Advanced Logic Research (ALR) was the first computer I used in 1997. Though it was an old PC I bought. It had a 40 MB hard disk space, FDD, 640 KB memory, no mouse or CD ROM Drive. OS was DOS. I can’t remember its other configuration. I couldn’t do any work with it but playing DOS games . When you started using computer and what about the configuration of your first computer?
My first computer was a 133 Mhz frankenstien special I put together using parts I scavanged from a parts dumpster behind a computer store.
My first computer/s were - at home, an Apple II. I think it was 8 bit. I plugged it into the tv and wrote programs in basic to do really basic stuff, like draw squares on the screen. No nice user interface - a black screen and a cursor. I remember we got all excited when my brother got a broken down Commodore 64 to play around with and see if he could fix it... - at school, a microbee. The teacher hadn't a clue, so I ended up doing most of the teaching in class, along with his tafe homework. I recently saw this, and most of the other computers I grew up with, in a museum exhibit (Canberra, I think). Talk about how to instantly feel like a dinosaur...
My first computer which I got was a Pentium III 500Mhz, 10 GB HDD, 64 MB RAM, 52x CD ROM, and a 14" monitor. After that my life changed entirely. It made me think that I was destined to be a computer engineer. Though in school I used 386, 486, pentium 1 and 2 machines too...
When I was younger the competition was between ZX Spectrum 48K and BBC Electron - I had a Spectrum until a lad moved in next door and had a Beeb and was doing programming on it and it looked amazing I persuaded my parents to get me a Beeb and we designed our own games - what a great childhood memory???
I think my first computer was called a Sinclair. It had 1K of memory. That is not a typo. It tended to overhead, so I quickly returned it. My second computer was TRS-80 color computer. When I bought it, I showed great foresight. I got the 16K model rather than the 4K model.
After my ALR 386 machine I had Pentium-III 450 MHz computer, and now I’m using HP Pavilion 2.6 GHz high speed computer. Seems like latest software and games run faster than Winamp haha... But not getting the joy and happiness that I found in my first computer, playing the game Prehistoric-II. I really miss that time.
In the 80's, I had a Sharp computer that loads games(snake, pacman) and BASIC(programming language) with a casette tape.
I remember dubbing Commodore program cassettes from my friends. You'd just put them in the high speed double cassette deck, and cross your fingers. Pirating software in the 80s rocked
My first computer was Aston 486 and i am still having it but not using anymore as runs on dos only. DON.