Your First Computer

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Mine was a ZX Spectrum 128K (The one with the cassette player.)

Here's some “nostalgia”

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  • This type of thread has been posted many times over the years but it is always fun.
    This was my first computer,but I had to also buy the optional accessories,not pictured.

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    • Yep. Me too. Sent away for it from the back of a magazine in 1985. Timex Sinclair. I remember having a manual where you could actually program it for about a dozen or so of its limited functions. I carefully followed the instructions and programmed it to function as a clock.

      It took me about two hours. I remember you had to hook it to a TV to display the super-primitive DOS-like characters. After all that work for a simple clock displayed on the TV I decided right there that personal computers was a dopey fad and would go nowhere.
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  • I had mine for a long time when my older brother wanted to borrow it. Never saw it again.
  • I tend to need pictures to job my memory. If I saw the games I would remember if I had them or not.
    Now if we were talking Atari that would be an easy yes because I literally owned all of them,the good ones and the bad ones.
  • Circa 1983, I asked my parents for an Apple II (or IIC or E, I can't remember). My dad came home with a Coleco Adam. The thing was an absolute piece of trash, but it's the thought that counts, right?
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      Never heard of that before.
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    The family had an emachines desktop like this one. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing ever:

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    • Oh I loved my Adam,but in reality is was a piece of crap,
      BUT it was my first experience of getting online. I joined BBS's and was chatting with people from all over, I was in awe.

      Seriously? Where you from again?

      Joe, for years I have built my own PCs,Always better value for your dollar in my opinion.
      But EMachines came out the same time my kids wanted one for school work and these were really inexpensive when they came out so I bought one.
      Took it home and out of the box the CD drive didn't work.
      Store I bought it from said they wouldn't take it back and I had to deal with it through the company and the warranty.
      Company wouldn't send me a drive,they made me ship the damn 50 lb computer back to their factory in California. Cost me over $50 and almost 2 week turnaround time.
      Swore that was the last time I'd ever do business with them.
      On a side note,they are still out there but they were bought by Gateway,who you also don't see or hear much about anymore. Used to be they were right up there with Dell.
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  • Anyone who have tried the "Larry" games here?

    I never got to play them because I was forced to answer a lot of questions when I installed the game to verify that I was over 18. I never made it since it was just difficult questions about American history that I didn't knew anything about on that time...

    And what's funny was that they lent out this erotic game at the elementary school's school library.
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  • True Dan, also the tape drive was specialized,you either bought Coleco's tapes, which were expensive for the day,or bought bootleg custom drilled ones,usually at user groups meetings. Come to think of it,that was my introduction to user groups.

    After Adam, this was my next computer. It was a close-out at Toy's R Us, and I was working there as Christmas help so I got an additional discount,so I think it was like $99.
    By the way, I was also Christmas help the year Cabbage Patch kids mania hit.....that was ridiculous.
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  • My very first computer was an Atari 600XL:



    Damn I loved that thing!
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