What was your FIRST COMPUTER?....

Fun Saturday Discussion | November 14, 2026 | Red Badger

[Red Badger]

And what year was it?...

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[rdcbn1]

Macintosh II

[Larry Lucido]

1994 Packard Bell. 340 mg hard drive, 4 mg RAM. Ran like blazes compared to the school computer lab machines.

[DugwayDuke]

First computer was a 386-16 in 1989, 40 Meg Hard drive, 4 Meg ram. When I got it I couldn’t imagine ever filling a 40M hard drive. The nice thing was, I could work on it myself upgrading hard drives, memory, even the CPU. I had buddies that had access to higher speed chips.

[daifu]

TRS-80 - Yep, I’m that old...

[Red Badger]

Me: Timex Sinclair 2000 with 16k memory expansion pack.......

[ConservativeMind]

Atari 800 w/48K

1981

[left that other site]

An old IBM Business machine that was the size of a trash compactor.

Then I got a Trash 80.

We’re going way back to the late 1970s.

[newfreep]

A slide rule in HS (11th grade) Chemistry

[DFG]

1983 IBM XT with a 8088 microprocessor, 20 MB hard drive, 5.25" floppies

[bigbob]

Digital Group (out of Denver not DEC) Z-80 (the latest thing!) with 16K, cassette tape, and modified TV for display. 1976.

[Princeton Drive Irregulars]

Zenith 286

[ShadowAce]

TRS-80 Model I

1976-7

[Red Badger]

I knew guys that would double clock their processors and hope it didn’t burn up!.....

[ShadowAce]

[Tijeras_Slim]

Amiga 3000

[hanamizu]

Commodore 64, a long time ago.

[BudgieRamone]

TRS-80 model 1 and a Timex sinclair. I was maybe 11 or 12. 1981 or 82.

[DPMD]

My fingers. Later on, a slide rule.

[NonValueAdded]

First computer used: IBM 1130, in 1968

First computer owned: IBM PC, ~ 1982