64K for 595 USD

seeing as I was born in the nineties, my first computer was a windows 95, or something close. Old computer commercials make me LOL

c64 btw I still have it, it might get into a museum if I keep it for long enough:D
I still remember how hard it was to get any programmes for it here. (Hungary)

Is Atari XL800 considered a computer or a console ???

Anyway, the first one I was able to purchase was a 486 with 66hz at a cost equivalent to like 300 US dollars.

First computer was a Commodore 64.
Funny thing happened around a year ago. During lunch somebody mentioned how it was back when people had C64 but nobody had seen them for ages. I couldn't resist but to break in with a true statement "I booted mine yesterday". I was kind of like a hero for the following 5 minutes or so. I'm not sure I have used it since though but I know where it is and can set it up again in no time.
What really surprises me is that the disks are still usable. I mean they are like 20 years old and I can still load whatever is on them.

C64, i think that was on christmas when i was 8 or something, that thing was already old at that time and it was hard to get new games for it, but santa clause brought hella lot games with it... International Karate, Bruce Lee, Street Surfer, Summer/Winter Games, Pirates even a Pac-Man cartridge to plug in the back of the c64 was included. Yeah that´s when i learned my first english vocabulary. go64 run list...

Hm, I remember my dad once brought a 386 (or 486) from work. You had to use floppy disks to load some games (if I was able to). The screen had only one color: green.
My real first computer was a Pentium I 166 Mhz. Ah, I miss those Carmageddon days...

Damn those things were expensive back then.
I actually bought a japanese MSX2 a while ago off ebay.
It's somewhat of a home computer similar to the c64 only with 48k.
But I bought it mostly for videogames^^"

The first computer we had was a ZX Spectrum back in Scotland. It used cassette tapes to run programs.

When we returned to the States, we ended up getting a Commodore SX-64 (the portable version of the C64). It looked like a briefcase, but was cutting edge, at the time. ^_^

The first computer I had was a gift from my uncle... A Taxan, with green monochrome graphics and those huge, soft floppy disks.
First games I discovered were Pac Man, Dig Dug and Mystery House... Talk about very old standards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mystery_House_-_Apple_II_render_emulation_-_2.png
(stuff like that)
If I had known by that time I'd have treasured it.
Then I truly started with the NES and my very own computer was a Pentium II MMX with Windows 98.

Amstrad CP6128 - the fancy one with extra colours and the disk drive!

Me and my brother were well chuffed with it! One of the first things we did was make our own game - we copied about 12 pages of code out of a book, then realised that buying games was a better option. Monty on the run, paperboy, starquake, jet set willy - ahhh, those werent the days! Proper gaming wasnt invented for me til i had a megadrive!

Gotta love the 'light pen' we had for it too - you actually had to press a pen (with a chunky telephone cord) against the monitor! A far cry from my shiny new wacom intuos3 widescreen tablet!

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a
http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html

Didn't have a lot of the ad ons for it just a tape drive. Mainly used it for playing games.

You can now get a C64 joystick thing that you hook up to your TV and play some of the old games. People have even hacked it to hook up a keyboard and drive.

http://www.vesalia.de/e_c64dtv%5b5732%5d.htm?slc=us
http://picobay.com/dtv_wiki/index.php?title=C64_DTV_Hacking_Wiki

My first computer was a C64 as well ^^ Loved it, it's a shame that I sold it...

Speaking of computers, I just bought my first apple yesterday, a MacBook Pro ^^;

Hehehe International Karate sure brings back memories. My first machine was the Commodore Amiga 600 and still works ^_^. My favorite game was Turrican 2 and I still play it when I turn on the machine, my other favorite was Lotus Espirit Turbo Challenge 2 but unfortunately the game stopped working and I can't play it anymore. I also loved Sensible Soccer ^^.

Here are the videos:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fvha_2hAzq0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kes7RQFnzk4

My first was an Amiga 1000. I still have it, and I'm never selling it to anyone ever.

My 1st one was a Siclair ZX81 (didn't have too much money to spend back then) then I had a much better Amstrad CPC-464, but the one I liked most I think was my Atari 520ST... I remember playing International Karate + on it too, if i remember well there was a special key to pull the guys pants down...

I had several PC-XTs, but before that I had a computer that I can't really remember the name.

It was a keyboard-computer... you had to run stuff using K7 tapes, and I remember I played Zaxxon a lot.

Language was "basic", and you had to like play the tape, and then type "run zaxxon".

Also played a bit with a computer called "logo graphics", and some really old IBM mainframes that used roll tapes and huge diskettes... my father worked with computers.

Anyways, good times.

I think the first games I played, Zaxxon apart, were Alley Cat and Digger.

Quantum link, was what now is AOL I think, and in each commodore 64 C you got for free the first windows for Commodore 64 called GEOS, no www in that time

Just looked up the model, found out my first pc was an Amiga 500.
It costs $595.95US in 1987, the year I was born. I don't know when we bought it though. But I grew up playing with it.

My first computer was an Apple IIe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe

Had a few games on floppy 5.25 disks which I later found out were games on C64 as well and basically used it for playing games! Then I found out my friend had one, we swapped and copied games and played it until it got virused out.

Can't remember what my first computer is, but the game I played was Doom, (lol I still remember the code idkfa and idclip).

Both are great classics, I much prefer DOOM though because I have a clearer memory of it.
My first game would have to be... Puzzle Bobble on Amiga.

