What was your first home computer?

[pmartin252]

What kind of computer did you fist use at home, and how did the makes and models progress over the years?

I'll get the ball rolling....

I bought a ready built Sinclair ZX81 in.... 1981, B&W, silent, "bubble" keyboard, 4k of ram, programs saved to casette.
Next I had a Sinclair Spectrum - colour, sound, 16k of ram.
Then an Atari 800, plug in ram boards, real keyboard, floppy disc drive.
Later an Atari ST, proper monitor, can't remember how much ram!
Finally my first proper Windows PC in 1992!
Now we have, a tower PC, a laptop and a netbook. inc. things such as 1.5TB hard drive, wifi printer, etc etc.

What about you?

 

[Sixteenvolt420]

I don't remember the exact model, but it was a Macintosh, in roughly 1986, that we got for free. I pretty much only used it to play monopoly and some pool game.


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[Jason Bourne]

I was too young to remember but it was also a MacIntosh in about 1993 I think. Next one was a HP Pavilion desktop setup in 1998 I think that I remember my Dad paying like $4K for from Computer City before they closed (no more in Canada, not sure about US).

 

[Lone Crusader]

First computer in the house was a TRS-80 Model 2.

Our next computer was a TRS-80 Model 4.

Next was our IBM IIc.

Next was our IBM PS/2 55SX.

From then on it was a custom Compaq running Windows 3.0 then Windows 95. I don't remember the model number.

Then everything became complete custom computers built by myself.

 

[jamesjmorton]

ZX Spectrum+ in 1985

 

[Colombianlove41]

Apple IIe. I used to play the **** out of jungle hunt and number munchers

 

[Marty mcfly]

I don't remember the exact model but it was an apple computer. It was in 1989 i played on it with my father.

Since that date i'm an apple addict

 

[rwong]

My very first computer was a HP Pavilion back in 2000. I got the whole package which came with the monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse,

 

[Nisei]

ZX Spectrum+ in 1985

Ha, I had the original. With a whopping 16KB of RAM

 

[Twanky]

the very first computer i owned i built myself (with help from a friend)
i think it was like a P3,with windows 98.
but then again im still running XP on a home built system.
i think shop built are a waste of money

 

[Alienkidmj12]

Bbc micro with 32k mem and double 5 1/4 cumana diskdrive.

 

[denizen]

Ah yes! I also had a Speccy 48K. Loved it to bits and played tons of games. Still do, but not on the Speccy. On emulators.

 

[ABjerg]

Well, considering my age I did not get to explore the really ol' computers lol. But I did get to experience Windows '98 so the first computer I tried was about that time, I can't remember which though.
My first very own computer was a HP dv7 17" laptop. What a piece of crap that was. I got myself a MacBook Pro now so I'm good.

 

[neveser]

Apple ][e in 1983. Took me about a year and I was programming my own simple games.

I still have it and it booted up last time I tried it about 8 years ago. I was going to actually try it again soon. I'm backing the Wasteland 2 project and I just found my original Wasteland game. I wanted to see if it would still play on the ][e.

 

[nefilim]

 

[digitalbabe]

Commodore 64 FTW!

 

[Cobster]

Can't remember the exact model it was a windows PC and was purchased around 93/94 if anyone remembers a shop called tempos , damn I thought it was the bxxxxx and my parents payed a small fortune for it back then .

Now running

27 iMac 2014
13 mbpr 2014
And many other things

 

[vläd]

I may be showing my age here, but my first was a Mac IIci with a RasterOps 20" monitor.

 

[Scary Hair]

A commador 64 , never had a clue how to work it even back then . Mum and Dad used to call it a Playstation To think now we ALL have a computer in our pockets .

 

[Monkey2005]

I too had the original ZX Spectrum as my first home computer, I just loved that you waited 30mins for a game to load, then just as it was finishing you would get the dreaded 'Load Error'