What Was Your First Computer?

11 years ago

January 17, 2013 at 10:00 am

We all remember our first computer; for some of us, it turned out to be a very important turning point. What was your first machine?

Chances are you don’t know too many people who don’t own a computer these days.But no matter how ubiquitous the tech becomes, we’re sure you remember where it all began for you. Whether you started with punchcards, bashed out your first programs in BASIC, had a PC with no USB ports or cut your teeth on a shiny new ultrabook, we want to know — what was your first computer? Share your memories in the comments below.

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Lorenzo Zoil

January 17, 2013

1988 – Amstrad
You think your computer is sometimes running a little slow now – believe me, you have nothing to complain about.

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1. poccari
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  Snap, for year and make. I loved my Amstrad.
  
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Dr_Stef

January 17, 2013

THIS! 🙂 Headstart LX CD-Rom
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue117/7-1.jpg

I was the first on the block with a CD-Rom Caddy Drive and 14mhz Turbo Speed! 🙂
It did not run windows 3.11 but hey, it had a Vendex shell. If you had a Dos 5.1 disk
you could just about play wolf3d and commander keen

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1. Dr_Stef
  
  January 18, 2013
  
  Nice to see ppl posting their computer timeline too.
  
  For me it was. Headstart LX Cd Rom (088-68), Then a Pentium 1 (90mhz), later upgraded the 1GB HD to a whopping 8 GB! I also installed a jazz drive in it haha. Jazz… 1GB of tape data.
  Then moved to a Pentium III 500mhz. That was a bad buy because just a few months later they started coming out with better Hyper-threading chips. The last PC ran windows 98, up until about 2007 (used by my mother) then it became so unsupported, we bought her a brand spanking new Core5. 🙂 Aww…
  
  In the meantime I switched to AMD lol. And am now happely sitting on 8 cores.
  
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crazyguy1990

January 17, 2013

We had ours in 1997. Acer, Pentium 100.
All I could remember about it was that it ran everything from AFL 98, to Quake, to Where’s Wally? At The Circus.
Good times.

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kemp

January 17, 2013

Vic-20, then Commodore 64, then Amiga

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1. Dan Zammell
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  A man after my own heart – same as me.
  Most people here are talking about the old Amstrad systems – I used to sell those as a weekend job – mainly the CPC 464 if my memory serves me correctly 😉
  
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2. heavybinary
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  C64 for 1982 Christmas @ $800, +$900 for the Floppy Drive!
  
  At the time I was not happy since my best mate had a VIC-20 and nobody knew what a C64 was. But my bigger problem was I had to wait 2-Years! before any of my mates had a floppy drive so we could swap games, Dad said he wouldn’t waste his money on one of those crappy tape drives – in retrospect a very wise man.
  
  I then went though a similar “problem” years later with an Amiga 2000.
  
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  1. kemp
    
    January 17, 2013
    
    I had to wait 2-Years! before any of my mates had a floppy drive so we could swap games – that’s right, peer-to-peer sharing is nothing new! Although that was with our Amiga. I didn’t even know you could get a floppy drive for the C64.
    
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3. radix
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  Dad got the family a Commodore 64 for Christmas in 1983.
  Got much use out of that and then got an Amiga 500, which I used up until my second year of uni – then I got a PC – 386dx40 – remember playing with Linux 0.98 on that thing despite not having enough memory to compile a kernel (only had 4MB ram) and my mate with 8MB ram had to build one for me!
  
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4. skinhead
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  I had the C64 but with Cartriges only. Then UPGRADED to tape. Finally a Floppy wow I has flying with 5 1/4 inc floppy. Who could need more
  
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Davo10101

January 17, 2013

A second-hand Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer with cassette drive (no floppy drive for me) we were given in 1984. Only had around 6 games (2 on cartridges, YAY no loading time). I did learn to program BASIC with it. It looked like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TRS-80_Color_Computer_1-white_case.jpg

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1. ayin77
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  Same here. I think we got ours a little earlier, around ’82-’83.
  
