Your first computer

[hitech]

..my first computer, though was one I built from a kit. had to manually flip switches to boot it up. AN altair...

I didn't know anyone else even knew what an altair was... I build a few computers myself, but they weren't mine, couldn't afford them. I remember building 4.77mhz 8088s with a FULL 640k of ram and 10meg hard drives. Those were big time business machines!

Anyone else have the displeasure of programming a Commodore 64?

[CasingBill]

As far as the BBS goes, I also had a local one I used to log into. I remember buying an issue of Computer Shopper and in the back it had lists of all the BBS in your area. Cost 5 bucks to use.

My father also had an old computer at work. He used own an oil business back in the late 70's early 80's. The computer was built into a desk! I think it was called a centurion or something like that. It also had a large printer also built into its own desk.

[whymillywhy]

I think the first one my dad had waas a Commidore, BEFORE I was born, we had a lot of Tandys becuase my dad worked at radio shack.

the First computer I had was either a 133mhz IBM
Or I guess you could say my Gateway Laptop, 1.3 ghz piece of poo poo was my first
But I am getting a new puter this summer

[undescriptive]

I remember programming the C64,,,

non standard BASIC commands, dodgy logic in the assembler code too....

ahh, them were the days.... never again though!

[swanster]

Apple mac G5 dual 2.0ghz with 2gb of ram and a 6800 ultra graphics card. Not bad for a 15 year old lol

[RamboPreacher]

As far as the BBS goes, I also had a local one I used to log into. I remember buying an issue of Computer Shopper and in the back it had lists of all the BBS in your area. ...

yep... I ran TBBBBS (The Bible Board Bulletin Board System) for years and years, my number and board was included in commercial dial-up software, like Procom plus and other dialing software packages, as well as in most all teh lists in magazines.

[Dryden]

Packard Bell 386SX
Packard Bell Pentium 60

Good God Miscue, are you a masochist? You owned two Packard Bells in a row?!

My first "real" computer that didn't plug into a 9" B&W TV was an Apple IIe. It was the top of the line in the Apple family before the Mac was unveiled. Profile 5Mb HD, dual slim-line 5-1/4" floppies, Hayes 300baud modem, 16 colors. I've still got it and it still works, though the monitor takes about 3-minutes to warm up.

My first PC was an HP286 running Windows 3.0. I didn't touch my Nintendo for months once I discovered Commander Keen and Duke Nukem.

Doom lead me to buying a Packard Bell 486-66 DX2, which was the last pre-fab computer I ever bought. I've built my own ever since, and have gone through too many to even bother listing. I've got four around my desk right now. :)

My "newest" computer is actually a Pentium-233Mhz, because I missed Carmageddon and Myth. Thanks to eBay, I finally built the computer I always wanted in 1998 for < $75. Matrox Millenium 8Mb, Voodoo II SLI-pair, AWE32 soundcard ...

[hitech]

I remember programming the C64,,,

non standard BASIC commands, dodgy logic in the assembler code too....

ahh, them were the days.... never again though!

I wrote a small application on a PC in BASICA. It took me twice as long to port it to a C64.