What was your first computer?
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My first Computer was a Commodore 64. The later model that looks like a wedge.
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I won't waste anyone's time so the first REAL PC I got was a 166MHz Pentium overclocked to 200MHz, 32MB of 66MHz SDRAM, ATI 2MB 3DXpression video card, a 2.1GB hard drive, Sounblaster 16 soundcard running Windows 95 OSR2.b and friggin huge 14" CRT monitor at the then massive 1024x768 24-bit color.
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The first computer I ever layed hands on was an Amstrad, but I don't know the exact model. It was distributed by the german company Schneider, that's all I know.
The first Computer I ever owned was an Amiga 500. A friend gave it to me when he bought a PC (Pentium 75), so the Amiga already was highly outdated at that time.
After that there was no new computer for a very long time. When I turned 18 I bought a PC, AMD 1Ghz. Brand new at the time and I was the first of my clique to own a 1Ghz processor.Today I own a C64 (ok, that one belongs to my wife…), Amiga 500 (upgraded with a SD Card reader, I kid you not! ), PC (outdated, only 2 cores... but it's still good enough for me) and an older PC, some kind of Pentium, don't even know the exact model... I tried running Windows98 on that one, but for some reason it doesn't recognize the network card. Maybe I try installing some kind of Unix on that one for testing purposes.
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Mine was an Altair 8800b. Not good for much right out of the box, as it's I/O was toggle switches and LEDs (8 of each for data, 16 of each for addresses, IIRC), but there were lots of boards around for it. I added a digital cassete system, an I/O board, an 8" floppy interface and drive, a kit-built LSI terminal, a ROM board with bootstrap ICs, a manual paper tape reader and MS Basic on paper tape…and still didn't get much useful stuff from it. Switched over to TRS-80 Model I and, despite its design flaws used it for word processing and other stuff. Later went to TRS-80 Model III and a pair of Model IVs (one each for home and office).
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At one point I also had a Kaypro 10, and was dating someone with a Kaypro II. Her Kaypro had a problem with its printer interface, so I brought mine to her to print from. But there was a problem: Wordstar on either machine could not see Wordstar files written on the other. In fact, as I recall, virtually no files written to disk by one machine could be seen on that disk by the other.
It took days of research to ferret out the problem (no online user forums to help, yet): CP/M had a feature called "user levels," so one user's files wouldn't be accessible to other users. On the Kaypro II, which only had floppy drives, all files were set to user level 1' on the 10, which had a hard drive, each program had its own user level. So Wordstar files written on the II were all at user level 1, while those written on the 10 were at a different user level. The solution was to convert all files to the other machine's appropriate user level before moving the disk over.
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My first computer was a local Belarusian ZX Spectrum clone back in 1993 when I was about 6 y.o. :3
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The first pc was a pentium 3 with an LG monitor. Dad bought it brand new. Have some good memories with it.
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My first computer was a Dell desktop. I was a 90's kid, so I remember Win XP and playing Neopets and finding cool wallpapers mostly, along with seeing the Hamster Dance and Dancing Baby fads. I think most if not all of the wallpapers I found were Pokemon, I still remember one was Mew, and another was Latios/Latias. Played lots of Pinball. Onestop.mid is still one of my favorite songs.
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My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 48k. Still i have it and works
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My first computer was an Sinclair ZX81, I have the self assemble version.
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Ah.... my old Commodore Vic-20 and the tape drive. That, a soda, and a copy of Compute! magazine machine language software and I was a happy boy.
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This one Schneider Euro PC in 1989
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Wow, I've never heard of that before... Is it related to anything else? Reminds me somewhat of a "grown up" professional take on the Spectrum +3. Hard to imagine now that Europe was once the most diverse and eclectic computer scene and world back in the day.
My first machine was an Atari 800XL which I absolutely loved, even though I got it when when next gen 16/32bit Amigas and STs where already out there (I got a second hand once as a Christmas present). It started a lifelong interest in programming and computers in general. Alas it got stolen when our house was burgled some years later, but it made me a fervent Atarian and I've still got an 800XL, STe and a TT030 now.
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Grade 1, 1966. We had an abacus in the classroom.
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@krystal said in What was your first computer?:
Wow, I've never heard of that before... Is it related to anything else? Reminds me somewhat of a "grown up" professional take on the Spectrum +3. Hard to imagine now that Europe was once the most diverse and eclectic computer scene and world back in the day.
My first machine was an Atari 800XL which I absolutely loved, even though I got it when when next gen 16/32bit Amigas and STs where already out there (I got a second hand once as a Christmas present). It started a lifelong interest in programming and computers in general. Alas it got stolen when our house was burgled some years later, but it made me a fervent Atarian and I've still got an 800XL, STe and a TT030 now.
Schneider is a French company that continues to manufacture PC, they have a basic laptop of quite good quality for less than € 150 (Schneider SCL141CTP) in its range, although currently they are mainly dedicated to automation and industrial electronics.
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Here's my first one:
Just kidding
My first was a Sharp MZ-700 (1982).
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Before the PC I use this thing
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Pentium III 800 MHz , 128 MB RAM , nVidia TNT 2 and Creative Vibra 128 with 35 GB HDD 3 years later it was down ! bcs of our home's short in electricity ... I bought another one more than a year after the old PC .... AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz , 512 MB RAM , nVidia GeForce FX 5200 ( 64 MB memory ) , Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 and 80 GB HDD ..... I lost it 3 and half years ago and it said goodbye to me ........ I bought an Intel G3220 , 4GB RAM and nVidia G210 , 1 TB HDD and bought another 4GB RAM two days ago and added it to the system ...... I'm using Debian 9.8.0 GNOME and I'm totally satisfied .......... Computer is all of my life ........ I Love my Computer .........
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A Commodore 64, with 5 1/4 inch floppy drives, and a 300 baud modem .
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Commodore 64 with tape drive 1985 , then in 1988 Amiga 500.:smiling_face_with_open_mouth:
In 2009 I decided to revisit my roots and finally stop missing my C64,
thus I have since aquired several and also several FPGA systems as well, for both C64 and Amiga cloning !
Sometimes I do feel that the Apple2 was my first computer experience as I read a childrens book "Chip and the computer mysteries" back then and heard about it there , and somewhat associated it with computers.