What was your first computer?

[Sitsatdeskwithpen]

Radio shack model 2k something. It had 2k total memory.

 

[MWood]

Back in '03 I bought a used computer that had Windows 95 OS. Don't remember the brand name but it was a good computer, that was eventually no longer supported by MS. So in '06 I bought a Dell Pro with Windows XP. A wonderful OS. But in '13 MS no longer supported that system. And some how I clicked on something, that messed up something, and I couldn't find something to fix the something that I had clicked on that messed up the something. So I bought a Dell home with the Windows 8 and got a free upgrade to Windows 8.1. Another good OS. But in July 29 '15 I was offered an opportunity to upgrade to the Windows 10. And why not? I couldn't operate the others, so I may as well move on up to the top OS, and keep up with technology. I bought the books. For dummies, McFedries, etc.....

 

[katerinah1947]

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.

Hi,

Technically, IBM 360.

LOVE,

 

[AHH who-stole-my-name]

Hi,

Technically, IBM 360.

LOVE,

Hi, right back at you and have a wonderful day.

 

[katerinah1947]

Hi, right back at you and have a wonderful day.

Hi,

But was your very first Solid State calculator a Post Versalog, that worked but you used it on faith and experience, because it made no real sense to you?

Where, on IBM 360?

LOVE,

 

[AHH who-stole-my-name]

Hi,

But was your very first Solid State calculator a Post Versalog, that worked but you used it on faith and experience, because it made no real sense to you?

Where, on IBM 360?

LOVE,

I was responding to your sign off = Love. I haven't the foggiest about the instrument you are talking about. I bang rocks on my head! lol

 

[katerinah1947]

I was responding to your sign off = Love. I haven't the foggiest about the instrument you are talking about. I bang rocks on my head! lol

Hi,

Thank you for the love statement.

Normally I don't explain my sign-off, unless I have to.

I have to now.

That LOVE, being all capitals, allows me to sign off correctly.

Of all hard to understand or believe concepts, it stands for this: My best remembrance of the way God The Father actually loves.

In May of 2007, I had that resident in me, until later, when I was asked by, YOU KNOW WHO, to pass it on to the next person.

It was given to some guy at work, who like me once upon a time, was trying, but did not know how to love.

I still remember how, and actually try to only love that way.

Thanks for your statement.

LOVE,

 

[katerinah1947]

I was responding to your sign off = Love. I haven't the foggiest about the instrument you are talking about. I bang rocks on my head! lol

Hi,

My first home computer was an HP, but I don't remember the model.

The IBM 360, was when I was in engineering school.

I started in 1966.

It's the very first computer, I had to tear myself away from. It was that much fun.

Since, it was my first, I stated it as such.

The Post-Versalog is a brand of Slide Rule, made out of Oiled Bamboo, and a plastic face that did everything the first HP, I think 35, did.

However, even at I think 395, 1970 Amreican Dollars, I had to have one, as they were so outrageous.

The outrageousness was, to be able to push buttons and the answers came up on the display.

It was palm sized.

LOVE,

 

[pdudgeon]

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.

YES!! commodore 64. that was such fun playing frogger and the submarine spelling game.

 

[look4hope]

Lol wow!
1999 feels like ages ago. That's because it was.

This was my first.

 

[Murby]

My first computer was a TRS-80

 

[Dave-W]

Kinda depends ....

Back around 1968 I bought this "computer" that was a piece of plywood with all these switches and dials on it that could be used for very basic (binary) addition and subtraction.

My next comp was the Timex Sinclair 1000. Actually used it at work on occasion (and it nearly got me fired as the company owner had a rabid fear of computers) That was in the mid 1980s.

 

[Kersh]

Epson QX-10

 

[Ubuntu]

My first computer was a PC with an Intel 486 DX4 100mhz processor. It had 4 megs of ram and a graphic adapter with 1 megabyte of vram. It was a beast! I remember that it ran Windows 3.11/Dos 6.22.

 

[Grandpa4]

My first computer was a Dell I paid $1,000 for in 1999; it was a big dud. I would never have another Dell. I just bought an HP computer for $243. I can't say I know much more about computers now than I did in 1999; I'm still just barely functional on one.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Tandy T1000

 

[elytron]

View attachment 169895 Lol wow!
1999 feels like ages ago. That's because it was.

This was my first.

I think I used to have that same machine, and monitor. Looks very familiar, except for the speakers. My aunt gave it to us second hand. If I remember correctly, ours had a 2GB HDD and Windows 98. I used it to type school work. We had aol dial-up at that time, and a printer. My sister would play games on it.

Eventually the monitor died. Afterwards we bought some HP Pavilion desktop.

 

[The Barbarian]

A 4K Trash-80. You get really, really good at writing concise programs with less than 4000 bytes available.

Then Commodore 64, then a Xerox 820-2:

Big and heavy. The box under the monitor houses 2 8 in. floppy drives. Huge things, but you got one megabyte of storage on each disk.

 

[look4hope]

@The Barbarian
Awesome!

 

[CrossTheTaiga]

Somewhere between 1990 and 1993 I had a nigh indestructible Fujitsu. Loading 2.5 MB took almost 2 days...literally. We had to endure the 'taptaptapBootBootgrumblebootTap'-sound for hours

.. Lovely little tech-thing.