Do you remember what your first computer was?
By mirage108
@mirage108 (3402)
United States
23 responses
@thaMARKER (2503)
• Philippines
9 Feb 09
When I was fresh in college, I was getting a degree in computer science which later on shifted to Information Technology. That was a long time ago, eight or almost there now. I’m used to go to cafés before that to go online but my sister bought me one. it lasted for long, until I graduated actually.
@clownfish (3272)
• United States
12 Nov 06
Yes LOL Mine was an Apple IIc handed down by my brother. I can't believe that cost a few thousand dollars back then and it can't do anything! LOL Then I got an AST, my first PC. What a wonderful brand! It was great! Then I got another brand (not so great - crappy, in fact) and now I have a Dell. It's fabulous!
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
13 Nov 06
never had a apple and I agreen those older computers cost so much. I am personnaly glad the price came down
@Thewishlady (1057)
• Netherlands
12 Nov 06
We also had a commodore 64.. it still works... we had loads of games.
Space-taxi was favorite. It was like 10-14 years ago I think :)
@pitstop (13056)
• India
7 Dec 06
The first comp I remember using was something called Commodore 64. It was hooked upto the TV instead of a monitor. Remember playing games like River Raid, Donkey Kong on it and using stuff like Printshop, printmaster etc.
Pretty cute thing!
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
8 Dec 06
i know what you mean I had one myself. thank you for responding.
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
12 Nov 06
a commodore is one of the first pc's made it wasnt the first through. it was fairly cheep under a hundred. no or little memory and the programs you had were on a cassett tape they didnt even have a disk drive
here are the spcs of the commodore 64
Introduced: January 1982
Released: September 1982
How many: ~17 million
Price: US $595.
CPU: MOS 6510, 1MHz
Sound: SID 6581, 3 channels of sound
RAM: 64K
Display: 25 X 40 text
320 X 200, 16 colors max
Ports: TV, RGB & composite video
2 joysticks, cartridge port
serial peripheral port
Peripherals: cassette recorder
printer, modem
external 170K floppy drive
OS: ROM BASIC
@smuggeridge (2148)
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12 Nov 06
mine was a BBC computer, plugged into the TV, it was really cool, we still have it, apparantly its become collectable now
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
13 Nov 06
yes that is what the commodore 64 was like you had to plu it into a tv also
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
11 Nov 06
I had a frind who had one of those. it was a pretty good computer also
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
11 Nov 06
That was a good a durable computer. I even typed in the progams from a magazine including a word processing a program
@blondegirl1975 (4298)
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11 Nov 06
i had a commodore 64 and it was a long time ago and i also had a attartie as well
@lucalucky (1839)
• Italy
12 Nov 06
Yes I remember it.
It was an Apple Macintosh... too many years ago
@mirage108 (3402)
• United States
12 Nov 06
nice machine but when I started it was the comodore or a TRS80 or other type of machine. laptops as we know them were not even thought of then
@rachelynn (428)
• United States
11 Nov 06
That was my first computer too the Commodore 64. You had to type commands for it to work and couldn't do much with it, lol wow how technology has advanced since those days!
@wildpvcgal (1085)
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11 Nov 06
Oh yeh, it was such a long time ago lol, It was a dragon 64 and I looovvved it. xx
@dholey (1383)
• India
7 Dec 06
i can tell u no one can forget his first computer, because it is very costly (i had an assembled one the configuration was 2.1 gb HDD, 16 MB ram, 14" monitor, PixcelView T.V. tuner card, with multimedia WITH P1 PROCESSOR 166 Mhz mmx TECHNOLOGY ) IT costs 85k Rupees then ... now i can get Sony Viao laptop in such amount, but it was fun having such thing in 90's era ... every one comes to see my pc ...
and it helped me to earn for next 3 more pc and a laptop (i still have it ... not working on it but it is in working condition)
@gscs1838 (1536)
• Malaysia
7 Dec 06
emm...it was a long time ago, my first computer was pentium 100. yet i bought it as second hand from somebody.
compare with my pc now...really can't imagine how's the speed..
@vhmehta (621)
• United States
7 Dec 06
I can never forget my first computer. It was the mostly important possession I had. It was a 486. I used it like it was gold.
