What Was Your First Computer (That You Bought?)
 

Nicking this thread from another site. I'll start it off...

I'd worked on many computers on the Mac and PC sides of the fence for art since jump street, but the first computer I bought for myself (actually from a money gift from mom — I bought the monitor and external removable drives for it) was a Macintosh Centris 660.



When I got this, the Quadras were the hot shit but I couldn't afford those. Damn, those were the days. SCSI ports ruled the universe and USBs and FireWire was just an itch in Steve Jobs' pants. :hair:

Ours had a 20 megabyte hard drive, 16 meg of ram, 286 maybe. It was a system my FIL put together in 1986. He charged us $900 and we paid him $100 a month for the first almost year of our marriage.

I have yet to buy one myself. My first computer was given to me and the rebuild after it died only cost me some Captian Morgan. I'm still using the rebuild after about 3 years.

My first computer was an Atari 800 saved programs on cassette tapes but you could also use it to play games.

My first computer was a Hyundai (PC compatible) with a 286 processor, one 5 1/4" floppy drive and no hard drive.

Did it come with the power roof & 10-year warranty?


My first puter was an HP, running Windows 3.11 with a mail-in voucher to get the Win95 upgrade when it came available...if I recall correctly, it had a 512mB hard drive, about the capacity of regular CD-ROM...don't laugh, I'm still using the MS Money program that was bundled with it...

My first computer was a Commodore 64

Me too!


But oh how I dreamed of getting a Tandy TRS-80. :wish:

Spookily, my first PC was a 386 from Tandy..... or Radio Shack, as it had only recently become in this country. It had a 128mb RAM and, I think, a 2 Gb hard drive!

I'm typing this on a laptop with 512mb of RAM and a 80Gb hard drive.

Ohhh............ Wow!!

DM

My first was a Commodore 64, tape thingy, looking back was great for learning programing. (wish I still had it at time to teach the ferals on)
2nd was Toshiba XT, 5/14 drive, no hard drive, and gee was it quick.
From there, Toshiba AT 20meg drive, salesperson stated that I would NEVER in my lifetime fill the hard drive?

Hmmmm, first computer I bought was a used 486 DX2 66. 16MB RAM, 320MB HDD. I managed to do a smoke show within the first 24 hours and learning to fix it myself led to my current career path.

Growing up though we had a TRS80, Commodore 64, and a Tandy HX1000 in the house at one time or another.

My first computer was an IBM knock-off 8086, with 704kb Ram, a 10Mb full height hard drive I rapidly upgraded to a half height 20Mb. It had a CGA screen, yes folks, that's a genuine three colour ( just count them, one two three) screen, and I quickly bought myself a joy-stick (remember them?) for the primitive games available. It had one 5 1/4" floppy drive. It was probably the most advanced non-business-based computer in my part of Sydney back in 1986.

I have never purchased a computer. I was a hold out until about 6 years into our marriage. It'll be 21 years now. Hub still has a TRS-80, a couple of Model 3's and a Model 1 with ALL the bells and whistles. Right now? Well, I'm making my own scented ink, digging out my parchment paper and brushing up my dip pen skills. :)

XT (Toshiba i think)...no hard drive...ran off disks...*L*

"that you bought?" :confused:


Why spend money when you can make your own?