Your first computer?

[stepolonez]

Hi friends,

Please share which computer you used for the very first time...

Mine was compaq presario 2230... the black one...

[guyguy]

An abacus.

[Scorpio]

I posted a reply then realised this is on the wrong board.

[simplecandice]

Wrong board......

[shield_2006]

Apple IIe-the early days of the mouse-before IBM got it. I also had a IBM with a 088 processor and a laptop that was about 18" square-it was like a briefcase-can not remember the brand. For the young ones-you ran everything form the dot prompt and had to type in the .exe commands to activate the program. Those were the days.

But I also go back to punch cards on an IBM 360 at University.

It is amazing what young people take for granted without understanding the history of the devices that they have to-day.

[Sirius]

Welcome to ttonliine stepolonez

I moved the thread to Technology where this kind of discussion belongs.

My first real computer experience would have been on the old Macintosh Plus at my primary school. It had a lab full of them. My dad also occasionally brought home a PC from work that ran on DOS and had two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I used to play frogger and other such games on it more than anything else. :D

Eventually he bought an IBM Aptiva with a 66MHz Cyrix 486 processor, 8MB RAM, 1MB video RAM, both a 3 1/4" floppy and a CDROM drive and running Windows 3.1. It was blazing fast - lol for its time it was top of the line. That would be my first real computer at my disposal and my obsession ran from there.

Actually, I spent most of the time on that computer playing Disney Interactive's Stunt Island and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (from LucasFilm Games before they became known as LucasArts). After a RAM upgrade and Windows 95 installation I started playing the original The Need For Speed on it. :bounce:

[Solachica]

At sch had computers but we did stuff on it with programming I can't even rem.

Friend of my dad gave us one in 90's. I can't recall wht it was but I used to mostly play jeopardy on it.

[greall]

My first computer was this one in 2002:three (3) motherboards later and she's still here.
It came pre-loaded with a lot of games but my only interest was dial-up Internet access... :lol:
I use this more than the laptop...memories... :lol:

[BW]

I don't remember a time when I didn't have a computer.

I need a ::smug:: icon. Right here, right now. =\

[Solachica]

When was the 1st time allyuh went online?

[greall]

Sometime close to November 17th 2002.I remember because it was close to my sister's birthday.

[Sirius]

When was the 1st time allyuh went online?
Our first internet account was activated with Interserv probably around very late 1995 or sometime in 1996. Har. :D

[shield_2006]

Around 1995 with the Salvatori fella by the Oval-can't remember the name

[Solachica]

Ah went online 1st time in 1999 and short time later ah found the Guardian forum. :lol:
The good ole days. :lol:
Weyyy 10 yrs.

[amajaderen]

1st computer was a Altis (I think)

1st time online - maybe around 2000

[Ali]

my first computer hmmm cant really remember the brand...all i remember was that you had to hook it up to the tv and just switch on....absolutely no loading time 8-)...we used to type up computer programs from scratch....some i think i even memorized back then cuz i used to do them over and over :shock:........and there was an external floppy drive....5 1/4"
There were some games but to play them u had to type out a couple pages of programming :roll: so i never bothered so much

[punjabtrini]

Slate!
Actually it was a TRS80 Campaq.

[snowbird]

First 'home' computer was a Commodore 64...
bought it for my children..... didn't know what the heck it was all about.... as at the time I only had 'key punch' computer experience (you recorded all of your data on punch card or tape)....man that was some learning curve. :D

http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html

[Bad Dog]

First home computer was a Packard Bell 133DX, 4mg ram and 240mg hard drive.

[eMJayy]

The first time I ever used a PC was in high school - they had several Macintosh PCs for those who took the Basic programming class. My parents got a PC for the family back in '95 that ran Win95 on a 66MHz Original Pentium with 32MB Ram and a 1GB hard drive.

Not long after that, I bought my first PC which ran a 100MHz Pentium MMX with 64MB Ram and a 4GB hard drive. It had integrated graphics and I can even remember that the maximum shared memory allowed by the Bios was 32MB.

I first used the Internet the week I got my PC. I had actually applied for dial-up before I bought the PC, and on my first day online I got my first email account from Hotmail. I actually still have that account right now.

