When computers became personal.

I think that too. First computer I ever saw was at the office of my middle school and it was a dial up computer - huge as the room itself, and it dialed up to the Ohio State University main computer. My 7th grade class had a few days with the monster, it took so long to hook up and no one knew what the heck was going on and we were all rather just not exactly scared, but it was so over our heads we didn't even understand what it was all about! But I still wonder... if a laptop can have such massive hard drives, and memory etc and can do dvd's and a disks, fo everything a desktop can do....yet a desk top has that huge tower that is basically empty inside. So why are they not getting rid of desktops any faster than they are? Not that I am complaining, I don't like lap tops but still...the way things move so fast, I'd a thought the desktops were be nearly obsolete by now!

The first computer I owned was a small 386 laptop which runs on DOS. It had a 250KB hard disk and had a paper white monitor. I was so fond of that laptop that I even installed a Windows 3.1 OS in it. I downloaded games and software on the Internet and I enjoyed playing the good old DOS games. During that time there were already Pentium II computers around but I was very much happy with my good old laptop. Too bad it broke down and was beyond repair and I miss it so much.

My very first computer that I owned was a Texas Instruments 99/4A and this was around the early 80's! I can't remember the specs on it, but I used to buy books of code in BASIC and then spend weeks typing out the programs so I could then run them and play games on it. It used to be so frustrating too, because if I so much as got a single number or character wrong, I had to go back through the entire program code to find and correct it! What's unbelievable is that my current mobile phone has more than 1,000 times the processing power and memory than that computer!!! I remember the floppy discs well too and my excitement when the 3 and a quarter inch discs came out. It's amazing how far things have come technology wise over the last 25 years or so and it will be very interesting to see where things are another few decades from now.

it was a hand me down pc from my mom, it has a black and amber screen and ran a program called "Zen" it apparently was a better number's program than a writing program, but I wrote my story - The Cat From UNCLE on it

Lets see, the first time I own a computer was around 1991 when "PC" term become popular which power by Intel 80286 processor....at that time I still at college, and every time I go to campus I must bring along 5 1/4" disc with me to do my lab as I am a Computer Science student...... Yes, it is marvelous........ BR.b

Man you are old...lol. I was interested in computers i 1970's and use to read any thing I could find on it at the library. I didn't own my own until I got a Timex-Sinclair. My friend's father had a Radio Shack store and he gave me a job so I got to play with the computers. I next got a Commodore 64 which i used right up to the 1990's. I used the 8088's and 8086's at work and from there I used every system from the 286's and up. I had an Amstrad which had dual 3 1/2 drives and use to hook it up to another that had 5 1/4 dual drives to copy software. I still remember resisting the change from DOD to Windows 3.1 but when I sall the apps I soon changed. I still can't comprehend the resistance to change since I was use to a similar style windows gui on Commodore. I still have a IBM 333 mhz computer with the AMD K6 chip that I even ran XP Pro on, but don't use it anymore. I have a desktop and 2 laptops that I use right now and got a laptop for my wife and a a few weeks ago I got a HP netbook for my daughter. Right now I'm trying to set up my new est laptop with voice recognition, it's slow going though as some of my commands just won't work, but it's all fun. I want to be able to hook up my laptop to LCD tv and using bluetooth, be able to sit back and enjoy the accomplishment. Books was my first love, but the computer is my soul mate. I bet you know what I mean by that.

My Brother started a Computer science course at University,and I went to visit him when they had an Open day,and I remember the cabinets of circuitry and the terminal keyboards,and the ASCII posters on tractor feed paper they had up on the walls..He brought a ZX81 home with Him one time,and that was my first experience of a Home computer! The first one I owned was a C64-I still have it,I was still using it once The first Internet cafe opened near where I lived,and I got online for the first time,got my first email address,discovered online chat,everything..About a Year later,I got my first place that had a phone line,bought Me a 486 PC and a Modem,andhaven't been willingly offline since..!

Hi savak, The first PC I had was a Packard Bell, it was really good and I used it a lot, also I thought it was the best ever and copied loads of things onto floppy discs, now though the things I have seem to be lost as my ex, husband tood the PC and it was a while til I could get one myself, in the end got a laptop which only takes CD's so now although the floppys are still put away there is no way I can get back what is on them, which is quite upsetting as some of them are my poetry...LoLo

WOW! Did you ever bring back memories! My first computer was also a TRS80! I started typesetting from home and the company I worked for lent me a computer, a TRS80. Once I had saved enough money, I bought my own TRS80 and got more freelance jobs. Yep, I loved that thing, too, although the only game I could play on it was called "13 Ghosts". It was such fun! More fun than "Pong" was when that first came out in the 60's. Luckily, that computer earned me enough money to buy my second computer, a Tandy 1000, also a dinosaur. Thinking back to my first computer with a bonafied hard drive (a something-286... can't quite remember), the ones coming out now couldn't even be conceived back then... at least not by me. "64 K is all anyone will ever need" says Bill Gates. Yeah, right. Uh huh.

Well, the first computer I've ever owned was PC, I don't even know what the type of it is. But I think it was Windows 98, as best as I can remember. =) It was long ago when I could only use microsoft word, not even microsoft excel or power point. It was so funny remembering that time. Nowadays computer (and also laptop) IS OFFICIAL part of everyday's life. Especially in developed countries. You will usually deal with computer.

i was not even born when you got your first PC!.probably after 2 decades when you owned a PC , i was born . for when i owned a PC it was the pentium 4 which was running back then, i bought it and was way too happy to have such a PC.

I don't even remember what kind of computer I had. I'm sure that is was nothing special; it had a really fat monitor and was crazy slow compared to today. Of course, I'm sure that all the computers back then were slower than today, but mine was probably the slowest...

Just when I graduated I got my first job as Computer Technician though my course was a programmer I got that because also I like computers. That was long time ago where 386 processors are newest processor in town I didn't get my first pc though because that time it was very expensive. It took me a year to get one and not a brand you one I was able to bargain and bought from client because they upgrading to 486 processors. I am very happy the first time I have a PC at my home that I can experiment more. Remember the time all the folks at my house gathered to see a PC it was a memorable day to me.

I first owned a datamini desktop PC. I forgotten what are the parts that is inside the the PC. Its about years back, forgotten which year was it too.