My first computer from what I can remember was a Tandy - from Radio Shack.
It had a 2" thick book.I had to type in every program code into it ,just to get that thing to show a swirling cyrcle.That was a nightmare .

 

Here she is an all here splendor 4k mem. rolling a cassete deck hooked up to a 13" black and white sears television . Just when you were about done writing a program the power would blink and you would lose everything :x

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Oh yea, I remember my first program from the Commodore mag. It was a chess program.after programing you could actually play against the computer!My wife and I spent many days programming machine language.One tiny mistake and "ALL" of the worked had to be reviewed with many hours of checking machine language.But one day it worked.It was neat playing chess with a computer.I have that computer to this day though I have not started it up in quiet a few years.it probably works.If I'm not mistaking, the on-board computers used on the Apollo space craft were not as powerful as the "64's"If not about the same.

 

My favorite game was Jumpman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImluAY58D2o

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Glad you guy's remember those things,makes me wish I still had mine.
Now I remember what it was.TRS-80.

 

The C64 was my first one too. In 1984. Started BASICing on it. Never looked back. Still do some VB6 today.

 

My first computer was a Heathkit H8 Computer, with H17 drive ,and H9 terminal.
It cost me about $2,600.00.
It was fun to build. I wish I still had it.
I traded it for a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, and a Radio Shack Color Computer.

I am getting old. :questions:

GHB. :ugeek:

 

I have about three C64s sitting in my storage, as well as the tape drive an a couple of disk drives, not to mention a whole lot of 5 1/4" floppies, it was my first computer even though my dad insisted it was his, though he had trouble even turning it on :tease: My favorite game for it was Chuck Yeagers flight trainer, I loved how after you crashed Chuck would pop up and insult you

 

I forgot to mention, I also have the speech modual and the "Magic" mouse for the C64, My parents went all out when they bought the C64.

 

The Commodore PET was the first to come into our schools here in the UK.
That calculator style keyboard was probably good practise for SMS texting in later life and the program that keep users up till the early hours was ‘Lunar Lander’.

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The (MkII) with the full sized keyboard was quick to follow and, of course, there was not any room for the tape drive which then became a separate feature.
I don't know how much these machines cost but I think it was well beyond the average man's budget at that time.

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This link tells the story about the guy that was inventor of the personal computer.Interestingly, he could have bought Apple at one time for $180,000. Anybody got a time machine.

http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/ ... peddle.htm

 

My first computer was an Atari 800 back around 1980. I remember paying more for the floppy drive and 32K memory than for the computer.

I had dreams of being a game programmer back then (it didn't take 100 people to write software) and had one minor game published. I was amazed to find out a few years back that it still can be found on the internet and run on modern computers with an emulator. It's cool that I could let my daughter play it almost 30 years later.

http://gury.atari8.info/details_games/969.htm

It's funny that even back then there was always a battle between Apple and everyone else about who had the superior machine....

 

Nice first post, Phill. Welcome to the forum!!

 

Thanks! I'll try not to bring the intellectual level of the forums down by too much

 

I'm really looking forward to getting my new machine.

I wish I could still code like I used to. I'd love to get into the nuts and bolts of the software but my skills are WAY out of date...