The Tandy TSR-80.
It was maxed out with a whopping 48K RAM. I spent months learning BASIC on that thing.
It was maxed out with a whopping 48K RAM. I spent months learning BASIC on that thing.
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An IBM PC Jr. I don't remember how much RAM it had, but I remember that it didn't have a hard drive.
Although I had played on IIe, C64 and TRS-80 quite a bit in high school and a Mac SE/30 in college, they weren't mine.
The first one I owned was a Quantex 486DX/33 with 4Mb RAM, a 1Mb Cirrus Logic VESA Local Bus (remember that spec, fellow "old timers"?) video card and a 400Mb Western Digital HD, purchased in 1994. I installed more RAM, a Pentium 83 overdrive CPU and a Turtle Beach Monterey soundcard in it, turning it into my first digital audio/music workstation. Man, did I ever love that Monterey.
That Quantex served me very well for five years, dying only after the soldered-on CMOS battery finally ruptured and corroded several nearby circuit traces on the mobo. I kept the old 5-pin keyboard, a couple of ISA expansion boards and serial mouse from it for nostalgia purposes. A lot of people dissed Quantex when they folded in 2001, but I thought they made quality machines in their heyday-- my wife picked up a Pentium II from them in '98, and it finally gave up the ghost just last year.
The first one I owned was a Quantex 486DX/33 with 4Mb RAM, a 1Mb Cirrus Logic VESA Local Bus (remember that spec, fellow "old timers"?) video card and a 400Mb Western Digital HD, purchased in 1994. I installed more RAM, a Pentium 83 overdrive CPU and a Turtle Beach Monterey soundcard in it, turning it into my first digital audio/music workstation. Man, did I ever love that Monterey.
That Quantex served me very well for five years, dying only after the soldered-on CMOS battery finally ruptured and corroded several nearby circuit traces on the mobo. I kept the old 5-pin keyboard, a couple of ISA expansion boards and serial mouse from it for nostalgia purposes.
A lot of people dissed Quantex when they folded in 2001, but I thought they made quality machines in their heyday-- my wife picked up a Pentium II from them in '98, and it finally gave up the ghost just last year.
The first computer our family had was about 12 years ago. It was a Packard Bell with a Pentium (MMX?) processor 166MHz. I remember that the hard drive was only 2.1GB! There are a lot of flash drives bigger than that haha
My parents didn't get a computer until 1996 when I was in the second grade. It was a beige Dell of some sort, don't really remember the specs. (They've had a total of seven computers since then, all Dell.) Chip's Challenge was the only good thing about Windows 95.
I think the very first computer I ever used was my uncle's Windows 3.1 box. Don't know what brand it was, but I wasted a lot of time playing SimCity, Neko, Rodent's Revenge and Solitaire.
The computer lab at my elementary school was all Macs. If I recall correctly, think they were Apple IIe's running ProDOS. Oregon Trail, etc. In '98, the school got a handful of new computers, the then-brand new iMacs. I preferred using those as they had much better graphics.
I think the very first computer I ever used was my uncle's Windows 3.1 box. Don't know what brand it was, but I wasted a lot of time playing SimCity, Neko, Rodent's Revenge and Solitaire.
The computer lab at my elementary school was all Macs. If I recall correctly, think they were Apple IIe's running ProDOS. Oregon Trail, etc. In '98, the school got a handful of new computers, the then-brand new iMacs. I preferred using those as they had much better graphics.
In reverse chronology:
*Still have it and it still works
- Santa Rosa MacBook Pro*
- Quad Core Hackintosh*
- MacBook 2 gHz Core 2 Duo Calistoga
- Mac Mini 2 gHz Core Duo Calistoga*
- Mac Mini 1.66 gHz Core Duo*
- Mac Mini Core Solo
- 24" iMac Calistoga Core 2 Duo*
- iBook G4*
- 15" iMac G4 (BEST COMPUTER EVER MADE!!!)
