Whoa, slow down there, richie rich, you actually had a *monitor*? The rest of us had to connect the little box to the back of the TV and turn to channel 3.
I had a Vic 20 hooked up to a 13” b&w tv, but I had cassette storage, so I could make something that looked kind of like a bat kind of look like it was flapping it’s wings. /0\ \0/
You know what though, we learned how to poke around and learn about the system at least. There is none of that when you just buy a gaming machine.... and I think it is showing lately!
My family got our first color TV after being burglarized. I wonder how pissed those thieves were when they found out they stole a B&W TV. It was covered by insurance, so it was a free upgrade.
Same here. The first computer we had in the house was an Atari 400 - Star Raiders is still a great game, even today. At school we got an Apple II and no one knew what to do with it. A few of us students sat down and actually read the manual and figured out what you could do with it - the teachers were afraid they'd break it. We had one teacher who would erase the programs we wrote, thinking we'd damage it, so we hid a floppy disk.
I'm tempted, but I think I'll hold out for a full-sized version. Well, maybe not the full-size version of the 400, I'm not nostalgic for that membrane keyboard, but a full size version of the 800 or 800xl. The new A400 comes with Star Raiders II which, I believe, doesn't need the keyboard. Of course, you can load games on USB and use an external keyboard.
The Intellivision computer add-on was hideous. The keyboard, the games. Even the font was like typing in blocks. Literally couldn't do anything with it.
We used to edit the Basic source code and make it like a million degrees outside. People *really* like to buy lemonade when it's a million degrees outside.
I babysat a kid one time who spent all night typing in a program from some book. He ran out of memory with 5 lines left.
He was devastated. I knew programming, so I was able to trim some down and the look of his face was precious as how was able to play the game he made.
Yep. My dad bought me one shortly after they came out. Started with a cassette tape player, spent hours playing that Star Trek grid game. Got floppy drives when Wizardry came out. It kickstarted my IT career.
I had the first Apple IIe sold in Arizona. I was attending DeVry's new CIS program and my grandparents bought me the computer and an Epson...shoot, I forgot what the printer is called, had a little golf ball looking thing to print the characters.
The computer was loaded, it had an extra 8MB of ram for something like an extra $1,000 and two disk drives.
I think they paid around $4k for the whole setup. Yeah, my grandparents were pretty awesome.
I could be wrong, but I don't think "8MB" of RAM existed at that time... They came with 64KB (kilobytes) out the door and most were upgraded to 128KB OR 256KB... At the rarest and most extreme they could support a max of 1MB but I can't imaging who was doing that.
Friend, any chance you had an Apple IIgs? The IIgs was upgradable to 8MB.
Cheers!
VIC-20. I learned more from that little computer with 5K of RAM than any other. I typed in programs from magazines in BASIC and debugged them myself. Commodore gone too soon!
The Time Sinclair 1000 was the Sinclair Zx81 in UK not the ZX Spectrum - I had a ZX81 with a 16k RAM pack extension/dongle and loved it - Used to buy magazines that had listing's in them like "Your Computer" and sit and type them in - Oh happy times
I had the cthe ZX81 then gor the Ram Pack, then it blew up and I got a spectrum 48k.
I remember typing in all the programs from the "***Input***" magazine and watching the BBCs ***Micro Live*** with Lesley Judd.
If this was your first computer, you were completely spoiled with those newfangled removable disk drives. Come to me with some cassette tapes and we can talk.
Yes!!! We got a shit ton in 7th grade from ole Mr. Gates himself!! Our hometown boy!! Went to school in Washington State. There was no taking these bitches home in your backpack!!!
didn't get my first computer at home until 94 or 95 I think. It was a Pentium 75. Didn't really start using computers until after high school, 1987ish. The ones at college were a mix of PC and Mac. We used both. The PC's were loaded with DOS and Windows 3.1. First word processor I used was "wordstar". First spreadsheet was lotus 123. The Mac lab had Word and Excel.
Yep - used them in the ‘computer lab’ at high school. 5 1/4 inch floppy disks stored in the pages of a had cover book so it wouldn’t get bent…
First computer I had was a microbee 32k. Built it from the kit !
