What was your first computer

Radio Shack Tandy. Even took their computer class!

 

Timex Sinclair 1000 that connected to the TV Set, and a cassette recorder for program tapes.

 

Acer 486DX with a 14.4 modem. Blazin' fast!

 

A slide rule. Yep it was a computer as it computed numbers by matching the rules and aligning the cursor.

 

Ok, I amend mypost. I began with an Abacus in grade school.
(Damned if I can remember how to use one now, but once I did)

 

I might still have mine stored away.

 

My brain, which was damaged at three, and then fed endless bullshit, and I've been working on reprogramming it ever since.

 

Timex/Sinclair ZX81. It was a kit that I built with my dad. The hard drive was a Radio Shack 30 minute cassette tape. Hooked to a 13” B&W television. Once, when I was home alone, I hooked it up to Curtis Mathis in the living room. Way worse graphics than the 13 inch tv.

 

IBM Aptiva 486. Had a cd rom and speakers and 8mg hard drive.

 

There are not many of us left who could use one and fewer who would want to, but they were very efficient and gave you answers with significant figures, not over blown hyopthetical accuracy.

 

Not sure what to answer, the first pc in my youth was a second hand ibm office pc, wich my mom bought from her work(for my sis her school,lol) Then commodore16/64........then game consoles sega/nintendo......8/16/32 bit.........PS 1

Back to first self bougth/payed PC(compaq presario),pimped with better vidcard/more ram(online gaming).............after that first full self build pc.............Now 4th self build version

Mzzls

 

The first computer I remember ever using was a Windows 95, I remember surfing the web with Netscape lol. The first computer I ever owned that actually belonged to me was an ASUS Bamboo U53 laptop. It was a beautiful PC, with Windows 7, and it was my baby. But then the hinge broke and it made the fan overheat, so I had to upgrade to a Dell.

 

I'm not sure Dell is much of an upgrade. I've had a few and they've always been problematic!

 

It wasn't lol. It was probably the worst computer I've ever had. It had so many problems, its own Dell Support and Assist software was basically just adware. Glad I upgraded to an Acer.

 

A ti99 was my firt.. I didnt know much about it.....

It had its own basic but I didnt even know how to program.using that. It was a very strange basic

 

The first one I ever used was a Compaq Portable. Work in 1984. It belonged to my employer. I had a traveling job and did have to move it from location to location. They were not assigned to individual employees, but rather to a team to share on the job sites. One member of the team was assigned to make sure it came back. They cost just under $3,000. That's over $8,000 in today's dollars.

The case had a luggage-type handle on it, and it was referred to as "a suitcase." Calling it "portable" was technically true, but not by today's standards. With a dot-matrix printer and cords/plugs/paper, the whole thing required its own wheeled cart, and the whole collection weighed 60-70 lbs. People dreaded having to fly with them, because we weren't allowed to check them, and they were heavy and bulky. Announced in '82 and first shipped in March 1983, it was Compaq Computer Corporation's first product ever, and one of the first IBM-compatible PCs. IBM didn't have a portable computer, and they had to develop one to compete with the Compaq machine.

In 1984, these machines put a pool of word processing employees out of work. Prior to that, we wrote documents by hand on yellow pads, and a pool of word processing employees would turn them into nicely formatted and printed workplace-suitable documents.



The first computer I ever owned was a Dell desktop machine, but not until 2004. I never had internet access at home until 2004, and I added it only then because it was impossible to do a job search without the internet by 2004, and I needed to find a new job. By 2004, over 90 percent of US households already had internet service in the home. I'm not an early adopter of any new technology, and I don't really like gadgets anyway. I had them assigned to me by employers since 2007, but I've never owned my own smartphone, and I don't want to ever own one.

 

I don't remember but
I had windows 7