What was your first computer?
Interesting article that takes you back in time a little can be read here.
Tales from the crypt: Our first computers
I am fortunate enough to live in a time when the world has been completely transformed by a single invention in a relatively short time. I guess it’s like being a pioneer working at one of the first auto plants, or one one of the first television programs. Although of course I am really not one of the pioneers of computers, merely a player in the game during it’s heyday.
So back to remembering how it all started. Feel free to post comments on here about your firsts.
For me my first was the classic Commodore 64. I learned my first bit of basic programming on there and I played a lot of games on it. We had a 5.25 floppy drive as well as a tape drive. I later got my hands on a VIC 20, but as I started with the C64, the VIC20 appeared all but useless.
Another first for me was my first IBM system. I don’t remember model or anything but it was an old xt 8088 or 8086 system. It ran dual 5.25 floppies with no hard drives. I got this system in the early 90’s used from a friend. The computer was surely obsolete for it’s time but I pushed that thing to it’s limit. It’s CGA graphics made for some nice gaming back then and with a 2400bps modem, I was flying on local bbs boards. I spent countless hours on Prodigy with this system making friends, a few of which I still have contact with to this day.
I was always impressed with what I could do with that system, I ran DOS 3.1 and partation part of my 640k memory off to a ram drive. It was also amazing the number of programs that could be squeezed on to one 360k disk. Today you buy a game that takes multiple CD’s and isn’t nearly as in depth as the games of old.