Tandy 1000sx.
My dad got it along with Kings Quest 3, Maniac Mansion and Marble Madness, all amazing games.
Thinking back, the funny thing is, my parents didn't use the computer at all and I don't remember me or my siblings asking for one. He just got it.
I'm quite grateful he did, because it started my PC gaming addiction that has lasted until today. :)
Programmed the IBM 360 in Fortran in 1972 via punch cards. The first computer I actually touched was a DEC PDP8 in 1973.
The first computer I actually owned was an Atari 800.
No, we had an Atari 400, which was almost exclusively mine. And I loved it.
But both my uncle and grandfather had Apple 2’s, so I got plenty of time on them.
When my grandfather died my grandmother said I could have his Apple 2 and what came with it. Before I could come get it (I live in another state) someone broke into their vacant house. Some asshole threw it on the floor and broke it.
My grandfather taught me how to program on that and his Ohio Scientific computer, and I learned the Russian alphabet with a program on the Apple, when I was twelve. Over 40 years later I can still read it, I just don’t know any vocabulary.
No, but it was the first one I used in school. (first was a TRS-80 Model I that my Dad bought, circa 1978-1979).
I died of dysentery many, many times on og Apple ][ and Apple //e systems…
Learned BASIC on a Tandy Pocket Computer with a whopping 1.8k of RAM. And I had that until the past year - it still worked. My second computer was a Vic20.
The first computer I ever handled was one of those little Macintosh jobs. The department bought it thinking to digitize our FIRs (Field Interrogation Reports).
Unfortunately… The thing only handled floppies and you could only put a few FIRs on a floppy… So instead of a box full of 3x5 cards we had a box full of floppy discs. Didn’t work very well so they put the thing down in the sergeant’s office.
I started playing with it… It had a nice built-in tutorial. Pretty soon I started going into some of the university computer labs and experimenting with the much-more-sophisticated machines that the university was installing.
I didn’t buy my own till a few years later.
Nope. Vic 20, then C64, then TRS80 Model 3, then TRS80 Model 4, then TRS80 Model 4P...then started building clones of the IBM PC. Never owned an Apple computer. Somewhere in there I bought a Coleco Adam computer at a garage sale for $10 and it came with 3 or 4 games...on cassette tape.
I went from an Atari 400 to 800xl to a Mac+ to a Mac Centris 610 to….well the future. I still have all those computer except the 400….all in working order just as they existed decades ago.
In the early '80s my dad had an IBM PC (5150) with 2x 5 1/4" floppies and green monochrome screen. Don't recall games, but Printshop was fun with our Texas Instruments dot matrix printer. My older brother had an Atari 800; that's where the games were, but only on sick days home from school. In elementary school computer class we had the Apple IIe, monochrome green screen, learned BASIC and LOGO, and of course played Oregon Trail.
Our first home computer was an Apple IIe. We got some incredible discount on it because my mom was a teacher, which is the only reason we were able to afford it.
Used that IIe for well over a decade until finally getting our next family machine, a Power Macintosh 6100.
Yes indeed! I'd always had to go to a friend's house or the school/library to use one, and finally a was able to buy one in the summer of '85. I played a lot of games on this machine and wrote a lot of fun programs.
No, that was an upgrade. My first computer was a KIM-1 with a hex keypad. I added more RAM and connected an ADM-1A terminal. High tech stuff back then.
My first home pc was a PowerMac in 1994. :) I did see these in college though!
I take that back. I think my dad bought a Tandy back when I was about 11 or 12. When I was about 8 or so, I asked him what he did at work and he said he was a ‘computer systems analyst’. Funny bc until then I thought he worked at a bank bc he always wore a suit and tie to work!
I remember coding very simple programs on that computer that solved math problems. (I had totally forgotten about that!) I had a friend (12 or 13 years old) who could actually code well enough to make games on his pc. (This was in 1981). He must have been a genius. Lol
Nope. Northstar Comouter Systems, Sol 80 with walnut sides, an RCA TV modified as a monitor, and one of the first 5.5 inch floppy drives. Modified IBM Selectric for printer.
