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What Was Your First Computer?
As a GenXer myself I'm curious ... what 8\16bit goodness got you into the world of tech? (ZX Spectrum 48K for me)
If "Other" please specify in comments.#
SORRY the flipping forum DELETES POLLS when editing post ... let me rebuild it from scratch.
- What was your first computer?135 votes
- Atari ST8.15%
- Amiga7.41%
- Vic 2011.11%
- Commodore 6417.04%
- Acorn Electron2.96%
- ZX Spectrum12.59%
- ZX 80\8110.37%
- Oric 10.00%
- Other30.37%
Comments
A brand-new Apple //e, purchased on New Year's Eve 1983.
If anyone has already replied - apologies - your reply got deleted when I edited the original post GRRR.
The first I owned was a Mac 512k
ZX Spectrum, I must have been a lot more patient when I was younger
C64. Maniac Mansion.
Same here!
Vic 20. I recently found it in my Mum’s loft. I have no idea if it still works. I’d be fairly surprised if it did though. it’s still there. Along with what’s left of my old train set that I never got round to setting up as a kid.
Atari 800XL
C64. Still have it 😬
Followed by a slew of Amigas.
Still have those too 😅
I wish I had hung on to the C64. Classic machine. The Vic20 was a bit lacking, to be honest.
Amiga A500.. then later A1200.. still got then at my brothers place in UK..
Tandy 1000
I started with the Commodore PET computer with cassette drive!
XX Spectrum for me, although I did acquire an Oric 1 somehow. Not sure I ever switched it on. My first introduction to Computers though was my friend’s BBC.
VIC20 here - I think it was 1980 or 1981. Got the computer for Christmas. Only got 1 game with it ... but in the back of the instruction manual there was code you could enter yourself to get another 2-3 games. I spent a good portion of Xmas day, and much of Boxing Day typing in all that code...
ZX Spectrum 48k for me. My best mate had C64..........I was very jealous! Still I have fond memories of waiting for Jet Set Willy to load only to find it crash at the last moment. So I rewound the tape and started again. Arh the good ole days!lol.
Apple McIntosh 512K
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_512K
All floppies all the time!
C64 with the awesome SID chip.
most probably nobody here will know it :-)
PMD85 - 8bit computer made in Czechoslovakia
Macintosh Quadra 840AV
Packard Bell PC Windows 3.1.
PET 2001 of 1977
I did 3D graphics on that one - using ASCII graphics (and clear screen escape sequence) showing a rotating wireframe cube with about 1 frame per second update rate 👍🏼
And adapted a version of Weizenbaums Eliza chatbot. My english teacher intensively „talked“ about 30 minutes with it not understanding its just a simple idea (only possible with english grammar) and not another real person.... while i tried not to burst into laughs in the other room since he didn‘t want me to see what he was writing with the pseudo psychologist 😀
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Later i coded a business software suite (mostly in assembler) on an 1983th Apple IIe with 64Kb ram consiting of 11 connected programs storing its data on 8 inch floppies - with the money i bough a Roland System 100 modular synth...
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One of my friend had a C64, another a ZX Spectrum - i coded on all of them
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The first computer i owned of your list was an Atari 520ST , booting from floppy... later with 20 MB external harddrive in the size of a toaster. It featured MIDI 5pin, so i used Steinbergs first Cubase with my various midi synth...
My first was a Yamaha CX5 msx computer.
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
I had one of those. It was my second computer.
My third was a Dragon 64, into which I fitted Tandy CoCo FORTH (on a piggyback socket with the CS line brought out to a switch).
My first computer was in the early mid 80s, it was a magazine project available for a brief while from a parts retailer in Croydon, consisting of a 6800-based main board on which was the 6800 and the complicated clock circuitry that a 6800 required. It had four PIOs which went through high current higher voltage buffers. It drove a fairly big soft blue-green VFD display of about 9 characters. It also had a keypad which was the hex entry plus a bank of other keys for things like step, break, debug monitor, data / address entry, that sort of thing. It all actually used to be a cash register, the place you buy it from somehow had a load of them and someone had written a debug/monitor rom that allowed you to enter your own programs and run them. No case or anything, just the bare boards. You had to re-label the keys yourself. You’d enter the program as a hex byte, and a 16-bit address, and then another, then another, and so on. But the PIOs, which were all originally there to handle the parts of the cash register, motors, switches, actuators, sensors etc, were perfect for interfacing. I interfaced mine with a Ferranti 8-bit DAC, to try and make a synth. In two years I only got as far as a sawtooth wave.
Mine too. My wife programmed Bach fugues into it the day we got it. I cloned Pong for it.
My first computer was an Apple II+. It had two disk-drives and a green-hued monochrome monitor. It had 48KB of onboard RAM with an add-on card that brought the system RAM up to the full 64KB that was the maximum for Apple's 6502 CPU. I added a Z-80 card with a 128KB daughter-card, so that I could run CP/M software.
Later, I added an alphaSyntauri synthesizer card that attached to a pre-MIDI musical keyboard. The alphaSyntauri was my first synthesizer. If you're wondering what the alphaSyntauri sounded like, the Phosphor 3 app from Audio Damage is a clone of that synthesizer.
Leading Edge Model D (Korean). My friend started early with the very first available personal computer called the Altair 8800. I remember going to his house to see him program the eight (I think) panel lights to flash in sequence. He grew up to become a millionaire working for Microsoft. Me, I'm a poor but honest cartoonist.
For the win!