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Philips MSX-2, followed by an Amiga 500
Some HP something or other that my grandma’s husband gave us
A Compaq Presario
I have no idea what it was, but it was a hand me down 386 or maybe 286 running at I believe 12 or 14 MHz.
I think it had Dos 5 on it. It had Windows 3.1 until I brilliantly wondered why there were two hard drive partitions and figured why is this data all over the place and decided to move one partition to the other. Only Dos worked after that and I never had EGA Windows disks to get it to work again. I found some VGA disks but it crashed everytime as it was an EGA monitor and video card.
I never used anything for music until Compaq Presario in 2000. I had rebirth demo and I had some early Cubase lite and the first keyboard to contain USB MIDI built in. That is when I discovered the joy of latency.
TI-99 for me too!
C64 followed by an Amiga then lost interest until I got a secondhand Atari ST to run Cubase when I was older.
Amstrad CPC464, should have convinced my dad to let me get a c64 as the AMS was pretty bad, always glitching and never had the quality or range of other machines - put me off computing until I encountered an Amiga after I left school, got a 1200 in 1993 and never looked back...
I also started with the Atari 800 XL Then Atari 520 ST, Amiga 500, my favourite Amiga 1200, latter different PCs, different laptops and finally iPad
There was a drum machine from Polish developer "LK Avalon" on Atari XL I played with as a child:
Vic20, subsequently sold to get a C64, subsequently sold to buy my first drum kit.
BBC B+
Chuckie Egg, Frogger and my favourite: Spy Hunter
Apple II integer(!) upgraded to floating point roms, 16k ram. 2 FD drives. 1980.
My first computer was actually a 386.
But my initial contact had been with my dad's Toshiba T1000 sporting an 8088 processor
And a friend that had an MSX
And at school I didn't have official access, only the older kids had. And my brother used to smuggle me inside the computer room after classes and we would play on the c64 and amiga
Apple G3 blue. I loved it then and i still in love even now that is no longer with me.
Commodore C16 Plus 4 with Datasette
Chuckie Egg was the best.
Ditto!
Same, but with the cassette drive!
8086 and 8088 machines when I was attending ITT back in the day. (My real first PCs)
Then when I started becoming “enthused” and building my own, I started with a few 386 based PCs, then I remember going out one day and buying the latest and greatest; the Intel 486DX 4 100MHz!
That’s about all I can remember from the DOS days...
Commodore 64
The most "Productive" years of my musical life involved an Amiga and a Fostex reel to reel tape deck with 8 tracks. One track dedicated to SMPTE time code, synchronize computer to tape.
I was just a child, and this is what the TI99 offered:
https://youtu.be/xGVOw8gXl6Y
My first was a Commodore VIC-20. I loved that computer!!! I've still got it in working condition and in original packaging at that. I have tons of cartridges, a data cassette, and a stack of magazines and books with code that can be typed in to make programs. My plan is to donate it to a museum at some point, when I am sure that it will be treasured to them as much as it was to me.
Technically it was one of these (though I more often rolled it on the floor like a Tonka Truck. It worked great with jump ramps...):
But, the first real computer I worked with after college was a Vax-11/750. It took up a whole room with dedicated air conditioning and cost upwards of $350,000. When we finally shut it down to sell it (for $6,000), it took two technicians almost a full day to remove the massive 20mb disk drive, which weighed more than 90 pounds.
We had one of these too for a while, though I wasn't responsible for managing it.
It had this amazing big fat red "panic" button on the console. One of my co-workers was obsessed with fantasizing about what would happen if anyone ever pushed it. We never could prove it was him, but somebody did eventually punch it. The next day no fewer than four IBM technicians swooped in and spent more than three days bringing the thing back up.
Yashica yc-64
BBC Micro B!!
1986 ( cant really remember) Compaq Deskpro. 20 meg hd, amber monitor, 5 1/4 floppy, 2400 baud modem, Compaq dos, 64k memory, 8086 processor...sweet!
I used to run cakewalk software by 12 tone systems...dos version. Not sure if it was on this one, but maybe. My first DAW...looking back, it was decent...midi based, no audio...
Kaypro! Portable.
Yup me too. I taught myself BASIC and stored programs on data cassette. It had a pretty cool sound chip and I programmed it to play Dixie. Used to play Qbert on it. I believe actually still have it sitting in the original box in my mom’s attic.
I used to subscribe to 99er Magazine, which later became Home Computer.
Times Sinclair 1000