this humiliated. Heck, I could go back to high school and be humiliated and save my money. lol

It was not until I found the miracle of cassette drives that I saved myself the drudgery of typing in those commands, but all it did was hasten the humiliation.

Mountain_Girl406 · Feb 12, 2016

A Vax with a terminal

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

Mountain_Girl406 said:
A Vax with a terminal

gesundheit.......?
You had a what with terminal what? did you get vaccinated? lol

rockytopva · Feb 12, 2016

Intel 8088 with a video card that looked something like this...

mnorian · Feb 12, 2016

First one was an IBM Aptiva that I paid $3000 for; more then any car up to that point. It had Windows 3.1 and OS/2 Wrap IBM'S operating system in a dual-boot that was supposed to be competition for Windows; but all it did was crash the machine any time you tried to use it. Even though it had windows 3.1 you still had to use Dos half of the time with it's long command language that was so easy to mess up. It had all of 8MB of ram which I up-graded to 16 and couldn't understand why it was always running out of memory with all that ram; LOL. Now I have 4Gigabits and some programs say that an't enough; some things never change.

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

rockytopva said:
Intel 8088 with a video card that looked something like this...

I remember those cards. I remember upgrading mine a few times to play better games on my PC.
I also remember those old floppy disks. They were great while they lasted. lol.

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

mnorian said:
First one was an IBM Aptiva that I paid $3000 for; more then any car up to that point. It had Windows 3.1 and OS/2 Wrap IBM'S operating system in a dual-boot that was supposed to be competition for Windows; but all it did was crash the machine any time you tried to use it. Even though it had windows 3.1 you still had to use Dos half of the time with it's long command language that was so easy to mess up. It had all of 8MB of ram which I up-graded to 16 and couldn't understand why it was always running out of memory with all that ram; LOL. Now I have 4Gigabits and some programs say that an't enough; some things never change.

The only thing that changes are the prices lol.

rockytopva · Feb 12, 2016

AHH who-stole-my-name said:
I remember those cards. I remember upgrading mine a few times to play better games on my PC.
I also remember those old floppy disks. They were great while they lasted. lol.

I believe that was the old 8 bit ISA card if I remember. Yes, loads of fun.

Tiny Bible · Feb 12, 2016

A Gateway computer. Can't remember the model this many years later but what I didn't know is that it had a defect as did all the models of that particular year due to Gateway having received the bad part first. Instead of sending them back they installed!
It took three years to get satisfaction from Gateway to correct the problem and refund the money.
And they thought those cute cow boxes would be a great selling point. No, the cow company lied. ^_^

Gateway sucked.

Mountain_Girl406 · Feb 12, 2016

Floppy disks? Young uns! What about tape?

Blondepudding · Feb 12, 2016

A second hand Systemax.

AHH who-stole-my-name said:
I know this might be scary for those who can remember back in the dark ages of the PC market.

I remember my first computer. I bought it from the commissary in Ft. Carson Colorado. I can't remember how much it costed but it was mine and I loved it.

My first one was a commodore 64 and I remember pulling it out of it's box, hocking it up and staring blankly at a screen that had only the cursor blinking back at me.

I remember getting a book on computer programs and having the tediously type in line upon line of the only game I thought I could play and that was Chess. Oh, dear Lord, not only did I have to retype all those commands, every time I turned the thing on, I had the humiliating experience of loosing every chess game I attempted. Great yet another thing I sucked at and this time I put out money to be this humiliated. Heck, I could go back to high school and be humiliated and save my money. lol

It was not until I found the miracle of cassette drives that I saved myself the drudgery of typing in those commands, but all it did was hasten the humiliation.

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

Blondepudding said:
A second hand Systemax.

?????? Never heard of it. Was it good?

Blondepudding · Feb 12, 2016

AHH who-stole-my-name said:
?????? Never heard of it. Was it good?

It was great for as long as it lasted until I could afford a brand new computer. All of 2 years actually. I was proud of it since it was many years old when gifted to me.

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

Blondepudding said:
It was great for as long as it lasted until I could afford a brand new computer. All of 2 years actually. I was proud of it since it was many years old when gifted to me.

It pays to have good friends, that's for sure.

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

rockytopva said:
I believe that was the old 8 bit ISA card if I remember. Yes, loads of fun.

I bet. Now they have graphics cards that will suck half the energy out of North West Oregon. Have you ever priced Alienwear.

roamer_1 · Feb 12, 2016

an 8088 386sx (25mhz) w/ a 40mg hard drive and a 5 1/4 floppy... It was given to me broken... Bought DOS for Dummies, learned enough to find out someone had overwritten AUTOEXEC.BAT with a pie recipe that put the machine into a continual loop on boot (no, really)... Figured out how to rewrite the fie, and my first hack was complete, and I was on my way.

Next was a Tandy 486sx, jacked up with a Kingston chip to a 100dx... Bought a 200 mg Hard drive for it and thought, "Man, how could anyone EVER fill up a 200 mg drive? I've got it made, forever!"

AHH who-stole-my-name · Feb 12, 2016

roamer_1 said:
an 8088 386sx (25mhz) w/ a 40mg hard drive and a 5 1/4 floppy... It was given to me broken... Bought DOS for Dummies, learned enough to find out someone had overwritten AUTOEXEC.BAT with a pie recipe that put the machine into a continual loop on boot (no, really)... Figured out how to rewrite the fie, and my first hack was complete, and I was on my way.

Next was a Tandy 486sx, jacked up with a Kingston chip to a 100dx... Bought a 200 mg Hard drive for it and thought, "Man, how could anyone EVER fill up a 200 mg drive? I've got it made, forever!"

Sounds great. I remember hearing about the Tandy. I was in the military when all this stuff started out, so I was pretty much behind the times. I wouldn't have known about the one I got if it hadn't have been for a friend.

GracetotheHumble · Feb 12, 2016

My Grandmother had a Comadore 64, My parents had an old Micron PC, My first computer was an E-Machine in 1999.

PloverWing · Feb 12, 2016

The first computer I programmed on was a DEC LSI-1103, if I remember correctly. Our college had two of them, about the size and shape of dishwashers. We nicknamed them "Maytag" and "Kenmore". I didn't own my own computer until much later.

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