Which System did you OWN and use.

[Omega-TI]

Sometimes the popularity of the older units cannot be determined, so it's poll time. If you had one, please let us know. We'll find out once and for all how big the market is by percentage when we're done.

 

[+save2600]

Had a 400, C64, TI, Amiga and Apple II... oh and an Aquarius throughout the 80's.

 

Only have the C64, Amiga's and TI left.

 

Had a friend BITD that had a Timex 1000. I remember spending all but a few minutes playing with it.

[20ohm20]

My first computer was a TI-99/4A. Then I got a Commodore 64 about a year later. I still have my original TI, but the C64 was sold to help finance the purchase of an Amiga 500.

 

I didn't get my first Atari computer (a 400) until 1996.

[sega_SHARK]

TRS80 III

 

I'm not very nostalgic about it.

[Omega-TI]

TRS80 III

 

I'm not very nostalgic about it.

 

I cannot blame you. I had one too, used it mostly for business related stuff and to copy TI disks with Super U!

[Chuck D. Head]

Coco 1. I never had commercial software for it, just a stack of books including type in programs. So, the first video games I played in my home were hand typed and I didn't even have a cassette cable to save my work. I left it on a lot.

[Ransom]

I had an Atari 400, then a 1200XL, then an Apple //c. I still have a 1200XL and a //c.

 

(I also briefly had a TI 99/4a. And of course later on, I had all kinds of 8-bit computers when you could buy complete systems with loads of peripherals, software, and books for a few bucks at garage sales and flea markets.)

[ed1475]

My first computer was a Coleco Adam.

[jmetal88]

Originally, all I owned out of anything listed there was a Tandy Color Computer 2. I did have a PC clone as well, though.

 

I should note that this was in the '90s, though. Rather late compared to when these machines actually came out. The Color Computer 2 was the only one I paid for myself as I got my grandpa to sell me one of his (he had two for some reason) for $10.

Edited July 25, 2014 by jmetal88

[TMR]

Back in the day i had a VIC 20 which was expanded to 16K, an 800XL and a C64 - i still own all three.

[BassGuitari]

The first computer my family had that I used much was some 286 or 386 system my dad had for CAD work. Played a lot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Street Fighter (yes, the DOS versions).

All those other systems were before my time, but I own and use each of them now. It's been a while since I fired up one of my Timex/Sinclairs, though!

[Osgeld]

Dad bought an apple IIe, he used to run his bid-ness but of course I got time on it for educational and school work, I was stuck with the darn thing until 1994 and OMG once that 486DX2 hit the house I never looked back, until I got older. Having been stuck with that machine for so long I have nostalgia for it, and my apple //c is the most used retro machine I own, I also want my AT&T turbo XT back as it was the first computer I owned, course that was also in 1994 and it was quite ripe back then, but darn it, it was all MINE!

[magnusfalkirk]

Started out with a TRS-80 model I Level II, 16k of memory and a tape drive in 1979. Stepped up to an Apple II+ w/48k in 1980. Got an Apple IIe w/128k in 1985. Got an Apple IIc w/128k in 1992 and an Apple IIGS w/4MB in 1994. Got rid of all of them over time.

 

Got back into Apple II hardware in 2005 when I picked up an Apple IIe w/128k. Have since added an Apple IIGS w/4MB and, something I didn't own back in the day, an Apple IIc+ w/128k.

[Rhomaios]

Does it count if I still emulate it?

[Seob]

Our first computer was the schneider cpc 464. Sadly we don't have it anymore, since my parents gave it away back in the day.

[Omega-TI]

It looks like enough people have voted to give us a quick snapshot of the real situation for "back in the day".

I'm amazed to the see the CoCo and TI running so close together. Shows you how much I know, I would bet the CoCo, with it's longer supported life time would have done better than the company ABANDONED TI.

[BurritoBeans]

My uncle was a social studies teacher, got an Apple II for a trivia program so he could make quizzes for the schools Apple IIs. He got 2 Laser 128s later, just wanting an upgrade. Like 20 years later and they got passed down, and I still find uses like playing games or programming, even practicing BASIC for the BASIC class I get to take

[JamesD]

It looks like enough people have voted to give us a quick snapshot of the real situation for "back in the day".

I'm amazed to the see the CoCo and TI running so close together. Shows you how much I know, I would bet the CoCo, with it's longer supported life time would have done better than the company ABANDONED TI.

I don't think a lot of CoCo fans hang out here.

[zylon]

I started out with Vic-20+tape drive and later bought a C64c +1571 drive, which I still have and use. Still using Vic-20, but it's not the same one from then. I'd also acquired a used 400 back then. While not the same one, I still have one, but prefer my 600xl over it. Also have Tandy 1000 XEGS, and TI99, but they were bought in the last decade or so.

[IainGrimm]

We originally had a C16 then upgraded to the C64 and then late 80's I bought the Amiga when I started working.

 

C64 was the main backbone though with getting it early 80's and still used it even when I had the Amiga 500.

 

I still have the machine (Breadbin) but it died earlier this year so now using a C64c, still use my AR4, 1541 disc drive and the likes also

[cimerians]

I still have the original brown C64 I got in the mid 80's but a few keys dont work properly on it so now I use a C64c (I got around 87' I think) with a 1541 Ultimate II. I still keep the original drives around but just dont use them.

[+Gemintronic]

I don't apply to this poll at all. We were too poor to have multiple computers. Mostly used the PET at school and a neighbor had a TI. I did have a Timex as a pre-teen but hardly used it due to the horrid membrane keyboard.

[jaybird3rd]

The TI 99/4A was the first computer that was mine, so it has a prominent place in my heart to this day. I don't think it was the first computer I had ever used, though; my Dad had a ZX-80 prior to that, and I also seem to recall a luggable with an integrated green screen monitor (it wasn't around long, so we must have borrowed it).

 

Around the same time, my grandfather got a T/S 1000, and my uncles (who were teenagers at the time) got an Atari 800 and an Atari 800XL. I got lots of experience on all of those systems, and I eventually inherited them as the family upgraded over the years. With the exception of my 99/4A, which I regrettably sold to buy a used Atari 800 system circa 1990, I still own all the original machines today (I've since reacquired several 99/4A machines, but not my original).

 

This small group of people from my extended family were the only people I knew who had computers, or were even interested in them. I kept them all, but also entered the PC world in the late 80s with the first 286 desktop that I built, so I never got to experience the 16-bit platforms (the original Mac, Atari ST, or Amiga). I'd still like to pick up an ST system for my vintage computer lab.

[HiroProX]

Had an 800XL. Before that I banged around on my dad's Heathkit H8.

 

After that went to an Amiga 500, then an Amiga 3000UX.

Edited August 1, 2014 by HiroProX

[Omega-TI]

Before that I banged around on my dad's Heathkit H8.

 

 

I remember the H8! We had one of those in my electronics class back in high school. I preferred the H89 though. Years later when the TRS-80 Model II came out, I noticed a couple of similar attributes to the H89.

 

 

Back in the day though this felt like Science Fiction. If my memory serves me correctly, the one we had in school only had something like 4K of RAM.