Your first computer

[xera]

Casio PB-700, IIRC

That's where it all began

http://www.eprom9.comeze.com/CASIO PB-700.png

 

[Dion Disco]

Sinclair ZX 81, Vic 20, Sharp MZ80B
Then the Microsoft era started with the XT
Golden days ;-)

 

[RoganDawes]

Sinclair ZX 81, Vic 20, Sharp MZ80B
Then the Microsoft era started with the XT
Golden days ;-)

Yip, the Sinclair ZX81 was where I got my start, too. 1kB RAM! (But I had the 16kB expansion pack!)

 

[kilos]

286-12Mhz with 1MB RAM on Seagate ST225 20Mb Drive with EGA Display played Falcon 3.0 Flight Sim

 

[absynth]

My first was also a ZX81.

 

[Wall]

386 I think. I can't remember clearly, I was only 7-8 at the time! used to spend hours and hours on it

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

386 I think. I can't remember clearly, I was only 7-8 at the time! used to spend hours and hours on it

Sim City! I played that game on our old 386 non stop.

 

[Wall]

anyone remember dangerous dave?

 

[shakes1]

Atari XL... Mine had Basic built in, so I could code immediately on boot. Aaa those cassettes...

Oooo remember this:
10 Print "Hello world"
20 End

 

[DominionZA]

Atari XL... Mine had Basic built in, so I could code immediately on boot. Aaa those cassettes...

Oooo remember this:
10 Print "Hello world"
20 End

I remember that. I used GW Basic on the Ohio Scientific. Later I moved to QBasic. That on the XT I think. Memory a bit fuzzy. Too long ago. My old man would probably remember (he taught me - I was 15).

 

[AfricanTech]

Zx Spectrum
,
,
,
,
Turbo XT with 10 meg HD, Hercules Graphics card and an Amber screen.

 

[Dion Disco]

Yip, the Sinclair ZX81 was where I got my start, too. 1kB RAM! (But I had the 16kB expansion pack!)

The 16 K memory upgrade, cost more than the computer - if I remember correctly

 

[MickZA]

Burroughs B21, set me back R1.5K circa 1982 on a special deal for employees (megabucks back then), complete with COBOL, PASCAL & FORTRAN compilers.

http://classictech.wordpress.com/tag/burroughs/

 

[BigAl-sa]

Burroughs B21, set me back R1.5K circa 1982 on a special deal for employees (megabucks back then), complete with COBOL, PASCAL & FORTRAN compilers.

http://classictech.wordpress.com/tag/burroughs/

@Mick, you must have been at Burroughs/Unisys around the same time as me!

First computer I did serious work on was an HP9816. First home computer was a Spectravideo 328 - got into Turbo Pascal and Assembler on that. Massive 64kB of RAM it had!

 

[Stefanmuller]

Zx Spectrum
,
,
,
,
Turbo XT with 10 meg HD, Hercules Graphics card and an Amber screen.

Ours might have been the same, Hercules graphics and amber screen. Used to play Kings Quest 1, California Games, Digger and Golden Axe. Used floppies. This was around 1991.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

ZX Spektrum and Commodore 64 in the 80's
286 with 20MB HDD, that I partitioned into 2x 10MB partitions

 

[herbertk]

I had a Commodore 64 (MANY fond memories), then a ZX spectum with a casette player for saving my Basic games haha...

 

[bromster]

Nostalgic thread. I'm still young in the game though. My dad helped me build a DX2-66 when I was in primary school. They didn't even have CPU fans. Just a small green heatsink. Popped in 16mb of simm memory, Sound Blaster Awe64, Sis 6202 (loool I still remember cramming extra memory into the slots on the card!) and a 100mb hard drive. Hooked it up to a Never 14" CRT and Bob's your uncle.

Been a nerd ever since.

 

[atomcrusher]

First one was ZX Spectrum, 48k.

Wow .. impressive! My ZX Spectrum was only the 16k one

 

[howardb]

Started with a Z80 - my friend's dad and I built it from scratch!
Then onto the ZX81, Speccy, 286, 386, etc. (the speccy still works fine)
Certainly the golden days...