[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[skeeter]

Apple IIC bump.

[domenad]

I love the fact that the phone I carry in my pocket has far more computing power than desk-sized workstation I learned on as a kid.

[Windcatcher]

TI-99/4-A FTW

[PrincessB]

I remember the Commodore 20. It used a cassette tape to record programming.

[ShadowAce]

[RetroSexual]

Cool site! Here's the first computer I used, a Kaypro II with CP/M. Thought it was epic.

[stefanbatory]

I see that John Titor’s IBM 5100 made the list...

[Doogle]

I just threw a Commodore out.....

[lowbridge]

Got my first computer about 1997. An IBM PC with windows95. It cost 1600 bucks, on sale, and the hard drive had about 2GB of space. Top of the line back then, almost junk now. It still works though.

[dfwgator]

LOAD “*”,8,1

[Snickering Hound]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzgp7xTp1k

Browsing the internet with an Apple II.

[Miss Conservative]

I had a Timex-Sinclair in the early 80s.

I learned BASIC on it. Now I have trouble keeping up. Somedays I'm lucky to get "plug 'n play" to work.

[ryan71]

In the early 80’s, the first computer class in my high school used Radio Shack TRS-80’s. There was no software, they had 64K of memory, we wrote programs in Basic and moved them back and forth to a cassette tape recorder.

[Billthedrill]

My first one was a Wang 2200VP word processor. I recall hooking up a Diablo 630 to it and getting a call from Wang asking how I managed it. "Uh, you mean it isn't supposed to work?" sez I. Still don't know how they found out.

Wrote a database app for it and the local mainframe guy sez, "why don't you just use a computer?" For that? Like I'm gonna waste valuable CPU time running a database? What was he thinking?

[556x45]

‘The first-ever handheld/palmtop MS-DOS “PC” was the Portfolio, sold by -— Atari, in 1989.’

Oh, I thought it was the Times Sinclair.

[svcw]

We still have our Sinclair. In 1976, my husband and a bunch of his engineer friends decided to build PCs. By the time they finished their project, we bought one for half they price they had already spent. The first HP we bought had 87 megs, people laughed that we thought we should have so much memory.

[Cyman]

I remember playing with the wife’s school computer in 85-85. It was some kind of Apple with the 5 1/4 disk drive. My first office computer in 1987 was an IBM PS2 model 60 with a 20 meg hard drive, just because “you are never gonna fill up the 30 Meg optional drive”

[battlecry]

DEC Rainbow with dBase and 10MB Winchester drive ex-owner here. Paid too much for it. Should have bought a car instead...

[Nickname]

We still have our old Mac Plus. No idea what to do with it but it’s one of those weird things that will probably follow us where ever we go.

Just got a Kindle recently and it reminds me of the Mac Plus with it’s little black and white screen.