OK a thread dedicated to the first computer you owned/worked with/played games on.

Philips MSX NMS8245
http://www.homecomputer.de/images/machines/Philips_NMS_8245.jpg

:love: ;)

edit: fixed link to picture

P.S. People, I wanna see pictures! :)

TRS-80 :D
1983 (I was only 5 years old!)

TI-99/4A

Here's some pictures from a website (not mine) :

http://www.geocities.com/sonic2000gr/994a-photo.html

We had a commodor 64, and something even funnier before that...

Cant remember.

The first computer I owned was a Sinclair Spectrum+ (the model without the rubber keys) but the first IBM PC clone I had was an Amstrad PPC like this...
http://www.homecomputer.de/images/machines/Amstrad_PPC512.jpg
I've still got it.

Looks more versatile than today's computers ;)

My Amstrad CPC464! The cassette drive still gives me nightmares!

Load time 17 minutes. Block 45........load error....load error..... :mad:

But i loved it all the same :D

http://www.oldcomputers.freeserve.co.uk/amstradcpc464.jpg


And my first console! Atari 5200!

http://www.retrogoodness.com/atari/really_cheap/really_cheesie_files/03.png

Don´t have a picture! :p
It was completely self-assembled, built partly from east and partly from west-german parts. Put together by my father, plugged into the TV. Attached a joystick and a cassette deck and it worked fine, better then the C-64 and HUGE fun to play!
:D

Raaaah those were my first computers...
(it was damn heavy and huge but so solid and reliable. Imagine, it was released in early 80s and 10 years after when my uncle brought it home for me, the power supply still worked!! and so did the 30gig HD!! amazing. Considering the machines now, with HDs that die after 3 or 4 years :( And power supply too...
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/IBMpcat.jpg


and

http://www.2ndchancepc.co.uk/images/lc475.jpg

Macintosh Performa 630
Got it in '95, still works

http://mothergoosetei.com/pc/images/recijyu.jpg

Stats:

CPU: 33MHz
RAM: 8Mb
200Mb Harddrive
CD-ROM
3.5" Floppy

I don't remember the model, but it was an old Gateway, from around the late 80s. It had the old 8 inch floppies and some "new" 3.5 inchers!! :eek: :lol:

CG

Originally posted by cgannon64
I don't remember the model, but it was an old Gateway, from around the late 80s. It had the old 8 inch floppies and some "new" 3.5 inchers!! :eek: :lol:

CG

Now your're making me feel real old. Those were 5 1/4 inchers on the gateway. The 8 inchers were in the 70's. :(

When I was two I played on an Amiga
I still have my 486 from when I was five, its a reliable computer that still runs
I also own two timex sinclairs that my dad used to work on.

Originally posted by IceBlaZe
Looks more versatile than today's computers ;)

Indeed. It's very handy for propping doors open. ;)
The portability is somewhat ruined by the fact that it needs eight D-cell batteries.

Mine:
Commodore (1991)
386 - 20Mgz
17MB of Hard Disk
64Kb RAM :lol:
5 1/4 disks

Those arcanoid times... :love:

ZX-81.
http://www.newtownbreda.demon.co.uk/zx81/images/zx81.gif
I bought it early-82, IIRC.

C.

Apple 2c. Played Wizardry like a mad man.

funny I have the same one as civ1_addict

http://www.homecomputer.de/images/machines/Philips_NMS_8245.jpg

First computer I used was a Ferranti Sirius in 1971 - size of a ballroom. All input was via paper tape; all output was via papertape too. It used its own language called Ferranti Autocode. Then came the ICL 1900 and I learned to program in Fortran and passed A level Computer Science. At uni I used IBM 360s. In 1977 I had my own terminal to the DEC10 and one day a Commodore Pet arrived on my desk. The micor age had arrived! Had more fun writing programs for that until Crowther's Adventure arrived for the Dec10 and all work at the uni ceased.

