Mine was the Apple II Europlus. Bought it in 1979. Loved that thing.
VIC-20 still going strong in 2025 with a MegaCart from Denial.
I think my parents bought it for me in 1983. 42 years.. crazy.
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My first computer that I bought myself was a Dell Inspiron laptop that I bought in 2000. It was about $1,500 if I remember correctly, and had 256 MB of RAM. Sounded like a plane about to take off every time you turned it on, the fans were stupid loud.
The first computer my parents bought was in the late '80s/early 90s that ran MS-DOS. I don't remember the brand name, but my brother and I used to play "Castle Adventure" on it. We drew maps of the screens on paper notepads to make our own cheat sheets.
Castle Adventure
I played this on a Visual Commuter (with no LCD?). Amber monitor with nice long phosphor persistence. My grandmother loved to point out the typos... "You are in a Cooridor."
Macintosh 128k, followed by an Apple ]|[
ZX spectrum.Fucking loved it.
I had 386 pc with ms-dos and windows 3.0 but soon I switched it to Amiga 1200 and I must say, it was stunning computer compared to pc.
We were poor, but my mom got me one of these. Ran into the mem limit multiple times, but those were good days banging on that. This thing and C64 magazine.
Mine is a bit embarrassing. The first computer that was actually mine was an ACER desktop computer that had Windows Vista on it. The memes about Vista aren't exaggerating. It was quite possible the most unstable OS I've ever used. The concentration of blue screens is unmatched to this day and it was a horrible RAM hog
Apple IIs were in my school but my first computer at home was a 486 sx 33mhz from Midwest Micro
I still have my first PC. It's not the first one our family had, that was an old Macintosh and a DOS after that. But this is the first one I bought and built. It still runs, on windows XP. It's a nice time capsule. It still has Medal of Honor Allied Assault on it.
Gateway 2000 with Windows 95. I do not know which specific configuration (I was too young). I do remember the games I had though: Tyrian 2000, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, C&C, HoM3, I-war, Flight Simulator 95, LBA 2 and Jersey Devil. Half of them were copies I got from a neighbour that owned a cd-r.
Mine was a ZX Spectrum, my father bought it for me when I was 12 years old, good times haha :D
I honestly don't know what kind of computer it was. It was something my dad brought home from work when they were going to throw it out, so it was old even when I had it in the early 90s. It ran DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive, and a lovely orange monochrome monitor. I used it to write my little stories and play crappy console games. Good times.
Technically a commodore vic-20 but I remember the c64 better
Same! I recently received a big box of Vic-20 tapes, very exciting.
S100 bus kit computer, a Polymorphic Polly 88.
Woah. That's seriously old school. We had a C64 and then a DOS clone.
What do you program?
As late as 2018, I know of punch tape CNC still running production using rs-232 to optical out in the tape head.
For that machine, I wrote a "John Conway's game of LIFE" that used the screen memory to hold the life array. Nowadays I rock an i5 running Linux.
Commodore VIC20
Had a random desktop from a mall computer shop that ran Windows ME!
Before that we had some 486 machines with 40MB HDD and Windows 3.5 and IBM DOS...
My first computer that was mine though was a Dell D610 I believe. Lasted 8 years.
I first had an old (forgot which year) Dell Latitude:
Commodore 64
Texas Instruments TI/99a
Timex TC2068. It's a Portuguese revision of the Timex TS2068 which is itself a bad ZX Spectrum clone.
Commodore 64. I fell in love with Wizard of Wor before we got the family computer, and I felt pretty lucky for having a floppy drive. I also used to play a good bunch of Atari 2600 clone at a family member, if that counts.
First at home was dad's IBM AT in 1983 or so. Then in 1985 it was one of early Macintoshes, later upgraded to 512kB RAM. Then a Mac SE.
My own first was a Siemens 80386 around 1988 running Windows 3.
First one I used was a Commodore 64.
First home computer was an original Macintosh.
First one I bought for myself was a Performa 6290.
So many crusty grey beards in this thread. I love it.
Another Commodore 64 here.
C64 gang rise up!
The first computer I had for myself was an MSI gaming laptop with a GTX 950m GPU. It was pretty shitty. Overheated immediately, so when rendering only the first two frames went quickly, but then it slowed to a crawl. Same with games. Everything ran badly on it because it would just jump to 99°C and immediately get throttled. Damn thing idled at nearly 60°C.
The first computer I remember my family having was one of those very colourful Mac desktop computers.
apple IIc
edit - that was the first computer in my home as a kid. i think the first computer i used was a commodore at school.
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TRaSh 80 squad in the house. My uncle was a nerd and gave it to me thereby fostering my inner nerd. 2 floppy drives of goodness.
My dad was the nerd who fostered my inner nerd, we had a tape drive though.
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