Do you remember your first computer?

[Cowtown Comedy]

I was trying my best to describe to a student my first PC. I don't remember the brand name, an IBM clone of some sort. It didn't have a hard drive, and data was stored on 5.25 inch floppies. Program discs and OS were also stored on these same floppies. I can't remember how much storage a 5.25 in floppy had, but it was minimal, so it seemed like there were hundreds of these square black floppies laying everywhere. All the commands were done through DOS. ctrl.prt.****...The monitor display was this horrible brownish red colour. The printer was a 9 pin dot matrix that made this screeching noise as the printer head traveled across the paper....we've come a long way in 25 years... What was your first PC?

[niggle]

ZX Spectrum

[PeteC]

Apple II desktop and later on, the first color Powerbook. Pete

[sandman67]

zx spectrum

my first work one was one of those godawful briefcase jobs that weighed a ton...cant remember what brand.

greenscreens and wordstar....ah the bad old days.....

[moja]

BBC B bought in the early 80's

[komfortablynumb]

Amiga 600. Not the 500. The turbo engined 1.
I could get stick people to walk all the way across the screen sometimes without the Blue screen of death.
600mb of memory. Wow was it hot.
I spent hour after happy hour just coaxing it to do something i wanted.
I swear most mobile phones today have more memory and functions.
A point of interest. Well to me.
It was named in my divorce papers as 1 of the reasons for unreasonable behavour.
And that was before the internet and free porn.
oh happy days.

[hhfarang]

Now you're making me feel bad! I'm sitting here typing on my first computer!... no wait, I had a second hand brick of a black and white laptop before... forgot about that one, now I feel better (even though I've had this one for nine years)

[STEVE G]

I got in late as well, my first computer was a Texas Insrument laptop with a 486-50 processor and a very small hard drive that I bought secondhand in about 1995.
To be honest I used it with Windows 3.11 mainly for running spreadsheets in Lotus 123 and it did this very well.
If it crashed you just re-booted it and it carried on as before, you just had to remember to save your work every ten minutes or so.

[Cowtown Comedy]

does anyone remember how much memory the 5.25inch floppies had?

[STEVE G]

I never used them but here is everything you need to know about floppy discs:http://www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html

[IHF]

zx spectrum

commodore 64 had real keyboard and games on cassette

[Cowtown Comedy]

haha a 5.25 in floppy held 1.2 Meg...no wonder they were stacked 50 deep.

[hhfarang]

I used one of those IBM lay flat type desktops at work and it had one of those old floppy drives. I remember never wanting to admit that I had a 5.25" floppy!

[Big Boy]

Obviously I'm just a lad. My first PC was at work. It was an Apricot with a 5 Mb Hard Drive.

At home, we still use our first PC - at least 10 years old now. When I bought it, it came with a fully comprehensive 5 year guarantee. It completely died after 4 years and 11 months, and had just about every component replaced. That combined with several major upgrades means that it is still in regular use today.

However, we do have a couple of meatier PCs if the need arises.

[bozzman101]

amiga think it was a 600 the simpsons game had just come out
then a pc with a 1.2 m hard drive .....lol
then a 2.3 hard drive and laura croft arrived think she was mentioned in my divorce papers
and then i find a level planner guy who worked on tomb raider 1
now living near me here in hau hin.........lol