Thread: your first PC?

My first computer was a TRS80, I was pretty young and dont remember much about it besides it having donkey kong, it used cassette tapes, after that i upgraded to a commodore 128d, i dont ever remember using that for anything but the C64 mode though.

Apple IIe, monochrome screen. Later upgraded to a colour screen, wow!

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I had a Commodore 64. I used an old 14" tv for a monitor. Seems a lifetime ago. By the replies it seems we are all Old people on here.

I've still got my first computer - a Commodore 64 with tape "drive". I also have the floppy drive for it.

My second computer was a TRS-80 pocket computer (affectionately known as a "trash-80" while I was at school).

I still have that one too but the liquid crystal in the screen has leaked so while it still turns on, it can't be used.

Vic 20 with cartridges and tape drive. Used to go to garage sales to buy cheap 2nd hand tapes and reuse. Nothing like waiting for a game to load a mid point from tape. Couldn't just make coffee, make a whole meal.

Looks like I'm the first here to have an Amstrad, the 464. Ours was the posh version - it had a colour screen!
It was still the main computer for us kids when I was in college a few years later. There was a lot of homework typed up on the word processor (Tasword iirc) and plenty of time to make a coffee while the programs loaded off the integrated tape player.

I think my youngest brother still has it.

A mate here in Aus had a Commodore 64 that we played games on "BC's Wheel was a favourite) but I assume that was mid early to mid 80s?

The first computer I can recall using was this thing Dad brought home from work. I first thought it was an oscilliscope! It was a big chunky box and when you took the lid off (well, it was hinged) there was a keyboard in the lid. Small built in monochrome monitor. I can't recall much else about it.

Our school had a "computer lab" and we had TRS-80s the ones with the keyboard and monitor etc all in the "case".

Later Dad bought our family our first computer - an Apple II Europlus. (no simple plus for us, thank you, we got the one that ran on 240v because we knew we'd be bringing it home with us. At the time we lived in 110 v land).

It had a green monochrome monitor, colour ones not being available at the time. We did have a colour TV though, but of course the Apple graphics card thing didnt think of that so what to do...

Dad built from scratch a colour graphics card ! Not only was I impressed then but I still am. The thing was a maze of various coloured wires soldered to electronic components of myriad varieties on a circuit board which plugged in just like modern PC cards - kind of.

The thing worked a treat!
Everything Apple has done since has been worse than the Apple II.
Not technically, but in terms of how marvellous the product is.

And yes I too remember the joy (well it seemed to be at the time) of typing in huge BASIC programs, and then marvelling when all those lines of "stuff" resolved into a space invaders game or something. Well cool.

Oh and before that we had an Atari. I didn't count it as a computer (though of course it was) - a gaming console that used cartridges. Some great games on that one and we had "paddles" for playing tennis, driving games etc. For the uninitiated a paddle is basically just a potentiometer (spelling Ron? ) turn one way and thing on screen goes one direction and vice versa. We also had conventional joysticks.

I had a TRS 80 too (well, the old man did), but it was a full size computer. I don't remember it doing too much apart from the dos type screen.

A commodore 128 was our next computer... I remember saving up for months for games like Ikari Warriors, Shinobi and Double Dragon Load "$",8,1