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

Commodore VIC20

Tandy 3000

Remember playing heroes quest, lemmings and Prince of Persia.

Commodore 64. I fell in love with Wizard of Wor before we got the family computer, and I felt pretty lucky for having a floppy drive. I also used to play a good bunch of Atari 2600 clone at a family member, if that counts.

Dragon 32.

The first computer I had for myself was an MSI gaming laptop with a GTX 950m GPU. It was pretty shitty. Overheated immediately, so when rendering only the first two frames went quickly, but then it slowed to a crawl. Same with games. Everything ran badly on it because it would just jump to 99°C and immediately get throttled. Damn thing idled at nearly 60°C.

The first computer I remember my family having was one of those very colourful Mac desktop computers.

Our first computer was a Macintosh, not sure of what model, as I was pretty young. I played many hours of StuntCopter on it!

Sharp PC-1211

Acer Aspire.

100 MHz Pentium, 4 MB RAM, 14.4 modem. 4x CD-ROM.

The Epson action note

It was a little powerhouse for the time, ran w95 without issues and connection to the internet was, within reason, acceptable for the time as well

Throw in a cd recorder, some good headphones,QBasic, and you were set for a long time

Not my image but found it online, a Dell computer system from 1998 or so.

I think the first one I used, on loan over the summer from the college of FE that my Mum worked at, was an Intertec Superbrain. If not that then something from that era with a monitor and twin floppies all in one.

The first one I owned was a Sinclair ZX81, then a C64 shortly after it halved in price, then an Amiga. Coded the heck out of the 81 and 64 but not much on the Amiga. I remember trying out a C compiler on the C64 but there was so much disk swapping involved that it was just ridiculous and I gave up.

@danishdude1944@feddit.dk my parents bought my brothers and I an Apple IIc a year before the first Mac made it obsolete. We had a Commodore 64 with a cassette tape drive for games.

The first computer I bought with my own (borrow student loan) money was a 120MHz Mac 8500. I bought it before I graduated, took it to the graphic design lab and cloned one of the lab 8500 drives with all the software onto it. A few years later I ended up working at that same university and disposing of hundreds of worthless 8500s.

I was still paying mine off :(

Acorn Electron.

ZX spectrum.Fucking loved it.

I had this but an Apple ][ clone. I added two 8in floppy drives for “big” storage.

I had 386 pc with ms-dos and windows 3.0 but soon I switched it to Amiga 1200 and I must say, it was stunning computer compared to pc.

Vic 20

It was some packard bell PC with windows xp, and a 1.9 GHz pentium 4

Technically a commodore vic-20 but I remember the c64 better

Zx Spectrum 48k. But my second will always be the one I love the most. Commodore Amiga 500.

Used computers at school (BBC B), uni and work (beige PCs); and had video game consoles (Intellivision, NES, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Philips CD-i, etc) but didn't my own first home computer until relatively late, bought in 2000.

A Dell Inspiron 7500 "desktop-replacement" laptop, with:

• 15-inch 1400x1050 screen (shit hot back then, still higher resolution than many laptops today),
• 6GB HDD
• Intel Mobile Pentium CPU (can't remember exact specs)
• 128MB RAM (a significantly expensive extra back then)
• ATI Rage Mobility M graphics
• Windows 98 SE (I tried out BeOS R5 PE on it, so much more stable but the only available graphics driver could only give 800x640)

And I've been cleaning out my mum's shoddily built shed and just found it in this sorry state!

The hinge was always super stiff, and after 4-5 years snapped. I kept it alive for a while by rigging up some brackets to hold the screen. Eventually I put it away, and after a few moves it ended up stored at my mum's. Now wIth a fair bit of opossum crap on and around it, and rainwater from the leaky shed roof.

I wonder if there are still any episodes of The Sopranos downloaded from Dalnet IRC on it.

apple IIc

edit - that was the first computer in my home as a kid. i think the first computer i used was a commodore at school.

S100 bus kit computer, a Polymorphic Polly 88.

At home: a hand me down Apple ][e At school: apple ][ systems At my dad's work (spent lots of time there): IBM PC

My first computer that I bought myself was a Dell Inspiron laptop that I bought in 2000. It was about $1,500 if I remember correctly, and had 256 MB of RAM. Sounded like a plane about to take off every time you turned it on, the fans were stupid loud.

The first computer my parents bought was in the late '80s/early 90s that ran MS-DOS. I don't remember the brand name, but my brother and I used to play "Castle Adventure" on it. We drew maps of the screens on paper notepads to make our own cheat sheets.

Very close! Mine was the Apple II plus. I remember using that before I could read. I memorized how to spell catalog which did a directory listing. I eventually learned some Apple basic on it as well.

Some old dell I don’t remember was the family computer. 8gb HDD. my first computer, the one that belonged explicitly to me, was my sister’s hand me down powerbook G4 - still got it!

Was a Mac user (Linux baby machines for fun) until a few months ago when they royally fucked me on my Mac Studio. So I built a PC and installed bazzite on it lol never going back. I miss MacOS tbh. I think a lot of the haters really don’t appreciate how elegant the whole ecosystem is and how next level the interplay between devices can be. I mean it’s truly remarkable how smooth the experience can be. It’s like entering a flow state in a good video game. But yeah, I’m out. They lost that customer experience a long time ago that made them exceptional.

Edit: actually I do remember some old Apple that belong to my dad and playing Sir Addalot/Math Blaster/Number Munchers on it. But I was so young I didn’t quite know what I was doing, so that old Dell was probably the first computer I used on daily basis

My family's first computer was an Amiga 1000. The office was across from the bathroom and my dad would type in stories for it to speak while I played in the bathtub. Good times.

My first computer was some random 386? my dad found in the trash. I think the power supply was dead and all that needed replacing. Who ever threw it out left a HDD full of cga dos games for me to explore. Only one I remember liking was elite, which I played the crap out of. Felt cool to be the only kid in town with their own PC in the mid 90s.