1994, a beautiful reg. edition of intel processor...or my bro says, it was a large computer

I can't exactly remember the year; I believe it was maybe 1990, I was 7. It wasnt a windows computer , and the graphics were horrible. I remember I used to love playing the game Police Quest on it also.

It was a broken laptop (the screen was shattered) so I connected a monitor to it. It was about 3 years ago. Now I have a laptop and my HP.

This will date me for sure, but I had a Commodore 64, and then a few years later an Apple, around 1979 I think. Since Windows came out (1995-6), I have had about one new/different computer about every 12-18 months. This one was custom made for me by a computer guy who I trust. It has all the speed and other things I will need for some time. He put alll the latest stuff on it and it is just 6 months or so old. At 3.5 mhrz speed, I won't need anything faster than that I am sure. It is in a server tower case, so the various componants in bays can be updated easily over time if/when I want to update it.

My first computer (the one that was actually mine as opposed to the family computer) was an Apple Macintosh SE/30 which I bought during my first semester at the university. So, that would have been in 1991. As a matter of fact I can even tell you the exact date on which I purchased it. It was Monday 7 October 1991. (No, I can tell you this not because I remember the date, but because I have this recorded in my journal.)

I had an Apple IIC about 1986 or a bit earlier. It was a darn good $3,000 typewriter. Thank goodness now for hard drives, modems, and operating systems resident on the computer.

I think it was 1983. I got an IBM PC "almost compatible" ( A Sanyo MBC-555). About a year later I convinced my first wife to let me spend $300 for a 20-MB hard disk. I dumped everything I had onto it and that used 5 MB. It seemed to be unlimited disk space!

It was 1986. It actually had SIPP memory! I was 10.

My first home computer was a Vic-20 by Commodore. I recieved it for Christmas from my aunt in 1980. It was once of the first mass-produced home computers and had only 3.5K of storage power. Yet, as a boy I learned everything I could about it and made countless games and other types of programs. Recently I found a box-load of these programs and over the past few years my son, who is nine, and I have been collecting vintage computer and gaming systems. This has allowed me to relive my youth and for him to see how it was back then. The graphics were laughable (compared to today) but this was the advent of a new technology. The lessons I learned in programming back then has helped as an adult in my career.

(very) early 1990's or so, good ol' 486, it still works and i still use it :) it the beginning we were running MS-DOS, win 3.1 and some no name dial up ISP....now we got win95 on it and its detached from the LAN

My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20, it must have been 1981 or so. But my first 'real' computer was an 80286 clone in 1983. That sucker had a whopping 2MB of RAM baby! Maybe a 40MB hard drive?

1995 Macintosh. I was pretty disappointed that computers were not capable of more than they were at that time. I had no use for it other than as a word processor. I didn't know much about the internet yet. Despite the problems with my current computers (all PC's now), I now feel that computers, and the internet, are finally entering their true "golden age".

1999

1979. A NewBear 77/68 I built from a kit, with a mammoth 256 bytes of ram. 9 switches, 8 leds. You could program it to flash the leds in all sorts of pretty ways.

I got my first PC in 2000, though I did have a Nintendo 64 before then.

1994. I was the first one in my school to have one with a CD-rom drive. 4X! incredible. Pentium 75 MHz. 8 MB Ram. 512MB HDD. Windows 95. But a couple of years later we dug up one in the loft which my dad had bought to type letters and stuff for a business he was strating up that never went anywhere. OK, I kid you not, it was an IBM clone with a monochrome monitor! Only displayed bright orange and black. The hard drive was a massive 8 MB. And it only had one of the old 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drives when the entire disk was actually floppy.

Ah yes, I remember it well. It was the year 2000, it was my christmas/birthday present. It was January, the unfortunate month when Windows ME was the new thing (taken off the market after a month it was so crap). I got a Tiny computer (which have gone bust and closed down they were so crappy). So basically, I think I may have got the worst software and worst hardware that has been seen this side of the century

Some time in the mid 80s - It was an Atari ST with no hard drive. I was able to attach a modem to it years later and run a terminal prograsm off a floppy disk and make commands on a multi-million dolar network system at about 300 bauds.

I was about 10 or so; early-80s. It was a Vic-20.

I think it was 1984 or 1985. My uncle, who worked for IBM, gave us a computer. Of course it ran on DOS and couldn't do a whole lot, but we thought it was the greatest thing in the world. I learned a lot from having it though and had a head start on most other kids in school.

1987.

i got my computer last april in 2006.

I used to check out my small town library's single Timex Sinclair so much during the summer of 1982 to play around with and learn programming basics that my parents finally broke down and got me a Texas Instruments TI-99 4/A that Christmas. About 4 years later, I begged and begged and begged to get an Apple IIe. My mom was a school teacher so we were able to get a discount. It still cost almost $5000 for the setup. Then I went to college and discovered what was soon going to be called the Internet (at the time, it was just opening up from military only use to include colleges and universities all over the world) on Burroughs workstation minicomputers. I didn't really care too much about them after college until about 8 years ago when I started dating a graphic designer and fell in love with Apple all over again.

