hellrazor Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 What was your first rig? i got my start on a timex-sinclair 1000... 16k...w/ the expansion cart! not sure of the year,,,1981-2 maybe c ya greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwhyte Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Mine was an unexpanded VIC-20 when I was six. My parents were somewhat at that time interested in computers and my father decided having 3K to play with wasn't enough, so he went and got an 64K 800XL. I quickly became the only user of that system in the house, and the rest is history... And now you know... The Rest of The Story... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 My mom got an 8086 PC and I got an Atari 130XE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midnight8 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 What was your first rig? i got my start on a timex-sinclair 1000... 16k...w/ the expansion cart!not sure of the year,,,1981-2 maybe c ya greg Don't remember what year but it was an atari 400. Later I got an 800xl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joplinatari Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Mine was a TRS-80 Model 3 for Christmas 1982. My father worked in an engineering lab that used them, so that's what he chose. He never showed much interest in our home computer and didn't want to spend money upgrading it, so I used a program recorder for years. Finally I received a Tandy 1000SX disk based system as a high school graduation present in 1988 and it was like night and day compared to the Model 3. I just bought my first ever Atari 8-Bit system a few weeks ago at a flea market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 TS1000 baby! Moved on to a TI99/4A and then finally the awesomeness of Atari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Atari 400. Only 16K but it had one of the "proper" keyboards. Obviously, I wanted more RAM and the XLs had been released shortly afterwards. Got a 600XL with intention of getting a 1064 expansion. As it turned out, it worked out cheaper to just get an 800XL and sell of the 600XL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperman Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 an 800XL back when I was 3-4. I don't know if it started out as *mine* per se, but it wound up that way in just a couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 C64 was my first, then went straight to IBM clone in school, didn't get another computer until Win95 of my very own. Then I got an 800XL a little while later, among several others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urchlay Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Mine was an Atari 400, xmas morning, either 1980 or 81. It wasn't really a computer yet though, didn't come with BASIC or any other language, or any storage. Can't remember how long I had to wait before Dad sprung for the BASIC cart and 410. At least I got to play Pac-man and Star Raiders while I waited Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 My first computer was the Atari 800XL. After I spilled some coke in the keyboard and took it in to get some repairs, we find out that the repair center lost it and offered us a brand new 130XE that was just released!! Fun times... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Vic-20. Got that baby new at launch, and spent some months expanding the hell out of it (frustration ensues when a good share of the components didn't work well together). Gave up on it when trying to make anything worthwhile in ASM. Sold the whole mess to a coworker, and played games for a few more months with a CV. Sold that system to buy an unexpanded A400 with a 1050 DD. Then shortly after, the console market crashed and I got steady job (making it possible to buy the "big 5", but no longer having the time to program anything on any of them) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Vic 20 when I was 13. The others are in my signature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 My first was an Atari 400 with a 410 tape drive, connected to a 12" TV via RF hookup. Ah, those were the days! Sitting on the edge of my bed, hunched over a small plastic table, learning to program from Inside Atari BASIC. Then thirty minutes to save my program, and if the air conditioner clicked on near the end of that, it was likely to ruin the save. Thank goodness my parents bought me a 1200XL and 1050 as soon as they came out. On the other hand, I fell for the Okimate 10 marketing and ended up with a well-nigh unusable printer. Should have asked for a standard 9-pin dot matrix instead of falling for the color hype. I've hated thermal transfer printers ever since (including the later ones by Tektronix). The 1200XL/1050 combo remains my most nostalgic and favorite system of all time. But at the moment I have an 800XL and two xf551's set up for gaming purposes, simply because the 800XL is easier to pop carts in and out of and the xf551's are simply still out from the last time I was writing programs for the Atari and using SpartaDOS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiliteZoner Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 (edited) Atari 400 which was soon upgraded with the b-line keyboard. Edited March 31, 2008 by TwiliteZoner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joyfulcoder Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 800XL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybernoid Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 400 in 1979 when I was six. Later upgraded to a 130XE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarixle Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 on my 16th Birthday (1991), I got my ATARI 800XL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warriorisabouttodie Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 (edited) Atari 400 with 8k... later upgraded with GTIA chip, then 32k then 48k then B-key keyboard. Years later I upgraded to a 130xe and then an Amiga 500, before finally giving in and using PC's and Mac's. I still have the upgraded 400 in storage. Edited March 31, 2008 by Warriorisabouttodie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorgle Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Unless you count the Atari VCS as a computer, mine would be Commodore PET. My older brother had built some project computers prior to that but I never really messed around with them that much. Eventually, he got a VIC-20 and then a C-64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theking21083 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 My first computer was a PC with Windows 3.1. My parents wouldn't buy me a computer so I had to wait until I was old enough to get one myself. I used to love going over to my cousins house and playing on his Apple II. Now I have an 800XL on it's way to me and am ready to live the fun times that I missed out on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdh Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 First computer was an Atari 65XE in 1987. Prior to that a 2600. Later I also got a Spectrum +3 which I still have but the drive is broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 My first one was a C64 which had just come out and when I got it home, it would not sync up with my new Zenith TV. So... I took it back and got an Atari 800! What a stroke of luck!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasholzer Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Spectravision Compumate in 1984 Atari 130XE/FDD in 85 C-64/FDD in 86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 (edited) A TI SR-56 programmable calculator, with a whopping 160 bytes (100 program steps + 10 12-digit memory registers). Edited March 31, 2008 by ClausB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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