What was your first Computer?

[Firthy2002]

First was an A500+ in 1991. Cartoon Classics pack.
At first I was a bit miffed that it wasn't a Sega MegaDrive, but I soon got over it after a few trips to the car boot...
Got hooked on Lemmings for a long while.

For the first year or so it was just in it's vanilla configuration running on a portable TV we had, but the following year it got kitted out with an extra 1MB Chip RAM, external Roctec floppy drive and GVP Impact II sidecar with 8MB of Fast RAM and an 80MB Quantum Fireball hard drive. Also added were a Philips CM8833 MkII monitor (with a free copy of Lotus 2!) and Citizen Swift 9 for actual serious work.

It lived a good long life, we even kept it after acquiring our A1200, although it saw far less use and developed a few faults before dying in 2000.

However the first machine I bought myself with my own money was a C64C in 2003. Bought as a big bundle off Ebay with a datasette, 1541 and a ton of cassette games. Still got it and at the moment it's my primary C64.

 

[AmiNeo]

It was either a ZX Spectrum 48k (Rubber keys) or a C64. Don't recall which came first, but I do recall having both at a very young age. Fond memories.

 

[Merlin]

Mine was a 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 'dead flesh' keys and a Kempston joystick interface. It used to be set up on the carpet at my Dad's and when anyone walked past it, it crashed, so I named it 'Brain Damage' and marked it with it's name in black Dymo tape (that is soooo '80s).

I then had an Atari 400 and hated it for the 'plink-plink' horrible membrane keyboard so much that I barely used it.

My life changed forever when my dad got me a Commodore 64. I still have that same machine today. The C= bit me big time and I then went on to a 2Mb Amiga 500 Plus, that I swapped for an A600 that had 2Mb memory and I fitted a 40mb laptop hard drive into it. That A600 was the dog's danglies for a couple of years and I wrote my ONC final year assignment up on it.

 

[fatbob_gb]

First would have been my ZX81 which was very quickly upgraded with a massive 16K.

Then it was replaced with a 16K Spectrum, that ZX81 was the last computer that I ever sold.

A 48K Spectrum & 128K Spectrum followed then I got a TI99/4A, Acorn Electron & a Sinclair QL.

Amiga 500 came next then a few 2nd hand machines (Camputers Lynx, MSX, TRS80).

The Amiga 1200 was bought a day before it was officially released then quite a few throw away PCs have been built & several more old computers bought but the Spectrum & 1200 are the machines that still get the most use & I would rather do without a PC than lose my Amigas & Spectrums.

 

[Tuxbar81]

ZX81+16K memory... GREAT!
When killed... an another ZX81 + 16K + High Resolution board.
After a ZX-Spectrum 48K, a cool experience!
and the revelation with the C64 with datassette... and one 1541... and one more 1541 because it was simplier for hummm...

The worst experience for me was the 520ST. I have kept it around 6 month... and I have bought quickly my first A500.
Some months after, I have bought a new A500 and a CSA Mega Midget Racer + 8Mb. What board it was!

My last Amiga was the A4000 with A3640. I had bought the Opalvision graphic board... and I'm always waiting for the Roaster chip...

I forget the CD32 I have always today!

 

[Hivernaal]

An A2000 with A2090 board (20 Mo HD on it) and a PC card (HD was splitted in 2 partitions, one for the 2000 the other one for the PC card).
My dream to 3D came true with this computer (Real 3D).

 

[bagpuss22]

1K ZX81 purchased from W.H. Smith on launch day! £69.95

 

[statix138]

Still have my Commodore 64 packed away somewhere. I should really dig it out.

 

[samaron]

My first computer were around 1996. Can't remember the specs, but it was a PC running Windows 95. Far from anything fancy. Did run the games I wanted at the time.

 

[voyager_1701e]

Good to see some VIC20's in there!

I don't know if it was my first computer, but I played Omega Race on my dad's VIC20 to death whilst I was in primary school. And also the cartridge based driving game (cant remember its name)

Probably my first computer though, was a C64. Once Id saved and saved for a floppy drive (a clone of a 1541, that floppy drive was a revelation of speed and storage!)...I played Bards Tale 3 to death too! I loves Eagles nest before that and the classic Beach Head game too.

Those days of exciting new computers are loooong gone.....

 

[Hellraiser]

My first computer was a ZX 48k with rubber keys which i borrowed from an uncle of mine...my first bought computer was an CPC 6128 with a colour monitor!

 

[rgrocha]

Mine was an Spectrum 48+, not the old and outdated rubber key one ;-)

 

[sprcorreia]

My first one was a 8088 computer. No HDD, no sound card, Hercules graphics card, monochrome monitor. I've kept the cpu all this years.



The 286 that came next was a different kind of beast. 16MHz, a Paradise VGA card, 20MB HDD, a full lenght ISA card with an extra 1MB, bringing the total RAM to 2MB.

 

[bugpat]

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 128k+2 (the grey one) in 86. Great machine, I loved it.
Kept it 3 years I think, and sold it to a friend, to buy an Atari 520 STF.
Always regretted not having kept it (but I needed the money for the ST).
Today I've got a lot of +2 (my preferred 8 bit machine), and still have my ST (and some others...) :mrgreen:

 

[Frederic_Freakazoid]

First computer in the house was probably an Apple IIe. I don't know if this is correct, but we'd gotten it when some computer guy in my Mom's running club had the hots for her, and it disappeared sometime after she rejected him.

We had something else very briefly that barely worked/overheated a lot and had the wumpus game on a cartridge.. pretty much no idea what that was...

The first computer we officially owned was a C64C (we'd had access to 2 breadbin's previously at our Dad's house on weekends) with no floppy or tape drive. It was an "award" for my brother's good grades. Then when his good grades continued we were supposed to get a floppy drive, but for some reason that didn't happen (at least not right away) and I recall being angry about it.

 

[Hendrik]

It was cold december in 1989 and it was a pure C64. My father made a A/D converter and I used my RFT tape recorder for the first months. Later came the first disk drive and and and...
Now, 25 years later it's a pleasure to play the good old games with my son (5 years) on this machine. He know's step by step how to handle disks and tapes and even the harddrive. I still love it
Hendrik

 

[jack-3d]

It was in 1996/1997 when I finally saved enough money to buy my first computer Amiga 1200, B1230IV, 8 MB RAM, 420 MB HDD.

My first PC was Siemens laptop 486DX4/100, 12 MB RAM bought in 2002 just to be able to do a necessary school programming.

 

[rabindranath72]

Vic-20 for me! Tape only. Jeez I feel old

 

[Narf]

Amstrad 464 plus with mono monitor. I think my grandfather had read something about computers were the future and how kids needed them and talked my mum into getting me one for Christmas. Despite the black and white screen, I loved it but didn't know anyone else that had an Amstrad so got on with own thing. I desperately wanted a disk drive and extra memory but cost was an issue.
One day my dad came home with a CPC 464 and colour monitor. I was chuffed to bit and had them set up side by side, effectively queuing up games.
A few years after moving out from my parents, I went to fetch it only to find my mum had dismissed it as an old computer no-one would want and thrown out the 464plus! An accident during a house move a couple of years later saw the CPC written off too. So after a 12 year break,I'm only just returned to the Amstrad, happily in a position to buy all the bits I wanted way back then

 

[RichyV]

The first would have been a Sinclair ZX81, but it (and its monochrome character-based graphics) lasted less than a year before I purchased a Spectrum 48k - and loved it!