What was your first computer and what year was it?

My grandfather (not the one that gave me the IIE) was some sort of engineer that worked on the decoding supercomputer we used against the Nazi spy party...can't remember the name of it; just remember it filled several rooms and that it was weaker than most of the 90's processors...

 

Univac? Or something close? Only things I associate with the Nazi times is Enigma, which I suppose could be classified as an analog computer, and the project.

Where's that bloody History link .....

 

Enigma must be right, that sounds very familiar...

 

My first computer was a Commodore 64. After that, I switched to the IBM PS 50 model (x286 model). Currently, I only purchase IBM compatible machines (never had an Apple/Macintoh).

 

Am I still here? pinch - oh yeah .

IBM is the choice. International, Internet. Microsoft, on the other hand, I don't know. They have good stuff, but at times it becomes a bit tedious having to delve into the underworld to find the 'commercial' font you're looking for. IBM I believe will be the standard for the world. But, as with all dictators alike, Gates or Bush, we still have a choice.
Don't you love how I do that?

 

Microshaft will continure to be standard for the mainstream...IBM will be the standard for industrial business, of course...either way you're fucked.

 

Enivac? The thing took up an entire three story building and could do less than a hand graphing calculator can, now.

I remember when I read that some dude in the goverment, who was in charge of developing computers estimated that only about 3 computers would be needed in the entire country. LOL! This was in the 40s or 50s.

 

ok i wont say when i got my first. but while video games slot machines are actually not home computers the video game machines out around 1986 were really way ahead of its time. many back then were just as good as the ones now graphic wise.

 

Hehe...me too. Had to love those programs you loaded from an audio tape.

Load "*",8,1

 

I was very stubborn about the computer age, and terribly old fashioned about the whole thing (and, I must humbly admit, feeling quite superior...wrongly so...about the issue of computers and the internet), and, so my first computer was purchased about 2 yrs. ago...a compaq laptop. And, the lords of karma must have come to visit me because of my previous feelings about computers, because that brand new 'puter BROKE within a yr; it had a hard drive flaw, and that became apparent just after the warranty went out...So, I got myself a new laptop (with a longer warranty), and you just can't keep me off the thing (or computers in general)...so much for old fashioned stubborness regarding computers!

 

Commander 64 as well, you just reminded me of the name. It was 1991 or so.

Played Keen all day.

 

1989 or 1990 - 8088 w/ 640K of memory, 2400 baud modem, CGA (4 color at a time monitor), and a lovely dot matrix printer.

 

Back when I was really young, I had an Apple ||c or whatever, it had been around as long as I can remember.
But the first one that was actually mine was a monochrome laptop. I guess that was sometime in the mid nineties, but my perception of time is quite skewed..

 

My dad used punchcards when he was writing his dissertation. He used to bring home a machine the size of a suitcase. He's a programmer, which I am definitely not.
A friend built my first machine in 1994, a 286 with a 4MB hard drive, a floppydrive, and DOS.

 

Commodore 64 all the way!!!!!! mid 80's........

it sucked but it was better than the video game systems at the time. oh and my buddy with the commodore 128 had an old school modem with the full size phone (always reminded me of the movie Wargames)

 

Spectrum ~ Manic Miner on it was addictive to hell.
I'm now playing Splinter Cell, oh how I laugh at the difference.

 

Amiga 1200, I think I got that one back in '93 or '94. Still have it up in the attic, but I never use it.

 

it was an intel ps/2 machine, windows 3.1, dos I think we got it in 1992, cost way to much, the controller chip on the mobo failed, mom thought I had destroyed the computer by playing w\ settings (it died in 97) I got blamed for it till she finally took it in to fet looked at (2 years later) and realized that I had been grounded, punished and blamed for every machine malfunction in our home faultily for 2 years..... I hate that computer.....