First Computers.

[AKIron]

Atari 400, had a tape drive, around '82. Used to drive my wife nuts playing around with the sound chip late at night.

[Dux]

hehe... we've got the TX-0 sitting just down the hall in the bottom floor of our library.

Personally, my first was a Commodore C64. Awesome memories.

[Kermit de frog]

Wow, I remember now what my first computer was..it was a packard bell as well
486DX2! 66Mhz  which had the math processor built in ...
4MB of Ram with 3 additional on the motherboard.
800MB hard drive
I think I had a 1MB video
14.4K modem at least

tom landry DOS football never did work....I didn't know about memory management in DOS at the time...
Doom was a fun game to play.

[Baitman]

Commodore C64 with printer, floppy, and monitor.

With programs I believe the bill was $1600+

more money than my laptop

 

[alskahawk]

Commodore 128

[A8TOOL]

Mine was a Compaq 92 something that looked like a rocket in 1994-5

I had a problem with it a few days after i bought it so I brought it back to the store. I wanted to return it and have it taken off my credit card. The lady finished the computer work but not the paper work I guess and said she would be right back. i think she ran off to the bathroom. I waited for 15- 20 minutes for her to return and decided I would just keep it. They put a sticker on it when I walked in so I just brought it back home. A friend of mine told me to pull a jumper and put it back in, it worked just fine. The best part was, I never received a bill for it. Think it was $2400

[Nilsen]

Commodore 128

same 

After that the Amiga was what everyone but me got. I was just a kid but i found love in saving and economy. It was at that time i started to save for a house. Dont remember my age but i do remember kids laughing at me for putting money in the bank. Have done so ever since and never borrowed a penny 

[-tronski-]

Atari 800XL
Commodore Vic-20
Commodore 128
Amiga 500 (+ extra 512KB ram!)
486 dx2-66

 Tronsky

[Mickey1992]

TI99-4a and the expansion box a year later.  I think the expansion box was $999.  My parents were pissed when the whole system was a doorstop 4 years later.



After college I got a Gateway 486-66 for around $2000 if I remember.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

same 

After that the Amiga was what everyone but me got. I was just a kid but i found love in saving and economy. It was at that time i started to save for a house. Dont remember my age but i do remember kids laughing at me for putting money in the bank. Have done so ever since and never borrowed a penny 

But you didn't get to play with Amiga either.. 

[Fulmar]

Personally, my first was a Commodore C64. Awesome memories.

Ditto, many days playing Skate or Die.

[BlauK]

My first one was Spectravideo 328 with a casette deck in 1984, iirc. Amiga 500 followed in 1986.

The first one I ever used was my friend's Commodore Vic 20, maybe in 1982 or 81(?). He did not have any "Mass storage" either. We used ty type in (into ram) the basic game from the end of the manual, "tank vs. ufo", I think it was called. Typing it in and correcting all those syntax errors and type mismatches took soem 60 minutes or so. Then we played it for another hour, if it did not crash for some reason. After we were done playing, we turned the power off and... poof... the game vanished. Next time we wanted to play it we typed in the program again 

[Slamfire]

My first was a TRS80 Model III...


...2nd was a Model IV P


 

[RTHolmes]

ZX80 at home, then BBC (Acorn?) Micro at school, followed at work by:



... more of a "luggable" as I remember.

Then Vax, Gould etc at college.

First one I actually enjoyed using was a Mac IISI (Hellcats in the Pacific anyone? )

[Gh0stFT]

Atari 400, had a tape drive, around '82. Used to drive my wife nuts playing around with the sound chip late at night.

hehe same hardware here, cept i was not married that time (i was 14 years old
Today i collect old puters & consoles, but the ATARI 400 way my first computer,
and i still like to power it on and start typing small programs, ahh the memories....