Raise your hand if you remember this.
IBM 5150
Saturday, May 2, 2026 by pelaird | Discussion: Personal Computing
The good old days!
Reply #3 Saturday, May 2, 2026 3:06 PM
Mine was an IBM 5150, or a 5150 clone. It had 2 floppy drives...and a dot matrix printer. I think. 1986. I remember being ecstatic I didn't have to use a typewriter with carbon copies. 😀
It's cpu was an abacus and a slow one, at that...
Reply #4 Saturday, May 2, 2026 5:14 PM
I had one of the first IBM PCs, in November 1981, if I recall correctly. It only had one floppy drive and 64K memory. I upgraded the memory to 128K and added a second floppy drive.
my uni pc lab, wrote my first basic code with it. 
Reply #6 Saturday, May 2, 2026 8:45 PM
My first 'PC that wasn't a Commodore 64 was an IBM XT with green screen...had a 1 meg memory card about 18" long....
Reply #7 Sunday, May 3, 2026 5:40 AM
I remember getting my first computer in 1982. It was from Radio Shack and it hooked up to a black and white TV, with a cassette deck used to save and reload simple Basic programs. I used the IBM PC at work where I sold main frame computer software.
But my first real personal computer was a Macintosh Plus in 1986. I used Apple computers for years until I went over to the dark side and bought my first Windows PC with Windows 95, and never looked back.
Thanks to everyone for your computer memories. 
Reply #8 Sunday, May 3, 2026 11:18 AM
First involvement with computers was in 1969 or 70 ...Fortran and punch cards that were amazingly underwhelming.
Second was visiting my brother in law who worked for the Snowy Mountains Authority as a Civil Engineer.... he had his own 'terminal' on his desk about the size of the original Xerox photo copier that had its own 5k ram independent of the mainframe that took up the floor below. That would have been about 1970 when I was still 15.
I think I still have my first calculator here somewhere....
Reply #9 Sunday, May 3, 2026 12:55 PM
My dad and I built my first. S-100 Bus, Z80 CPU, 16K, CP/M OS and 8" Floppies from Seimans.
Wordstar...
Reply #10 Tuesday, May 5, 2026 9:02 AM
Don't really know where I fall on the scale of old computers, but the first one I remember playing games on was a "portable" Kaypro 2 computer (portable if you consider it was bigger than most check bags we currently use and weighed a lot!)
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Reply #1 Saturday, May 2, 2026 11:36 AM
My First PC, had it a couple of years and then moved up to the 6128
Good Memories