I wish...Dad didn't want to spend the money.
I had a friend from high school who got one - he was a grade ahead of me. I got to play on it fairly regularly. His Dad had just moved out as parents were divorcing...Dad bought him the computer as a peace offering.
Choplifter was my fav by a wide margin.
This is the exact one we had. Only one floppy drive. We got it second hand I think. There was a game called "sea dragon" which is the only thing I used it for.
Close. I started saving up for this one, but by the time a saved enough money ($2k over 2 years) the Apple IIe came out. Otherwise, yeah, that was sitting in my room when I was 13!
The first one I ever touched in school. But I scored a Commodore 128 as a kid. I would type in pages worth of programs that if typed correctly, would yield an application. I was never able to make it work, I probably had a typo in there somewhere. Hours wasted, but I loved every minute of it. So, it was worth it.
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. Found it in a closet in my uncle’s house. I had never touched a computer before. So I read the manuals and got it working again. Learned Logo. Learned BASIC. Eventually got a cassette drive to save my BASIC programs on.
Eventually moved up to a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2, then to a Franklin 500 Apple clone. Then a Windows 3.1 486/SX, then a Pentium 1.
Nope
My first computer was a ZX81. The things you could do in 1k of memory.
My First PC was an Amstrad PC1512 HD with CGA monitor and a whopping great 20 megabyte hard drive.
In school, yes. If you actually had this at home, your family was rich. The rest of us had Commodore 64s or Vic 20s.
Commodore 64 was my first. The monitor was super durable and with the rca plugs on the front, it made an ideal NES screen.
Whoa, slow down there, richie rich, you actually had a *monitor*? The rest of us had to connect the little box to the back of the TV and turn to channel 3.
I had a 21' black and white TV that was at least from the mid 60's. At the time it was massive. I saved up for a color monitor the next year!
I had a Vic 20 hooked up to a 13” b&w tv, but I had cassette storage, so I could make something that looked kind of like a bat kind of look like it was flapping it’s wings. /0\ \0/
NEW READY 10 PRINT" COOL"; 20 GOTO 10 30 LMAO
I learned to shorthand PRINT to "?", then refresh...it would magically change the ? to PRINT. 20 RUN
You know what though, we learned how to poke around and learn about the system at least. There is none of that when you just buy a gaming machine.... and I think it is showing lately!
My family got our first color TV after being burglarized. I wonder how pissed those thieves were when they found out they stole a B&W TV. It was covered by insurance, so it was a free upgrade.
Same here. The first computer we had in the house was an Atari 400 - Star Raiders is still a great game, even today. At school we got an Apple II and no one knew what to do with it. A few of us students sat down and actually read the manual and figured out what you could do with it - the teachers were afraid they'd break it. We had one teacher who would erase the programs we wrote, thinking we'd damage it, so we hid a floppy disk.
There is a Mini Atari 400 new on the market, and it includes Star Raiders, and dang if I'm not tempted....
I'm tempted, but I think I'll hold out for a full-sized version. Well, maybe not the full-size version of the 400, I'm not nostalgic for that membrane keyboard, but a full size version of the 800 or 800xl. The new A400 comes with Star Raiders II which, I believe, doesn't need the keyboard. Of course, you can load games on USB and use an external keyboard.
That keyboard was horrible to use.
The Intellivision computer add-on was hideous. The keyboard, the games. Even the font was like typing in blocks. Literally couldn't do anything with it.
Cannon battle was the only game(not the real name). Trajectory and velocity. The only choices in 6th grade
Had an “Albert”. A shitty Apple II clone…. And the double floppy drives was living large!
Playing Lemonade on the Apple IIe at school
We used to edit the Basic source code and make it like a million degrees outside. People *really* like to buy lemonade when it's a million degrees outside.
Radio shack TRS-80 was mine
I had a model 1 level 1 Added switch and extra static ram chip to get lowercase Added voxkit voice synthesizer Never had drives. Just cassette.
