My very first PC (1995-1996):

White midi tower with:

- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander

Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.

Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆

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About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer
Back at the beginning…
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🖥️ Got our first family computer in 1993.
Tore it apart. Put it back together.
Then showed the teacher how to use one.
90s tech kids = trial by fire.
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There it is. My first computer. It needs some cleaning. And some keys are really yellow but the next summer will hopefully fix that.

You guys probably know what it means that there are two drive belts on the photo. To be safe I ordered two not just one. I hope with a new belt the floppy drive will be okay. Apart from that, it seems to work so far.

In 1985 my dad bought such a CPC 664 and a year later he got himself the 6128 while I got his 664.

I'm so excited.

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I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.

My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm

For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.

I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.

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System 80 - Models and variants

This site contains technical and historical information on the Dick Smith System-80 / Video Genie / PMC-80 microcomputer and EACA, along with TRS-80 nostalgia.

Thinking back, pretty sure the first programming I got to play with was Logo, then Basic, then Pascal... Late 80s into 90s our first computer was an IBM PS/2 #firstcomputer #retrocomputing
@adafruit My first home computer was a Heathkit Microprocessor Trainer which I bought because I loved writing machine language programs at work in the late 1970s. #firstcomputer #retrocomputing
@adafruit I still have a stash of old printed Byte magazines, mostly because "Chaos Manor" was always such an entertaining read. #firstcomputer #retrocomputing
@adafruit My #firstcomputer! Probably 1982, with the cassette drive of course. No monitor, just plugged into the TV.