No Way ! I still have mine, with package and manual too inside!

mmmm ebay maube?

My first com was a Pentium I something (cannot remember the specs as I was computer illiterate at that time and was only about 5) which came with Windows 95. Remember playing my first games as Quake or Red Alert. Lol

Wow, yeah my family's frist ever computer was also a C64. Brings back some old memories and those large floppy disks and all that great stuff.

my first computer was a Pentium 1 with 32MB ram, 15" CRT and 3GB hard disk.

My first computer was a C64 too. I remember it took an entire afternoon to play California Games, because loading the game from tape took ages. "Press play on tape..."

My first computer was a AMD K5 100Mhz with only 16 megs of RAM and 1GB of HDD. I installed windows 98 on that machine

MS-dos was my first folowed by windows 3.1, win 95, win 98, win XP, vista

That video must have been for the first 6 months. I bought my C64 for $125 USD in 1981. :)

International Karate was awesome. I loved the Ultima games and H.E.R.O. I had more fun on my C64 than many PCs of the day.

C64 was my first computer. Commando was cool game at least but can't remember others by name. The game on the other side of the tape that was used to "tune" the cassette tape unit, some kind of prison escape, was really cool :)

Back in a primary school a few of my classmates had a Commodore 64 or Atari 65XE, but my parents wouldn't want to buy me a computer, so I saved some cash myself to buy my first computer - but it was already 16 bit machine - Amiga 600.

i learned computers on 386 and 486. my first comp was a celeron 300a machine, got it about 10-12 years back. dont have it with me now though.

I remember Commodore 64 tons of games my friend have one. Was to expensive for my parents to buy me one.

I have this. It is still downstairs in a storage room in the basement. As far as I know, it still works. I bought it in November 1984 from a mid-sized corporation called Protecto Enterprises in Barrington, IL.
I always used the disk drive; never the cassette player.
What is the legacy of the C=64 to the average computer user of today?
In the late 1980s, a new storage medium was invented for Commodore computers.
It was a "B:" drive.
Now you know why it is missing.
From 1984-1996 it was extensively used by me to keep track of things generally soccer-related. The two issues of my *first* zine (1986), "Nectar Noumena", were produced using "The Newsroom" program. The C=64 modem, with the phone numbers of all the local C=64 BBS is up here.
In 1992, I won an Zoom v.57bis external modem in a raffle, and amazingly enough, in 1994, after donating some money to the operator of an Amiga BBS called "The Smoking Mirror", the SysOp gave me _an E-Mail account_ because he did not have a lot of content for C=64 users. I was actually on the Internet with the C=64.
Favorite C=64 game? The _International Soccer_ cartridge was *quite* challenging when you put it up at level 8 or 9.
ColecoVision controllers worked well on a C=64. They took up less space than the regular Commodore joystick.
I still have all my floppy disks as well, including a huge run of "Loadstar" disc magazines. (What ever happened to Fender Tucker? ;=) )

Just in case, the only fighting game that I've played where you can have multiple players in battle at the same time is Street Fighter EX3 for the PS2 (you need a multitap to connect the four controllers).

You can play a 3 Vs 1 battle, but it's almost impossible to win when you're facing 3 guys surrounding you and smashing buttons like crazy! ^^;

our first computer was an Apple II plus. =p

I think I remember that... but.. still kind of foggy about it.. looks.. okay..

My first computer was a MSX Philips VG-8235 great computer.

lolololo i miss playing my dad's old commodore 64 back when i was really young =3 heehe

my first computer was mikromikko indiana, 166mhz, and i think it had some sort of 3D card ^^'
finnish masterpiece back then :P

Mine was a C64 also.

I think I must have clocked up 1000's of hours in front of that thing.
For my folks it was probably the best value for money ever!!!
Kept me quiet and out of trouble (well...) for most of my young years.

I learnt heaps.... and I’m baffled how C64 Basic 2.0 kept me so entertained!!!
What they say, small things amuse small minds.... probably true!

But I owe so much to this machine, I’m sad I sold my first one, I wish I still had it.
I went from that to an Amiga, which was just as cool, and then I was influenced by a friend to buy a "more serious" machine and got and IBM AT.
From that point, life got dull and boring and full of disappointment....

Still is.....

Computers and software just don’t have that initial excitement like it did back then... the joy has gone and replaced with repetition on a theme!!

In my young Apprentice days as a computer tech, I fixed these things for about 2-3 years... I pretty much knew them inside out, and we had this $15000 peice of test equipment made by fluke that actually emulated the 6502 CPU for fault finding... I thought it was just the ducks nuts back then.... Now you call your self a computer tech if you can undo screws and replace a power supply, and if that dont fix it you replace the next thing.
I dont even see IT techs know how to use a multimeter these days.....

ahhhh.... Back in the day.....!!!

I actually own 2 of these wonderful computers. If I remember, I think I paid around $300 American money. Before I bought my first C64, I bought a Commodore Vic-20. It was actually the very first computer a consumer could afford. Now get this, it only had 5k of memory. It was possible to buy memory to boost the Vic-20 memory to 16k. I still have this memory card somewhere I think. The Vic-20 was extremely limited as to how much memory it used. The C64 and Vic-20 were probably the most popular computer ever produced. Shame I don't own my Vic-20 anymore. But I still have the 2 C64's.

That Delta game looks intense. really cooling game even with its age.