ok guys try not to laugh at the power of the xt my first computer Original XT 8-bit bus, 8088 processor.
System Unit w/84 or 101-Key Keyboard
8088 processor running at the ubiquitous 4.77mhz
128kb-640kb Memory (Depending on Configuration)
5.25" Full-Height Floppy Drive (360k)
Full-Height 10 meg Hard Disk Drive

The first really good game i had was Gunship by microprose they have since remade that game.
Anyone have one older than that.

wow nice lol i think my neighbor has one from back when i was like 6 yrs old.

Commodore VIC-20 was my first "computer".



Imagine, 3,5kb ram... and hundreds of working games



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I don't have any pics of mine but My first computer was a Sony.........I believe that it was an 8088 with 256k, 2 3.5 floppies (you had to manually open/close the shutter on the 3.5), CGA graphics card. It was an all in one system like an IMac.

My second computer was a IBM PS/25, 2 3.5 floppies, VGA graphics. This too was an all in one system like an IMAC

Some of the games I had for it, and probably still do somewhere around here, Gunship, F15, Sub Surface( or was it commander), Bad Dudes, Double Dragon, and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. The first three, Gunship, F15, and Sub Surface/Commander, are all Microprose games

I got my images via Google ("search images") ... Of those MicroProse games, I remember I used to play "Pirates!" or "Silent Service" much more than "Gunship" - Gunship was far too complicated for me Pirates! was/is an entangling game, difficult to get out of it... once you get a quality army, you take full sails towards the treasure fleet...

my first was like a pentium 100.... lol..... Windows 3.1..... wouldnt run the first doom.....

Hard to remember what my first one was. I would have to say an old Commodore 128. After that, I went all out and bought a Commodore Amiga 1000 (anyone remember those??). My first actual ibm class computer was an old 80386sx/33. Don't remember much about it though. I even remember my first modem. A 1200baud modem!

Oh the memories. When i first got my first pentium (pentium 75), I thought I was in heaven. I couldn't imagine using a pentium 75 now.

MMMM, I had a C=64 and always wanted an amiga... If you still have your Amiga case, you should put a PC in it like this guy did.

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I think mine was a Gateway 386, thats all I remember, like 15 years ago it seems...

Bsod that system had killer sound out of the pc speaker and you could hook a joystick up to it. The cga color was unreal. and Dos 3.2 Never once crashed. still have that computer somewhere

lol hahah kewl

Well I found my first computer..........suprisingly

At anyrate the computer I had was a Sony Series 35 Model 10........or something in that line. I don't remember cause one it was like 15 or more yrs ago and two I didn't know much about computers then.

The one I had was black and there were handles on the case also.........at least from what I remember......its been yrs afterall. At anyrate theres the pic of it.

and it wasn't sub commander or what ever I said in the first post about the sub game.........it was silent service........which along with Gunship was the games I always played

486 DX-II 16Mhz/32Mhz with turbo. 2 Mb RAM. 220 Megs disc.

No cd-rom, no sound, no nothing.

my first comp was an acer w/ 4GB and 32 meg ram and 233 mghz and win 98 came new freom best buy in 1998. i got blue screens all the time!

wait.. that was the machine that i had!! with the ol turbo buttons on it!! lol i never knew what that was till one night i got the guts to push it.. and wow, it went faster!!! but i had sound and cd rom...

my first Computer was also a Vic 20, and today I'm learning Apple Basic with a friend of mine so we can program the Vic 20 together hehe anyone here know of a good website that teaches Apple Basic or CBM basic?

My First computer ever was a Pre Pent Intel 80800 product....
Um around 8-12mhz. With just a 5 1/2 floppy 200meg HD...
First computer I played games on was a 33mhz Intel Had Indiana Jones and Space Typers (Letter would get bigger and bigger on the screen and you had to tap the key) and I had some other stuff...
Then went to a 66mhz, then 133mhz then 300mhz then I got my current PC

I remember when Vic-20 was out, there were basic-programs in every magazine, and you spent hours writing them, and they actually did work. Basic was easy to learn.

The first game I played was probably "Raid on Fort Knox". Years later I remember I tried to play "Pirates!" on my PC, but I hadn't enough memory to run that

View: "Raid on Fort Knox" guide

My first computer was a Tandy 1000 HX. I runs on DOS v2.xx (which is hardcoded in the PC ROM). It has a running GUI called DeskMate. That was closest I got to having windows in my computer, which was powered by an Intel 8088. The computer was like a typewriter because the keyboard was built with the machine. It has it's own format for the printer port (not the DB25 we see today). It has no serial port (available as a separate purchase). The only storage available was through the built-in Sony 720K FDD. You have too boot through floppies, which to my surprise got destroyed very easily here in my country (the Philippines) because of our tropical climate. So what I did was to make a lot of copies of my DeskMate. The printer that worked with this computer was a Tandy DMP203 24-pin dot matrix.

Games I played: PacMan, Digger, Tom Sawyer, and just about any old arcade game. But a favorite of mine was Wings of Fury.

Sound was through the PC speaker, Tandy made a good use of the PC speaker which sounded like a Dolby System that time Display was CGA, hooked to the built-in video adapter.

Thanks to this thread I will go through a pile of rubble to dig that PC. I am inspired to revive it. If there are any other Tandy 1000 HX user out there, I have lost the copy of my DeskMate. Kindly send me a copy please. Or if you you know a download site, send me a link. Thanks!

wow such old pc's , my first was cant remember 286 or 386 Hewlett Packard ,486 compaq and then 50 mhz custom built pc

My first comp was a 66mhz, 16meg ram, 300 meg hard drive, and a 2x cd rom drive.

Mine was a 6Mhz (NOT a typo) Zenith--running "Zdos". Monochrome monitor, "squeaky" (if that's the best word for it) hard drive--I mostly played poker on it, but it had Lotus as well.

Spectrum 48k closely followed by my (still got it) Macintosh LC II. Sweet Mother, those were the days!!

486 intel with win 3.1 & 540MB HD. I still got the case in storage

mine was pretty much the same beat doom on that pc
286 for me
I upgraded a case and stole the sticker off the front and its on my p4 now my dad just laughs at it


Ohh the memories!

The first comp. I owned was Atari 65XE (around 1985). I did my first programming on a Sinclair ZX81 back in like 82. I was 8yo then.

Compaq 486 sx
Win 3.1
14,400 modem...........dialing up BBS's.

Thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

dude it was the greatest thing since PB and J

I forget what mine was. Guess it wasn't worth remembering. lol

My first was the Sharp MZ700 :-)





Sharp MZ700 700 was built round the LH-0080 (Z80 Compatible) processor the 700 run at a clock speed of 4 MHz and has a 2K rom like the 80 basic has to be loaded from tape the unit has 64K of RAM as you can see at the photo the 700 also has a built in tape deck for the loading and saving of data. Yes ! and in the middle is a little printer :-)

Sweeettt, it looks like you still have it in really nice condition.

That picture is just one I found on the www, The Sharp MZ700 I had is broken and in the garbage :-)

ohhh well, at least you still have the memories. Its amazing though that that baby had a printer built right into it.

My Very first Computer Was an Apple II

Then a few months later i finally got myself a Vanilla Commodore 64

thejn later an amiga 600 Yes u read that right a 600 ... like a 500 without the keypad

Gsurface can you tell by the first computer how old each person is im seeing a trend here, you?

i had the good ol tandy 1000 tx.
specs on this hot rod was:
80286 8mhz cpu......"my calculator is faster than this"
640k ram
3.5" floppy
5.25" floppy
40mb hard drive.... "you'll never need that much space"
cga video