Post your first computer

Ours was this sexy beast.

The Atari 800xl. We mostly just played games with it. I think we also may have had an external floppy drive for it.

It lasted until I punched the keyboard for "cheating" in a video game.

Prior to this, we had a Pong game, but I'm not really counting that as a computer.

Mmm, mine was the good ol' C16 with this joystick and games:

C64 with Datasette along with Mission Elevator!

Got this computer for Christmas in 1986, along with Nemesis:

I miss it every day.

Still got it somewhere. Just looking at the lie that is the 'keyboard' makes phantom pain seep through my fingers...

my dad's work computer that he would bring home all the time and let me play with.

then he got a raise and a new position and they comped him a new computer and he got this:

only ours was 486dx2 66mhz, 12mb ram, 2mb ATI 3d video card. it was a beast, but it had no cdrom and no soundcard and no modem. so it was years before i finally found out what descent and x-wing SOUNDED like.

  On 7/13/2012 at 5:41 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4XbunKhAEYM

Hope that guy has up to date home insurance... dat fire hazard

played the fuck out of sim city and tetris on this bad boy.

been an apple user ever since, so hey, give us long-time fans our time in the sun. we've reached the promise land!

I can't recall what brand, by my family's first computer was a PC w/ Windows 3.1

Would browse this for hours:

Whereas my little sister and brother would play with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0F5AjHP7E

Also remember these games in particular...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV3pYZZ2jEw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6XuvlU5N4

Ah, Lemmings.

I was quite partial to Zool. My dad was friends with someone who worked for Amiga magazine, or something like that, so we had a filing cabinet full of demo disks.

Loved Cannon Fodder and Settlers too.

Edit: I even wrote and drew my own Iron Man comic on that thing too. Man, if I could get it back to have a look through all the files... Alas.

Agh, I don't know what it was called. It was a word processor that ran off of hard disks. I used a spread sheet making program like a vectory ms-paint, and there was also a disk that had tetris on it. I'm pretty sure that version of Tetris was the first video game I ever played.

Commodore 64 with a tape deck and some game compilation called 30 games. Quickly went on to copy my friends turbo tape cassettes. Yeah, I was a pirate.

I used to play the living shit out of Crystel Quest and The Secret of Monkey Island...

Holy shit, you guys

i remember shufflepack from my dad's friend, it was the first time i used a mouse, was quite impressive, and it was the first and last time i touched something mac related. it was probably 1990.

C64.

  On 7/13/2012 at 6:05 PM, Gary C said:

Ah, Lemmings.

 

I was quite partial to Zool. My dad was friends with someone who worked for Amiga magazine, or something like that, so we had a filing cabinet full of demo disks.

 

I think I may have been playing Lemmings when I punched the keyboard and broke my 800xl.

My big brother had a subscription to Antic magazine and would get floppys in the mail loaded with crappy games and midi files that we thought were amazing.

I remember we had a midi file of "Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO. We thought that shit was so hi-tech.

ZX Spectrum 48K+

fucking loved it.

edit: the design of this is IDM as fuck.

ours was a tandy with orange text but that's all i know

I think it was a RadioShack TRS 80 with cassette deck:

Then I graduated to a Pal 286.

My grandparents had an IBM PC but I can't remember the model number. My bromie had a C64 w00t Skate or Die!