Show us your first computer

[Pillager]

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

 

[cromagnon]

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

 

[penvzila]

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.

 

[metalhead]

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:

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.

 

[WinterRose]

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

 

[CrackedCrystal]

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.

 

[Jayne]

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!! ), then a variety of PC's.