My, how time flies! :shock:

[Didi]

Lol, my fist one was from Hp and only had a 1;2 GB harddrive. That was in 1995. Internet connection was only dial-up back then. The bad old days.

[Scorpio]

A hand me down Apple IIC, I was about 6 or 7 years old.

[rick]

IBM XT -- 20MB Hard Disc .. paid about US2000 (I think)
Actually used it for my research and writing papers (with dot matrix printer)

[jamez]

Commodore 64
Tandy 100

[bigzack]

My first computer was an IBM PC Junior, around 1985 or 1986, ah cyar remember to good, but it was in the late 80s. My wife worked with IBM back then and they were selling them cheap to the staff.

That model was discontinued about 2 months later.

No wonder de stinkers and them sold it so cheaply.

[snowbird]

Commodore 64
Tandy 100

Commodore 64 :lol: you too? den yuh showin some age dey boy :D

yes, ah remember VIC 20 was out first, but thank god meh children were too young to want one....however they catch up with me when Commodore 64 hit the market :lol:

[Redman]

Apple IIC
1st time on line was 1997-at work.
Later

[kemist]

first time i used a computer was back in high school. dont know the model or specs, but i think it was apple. we did qbasic prog. on them (ran on dos)- the ones where all the characters on the screen was green. the first one i owned was in 2002- a dell 4550, 256 ram, 2.4 GHz proc, 80G Hd- was fast in those days.
the first time i went online was at uwi compt lab in 1997, with their dial up connection. we only got like half an hour on the net, and had to wait about 5 mins for a page to load lol.

[Lumbergh]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42684000/jpg/_42684685_commodore_amiga.jpg

[amzz]

mine was a compaq presario something or the other.. 1998

[mammadon]

Hi friends,

Please share which computer you used for the very first time...

Mine was compaq presario 2230... the black one...

BBC Master in the 1980's, back in the days when 128k of RAM seemed plenty. :)

[shield_2006]

I first used a computer in 1973-74 in University when the input was via punch cards in a course called Introduction to Computers when we learned about binary coded decimal and lateral thinking-the real early days. Took 42 cards to add two numbers. Prior to that we had a very complicated calculator at a Bank I worked at that was the size of a small desk-and that was a sophisticated computer in those days.

[amzz]

When was the 1st time allyuh went online?

probably end of 1998

first time I used a computer was around 1989 when I did a short course in programming

some time after that I used my bro's pc for playing Doom.. that used to be fun

[mammadon]

When was the 1st time allyuh went online?

early 1998. AOhell (my name for AOL, since i really disliked that ISP) on dial-up. I've been on broadband for 6 years now, and haven't looked back.

[raider]

commodore vic-20. the one before the commodore 64. i learned a little 'basic'.

first went online.......i'm thinking very early 90's, maybe 1990 itself. with aol dialup. i remember getting into a mild argument with my cousin........i was trying to tell him the internet was just a fad.

[eMJayy]

commodore vic-20. the one before the commodore 64. i learned a little 'basic'.

first went online.......i'm thinking very early 90's, maybe 1990 itself. with aol dialup. i remember getting into a mild argument with my cousin........i was trying to tell him the internet was just a fad.

[smilie=laugh2.gif] That one caught me off guard!

[kayt]

First 'home' computer was a Commodore 64...
bought it for my children..... didn't know what the heck it was all about.... as at the time I only had 'key punch' computer experience (you recorded all of your data on punch card or tape)....man that was some learning curve. :D

http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html


That commodore was our first computer at home. It was a hand me down from a friend. At school we had the old Apple Macs, no microsoft windows.

[Wayne]

First 'home' computer was a Commodore 64...
bought it for my children..... didn't know what the heck it was all about.... as at the time I only had 'key punch' computer experience (you recorded all of your data on punch card or tape)....man that was some learning curve. :D

http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html
snowbird, thanks for reminding me.......my first was also a Commodore 64......plenty waiting.

Basic and Cobol .......and all that other CRAP.......

[cm103]

Memories flooding back here. An IBM Aptiva with a 486-33 Intel proc with 4MB of memory and a 384MB hard drive and a 2x CD-ROM. I remember thinking I would never fill that amount of space and then 4 months later Win 95 was announced.

The only CD that came with that machine was MS Encarta. Lotus, Win 3.1 came on stacks of floppies.