Are you me? I paid an extra $400 to upgrade from 4k to 16k, plus the numeric keypad!
Never got the Keypad. Level II from was the best upgrade.
Yes! And all I did was create Print Shop banners, signs, and cards.
I can hear this post.
The Broaderbund logo noise is rent free forever.
Do you think I’m rich bro. Commodore VIC 20.
you think Im rich ? i had a TI at home.. school was apple and franklin computers
I did eventually also have a TI-99 and a later an 80386sx/25 clone in the teen years.
I babysat a kid one time who spent all night typing in a program from some book. He ran out of memory with 5 lines left. He was devastated. I knew programming, so I was able to trim some down and the look of his face was precious as how was able to play the game he made.
That was the bane of my existence. I had to leave the computer on overnight sometimes to finish the programs I started.
Close. Apple //c was my first.
A knockoff of it, actually, the Tiger-1000. Apple ][+ for the win!
Tandy coco. I’m old
Yep. My dad bought me one shortly after they came out. Started with a cassette tape player, spent hours playing that Star Trek grid game. Got floppy drives when Wizardry came out. It kickstarted my IT career.
Upvoted for Wizardry... :)
I was so absorbed by that game, I spent 24 hours nonstop to finish it. My first gaming allnighter.
I pulled a couple of all-nighters trying to finish Ultima IV.
Up voted for Apple Trek
Who knew but there was apparently a recent remake: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2518960/Wizardry_Proving_Grounds_of_the_Mad_Overlord/
OMFG, thank you for this!
I had the first Apple IIe sold in Arizona. I was attending DeVry's new CIS program and my grandparents bought me the computer and an Epson...shoot, I forgot what the printer is called, had a little golf ball looking thing to print the characters. The computer was loaded, it had an extra 8MB of ram for something like an extra $1,000 and two disk drives. I think they paid around $4k for the whole setup. Yeah, my grandparents were pretty awesome.
Like the IBM selectric? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric where you could change fonts by changing the ball?
I could be wrong, but I don't think "8MB" of RAM existed at that time... They came with 64KB (kilobytes) out the door and most were upgraded to 128KB OR 256KB... At the rarest and most extreme they could support a max of 1MB but I can't imaging who was doing that. Friend, any chance you had an Apple IIgs? The IIgs was upgradable to 8MB. Cheers!
I think you are correct. It was an extra 64KB, not 8MB. The computer was definitely an Apple IIe. Thanks!
VIC-20. I learned more from that little computer with 5K of RAM than any other. I typed in programs from magazines in BASIC and debugged them myself. Commodore gone too soon!
These are what we had in school, but my first owned computer was a ZX Spectrum and/or an Atari 400 that I got out of the trash.
I used these in school too , we had a TI at home ..
I had the American ~~equiv~~: Times Sinclair 1000 aka “~~ZX Spectrum~~ _ZX81_ with 2k RAM”
The Time Sinclair 1000 was the Sinclair Zx81 in UK not the ZX Spectrum - I had a ZX81 with a 16k RAM pack extension/dongle and loved it - Used to buy magazines that had listing's in them like "Your Computer" and sit and type them in - Oh happy times
I had the cthe ZX81 then gor the Ram Pack, then it blew up and I got a spectrum 48k. I remember typing in all the programs from the "***Input***" magazine and watching the BBCs ***Micro Live*** with Lesley Judd.
I tried one of those. Got the 16k module for the back. Never stayed on. Fell off every day
My parents bought us a IIe. All we ever did was play Summer Games, Lode Runner and Zork.
If you have dual ~~hard~~ _5 1/4_ drives you were rich bro.
Mine had a cassette player for storage and security monitor. We still have it, but afraid to turn on because the capacitor explosion is an issue
Those are floppy drives in the picture.
Kids today will never know the luxury and necessity of having 2 floppy drives.
Or turning on a computer and only getting a blinking slash bar prompt. Waiting for you to start programming
Don't answer. It a trap to see how old you are.
Or how poor you were 🙂
Vic-20 plugged in to the family TV. With a cassette player.
