What was your first computer?

[imstillstanding]

We had a Mac Performa I think it was a 5200!! Dial up Internet and all!!!

 

[Neostarwcc]

A intel 486 that my dad bought at walmart when I was Seven years old. I haven't been able to get off a computer since .

 

[JoeP222w]

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.

Commodore 64.

And the amazement from upgrading from the tape drive to the 5 1/4 floppy disk drive! Wow what an improvement!

 

[Hieronymus]

My 2007 built Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop was my first computer, it's still my computer today.
I bought it in 2008 for a thousand Euro's...

The following parts have died:
bluetooth (i never used it anyway)
keyboard (external now)
monitor (external full HD 21" now)
mousepad (so i use a wired mouse)
DVD RW drive
battery

I have Ubuntu 10.4 (yes, april 2010) (Linux)
I never used the Windows it came with.

It could die any moment, i guess...

 

[Neostarwcc]

View attachment 171606 We had a Mac Performa I think it was a 5200!! Dial up Internet and all!!!

I remember those. Good times.

 

[st333333]

First computer was a Gateway 2000. It actually ran off coal.

 

[mnorian]

My 2007 built Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop was my first computer, it's still my computer today.
I bought it in 2008 for a thousand Euro's...

The following parts have died:
bluetooth (i never used it anyway)
keyboard (external now)
monitor (external full HD 21" now)
mousepad (so i use a wired mouse)
DVD RW drive
battery

I have Ubuntu 10.4 (yes, april 2010) (Linux)
I never used the Windows it came with.

It could die any moment, i guess...

You replace the HD and the processor and you will have a new hatchet!


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[tfosriA]

My first computer was actually a family computer I believe back in the early 00's. It wasn't quite as old as everyone else's. That's about all I know. I think it was a regular dell or something. Only thing I really did when my family let me use it was play flash games.

 

[chevyontheriver]

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 bought a Mac SE with an Imagewriter printer for $2000. And that was with the educational discount. 9 inch black and white screen. 68000 processor. No hard disk but TWO 3.5 in floppy drives. RAM was a luxurious 1 MB. I could run MS Excel AND MS Word at the same time with a utility called Switcher. I could graph data with Cricket Graph. I borrowed a 600 baud modem and was actually on-line using programs called Archie and Gopher. The cable company had a data service where I could search keywords and get text news stories from different news agencies.

I upgraded to 2.5 MB RAM, then added a whopping 20 MB HD. Never thought I would ever need more. But then I did. Upgraded to 4 MB RAM and a 52 MB HD. Set for life. Then we got a Powerbook 145 and discovered TCP/IP and how to connect to a BBS called Bitstream Underground on dialup. Then a Powerbook 520 with actual color, and discovered Compuserve and got an email account. Then a Mac SE/30, still black and white 9 inch display, but 32 bit clean. Then an iMac. And a cable modem. And a hub. That iMac had, IIRC, 32 MB of RAM for starters, and OS 8.6 I think. Then on to OS X.

Up to that time I had only used Mac OS. But I branched out to Linux about then, not knowing that it was neigh unto impossible to do that on a Mac SE/30. But I learned Linux that way and installed it on a new computer I built from components. I've been doing that every few years ever since, choosing the components, hooking it all up, and installing the latest Red Hat or now Fedora. Never on the bleeding edge of technology, but it's been a crazy progression. RAM from 1 MB to 8 GB, two 800 KB floppies to 500 GB HDs, an 8 mHz to over 2 gHz in processor speed on multiple processor cores per chip and 64 bit instead of 16 bit, dialup starting at 600 baud to 25 MBPS cable internet. Sneakernet and snailmail to instant worldwide access to information. Not sure my brain has adapted.

 

[el_toast]

Something like this...

 

[st333333]

Something like this...

I had one of those, too, until I upgraded to a boulder.

 

[Dave-W]

Her is a picture of the Pickett slide rule set on 42.2 X 16.6 = 700:

I had a 12" Keuffel & Esser.

 

[riesie]

Commodore 64 with a 5 1/4" floppy diskdrive which was extremely high-tec back then.