My cousin was lucky enough, and "rich" enough, to have parents who bought her and her cousin a C-64 w/ tapedeck and floppy disk.  I was jealous beyond belief, even more so when their parents bought them some newer rig (can't even remember what it was) and they just let the C-64 sit there like a big old dusy paperweight.

Then, one day, my life changed.  My parents had decided to buy the C-64 secondhand from my aunt and uncle.  It was "for my education," but we all can guess how much schoolwork I did on that machine vs. how much gaming.  A monster was born, but in the mean time interfacing with technology became somewhat secondhand.   So, in the long run, it did help with my education too.

It's weird to say, but I think that old C-64 was one of the best investments my parents ever made.  I honestly believe it was worth more to me than going to college, at least as far as what I really learned from it.

I think it was an Osborne - was in a suitcase type deal

c 64 an tape deck, an i still own it. doesnt work but tho.

Nice to see so many people got to enjoy the good ole' C-64. A real gem of a machine, I have to say. I still miss mine.

My first PC that belonged exclusively to myself I actually got just back on 2007. I ordered one of those refirbished Emachines off tigerdirect. Came with the speaker system I still use today, but that's about all that stayed the same. Eventually I got a 8800, put it in. Then I got a samsung syncmaster 21 or 22', used that. Then I got more ram, so upped from 512 to 4 gigs. Then I finally updated from the dumb single core to a Q6600.

Bought myself a Asus P5ND gaming mobo, then a new cooling fan so I could OC the 6600 to 3.0. After that, the 8800 wasn't strong enough to run a couple games I had just gotton. So I upgraded to a 4850, then bought a gaming tower with LED fans and a 600watt psu. Then figured what the hell, and boght a 1st gen G15 keyboard, and MX revolution gaming mouse

Now I look back and just go damn.... With all that i've replaced, If I just kept the origional parts i'd have 2 PC's haha. But it was worth it in the long run beacuse this was a good 2 years to get where I am at now. And I was not going to wait over a year just to slowly buy 1 peice of the puzzle waiting to finally be able to turn on the screen.

An old Compaq Presario before HP bought Compaq.

First I bought myself was a Micron P133 with a whopping 32 megs of ram (The ram alone cost me $1500.00 at the time).  First I built myself was a PII 233mhz that I OC's to an amazing 266mhz.

dating the crap out of myself, but my first computer was something called an Adam computer. I think it was made my colleco-vision?

Anyways, it didn't have a disk drive, it used tapes....omg it took forever to load anything.

My next was an Atari 800XL, where i played my first PC games.

My all-time favorite: Ultima IV

Originally posted by Wharg0ul

Commodore VIC 20. Had to type the games in manually out of a book, and then spend another hour debugging them.

No, I'm not kidding.

I was stoked to upgrade to a C64 eventually....with a tape drive (Press "Play" On Tape 1). From there, I upgraded the C64 with a 5 1/4" disk drive, a mouse, multiple controllers of course, PC Geos (early pre-DOS OS), a 300bps modem, and a tiny hard disk drive.

And played the fuck out of Wasteland, and a bunch of good old-school games. I also began my internet trolling career, on the local college BBS.

From there, an IBM PS2 (Mean Streets, Space Quest, etc)....and the rest is history.

PC gamer for LIFE!

I typed a few games out of 3-2-1 Contact the kid's science magazine, for my C64.  Most fo them weren't that great. I remember once, one was a simple bowling game. Its was fun to do though, cause for a time I wanted to grow up to be a computer programmer.

386 dx/16 was my first

1st computer was a BBC model B by acorn computers and then my first "PC" was an Acorn Archimedes.in 1987.

Didn't come over to windows based PC's until 1999.

It was Windows ME bought from Circuit City. That's all I pretty much remember.

An Apple II and a Radio Shack TRS-80 then it was an Atari 800 and the blessed Commodore 64.

I don't remember the first computer of my house but i remember it used big casette tapes and i used to try to put them in our stereo to see if it would play anything X-).

But I do remember we have one of the original apple computers back when steve woz was still building them out of his garage.

On the serial number it says something like 0000004.

My first was an Amstrad 464.  

 Tandy 1000

First game I remember playing was Pyramid which was a qbert clone or maybe Janitor Joe

A Vic 20 with tape deck. I remeber I had to write the code for every game I played

I had a TI 99/4A. I was hot stuff-- I had the cassette drive and the speech synthesizer. I remember playing Alpiner, Hunt The Wumpus, Return to Pirate's Isle (and a couple of other adventure games along those lines), and I got to be pretty proficient in TI-BASIC, too.

My first IBM compatible computer was an 8088. I spent a lot of time playing an adventure game called Shogun.

I had a TRS-80, back before I upgraded to a C-64 with a tape drive.

Man, that first 5-1/4 inch drive was so awesome when I finally managed to save up the money for it.

A Commodore 64 was my first PC, with my first game for it being Ultima III. This was back in 1983.

I honestly dont remember the make and model but what I do remember it was a desktop, DOS prompt 100%, and I clearly remember putting in the floppy disk and typing out the command line to play Museum Madness. That was awesome back in the day.

I use to know a lot of DOS, but as time went on and the making of the GUI I really didn't need it any more.

Commodore 64     Jumpman and M.U.L.E. both great games.

then followed by the C128, Amiga 2000 (which I still have actually)

I did not jump on the M$ machines until the release of Quake which required a PC for those all to frequent  all weekend long lan parties.

The first computer that I bought was a 4.77 MHz IBM XT. It had a memory expansion board and a video card with a video out that connected to my TV. CGI graphics on a 27" TV. This was around 1984.

The first computer that I used was a DEC PDP-11 in 1976. It had a wapping 64k of memory.

TI 99-4A

Originally posted by neum

TI 99-4A

 

That computer had some features that were ahead if its time. TI screwed up by not letting other companies develop software for it.