What was your first computer?

[Gigatron]

Hi

CPC464 color after Diskdrive 3" , then later Amiga 500, A1200/020 A1260/50 mhz

[hukka]

VIC-20, then Commodore 64, then Amiga 500. Still have all of them and still code on the Amiga for fun.

[speter]

The first computer I owned was a Hitachi Success (non-ibm) PC in 1984. It had a Japanese / English keyboard and 640 x 400px 16 (256?) colour display (way better than ibm-pc's of that time). It had two 5.25" floppy disk drives and ran MS-Dos 1.

Later in 1984, I "upgraded" it by adding a mighty 10mb hard disk (which was about 25 x 25 x 25cm).

Hitting "dir" caused the listing to "fly" up the screen, "almost" too fast to comfortably read. Ms-Dos 1, did not have directories, so the hard drive had hundreds of files, all in the root.

The first time I saw a Hitachi PC, I imediately looked under the table (to check-out the "rest" of the machine) - and was shocked when there wasn't anything else under the table (except a Ac-DC transformer).

cheers
S.

[avra]

ZX Spectrum 48K

[JanRoza]

Around 1981 I think a 286 with a 20 Mb hard disk.
The make of the computer I forgot.

[440bx]

First computer I programmed was an IBM system/360 using Fortran IV WATFIV.  Hardly a personal machine.  the "display" was a 1 "line" keypunch machine (1 color... light cream), a 029 card punch, the most often used key was the "dup" key (cannot forget that... the dup key was always worn out... it was blue - when it was still there!)  In those days, the size of a program could be stated in lines of code or optionally in pounds   a 2 pound program started to be respectable.  That was 50 years ago!.

My first personal computer, that I owned, was a "Leading Edge", late 1983, it had a couple of floppy drives and it ran faster than the standard IBM PC, 7Mhz instead of 4.77.   I bought it a few days _after_ I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal.  Yes, I bought Turbo Pascal before I had a computer to install it on.

One thing I vividly remember was the amazing feeling of being able to edit, compile and run, all in one shot after having used punched cards and an IBM 360.  Not even St. Peters could offer something better than that.

Before that I did play with a few other computers but, they belonged to friends, among a number of them I remember the Sinclair ZX81, TI 99, TRS 80 and Apple I among others.)

[Curt Carpenter]

Here's a picture of the first computer I owned.  A 1978 Micro Design Concepts Z80 with 8K RAM and two S100 bus sockets. 

[Josh]

Machines I’ve owned over the years:

1980 – ZX80 (kit version — the classic “toaster”)  Paid for by cutting lawns
1981 – ZX81 Paid for by spud picking
1982 – Spectrum 16K, later upgraded to 48K, with a DK’Tronics keyboard added later Paid for by spud picking
1984 – First PC: Advance 86B, 256K RAM, twin floppies, awful keyboard, Philips monitor
   Two years later upgraded to a Ferranti PC860 XT, 640K RAM and a 10MB hard drive (Borland SideKick what a utility)— still working 5 years ago when I donated it to the local school’s IT dept, I upgraded it to EGA
Mid-80s – Apple IIe with a Symbiotic hard disk
1989 – Acorn Archimedes… now that was a machine

[Bart]

Around 1992: an 80286 AT (IBM clone), 16 Mhz, 1MB RAM, 40 MB HD, MS-DOS 5.0, 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disk drives.
Turbo Pascal 3.0 on it.

Bart

[salvadordf]

ZX Spectrum 48K

[Zvoni]

C64 (Mid-80s)
Wrote my first Database on it in Commodore-Basic

[Khrys]

Nintendo 3DS with Petit Computer (BASIC), circa 2013 

[Marc]

ZX Spectrum 16K, at a later stage expanded with "real" 64K rams chips so I could use bank-switching to access the fully whopping 80K

[DomingoGP]

Commodore VIC-20, then ZX Spectrum 16K, ZX Spectrum 48 (I still have it),  an 80286 AT (IBM clone) with 30 MB HD.

[Nicole]

It was huge and heavy and very expensive. I got it from my father.
There was a slot for a 1,4 MB floppy disc to start it.
HD? - No.
This disc was labeled with "Basic" and a second one said "Pascal".
This was mine!
The computer had a screen included: green letters on black ground. About 5 inches in square or so.

I wrote a program to impress my girl-friend. Her name was Erika.
Unfortunately I made a typo.
And so my program wrote "Erila".
I could not find out what was wrong and so I could not improve it with this computer.
Although I searched for hours to find the Erila-line, - I failed.

I am afraid, I gave up for a while.
My next one decades later should have been a 386 of Vobis.