What was your first computer

Tandy 1000 circa 1995

 

First computer: MITS Altair 8800

First computer I could something with: SOL 20

First computer I could do a lot with: Apple II

Favorite computer: Amiga

 

Apple 2E.

 

Al Gore had not invented the Internet yet back in 79. BBS was just starting... with 300 baud modems.

My first computer was an Apple II+, circa 1981

 

367, son.

 

Actually, "internet" was an adjective coined in 1974 when the first RFC on the Internet Transmission Control Program was published.

Before that, what you call the Internet was known as ARPANET, which connected its first two hosts in 1969.

As far as Gore, read this from the "father" of the Internet, Vint Cerf:

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt

 

Apple 2E, computer lab in 1st grade. good old private, catholic school had leading computer program. i still remember sitting in the class, and playing on the machine during those earlier years.

 

1988 Hyundai Blue Dot. 256k RAM, 10 mb HD. 14" mono-chrome monitor. I still have it in the shed.

 

Reeves Analog and GE differential analyzer. Early '50's

Late '50's IBM 700 series.

 

1984 Amstrad CPC 472

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC

Had to love the extra 8 kb of "memory":

Its only difference to the CPC464 was the inclusion of an add-on board containing 8 kB of memory. The additional memory was not available to the CPU, its sole purpose was to increase the machine's total memory to 72 kB, thus circumventing a Spanish tax on computers with 64 kB memory or less that were not localized to the Spanish language. Soon after the CPC472's release, this tax was extended to all computers, regardless of their memory size. CPC models with a Spanish keyboard became available, including a remaining stock of CPC472.