Mine was the Apple II Europlus. Bought it in 1979. Loved that thing.
My first computer that I bought myself was a Dell Inspiron laptop that I bought in 2000. It was about $1,500 if I remember correctly, and had 256 MB of RAM. Sounded like a plane about to take off every time you turned it on, the fans were stupid loud.
The first computer my parents bought was in the late '80s/early 90s that ran MS-DOS. I don’t remember the brand name, but my brother and I used to play “Castle Adventure” on it. We drew maps of the screens on paper notepads to make our own cheat sheets.
ZX spectrum.Fucking loved it.
I had 386 pc with ms-dos and windows 3.0 but soon I switched it to Amiga 1200 and I must say, it was stunning computer compared to pc.
Gateway 2000 with Windows 95. I do not know which specific configuration (I was too young). I do remember the games I had though: Tyrian 2000, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, C&C, HoM3, I-war, Flight Simulator 95, LBA 2 and Jersey Devil. Half of them were copies I got from a neighbour that owned a cd-r.
Technically a commodore vic-20 but I remember the c64 better
Same! I recently received a big box of Vic-20 tapes, very exciting.
Mine was a ZX Spectrum, my father bought it for me when I was 12 years old, good times haha :D
S100 bus kit computer, a Polymorphic Polly 88.
Woah. That’s seriously old school. We had a C64 and then a DOS clone.
What do you program?
As late as 2018, I know of punch tape CNC still running production using rs-232 to optical out in the tape head.
For that machine, I wrote a “John Conway’s game of LIFE” that used the screen memory to hold the life array. Nowadays I rock an i5 running Linux.
Commodore VIC20
Commodore 64. I fell in love with Wizard of Wor before we got the family computer, and I felt pretty lucky for having a floppy drive. I also used to play a good bunch of Atari 2600 clone at a family member, if that counts.
The first computer I had for myself was an MSI gaming laptop with a GTX 950m GPU. It was pretty shitty. Overheated immediately, so when rendering only the first two frames went quickly, but then it slowed to a crawl. Same with games. Everything ran badly on it because it would just jump to 99°C and immediately get throttled. Damn thing idled at nearly 60°C.
The first computer I remember my family having was one of those very colourful Mac desktop computers.
apple IIc
edit - that was the first computer in my home as a kid. i think the first computer i used was a commodore at school.
Timex TC2068. It’s a Portuguese revision of the Timex TS2068 which is itself a bad ZX Spectrum clone.
First at home was dad’s IBM AT in 1983 or so. Then in 1985 it was one of early Macintoshes, later upgraded to 512kB RAM. Then a Mac SE.
My own first was a Siemens 80386 around 1988 running Windows 3.
Commodore 64
It was some packard bell PC with windows xp, and a 1.9 GHz pentium 4