- iBook G3
- UMAX SuperMac C600 with G3 board*
- Mac Centris 610
- Tandy Color Computer 3*
- Tandy Color Computer 2
- Tandy Pocket Computer*
*Still have it and it still works
The first PC was an HP Vectra with an Intel 286 processor, 1MB of RAM, 20MB Hard Drive, and I think it was a 13" color monitor or something. I was 3 years old when my dad brought it home.
Then 5 years later, my dad bought the first Mac: Macintosh LC-III. It ran System 7, and it came with a bunch of software and games. I remember there was Photoshop 2 LE, Illustrator 5 (I think it was 5, I never used it), Word 5, and ClarisWorks. Some of the games were Mission Starlight, Aqua Blooper Piper, Diamonds, and a few others. I had a lot of fun with that computer 
Then 5 years later, my dad bought the first Mac: Macintosh LC-III. It ran System 7, and it came with a bunch of software and games. I remember there was Photoshop 2 LE, Illustrator 5 (I think it was 5, I never used it), Word 5, and ClarisWorks. Some of the games were Mission Starlight, Aqua Blooper Piper, Diamonds, and a few others. I had a lot of fun with that computer
Jill of the Jungle! I used to play that a lot on my uncle's Gateway 2000 PC.michael.lauden said:
First Computer
Ok here I go showing my age as I am in my Early 40's, but my first Computer was an Apple IIe with a Imagewriter printer, but from there I moved to a Mac Plus, then Mac Se, then Mac SE30, Mac IIfx, Mac IIci, Quadra 700, then I stopped for 7 years and it was the dumbest 7 years before getting the new
Aluminum MacBook 2.4 with 2 GB Ram, and 250 GB HD, however I have since pumped the MacBook to 2.4 with 4 GB Ram, and 320 hitachi 7200 RPM Drive and with the New OS X, iLife 09, and iWorks 09, I do not know why I waited so long, good to be Mac again.
Wicked1
Ok here I go showing my age as I am in my Early 40's, but my first Computer was an Apple IIe with a Imagewriter printer, but from there I moved to a Mac Plus, then Mac Se, then Mac SE30, Mac IIfx, Mac IIci, Quadra 700, then I stopped for 7 years and it was the dumbest 7 years before getting the new
Aluminum MacBook 2.4 with 2 GB Ram, and 250 GB HD, however I have since pumped the MacBook to 2.4 with 4 GB Ram, and 320 hitachi 7200 RPM Drive and with the New OS X, iLife 09, and iWorks 09, I do not know why I waited so long, good to be Mac again.
Wicked1
1994, PowerMac 7500, 1GB Hard Drive.
The salesperson said, "1GB, you'll never fill that"
…then came the next version of office…
The salesperson said, "1GB, you'll never fill that"
…then came the next version of office…
My first computer was a Tandy of some sort, when I was 8 or something.
My first Mac was a Mac SE I think, the all-in-one with the black-and-white screen. I didn't have it for long; I wanted internet and it didn't deliver. We got a crappy Compaq shortly after and got AOL on that.
Those are the ignorant days...
My first Mac was a Mac SE I think, the all-in-one with the black-and-white screen. I didn't have it for long; I wanted internet and it didn't deliver. We got a crappy Compaq shortly after and got AOL on that.
Those are the ignorant days...
The first computer I owned was a 1994 Escom DX2/66 with 8MB of RAM and a 520MB hard drive running Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It had a 15" monitor and a 2x CD-ROM and at nearly £1500 is still the most expensive computer I have ever bought.
Packard Bell
1.3ghz Athlon (Absolute screamer at the time, ran fine without a fan)
256mb PC133 (upgraded to 512)
20gb HDD (upgraded to 160)
PSU and Case upgraded
Awesome computer circa 2002, originally came with XP, later upgraded to Debian Linux and used as a server, until one fateful day when I dropped a PCI bracket into the PCI slot and shorted the board.
