First Computer You've Owned?

[Kimiad]

Ahhh my old Atari STF... I miss you ! Fortunately there are nice emulators .

 

[Joshua0]

The Commodore Amiga was ahead

The Amiga was an awesome computer. So much better then the 64. I thought serious about moving to LA and getting involved in Computer graphics for making movies. It turned out there was a lot of work there.

The first computer I used was in collage and the computer was the size of a room. We punched holes in a card to run them into the computer. Back then a computer bug was a real bug caught in a relay circuit. I took a survey course and we had to run our field data into the computer. I messed up because I sighted on a water tower that was WAY to far away. So I stood outside of the room and had people give their results to me. They were very happy to talk to me so they could verify that their results were in the same ball park as the other people. So I averaged the numbers, turned that in and I got an A on that project

 

[Joshua0]

I remember one of the first times I heard of someone getting a computer with a three gigabyte hard drive

Going form a floppy to the hard disk gave us all the space in the world. My first hard drive was 40 MB. I thought that was going to be HUGE. Turned out to be nothing because like the floppy the programmers used it all up. In the beginning it seems like forever I was taking one disk out and putting another one in. Because the program was on one floppy and we saved our data to another floppy. Just like there were only 60 characters per line and we print out at 80 characters. So we use to have to flip back and forth or spend time reformatting. My first moden was 1200. I would talk to people with 300 modems and it was so slow waiting for them. That is why we had talk rooms. So there was always someone saying something on the screen. Then you could have private chat and keep the public conversation going. I wonder how many people were having computer sex with one person and talking about a recipe with another. There were a lot of roll playing games back then. I do not know if they still do any of that or not.

 

[Spiritlight]

Amstrad thing with 2 floppys and one was the boot disk.

 

[Jonathan Jarvis]

In 1973 I took a City & Guilds course on Computers. I remember that I got a distinction.

Ferrite stores, half adders, punch cards - it all come back to me now. Possibly there may be a job for me with my qualifications at IBM - as a janitor.

 

[emilysmith]

i can't remember coz i am 6 year old when dad give me my 1st Computer

 

[HonestTruth]

I had a couple of what might be called generic table tops made by a guy who turned out to be a crook who pirated software. When I learned of his misdeeds, I bought the laptop from DELL Inspiron B130 in 2005 which I am currently using,

Thought my DELL was on its last legs so I bought a Toshiba Satellite 850 series and it broke down in only 2 weeks. I've checked with Best Buy and other websites and found that many people have complained about these PCs. Sorry to say but they are utter crapola and not worth anything. Not only do they break down easily, the Toshiba people force you to send the machine to their factory at your expense. I wonder if the machine will break down again within the one year warranty period.

Whatever you do - don't ever buy Toshibas!

 

[RaisinOatmeal]

We had a 386 that ran on ms-dos from a 5.25" floppy disk.

Along the way we went through a couple of desktop clones - they ran on pirated software and were always unstable, so we had to do a lot of troubleshooting on our own.

Since then all our machines are from HP - so far so good - they don't give a lot of problems, except they start to slow down after a few years.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

I had a couple of what might be called generic table tops made by a guy who turned out to be a crook who pirated software. When I learned of his misdeeds, I bought the laptop from DELL Inspiron B130 in 2005 which I am currently using,

Thought my DELL was on its last legs so I bought a Toshiba Satellite 850 series and it broke down in only 2 weeks. I've checked with Best Buy and other websites and found that many people have complained about these PCs. Sorry to say but they are utter crapola and not worth anything. Not only do they break down easily, the Toshiba people force you to send the machine to their factory at your expense. I wonder if the machine will break down again within the one year warranty period.

Whatever you do - don't ever buy Toshibas!

It's Dell, not DELL. The founder of the company is Michael Dell.

And yeah, Toshiba is crap. Always has been.

 

[HonestTruth]

On my PC it says DELL. But I'll take your word for it.

As for Toshiba and its worthless merchandise, something needs to be done to stop this dumping of useless garbage on society.

 

[BlueLioness]

What is the first computer you've owned? Whether it was a family computer or your own, it doesn't matter so much.

My family's first computer that I remember was a 386 at a screamin' 40 mhz, We had Windows 3.1 and MS Dos.

Now before I was born my family had a Macintosh Plus. It had a Black & White screen and 1 MB of RAM.

How about you guys?

Oh my goodness. I'm 25 years old right now but we've owned and operated our own computers all the way back since when I was nine years old -- but I don't even remember what our first one was called. Dang.

All I know is we've never been Mac users. I'm surprised with how many people say they've had exposure to Macs. You know, that is a good thing. The more exposure you have towards that many more things is all the much more better. Thus I despise my ignorance.

So computers are nothing new to us. You know the first one we had used floppy disks (ha! Do you still remember when they used to use those!? They have been replaced by CDS and jump drives now!).

And my little sister is a web designer so her job requires she have computer access daily. Recently she took a drive out to Wal Mart and bought herself her own Laptop, which she says is waaayyy better than a Desktop.