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Lawtron

January 17, 2013

I had pretty much every Spectrum. ZX, ZX+, ZX+2 (inbuilt tape drive) and the ZX+3 (inbuilt 3″ floppy drive). I still miss the sound the tapes made when loading 🙂

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1. Roger
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  +1, ZX+ with the external tape drive, used to love writing games for it out of magazines from the UK.
  
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anguskidman

January 17, 2013

Yay Amstrad! First computer I programmed was the school Apple II, but the first one we had at home was the Amstrad CPC 6128. I still have all the 3-inch floppies stored away.

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chappers

January 17, 2013

386sx with a 9k modem.
Brilliant little machine, To send a email you had to log on to the BBS and type out the Email them it was sent to a computer with in the BBS that was connected to the internet to send it out for you when they logged on. Wish i knew the difference between the sx and dx chip set when Duke 3D come out.

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dknigs

January 17, 2013

A 486DX with sound blaster and CD-Rom sometime in the mid 90’s. My mum bought it to help us with school work, but we didn’t know anyone who knew anything about computers, so I had to work things out on my own. I pretty much hash up my current problem solving skills to this computer and all the lego I got as a kid.

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simondadishoo

January 17, 2013

486 SX33 (15Mhz, 33Mhz Turbo), 4MB Ram, 210MB HDD, 1x External SCSI NEC CD-ROM Drive, 1x 5.25 Disk Drive and 1x 3.5 Disk Drive, Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.11. Cost Dad about $4000 at the time and ran like a dream. Took 2 hours to install windows from 11 floppy disks.

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plimsol

January 17, 2013

First computer I owned was a Commodore 64, then Amiga 500+, then various grey boxes that I built with PC guts.

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Orac

January 17, 2013

microbee, all oz built, first with battery backup. full open source OS.
used by BMW, QANTAS. it was the best. i miss you!!!

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stevothedevo

January 17, 2013

Commodore 128D
But I just used it as a C64 really.

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1. anthem81
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  128D here too! =D Like you, it was mostly just a C64 for me, but I learned to program in BASIC and in C64 mode you needed to do some complicated PEEK and POKE commands to do some simple things, whereas 128D mode had a way better set of BASIC commands. At age 8, it was an ideal machine for me to teach myself about programming.
  
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n7of9

January 17, 2013

a Microbee in the late 80s, hooked up to a teeny tiny B&W television
http://www.1000bit.it/lista/a/appliedTechnology/MicroBee%2032%20(1).jpg

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tribedenis

January 17, 2013

Sony MSX!!!

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Percy

January 17, 2013

Sharp mz700, around 1980, system held on casette tape. Remember having my first bash at basic!! Makes me feel nostalgic, but also very old!!

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Mac user

January 17, 2013

first PC: Amstrad PC-1512
first Mac: Classic II

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manny

January 17, 2013

Guess I’m getting old; ZX81 (which was borrowed from my dad’s work – came free with the photocopier). Then mum bought me a ZX Spectrum 48k one wonderful Christmas.

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1. evernow
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  Yep, ZX81, then a C64, both with tape drives. I remember hours of entering programmes in Basic, printed in magazines.
  
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pelennor

January 17, 2013

Dick Smith VZ300, followed by a Commodore 64.

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memeweaver

January 17, 2013

At work it was a PC-XT (ie with a lumbering 10MB external hard drive) running Lotus 1-2-3 and not much else. Before that it was all VAX terminals at uni, including some that had no CRTs, only paper.

The first I had at home was a slightly used Compaq 386 circa 1987. I was thinking about it only a few days and shuddering at what it cost in today’s money.

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socksodd

January 17, 2013

IBM 486SX 33mhz (not the DX with the math co-processor), 4mb of ram, 256mb hard drive, dual floppy (3.5 & 5.25), 2400 baud modem, no sound card, no optical drive.

