What was your first computer (Pics or it didn't happen)

Mine was a TRS-80 CoCo:
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It had a “game cartridge” port…which is also where the modem got plugged in. The port is on the right side of the machine.

This bad boy plugged right into a TV, like the Commodores and Amigas. Channel 3 or Channel 4? Your choice lol.

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Mine was:

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One of my “dreams” is a computer museum. One model of each of the computers out there. Working preferably.

Paul Allen had such a museum in Seattle while alive. I like the idea.

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Texas Instruments TI99/4A

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Here’s how it looked on the TV (yep. hooked it up to the television and turned to channel 3, didn’t use a monitor.)

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Here were the two video games for said computer.

Parsec:
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and Munchman (yes, not Pacman):

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Mine was Sinclair ZX spectrum.

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This was my favourite one but at that time out of my price liga. Beautiful!

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But I got it when PC 286 and starting 386 were available. So it was cheaper.

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At least they were handier than…

Time goes by. :smiley:

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Amiga 500!

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Amiga 500 great stuff…My second Computer was an A1000…Beautiful times.

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Haha happy times yeah. I remember the day I got an extra memory installed by my cousins, a whole 1 mb and a small switch on a cord from the keyboard :grin:

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My first experience with computers… Macintosh II

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Btw, is anyone going to create a “What were your first video games thread?”

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You can :slight_smile:

My gear…


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My beauty, Commodore 64

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I don’t remember my first computer, all I remember is that it ran Windows 3.1 and I played Billy the Kid Returns on it all day.

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If I had one before this I can’t quite remember.

Dell optiplex. Cutting edge at the time I guess lol

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Damn this really brought back a flood of memories. Me and my brothers spent hours on the computer watching stupid flash animations and games.

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My first “IBM clone” computer was one called a “Premier 200” we got at a store called BizMart which wasn’t in business long as I recall. I can’t even find a picture of that computer online. It was so niche. Was a 286 I think, ran only MS-DOS.

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I remember that a couple of years later, my dad brought home one of these that they’d started using in his office. (didn’t have the external disk drive.)

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“Wow. This is another level completely!” “They call that a mouse?!”

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