What was the first computer you owned ?

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I’m quite old school and my first was a zx81 believe it or not , then soon after a zx spectrum .. I Remember those amazing graphics for sure :D:D:D
 
Had an Amstrad CPC with a black & white monitor as a kid, then an AMD K5 100 MHz machine, followed by an AMD K7 700 MHz (later upgraded to 1.2 GHz). In terms of desktops I've owned personally, just the one in my signature. ;)
 
Some 2nd hand 386 in the early 90s that my folks got from a friend of theirs. First I bought with my own money was a Pentium 4 in early 2002, and First I built myself was an Athlon 64 X2 from here in 2005
 
The first pc that was mine rather than a family pc was a Pentium D machine with a 7950gt. It was terrible...

As a family we had a Pentium 3 machine, and a pc before that, but I have no idea what it was
 
Dragon32 was probably my first computer (well the familys), first of 086 types was a 486DX-25 I got in about 1990 with a lovely 5.25" disk drive built in.
 
One of these I think.

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Atari 400 16k (started programming on age 8)
BBC Micro 32k (programmed 6502 assembler on)
Amiga 500 (early 1.2 version was in use for 7 years)
80286 (college and first year uni)
80486SX (IBM PS/1) then upgraded 80486DX (uni computer)
Cyrix 586 (did not keep long unstable)
Cyrix 686 (final year at Uni, fast computer)
Pentium 2 266 (first computer out of uni)
Pentium 3 x 2 (had a couple on Abit boards both died)
Pentium 4 (used for ages)
Core 2 1.86 (good but would not hold overclock, still in use in my conservatory as backup HTPC machine!)
i5 750 (main development rig, now put into HTPC case)
i7 4770k (main development rig)

There the main computers, does not include my servers, or vintage items purchased over the years.
 
Technically I think the first computer I ever owned was a databank style thing my dad bought back from one of his trips abroad - but it had a lot of the function of early computers including limited ability to program it etc. (That thing went everywhere with me as a kid - somewhat out of nostalgia I bought a GPD Pocket recently - but with its 8GB of RAM, etc. its also useful when I have to work somewhere that still have PCs from the year 2000 :s).

One of the first computers I owned that really stood out for me was the Acorn A3010 upgraded with IIRC 120MB HDD and 4MB RAM - it was pretty far ahead of its time and frankly I'd rather go back to using RISC OS 3.1 than use Windows 10.
 
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Damn I thought I was old :p

Stelly said:
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Snap. Wish we still had OS on hardware honestly just spent the last 12 hours reinstalling Windows and other crap due to it going belly up. Ethernet is still barely working. :rolleyes:

Rroff said:
One of the first computers I owned that really stood out for me was the Acorn A3010 upgraded with IIRC 120MB HDD and 4MB RAM - it was pretty far ahead of its time and frankly I'd rather go back to using RISC OS 3.1 than use Windows 10.
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Oh I had an A3000 nice machine, only a floppy drive though which was getting too small even then. I upgraded the ram from 0.5mb to 1.0mb I think it was the memory "stick" was larger than a brick lol
 
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