A TRS-80 with cassette drive
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.
Our first computer was a commodore 64. The first computer I bought myself was a 286.
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.
Sinclair ZX80
then
Sinclair Spectrum
then
BBC-B
since then
“IBM” type “PC”'s.
Commodore 64
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.
Mac 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
CDC 3300, no silicon chip memory, just magnetic core. Entered BASIC code through a teletype. 1975.