What was your first computer by brand.

[Thebobo]

So as the title says. I was think along the lines of OS when grouping them in the poll I'm sure I missed a lot of brands just these were off the top of my head. You can list the models here.

Mine was the C=64 but returned it a couple weeks later and got a C=128. My friend who got me into computers had a timex sinclair. He was always typing in the machine language programs from magazines into that horrible keypad.

 

[RossMAN]

C 64 connected to a Magnavox TV, what do I win?

Storage was a tape drive, couldn't afford a 5.25" floppy until a few years later.

 

[deadlyapp]

First computer was an apple (classic?) that we bought at an auction at our school. It was $300 and came with a 5.25 floppy and a dot matrix printer and a handful of games. I remember that there was one game we got with it that never worked, Frisbee or something, and it always made me mad.

 

[Ryland]

You missed Texas Instruments with the TI-99 4/A

 

[DigDog]

C64, although i did own a Intellivision before that - but i guess that qualifies as a console, not a PC.

not that i did any "PC stuff" on my C64, i think the closest i ever got to coding was looking at a program printout you were supposed to type yourself. Yeah right. i was like 10yo.

a friend of mine ... well, a friend of mine's dad had a Apple IIc, and he could run Dark Castle, which was like, mind-blowingly better than anything else in existence at that time.
Thing is, to aim, you had to use this thing called a "mouse" and i was like wtf, this is impossible.

 

[Thebobo]

You missed Texas Instruments with the TI-99 4/A

Yea as I said it was just from my recall but now that you mention it I do remember those, unfortunately I can't add anymore.

 

[Burpo]

Timex Sinclair, then TI-99, Atari & finally a Vendex Headstart Explorer 8086 PC..
Started building my own afterwards.. First one was a 286 w/1meg RAM & 80 Meg. HDD..

 

[Thebobo]

Timex Sinclair, then TI-99, Atari & finally a Vendex Headstart Explorer 8086 PC..

Never seen that. Neato.

 

[DietDrThunder]

Tandy Trash-80, followed by a Commodore 64, an IBM PS2 Model 50Z, a professionally built 486 clone. Then I started building my own.

 

[Burpo]

Never seen that. Neato.

Yea, I'm older than dirt.. lol

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Apple II+ Still have it and it still worked the last time I tried it.

 

[KMFJD]

VIC20 ->c64->Amiga 500 ->Amiga 1200 -> PC

 

[Homerboy]

I voted Commodore, but it was a Vic20, not a 64. Please adjust your powl.

 

[Homerboy]

VIC20 ->c64->Amiga 500 ->Amiga 1200 -> PC

Holy shit. Same exact progression.
We're computer twinsies.

 

[sdifox]

Apple II clone so I don't know how you want to count it.

 

[lxskllr]

Atari800. My first IBM compatible was a beige box 486DX50.

 

[JM Aggie08]

We had an Apple II at some point when I was quite young. Don't recall doing much on it other than word-processing and playing Frogger.

 

[nakedfrog]

Apple IIc

 

[Thebobo]

I voted Commodore, but it was a Vic20, not a 64. Please adjust your powl.

Sorry not can't add anymore...

 

[shortylickens]

I dont remember. It was one of those rectangles with a little screen on the left and two floppy drives on the right. Screen was blue.

 

[Ichinisan]

Acer Aspire in 1996

Where is "Acer" in the poll?

Well, I had an Apple Mac Plus or something before that and a TI-99/4A before that, but those were already obsolete when I got them.

Where is "Texas Instruments" in the poll?

 

[nakedfrog]

Acer Aspire in 1996

Where is "Acer" in the poll?

Well, I had an Apple Mac Plus or something before that and a TI-99/4A before that, but those were already obsolete when I got them.

Where is "Texas Instruments" in the poll?

Acer would fall under IBM/Clone, I'd think.

 

[Fritzo]

C-64, and I still have it with the 1541 disk drive. Still works too!

 

[Ichinisan]

Acer would fall under IBM/Clone, I'd think.

Didn't see that one.

 

[IronWing]

Very first computer I played with was an Apple IIe at school. The first I really learned to use was my dad's Kaypro II, a CP/M machine. As an old prof put it, "IBM didn't do anyone any favors by adopting DOS over CP/M."