This survey stated as an "Ego trip" and has morphed into a "Pissing contest!!!
Ho Ho!

First computer used was an Elliot 703 at Canterbury university (UK) in 1966. Later used GEC 4000 series process controllers.

Aws23

isn't that the same thing?
anyhow, yes, you're right, so what? who cares?
i clearly didn't piss very far, compared to the 16-ton machine from the 50s...
:shrugs:

first computer was a HP 21MX as used at ROF Blackburn where I learned to program in 'HP scientific' BASIC, ASSEMBLER ans FORTRAN. Form what I can remember the OS was RTE RTOS with an IEEE interface bus and I used it to develop ATE programs. The first one I owned personally , however was a Sinclair ZX80.

In 1991 I bought a Packard Bell i386 SX-20 machine at a Costco store. I don't recall the price, but it was quite steep for what it was. Near-frozen molasses mainboard and processor, 5 1/4" floppy drive, probably 2 megabytes of ram, 175 Mb hard drive. Dos 5.0 / windoze 3.0 bundled. Cheesy keyboard and mouse. No monitor.

It was used mostly for running an estimating program in Dos which worked fine, but in windoze it was pathetic. I named it "The Hourglass" for obvious reasons.

Using computers has continually improved ever since, taking a quantum leap forward when I chose to use only Linux, now Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

I believe it was a NEC Powermate I. Came with nothing installed. The OS and other software came boxed and had to be installed.

Close, but the PET had the 6502 as its CPU, and I'm pretty sure PET was for Personal Electronic Transactor. The floppy drive, which was released long after the PET, used the 6504 processor, and really crazy people (like me) could download a program into the 6504 and use it as a coprocessor. Of course you lost use of the floppy while this was happening.

The IEEE 488 bus was SASI, later and currently called SCSI, and was originally developed to control test equipment. But it wasn't output only, it was a bidirectional, parallel bus.

Commodore came out with an amazing number of firsts, and equipment well ahead of the crowd. If only the management team had been more interested in their customers instead of pumping the stock up and down, to put money in their pockets, Bill Gates might now be selling pencils from a cup on a street corner.

My first computer was a HeathKit S100 with dual 720k floppies. Assembly was required!

An Acer Aspire SA80 - Celeron D 326 2.53 GHz, 512MB RAM, 80 GB HDD. (I upgraded the processor to a true Pentium 4 and added another 1GB of RAM to it, later on as well.)

My current PC; I built myself, Intel DH55TC M/board with a Intel i7 Core processor and 8GB of RAM.

Note: While the link says it has no eSATA ports, it in fact does have 2 of them (but the link is correct that it has 6 all up, including the 2 eSATA ports).

Most of the rest of the info in the link is correct.

My dad and I have got free or cheap computers from jobs, thrift stores,,, he once found one the side of the freeway &c... my eighteenth birthday I got my first one from him it was a frankenputer.

Clicked on "other" but no place to specify could only vote.

My first use at home device was supplied by my employer British Telecom. It was a branded device supplied to BT by ICL which BT sold as a communicating desktop telephone called "Tonto". Not a great name because it means Stupid in Spanish. It had two micro cassete drives, one for running programs, the other for saving files, very much like the twin floppy PC's around at the time. You could send documents over the telephone network to real computers. It was not a success for BT or ICL.

Here is a link to its history

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=871

When I began it IT it was not possible to own a personal compouter although most users did small amounts of personal work on those they had access to. My first such was an ICT 1905F. The first one I was able to buy, and did so, was a Sinclair Spectrum, followed by a BBC B+

C64

While I think you mean in the context of 'the first PC you ever owned', so to speak, if that makes sense;

The first PC I ever used from memory was ether a 286 or a Commodore (at primary school), but I was too young to remember any more details than that. I do remember using the 286 (later upgraded to a 486) a lot more than the Commodore though. But in any case, they were not mine though.

I voted IBM compatible PC, because of the fact I remember using the 286 (later 486) a lot more than the Commodore whatever. And the rest are still all IBM compatible PC's.

I should have started post #204 with the first paragraph of this post.

Sorry Jeremy.

might have been around the same year . . . I bought mine from a bar in Chicago. Got any pictures of yours ?