What was your very first computer?

[Lazy Llama]

Sinclair ZX81 with 16K RAM pack
After that:
Acorn Electron
Amstrad CPC6128
Atari 520STM with external floppy
Numerous more Ataris
First PC was a Wyse PC+

 

[Epona]

Spectrum for me too

 

[teuchter]

First family computer when I was a kid:

It ran GEM which I believe was the first GUI for PCs (predated Windows):

I remember making things in GEMpaint

And playing Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator:

As for the first computer I actually owned myself:

Which I bought secondhand only a couple of years ago.

 

[_pH_]

First family computer when I was a kid:

you know that makes YOU responsible for the fucking Apprentice, don't you??

 

[IC3D]

p90 CPU
32mb RAM
4 mb graphics
1 gig hd
win nt
15in monitor
£1200

This was custom made by a housemate with loads of pirated software and 3d studio4(reason for getting) and was a graphics powerhouse at the time, 95 I think

 

[kabbes]

You sure the space game wasn't on the Spectrum? They released Elite for that in '85.

Nope, I found it!. It was called Cosmic Conflict.

Believe it or not, it came out in 1978!

 

[marty21]

I never got around to buying one until about 98, then it was a TIME computer no idea what the specs were , cost about a grand on one of those buy now pay later deals

 

[teuchter]

you know that makes YOU responsible for the fucking Apprentice, don't you??

Blame my dad!

 

[dlx1]

Amstrad 464 with colour screen

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I remember pouring over old electronics magazines and wanting the ZX81 in Kit form:

Yeah me and me Dad got the ZX81 as a kit and soldered it together. I think it was about £20 cheaper if you assembled it yourself. Proper!

My grandad had a ZX80 before then.

I come from a long line of nerds.

 

[weltweit]

Amstrad 1512 was my first computer.
As in one that was actually mine.

 

[bemused]

C64; but my dad wouldn't buy the commodore tape recorder so bought some strange grey box that connected a normal tape record to it and a clicked like a deranged grasshopper.

 

[PacificOcean]

C64; but my dad wouldn't buy the commodore tape recorder so bought some strange grey box that connected a normal tape record to it and a clicked like a deranged grasshopper.

Heh!

Do you remember Load It! ?

It was a C64 tape player that had a knob that you turned, so it loaded any game (remember how shite games were loading from tape?)

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

First one I remember in our house was a Research Machines 380Z, I'd have been about 4 at the time.

 

[Voley]

1K ZX81. Bought the 16K RAM pack later.

 

[berniedicters]

First one I remember in our house was a Research Machines 380Z, I'd have been about 4 at the time.

That's pretty hardcore - I thought they only sold those to schools and colleges (or at least that only schools and colleges could afford/justify them.

By the time those came out, I was writing programmes to waste whole boxes of fanfold on PR1ME and PDP machines. Mostly still in BASIC, it has to be said, though an early taste for structured programming in the form of Algol was emerging...

 

[Voley]

Yeah. Our school had one of them. It was my first experience of typing 'wank' into a computer.

'Error: Invalid Command' was the reply. I remember it well.

 

[bemused]

I wanted a Oric because it sounds like that talking box of Blake's 7

 

[Bob_the_lost]

First one i owned was an iMac, first one i used? God knows but it was pre Mac II and i learned to code on a Z80.

 

[Voley]

The best game you could get on the ZX81 was 3D Monster Maze.

This ring any bells for those of us of a certain age?

 

[PacificOcean]

You iz all old innit.

I doubt many of today's younger people would remember waiting 10 minutes for something to load from tape.

 

[Voley]

R: Tape Loading Error.

 

[ohmyliver]

An Atari ST 520 stfm. To 'help with my homework' not play Dungeon Master and Oids, oh no.

Paid for by doing a paper round every Saturday for about 8 or so months. Should have taken about a couple of hours every Saturday, but instead took about 3-4 hours, as my 4 year old brother decided that he should help me, and 4 year olds A: can't walk fast, B: often decide things like they want to put papers through basement letter boxes all on their own which leads to much convoluted hiding so you can't be seen watching if they are ok.

My first PC? 486DX 33 with a whopping 8 meg of ram and a 104 MB hard drive, which actually did greatly aid me with my degree (although I suspect anything with a spellchecker, and the ability to make words legible would have done)

 

[PacificOcean]

R: Tape Loading Error.

Was 'R: Tape loading Error' on the Spectrum?

I remember on the C64 the raster bars while loading used to go a funny colour when it fucked up.

 

[Voley]

Was 'R: Tape loading Error' on the Spectrum?

Yeah. Either that or it'd just give you a black screen, the pre-Windows version of the blue screen of death.

 

[PacificOcean]

Yeah. Either that or it'd just give you a black screen, the pre-Windows version of the blue screen of death.

*wipes misty eyed tear*

They don't make computers like they use to.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

You iz all old innit.

I doubt many of today's younger people would remember waiting 10 minutes for something to load from tape.

And then playing for about 10 minutes before the power lead jiggled, the machine reset and you had to load it up again. Happy days.

 

[kyser_soze]

The best game you could get on the ZX81 was 3D Monster Maze.

This ring any bells for those of us of a certain age?

That was a listings game in Sinclair User wasn't it?

 

[PacificOcean]

That was a listings game in Sinclair User wasn't it?

Even I know about 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 and that was well before my time.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

*wipes misty eyed tear*

They don't make computers like they use to.

Thank god for that.