No idea and really no interest. I remember some of the computers at school had a “turbo” button I always pushed it

First one I programmed on was an IBM 360 in FORTRAN using punch cards.

Oh yeah, I remember the cassettes
I had an Atari400 then moved up to the 800.
Next was the TRS-80 man we thought those things were amazing.

I started off on a DEC 10 that translated to paper tape that was loaded into an IBM 360. I also did the same with an IBM 1130 and an Interdata Model 70. These machines could be programmed in Fortran, Cobol or machine code. All the machines had magnetic tape storage and true core storage. Those were the days!

Mid 90’s Apple with a DOS compatible card so you could also run Windows. Got it through wife’s school.

IBM PC 5150

TRaSh-80 Model I

Our elementary school got apple computers in '81 if I remember correctly. We didn't have our own computer until I was in Jr High. It was an IBM I believe.

Y’all must have gone to rich schools. I never used or had access to a computer until I started my career.

Same here....

I was an E3 when i bought mine, probably skipped a few car insurance payments to buy it like a moron. That was my signature move at the time.

Atari 400. Programmed in Basic & saved to cassette.

Ours was a Gateway to. Bought it in 97 if I remember correctly. I think we paid between 2-3 thousand for it back then.

TRaSh-80

I think it was an Apple 2c that mom bought to teach her 6th grade students computer literacy.

In college (1966) I had to go to the computer lab to run programs (punchcards) on the one big IBM. Then got a job with an oil company (1970) and ran programs (punchcards) on a big IBM. All in Fortran IV. Next was a Radio Shack 100 that I bought (1980ish) and wrote programs on in Basic. Those were my first gasoline blending programs, which I sold (with the computer) and used the money to get bigger computers. The Radio Shack stuff had to be in the early 80’s. Pretty primitive, but useful. I don’t remember what years we got the first desktop PCs. Had to be after 1985, when I had a job that didn’t require computer use. Left that job in 1990 and the next job had desktops being issued to all engineers.

My first computer was an IBM PC clone from Northgate I still have the glass coffee cup they gave me.

Did they even have computers back then?

I also had a Texas Instrument computer. I don't remember which one I had first.

Same here. TRS-80 by Tandy Electronics and DOS programming language.

Extra nerd credit if you used these.




Charlie

My hearing is shot from years of manning the consoles of USAF mainframe computers and the accompanying punch card readers and printers. I could read a punch card in my sleep.

I have a 90's era water cooled mainframe processor here somewhere. It's a large die, about 7" or so square with 4 water input/output sockets. One of my customers wanted it for a show/tell thing, TSA in Houston almost took it away from me. They thought it was explosive or part of something that could be.

Charlie

I have no earthly idea what brand the first one we had was - something my Mom was given from work that was black screen with green letters - somehow discovered there was some extremely basic DOS bass fishing game on it that I played the heck out of...had to be around 1992-1993.

The first actual one I remember well is an Acer - I want to say that thing was expensive as hell sometime around 1996-1997.

I remember the school had Macs - first the old school ones - then the year they came out the ones that were different colors on top and shaped weird.

Ordered a kit from Radio Shack and built it myself. That was somewhere around 1981 - 1982.