What Was The First Computer You Owned?

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I wanted an Apple II+ (which I had starting using at school about a year or so before), but we couldn't afford it, so during mid 1980ish my mom got me the TRaSh-80 CoCo.. Was mostly bummed because most of what I had acquired up to that point was for an apple, and of course wouldn't work

Commodore 64C was my first:

Locally built PC. It was my grandfathers before he gave it to me in 1997.

For my mother her first computer was a simple little device that had some leds(I think) and switches below those lights, it was for simple binary math. The name of it escapes me right now, but I thought it was kinda cool.

I don't remember the model but it was an old Tandy, dual-floppy. Man at the time I did not think I would ever need anything more! I ran my business off of it.

PapaNoHair said:

I don't remember the model but it was an old Tandy, dual-floppy. Man at the time I did not think I would ever need anything more! I ran my business off of it.

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Did it totally work off the two floppy's or did it also have a hard drive? I remember the Dual Floppy machines with no hard drive. IBM 5151 is one that comes to mind.

Mine was an AST 486 computer back in the mid 90s, ran the truly awful Windows 3.1, but also had OS2 Warp installed.

Something went wrong with it so I took it back to the store and changes it for the only Mac in the place - an Apple LC 475 (I loved that Mac - but it died 6 months after I overclocked it from 25 mhz to 33 mhz)

The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64. Bought it for $5 from my old public school, which included the monitor, disk drive, and the C64 itself.

After that was a Pentium 386, pretty much stock. Then upgaded it to a 386DX after about a year of having it..

Got rid of the 386 and went with a 486.. Then the 486SX, then finally the 486DX running DOS/Windows 3.1.1

About a year before my parents split up, my dad purchased a PIII 450mhz/256mb/40gb/cd-rw system for this college course he took. So, my brother and I used this whenever he wasn't bogarting it to cheat on my mom.

After we moved out, I picked up a used PIII 450mhz/512mb/60gb/cd-rw at a pawn shop and used that for about a year, then upgraded to 1gb of ram and a PIII 666mhz chip

Once I turned... Uhh.. 17? My older bro got me a good deal on a P4 mobo/Celeron 2.4ghz/1gb ram, which I built using a 60gb hdd, cd-rw, and an ATI Rage 128 Pro

I used this PC for years, and continually upgraded it, which I then sold last year standing at a P4 dual-core 1.60ghz/1gb OCZ gaming ram/80gb SATA drive/Super Drive/eVGA 6800GT 256mb (o/c waaaay passed Ultra specs).

In college of 2005, I purchase my first Mac (mind you I've used them since teh 1st grade). It was a G4 TI Powerbook DVI, running 667mhz/40gb hdd/1gb RAM. I miss this thing, and my ex-gf kept it when I moved out of her dad's place. She also managed to drop it off my bed... Twice.. And it still worked.

Before I moved out from above, I bought a G4 iBook 14", 1.42ghz PPC/1.5gb RAM/60gb HDD/wifi/bluetooth/etc

Eventually sold that to my friend after I bought a 15" G4 Powerbook (1.33ghz PPC/2gb/60gb/cd-rw/wifi/bluetooth).

I actually just sold this one not even a year ago, in hoping to upgrade to one of the new Mac Mini's. However, that didn't go through as I had some financial troubles.

Currenly, I'm using an HP DV4000, 15" 1.70ghz/1gb/60gb/wifi/super drive, running WinXP Home. This computer is pretty good. It's solid, and I've had it for about a year and the only time I had to format it, was after I received it from a friend in a trade, so I could wipe her stuff off it. I traded a really nice skateboard for it, straight-up.

I'm currently trying to sell the HP so I can get some funds to move at the end of August.

To be honest, I use my 3G iPhone for most of my "computing" needs, like email/IM/the little web-browsing I do.

Once the HP is sold, my gf has offered to share her G4 Powerbook (same as one mentioned above), so I can use it for my audio engineering.

*wipes sweat off forehead*

Mines was a Parkard Bell bought in 1994.

Intel 486 SX2 @ 50MHz, 2 Mb RAM, 500Mb HDD, 1Mb VRAM, Creative Labs 16 ISA sound card, CD-ROM drive running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups hooked up to a 14" color monitor.

Was the business back then. In-fact I used it up until Dec 2000, still worked great.

Moved to Mac last summer with a second hand PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7GHz.

when i start my first computer is Atari 65XE then Ti-99 and now they are both working.

Commodore 64 at home, IBM Mainframe and Univac 1050-2 at work, and an old CP/M based Apple II for a side work with the city. My first IBM compatible was a 386SE based Infinity running MS-DOS and eventually Win 3.1.

Mine was a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with Win2K, yeah I'm young ;D

dtravis7 said:

Did it totally work off the two floppy's or did it also have a hard drive? I remember the Dual Floppy machines with no hard drive. IBM 5151 is one that comes to mind.

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No HD - just the dual floppies! Man was it advanced!! ;D

IBM PS1 2Mb RAM, 85 Mb HDD running windows 3. Laughable now

Ausrascale said:

IBM PS1 2Mb RAM, 85 Mb HDD running windows 3. Laughable now

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If you multiply those specs by a thousand you have a pretty standard machine for today

A 1976 IMSAII 8080 with all of 8k of ram, no keyboard, monitor or hard drive. Well, it shortly got a 'stringy' hard drive, which was a Radio Shack cassette recorder/player.

Eventually it got a keyboard from some old IBM terminal, a Sears B&W Tv for a monitor (64x16 characters), 32k of ram, and much later, a 128k 8 inch floppy.

It had a transformer power supply that supplied 25 amps. You had to be really careful where you stuck a screwdriver blade back then.

Computers were really fun in those days.

Konan

The first iMac, 1999.

A Color Classic. Color Classic, I hardly knew ye.

I wanted an Apple IIe like my high school had but I got the next best thing... an Atari 1200XL!!!!

Mac Plus.