First Computers.

[Nilsen]

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

Oh yes i did

My best friend had one. Favorite game was Port of Call. We could sit for 12 hours or more on the weekends with that game. 

[Skuzzy]

My first was a TRS-80 Model I in late 1977.  I went from that to a Model II, then a Model 16, then a Model III and IV, then a Tandy Color Computer, and finally a Tandy 4000.  Most of them overlapped at some point.  Some were used for many more years for file servers.

[indy007]

Don't hate on my portability.

Of course then it was an 286, then 386, then 486, pentium blah blah blah. Once it hit the 486 era I just started building everything myself. Lucky to have parents willing to spend the money for me to learn on the fly as a little kid.

[midnight Target]

Atari 400

I had it upgraded to 32k of memory... for about $100.

[MotleyCH]

I don't have a picture of mine but it was a compaq presario, 133 mhz. I don't remember the ram, but the vc was 1 mg. The monitor I remember well. Looked so much like a fish bowl. Price $2300. Oh it had a huge hard drive, 1.6 gig. I said I would never fill that up. 6 mos later I was looking for things to delete.

I had this one also, was very pleased with it for about four months. Then Voodoo graphic cards were coming out, and you couldn't add this to the motherboard of course.

[BlauK]

Not to hijack the thread, but do any old timers find any familiar joysticks from this site?

http://www.thosewerethedays.de/joystick_galerie.htm

[Masherbrum]

Apple IIe with Color Monitor and dual floppy.

I used the Apple joystick until it wore out from playing Wings of Fury.   I then got a Gravis Analog Pro.   I used that PC until about 1995.   I used it for writing COBOL and FORTRAN programs.   

[ChickenHawk]

Commodore 64.  I scrimped and saved and finally got enough to buy one for $200 when I was 16.

I still have it and two others along with a TI99-4a.

[Nilsen]

My first was a TRS-80 Model I in late 1977.  I went from that to a Model II, then a Model 16, then a Model III and IV, then a Tandy Color Computer, and finally a Tandy 4000.  Most of them overlapped at some point.  Some were used for many more years for file servers.

Finally a Tandy 4000?

No wonder you dont like Vista. It must be a real pain to run it on that  

[midnight Target]

Not to hijack the thread, but do any old timers find any familiar joysticks from this site?

http://www.thosewerethedays.de/joystick_galerie.htm

I saw one of those old ATARI joystick with a USB interface. It had some of the old ATARI games loaded into the joystick. My how times have changed.

[SD67]

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I had this one also, was very pleased with it for about four months. Then Voodoo graphic cards were coming out, and you couldn't add this to the motherboard of course.

I still use the keyboard off my one of those to this very day because it does not have a bloody windows key on it!

[Delirium]

I learned basic on a TRS-80 but the first computer I owned was a Atari800XL.

[Shoulman]

Commodore 64.  Had to mow yards all summer to afford the floppy drive.....

[rpm]

My first work computer was a TRS-80. Basicly used as a billing tool, but we would sneak in and play StarTrek after the office closed.

My first home computer was a PackardBell with a 50 (FIFTY!!)mhz processor. The first program I bought for it was Aces Over the Pacific because it had F4U's and Aces Over Europe didn't. I still have the CH Flightstick sitting in the gameroom and it still works.

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