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Mine was the Apple II Europlus. Bought it in 1979. Loved that thing.

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[-] konomikitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] sfbing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Commodore Pet 4016

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Then a Commodore 64. Loved that machine.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

A pentium 100 shitbox hand built by my ol dad

This was well into the pentium II era of PC mind

[-] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some shitty HP Laptop with Intel Core i5 (don't even remember the gen number but was around like 2014-15), something like 256GB or 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 1366x768 resolution, webcam, intergrated graphics. Also I think it had touch screen but the grease from my fingers cause it to randomly activate. And even wiping it off still sometimes had those issues.

It had windows 8 but then I updated to windows 10 for free.

(I did mess around with Ubuntu later on)

Its capable of running Skyrim at lowest settings with at least 30 fps, GTA V with 30-50 fps.

It already doesn't have the DVD thing that I saw some older laptop have.

I used a USB-A dongle wireless mouse with it.

Gen Z btw.

Edit: Reading these comments make me feel like Lemmy is a club I'm too young to join lol

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

An Acorn Atom with 2KB of RAM because 12KB was too expensive. Good little computer, and the journey from the tiny Acorn Computers company to today's ARM processors is a pretty amazing one.

[-] Jaybob32@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Texas Instruments TI/99a

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[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

I think I used an Apple ][ through the gifted program before we got a used Commodore 64 at home, but I spent more time on the C64. Taught myself to type and to program in BASIC.

[-] ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mine was a ZX Spectrum, my father bought it for me when I was 12 years old, good times haha :D

spectrum

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

First Used - Apple II

First Owned - Commodore Vic 20

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Dell dimension

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Don't remember the brand at all, but it had to have been running either one of the last of the windows series in the 90s or very early 2000s windows. Standard family computer that I'm pretty sure belonged to my grandpa but was a family computer in the end.

Pretty sure there was one that came before it, but that's extremely blurry in my mind, so I can't count it if I can only vaguely remember it. Don't even remember what windows version was on it.

first that I used was an IBM PS/2 dual booting OS/2 and Windows 3.1. first that was actually mine was a NEC made Windows 98 laptop.

Some Dell with a Pentium 3. I didn't use it much and eventually got a Compaq laptop with a Pentium M of some sort. Also didn't use that too much. But eventually we got an Asus G50v gaming laptop and I used the shit out of that thing.

[-] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Timex-Sinclair 1000, that my grandparents got for sitting through a time share pitch. Had the optional ram extension pack. No storage so you would have to type in your whole program every time but it was mine!

I cut my teeth on trs-80s, kaypro 8088s and the first apples though. i like computers!

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Our family had a 286 PC-compatible running Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS, built by someone at my dad’s job; I think he built and sold computers as a side gig. Looking back I strongly suspect all the software he included was not paid-for, or he bought it once and kept reinstalling it.

[-] Gilles_D@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Sharp MZ-700 with integrated plotter

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

First one I used was an Apple II at school. First I used outside of school was my buddy's Laser Apple II clone. First one I owned was an Atari XEGS, with the caveat that we didn't get the disk drive, so all programs had to be typed in when I wasn't playing Bug Zapper or Missile Command or failing to learn how to play Flight Simulator 2. Still learned a lot of Atari BASIC.

Eventually we got a Tandy RSX with DOS 5.0 and "Tandy Deskmate"

[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some bulky 486 with a huge red on/off switch. I bought it for 10 bucks from a friend. It ran DOS and later Win 3.11

[-] Libra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

TRS-80 Color Computer 2

For high school graduation I got an Apple IIe with all the bells and whistles - the color monitor, dual floppy, ram/80-column card, 1mb ram extension, even the 5mb hdd, it was great.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

First Used: Tandy Model IV (Learned BASIC, Pascal, FORTRAN and COBOL on one.)

First Owned: Tandy 1000SX (It carried me through my first stint in college)

[-] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

The Compaq Persario

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Atari 520ST with the monochrome monitor. Motorola 68000 I think. 1986.

I was a student and paid for the computer plus most of my tuition by typesetting essays using a word processor named Paper Clip. Started a bad habit of independent geeky gig work because of it.

[-] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Atari 400 with a cassette tape drive and a 300 baud modem.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Computer - Commodore 64

Mainstream - Macintosh Performa 450

Windows - Packard Bell piece of shit

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

First I used was an apple II at the public library mostly just for games like Oregon trail, first I programmed on was in a school library using an IBM PS/2 using Pascal, and first I owned was a Packard bell Pentium 2 family shared computer.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

First that I worked on was a DEC pdp8e. First that I owned was a Commodore 64.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apple ][

Got the extended memory to 128k, 80 character screen, and a real tank of a printer

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

First at home was dad's IBM AT in 1983 or so. Then in 1985 it was one of early Macintoshes, later upgraded to 512kB RAM. Then a Mac SE.

My own first was a Siemens 80386 around 1988 running Windows 3.

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