Commodore 64!

First one I used was a Commodore 64.

First home computer was an original Macintosh.

First one I bought for myself was a Performa 6290.

TRaSh 80 squad in the house. My uncle was a nerd and gave it to me thereby fostering my inner nerd. 2 floppy drives of goodness.

My dad had something even older, but the first computer I got to use was our Wang 286

I don't remember the brand or specs. I only remember that it ran MS-DOS and had an orange monochrome monitor.

Sinclair ZX81. Eventually upgraded to... hold onto your hats... 16K.

VIC-20 gang!

A Timex-Sinclair 1000 in ’82.

Second hand TI 99/4A

An Atari 800XL. Custom OS loaded into a BASIC interpreter at startup unless you put a bootable floppy in the external 5.25" drive. We would load up DOS on the external drive and then boot whatever games my dad had pirated from his buddies. Played bootleg Ultima IV, Castle Wolfenstein (the original original one, not the 3D one) and a bunch of others. We had two cartridges (Pengo and Galaxian), but we also had 100s of games in a big shoe box of floppies.

I also learned BASIC on it at a pretty young age, which helped push me into technology as a career path, though I had to unlearn a lot of that when I got to high school and took real programming courses.

Close to that one, an Apple IIe with a color monitor! (pic not mine) Apparently the color monitor was rare? Explains why most pictures I've found have the green and black one.

Commodore VIC20 with a stonking great 5k of RAM

So many crusty grey beards in this thread. I love it.

Another Commodore 64 here.

Amstrad PCW 9512+. Green screen thing with a daisy wheel printer that sounded like a machine gun.

Got a PC with a Celeron 333MHz a few years later. My memories of that are much fonder.

I can't tell you the exact made and model, but my first computer was an old one that was a hand-me-down from my dad. It ran Windows XP and looked something like this I played of lot of educational CD ROMS on that thing. Good times.

IBM PS/2. Got it for free along with an original HP Deskjet printer. It originally ran MS-DOS until a family friend gave us an old floppy set of Windows 3.1.

The PS/2 was ancient by that point but it probably helped convince my parents that a PC was a worthwhile investment. Creating documents in Word was a lot easier than using a typewriter.

Don't remember the brand but it was a Win 3.1 machine from Sears. It had a turbo button.

The Leading Edge Model D. An 8088 from the late 80s that we got 3rd hand

It had 2 double density 5.25" floppy drives and 256K of RAM! If I let it warm up 10 minutes it could even run Print Maker Pro.

We had "Darth Vader" Apple IIs at school, but I had an Atari 800 at home.

The first one I knew the model number of was the Macintosh IIsi. It had Mac OS 7. The only games were SimCity, and a few free games we got from a 1 hour free trial of AOL. The only programming language was Apple Script, and it didn't work right (the sample programs didn't run).

Haven’t seen this one yet: ZX Spectrum. Apparently the successor to the ZX81.

The Gibson

Commodore 64 with the tape drive. I was always jealous of my cousins who had the floppy disk drive. Later we had a Tandy 2000.

Had something that was an Apple II or IBM clone....ran floppy floppies.

I couldn't even save my documents, as I had no spare floppies and my parents didn't understand we need blank ones as media lol.

Yet they were able to record TV to blank VHS's....

But I learned BASIC on it. And played Garfield and Spiderman and Oregon Trail a lot.

Our second one was a Compaq, with a Pentium III, onboard motherboard GFX. 56k that never went beyond 4100 on the best of days, 1200 when raining. It fried eventually after a botched RAM upgrade by my brother.

It did run Merchwarrior III, FFXI and Tribes 2 swell when we got it a PCI graphics card before the botched RAM incident.

Off topic:

My brother coached me in PC building in ~02. Most recently built a 5950X3D system. Thanks Microcenter. And R.I.P. my brother.

Some mid-late 80s IBM from a flea market. Came with no OS installed. But along with it came a set of 5in floppies. DOS 1 and a copy of Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator. I eventually got DOS 3 from a family friend and upgraded it. Being able to change the background from black to blue blew my mind.

Commodore 64.

I'm young, mine a Macintosh IIci!

Commodore 64.

We grew up with various windows and DOS computers, then my first computer that was mine was a used computer with Windows ME and a massive 20gb hard drive.

After that I bought an iMac with Mac OS X tiger and have been using Macs ever since.

I’ve also frankensteined a few Linux machines together from yard sale parts over the years.

Commodore 64

Intel 80286.

I was a child, so Sharp Hotbit (Zilog Z80 processor) and a PC-XT, both basically for games. PC-AT 386 when I started college.

I grew up without any sort of home computer. Still went to school for computer graphics and 3D animation, taught myself programming in the computer lab in the evenings. Only after getting my degree did I get my first computer. I've been a professional developer for the last 15ish years.

I did have access to school computers most of my life. My first memory was learning LOGO on an Apple II in elementary school. Making that turtle draw fractals. Good times.

Amiga 500

Commodore Plus/4, bought at discount at ALDI.

TRS-80 CoCo, 16k RAM, cassette drive

TRS-80 model 1 level 2. 2k RAM. Tape drive. BASIC.

Saved up for an apple II gs after that.

Coleco Adam

Commodore VIC20 from a garbage dump, it was older than me.

Altair 8080

Commodore Pet 4016

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Then a Commodore 64. Loved that machine.

My first computer was an eight-bit system running the CP/M operating system on an Intel 8080 processor, in about 1980. The system was some $900. I bought a Whitesmiths C compiler for it for about $300, and it came with the Wordstar text editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesmiths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar