What brand was your very first computer?
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Dell!
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It was an all in one Gateway. It had the tower attached to the screen and the hard drive. It looked like a television with a DVD player and a VCR built in. Bigger and heavier than the original computer that had to be stored in a gigantic suitcase. It sucked!
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A Timex-Sinclair 1000. Tape recorder to store programs. A TV set as a monitor.
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Dell
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DELL
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Apple IIc - a great computer; then a Mac - also great; then PC's which have given me nothing but trouble; my next one will definitely be a Mac.
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Packard Bell
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I think it was an IBM.
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Amstrad !!!! The old CPC-464. What a machine. With a quick loading time of only 8 minutes......
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I guess if it had a name it would be called Frankenstein. It didn't come from a mass producer. A friend and i built it with parts we ordered from different places. +5
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First toy - a Newbrain 77/68 microprocessor development kit, wit 256 bytes ram. First real - a BBC micro model B with 32k ram. First PC compatible, an Olivetti, with a 286 processor and 4Mb ram.
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Apple II Plus in 1978.
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C-64. But my older brother had a Trash80 I played with.
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in the 1980s an atari 400 in the modern era a "tiny"
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It was an Apple II; I've stuck with Apple/Mac at home although all our computers at work were PCs.
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Compaq...:)
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It was a Compaq, then moved to Dell. Now I am using an Acer computer.
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Dell
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C-64, & I still miss it!
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I came late to the party with a Mac Classic. I was sure I didn't need a computer at the time. . It turns out I did.
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Compaq Presario
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the Dell i am on right now is my first computer.and i'll never buy another one.
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A Timex Sinclair 1000, with a whole 1K of RAM memory!!!
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A Northstar Advantage
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It wasn't till my now wife and I moved in together that I actually had a computer. She had the first iMac, so I guess mine was the first iMac.
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Dell +5
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A Gateway 500 XL. I bought it in 2002 and I still have it.
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Micron
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A Dell Dimension 4100. Originally Windows ME, a 30 GB hard drive, 256 RAM, and a 32 MB video card. Upgraded to XP, 160 GB, 512 RAM (maximum), and 128 MB video card. It still works great and I now use it as a back-up.
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The first one I worked on was a DEC PDP-4. My first PC was a Zeos.
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Apple II E
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Mine was an HP. Thanks about all I knew about it! My husband's best friend still has it. My husband's 1st computer was a Wyse Unix Terminal. :o)
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Compaq
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It was a PC clone, but not a brand name.
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Gateway 2000. Whatever happened to those anyway?
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Compaq or HP dont really remember, but i found a fresh copy of windows 95 in my attic the other day! :D
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Clone
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Commodore 64 with the 10 minute loading times on the tape deck for a bit of Rambo First Blood!
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I believe it was a Gateway 2000, I bought it in 1998, I think my friend might still have it.
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A Motorola 6800 evaluation kit with 128 bytes of ram, and a full kilobyte of electrically programmable ROM for the program code. regards JakobA
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Amstrad
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It was an AMSTRAD 464 with an enormous 64K of ram!!
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E-Machine. It lasted for about a month. I brought it back to where I bought it and they replaced it with an HP Pavilion
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HP
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Dell with the Mid 90s Windows 3.1.
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Commodore 64. Very basic now but it was awesome at the time. And the games, broadly, were really enjoyable.
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It was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 from Radio Shack, with a tape recorder. The year was 1983 and one of the first things I got was a whole load of tapes from a friend, with proggies on them. I had a field day. I choice the computer over a Brother typewriter and haven't looked back at that decision to this day.
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Spectrum then C-64 then Amiga I've still got the ROMs
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HP
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Sony VAIO.
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1982, Minot Air Force Base, ND. I haven't met anyone who has had one of these.. Vic 20 It was a pre-Commodore 64. It was just a keyboard and it hooked to the TV. It used a cassette tape to load the OS! It came with a modem and a free trial to Compuserve..only Black and White text, like a BBS to type to other people "online"! It was crazy!
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Had a Beltron XT I did have a computer before that, it was made by Atari, can't recal the model though nor did I ever use it for anything more than games. So the first computer I actually used for it's intended purpose other than playing games was the Beltron.
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I loved my old Sinclair Spectrum and sometimes wish that games today relied on playability to the same degree instead of sounds and graphics.
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A clone, dont remember what
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An Apple II Plus that I used to write programs in BASIC on. I got it for free from someone that was going to trash it.
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i think it was an ibm 156k with 2 discs and no hard drive.
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Dell OptiPlex.
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IBM PC AT with two 5 1/4" floppies (no hard disk). Picked it out of the trash from the GM Tech Center.
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bostjan the adequate 🥉 I later purchased a PS/2 with DOS 3.3 to replace it. The PS/2 was a great machine for its time. Probably few modern PC users would believe that a PC from 1987 had an SSD, but it for sure did - but it was read-only. If you wanted to upgrade the operating system (which I tried to do), you had to remove the SSD, which wasn't a trivial task. That was the first PC that I used to access "Prodigy," a dial-up network that was part of the precursor to the internet. Not to toot my own horn too much, but I was a bit of an egghead back then - only 7 years old and mod'ing my own PC's, either with dumpster-sourced parts or by washing the neighbours' cars and saving money. Now the GM Tech Center locks people out of their trash and old people shoot kids for knocking on their front doors in the middle of the day. I suppose my entire lifestyle back then would be totally alien to young people born after 2001.
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An Adam. It plugged into the tv for a screen and had games on cartridge tapes! I wanted my son to have a computer in the home before he started school, and it was cheap enough I could afford it.
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My first system, I put together myself 'way back in the 80s. As I recall, it was a 10 MHz '286. I spent huge amounts of money on a Miniscribe 40 MB full-height hard drive, a real Hercules graphics board and (if I remember right) a Princeton 12" amber monochrome monitor. OH: also, a real IBM keyboard. I also bought the real IBM DOS and Desqview.
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Commodore
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Dell. It lasted since 2007 to 2015. I liked it so much, that I had it repaired a few times. I felt to get a new computer afterwards.
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Home-made. It had a '286 clone chip (if I recall correctly, a 10 MHz chip), a real Hercules graphics board, a huge 40 MB Miniscribe double-height hard drive (there was a bigger one - 60 or 80 MB - available, but it was just too expensive), a Princeton amber monochrome monitor (I believe it was the big 12" monitor), a real IBM keyboard, and a Soundblaster sound card, as well as appropriate dual floppy drives (I think originally I had two 5-1/4 half-height drives, eventually upgrading one to a 3-1/2 inch drive). Eventually I added a CD-ROM drive (those CD encyclopedias were awesome), If I recall correctly, my first modem was a 28.8 kbps (but it might have been a 14.4).
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Apple (MacBook Air laptop). It is the first computer I bought and still have it - (2016 - Present).
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