What Was Your First Computer?

Love this thread. Nice posts.
I took a computer class way back on an Apple II+. Still have the certificate.
Then I got an Apple IIe with a tricked out graphics card that had external colied-wire with a red button that let you take screenshots. I wrote quiz programs in DOS to study Spanish, re-created the cover of the Ghost in the Machine album in HI-RES and hacked Congo Bongo by discovering which disc track contained the catalog. NERD.

Back in 2000 I bought a Colecovision Adam in the original box to play with DOS again, listen to the tape drives and the loudest daisy-wheel printer of all time.

matt

 

My first computer and the good ol' Prodigy days

I remember when we got our first computer in the late 80s - it was an IBM PS/1 that ran via DOS.

To create banners and greeting cards and the like, it came with a program called "Print Shop" and used very basic graphics - nothing like the Adobe products I use today!

It also came with MS Works, which is still similar to the current MS Works, as you could make basic word documents as well as spreadsheets and other similar typing documents.

This machine also took floppy disks and we had quite a few! There was also a game with a little man that you had to navigate through a maze-like room on the screen, but not get attacked by certain objects like passing boulders or snakes or guards (I can't remember the name of this game, but I LOVED it, as it included strategy puzzle-like thinking and timing).

And also included on this wonderful old school computer was the on-line pioneer, Prodigy (or Prodigy Classic, as it's referred to nowadays).

 

TRS-80 w/ 128k of RAM and 2 5.25" floppies, and of course the Green Screen of Doom. LOL

 

LOL im young ;D but the very first computer was an old OLD apple contraption that I used to play doom LOL

 

We got a TRS-80 when I was in 5th grade. That was about 30 years ago now. Wow time and technology fly by.

 

For one, love the avatar! Secondly, agreed, and to think those things were flying off the shelves at Radio Shack! From the first z80 processor to now...holy cow!

 

The name of this game is on the tip of my tongue and will drive me nuts the rest of the night!

Nice I forgot to mention my 2 5.25" floppies as well. Didn't you love cutting notches in them to make the double sided?

matt

 

Chips challenge!

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Tandy 1000-TX, and I was the neighborhood computer pimp cause we had the 20MB super sized hard drive & I could play Thexder in 16 color.

 

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