What was your first computer?

[jayn_j]

Another one with a PDP-8/L. This was in my High School for the first 2 years (1972-1973), the replaced with a HP-1000(?).

I thought I was the only one here that remembered the old DEC stuff.

Nah, we used PDP-8s throughout college (73-77). I have many happy memories, including designing a centronics interface for the computer. Also being offered a position as staff on the TSS-8 shared system after breaking security for the third time.

 

[TNGTony]

The first computer I actually bought was an Atari 800 computer (now with 48k RAM!) with a cassette tape drive and printer that printed 80 CPM (in one direction, no printing on carriage return!) Later I got a 5 1/4" Disk Drive for it. I still have everything in my closet if anyone wants to buy it! It all works great. I even have a couple of unopened ribbons for the printer.

The first computer I used on a regular basis was an Apple II in 1977/78 at my high school. I was one of three students in the school allowed to use it. After that I used my brother's Atari 400.

 

[stanleyjohn]

1-Commodore 64
2-TSR-80
3-Back in the days before AOL made it big

 

[skyviewmark]

Commodore Vic-20.. Texas Instrument T/I 99. Then a commodore 64 with two floppy drives and a very slow modem.... Also got a Commodore 128 but by then it was obsolete..

 

[berck]

1) TRS-80
2) TRS-80
3) 1992

 

[jimdandyvi]

The first transportable. An Osborne 26 lbs. 4" screen.

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[SatelliteGAL]

Tandy TRS80 Model II
IBM 360 - computer programming school
Um.... so long ago that I don't remember!

 

[mike123abc]

1) What was the first computer you have owned?
IBM PC XT

2) What was the first computer you used?
PDP 11 - 6th grade, we dialed into it from school with 300 baud...

3) When did you first have an email account?
1983

 

[patrick80639]

1) ADAM computer
2) "
3) 1993, AOL

 

[wa6rht]

TRS-80 Model 1 Level 2 4k
Same
ATT

 

[televisionarchives]

Mine was an IBM PC around 1987. I want my money back. When I was in North Carolina last year I found one on display at a collectible store. My first email account was AOL I think. Now I could give you a whole bunch of stories about how stupid I was when I first using one. And I love gadgets and electronics. But I was so overwhelmed with my first computer.

 

[Hall]

1) Some version of Commodore 64, from the early 80s. Looks just like this:

We also had a cassette tape drive for it.

2) ^^^

3) Does a BBS system count ? I'm pretty sure it only worked within that BBS or possibly within some sort of BBS-pseudo network. Otherwise, it would be a prodigy.net e-mail account.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I had been thinking of actual email addresses that would go outside of a system, so yeah, prodigy.net counts. I am pretty sure I was on bitnet (the academic version of the internet in the days when we talked about gophers and only tended to access it from VAX mainframes and the like) before I had an AOL account.

 

[Hall]

Scott may know more about this, but in the BBS days, I think different systems, i.e. Joe's BBS, D&D BBS, OHIO-BBS (all made up names ) could link together and users could e-mail amongst those systems.

 

[walker69]

1. Timex Sinclair
2. Apple
3. Mid 1990's

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Scott may know more about this, but in the BBS days, I think different systems, i.e. Joe's BBS, D&D BBS, OHIO-BBS (all made up names ) could link together and users could e-mail amongst those systems.

I don't remember that. Been a long time since I used a BBS. Those good old 1200 baud rate days.

 

[Hall]

You must be older than me... Modems were TWICE AS FAST when I got into it: 2400 baud !!

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[dfergie]

Hah...with my C64 I had a 300 baud?, upgraded to a 1200 baud which was blazingly fast... there was a local BBS, but for better stuff had to go long distance to Albuquerque... I started with a cassette and got a 1571 drive (the C128)before upgrading to the C128D with the internal...

 

[meStevo]

My first computer:

Laser 128 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



w/ a Monochrome monitor, and a subscription to softdisk.

Then mom bought a friend's 486SX/25. Later we upgraded the processor a 486DX4/75. Built every computer since. I remember her buying a 2.5gb HDD for that PC for almost $300.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

You must be older than me... Modems were TWICE AS FAST when I got into it: 2400 baud !!

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I was a happy camper the day the 2400 baud ones came out. Then the 56K, oh my...