Texas Instruments TI/99a

My first computer was a ZX81, but I think it was a custom build between my father, a carpenter, and my uncle, an electrician who fixed arcade games.

It was housed in a wooden case with a proper keyboard. The 16K RAM pack had been soldered on inside, so there was no case of it ever crashing due to a bad connection.

Simple black and white graphics with no sound. I loved it to bits.

Altair 8080

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.

I had a Tandy TRS-80. I loved that thing. It was affectionately called the trash-80, but I used mine until it would no longer boot. It booted into BASIC and had 16 colors, and with the expansion module it had a voice synthesizer and a 5.25 inch floppy drive.

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.

A pentium 100 shitbox hand built by my ol dad

This was well into the pentium II era of PC mind

Amstrad CPC

Timex TC2068. It's a Portuguese revision of the Timex TS2068 which is itself a bad ZX Spectrum clone.

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.

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.

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

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

spectrum

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

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.

Computer - Commodore 64

Mainstream - Macintosh Performa 450

Windows - Packard Bell piece of shit

Sharp MZ-700 with integrated plotter

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"

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.

The Compaq Persario

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.

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

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)

Apple ][

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

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.

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.

Dell dimension

First Used - Apple II

First Owned - Commodore Vic 20