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And then I upgraded to the

The first one that I built as a kid was a 386 SX-25Mhz. At the time it was a beast compared to the 286 that the rest of the family was using.

Tandy 2000 80286! 4.7mhz, 16 bit! Upgraded from 512 to 640k Ram, and badass 16 color Ega graphics!

Tandy TRS-80 CoCo.

1985 Mac Plus. Still have it. It still runs. Has never crashed.

Commodore 64

Does that even count?

PC Limited Turbo PC (Dell). Upgraded to the 10 MB hard drive and 1200 baud modem.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1321866

Commodore 64. Well, it was a sort of a computer.

Commodore 64... then much later a 486DX4-100

Custom built pc my dad bought in 93. Cost $1200 and my mom came close to killing him.

Apple II Plus with 16K RAM, connected to B&W TV, cassette tape drive for storage, 1979. Upgraded 6 months later with 64K RAM, two floppy drives and green screen monitor.

Atari 400. I learned Basic programming on it. The games looked just like their arcade versions which was a huge step up from the Atari 2600 game console.

Tandy portable. Guys in my office (all older) thought I was a whipper-snapper

Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1982. Had 2 kB of memory. Cassette tapes for storage and a TV for the monitor. Those were the days. Lol.

Before that:

And in school, this was my calculator:

Compaq desktop. Thing was a tank in that I never had any issues. It was also very large and very heavy!

C64.

Did any of you guys notch their floppies to use the other side?

some sort of Compaq my family bought in 93. spent the entire afternoon loading all the disks from what I remember.

Sinclair (9900 I think); came in kit form- i.e. a bag-o-parts. had to get a technician buddy of mine to heat up the ole soldering iron and solder every resistor, capacitor, circuit protector, connector, cpu, memory device, etc. It hook up to the tv.

Apple ][ (which I still have stored away), TRS-80, Compaq portable computer and Leading Edge pc clone.

Compaq:

That thing weighed a ton. Not sure how it classified as portable other than it had a handle and was carted around like luggage.

Slother93 said:

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Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1982. Had 2 kB of memory. Cassette tapes for storage and a TV for the monitor. Those were the days. Lol.

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Ha! That was fancy stuff! Real programmers made do with the ZX81

Some meaningless trivia...

I called on Gateway Technology (not to be confused with Gateway Computers who Compaq had a deal to buy but Ted Waits decided to cancel it) that became Compaq and now HP. There were ~24 people with the company at that time.

I had the display, the keyboard, SRAM, connectors, all of the electrolytic caps, all of the heat sinks, a ton of the power devices used in the power supply, etc.

I still call on them and have sold over $3B of products to them over the last 30+ years. What a ride!!! There is a great movie about Compaq called 'Silicon Cowboys" that talks about their rise and fall.

I think it was called Sinclair Timex; I bought it based on an ad in the Wall Street Journal.

I sold Zilog for a while for the chips and boards.

Apple II plus

Another Timex Sinclair 1000. Taught myself BASIC on that sucker. And I had one of these for the monitor:

Apple 2c

something like an IBM 25X?

videoag98 said:

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Apple 2c

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The IIc keyboard was a thing of beauty. Clickety click. So smooth.

Compaq Presario. I was a badass and could use Napster to make CDs. I may still have it somewhere