Mine was the Apple II Europlus. Bought it in 1979. Loved that thing.
Commodore 64!
Commodore… 128! (But it was always in GO64 mode for the games)
Commodore 64 … Same here … but it was with a family friend that I went to visit often … every I saw the, we spent hours on their system. I remember sorting through all the ASCII characters to try to make a drawing on the screen … hours and hours of tip tapping to find the right character for the flag of England I was drawing.
With a cassette drive, baybeeee
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
I feel old when I think of all the steps we had to take to start the most basic game. Rewind tape. Hit reset on the counter. Find index of program you want and fast forward to that position. Enter load command. Play on tape. Wait. By the time it was loaded and we started recess was over.
First one I used was a Commodore 64.
First home computer was an original Macintosh.
First one I bought for myself was a Performa 6290.
My dad had something even older, but the first computer I got to use was our Wang 286
Sinclair ZX81. Eventually upgraded to… hold onto your hats… 16K.
TRaSh 80 squad in the house. My uncle was a nerd and gave it to me thereby fostering my inner nerd. 2 floppy drives of goodness.
My dad was the nerd who fostered my inner nerd, we had a tape drive though.
I don’t remember the brand or specs. I only remember that it ran MS-DOS and had an orange monochrome monitor.
Don’t remember the brand or specs either. But I remember it took 5 1/4 inch floppies. That was the first and last time I used that size. Circa 1995
Close to that one, an Apple IIe with a color monitor! (pic not mine) Apparently the color monitor was rare? Explains why most pictures I’ve found have the green and black one.
Also coincidentally shown: the best game of the last century.
Chrono Trigger would like a word.
VIC-20 gang!
So many crusty grey beards in this thread. I love it.
Another Commodore 64 here.
C64 gang rise up!
Commodore 64.
Amstrad PCW 9512+. Green screen thing with a daisy wheel printer that sounded like a machine gun.
Got a PC with a Celeron 333MHz a few years later. My memories of that are much fonder.
Commodore VIC20 with a stonking great 5k of RAM
Part of which was stolen by the OS.
Yeah, 1.5k
A friend of mine had that, he was blown away that I could play pac man on the commodore 64
Same
Haven’t seen this one yet: ZX Spectrum. Apparently the successor to the ZX81.
A Timex-Sinclair 1000 in ’82.
TRS-80 CoCo, 16k RAM, cassette drive
TRS-80 CoCo 2 here! With my regular portable cassette player wired in.
Did you get the 1200 baud modem?
I wished hard for it, but never got a modem until the MS-DOS era.