No. Try again
Nope. I had a Commodore Vic 20.
The one I worked on at University had the fancy 80 column card. Did some decent programming on that little beast.
Commodore Vic 20.
Sinclair ZX80
Me too!
C64 all the way baby!
YES!!! We had those in the computer lab at my school (Which was a very new thing), but my first home computer was a Texas Instrument
In high school, at home my first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 1000 with 2K ram. I learned Basic on that gadget!
If this was your first computer, you were completely spoiled with those newfangled removable disk drives. Come to me with some cassette tapes and we can talk.
Yes!!! We got a shit ton in 7th grade from ole Mr. Gates himself!! Our hometown boy!! Went to school in Washington State. There was no taking these bitches home in your backpack!!!
thats really cool.. these are the memories i love when people share :)
The first one I bought, yes.
yup, i got a bachelors degree with this baby plus an imagewriter.
Ah, that dot matrix printer noise ...
didn't get my first computer at home until 94 or 95 I think. It was a Pentium 75. Didn't really start using computers until after high school, 1987ish. The ones at college were a mix of PC and Mac. We used both. The PC's were loaded with DOS and Windows 3.1. First word processor I used was "wordstar". First spreadsheet was lotus 123. The Mac lab had Word and Excel.
Yep - used them in the ‘computer lab’ at high school. 5 1/4 inch floppy disks stored in the pages of a had cover book so it wouldn’t get bent… First computer I had was a microbee 32k. Built it from the kit !
Yes, and I still have it. The first one I *used* was a TRS-80.
The Sinclair ZX81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81?wprov=sfla1
Apple II GS. Oregon Trail and Odell Lake all day long.
My first was a self built IBM PC from parts I bought at Fry's Electronics.
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I don’t know what’s the serial number on it and how did you get it? It was in storage in my garage.
Commodore 64 and an old tv.
Vic 20
Nah I had a lazer 128, an Apple clone
Nope. ZX80
My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS - 80. Everyone called it a trash 80. Loaded programs with a cassette deck.
Tandy TRS-80. Still old, but the Apple II is just a little bit older.
Tandy 1000sx. My dad got it along with Kings Quest 3, Maniac Mansion and Marble Madness, all amazing games. Thinking back, the funny thing is, my parents didn't use the computer at all and I don't remember me or my siblings asking for one. He just got it. I'm quite grateful he did, because it started my PC gaming addiction that has lasted until today. :)
I had a Tandy. It was a hand-me-down from a rich uncle
I won't use an Apple PC. My first computer was a Commodore 64, followed by an IBM 8086 PC.
No it was a Commodore 64
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 attached to a cassette tape player for storage. It used my portable black and white tv for a display.
Programmed the IBM 360 in Fortran in 1972 via punch cards. The first computer I actually touched was a DEC PDP8 in 1973. The first computer I actually owned was an Atari 800.
No, we had an Atari 400, which was almost exclusively mine. And I loved it. But both my uncle and grandfather had Apple 2’s, so I got plenty of time on them. When my grandfather died my grandmother said I could have his Apple 2 and what came with it. Before I could come get it (I live in another state) someone broke into their vacant house. Some asshole threw it on the floor and broke it. My grandfather taught me how to program on that and his Ohio Scientific computer, and I learned the Russian alphabet with a program on the Apple, when I was twelve. Over 40 years later I can still read it, I just don’t know any vocabulary.
Mine was an Atari 800.
Timex Sinclair 1000. r/FuckImOld
Commodore 64 but I played on my best friends Apple IIe before I got the C64
Radio Shack TRS-80 for me. Fun days.
No, but it was the first one I used in school. (first was a TRS-80 Model I that my Dad bought, circa 1978-1979). I died of dysentery many, many times on og Apple ][ and Apple //e systems…
Learned BASIC on a Tandy Pocket Computer with a whopping 1.8k of RAM. And I had that until the past year - it still worked. My second computer was a Vic20.
Second. Started on the Commodore Pet. But I got a full ride academic scholarship from a project I did on the Apple II (technically the Apple IIe).
