Ask HN: What was your first computer?

Vic-20 (Though we used Pet's at school).

TRS-80 Color Computer w/ 4K of RAM

Commodore 64, though we used TRS-80 Color Computers and Apple II+ at school. I even had it decked out with the 1702 monitor and the 1541 floppy drive!

A Commodore +4.

vic-20 and a stack of Byte magazines with programs to type in. then a C-64 and 300baud Hess modem.

ZX81 with 16K RAM pack. Slightly less computing power than the fishcakes I had for tea.

I'm not exactly sure, but I remember using those pretty iMac G3s in elementary school. Later on dell desktops, then linux on desktop, and then back to mac land in late high school. My first memory of Google is around 3rd grade.

Power Macintosh 5400...

Reboot at least once a month holding down the command and option keys to rebuild the desktop files and prevent death!

Pentium II ... awesome for Doom :P

Atari 800XL.

it was a 486dx 33 purchased in Germany and made in Taiwan.

TI-99/4A at school, then a Commodore 128 at home a few years later.

My first at home was avTimex-Sinclair 1000 (which my parents got in a special bundle with the 16kB memory expansion and thermal printer.)

A bit earlier started using Commodore Pet and TI-99/4s and /4As at school.

A ZX Spectrum +3, connected to an audio cassete player. But my first PC was a 386DX 33Mhz with 130 MB of hard disk, msdos 5.0..

TRS-80 Model 16

ZX Spectrum 32k at home, IBM S/360 with MUSIC/SP at school

Heathkit H89

Atari 130XE, with a bunch of fun game cartridges like Star Raiders

IBM PC 286. Am I ancient?

A C64.

A Dell desktop with Windows ME. It wasn't until university that I realized that some people hadn't grown up with computers as I had.

386 win3.1

I remember swapping in my 100mb "Games" hdd

The first computer I owned was a Nascom 2: http://www.nascomhomepage.com

Tandy TRS-80 model 1, 4k RAM. Saw it in a shop on way home from school, jaw dropped, had no idea what it could do but needed to find out, worked arse off in summer job, & bought one. Programmed via hand-assembled Z80 using instruction table photocopied from a library book. It was some years before I knew of anyone else actually owning a computer.

Tandy 1000:

"The Tandy 1000 was the first in a line of more-or-less IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its RadioShack chain of stores"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000