I had a Timex Sinclair 1000. Smaller than an iPad.
You wrote your own programs in Basic and saved them on a cassette tape.

Then came Compuserve and the IBM PC Jr. - it had color text. Wow.


What was your first PC?

Commodore 64. Great little computer.

I guess I never have owned a computer.

I do remember shooting the hell out of buffaloes on some ancient computers in grade school. I think I was supposed to buy a bunch of flour and beans and [censored] with my money. Nah. I just need some more bullets and enough oxen to get me to them good buffalo hunting spots.

A 8080 chip and a breadboard. First after that was a Commodore 64

PC Jr was the first my family owned. Dual floppy and the extra sidecar's of RAM. I used a TRS-80 and then an Osbourne in HS.

My mom gave me a Commodore 64 back in 84 (or 85-86, sometime around there). I remember writing the "if-then" instructions and a few others.

Tandy 1000ex

My parents bought us a Tandy at the Sher-Den (not to be confused with Midway) mall in Sherman, TX in 1988

Hewlett Packard

NEC rebranded for the company I worked for at the time. Had the big boy 20 Meg hard drive and I did the $100.00 upgrade for the 1.44 floppy drive. Had enough power to go to the moon in those days.

Too funny now takes more than 20 Meg to boot up a machine now. I paid $2600.00 for that bad boy

Apple IIe. Dual diskette drives, I was ballin’.

Charlie

Ah, the 5.25 floppy

A wonderful upgrade.
I had some 3.25s until a few years ago.

Univac 1050-2

Big arse apple. Command line to play pong

Yup, been there done that I think mine was a Gateway back in like 97' when I was in 7th grade.

Ti4a

I don’t know but I remember to play a game I had to do some ms-dos crap

Oregon Trail, used to go play that in the neighborhood library back when that was the only place in town that had a computer. Think that was like 96-98ish

Loved that game, ahhh the much simpler times.

Kapro

Apple ][ plus, back in 1982.
Just a broke high-school kid then, traded a good working dual-trace Heathkit Oscillioscope and some cash for a broken Apple2+ (couldn't afford a working one) - but got it working a month later!

Stored programs on mom's cassette recorder.
Took another year before I could buy 2 143k floppy drives, a 300 baud Volksmodem, and a 9-pin dot-matrix printer!

Best deal of my life - led to me becomming a career computer-wiz.

Can’t remember what it was. The screen was black with green characters, early/mid 90s.
Played a lot of asteroids games on it!

Amiga 2000.

An Atari. Wrote if then.. or nor... who cares and saved on a cassette. I wrote a program that would plot the ballistic ark of a 30.06 bullet. Teacher was not impressed.

Then the famous Commodore 64. Then nothing for years. Then had an HP with Windows 95. All more my software was on 5 1/ 4 floppys, so I exit Windows to go to DOS.

Brothers / different mothers

I wanted one of those bad.