What was your first computer?

[TBMan]

I started around 1985ish with a IBM XT with 2 5.25" floppy drives and 128k. I was thrilled when I was able to add another 128k and setup a virtual drive to run my BASIC programs, lol.

[cdbc]

Hi
Prrrhhhh, I think it was 1982(ish) with a Sharp MZ 800 (I think), it was based on the Z80 MicroProcessor, with 64kb and sporting a tape-drive \o/\ö/\o/
Regards Benny

[DrakkTheSeafarer]

I started around 1985ish with a IBM XT with 2 5.25" floppy drives and 128k. I was thrilled when I was able to add another 128k and setup a virtual drive to run my BASIC programs, lol.

wow!
In 1992 i started with an luxurious 386SX20 with 4mb RAM.

[LeP]

It depends on what you mean by computer... I think the very first was the VIC20, followed immediately (six months) by the Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive and modified firmware (it ran four times faster than the original).
I used it to create and sell the first (small) warehouse management programs.
It was 1981/1982, and the Commodore 64 arrived directly from America thanks to an American friend (it cost me an arm and a leg). Fortunately, the following year they began distributing it in Europe at a more affordable price.
In 1983, I assembled a PC XT as a school exercise... thanks to Peter Norton and his manuals. I used it to create the first "booth" for ATMs in my city, where the free/busy signal and door opening were managed by the modified XT firmware via the parallel port.
What wonderful days.

.... Uhmmm really the first computer used was at school (1980), a machine with CP/M but I don't remember the hardware system. I Know it was connected to a Unix datacenter.

[marcov]

C=64 somewhere mid eighties.  Taperecorder only a few days later. 5"25 Drive several years later.

First PC 386SX20 with 2 MB RAM, 40MB harddisk and a Trident 9000 VGA card   (December 1989 or 1990)

All purchased at Allkauf (later renamed to Real, and nowadays Kaufland) in Heinsberg, because back then electronics was cheaper in Germany than in the Netherlands.

[rvk]

Yikes... we are getting old   

For me it also was a Commodore VIC-20.

(I think the C64 was still too expensive when I got it.)

[Dzandaa]

Hi,

I think my first computer was a DAI (a virtually unknown Belgian computer brand).

https://electrickery.nl/comp/dai/

I also wrote my first RPG called "Castel" (what an imagination) in BASIC.

In my early days at work in 1980, I created a circuit board with an 8085 processor (and other control boards) to control a video camera and analyze CO2 concentrations from old paper data dating back to 1953. I found a circuit board and its schematics in my basement.

The management was done in "forth" language in an EEPROM.


B->

[Martin_fr]

ZX 81

[rvk]

Another interesting question would be:
Who still has their first computer 

Mine ended up on the scrap heap a long time ago.

[BlueIcaro]

Hi, commodore Vic 20

/BlueIcaro

[fcu]

intel celeron 400mhz  , 64mb ram , 32gb hdd ( 1999 )

[PascalDragon]

A 25 MHz Intel 386 (or 286) with 25 MB hard disk, Windows 3.11 and a CD-ROM drive connected at the parallel port (back in 1994). 🥰

[Lulu]

ZX-81
I remember, I went to work in the fields picking fruit so I could afford it.
When I bought it, it was one of the best days of my life!
I used it so much that there were holes in the keyboard. 

[Paolo]

8086, no HD, only two foppies (A: for OS  B: for data).

[dseligo]

C64. I still have it