Nice to hear about a fellow Digi-Comp er . . . . wasn't it cool.

I got my first computer, a Commodore 64 in 1986. Just had the keyboard part and hooked up to the television. No storage. I remember typing in the code for games from a book and playing for hours and when the computer was turned off the code/game was gone. To play again one had to type in the code again or a different game code.

Finally was able to get a hard drive box to attach. Then a monitor but it only showed forty lines not eighty wide as I recall (Don't remember this very well and don't know if it was permanent or just a glitch). Then I was able to get an Okidata color printer. It used a ribbon inking system and took forever to print anything but we didn't know anything faster so it was just amazing that we could paint or draw or write and have it come out on paper and in color!

A few years earlier I had worked for a company doing payroll for 600 employees and we had a computer that had it's own air cooled room where we had to wear a coat to stay in there. Employees signed up for a block of time to use the system.
My how things have changed from the early eighties to 2017!

IBM 360 mainframe in college using keypunch cards.

Mine was a Dragon 32, with cassette tape deck. I still have the computer, in its original box, complete with manual and books I bought to learn programing.

In 1980's there was a prohibition to import computers in Brazil. Brazilian computer factories specialized in
making copies of popular computers such as Apple, Sinclair Tandy and Commodore.
My first computer was a "Unitron AP2" which was an Apple II clone.

No blindfold? Cruel.

My first computer was an IBM. Intel 286 @ 12MHz, 1MB of RAM, 10MB HDD, 256 Color monitor.

The very first computer I used was an IBM-1130 in the early 1970s

It was 1984....

My brother was able to buy the CPU with some damaged chips and gave it to me to support my computer science studies.

I could contact another engineer (Andres) with another Apple II+ and I remember the process "checking" each CHIP on both computers until we found the defective one... incredible times... 2 Floppy 5.25 disk Drives and a joystick.

After this I was able to buy a Monitor (amber) and an expansion RAM card from Microsoft to sum upto 64K RAM.

Universidad de los Andes's Computer Lab in Bogotá (Colombia), had a 12 Apple II+ LAN stations sharing a 20MB Hard Disk Drive to operate a PASCAL compiler environment.

It was my first computer where I could program in PASCAL (At home!!!!! a luxury undoubtely).

Long live Apple II, II+, IIc, IIe and Wosniak an Jobs (of that time).

Dear friends,

I am very glad to see a poll like this. I am deeply moved when discussing matters that have to do with retro computing and memories of the past in general.
My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 464 where I used to learn how to write my first lines of code in Locomotive Basic.

Thank you very much,
A white cat from Greece

P.S : Please don't forget to include 'Amstrad' in the poll options.

LOL. No blindfold.

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C64 and Simons Basic

Very cool! Many thanks to my Dad for sparking my interest so many years ago.

it was an Z80 based Microbee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBee
and it was modified, from it's default of 64k, to have 128k of memory.

later still, it got modified, untill it finally had 512k of memory,
- it had twin 5 1/4" floppy disks..
later modified to have twin 3.5" floppy disks, as well - four floppy drives, in total.


and it was Seriously Fast !.

Actually it was 25 lines of 40 characters, which was common among computers which used a a composite signal to drive a monitor.