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What was everyones first computer?

Mine was a Texas Instuments TI-99, it packed a mean game of Munchman and Parsec. Of course a lot of programs you had to program in your self out of a book, making this my first introduction to BASIC at a rather young age. Disks? We didn't need disks, it used cartridges, and if you wanted to save it was done too cassette tape. Loading it back off the tape was a trickier matter....

First "real" PC was a IBM PS/2 286. This was top of the line at it's time. Which had it's downsides as it lacked a 5 1/4 inch drive and much stuff was still on them. Massive harddrive on it coming in at 30mb, we loaded everything we could on this one, and it took forever to fill. I believe it was running DOS Shell 4.? and lets not forget the best part: A 2400 baud modem making it the first BBS experience.

Atari 800XL, Tape Drive. :)
I used to program on it as well. LOL

I don't remember that far back....

I believe the Commadore 64...

Also had gaming systems, Atari, then nintendo

I had a TI-99, but thought it was a game system o_O*

You could program a TI....but I found they worked better as paperweights. Like TRS80's. :D

I worked with a really old apple once too....don't remember which one it was tough...

my brothers had a attari and a com 64 and I had a vic 20
my vic 20 and their com 64 both had tape drives...

LOL i used to spend hours programing my vic 20 just to make that it show a "W" that looked like a flying bird and one program i loved was when i could use my keys and make music... but that took loads more programing :)
I think i still have my Vic 20 programing for beginers book too :)

Ti-99/4A - It played good games like ParSec mentioned. I also did some cool programing. The issue was we could not get it until I had actually had a program class in school, which was on a main frame. a PDP 11 with the Gandalf Modem for a network connection.

Ahhh the good old days.

Apple ][e, with green monochrome monitor and dual diskette drive. If I wanted to play Karateka in color, I could hook it up to a TV.

My first computer was a Comodore Vic20. Don't remember doing much with it though :)

my hubbys first com was ZX81 with a whole 1 K of memory

LOL god are we all getting old.

I was looking at some old records the other day.. my kids asked why my CD's were so big.. and how you fir them in a CD player.
LOL

Matt, I think you played a couple games on it. Things didn't start jumping for us until we bath got C-64's. :D

In order...

TI994a,
Vic 20
Coleco ADAM
Commodore 128
Commodore Amiga 500 (Which I still have)
Packard Bell somthing soming with Win 3.1
Gateway PII 350 with Win 98
Various Home built boxes.

Had to try and keep up.

Matt, I think you played a couple games on it. Things didn't start jumping for us until we bath got C-64's. :D

I got the C-64 after the fire I just don't remember how long I had the Vic 20 before the house fire.

After the C-64 I had a C-128 and an Amiga 2000 which I sold for about $1100 to I think the university of buffalo around the time when then Pentium 133 came out which was a number of years ago. I purchased a Pentium 133 from Midwest Micro and that was the last pre-built computer I purchased. I built the rest of my computers since then.

I think you had it for less than 6 months. From what I remember, you only had a couple games for it, all cartridges I think.

First I ever used: TRS-80 III. First I ever owned (family computer): C-64. I remember when my GF in 9th grade's father bought an IBM-PC with 64K of RAM and a 160K floppy. We had a celebration over such great new technology!

lol....I remember the days of the c-64. I was programming it to change colors....of course I was 6 or so...should have stuck with it instead of doing all the other stuff i got into...well maybe not....I may not have gotten into martial arts and that could have been....very bad.