What was your First Computer you Ever Owned?
By KrauseHome
@KrauseHome (36447)
United States
20 responses
@chanfrado (1157)
• Portugal
5 Jan 07
The first computer I haver touched was the ZX Spectrum 128K! My parents bought it when I was a little boy. And the first game I played was Rambo! oooh... how I miss those days!
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@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
30 May 07
Well, one of the first Computers I bought as an Adult had Windows 98 on it too.. But I still remember the Commodore Vic 20 my family owned that was the First Computer I ever had.
@edigital (2709)
• United States
6 Jan 07
I owned IBM PCG in 1987 purchased from Singapore. Its Floppy drive was big i.e. like today's desktop cassing. Monitor was 12 inch monocrhome. Speed was 2-4MHz, Ram was 64MB, Hard Disk was 20MB, operating system was DOS version 2.3 and software was WordStar4, dBASEIII+, Lotus 1-2-3, SuperCalc, SPSS PC Plus, Clipper, Games was Super Mario, Nintendo, etc. Printer was Epson Dot Matrix. Floppy dist size was 5.25 inch and I still kept 20 nos. with me. I will tell my sons/daughter to keep it and to sell after 50 years when this will be an attractive antique (though I have no grandchildren at present)...lol
@ChewySpree (1832)
• United States
28 Nov 06
My first computer was an Apple IIe. I basically just used it for games back then, but my father used the word processing program and printer for his work. It had dual 5 1/4" floppy drives and no internal storage. Woo hoo!
@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
3 Dec 06
Well, I remember my Mom's first Computer, Funny thing is what she paid for it back then, you could get top of the line now almost. Hard to believe how times have changed.
@shywolf (4514)
• United States
6 Jan 07
Oh my goodness, you're bringing back memories! *laugh* I can't remember which came first - the Commodore 64 or the Vic 20 - but my family had both, at one time or another. We also had an Atari 2600. I can't believe that I still remember the model number! I thought that I couldn't recall it until my fingers started to type, it's been so long! ^_^ Wow. Back in those days, the internet wasn't even a dream in my mind! Now, I don't know how I would live without it! But my father is very technologically minded (he used to fix tv's and other electronics for a living) and that's why I've been around technology and computers basically all of my life! ^_^
@happygal68 (3275)
• United States
1 Dec 06
It was an HP desktop, but as far as the model goes I don't recall. It has been a very long time ago.
@sbeauty (5865)
• United States
2 Dec 06
We had a Commodore, too. My dad insisted that we get one for our kids. They had a few games on it, but they never liked it very well.
When Dad bought a new Apple, he gave us the old one. Again we had a few games, but I was able to keep the books for my husband's small business on it. Unfortunately it crashed totally a couple of years later and took all of our records with it. When he passed away in 1986 Mother gave us his newer Apple. It worked okay until we bought our new Gateway in 1995. We had another Gateway after that, and now we're on our 2nd Dell.
I wish they could develop computers that could be upgraded more and which would last longer. Although the price of computers has come down, it's still expensive to have to buy a new one every few years. But I couldn't live without mine now, could you?
@asimo603 (1366)
• Malaysia
2 Dec 06
I have my very first computer in 2001, it is a Dell Dimension L866r desktop. I bought a second computer in August, this year, also from Dell, this a DELL Inspiron 640m laptop which I bought during a PC fair. It is a very bargain buy with added features if compare with a normal purchase for the same model.
@findcutegj (1466)
• India
2 Dec 06
Well, my first computer was compaq 5000 seriers copmputer and i still owe it. Thanks.
@suzyangel08 (616)
• United States
31 Dec 06
i think it was my averatec:) my laptop i got last xmas... i would always borrow others or use my sister's... we lived together... so u know:)
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
29 Nov 06
My first computer owned was a Packard Bell but don't remember the model but it was very old and slow compared to computers now. I laugh just remembering that old computer. :-)
@Withoutwings (6992)
• United States
28 Nov 06
I had a Tandy. Not sure what model. It used to have a cool drawing program.