Your first PC:::

[farmer_rob]

The first computer with a keyboard and screen and such that I owned was a Macintosh 512k with an 800k floppy drive - I also bought a 15" dot matrix printer and the whole lot cost around $4000 - in 1985 dollars. I had been using IBM PCs at work for a couple of years and also x86-based Concurrent CP/M machines (with an 8" floppy disk and 10Mbyte hard disk.)

The first "computer" I owned was a SC/MP microprocessor system with 256 bytes of memory, programmed by 8 switches on the front and output was 8 leds.

Since then I've been through 4 laptops, 3 desktops and numerous work computers.

[boggo]

c64 for me.. still fondly remember the games on it too and fighting with siblings as to when the game got switched off as the high scores were wiped!

[Hamish McHaggis]

I built a sinclair z81 I think it was from a kitset

Me too - ZX81. It had 1K memory and no storage, so once you programed it you couldn't switch it off unless you wanted to reprogram it...

[Topgunn]

Our first computer was a vic20 and I still remember seeing a typed message run down the screen with the last one flashing lol we had the tape drive and thought nothing about waiting 5minutes for it to do anything. Now if my pc isnt instant im not happy and wondering whats wrong. I heard somewhere about an unwritten? law about technology doubling with each upgrade so my mind boggles on where we will be in another 10 years.

[ving]

Vic 20...

ditto...i had the tape player. gee it had some funky games

apple 2e at school and the equivalent ibm at home.

[virgal_tracy]

Another Vic20 owner here. It was so fancy after game playing on the Atari 2600. The Vic 20 came along just as we were about to buy the upgrade for the Atari to turm it into a PC. Following the Vic 20 was an Apple IIe clone. I'm sure it was called an apricot or the like. It came with 2 x 5 1/4" drives which enabled you to run a programme and then save it at the same time.

My biggest achievement back then was to cut out the memory protection tab on the right hand side of the 5 1/4" diisks to turn them into 2 sided and double the memory capacity.

Oh the memories.

[Keith]

Promise not laugh ?????

OK .... In that case I'll tell you.

It was a Tandy TRS80. Programs loaded (eventually) by tape & had a whopping 4k memory.

As soon as finances permitted it was replaced by the Commodore 64

Hey I had a TRS80 as well Mine was second hand but I was lucky enough to have a twin floppy drive, and those tiny joysticks.

But before that I had a VZ200! What a beast it was.

[peterking]

Tang 8086 with a 8088 maths Co-pro, 356kb of ram, 20mb hard drive, one 5.25 and one 3.5in drive and mono graphics card with a Nice One modem and amber monitor.
It was the latest and greatest.

[oldfart]

Vic20, followed by an trusty XT with twin 360kb drives.

[Invictus]

Hmmm, haven't seen anyone else list what I had.

BBC Micro - MOS 6502 CPU @ 2Mhz, 64Kb RAM, Hooked up to the family TV and used an adapter cable for the cassette player. Same era ('81/'82) and style as some of the early apples and commodores.
I would hate to know how many days/weeks I spent typing on that thing ... yay BASIC !