What was Your First Computer?
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by WinMonster2 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Mine was a Packard Bell
200 MHz MMX Pentium processor,
32 MB of EDO RAM
20 GB Quantum hard drive
3.5" floppy drive
GoldStar 16x CD-ROM drive.
2 MB of video memory
Windows 95
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Reply #22 Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:16 AM
Mine was a slap together from parts headed for the recycle bin lol.
1997. Case was an old IBM, 3.5 in. floppy, 486 AMD @500 mHz with a heavy ass monitor, resolution 800 x 600. No special graphics or anything like that. Ran Win 95, Win 98SE and NT 4.0 in a multi-boot. That was when a 1 gig HDD in a tower with mouse and keyboard but no monitor went for a whopping US $600.00! Now you can get a 500 gig for less than one. Go figure.
Reply #24 Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:02 AM
Here's my first...
My second was a IBM PS2 Model 25.
Reply #25 Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:38 AM
Radio Shack Tandy 1000 an Intel 8088 MSDOS based computer. I purchased it with a whole 384KB of RAM memory. However, getting my computer was delayed more than a week beyond what was promised.
Apparently, there was a RAM memeory shortage at the time so they only installed 256KB and flipped a jumper switch on the MB so the bootup would show 384KB installed. It took me a year to find what they had done. Needless to say I wasn't happy to pay for the extra RAM and not receive it.
So for all of you who work in sales don't lie to your customers.
Reply #26 Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:42 AM
My first computer I got for my own money was the Dell Inspiron XPS:
Reply #27 Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:10 AM
TRS80 Model 4
or does the HP 97 count?
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0041/0041sixviews.html
Reply #29 Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:33 AM
http://www.historycorner.de/CoCo4/Apple/macse30.html
Edit: Still have it at home, still working and also found the diskettes lately 
Reply #30 Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:34 AM
Mine was an Apple IIe, wish I still had it, it would probably be worth a lot of money today to a collector. 
Reply #31 Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:36 AM
we only had two choices at that time, this and some IBM computer.
Reply #32 Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:06 AM
Sinclair ZX80 developed by Sir Clive Sinclair
CPU: NEC 780C-1 (copy of Z80) 3.25 MHz
1K static RAM, expandable to 16K
Use own TV as monitor!
Use domestic audio cassette recorder for magnetic storage!
4K ROM containing BASIC, Editor and Operating System
Those were the days! 
Reply #34 Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:15 AM
GMC2.... I now have that exact same computer....the only 'Apple' I ever had....was ripped off....paid $5 for it....
Reply #35 Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:30 AM
Intel 8088 processor @ 4.77 MHz, 128kb ram and 10mb hard drive(Canon 5d mkII camera file size 22mb for comparison), monochrome monitor
Reply #37 Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:54 AM
My first computer was a unit called the Mattel Electronics Aquarius.
Reply #40 Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:05 AM
ernie leo .....that's the exact same XT I had....and the last one I saw of them was outside the room that houses CSIRAC....at the Museum....
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Reply #21 Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:00 AM
My first one was this a Hitachi Peach which i got for my 12th birthday in 1982, it was huge
Then for my 15th birthday i got a Tandy TRS 80 which i though was the bees knees.
After that i went through Amstrads and Amigas until now where i have a Quad core laptop.