First compy you used?

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Most likely an IBM PC/AT (286), but I can't be entirely sure. At the time I was less concerned with the model and more concerned with playing games on it. But I remember for sure the first game I ever played - Alley Cat! For those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyAngaNVx5Q

The first computer I used was a Radio Shack TRS 80



A few years later I was using the HP85 for data acquisition when I worked at Frequency Electronics Inc. back in the late 1980s.

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The first computer I ever owned was a BSR 486SX 20mhz with 4 Mb of memory. I bought it along with a large software bundle
from a mail-order yuppie surplus outlet: DAK.

First one I ever used was an Alpha Micro minicomputer, using a teletype with heat-sensitive paper as an interface. (Gods below, what a clumsy way to communicate!) Then I was exposed to the Apple II and TRS-80 CoCo in the college library.

First one I owned was a Timex-Sinclair, the little one that looked like a thin hardback with a membrane keyboard. 2k onboard memory, but I had the 16k expansion pack. Also had a Commodore VIC-20 for a little while.

In the AF, I worked on an Amdahl mainframe, and owned a Commodore 64 (which I used, among other things, to host a BBS called the Time Warp, in Omaha - if you were in the area at the time, I was Timmorn Yelloweyes).

Good heavens, what primitive machines I used to operate...

First I ever used was an IBM in Elementary or Primary, unknown model. It was set up so that we were in some sort of program, likely edit. You were to raise your hand when finished, and then it'd be noisily printed out by a dot matrix. And then came the fruit macs.

As for the first computer that I bought with my own money? This machine next to me, from, used-pcs.com. Dell Optiplex 780 slim form factor, with a brand new keyboard that I'm still getting used to, connected up to the first flatscreen monitor in the household, a Dell 2007WFP (Analog).

As for the first computer I owned, it was a hand me down, my parents gave me a Dell Optiplex G1 that they had been using as their computer, with a measly 4GB hard drive that I broke due to a hard drop onto concrete by accident, so it was replaced with a 20 GB. She was a good machine, with a Pentium Celeron 400mhz, with 256 MB of RAM, a Sound Blaster Live, and a Matrinox Millenium video card that boasted 8 megabytes of video ram! She's been retired and scrapped since then, but I'll miss her dearly.

I actually tried to install Windows ME on it, that was a wonderful waste of time; I quickly downgraded back when it turned out nothing was compatible with anything anymore.

I actually recall that at some point, I had a Diamond Stealth video card. I was actually quite interested in the tech demo that was on the disk.

first compy i USED? radio shack trs 80, circa 1978. long dry spell between that and 1986 when i got to play with an amiga. another long dry spell before i finally got my own 1993 leading edge ["bleeding edge"] 386 with a whopping 4 megs of RAM and a 120 MB hard drive. it was slow and buggy but so was DOS/W3.1. my first .wav editor was soundforge 1.0 and wave for windows. it took forever to do the simplest edits, i'd hit CTRL-X and go outside for some fresh air, and hope it didn't crash when i got back to it.

I bought an IBM Think Pad in '97 for a thousand. Floppy, with no CD drive. 120 MHz clock speed with 1 gig of hard drive. I believe the RAM was 32 (?) maybe 64 IDK which. Of course Windows 95 OS.

Edit: I used a 386 in the late 80s.

You make me feel quite young, using computers before I was ever born!

The first computer I used was a windows 95, with a turbo button that made it go from 50 to 150 MHz. It was a Intel sth. I think my grandmother still has it

I feel like I am more compy-savvy than most people my age; or at least, I had a head start than the other guys.

VIC 20, for the most part (learned to type pounding code and it shows, it all looks good, till you read it, lol), although a DEC main frame, really was the first. The IBM main frame was in pieces all around the surrounding rooms as we toured the "new" DEC and it was sweet, yes it was. Those hard drives were a sight to see, had to be as big around as a damn washing machines insides and air cooled and multiplatered. But.. I thought I had met god when we changed from tape drive on the Vic to a floppy drive, my god, what speed ;p What will they think of next?

Eee, I feel young here as well.
I had used a few of the dual-floppy/no-hdd PCs as a kid and some sort of 386 but I was more interested in playing games.

Around 7 or 8 (circa 1995) I had a 120 MHz Pentium with 24 MB of RAM, 800 MB HDD and Windows 95. Finally started to get interested in hardware specs