I still own a BBC B micro, an Acorn Archimedes (damn fine machine), a Dell PC, + the Biggun - a mammoth Supermicro box crammed with bits and pieces. Its like Caesar's knife - entirely original apart from a new blade and handle. I built it from separate bits and it has undergone many upgrades. Time for a new board, processor and graphics card soon methinks.

First I wanted to show you the Amstrad 2386 that my father bought in 1992. I had that one until 1999 when my parents wanted to make a nice present to my then 5 years old cousin. So they told me: give him the Amstrad. The computer was at that time in a plastic bag in the attic split into a dozen pieces as at some time I took the 2 Mb RAM and the 120Mb HDD out. I spent 2 days to put it back together but I missed the hard disk jumper that switched the HDD on ‘Master’. The HDD had been on ‘Slave’ for 3 years. Did you know that old jumpers were larger than the present ones? I had to bend the wires and make an improvisation. Curiously the PC did work and my cousin could even use it for 6 months. Then it fell apart.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/images/comppics/2386.jpg

But actually I had a Sinclair Spectrum clone in 1988. It was called HC ’85 and it looked very much like the HC ’91 presented in the link below. The thing different was that the front cover with the keyboard was missing and someone had built a metal cover with keys from other computers, some handmade plastic keys and some handmade wooden keys. Eventually I dropped it (I was 10 at that time) and the guy who took it for repairs never brought it back.


Click here (http://www.interface1.net/zx/clones/hc85.html)

A ZX from about 1985 ish. Grey keyboard with built in cassette, plus two joysticks.

I loved my old Apple IIe. I had waaay too many games for it.

I first played with an Apple IIe. Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, Lemonade Stand, Number Munchers... our school had like 300 games.

The fist computer I owned was a 486. I used to play a game called Wizardry on some MAc that I can't think of the name for. My uncle had it.

My dad was a computer programmer, so we had all sorts of interesting computers. The first one I remember playing extensively with was the KayPro II. It had a 5 MHz processor, and 64k of memory, which actually was pretty good for 1982. This bad boy was great - if you liked a 9" green CRT screen and text-based games. There was this one great game where you owned a business, and had to make stock deals and the like to make more money. Wish I could remember more about it, but hey, I was 4 years old. It also folded up quite nicely:

http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/kaypro/kaypro.jpg

After that was our monster Atari computer, which I can't find a pic of anywhere.

My first real PC was a ca. 1987 WYSE 286 with an 8 MHz processor, 384K RAM, upgradeable to a whopping 1 MB. It took about 5 minutes to load Windows 3.1.

My dad also did some work at a nuclear power plant, experimenting with Solar power (which, contrary to what some nuts say, is completely unfeasable as a power source). They had one of those computers that took up an entire room with vacuum tubes and was programmed with punch cards. It was dubbed The Little Elephant. Apparantly the Big Elephant took up a room 3 times the size of the little one, but it was still quite a site to see.

I don't have have a picture of it though, but it was something like this: 486 SX 33Mhz/24Mb RAM/180Mb or such. :P Quite new compared to those near ancients others have posted.

Mine is an old Vindex. It has a 8088 Intel processor. For those who do not know, that is Intel's first consumer CPU at 8bits (really it is 16bits like an 8086 but I won't get into that). A huge 40 Mb hard drive. And here is the kicker that everyone likes... a huge switch on the back to swap between monocrome and 16 color display. Big time stuff back in the day. It is still down in the basement for storage too. I may have to get the camera out and take a picture.

We had a BBC B from about 1982-ish. I remember we used to have a 'Hobbit' game which was a sort of adventure thing. You had to type instructions: Go North, Sleep, Talk to Gandalf etc. It used to take 45 minutes to load - assuming you didn't breath near it, or look at it whilst it was loading, then it would block and you had to start again!! The game got really frustrating though because you never seemed to be able to leave Rivendell once you got there, and you'd be talking to Thorin, and suddenly it would decide Thorin wasn't there!!

I used to love the old arcade style games - particularly Mr. Ee

After that we had a Spectrum 3 (loved Gauntlet), then an Amiga (Civilization!! :D), then a variety of PC's.