# What was your first computer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660 "2010-02-04T09:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/101 "2010-02-06T01:52:22Z")
A TRS-80 with cassette drive ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/102 "2010-02-06T06:32:03Z")
Kewl. I actually started thread that got to the third page. Lots of TRS-80s, which was my Uncle’s first computer. I found it at my grandmother’s house, but it didn’t have any tapes (or a drive), so I never could use it. Also, you guys seem to be separating between computers you bought with your own money. That would make my first computer a 733 Mhz P3 with 128MB and a 40GB hard drive running Windows 98SE. I’m still using it to stream video from my computer to my TV. I really don’t like to waste things. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/103 "2010-02-06T06:45:07Z")
Our first computer was a commodore 64. The first computer I bought myself was a 286. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/104 "2010-02-06T07:06:34Z")
Vic-20. Had a lot of fun programming on that thing. Had the Atari 2600 console before that. That thing was pretty awesome. There was a primitive motocross computer game console before that. ---
**Author:** ![Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/105 "2010-02-06T18:03:41Z")
Sinclair ZX80 then Sinclair Spectrum then BBC-B since then “IBM” type “PC”'s. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/106 "2010-02-06T21:10:52Z")
Commodore 64 ---
**Author:** ![foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolscap)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/107 "2010-02-08T01:47:35Z")
I think it was called a Timex 2000 (2k of memory) I later soldered up a real keyboard for it and played with the option connector on the back. The old computer magazines had some wild mods for that thing.😃 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/108 "2010-02-08T02:07:23Z")
[Mac Classic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic). 2 MB of RAM, 40MB hard drive and an itsy-bitsy screen. Got my money’s worth out of that little thing, I did. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/109 "2010-02-08T03:31:32Z")
The Dragon 32 was the clone of the Tandy Color Computer. I noticed it was the computer they used to draw on the monitor screens for in the Doctor Who Tardis in the 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/110 "2010-02-08T05:40:46Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > We had a Tandy 1000, with 128k of memory (I think). It had two 5.25" drives and that was it. Up until a few years ago my mother still had it and I believe it still worked. That’s the one I had, as well. An 8086 processor. You could by an external hard drive that was pretty puny by today’s standards. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/111 "2010-02-08T05:48:01Z")
Apple ][GS. We bought it for school purposes, but I mostly just played old Sierra games on it. It also had a great music program which was my formal introduction to MIDI. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/112 "2010-02-08T06:56:27Z")
TRS-80 Color Computer. Then a Coleco ADAM. The a C-64. Then nothing I owned (I used school computers) until a PC in about 1998. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660/113 "2010-02-08T07:18:17Z")
[CDC 3300](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000), no silicon chip memory, just magnetic core. Entered BASIC code through a teletype. 1975. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-first-computer/527660.md?page=5)