What Was The First Computer You Owned?

[dimsum]

A used IBM laptop 1996ish

 

[DriftNismo]

Not too sure, was custom built though and in 1998 .

 

[mac57]

1983. Mine was a Nabu 1600, an 8086 based machine with 256 KB of RAM and a 10 MB hard drive. My, my, how things have changed!

You can learn more about it at:

DAVES OLD COMPUTERS- Nabu

It was a fine old machine for its time.

 

[VaughnA]

Sinclair ZX-80 kit that I built myself. 1K of RAM and ready to kick some butt. From there to the ZX81 with 16K, then Tandy ColorComputer before my XT. Long list since then.

 

[dtravis7]

1983. Mine was a Nabu 1600, an 8086 based machine with 256 KB of RAM and a 10 MB hard drive. My, my, how things have changed!

You can learn more about it at:

DAVES OLD COMPUTERS- Nabu

It was a fine old machine for its time.

Amazing isn't it? 256K Ram and 10MB HDD! WOW.

First hard drive I had was a whopping 30MB which was an external for my Atari 1040 ST then a 40MB in my first home made 80286 PC with a whole MEG of RAM!!! I figured I would never run out of room!

 

[idirtbike]

i had the first laptop i think that was ever invented lol....it was a little grey black and white toshiba? i belive. it had a little mouse in the middle of the keyboard lmao! and i had like AOL 3.0 on it or something like that hooked up to a landline which took 20 minutes to connect. god, i can't belive how far computers came already. i cant imagine what they will be like when i have grandchildren, or even children of my own.

 

[D3v1L80Y]

This was my first computer

 

[rman]

This was my first computer

I have to do you one better here is mine

 

[D3v1L80Y]

Hehe, my dad still uses a slide rule on occasion.

He is the only person I've ever met that knows how to use one properly.

I still have the TI-30... and while the buttons stick a little now and then, it still works just fine.

 

[dtravis7]

This was my first computer

Very interesting. Some think computers are big boxes with a monitor attached but that is very much a computer in my mind.

Here is my first computer.


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My first good programmable calculator.


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I have to do you one better here is mine

Rman, where do you plug in the display and mouse?

 

[Emptee]

 

[D3v1L80Y]

Very interesting. Some think computers are big boxes with a monitor attached but that is very much a computer in my mind.

It sure is:

com⋅put⋅er
  /kəmˈpyutər/ [kuhm-pyoo-ter]

–noun

1. a machine for performing calculations automatically
2. calculator: an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

 

[Dysfunction]

Hehe, my dad still uses a slide rule on occasion.

He is the only person I've ever met that knows how to use one properly.

I still have the TI-30... and while the buttons stick a little now and then, it still works just fine.

I actually have one, and can use it. I learned how to somewhere around 85. Mine is inherited (I'm not *that* old).. and rarely used, but I still can.

I've still never owned a programmable calculator.. when I go back to school in a couple years though, I imagine that will change.

 

[mostro]

Apple IIe. Then got a IIgs. Then an Apple Macintosh Performa 6000-series. After that it was Linux and Windows for a while, until I bought a Mac Mini in like 2005 or so, and it's been a mix of all three ever since.

 

[element115]

C64 i think. Then Amiga 500 and 600

 

[WakeCarver]

Christmas 1990, I got a Tandy 1000RL with color graphics.

 

[GinnyK]

The first one I owned was built for us by computer Bay . I believe it was a IBM 256 with windows 3.0. But the first ones I worked with at college were keypunch card computers (what a circus those could be when the main frame would spit out thousands of cards ). Next was an IBM dos computer & then an Apple computer. Were those Apple ever nice after the dos IBMs. All in all I've been working with computers for 36 years.

Ginny

 

[Baddie]

Ti-99.

 

[directeuphorium]

mac II

 

[dtravis7]

Forgot to mention this in my other post. Before the first Commodore 64, I had an Atari 2600 Gaming Console with a Basic cartridge. You would write programs and run them. Sure very simple but still a computer of sorts. I learned my first Basic on that old Atari 2600.

I am surprised how many here started with computers way back when it all started, at least home computing anyway! Keep up the posting!