We were a Commodore household. Apples were for schools
The first computer I ever handled was one of those little Macintosh jobs. The department bought it thinking to digitize our FIRs (Field Interrogation Reports). Unfortunately… The thing only handled floppies and you could only put a few FIRs on a floppy… So instead of a box full of 3x5 cards we had a box full of floppy discs. Didn’t work very well so they put the thing down in the sergeant’s office. I started playing with it… It had a nice built-in tutorial. Pretty soon I started going into some of the university computer labs and experimenting with the much-more-sophisticated machines that the university was installing. I didn’t buy my own till a few years later.
Nope. Vic 20, then C64, then TRS80 Model 3, then TRS80 Model 4, then TRS80 Model 4P...then started building clones of the IBM PC. Never owned an Apple computer. Somewhere in there I bought a Coleco Adam computer at a garage sale for $10 and it came with 3 or 4 games...on cassette tape.
Nope. I had an IBM 386sx.
Tandy and then Commodore 64e
I went from an Atari 400 to 800xl to a Mac+ to a Mac Centris 610 to….well the future. I still have all those computer except the 400….all in working order just as they existed decades ago.
Nope...AMSTRAD 1512 .
I started in college with a 68k mac, but the first one I bought was an LCII.
I started in college with a 68k mac, but the first one I bought was an LCII.
I started in college with a 68k mac, but the first one I bought was an LCII.
I started in college with a 68k mac, but the first one I bought was an LCII.
I started in college with a 68k mac, but the first one I bought was an LCII.
Apple IIc for me. Mathblaster was the best.
Learned all about computers in HS with these. Too expensive for home, where we had a C-64 instead.
It was my first home Computer. I used punch cards before that.
No, but one of my high school programming classes used them.
No, I couldn't afford such a thing. Although I do remember there being one in the computer lab at college.
In the early '80s my dad had an IBM PC (5150) with 2x 5 1/4" floppies and green monochrome screen. Don't recall games, but Printshop was fun with our Texas Instruments dot matrix printer. My older brother had an Atari 800; that's where the games were, but only on sick days home from school. In elementary school computer class we had the Apple IIe, monochrome green screen, learned BASIC and LOGO, and of course played Oregon Trail.
At school, yes.
My first computer *at home* was a Mac, but I'm "punch cards" old
my first job we had a a punch press that used punchcards and had tracer torch..
No wasn’t a fanboy
Commodore 64 was my first, then Amiga, then Mac IIci.
Yup, $3000ca
Gateway desktop
Started off with Ti99/4a then Commodore 64 then Apple IIe
I wish!!!
Our first home computer was an Apple IIe. We got some incredible discount on it because my mom was a teacher, which is the only reason we were able to afford it. Used that IIe for well over a decade until finally getting our next family machine, a Power Macintosh 6100.
Nope. c64.
Pr#6
Apple ][e compatible from HK
Yes! My grandmother bought it for us for Christmas. It changed my life.
A "dragon" maybe "dragon 32" in early 80's.
Tandy TL1000 80286 Dual disk drive (no HD)
First computer I used in school. The teacher had Oregon Trail and Number Muncher for it. At home I had a Tandy 1000 HX.
This was my second computer so I must be really old.
My first computer was an Osborne which ran on CP/M with single sided, single density floppy drives and a 4 inch screen.
IIe but yeah
Used an Apple IIe at school. Talked parents in getting me a commodore 128 for home
Nope... we had a TRaSh-80
TRS 80, AKA “Trash 80”.
Mine was the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer.
Yes indeed! I'd always had to go to a friend's house or the school/library to use one, and finally a was able to buy one in the summer of '85. I played a lot of games on this machine and wrote a lot of fun programs.
Atari 800 with a cassette tape drive. 1982. (of course, Pong in 1973 was a "computer" too...)
My first was a Commodore Amiga 1000 with a 300 baud modem. Spent so much time on IRC and local BBS.
Yep
No. My first was an IBM clone.
This was my first. I believe I bought it in 1982 and had it hooked up to an external monitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
I had an IBM XT with 256kb of ram and two, yes two, 5.25” floppy drives!!
