LQ Poll: What was your first computer?
 

The LQ Poll Series continues. Inspired by a recent episode of Bad Voltage, we want to know: What was your first computing device?

--jeremy

An i386 was the first computer I personally owned. In those days I did work with VAXs, IBM 360s and HPs on the job.

Sinclair ZX80 was the first I owned, before that at school I had used an IBM360 owned by the Town Hall.

It was a Timex Sinclair TS 1000, but that was really a worthless piece of junk. My first "real" computer was a Commodore 64. I had it for several years and it basically got me started in the IT arena.

My first computer was built by me from a kit of parts. The CPU was a Motorola 6800. I modified an old TV as a monitor. I built a printer from a kit. Several tape decks for data storage (cassette, 8-track, hybrid). Speech synthesizer. It's a long story.

My first computer
 

The first computer I bought with my own money was a Commodore VIC-20. The first computer I ever used, and the one I first started learning to program on, was a Digital PDP-11/780 minicomputer. It was the "base" computer at NAS Oceana, in Virginia Beach, VA. I was friends with the DP (Data Processing) Chief Petty Officer, and he set my serial terminal up to work at 19,200 baud, and my login account had access to BASIC. I had a blast! :D

first computer
 

I didn't see a place to specify in the poll, but: Hyundai 8086 that looked a bit like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...c7xWnD3tgAKsNg

My first computer was a second-hand PC with Win95 and MS Office, which I bought so that I could work on translating a cache of family letters in German that I found after my mother's death in 1999. No network card or modem, but that wasn't unusual in those days. You can read the story of the project here.

First computer
 

Don't see a place to specify other. My first computer was a Kaypro.

That looks to be an IBM compatible PC.

--jeremy

It's the last option in the poll.

--jeremy

An Apple II.

The first computer I owned was a Commodore PC-10. It actually had a CGA card inside to be able to create documents containing the Greek alphabet. It had two floppy drives and I think 128K RAM. Quite an investment I tell you.

I have a Commodore 64C, the powerpack, Manual and Basic book but need the cable and monitor.

I hooked it up to my CRT TV with the cord from an NES so it does work.

An IBM compatible PC --an 8088 XT that I bought from Compu-Add in '86. 640K memory, two 5.25 drives, and a 10Mb HD. When I finally let the thing go in '94, a colleague sent it to a school he was affiliated with in Haiti. It put in several more years of service down there.