First compy you used?

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A self-explanatory Q.
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I was 2 when I first laid my eyes on a compy, it was an IBM clone. Can't remember who made it, but little did I know it would be the foundation for my tech-savvy self. I used Apple compys during grade school, so I have fond memories of the IIc and IIgs. Good times.....

The first computer I used was in the 1970's. I played the game "23 matches" on a teletype terminal on a mainframe computer; make and model unknown.

My first owned "computer" was a programmable Commodore calculator which allowed around 100 steps to be recorded and executed. Following that a Sinclair ZX81 then a Commodore 64. Then a Cray mainframe (which I didn't own but programmed for the UK dept of transport) then an IBM 360 mainframe. Then IBM PCs and Apple 2 and a Digital tower. Various others followed including a DEC mainframe.

I used to have a computer like that one in Star Trek TOS, the one where the man with the black cat used to say "computer on" and the computer came on and talked to him. Nah, just kidding. My sister had and Apple IIgs which I played around a lot on. I think I got an 8086 machine a little while later.

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a I received as a Christmas present when I was 11. By the summer I was writing my own games. I'm currently a software developer for one of Canada's largest banks. I'm grateful one of my special interest turned out to be useful.

My uncle's Apple II during the Seventies. Played Asteroids, Brick Out and Fly Splay (sic).

The first computer I used was an IBM mainframe via a thing that looked suspiciously like a converted golfball typewriter attached to an old dial telephone.(1980)
From 1981-1983 it was a Sperry UNIVAC via Teletype terminal on the end of a very slow SHARED telephone line.
CASIO FX702P pocket computer (1984 and still use)
1984 - punchcards on another Sperry UNIVAC mainframe - but the n the same building!! Oh the speed ;-P
1985 - 1986 - Teletype terminal on the same mainframe
1986 - M68000 chip in a tower programming M68000 assembler.
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Apple SE (still works)
IIcx
6100/60
2005 - Apple eMac

The first computer I ever used was at school. I don't know the model but it was an old Apple with those giant 5.25" floppy disks, I think it may of been from the Macintosh II line up.

First one I used was an Apple IIe. My mother was a teacher (and still is) and over summer break she could bring home the computers used in her classroom. We would play Oregon Trail on the green monochrome screen and it felt like space-age technology. I think it was that title and to hunt on the game the animals would run along the top of the screen and the player had to hit spacebar to fire a slowly moving bullet to him them.

Me too!

After that came my first PC - a Tandy1000SX. I had 16-colour graphics and nice sound while all my friends had CGA or monochrome graphics and the ear-bleeding PC Squeaker.

I take pride in being the one responsible for Radio Shack Canada selling my special interest, the AdLib sound card!

The first time I used a computer was in 1981, when I was 7 years old. The computer was an IBM XT (if memory serves) and it was at a kids computer camp at Dutchess community college, in Poughkeepsie NY.

Back in 1968 IBM let me learn FORTRAN on a little machine - I can't remember its model number.

My first PC was a Tandy 1000 SL!

Tandy 1000EX

Ironically, the Radio Shack we bought our SX from didn't have any at the time - they lent us an EX until the SX came back into stock. Same machine, except the EX was a nightmare to expand!

Sorry for the double-post. I'm viewing via a kindle3 that gets irritable at times when you hit Back on sites.

Yes the horizontal/stacking expansion card method wasn't their finest example of system design, by any stretch of imagination. I really enjoyed the noisy keyboard though.

The family didn't care for it after a few months of me tinkering with BASIC late at night though.

IBM PS/1