I did many upgrades to this computer, added a 4x cd-rom, bumped up the ram to 16mb, put a 1GB hard drive in it, got a SoundBlaster Value sound card, and the pièce de résistance… An Intel Pentium 83mhz OVERDRIVE upgrade processor.

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lexx

January 17, 2013

TRS-80 colour computer!

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si

January 17, 2013

486SX – 33Mhz
4MB Ram
200MB Hard Drive
Sound Blaster sound card
4x CD-Rom which plugged into an IDE port on the sound blaster card
Windows 3.11
I also think it had an 8MB graphics card in it.

I thought it was amazing when we got it (late ’93 if i recall right). And for the time, I suppose it was.

It’s crazy how much things have changed

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aeon

January 17, 2013

Apple IIe (not sure exactly when, but certainly from a very young age), followed by a Macintosh Classic II.

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whitepointer

January 17, 2013

I had one of these…behold the Apricot PC!

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/act_apricot-pc_1.jpg

Dual double-density 3.5 inch disk drives! High resolution monochrome green/black monitor! No hard drive! 16KB of RAM!

It was actually pretty awesome for its time.

My first IBM compatible PC was like many others here, an Amstrad. I can’t remember the exact model, I think it was a PC5386SX but I’m not 100% sure. All I can really remember about it was that it had a 386DX CPU and 2 MB of RAM. We later added an extra 2 MB of RAM, a Sound Blaster card and a Double speed CD-ROM drive.

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1. Dr_Stef
  
  January 18, 2013
  
  Damn I remember those things! lol
  
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AJ

January 17, 2013

Mid 1980s – Apple IIe clone looked like an Apple, worked like an Apple but also had a word processing program built into the chip.

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adrian

January 17, 2013

1998.

Acer intel celeron. 32 mb of ram. i was so disappointed that the cpu didnt allow me to insert a 3.5 inch disk!

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Thommo

January 17, 2013

A 486-dx33 which at the time was the second fastest personal computer you could buy. It cost one third of my annual salary and I had to get a loan to buy it.

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IanD

January 17, 2013

My First computer was a VIC20, then the C64
I actually had the VERY FIRST IBM PC in Australia on my desk at work. I worked in a mainframe environment, and we were big IBM partners and they brought it in to us.
The first version was not an IBM PC XT, but was called the IBM PC1, it had 2 x 5.25 floppy drives, and to run Lotus you need the DOS floppy in one drive and the Lotus disk in the other. We connected it into our mainframe as a dumb terminal / PC

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Luc

January 17, 2013

Macintosh Plus 1 Mb or RAM. No hard drive… Spent days and nights with the thing!

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roundley

January 17, 2013

1981 – PC Clone (Taiwanese, I think); 8086 chip 4.77MHz! 256K RAM, 2 x 5.25″ floppy drives; no HDD; monochrome (green) screen. I was able to run the operating system (Dos 2.?, then later Dos 3.11), word processor (Wordstar), and large documents. Man, that computer rocked! Only cost me $3500!

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billee

January 17, 2013

It was 1978 or 1979

Apple ][ Europlus.

My manual looked as if it had been photocopied and I got to meet Steve Wozniak

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barry

January 17, 2013

First computers (because I can’t remember which came first)
Challenger 1P
Microbee
Apple 2
Then moved up to a 086 from IBM and on from there

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phoniclynx

January 17, 2013

My first PC went WAYYY back…. It was an Exidy Sorcerer… Tape drive and all.. I remember those huge red cartridges… and playing the game LEM on it.. Every time you crashed (which was fairly often) you needed to rewind the cassette tape and play it again so the computer could reload the game… It had BASIC as its OS and that’s where I learnt initially to program.

Before we had the cartridges we had to type in our own games before we could play them and pages and pages and pages of instructions on how to write your own programs.

My parents bought it well before I was born.. They were released in 1978.

