First Computer Nostalgia

This was my first computer - way back in 1987. My friend had an Amiga, and I just didn't "get it" back then. Looking back, I should have spent a few $$$ for the Amiga :-)

Thank you for sharing your story and experience Blake. I was born in the late 80s, and my very first introduction to computers was via my dad’s white-box homemade 486 DX/33 PC running MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 (which from what I understand was pretty hot stuff for 1992 when he built it) and I believe we were the only household on our street that had any kind of PC at that point. My dad even dabbled in BBSes of the day and DOS games, in addition to his usual productivity stuff with WordPerf

My first computer was a C64 bought with my first Deutsche Mark money after reunification of Germany. What a great investment - it cost a couple hundred bucks but set me on the path to a carreer in computing. You would seldom see Apple computers in these days - I believe they were mostly available at universities and perhaps some select schools with money to spend.

My first computer is an IBM PC that the university lent to my father. I don't know which one it is but it has two floppy drivers and no hard disk, which is typical for the machines of 80s back in China. It is also an authentic IBM machine (not the ones licensed to and built by Great Wall Tech) that costs the university a fortune.I just got a gift card from my company so decided to order a C64 mini. Partly because I heard it's a fascinating machine, and partly I figured it's a g

I was born in 90, and your post sent me down memory lane. When I was still in diapers my parents put a lien on their house so my mom could get a 486 machine, learn Lotus 1-2-3, and get a better job. One of my earliest memories is watching it boot up, seeing all the BIOS text that I couldn't read or understand scrolling across the screen, and wondering what that machine was thinking about to get itself all the way to Hard Drivin' or Wolf 3D. I asked my mom many years later why she didn&

I had a Commodore 64 that I had bought with my own money, but my friend (rather his dad) had a Commodore 128 with a floppy drive. I was so impressed but also extremely jealous. My brother though bought a PC.

Oh wow, this was my first computer exactly. I wanted a commodore 64 which was way more popular in the Netherlands but it was 3 times the price so my parents couldn't afford it.But it was good, because the lack of software availability (locally) made me learn programming in short order.I still have 2 of these, my original one and another one I bought during the years. Both have dead memory chips though. For some reason these age poorly. They are all socketed but very hard to obtain the

Reminds me the early periods of personal computers.

I was all set to buy the $50 self-assembled kit when my dad stopped me and said don't buy that, it's a toy. He didn't know anything about computers but was right anyway. Later I got an Atari 8-bit. I'm sure I would have done lots with the ZX81 and eventually moved up to one of the Atari, C64, Apple II. Good times. I got to use a Xerox CP/M machine a little while later that was decidedly more business-like.

Something similar was the first computer I used too. My answer would.be: My dad bought it. This was a common form factor for personal computers back then, and they were sold in stores to to the general public.