What was your first computer?

[method77]

So here we are today. Talking to each other over the net using a computer. Without a computer there would be no net, no Beatking, no DudeAsInSpam, no filesharing, no news/opinion reading without the need of big media, no nothing. Hell, I wouldn't have met Kooperman. Kentucky's biggest whatever.

So when did it all start?

I had a Commodore 64 and an Amstrad probably around 83 or something. I actually can't remember all that well the date but I had those back then. Calculators don't count :P

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[Potato]

I had one a long time ago that said Packard Bell, and it made funny noises.

[method77]

Online Old-Computer Museum :D

[DudeAsInCool]

I think this is the first computer I worked on...

[DudeAsInCool]

But I think the first computer I owned was an Apple II.. (not the Apple below :) )

[Warflower]

I worked as a receptionist for Rivkin Radler 1988 and learned on something like Dude posted!

Method VERY COOL SITE! I gotta show it to a few friends. ;)

Edited February 13, 2006 by Warflower

[Mister Spong]

Here was my first baby.... all 16k of it.

[Warflower]

Dude...was that computer called a Wang. Do you remember?

[Shawn]

I don't remember what the cheap piece of shite was called, but it was a TRS model from Radio Shack that looked very similar to this

[method77]

I also had a game similar to this. My father bought it for us but my mother was not happy at all. Me and my brother would play for hours and always ended up hitting each other with those HUGE joysticks

btw Atari has the best logo ever

[Guest .::BeatFactory::.]

the one i'm on right now

[DudeAsInCool]

Dude...was that computer called a Wang. Do you remember?

No - it was an IBM - I had to work with Dos and crap

[Excrement_Cranium]

We actually didn't own a computer untill I was about 20. My mom bought a gateway, and I was paying rent for the basement apartment at the house.

When I was about 13 or 14, my cousin lived with us, and he brought a yellow monochrome monitored PC with DOS.

When I was 16 I lived with my brother in Mount Vernon, WA. He had a 486 running Windows 3.x and a mammoth 32Mb of RAM. There were 2 harddrives with an expansive 840K of total space. And I had smoking speeds on BBS w/ a 14.4 dialup modem.

Behold the power, look at my nipple and fear me!!!

[CTC Command]

Apple II GS

I used to teach computer literacy...work let me take one home, so for a couple years that was THE machine...

then a couple years later I bought a Packard-Bell 75 MHz Pentium...it was one of the very first pentium chip computers. I had been looking at the 386's and 486's and decided to hold off until the pentium chip came out. When I bought it it was way fast, even faster than the computer my friend the software engineer had on his desk at Amercan Power Conversion.

A few years later I renamed it Slugboy, cuz it was sooooo sloooooowwww...

this one looks exactly like mine did, with those same stupid speakers that attached to the side of the monitor. SO STEGASAURUS!

[Warflower]

No - it was an IBM - I had to work with Dos and crap

Me too.. DOS...all in ASCII text. Maybe the software was Wang for document production...who knows....it seems sooo long ago <_>

[Wolfie]

Commodore 64 jocky here too.

[MxRob]

Commodore VIC20 with a cassette tape drive, I know I just dated myself :bigsmile:

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Commodore 64.

And that was only like 12 years ago.

[DudeAsInCool]

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