What brand was your first computer?

[alfordaln]

Mine was a packard bell.
Which was your!!

[Clockworthy]

Gateway. Had Earthlink internet setup, back when we had to use a phone line...*shudder* The one we have now isn't extraordinary, but I plan to build my own when I've finished school.

[Wab]

A customised set-up from a small retailer whose name I can't recall. That was in the day when you couldn't just pick one up from the shelf of a local discount store.

If I recall it was a 386 with 2M RAM (later upgraded at much expense to 4).

[SusanBones]

The first computer we had in the house was an Atari computer. It had a word processing program and a few games. We even had a book with computer code that we could enter and it would create very simple programs.

[Erzeal]

Packard Bell 486 processor running on windows 3.11...
Ugh that was a horrible computer... *Shudders* that was back in 1994. My dad bought it for 4 grand...

[JackFish]

We had a BBC when I was very young, with such awesome games as PacMan (on cassette) and Granny's Garden. I'm not sure if it did anything else or not but I definitely remember those two!

[snapegirl]

I had a Tandy. They were sold at Radio Shack, iirc. I had a few games like Wheel of Fortune that was rendered in horrible day glow yellow and green.

[Grymmditch]

Well, technically, a Texas Instruments TI-99, back in 1984. It ran BASIC, used a desk tape cassette recorder for data backups, proprietary cartridges for pre-bought programs, and plugged into a normal TV for it's display. I didn't do a whole lot with it, other than write a program that converted Fahrenheit and Celsius back and forth, but if you input "-40º" it gave you a custom smartypants response, as -40 degrees is the same in both scales. I really didn't have the knack for programming though, especially once line numbers were done away with. That's why I'm now in network administration instead!


But my first real computer (as in PC) was a Micron, a Pentium I 90MHz w/8MB RAM and a 540MB hard drive.
I really thought Micron would've been bigger, but the company is all but gone, beaten by Gateway and Dell.

[leah49]

Very first computer I don't remember. It was given to us by neighbors who bought a new computer with Windows and didn't need their old DOS only computer. We gave it back when they had a yard sale, though.

The first computer we actually bought was a Compaq with Windows 95.

I still remember getting my first non-dot matrix printer. "We can print things out that look like what the school prints out!"

[lencemark]

I had to build my first one myself. It was a Z80 kit computer. The first brand name one I got was a Commodore 64.

[Fawkesfan1]

An Apple... an old one. With the green font and black screen. So fun :P. Ran really well and is pretty well made.

[Linda86]

Originally Posted by Erzeal

Packard Bell 486 processor running on windows 3.11...
Ugh that was a horrible computer... *Shudders* that was back in 1994. My dad bought it for 4 grand...

Ohhh dear ol'Packard Bell I think right after my dad purchased it, Packard Bells were no longer selling in stores haha! Were computers really that expensive in the 90s? Insane in the membrane.

Originally Posted by Fawkesfan1

An Apple... an old one. With the green font and black screen. So fun :P. Ran really well and is pretty well made.

Haha! I remember that green font & black screen. Didn't you have to type Y or N?

Originally Posted by leah49

The first computer we actually bought was a Compaq with Windows 95.

Ugh! I had a Compaq & it was the worst computer EVER. I think I lost hair because of the stress that computer caused me.

[APolaris]

My first computer was... and still is... a Dell.

[calicojoe]

My first ever computer was a "Dragon 32 K" bought by my Dad from Dixons around 1982. It loaded games like "Wizards and Ogres" from a tape cassette player, and would frequently get distressed and shown "I/O error" when trying to load the game. My brother and I played "Wizards and Ogres" for about three hours one night over that Christmas.

Sadly a few years later it was trashed in a skip as by then it had stopped working altogether.

[AldeberanBlack]

Commodore 64

[Wab]

Originally Posted by Linda86

Ohhh dear ol'Packard Bell I think right after my dad purchased it, Packard Bells were no longer selling in stores haha! Were computers really that expensive in the 90s? Insane in the membrane.

Oh yes indeedy. Back in 1992 my brother upgraded his 386 with an additional 2Mb (that's M not G) for AUD150.

[huckleberrypie]

Not actually my computer, but it was a rather generic 486 built by a shop named PC Shack back in '94 or '95.

[Schlubalybub]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2
We spent hours playing Blizzard Pass, if anyone remembers that game?

[leah49]

Originally Posted by Linda86

Ugh! I had a Compaq & it was the worst computer EVER. I think I lost hair because of the stress that computer caused me.

Good to know I wasn't the only one!

[bellatrix93]

Originally Posted by leah49

The first computer we actually bought was a Compaq with Windows 95.

Mine, too, was a Compaq (windows 98, though). It belonged to my father first for three years, then he have it to me. Used it for two years myself. Then one day it just broke down without any previous serious problems,