Your very first....... Computer.

[Fire$torm]

Bumping for the heck of it.

[joker]

Well Bump you too!

[Shadowlurker]

First one in the family was a V20, first one I bought for myself was a 286, 12.5Mhz with 1Mb of ram and a 40Mb HDD. Cost more than 3K.

[joker]

First one in the family was a V20, first one I bought for myself was a 286, 12.5Mhz with 1Mb of ram and a 40Mb HDD. Cost more than 3K.

I have to ask, did it have a turbo button? My first 286 did. Boosted it all the way up to 25MHz.

[Steve Bohlen]

1979 - Commodore VIC-20 with 3.5k Ram, no hard drive and not even a tape drive at first. Bought an 8k Ram upgrade for 90 pounds (~$130) after a few months and got a tape drive...(got tired of typing in programs!)

Superseded this with an Atari 600XL the next year.

Same here, Bok. The VIC-20. What memories of buying some magazines ('Basic Magazine' I think was one of them) and typing in games from print to screen. Sometimes those games only consisted of lines bouncing around the screen. But, still...it was way cool.

And I wonder why I'm attracted to tech so much for fun and career.

It was all because of that VIC-20.

I followed that up with an Atari 800. Never used that as much as the VIC-20 tho.

[dan]

My first was a TI 99A. Even programed it in assembly.

Dan

[valyn42]

The first one I remember getting my hands on was Dad's Osborne 1 that he brought home from work.. Ran CP/M! Even had a seperate 12" monochrome monitor we could plug in while we were at home. This is what the old acoustic modem plugged into!

http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html

My older brother soon after got an Atari 400, and we were off to the races!

Val

[Steve Bohlen]

The first one I remember getting my hands on was Dad's Osborne 1 that he brought home from work.. Ran CP/M! Even had a seperate 12" monochrome monitor we could plug in while we were at home. This is what the old acoustic modem plugged into!

http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html

My older brother soon after got an Atari 400, and we were off to the races!

Val

That is so awesome. Wish I had had some exposure to that one.

[joker]

Osborne 1

Used to play games on one of those that loosely resembled Donkey Kong and Pacman way back in the day.

[-GER-]

If we don't count calculators TI 99 then upgraded to Atari 128 WooHooo!