Your first computer?

Mine was a Trash-80 Coco2. It had a tape deck instead of a disk drive, joysticks, and a cartridge slot for awesome games like Downland and Dungeons of Daggorath! Though I spent more time curled up with the Extended Color Basic than anything.

Amiga 500.

I blew friends away when my parents bought that thing. They were amazed with the "say" program in particular.

I remember Leisure Suite Larry was something like 13 disks...

Kaypro, my brother taught me how to make simple Ascii animations with it. I even got into a useless science fair for them, people were amazed and that was it.

My first computer was a AMD K6-2 500Mhz processor with a 20GB HDD and 128MB RAM. My Grandmother picked the computer up when I was up town with her on December 23rd, 2000. It costed $1800, yeah, computers were more expensive in those days, and that wasn't even overly fast then! I had always wanted a computer as a kid, but until then, my parents couldn't afford it.

The first computer I ever used however, was a Commodore PET we had in Kindergarten. When I got into Grade 1, our school's computer lab had 386's with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, a lot of good memories playing dos games in school, like "The Yukon Trail".:)

A 486 if I'm not mistaken, when they were knew, my dad blew a fortune on that thing. It wasn't mine though, it was family computer. It became mine after my dad bought a pentium 2.

I don't go back that far, my parents couldn't buy me a computer until I was in high school. We got it from a seller on the new awesome internet auction site, ebay! It cost 1200 or so (not including monitor) and was a generic homebuilt system.

Specs:
Cyrix 200mhz 686 (fastest processor at the time!)
32 MB EDO Ram (32? That's insane!)
Diamond 4mb Stealth card (WOW!)
Sound Blaster Awe 32
12x? CD Drive (speed may be wrong, but it was fast!)
28.8 Modem (maybe someday I will upgrade to 33.6!)
2.5 GB hard drive (WTF? The computer can only recognize 2.1!)
Windows 95! (which I formated and installed DOS instead)

I actually kept that computer for a long time, upgrading parts one at a time as money and new technology became available. The final build had a 1.2 GHZ Athlon with the first ATI Radeon card in it. I still have the original hard drive in a DOS box.

Well, since an 8-bit home computer was already mentioned, Apple //e. Sure everyone had one, it was still a nice computer.

Now all I need is to get off my ass and buy a super serial card, so I can start putting fun games onto diskettes. The current selection of games is lacking and business programs aren't that fun. :p

A Tandy 1000, given to us by extended family circa 1994. It had a few games installed on its hard drive, and surprisingly we were still able to find some compatible games for it at retail, but it was mainly used by my dad for typing and printing.

Thanks to whoever programmed Overkill for supporting the 16 color mode. :)

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Originally Posted by Guntz

Apple //e. Sure everyone had one.

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Nobody in my area ever owned one of those. As a matter of fact, I've never seen a single computer manufactured by Apple in my entire life with my own two eyes, save for my friend's iPad.

You're in an isolated part of Canada where nobody cares about your province. :p

Apple Mac Plus. We had a Commodore Vic 20 at my house when I was a kid, but technically it was my brother's.

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Hell yeah. :love: First computer I ever used(my father had this computer before he gave it to me a few years ago), and I still use it to this day as a light DOS gaming machine. Its original specs were:

-25MHz AMD 386SX
-4MB of RAM
-20MB hard drive
-Integrated Oak Technologies VGA graphics card
-Single 3.5" floppy drive

Now, a few things have changed:

-The original 20MB hard drive crashed and has been replaced by a 1GB hard drive(only about 300MB can be used because of some configuration issues in the BIOS)
-A 12X Mitsumi CD-ROM drive has been added
-The original floppy drive was dying and has been replaced
-An ESS AudioDrive ES1869F sound card has been added(originally put in an Audio Excel AV300, but that card has a lot of problems, so I swapped it out for the ES1869F - I'm not going to put anything newer than a SoundBlaster Pro 2.0 in there, so I left my remaining SoundBlaster 16s aside)

When I was a kid, before my parents bought a Pentium III-based computer, I'd play Solitaire A LOT under Windows 3.1 on that thing, and I had a lot of fun on it. Nowadays, for the DOS stuff I run, it's not quite adequate, but I still would not give up this computer. Still looking to get a 486SLC to slap onto it so I can get better performance out of the computer.

I believe it was a Mac Plus. I remember playing a lot of Dark Castle and Number Munchers.

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The first machine I used was a 386 turbo. It had an SVGA monitor. I spend a few amazing years playing Rogue, Links, Mario is Missing... It was great.