CPU: Zilog Z80, 2.106 MHz (later 4 MHz)
RAM: 4 kB, expandable to 48 kB. larger sizes came standard in later runs
ROM: 4 kB, cartridges could include 4 to 16 kB
Video: 64×30 character display, monochrome
Sound: none (external additions possible)
Ports: composite video, Centronics parallel, RS-232, sound in/out for cassette use, 50 pin ribbon connector including the S-100 bus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy_Sorcerer

The Sorcerer that we had we sold to a US Museum back a few years ago.

Followed by my grandpa’s Apricot.. then we bought an IBM XT 8086 with 4MHz and 640k ram and a 10MB HDD and 1.2″ floppy.. those were the days !!

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1. sol
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  you mean a 5.25″ floppy disk… 🙂
  
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  1. phoniclynx
    
    January 18, 2013
    
    haaahahah.. yesh… 5.25″ and a 3.5″ disks.. correct.
    
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2. mr_tench
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  Me too…I bought mine from Dick Smiths at St Leonards in 1980. Much the same specs as yours.
  
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mcfryboy2

January 17, 2013

Our first home computer was a 80286 running at 6mhz, but 10mhz on turbo power!

It had 512kb ram, and everytime i wanted to run commander keen i had to freemem because of the TSR so i had enough ram available to start the game.

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ivars

January 17, 2013

Sinclair ZX80 – now there was a machine, even though my watch is more powerful these days. Wikipedia reminds me the XZ80 had 1 kB RAM and 4 kB of ROM. Hard to believe now just how much such a seeming “toy” could change lives but it did!

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aeongrave

January 17, 2013

We had a 486 of some sort that ran Windows 3.1. Then there was Pentium 90 with 16mb RAM and a 900mb HDD, which we got for the CD drive. Then in year 7 I got my own laptop… A Pentium 133 with 32mb RAM and a 1.3gb HDD. Man, the games I played on that thing.

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sol

January 17, 2013

mine was a IBM PC way back in 1982. My father worked for IBM, and he was allowed to trundle home a PC on weekends.
later that same year, the school where i was a student in yr4 opened what they termed a “computer lab” filled with 10 BBC micro computers.

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Charles

January 17, 2013

The first computer I used was an IBM mainframe that sat in it’s own air-conditioned room and was programmed in Fortran IV using punch cards. Debugging was a nightmare, and if you dropped the cards…….! The first owned was a Microbee – fantastic little all Australian machine. I then moved to Amigas which were technically ahead of the curve of everything else at the time, but sadly not properly marketed by Commodore. With the demise of Amiga I was forced to move to Windows machines (I didn’t want to get caught out in a dead-end again so didn’t go with Apple – LOL!) and have been using them ever since.

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Tejas

January 17, 2013

my first was a C64, only used for gaming. my first proper machine was a 486 with 64 meg of ram, a 400 meg Hd and an acoustic coupler

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Dandojo

January 17, 2013

Original TRS-80 that I learned BASIC on before it almost drove me to frustration-driven suicide at the age of 10. Then the greatest computer ever made—Commodore 64—then Amiga 500. I fondly remember Christmas 1984 for the 1541 my dad bought me which cost more than the C64.

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jemaknight

January 17, 2013

A C64, which is weird because I’m only like 18.

We just didn’t have that much money.

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Karl

January 17, 2013

We never had computers when I was very young, I don’t think we got one til 1994 or thereabouts.

It was a “Gateway 2000” 486 SX33, think it cost just over $3000.

Had a colour screen capable of amazingly high resolutions such as 640×480, ran on windows 3.11 and had a CDROM drive, I think it had 8mb of ram, probably less actually. No Modem, I think you had to be some kind of uber nerd to know how to use one to dial into a BBS.

It utilised advanced technology such as a serial dot matrix printer with that tractor paper, shook the whole table when it printed and sounded like a chainsaw while printing.

Eventually the CRT monitor died like they always do and you had to give it a good whack to try to get it to work again. Also I remember having to delete stuff constantly and doing all kinds of weird stuff rewriting batch files to try to get games to work.

