What was your first computer?

[iru]

Kaypro....

I had experience with things like Z80s but first computer I owned was a Kaypro 2 (2 floppy disks) purchased in 1984.
I upgraded this with a new I/O board and a 10MB hard disk.
Worked for years. A lot of programming in Pascal.

I still have the Kaypro2 but one of the video driver chips has failed and things have gone dark.....

[Thaddy]

Hm. There is this week an interesting observation on one of BBC world service science programs:
It is about the - correct claim - that if one claims that a computer is defined as
- task
- definable but variable input
- output
One must assume the loom found in recent Chinese excavations dating from 143 bc western date to be the world's first KNOWN computer since the loom is programmable with something alike the much later punch-cards of our time. It was even - sic -multithreading since a single program could serve upto ~100 looms with the same pattern at once, weaving silk.
This predates Babbage some 2000 years.

Makes me think: my first programmable item was NOT the 1978 TI57, but my mother's programmable - but fully mechanic - knitting machine from 1963: quite some time before that.

[dbannon]

.... the loom found in recent Chinese excavations dating from 143 bc western date
.... my mother's programmable - but fully mechanic - knitting machine from 1963

Yeah, I think FPC supports both of them doesn't it ?

Davo

[Weiss]

Hm...
Makes me think: my first programmable item was NOT the 1978 TI57, but my mother's programmable - but fully mechanic - knitting machine

this makes me think, my first computer (it actually was called "computer" in English) was navigator's logarithmic slide ruler. It was actually quite handy.
one of those:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3ueuinODohU/maxresdefault.jpg

[LV]

In 1642, Blaise Pascal invented the first operational mechanical calculator[1] with better tens-carry. 😁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_calculator

[valdir.marcos]

Hm...
Makes me think: my first programmable item was NOT the 1978 TI57, but my mother's programmable - but fully mechanic - knitting machine

this makes me think, my first computer (it actually was called "computer" in English) was navigator's logarithmic slide ruler. It was actually quite handy.
one of those:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3ueuinODohU/maxresdefault.jpg

This link tends to break after a while, so I've attached its image.