What was the first computer you owned?

[Numanoid]

I didn't know that Spectrum +3 came with a MIDI port



But how useful was it, as it couldn't receive MIDI data, would it be possible to program patches on the Spectrum and send to a synth, but not record with the synths via Midi into a sequencer on the +3 ?

http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/hard ... mMIDI.html

[ATN69]

Mac plus was my first. Sounds like a menu in Mc Donalds

[noiseresearch]

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[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

This:



Then this:



Then this:



Then left computers for games consoles until much later when I went from custom-build pc to macbook pro

[woggle]

apple II in 1977/78 probably or maybe a bit later, running the mountain computer music system (with light pen to input notes)

[thecontrolcentre]

Atari 520 STe... I still have it boxed up somewhere (as well as 2 x 1040 STe's)

[Chris-S]

ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Commodore AMIGA
PC

[V0RT3X]

Self-built AMD Athlon system

[stardustmedia]

C64... but "real" PC, it was a Pentium 3 with 33MHz

[V0RT3X]

C64... but "real" PC, it was a Pentium 3 with 33MHz

lol a pentium 3 @ 33mhz???

Must be a typo, because the first Pentium 3 was released with a 450mhz processor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III


Anyhow maybe stardust meant the 133mhz FSB it shipped with.

[Numanoid]

I think 33 MHz was the time of 386 computers running Windows 3.1

[fedexnman]

Hand me down Packard Bell with Windows 95 an AOL and dialup ...lolz what a piece a crap computer now I look back on it ...

[V0RT3X]

Before I saved up and built my desktop we bought a Pentium 120 which I lost countless hours to @ 11 years old. That was the computer that I ended up taking apart and putting back together, reinstalling Windows95 multiple times (Much to my parents dismay), learning how to build partitions, maintenance, editing the registry, oh and playing lots of classic video games.

I eventually become the go-to tech nerd in my family and I still am to this day. Except now I'm using OSX systems and don't really know much about the new windows systems since Vista..

However I do want to build a custom high-end multimedia/gaming windows system again in the near future. Before I get this, I want my 12-core Mac pro system first for 4k Video production.

[flugel45]

It was in '86 or '87. A laptop running DOS. Don't remember the specs, except that it had no hard drive. It did have two 3.5" floppy drives: one held the DOS disk, while the second held the applications. I ran four programs -- a word processor, a spreadsheet and two very simple games.

[sprnva]

That was the computer that I ended up taking apart and putting back together, reinstalling Windows95 multiple times (Much to my parents dismay), learning how to build partitions, maintenance, editing the registry, oh and playing lots of classic video games.

I eventually become the go-to tech nerd in my family and I still am to this day.

That's pretty much how I became the local "computer guy" as well. The first PC I bought was a crappy Pentium 133 that I gradually upgraded until I built a whole new system about 5 years later.

But my first computer was an Amiga 500. No hard disk, but eventually I added a second floppy drive which cut down on a lot of disk swapping.