First Computer You've Owned?

WalksWithChrist · Jul 31, 2010

My family had an Atari 520ST. Not many people had those! It had a sweet GUI on it called GEM...Graphics Environment Manager.
It was just like a Mac. lol

Also the Atari 2600 will live forever is greatness.

Now the first computer I myself owned I built myself at work in a PC tech shop. The case was off an old Head Start server. I bought the AT-based motherboard new and it had an AMD K6-2 400 mHz cpu and probably 64 mb ram. A spiffy new AGP video card with 8 mb video ram! And the rest was used parts I think.
I finally gave that one away recently to be recycled. The end of an era!

TemperateSeaIsland · Aug 3, 2010

Amstrad PCW 8256, got it for xmas 1985 I think. The thing was basically a business machine but it had a few games available. Really bad (4 MHz processor) but looking back I loved the thing... Especially playing Batman

Speculative · Aug 3, 2010

Atari 800 with 48K RAM and a cassette drive.

WalksWithChrist · Aug 3, 2010

Speculative said:
Atari 800 with 48K RAM and a cassette drive.

I loved those.

Willtor · Aug 4, 2010

We had an Atari-7800. That was sweet. My recollection was that it was able to play Atari-2600 games.

WalksWithChrist · Aug 4, 2010

Willtor said:
We had an Atari-7800. That was sweet. My recollection was that it was able to play Atari-2600 games.

I wanted one of those.

Willtor · Aug 4, 2010

WalksWithChrist said:
I wanted one of those.

It was everything you dreamed it could be.

... of course, then the NES came out.

WalksWithChrist · Aug 4, 2010

Willtor said:
It was everything you dreamed it could be.

... of course, then the NES came out.

Oh yes. I burned many an hour on one of those. Tetris, Super Mario...yeah.

Chris81 · Aug 4, 2010

My first computer was an Apple IIgs at the time it state of the art because it had way better graphics than the earlier Apple IIe.

LeightonH · Aug 5, 2010

The first computer our family had was an Atari 800xl with a 5.25 inch 360k floppy drive and a Roland 24 pin dot-matrix printer.

bhillyard · Aug 5, 2010

My first was an Acorn BBC Micro, 32K 4 Mhz. About 1984. Into Basic and assembler. Learnt a lot from it. Compare with latest - 2.7 Ghz, 10 Gbyte quad core i7. Mainframe I used in 1975 onwards had less power than my current machine!

pgp_protector · Aug 5, 2010

bhillyard said:
My first was an Acorn BBC Micro, 32K 4 Mhz. About 1984. Into Basic and assembler. Learnt a lot from it. Compare with latest - 2.7 Ghz, 10 Gbyte quad core i7. Mainframe I used in 1975 onwards had less power than my current machine!

It's a good bet that your current machine has more power than the first Cray Supercomputers (and quite a few that followed it)

MPaul · Aug 5, 2010

My first computer has to be the one I made in the 8th grade as a project for science class. It was put into the school's science fair, and students and parents who went through the exhibit completely destroyed it. I thought the whole experience was pretty boring, and not long thereafter, I started reading Shakespeare.

Aimiel · Aug 8, 2010

I bought an Atari 800 shortly after they came out. Then a Mac. Then a Mac Plus. Then a PC. It's been all downhill since then. I have an iPhone, but can't afford a Mac. =(

WalksWithChrist · Aug 9, 2010

Aimiel said:
I bought an Atari 800 shortly after they came out. Then a Mac. Then a Mac Plus. Then a PC. It's been all downhill since then. I have an iPhone, but can't afford a Mac. =(

Mac Mini? They work with your existing peripherals.

JCchangedmylife · Aug 16, 2010

I believe this is it radio shack

File:TRS-80 Color Computer 3.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a cassette drive to save to it connected to a tv I remember I had to type like 15 pages of dos for random graphics

then came the amazingly advanced

YouTube - Windows 3.1 Launch Party

Wolvrin704 · Aug 16, 2010

My first computer was bought circa 1995, it was a Hewlett-Packard 486DX2 66Mhz, with I think an 8GB HD. I think it had Windows 3.1 and it had MS DOS. We've had 4 desktops and 3 laptops since then.

In college we had Apple II's and I loved the Oregon Trail game.

WalksWithChrist · Aug 16, 2010

JCchangedmylife said:
I believe this is it radio shack

File:TRS-80 Color Computer 3.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a cassette drive to save to it connected to a tv I remember I had to type like 15 pages of dos for random graphics

then came the amazingly advanced

YouTube - Windows 3.1 Launch Party

I found a sealed copy of 3.1 in a huge trash pile at work a few years ago. With the manual! I still have it.

Wolvrin704 said:
My first computer was bought circa 1995, it was a Hewlett-Packard 486DX2 66Mhz, with I think an 8GB HD. I think it had Windows 3.1 and it had MS DOS. We've had 4 desktops and 3 laptops since then.

In college we had Apple II's and I loved the Oregon Trail game.

We has something similar to your HP but our was a Packard Bell.

Worst. Computer. Ever!!!!
*looks for thumbsdown smiley*

uncommondeal · Aug 19, 2010

I grew up in a city in african where technology was way backward and is still. Anyway, my first computer was a DELL laptop when I left africa.

winsome · Aug 21, 2010

bhillyard said:
My first was an Acorn BBC Micro, 32K 4 Mhz. About 1984.

Me too. I was looking for a home computer and went to an exhibition where they were showing a prototype and I thought - that's the one. I ordered one but had to wait months before I actually got it.

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