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morseonline

January 17, 2013

I went from Vic 20 to Tandy Colour Computer and then Atari ST (a “serious” computer, when all my friends were playing games on their silly Amigas…)

I think I bought my first PC second hand in 1995 – was a 486 and cost me about $1500…

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Greg

January 17, 2013

MSX Spectravideo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV-738

320 Kb 3½-inch floppy disks, tape drive and 16 colours.
Ran MSX-DOS 1.0

Where I first learnt to program in basic at age 10 🙂

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gman

January 17, 2013

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

Had heaps of games on cartridge, the voice synth and joystick/paddles…. very blocky games similar to the Atari 2600

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flugpanzercmdr

January 17, 2013

For me it was a Tandy TRS-80 Model 1 with a whole 16kb of RAM, got it back in 1981.
Taught myself a few programming languages including good old Z80 Assembler, those wwere the days.

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jase

January 17, 2013

1984, John Sands Sega SC3000. http://segaretro.org/SC-3000 Functionally similar to a C64 but cheaper and less games. Could still learn to program Basic on it, made me ready for the C64 we got a few years later 🙂

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topcat

January 17, 2013

IBM clone XT, no mouse, one 51/4 floppy and no hard drive that my wife bought for her uni studies back in 1989. Cost about $1500 if I remember correctly. We picked it up on a Friday and went back on the Monday and demanded an OS to go with it! The salesman gave us a copy of DOS3.3 and we were happy. I knew nothing about piracy etc back then. The best thing she ever bought because the challenges it presented made me realise that I liked and had an aptitude for computers so I went back to uni and been there ever since. One challenge I remember was getting Leisure Suit Larry to work. Leisure Suit Larry needed 2 disk drives and our computer had only one. I studied up on RAM and virtual drives and eventually was able to play the whole game by copying one disk into memory.

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1. phoniclynx
  
  January 18, 2013
  
  you sure you were 18? I know those questions at the beginning were kinda hard 😛 jks
  
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Your grandkid

January 17, 2013

Fisher Price My First Tablet. Gutless little thing with 1 tb of ram, 64-core processor and a 250 tb solid state drive. You needed to use, wait for it, your finger to control the thing.

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Doug

January 17, 2013

Ah, the joys of early computing. Mine was an Apple ][ with a whole 48K of RAM, a mono screen and a cassette drive purchased in 1980. The tape drive drove me nuts after a few weeks so I went back and got a 5.25″ floppy drive that stored a seemingly huge 143K of files.

From memory it cost about $2700 in 1980 dollars. I guess I must have had spare $$ in those days!

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daveju

January 17, 2013

1981 I built the ETI-660 with hex keypad, it was a project in the old Electronics Today Int magazine:
http://www.microbee-mspp.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=532
I still have it under the house somewhere…

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DWA

January 17, 2013

Osborne 25 Hz 386 with 40 Mb HDD & 5.25″ FDD. Ran Desqview 386 in 4Mb RAM and multitasked much more stably than anything Win before NT.

Unless we’re counting the HP41-CX …

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boris

January 17, 2013

Commodore 64 with Tape Drive -> 386 SX-16 -> Pentium 66 -> beast mode

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Greybeard

January 17, 2013

Macintosh LC 630. Cost close to three thousand in 92/93 and came with a whopping 8 Mb of RAM and a 350 Mb HD. Bought it essentially to play MYST. I certainly look back fondly at those days as it very much seemed like magic to someone that had only used computers briefly prior to that.

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mrkips

January 17, 2013

486DX 66Mhz (with Turbo button slowing down to 33Mhz), 4Mb Ram, Sound Blaster Audio Card, 4Mb Graphics Card, Windows 3.11
If I used ‘Preview DOS’ and stopped windows loading, I had enough RAM To Load Duke Nukem 3D, But not enough RAM to Load the Sound Drivers so I had to play it with the pc speaker sounds. “Shake It Baby”

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astrogirl

January 17, 2013

TI 99/4a in the early 80s. I loved it so much, we would program games in basic and save them to cassette tape to play them later. And of course there were cartridges too. The games were great! Parsec, hunt the wumpus, tunnels of doom, munchman, tumbleweed city. So many awesome ones!