I think my first computer ran on kerosene and had to be crank started. It was about the size of a house; but cost more. I still have nightmares about 5 1/2 inch floppy disks. univac, vacuum tubes, 386, 486, pentium, my favorite is still the Athelon chip. I started building them about 8 years ago. I was repairing them long before I ran applications. now, I do web design.

November 15, 1998 It was aCompaq presario 5150, I still have it but our teenage kids use it now. We are currenty on a Systemax Venture running windows XP right now.

I think that I bought my first computer in 1998. It was a Gateway, and I was able to buy it because they had a monthly payment plan. I already had a few years experience working on computers and had a knack for it, but I was glad when I was able to get one.

My very first was a Commodore 64, circa 1983. After that, and many years later (about 1997), I had a second-hand PC. Don't remember the model, but it ran on Windows 3.1 The harddrive may have been less than a gig.

1997. I was 6 years old and i was a genius with computers.

I got a computer for Christmas of 2002 (for college) then I bought my own computer Income tax 2005! I gave my old one to my mom because I had to have more space for all my photos, music, poems, and school work.

my first computer, well im 14 know i have a laptop and a computer i got my first computer maybe about 3 yrs ago (2003 or so) and i went through a flat screen dell and know i have a different dell computer and almost a year ago my bro got me a laptop

My step-dad brought home a portable 186 IBM computer in 1988, and I used DOS on that system. It had about 16K of memory. Not like the current computer :)

1984 (aged 10 at the time) and it was an Acorn Electron, a beast of a machine with a whole 32kb of ram, a 4mhz 8bit CPU and everything loaded off of tape, so if I was told I could play on the computer for 20 mintues, then half of that was waiting for it to load the game! To put that in modern perspective, on a dialup modem (which I bet some of you might remember) a 32k file would have taken about 8 seconds to download (and I hated dialup!), on broadband that would probably be less than 1 second, its nice to see that things do improve! My favourite Acorn Electron games were Elite and Palace of Magic.

My "Computer History" goes something like this: 1981 - TRS 80 running TrashDOS 128K Memory 1983 - Zenith Z89 (owned it, never used it) 1988 - IBM XT. This machine was pretty high end. It had a 20Mb hard drive, which was all the space anyone could ever possibly need. It had 768K of memory, which was 128K more than DOS 2.2 could use. The 128K extra was set up as a flash disk. The CPU was tweaked from the original 4.77MHz to 7.66MHz! 1989 - Brief stint with a Toshiba laptop. Dual floppy and a passive matrix 80 by 68 screen. Ran Leading Edge word processor. Battery life was all of an hour. 1990 - Apple Mac Plus. Yes...I admit it :-( It was a machine that I used in college. It was actually supplied to me as a member of the Student Senate at my school. When I graduated, i bought it from the school and donated it to a local charity. 1991 - WYSE 386, 1Mb of RAM and 125Mb MFM hard drive. Ran DOS 3.X on this system, which only recognized a 36 Mb hard drive. It was partitioned into drives C through F, and I used approximately 80% of drive C. This was the first machine that I ran Windows on. (Win2.X) 1992 - IBM Microchannel 386 with a Matrox accelerator card. The accelerator card was running a 486/33 and had 2Mb of memory. This was in addition to the 2Mb on the motherboard. This was my first networked PC, running Win3.1 and then Windows for Workgroups (Win3.11). 1994 - Toshiba 486/100 laptop with 32Mb RAM. Very high-end machine with a passive color screen and a 250Mb hard drive. It had a first generation PCMCIA slot that would crash the system every time you inserted or removed a card. This is the first machine that I accessed the internet on, although my access was mostly email (ptrask@bix.com). Since then, I have owned numerous computers (who can remember them all?) The latest is the one I am using today which was purchased 3 weeks ago. It has an AMD Athlon 3800 CPU and 250Gb hard drive. I can't imagine filling that whole drive up, but then again, I couldn't imagine filling 20Mb back in 1988! My house is currently set up with a wireless LAN that has three computers on it along with two shared printers. On occasion, my tenant will access the network using her laptop.

i got my comp in 2003 i was so excited because it was my first ever computer!

I got my own computer when i was 12; 300 mhz, 7.4 GB hard drive, Horrible graphics card. Nevertheless it was a great computer for me at the time. I am 14 now.

Early 1980's from memory, a Commodore 64.

Compag suitcase- 1983-ran the old 8088 chip at an amazing speed of 8 megahertz.

I think I got mine back in the stone age, that would explain why it runs so slow. Nah, probably 2000.

Little past the middle of 1982, bought a TRS-80 Model 1 second-hand.

1995. I never used it. My husband did. I never used a computer until 1999.

I bought my computer online in 2001.