What was the first Computer you used?

[VITAS]

Hi,
im wondering what was the first computer you used?
How did that come about?
Was your family supportive of you being a nerd?

 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Timex Sinclair 1000. My parents bought it (from Sears, if I recall) for my brother and I when I was quite young. Taught myself how to program on it.

My family had no choice in my nerdiness

 

[VITAS]

I always wondered about the sinclair computers. I never heared of them back in the days. it was all comodore, atari, IBM, casio and a little bit of apple.How could i miss such a huge thing?
Do you still praise every day you sit at your modern keyboard?

So you didnt have to share it with your dad like i did in the beginning?

 

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

No my dad could barely run the programmable VCR

While I hated the membrane keyboard, I still sometimes miss the ability to hit "p" and get "print" to type automatically. I'll never miss saving and loading to cassette though. Maybe remember it a bit fondly, but man was it easy to totally lose a program and not realize it until after trying to load it 5 times, and never really know why it wouldn't load.

 

[Remmee Fortemon]

Commodore 64C. My Dad bought if for us on Christmas by surprise. Reshaped my youth to be sure. 10/10 would recommend.

 

[Donkey]

Pet. Was my dad's toy, basically.
I played Eliza on it and that was about it.

 

[VITAS]

Pet. Was my dad's toy, basically.
I played Eliza on it and that was about it.

and did you fall in love with computers at some point?

Commodore 64C. My Dad bought if for us on Christmas by surprise. Reshaped my youth to be sure. 10/10 would recommend.

What was your favroite game?

 

[Kiwi Shark]

My computing days started on whatever Mac Mini my dad had in the early 2000s. (Born in '98.) Then mostly on the iMac he got when I was a kid. Mixed with generic school computers and virtual machines I grew up dual wielding Windows and OS X.

Not quite as much of a throwback as a Commodore!

 

[VITAS]

My computing days started on whatever Mac Mini my dad had in the early 2000s. (Born in '98.) Then mostly on the iMac he got when I was a kid. Mixed with generic school computers and virtual machines I grew up dual wielding Windows and OS X.

Not quite as much of a throwback as a Commodore!

Interesting. Everyone knows how the 80s kids where shaped by stuff from comodore. But i havent thought about how tech i would call fairly modern was teh first contact for many people not born in anchient times.

 

[Poppa Wheelie]

First computer I used: PDP-11

• High school computer class
• Learned BASIC programming
• Teletype keyboard and paper printer, paper tape printer and reader

First computer I used in my home: Atari 800

• One of my brothers bought this, also while I was in high school
• BASIC programming
• Cassette tape storage

First computer I bought for myself: Commodore Amiga 1000

• Most fun machine I ever owned
• Later upgraded to the Amiga 2000
• Way ahead of IBM, Microsoft, and Apple in color, graphics, sound, windowed applications, user interface, everything!
• Commodore didn't know what they had, or what to do with it

 

[General Meatsauce]

First one I ever used was an Apple IIc. All I used it for was playing Space Quarks.

Later on, parents got me a Commodore 128 and that's when the fun started with games and writing stuff in BASIC

 

[VITAS]

First computer I used: PDP-11

• High school computer class
• Learned BASIC programming
• Teletype keyboard and paper printer, paper tape printer and reader

First computer I used in my home: Atari 800

• One of my brothers bought this, also while I was in high school
• BASIC programming
• Cassette tape storage

First computer I bought for myself: Commodore Amiga 1000

• Most fun machine I ever owned
• Later upgraded to the Amiga 2000
• Way ahead of IBM, Microsoft, and Apple in color, graphics, sound, windowed applications, user interface, everything!
• Commodore didn't know what they had, or what to do with it

i had an a500 kickstart 1.2 from 87 thats when i jumped on the amiga train.

 

[Donkey]

and did you fall in love with computers at some point?



What was your favroite game?

I have always had a love/hate relationship with the things.
My first favorite game was on the Atari 800, Star Raiders. I've always had an interest in space and Sci Fi games.

 

[Poppa Wheelie]

Atari 800, Star Raiders

First computer game I really got into

 

[Infinite_Spaces.]

Commodore 64 here, damn those sprites looked cool if they ever loaded, then Atari 1024st (with actual 1mb ram upgrade), after that is was PC from i286 onward, all the way to todays 14900KF/96GB/4080 machine which i lovingly call Blender Box!.

Currently on my second 14900 CPU for the current machine though, as the first one decided it would eat itself a little bit each time it idled. Thankfully still have 2 years of warranty +more from intel on this new one. This was also the only CPU i had fail on me in all this time, shame really.

 

[Daishi]

First ever computer I used was a Mac Classic II, learning how to type in primary school at age 7 or so. Managed to save the very same machine from the dump when I ran into the old Deputy Principal and asked what ever happened to them. Since then the capacitors have started to go and it can barely turn on. Nobody I know wants to fix it, or even just take it off my hands for a PC museum.

Then my first personal computer was a Compaq Presario 425. Windows 3.1 for Workgroups my beloved

 

[Derek]

Hi,
im wondering what was the first computer you used?
How did that come about?
Was your family supportive of you being a nerd?

Honestly I'm not sure what it was, but as it was at school in the early 1980s I'm guessing a BBC-micro, no one knew how to use it, no books on what to do so we just tried things and didn't get very far.

I didn't get my first personal computer (486-DX2-50, overclocked to 66) until I was in my early 20s, (around '94), I already had my engineering degree by then.

We then all got issued with PCs at work, great big roll out.. needless to say some corners were cut so when I was asked what machine name I'd like (yes we were given a free hand on that) I asked for 41point9, IT allowed it.

I was asked by collegues why I chose the name, I said "it wasn't quite the answer to life the universe and everything"

 

[VITAS]

Yes i remember when you asked the company it for the naming convention. some used greek gods others places. nowdays its all cryptic names.

which os did you run on your 486?

 

[Derek]

Yes i remember when you asked the company it for the naming convention. some used greek gods others places. nowdays its all cryptic names.

which os did you run on your 486?

Initially it was DOS 6.22, IIRC I tried linux but didn't get on with it (it might have been the next machine, I honestly can't remember now. I do recall getting proficient at Flight-Unlimited though.

 

[VITAS]

I had that too. I was flying in RL at that time so the inclusion of sailplanes and thermics was what i wanted.