[catfish1957]

I call your Tandy and raise you with my VIC 20

[fieldmarshaldj]

Bill Cosby told us to go get a TI-99/4A back in the early '80s, and out we went to get one.

[Paladin2]

"The 6800 ("sixty-eight hundred") was an 8-bit microprocessor designed and first manufactured by Motorola in 1974. The MC6800 microprocessor was part of the M6800 Microcomputer System that also included serial and parallel interface ICs, RAM, ROM and other support chips. A significant design feature was that the M6800 family of ICs required only a single five-volt power supply at a time when most other microprocessors required three voltages. The M6800 Microcomputer System was announced in March 1974 and was in full production by the end of that year.[1][2]"

Just sayin'

[Viking2002]

My first - with optional external cassette tape drive, joystick, and lots of game cartridges:

[Chances Are]

This was my first computer.

I eventually got a 64K module for it from data20 (that was the name of the company that made them. Lord knows what happened to that outfit.) It did have 80 columns, tho.

This was followed by the Commodore-64, which had a lot of utility for a long while. Even spreadsheets (HES-Calc), graphing (HES-Plot), and the usual gamut of word processing programs. It was a gaming machine at the time for sure, but I really didn’t play many games on it. Mainly Zaxxon and Geopolitique 1990 (my favorite).

After selling that machine, I graduated to the PC in it’s many incarnations, but the early years were full of fun and wonder.

CA....