First Computer Ever Used/Owned?

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When I was born, the family already had an Apple III, an Atari 800, & an Atari 2600. Dad bought the Apple for work (but kept at home) because the school corp wouldn't. Before I came along, my parents had parties where friends would come over to play on the Atari 2600.

We still own the Ataris. Dad gave the Apple III, in the early 00s, to another new teacher. There was software the school wouldn't buy, but the old Apple still worked & printed just fine.

Dad enjoyed computers over doing stuff by hand (physical rolodex vs digital contacts management), so we have a string of PCs starting with a 286 too. Dad didn't hold me back on the PCs, so it became my thing. I still remember staying up all night while installing Win95a with him.

I also had a TI-85 & TI-92 to futz around with in high school. I programmed on them, but they were a far second to programming on a PC. Perl, C, etc were more fun than Basic.

I gave up this special interest around fifteen years ago. I still futz around some, but it's mostly to fix or minimize frustrations. (This is all on PCs. I don't get along with Apple products.)

am late to the game ..Windows computer ..i think ...running win 95....many upgrades to 98 then a 486 sx processor
eventually the unknown 586 .....a rather slow almost Pentium . Win 7 programs , then xp then win8, I hate ..
A win 10 laptop , that I gave up on..Then a E reader type, by adobe , I think? then lightening struck the telephone pole outside. burnt up the win 7 running in a old win 95 case. many upgrades. Gave up and got me a android tablet .
But older brother got me started trying to learn on a Timex Sinclair. Sorry but am not a fan of the virtual or Puter worlds . Give me Pen and Paper, and on bad days a calculator too. Whatever happened yo the days of smoke signals and carrier pigeons?

First used?
2005, whatever was before Windows XP. I don't know what kind of PC.

It a computer in school.
The very first computer class I ever been into.



First owned?
2008, something i3 processor desktop with Windows XP. No internet until half a year after.

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some game thing

at the taxoffice there were the 'terminals' to the big national scrutinizer \in the netherlands
it was a bit of a game when all the vat-declarations came in, to type in much & fast , then the central computer would shut down, at least for hours, and then repeat

Was there a Windows NT. operating system ? ever??

Thank you ....... has been awhile now . memory cobwebs..

First ever used was probably the Apple IIs at school.
First owned is more complicated...we borrowed a B&W Macintosh for a long time around '92-'93.
Technically, first owned was probably a Mattel Aquarius that I found at a yard sale at some point. No games or tape drive or anything though, so all I could do is type BASIC into it and not be able to save it. I ended up disassembling it later and I have no idea where the parts went.
First real computer owned was IBM PC Jr. around '96.

The first computer I ever owned was a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 which I bought in 2001.