1.3ghz Athlon (Absolute screamer at the time, ran fine without a fan)
256mb PC133 (upgraded to 512)
20gb HDD (upgraded to 160)
PSU and Case upgraded
Awesome computer circa 2002, originally came with XP, later upgraded to Debian Linux and used as a server, until one fateful day when I dropped a PCI bracket into the PCI slot and shorted the board.
My first computer was a C64. I actually went through three of them; by the late eighties you could get the things at Toys R Us for a song My first Mac was a Classic, which was just a Plus in a prettier case. Still, I was stoked -- finally, a Mac I could afford!
I've since gone through:
IIsi
Power Mac 6500
Powerbook G3 (still have)
iBook G4 (still have)
My first Mac was a Classic, which was just a Plus in a prettier case. Still, I was stoked -- finally, a Mac I could afford!I've since gone through:
IIsi
Power Mac 6500
Powerbook G3 (still have)
iBook G4 (still have)
My first PC was back in 1999. It was a HP Pavillion running Windows 98 with 32MB of RAM and a 4GB HDD. It's still in the garage, collecting dust.
My first Mac (which is my own computer) is a MacBook from late 2007, which I still use today.
My first Mac (which is my own computer) is a MacBook from late 2007, which I still use today.
I remember that had this computer, no clue of the specs (I was 3 or so when we got it) but it came with either Windows 3.1 or 95... And by the time we game it away it had windows 95. The only thing I remember about it was that it had this weird sticker with orange and green bubbles in a 3 x 3 configuration...
We also had this laptop, not sure at all what it was but it had just a black screen with orange letters. I remember playing text based games on it haha.
We also had this laptop, not sure at all what it was but it had just a black screen with orange letters. I remember playing text based games on it haha.
My first ever Apple was an Apple //gs when I was just a young chap. We had a few games on Floppy drives that my brother and I would play.
The very first computer I every touched was some kind of Macintosh classic. It looked like the original 128K but a more subtle color (less beige, more white) and a bit more rounded. I must have been like 4 or 5 years old. I was at my friends house
The first computer I ever had real access to was a Toshiba Tecra 8100.
The first computer I ever had to myself was a Toshiba Tecra 8000. Then I "upgraded" to an HP zd7000, Then I upgraded to a white MacBook, then a uMBP.
The first computer I ever had real access to was a Toshiba Tecra 8100.
The first computer I ever had to myself was a Toshiba Tecra 8000. Then I "upgraded" to an HP zd7000, Then I upgraded to a white MacBook, then a uMBP.
The first computer I ever owned was a Umax c500 Mac clone. I upgraded it with a Sonnet G3 card later on. It was a decent first computer.
First computer was a Sinclair ZX81
First PC was an Apricot Xen-s, had several PCs since then, finally ending up with a few Macs
First PC was an Apricot Xen-s, had several PCs since then, finally ending up with a few Macs
The first computer I ever used was my dad's Amstrad PCW8256. State of the art, it was.
My first computer - bought and paid with my own money - was a rev A 867 MHz Powerbook 12".
My second computer is my current Unibody Macbook.
My family's first PC was an...Epson? I think? I know it ran MS-DOS 5.0. It's in my closet somewhere, still works AFAIK. But my first computer of my own was a custom built PC from a local computer shop that I received as a hand-me-down in 1998. I don't know a whole lot about it, but it was a 486, ran Windows 95, had 32 MB of RAM and a 750 MB HDD. The video card died sometime in 2004, and I dissembled it for parts, as I had a new PC by that time.
My first Mac was a Rev. A iMac G3. 233 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 4 GB HDD, Mac OS 8.6. It actually just died a few weeks ago.
My first Mac was a Rev. A iMac G3. 233 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 4 GB HDD, Mac OS 8.6. It actually just died a few weeks ago.