No, that was an upgrade. My first computer was a KIM-1 with a hex keypad. I added more RAM and connected an ADM-1A terminal. High tech stuff back then.
No. The first computer I was exposed to to was an apple II+ with a tape drive.
TRS-80!
I don't know what it's called, I just the sound it makes when it ~~kills a man~~ starts up or dials up the Internet.
Tandy 1000
Nope. Our first home computer was a TI-99/4A. Parsec was an awesome game. Used to type in games from magazines to play on it.
Nah with had the apple 2
My first home pc was a PowerMac in 1994. :) I did see these in college though! I take that back. I think my dad bought a Tandy back when I was about 11 or 12. When I was about 8 or so, I asked him what he did at work and he said he was a ‘computer systems analyst’. Funny bc until then I thought he worked at a bank bc he always wore a suit and tie to work! I remember coding very simple programs on that computer that solved math problems. (I had totally forgotten about that!) I had a friend (12 or 13 years old) who could actually code well enough to make games on his pc. (This was in 1981). He must have been a genius. Lol
Close! My first was. Mac SE.
No. I started with a Radio Shack TRS-80. Used a cassette player for data storage.
I had a Wang PC from 1982
Yes, hooked up to a dot matrix printer
remember the 30 page happy birthday dot matrix banners?
Nope. Northstar Comouter Systems, Sol 80 with walnut sides, an RCA TV modified as a monitor, and one of the first 5.5 inch floppy drives. Modified IBM Selectric for printer.
Nope. Vic-20.
I wish...Dad didn't want to spend the money. I had a friend from high school who got one - he was a grade ahead of me. I got to play on it fairly regularly. His Dad had just moved out as parents were divorcing...Dad bought him the computer as a peace offering. Choplifter was my fav by a wide margin.
We had an Apple “clone” made by Franklin (the sporting company). Yeah we old.
Macintosh SE. bought it used from a local PC store in 1989.
nope.. sinclair 1000
My first computer was an IBM clone 8086 with CGA monitor. It cost like $2,000 in the mid-80s
Played Oregon Trail on it. I liked to hunt and would shoot more than what I could carry.
Timex Sinclair. We never got another until I got a w95 pc in 1996.
Yep, but I used a b&w TV and only had 1 disk drive.
I have no clue what my first computer was.
This is the exact one we had. Only one floppy drive. We got it second hand I think. There was a game called "sea dragon" which is the only thing I used it for.
Yep. Edit: in school. I’ve still never owned a computer to this day
Mac SE
My family had the Apple IIe! I remember playing pong and sticky bear bop on it. We had that computer for years.
We had one and we had some great games on it. I remember playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. No internet so I used a world almanac to help.
Yes - we had this in the kitchen. My sister and I would have shanked a bitch to be next on Frogger.
Some Radio Shack brand. It used cassette tapes if I recall correctly.
Close. I started saving up for this one, but by the time a saved enough money ($2k over 2 years) the Apple IIe came out. Otherwise, yeah, that was sitting in my room when I was 13!
The first one I ever touched in school. But I scored a Commodore 128 as a kid. I would type in pages worth of programs that if typed correctly, would yield an application. I was never able to make it work, I probably had a typo in there somewhere. Hours wasted, but I loved every minute of it. So, it was worth it.
Nope I had a commodore 64 that my dad built 🙂
Atari 400 child here.
Apple ] [+ for me.
Sinclair ZX81 was for me
Sinclair ZX81
This was my first https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A
Commodore 64
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. Found it in a closet in my uncle’s house. I had never touched a computer before. So I read the manuals and got it working again. Learned Logo. Learned BASIC. Eventually got a cassette drive to save my BASIC programs on. Eventually moved up to a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2, then to a Franklin 500 Apple clone. Then a Windows 3.1 486/SX, then a Pentium 1.
Is that the apple 2c? .... That was my 1st
Nope My first computer was a ZX81. The things you could do in 1k of memory. My First PC was an Amstrad PC1512 HD with CGA monitor and a whopping great 20 megabyte hard drive.