What was your first and second home computer ?

[Mikey]

Think we might have done this subject years ago but I forgot

Mine was .....

First --- Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer

Second --- Commodore 128

[Brazoo]

My mom and dad went a bit nuts and we got an Apple IIc with a 13" color monitor. I still have it and the boxes discs and manuals and everything...to my wife's ongoing chagrin.

I even still have the bag in this ad. I used to use it to keep my Star Wars toys in, and when I got older I filled it with cassette tapes for my Walkman:

The next family computer was a non-descript windows thing. I never used it. My next computer was a Mac Performa which I got used LOOONG after it was a current machine, but I learned a lot of Adobe fundamentals on it and moved onto more current computers pretty quickly.

[pmwasson]

First was an Apple ][+
Second was probably an Apple IIc

[Makernaut]

Mine was .....

First --- Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer

Me, too!! Or more accurately, it was my Dad's. We used the living room TV for a monitor and had a tape recorder for storage. He followed it up with a TRS-80 Model 4.

The first one I paid for with my own money was a Tandy 1000SX. I had some really fun (for the time) games for that one.

[noelani72]

Amiga 1200 then a 75Mhz Hewlit Packard Pentium with Win 95

[rche]

Atari 2600 with the Atari Basic cart
then a TI 99/4a. I recall programming all sorts of things on the TI; but man was that cassette tape storage a pain to use.

[EmergencyIan]

First was Commodore 128. I'm not sure what the second was, the bottom line with that one was to gain internet access, back in the mid 90s.

- Ian

[Werewolf]

Didn't get a computer until the mid 90s. I think it was an HP. Ugh, I'm getting AOL dial up flashbacks.

[MRP]

We were always too poor to afford a computer when I was living at home. I used a few at school in junior high, and some friends during high school, and I had to utilize the computer labs at university to do any work with the computer. When I was in grad school I scraped enough money together to buy a used Mac to be able to work on my master's thesis. My second computer circa 2000 was a laptop I got when ESPN donated some of their used computers to the high school I was teaching for at the at the time, and some of the faculty got them to use in integrating tech into the classroom. I bought my first new computer a year or so later.

-M

[palitoy]

84-88 Commodore 64
88-96 Nothing

I used a computer in college and I think my girlfriend had one in her room but I honestly spent the majority of my twenties avoiding them.

Ironically my first paying gig out of college was a software start up where they gave me a 50lb laptop. I was so full of crap.

[VintageJoe70]

My first was a Packard Bell from Sears back in the late 1990's, and expensive as heck compared to today's prices....Do they even make Packard Bell anymore...lol.....

I don't remember what my second one was now....But my computers of choice today are HP's....

[Boywonder0]

Tandy CoCo

[sprytel]

TRS-80
Apple IIe

I wrote my first little computer programs in BASIC when I was a kindergartner... then I grew up and did it for a living.

[cjefferys]

Commodore 64
IBM Thinkpad laptop (there was a long period in between these two where I had no computer)

[cockyhoskins]

My first was a Timex Sinclair 1000. I got it in the early 1980s. I think my second was probably an Atari 400. I honestly can't remember.

I participated in my school district's very first computer program. Basically, we just wrote in basic.