What Was Your First Computer?
For me….
Let me narrow that one down a bit. “What was the first computer you owned?” since my first computer was an Apple II in high school.
Back then, our AV lab had three of them. I was in a video production class as a junior, so I was always in that damned lab. My friend John and I would program text based games once we out all of the video and audio equipment away and eventually would saunter home after 6pm. This, of course was before I got a job…then it was spending lunch hour in the lab, typing away.
Senior year, my parents bought be a C64 (complete with a 13″ color TV, and tape drive) for around $700…a price that will buy two lower end laptops these days. I spent hours typing in machine code from magazines to make little games that I’d save to a tape and exchange with friends. The main selling point to get the damned thing was “It’ll help with my homework” which it never did. I doubt I used it one time for homework.
The first modem was about 3 months after I got it. It was a VICModem at 300baud. I already had a separate phone line (I drove my parents nuts always talking on the phone…they got my line on their own, no prompting at all from me) so all I needed was a credit card number for an online service which my mother forked over after the “homework” spiel. I spent many a night on Compuserve’s “CB Chat” rooms…telling everyone I was a Vietnam combat veteran…good times.
What was your first computer?
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February 17th, 2012 at 10:13 am
Oh man… I can’t even remember what it was. All I can remember was that it all I could do on it was type white letters on a black screen. xD
As far as my first computer, one that was mine and mine alone, it was a Compaq running Windows XP. I received it from Upward Bound my first year with them. Since then I’ve owned a Dell D820 with Windows Vista Business(upgraded later to the 7 equivalent), and as of last week when I picked it up, an HP 2000z running Windows 7 Home Premium.
An Apple, really? Interesting. I used to tool around with the colored ones when I was in elementary school, they had the plastic colored monitors with the built in CPU.
February 17th, 2012 at 10:35 am
It was a funny thing, most schools back then were buying Apples and not the IBM PC. I guess they gambled and lost on that one…since the world switched to running on the PC platform.
It didn’t really affect me, I didn’t get my first IBM Clone until around 1994 or so.