What Was Your First Computer?

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Mine was a Commodore 64. My father bought it for me in the summer of 1983. I think it cost 3000 markkas, which is €1148 in 2019 euros or $1350. The C64 had 64 kb of RAM and its clock frequency was 1 MHz. It had three sound generators making it easy to make polyphonic music. I will never forget the arpeggios! Countless kids, including myself, learned to program in Basic with the C64. We had tons of games.

Here's a collection of classic C64 games. When I watched the video, I felt strong nostalgia:

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I was given an 8088 and a 286 in the late 80s when my neighbour who worked for IBM upgraded and bought a 486 and gave a 386 to his son. I don't know why they held back on giving me the 8088 until then, but I used that for school and the other for fun. My dad had a C64 and I believe something even more ghetto. A few of my richer neighbours had apple 1 and 386/486.

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One of my friends who got a computer before I did got a Vic 20. Another had a Spectrum ZX-81. A cousin of mine also had a Spectrum ZX-81. No one I knew had a Spectrum ZX-80, which was the more primitive early model. It only had 1 kb of RAM, which wasn't much to say the least!

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wow, some of those are hobbist pcs.

Anything you had to hook up to your tv is rightly ghetto.

Some of these machines are probably worth money if they look alright and still work.

I like watching a youtuber called 8-bit guy who knows a lot about the older stuff.

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My first PC was the windows 98...it wasn't even an Intel lol...I can't really remember.!/..

Wooow so this was what super Mario used to look like back in them days...lool niiice....

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My parents bought a Gateway 2000 desktop PC back in 1996. And they really shelled out for it! They went for the 120MHz Pentium, the 28.8 kbps dial-up modem, and they even sprung for the 2GB HDD upgrade!

To be honest, I'm amazed that computer lasted as long as it did. It was quite impressive to see, you know?

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