What was your FIRST computer system?

Question

Describe the experence as well!

I don't quite remember the make/and model to well but mine I belive was a Tandy model 1000...something. Anyway I had fun with it, it actually did have a GUI, so I learned how to type on it, the games I had I could never figure out how to install, but hey have to start somewhere right?

Answer 1

atari 400...had the hard plastic keyboard, had to really PRESS the keys.
you could play cartridge games or program in BASIC. later, they added external floppy drives, cassette drives (to store those BASIC programs you spent hours pounding out, only to find that once the tape stretched the computer would never read them again!)
from there i got a bargain on an atari 130XE system which was fully compatible with all the peripherals I already had.
finally in 1988 I paid a grand for an old XT, 8088-based system, which everyone told me i was insane for purchasing with the extravagant FULL 640 KB of memory (only 576K was required), AND a MASSIVE 20MB hard drive (10 was the standard back then)!

hope this helps!
pe@ce

Answer 2

TRS-80 Model I Level II.

In those days, the Apple owners gave new meaning to the word arrogant.

As today, they all ranted how superior their machines were. But, I knew I wanted my kids to use it, too. So, I went out and bought the manuals.

The Apple manual said, in essence, "If you are not an experienced programmer, stop, go to your local community college and take programming courses, then come back to this page."

The TRS-89 said, "If you are not an experienced programmer, start here and work all the exercises and we will teach you how to program. If you are an experienced programmer, skip ahead to Chapter ?."

So, I got the TRS-80, and saved nearly a 1,000 dollars.

The cassette drive was a terrible nuisance. And, it was B&W instead of color. But, it was within my budget, and I had a lot of fun programming with it.

The TRS-80 was actually not that inferior to the Apple, except as noted. The problem was, programmers and engineers bought Apples, so if they asked a TRS-80 owner some technical question about their machines, most of them had no idea what they were talking about. So, the Apple jackasses erroneously assumed the TRS-80's didn't do much which was false. The only real problem was, as I said, the TRS-80 owners knew very little about the inner workings, they just used them.

Answer 3

Tandy 1000 with a 5 1/4 floppy drive, no hard drive. It ran DOS off of the 5 1/4 floppy drive and after the OS was loaded, replaced the floppy with one containing WordStar and I was typing my papers away. It worked and did the job.

Answer 4

My very first computer was a model made by HP, and while admitting that it served my purpose while going to school, it was a big mistake. I found it to be the worst piece or garbage that I had ever bought. Since then, I donated it to the school where I attended and graduated, and replaced it with the one that I've found to be far superior in every way, including serviceability, and that would be a Dell.

Answer 5

Atari 520 ST and Amiga 500

Answer 6

The First Hobby and Home Computers was in year 1970 : Scelbi, Mark-8, Altair, IBM 5100

Answer 7

Packard-Bell. Interesting, it had a "true" floppy disk drive, a 5 1/4". You remember! The floppys that were in a envelope sleeve! It also had a HUGH 60 Mb HDD.

Answer 8

Pentium 1
50mhz
10 inch color CRT
( i was 6 years old and it was in the mid 1990s)
my current one kicks butt!
AMD FX-57 at 3ghz
2gbs of OCZ RAM
2 Geforce 7800GTs
and my other setup is
Intel Pentium D 805 Presler dual core @ 3.2ghz
1gb of RAM
6600 GT SE Series
260 gb hdd


( you can tell which one is gaming)

Answer 9

My dad had a Tandy and my first was an Apple IIe

Answer 10

A custom Intel Pentium 486 66Mhz, some 480mb hard drive, that's all I can remember.