What was your first computer?

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I have a Mac mini M4 which pairs awesomely with my HP Pro 7 monitor and a iPad Air 13in M3, iPhone 15 and a Apple watch 11 and they all work so well together, If I get a message on my iPhone I get a notification on Mac and watch. I really like the Apple ecosystem.

I didn’t think I’ll cope with getting messages on my computer screen but I’m old school early 2000s computers but I’m moving with the times. My first computer I had built in 2000 for school, and was windows 98 and cost £800 with a large monitor. This was before we had internet, I played GTA liberty city all the time. I loved that game, good times back then.

What was your first computer?

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packard bell, pentium 100mgz, 28.8kbps modem, 4gig harddrive, maybe 56 mb ram, not sure

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After my first computer which lasted 5 years I had a HP pavilion, windows XP, around 2005.

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What could you do with it Play any games?

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You could program it yourself. You could buy games for it too, which I did.

The games came on cassette tape. You needed a cassette player hooked up to it to “load” the game from cassette tape into the computer. This was the way most home computers worked back in 1982.

Also you could buy magazines which had computer games etc printed in them, and you would then type them into the computer via the keyboard.

You could then “save” the game to cassette tape so you could play it whenever you wanted.

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Wow I had no idea… I grew up with boxy computers with cds

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Yes, they were fun times. I have happy memories of that computing era.

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Here’s an example of the kind of games you could play.

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My Mom would only let me play learning games when I was young but I had a lot of fun with those and then my neighbor gave me Diablo which was a blast

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My first computer was an Apple IIc…it had a 128 mb hard drive and you could program it with DOS. I played games like Fallout and Zork on it. Good times!

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Hey! You made it. Great to see you.

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It’s good to be here! Good to see you, too!

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hey welcome to new forum

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I had a Hewlett Packard. Remember those?

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My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a tunable cassette tape deck with leds and all. You could play and swap all sorts of software and games using those cassettes. Seems like ages ago, which it is - but not particularly nostalgic about it, those things were awfully slow and clumsy things. Nowadays computers are just so much better and faster.

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Vic 20

Then commodore 64

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A giant Barbie desktop computer :heart_eyes:

I loved that thing lol

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I had a friend that built me a computer…no brand name I can remember…it broke pretty fast…but he kept me in computers for a while…haven’t thought about him in a while…he turned into a opium junkie eventually.

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Same broski. Had the TIMEX Sinclair. Whooooo! Uncle bought it for me. He also gave me a TI/99 with a P-box. Had a C64 in junior high. A friend had a Franklin Ace (worst Apple II clone ever made). Poor bugger.

Got myself an Atart 520ST as an adult. Lovely beast. It’s in storage right now.

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It’s great to see you on the forum @WhiteRaven!