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.