What was the first computer you remember having?

Question

Back in the early 80's my Dad bought a Vic 20. The games were on regular cassettes (which made copying them easy). I played "Snackman" a lot which was like "Pacman". You hooked it up to a tv and could even program it to do stuff in BASIC. My father even had a Vic 20 computer club in the basement.

Answer 1

That's so cool. When I was 17, in 1982, my first computer was also the Commodor Vic 20! I couldn't afford the Commodor 64 but I loved my Vic 20. Learned alot about 'peeking' and 'poking'...lol Oh, and 'syntax error'...lol I had the cassette drive as well. It was like the only option you could get that was affordable...lol :-)

Answer 2

My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 followed by the Commodore 64. My first game station console was a Montgomery Wards Pong game, with 4 different versions of Pong and 2 paddles attached to the console with long brown wires.

Answer 3

I too had the vic 20, the the 64, TRS-80, then a Wang! Eventually moved "up" to a Heathkit Zenith!

I had a game that was the Apollo moon shot, it was on a 5-1/4 floppy and the external drive took up half the desk as i remember it!

Answer 4

The Vic 20 was our first family computer.
The only game it came with was Blitz, and we all used to play it, sitting round the TV taking turns to push the space bar!
I then got PacMan, which was actually on a cartridge that plugged into the back so you didn't have to wait for it to load up.
The first computer I had was a Spectrum 128k +2 with the built-in tape deck. Spent hours playing Chucky Egg.

Answer 5

A 10CPS (110 baud) portable teletype with an acoustic coupler.

Everyone thought I was Mr. High Tech (although I did have duct tape holding the case together since I rescued it from the trash at work, but it worked). I recently found a picture of it, it looks like something out of a cheap sci-fi movie from the 50s. Before that I had IBM 029 punch cards which I used on a CDC Cyber 76 mainframe.

Answer 6

I had a Commodore 64 for use with a WERSI digital keyboard, which came out in the early 1980's. It was as slow as molasses to load even one 5-inch floppy disk (1.2mb) but it continued to work well into the 1990's. The disk drive needed the occasional tuneup, and the repair shops that could do this became as scarce as hen's teeth.

Answer 7

When I was 2 (I'm 15 now, almost 16) we had a computer. I can't remember what kind it was but it was old. We never used it, ever. So it just sat there. But I was proud that I could say we owed a computer.
My first memory was when my father and mother were getting a divorce and my dad was taking the couch.. I thought he was gonna take the computer too so I ran to the door and locked him out.

Answer 8

A Timex. (Not the watch - that was the model of computer.) Suffice it to say, the graphics on the original Atari were spectacular in comparison.

It actually matches the description of your first computer. It had cassettes instead of disks.

Answer 9

We had an old Kaypro with the giant 5 1/2 inch floppys. That computer was the best!

Answer 10

Atari 800