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Rocket

January 17, 2013

Exidy Sorcerer

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1. Rocket
  
  January 17, 2013
  
  And we still have it in storage as well, next to the Apple //e.
  
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ammusionist

January 17, 2013

TI 59 Programmable calculator – Could save your program to a little magnetic card. Happy memories. Vic 20 after that then C64 and Amiga.

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Ozzie5

January 17, 2013

A Cyrix 5×86 with 12 MB of RAM, back in 1996. those days already 16 MB was a standard so I learned how to optimize windows to tweak up the most out of those 12 megs 😀

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skinhead

January 17, 2013

Luxury! I had to walk 5 miles in up hill both ways to use an Abacus

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kenrob

January 18, 2013

Tandy Trash 80, (none of yer highfalutin’ colour stuff) and it’s still in the garage.

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AJS

January 18, 2013

Redstone clone of an Apple II+ in the early 1980s. It had two 320kb floppy drives and seemed very powerful with 128kb on RAM. It came with a brilliant photocopied Apple manual that took me from how to switch it on to writing a small shoot-the-helicopter game. I wrote many of my university essays on it using Applewriter.

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Southpatt

January 18, 2013

A Vic-20 on which I learnt basic 🙂

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kendal

January 18, 2013

Apple IIc – 1984 was a good year,

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nafoon

January 18, 2013

First household computer, C64.
First computer of my own, ST with 4 meg of Ram (and I had the version without the dimm slots. The ram upgrade had to be soldered in!)

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Aron

January 18, 2013

Apple Macintosh Plus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Plus

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1. Dr_Stef
  
  January 18, 2013
  
  I remember learning QuarkXpress on these things.
  Damn u QuarkXpress.. lol
  
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topcat

January 18, 2013

Pretty easy for me but my sons (10 and 13) had their work cut out. It was not very effective at locking out a determined kid as trial and error eventually revealed the right answers.

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meacod

January 18, 2013

It didn’t have a name that I can remember, probably something my Dad picked up at the time for work.

I do recall that it had 8Mhz and 800KB of RAM. It ran DOS PowerMenu and had WordPerfect installed, plus games like Pango, Willy The Worm, and CrossWords. Epic stuff.

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lemontang

January 18, 2013

First PC was the good old C64. Wasted countless hours playing Mad Doctor on that thing.
Followed shortly after with an Amiga 500 complete with it’s extra 1mb switch (still have that old machine too). Many more an hour wasted playing Moonstone.

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madwog

January 19, 2013

Compaq Presario 524CDS
486DX2 80 Mhz
8MB RAM
9.6k modem
4x cd rom
427 MB hard drive (which i found in my room a few weeks ago)
nobody i kneow could fix computers, i had installed windows 95, but it took soo much room, i used “deltree windows” and the computer kinda didn’t work anymore, i had to figure out mscdex to get the cd rom working agian, and autoexec.bat and config.sys fiels

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svenborg

January 19, 2013

For me, a Compaq Presario CQ42-137TU Notebook PC, I got in 2010. It broke more times than I have fingers to count. But it served me well enough for 2 years.

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svenborg

January 19, 2013

I think the specs were something like:
Celeron 1.6Ghz
4GB RAM
500GB HDD
14″ 1366×768 screen

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I love how active this is

January 19, 2013

486DX66. Purchased so my folks could learn CAD… they never did, but I’ve made a career out of it.

Perhaps its because they didn’t have a chance to get their hands on it and practice ;).

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SirClive

January 19, 2013

It was the ZX Spectrum + and though I miss the days the … R:Tape Loading Error

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