What was your first home computer ?

[Mikey]

We did this thread a few years ago, but since then we got a lot of new members, so it's like a new thread again.

Tandy TRS-80 "color computer" for me

What about you ?

[clemso]

Mine was the Apple Mac LC 2 boasting a ripping 4 mb of ram and a super fast 16 mhz processor

Clem

[neogelion]

Commodore 64 when I was a kid, followed by a 486 DX2 66 Mhz back in the early 90's.

[bagmonster]

I had the Coleco ADAM followed by the Commodore 64.

[boss]

Apple IIe

[raider5gt]

I had a sinclair ZX81

[megocrazy]

Texas Instruments TI-99A. Still have it in the box with the original game programs and add-on voice synthesizer that makes it sound like a Cylon warrior. Under my bed at my mom's house. Someday I'll donate it to the Smithsonian.

[Gorn Captain]

Mine had a hatch in the back, to shovel the coal in.....

[Megospidey]

Commodore Colt - it had 2 disk drives.

[Captain]

Texas Instruments TI99-4A. .....even the games were lame!

[hobub]

We had the Commodore, which I personally never used as a teen. But as an adult, mine was a MacIntosh PowerPC 7100, which I paid $3000 for and had paid off in just a few months of freelancing. Not a bad investment. I finally took it down last year and put it in a box (all 500 mb of storage space and 16 mb of RAM). Poor thing didn't even have a CD Rom or Modem. And rather than put in the pace makers, my parents loned me an old PC of theirs in 2000 which I used until 2 years ago when I bought this Multimedia monster I have here now. (which I paid $1253 so in today's market you know I got me some power. I built it to render 3D Studio max stuff) and only use it at the moment, I might add, to browse the internet.

[cjefferys]

Commodore 64. I bought it when it first came out, on advice from a computer geek friend. (before that, I was considering a TRS-80 or an Atari 800). Of course, less than a year later, the thing had a big price drop (this kind of thing is still happening to me!). For the first year or so, there wasn't too much software for it, so it kind of sucked, but all of a sudden there was an explosion in interest and it became the most popular home PC. At that point, there was tons of games and such available for it. Our computer lab at high school became a big pirated game trading center (we had a Commodore dual disk drive there that made copying games a snap). I ended up with a crapload of games to play. The disc drive finally broke down a few years later (those drives were notoriously finicky, you were afraid to even move it!) and I sold everything at a yardsale. Now I wish I hadn't done so.

[Mikey]

My second computer was a Commodore 128

I still remember, some floppy games used to take 20 minutes to load until you could play it.

I'd insert "Realm of Impossibility" and go eat supper while it was loading

[toys2cool]

I was never really into computers until I discovered Porn and ebay in High school .I got my first one in 98-99 and it was an Emachines something(my mom still has it somewhere) it was good enough to make me buy a new Emachines 4 years ago which I've upgraded since then and works awesome,It's time to buy a new one this year though

[livingdead70]

Well my dad was the principle of a local high school so he would bring them home over the sumer , first one was an apple in summer of 81. I learned some stuff on it and for Christmas I got a vic-20. And about a year or 2 later I got a commodore 64 and a 1541 disk drive. I played with that thing well into the 90s, the games on that thing rock and still do. Ive got the Vice Commodore Emulator on my PC now and I still games like Raid Over Bungeling Bay..........
Now I have a E-machine and there is also a Dell here....... My girlfreind has a lap top too for her job.
trey