What's the first computer you ever used?

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Ben Halpern • Jun 17 '19 • Edited

I believe the first computer I ever used was an original Mac.

We had one in our house for a while when I was younger. When my parents split up we all of a sudden had no computers in the house for quite a while. I feel like I would have been faster into the tech game if we'd always had computers. 😋

The cult of Steve Jobs appealed to my parents who were buddhists and part of the hippy generation. I think that's why we always were an Apple house whenever we had computers.

Latz • Jun 19 '19

It was a self-assembled Apple ][+ clone with 64kB main memory (Yeah!) and a 120kB disk drive (Double yeah!). I used it for at least five years.
My final project was a Bulletin Board System written in Applesoft Basic.

Brian Brewder • Jun 17 '19

IBM PCjr, with dual cartridge PLUS 5 1/4" drive. I was always jealous of my friends Commodore 64's because there were more games available for them. I remember going to Egghead Software and searching their shelves for games compatible with the PCjr.

I did try typing in programs from magazines, but they never worked and I didn't understand programming well enough at the time to be able to debug it (hours of work for nothing).

vladimir.dev • Jun 19 '19

A 386 PC, running DOS and at some point Windows 3.11
Learning DOS was so great because it gave me foundations for stuff that still works the same way to this day (like the file system, directory structure, etc.)

Tony Orozco • Jun 17 '19

Don't remember the first used, but the first computer we had at home was a Cyrix 586 with 8mb in ram and an 800mb HDD. I remember the first time we started it, the win95 splash screen and the sound chimes. Wow.