So Mary Jo Foley posted a blog about her first PC, so I thought it would be neat to hear about others' first PCs as well.
Thirty years ago: My first computer was an IBM PC | ZDNet
My first exposure to a computer was in 1981 when my middle school obtained two Bell + Howell "Black" Apple ][ computers. They were more Apple ][+ than Apple ][, but didn't carry the plus designation. The difference was the language. The Apple ][ used Integer BASIC while the ][+ (and the Black Apple) used Applesoft BASIC. I was in love.
Of course, I couldn't get my parents to buy me a computer, so I would use it during lunch, study halls, and occasionally stay after school. In the summer, the school system moved all of its computers to the school system's Media Center Service Center, which was one of the old elementary schools that was no longer used as a school. My parents would drop me off in the morning and pick me up in the afternoon. Yeah, I was 100% geek.
I don't recall if it was 1983 or 84, but we picked up a Commodore Vic 20, had that for a few months, and then traded it in for a Commodore 64. I was in heaven. I had my own computer. It was even better when I got rid of the tape drive and got a 1541 Floppy Drive.
While I was in the Navy, it was four years of not touching a computer, but when I got out, I built a 286, my first PC. :smile:
Thirty years ago: My first computer was an IBM PC | ZDNet
My first exposure to a computer was in 1981 when my middle school obtained two Bell + Howell "Black" Apple ][ computers. They were more Apple ][+ than Apple ][, but didn't carry the plus designation. The difference was the language. The Apple ][ used Integer BASIC while the ][+ (and the Black Apple) used Applesoft BASIC. I was in love.
Of course, I couldn't get my parents to buy me a computer, so I would use it during lunch, study halls, and occasionally stay after school. In the summer, the school system moved all of its computers to the school system's Media Center Service Center, which was one of the old elementary schools that was no longer used as a school. My parents would drop me off in the morning and pick me up in the afternoon. Yeah, I was 100% geek.
I don't recall if it was 1983 or 84, but we picked up a Commodore Vic 20, had that for a few months, and then traded it in for a Commodore 64. I was in heaven. I had my own computer. It was even better when I got rid of the tape drive and got a 1541 Floppy Drive.
While I was in the Navy, it was four years of not touching a computer, but when I got out, I built a 286, my first PC. :smile: