What was your first computer? (Page 3 of 3)

Commodore 128 [1987.] -> Amiga 600 [1993.]-> Custom PC (Athlon 2200+, Windows XP) [2003..present]-> Fujitsu Siemens S7020 [present]

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My first machine was an 80286 with 12MHz. One day, i found a strange slot on the mainboard and after some research I learned that it could hold an 8085. So I had my 12Mhz CPU supported by a strange 8MHz coprocessor. It was running fine as a basic office machine until 2001! I had alot of fun with it. Things like doublespace (compressed my 40MB HDD to give me about 70MB free space) and later a 14,4 kBit fax modem from US robotics minted my interest in technology. Besides my laptop, I never ever bought an out-of-the-box computer.

Either a Sinclair ZX81 or a C64. Can't quite remember which we had first.

I can't remember what computer was, but it had Win 3.1 and I was 3 years old, I only knew how to run NASCAR Racing and play (and crash hehe)

First computer I ever used was an ICT 1904 in 1965.

It was as big as a dinosaur & lived in a room of its own with a double door to prevent dust getting in.

It was programmed in an assembly language called PLAN & fed programs on punched tape by its keepers (or operators). There was no operating system - just operators who switched stuff around, loaded & unloaded magnetic tape reels & fed it. The console was a tty - screens didn't exist until a lot later.

It was surrounded by lots of tape drives that turned constantly, as its programmes (it was one of the first multiprogram computers & could run 4 programs at once !!!) were constantly being swapped in & out of the computer's 24-bit word 32K word memory (that's 96Kbytes in today's jargon). & there was an entire huge floor full of perforators/verifiers who typed on keyboards to produced & check punched tape.

Many years later, I got to play with the Apple II some friends had been given by the engineering company they worked for. & then there were a lot of different machines for work (DEC with Fortran, Pascal & Prolog), HP3000 & Cobol, Unix on ???, something ghastly on IBM, DOS 3.1 on PC, until I finally got my own computer around 2000.

Currently have a desktop, 2 laptops (1 Mac), & 2 Asus Netbooks.

i was not fortunate to grow up in a tech-savvy (nor affluent) family; my step-father's idea of "high tech" meant me getting up to turn the television dial for him. so in my earlier years my only computer experiences were at the homes of friends who were luckier, and all i remember are Apple IIe's and C64's (and LodeRunner and Ultima haha).
---fast forward from the mid-80's to 1998--
my own "first computer" was a desktop that i picked the parts for with the advice of computer savvy co-workers. as i remember, it was a blazing fast PII or PIII packing 800Mhz, with a hugantic 128Mb of RAM, a Creative Soundblaster audio card,  and a 3Dfx Voodoo video card. adequate for it's era running first Win98 and then WinME, and #! probably would probably work a charm on the same rig today.