First computer?

Question

What was the first computer you had?

Mine was a sinclair zx81.

Ahh, the joys of programming your first game and watching a blob move across the screen..........
Arrrrrrrgh, the fustration of nearly finishing a program only for that damn ram pack to spit its dummy out. (the oldies out there will know what I'm talking about)

@ Skullian: Yeah I'm with you on that one tho I was slightly posher and had a commodore Amiga lol

@ Spear: You old bugger lol. Yeah I remember the ZX80. Cheap n nasty white thing with a blue touch sensitive keyboard.

Answer 1

Ah... 1K of ram, input was via paper tape reader on a teletype, and ran at a whopping .5Mhz (or so.) The days of the Altair 680.

I had to write a "mini BASIC" program in machine language and everything had to fit in the 1K ram!

Answer 2

An intellivision, bought by my dad not just for the games but the promised expansion pack that never appeared, I used BBCs at school and a Spectrum at home on which I learned BASIC (loved that thing, it still works and occasionally I play old games on it, anyone remember head over heels?), then went to an Amiga (Games, C, Pascal, Assembly) then hopped to a 386 25Mhz with win 3.1. Its strange but I have the fondest memories of speccy and the Amiga, when I went to PCs it all goes a bit greyish. Not that I don't like by core 2 duo laptop and I am one of the few that like Vista but my machine has no personality!!!


Nice Nick by the way I wonder why there are two of us???

Answer 3

The first computer I used was a 48k Sinclair Spectrum. From there I moved on to a spectrum +2 and I really enjoyed working on that (I Still have it!!) but my PC now is a Pentium 4 3.2gig processor with 2gb ram and 2x 120gb hard disks!
How I miss the old days sometimes!

Answer 4

The first new computer I owned was a IBM 8086 4.77mhz with 512kb of RAM. It did not have a hard but rather to 8" floppies and cartridges that the programs came loaded on. It had a 150baud (.15 Kbps) external modem and a yellow monochrome monitor. I did upgrade to EGA video card and a color 13" monitor before I stopped using it. I was running MP/C instead of DOS.

Answer 5

Commodore 64 (though I frequently used my friends TI 99 4/A.

I found the C64 fun to program (even dabbled in assembly language)

(then I got a Commodore 128, Macintosh Performa, Gateway 486 class, custom built Pentium class, custom built p2 class - and too many since to mention.

Answer 6

hi colin,mine was the zx-81 with a (wait for it) 16k expansion pack,and i even payed a tenner for a flight simulator for it,it was just loads of moving black pixels,but revolutionary in the day
then i had a commodore 64,this was a great machine for its day,the games were great,especially "impossible mission 2",and "jet set willy"
then i had a amiga 1200 with my first hard drive(200mb),however considering most games were on floppys this was equivelent to a 120gb drive in todays standards
the amiga was a great machine and the first to be really used for spreadsheets and word processing,my amiga 1200 cost £500 in 1992
my first p.c was a tiny desktop running windows 2.1 and using a pentium mmx(1) running at 166mhz,16mb edo ram,800mb hard drive and a qaud speed cd rom,this is laughable at todays standards however in its day it was extremely good
i now have a pentium 4 hyperthreaded(3.2ghz),2gb ddr ram,2 x 120gb hard drives,nvidia geforce 7600gt(256mb),19" widescreen lcd monitor..how things have changed !
good luck colin !

Answer 7

My first was a TRS-80C Color Computer. It had 4K ram, no disk drives, no monitor, for $400.00. They later came out with a 5 1/4" disk drive for $600.00. When I upgraded the ram to 16 K I thought that was all anyone would ever need. The year was 1981.

Answer 8

yep Sinclair ZX81 followed by the Sinclair Spectrum, and a commodore 64, and we used the old BBC computers at school!


now I feel OLD!!

Answer 9

Acer with a Windows early program. I worked with DOS for so long I thought this was heaven. Taught the Nephew on it too.
Lots of teaching games and word processing instead of a typewriter.
I still am on Windows but other half is all Apple. I am confused learning their prompts so late in the game. But adore all I see he can do.
TY.

Answer 10

Texas Instrument