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I got my first computer in 1988. It was an Apple IIgs. Technically, it was the family computer, since I was only 8 at the time, but I was the main user.
Discounting the Atari's I owned, 1982. An IBM PC-1. Took me six months to talk my wife into buying it. After all, the cost was about $1000.00 less than the car we bought that same year! Her biggest concern: That I would end up playing games on it. We already had an Atari 2600 and didn't need another game console.
I taught myself how to program, tear the computer apart and add cards and RAM, and learned a lot about how it all worked. I now own my own computer consulting business.
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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I got mine in the fall of 1988. A cow orker of mine at Northwest Airlines and I were shopping for our first PCs at the same time, and I ended up with a Dell System 220 (20MHz Harris 286 with 1MB of RAM (a DIMM!), 3.5" 1.44MB diskette drive, 40MB hard drive, and VGA on the mommyboard).
Nice box. Ran MS-DOS 3.3 and Windows 2.1 for a while, later upgraded to MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0, and my monitor was one of those fancy 14" Zenith FTM-1490 "Flat Tension Mask" monitors which had a truly flat screen but ran relatively hot. Those suckers normally retailed for $999, but I got it for a little over $500 via a noname ad in Computer Shopper.
My first computer was an Atari 400, which I bought for $550 in December 1979.
CPU: MOS 6502,1.8MHz RAM: 8K base, 48K max Display: 24 X 40 text, 320 x 192 monochrome, 160 x 96 with 128 colors Expansion: 2 internal expansion slots, 1 cartridge slot under front cover Ports: 4 controller ports, TV video output Storage: external floppy drive, cassette recorder O/S: Atari OS
IBM Convertible 5140 in the mid 80's, I think it was 85, I also had an external 5.25", modem, and carrying case...I sold it to a collector 3 years ago.
The IBM PC Convertible is a portable personal computer designed for professional applications and personal productivity. It is designed to enhance personal computing capability with two power options (battery or AC). The uniqueness of the system unit is the integration of microprocessor, LCD display, dual 3.5 Inch Diskette Drives, keyboard, memory, within a lightweight, full function system that can be carried easily. The IBM PC Convertible maintains compatibility with 5.25 inch diskette drive systems through asynchronous communications or through an IBM 4865 Personal Computer 3.5 Inch External Diskette Drive that attaches to the IBM Personal Computer, IBM Personal Computer XT, IBM Portable Personal Computer, and IBM Personal Computer AT.
I got my first when I moved out of my parents place in 1999 (P3 450Mhz). My parents had a 486 at he time and just upgraded to 95. I wanted something better for myself. Before that we had an Amstrad (monochrome Monitor) and an Amiga 500. Bot had no HDDs.
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