What was your first computer? - Page 4

Scuba Steve · 09-04-2009, 11:38 AM

My family's first computer was a Commodore PET - one of the first 1,000 made. This is the first computer you didn't have to build yourself and I think my dad got it in December 1977 or 1978 (the box is in their attic and the USPS shipping label is on there somewhere).

The cool thing about it is that it's been in the museum on the bottom floor of the Texas State University Library a couple of times for a computing history exhibit. It's the first personal computer used on the university campus - my dad used to take it back and forth between home and the university every now and then.

Think I win the oldest non-homebuilt PC contest!

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

That was your dad's computer not yours

Scuba Steve · 11:58 AM

My parents gave it to me when I was a kid around the time my dad upgraded to an Apple ][+ with a color screen in the early '80s. Great computer, I learned how to program basic on it. Its only flaw is that it went through tape drive belts every few months.

ChemMan · ChemMan's Garage

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Originally Posted by Deschodt

ME too, remember PARSEC, the space shooter ?

DOS ? didn't know it could, I learned BASIC on that though !

Loved that game!

Our first computer was a BBC something or other. We could not get it to work. Returned it for a ZX sinclair.