You do know what Wal Mart is, right? My friends call is Wally World (lol).

 

[BlueLioness]

I just dislike being called a criminal for claiming to be an actual hacker, can become quite annoying. I'm a programmer.

Why are you not considerate of other people's feelings? What on earth is wrong with you?

People are people and people have feelings.

I thought we were supposed to be nice to each other when we got on here.

If I knew that someone was going through my computer without my permission, then yes, I would feel mad and I would feel violated, like someone had just had sex with me against my will.

After all, my machine is an extension of my private life. My machine IS me.

So thanks for being considerate of other people's feelings, you jerk.

Oh and yes -- it is my computer so I have every right to use it. That's the way I see things, folks.

 

[USincognito]

Commodore Plus/4.
Commodore Plus/4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unfortunately my parents didn't buy any storage medium to go with it.

 

[C-Man]

Ah, I found a picture of this old beauty. I got a system almost identical to this one for a fiver in a garage sale some time in 1992.
The Texas Instruments TI-994/A.

Would you believe some hardware geek actually makes USB expansion cards for this???
I wish they'd do it for regular old ISA.

 

[BlueLioness]

What is the first computer you've owned? Whether it was a family computer or your own, it doesn't matter so much.

My family's first computer that I remember was a 386 at a screamin' 40 mhz, We had Windows 3.1 and MS Dos.

Now before I was born my family had a Macintosh Plus. It had a Black & White screen and 1 MB of RAM.

How about you guys?

I remember that day well. I was 9 years old, outside playing in my parents' front yard pretending that the leaves on their trees were actually big birds' wings. I was pretend-playing by myself. That was fun for awhile but I became bored and I remember going into our house and pushing up a chair to our first computer ever and watching TV shows on it and I thought that that was fun because the characters would do things I thought was amusing.

They'd make me laugh.

It turned me into a gamer too, I remember hitting the game shops and buying video games and movies.

But as the years went by and I saw myself approaching adulthood I began to loose my interest in computers. It's just that when you have had exposure to a product for so long, it becomes old.

The only reason I ever owned a computer in the first place was because I was bored and I was looking for a way to entertain myself (ever heard of gaming latops?), but if you've been computing for over 20 years like I have computers can get boring ...and then you like, get offline and look for different ways to have fun.

 

[Lovely Jar]

A Gateway PC!

The cow lied!

It took three years to get Gateway to replace what was at the time of it's shipping a bad processor.
I could close the door on my den and still hear that computer running from across the house in another room.
First time I had to call for tech support the techie tried to sellme an IE upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP.
Turns out if you did that during the warranty period it voided the warranty on install. And the techie knew this.

I wouldn't suggest a Gateway as a first computer even to Satan himself.

What is the first computer you've owned? Whether it was a family computer or your own, it doesn't matter so much.

My family's first computer that I remember was a 386 at a screamin' 40 mhz, We had Windows 3.1 and MS Dos.

Now before I was born my family had a Macintosh Plus. It had a Black & White screen and 1 MB of RAM.

How about you guys?

 

[BlueLioness]

A Gateway PC!

The cow lied!

It took three years to get Gateway to replace what was at the time of it's shipping a bad processor.
I could close the door on my den and still hear that computer running from across the house in another room.
First time I had to call for tech support the techie tried to sellme an IE upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP.
Turns out if you did that during the warranty period it voided the warranty on install. And the techie knew this.

I wouldn't suggest a Gateway as a first computer even to Satan himself.

This has happened to my newest computer, it used to scream like a woman -- that was before my little sister intervened and helped make it into the machine it is today. We had it rebuilt. Now it's a quiet as a mouse. This is what turned it into custom-made. It so much better than it it hadn't been custom made.

I'm glad you got an expert to help you. I always thought that loud nosies were hardware problems.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

A Gateway PC!

The cow lied!

It took three years to get Gateway to replace what was at the time of it's shipping a bad processor.
I could close the door on my den and still hear that computer running from across the house in another room.
First time I had to call for tech support the techie tried to sellme an IE upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP.
Turns out if you did that during the warranty period it voided the warranty on install. And the techie knew this.

I wouldn't suggest a Gateway as a first computer even to Satan himself.

My family went thru something similar with Gateway. After three failed repairs, they gave us a "new" one. It wasn't much better.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

The cow lied!

I live in the countryside, rule #1 - never trust a cow!

I wouldn't suggest a Gateway as a first computer even to Satan himself.

I keep telling this dude to use Linux or FreeBSD - you'd think he would use FreeBSD as it's mascot is quite appealing to him!

NOTE: FreeBSD uses a "daemon" as it's mascot but i've never run into a bunch of nicer people than these guys...

 

[nlphypno80]

I would have to say that it was a Tandy 1000 with an 8088 processor and dual 5.25 floppy drives. That was back in 1985 or 86. I can't remember the exact year.

That's when I got my start with computers.