I built it up so I had dual floppy drives and a 6502 second processor unit on the tube interface. Had great fun at college making a double density disc interface board to improve the floppy capacity and another board so I could add additional EPROMs.
The first family computer was a TI-99/4A w/cassette tape backup.
My personal own first computer was a Packard Bell 386SX16 w/2MB RAM, 40MB HDD, 2400bps modem, SoundBlaster sound card (which most apps at the time considered Adlib compatible...later SB became the standard of course), 1 CD drive, 1 5.25" floppy drive, and 1 3.5" floppy drive, DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.1. I had a Epson AP-4000 dot matrix printer to go along with it.
First one I got to use was a TRS-80 Texas Instruments (forget which, but it had a rewindable tape for playing games) but the not one like the OP. Second one was some variant of the Apple II. First home PC was probably a Apple IIe. My high school actually taught FORTRAN on a classroom of TRS-80s.
My first computer was an ancient (by my standards) Windows thing I got in 1996 when my dad's work was throwing it out (so he took it home).
Fun fact: I still use the IMB Model 5 keyboard that came with it. According to the factory info on the bottom, this keyboard was made two months after I was born.
Pentium 133 MHz w/ 8 MB of RAM, 8x CD-ROM, 1GB hard drive and Windows 3.1. It was very advanced for it's time (except for the RAM, which was lacking.. should have been at least 16mb around that time).
My brother and I would play a game called something like Treasure Island for hours. "You are on a beach. There is a path leading north".... Ahh, the thrill of discovery
Then we eventually got my Aunt's hand-me-down Commodore-64 when she upgraded to a C-128. The C-64 is the computer I used until I left for college. The word processing program was essentially a mark-up language, so when I started to learn HTML in 199(6?) it was extremely easy.
I do, however, wish that I had learned to program back then. It's a huge hole in my current literacy, and it's a challenge to make the time for it now.
My brother and I would play a game called something like Treasure Island for hours. "You are on a beach. There is a path leading north".... Ahh, the thrill of discovery
Oh my, yes! Do you remember being surrounded by "Flotsom and jetsom"? Actually, I think it was called Pirate something or other. Text adventures are so fun. Man, now I wanna go play a MUD again!
Original IBM PC in '83 - massive 256kB memory & dual floppy for convenience. Somehow I managed to miss C64 & the likes but I wasn't into gaming the & not much since.
We got it in either 2000 or 2001. It must have been when OSX first came out. Still have him sitting in the basement. I'd use it for old games if the bottom row of keys worked.
Do you mean first computer your family had, first one that was pretty much just yours to use, or first one that you bought with your own money? For some of us new-timers, that might not be the same.
I'm gong to assume the first so that my answer is older than Skwink's. In that case, it was a AMD 486 at 100 MHz with 800 MB of hard drive space, a floppy drive, a CD drive, and both OS/2 and Windows 3.11. It's still in my parents' basement, but hasn't been used since last century.
I still have a few stored on disk, Spectrum, C64 and other 8-bit emulators were pretty good, 16-bit ones a bit less so, I thought. Many come with a range of games, converted from tape in a lot of cases. Jet Set Willy, anyone?
Haven't fired any up since XP, so no idea if Win7 problems happen.
In answer to the OP, first I co-owned was that bizarre thing, a Commodore Pet. There were actual work-related reasons for that tho. First one I put any of my own dosh into that spoke to my soul was the great old Apple II (I remembering wondering what could possibly be the point of this VisiCalc thing?). Wish I still had it...
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