I remember being a little kid and my dad's hippie friend had this really old computer that he used to let me play Space Invader on.

Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMCsR_2JXxo

I've been using computers for 37 or 38 years. My first computer was a TI99/4A, that I bought for my 12th birthday.
It was the world's first 16 bit personal computer with a huge 16Kb RAM.
Before that I used friend's Vic20s and others.

As a teenager in the early 90's i had a Commodore 64. Used it mostly for games, loading most games from the cassette player. Bought accessories like discette drive, printer and an Action Replay Cartridge. Had it for some years until i sold the whole package which i regret today. 
My first pc was a pentium 200Mhz, 32MB ram came with windows 95 installed and nothing else. I believe this was around 1996-97. Did not take long till i got online, on dialup connection as nothing else was available. And since then been stuck in cyberspace.

I'm gonna go with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNEmEUUs8bM

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Going way back to 1979 my parents bought us an Atari 2600 for Christmas, back then it was just call Atari. lol  We used that thing for many years and I think my brother may still have it.

My first computer was my dads hand me down from 1982, it was an Epson QX10.  It had 2 256k floppy disks, a green screen and didn't come with dos, my dad added a dos board later.  The computer worked on mbasic and there was no mouse so you had to use commands to do anything.  Huge difference from today's computers.  lol

The first computer I owned was a RCA Cosmac 1802 development board with 256 bytes of RAM and the programs had to be entered in assembly code. I eventually bought a Teletype ASR 33 printing terminal with attached paper tape reader to load programs from. Probably from early 1980's.

This is an interesting question... My first experience was in my IT classes where we were working on Misedo 85 machines... :) After that, I remember playing some games at my friends on Commodore 64, and 128... 
My first personal computer was PC286-machine, and after that all possible versions and combinations.... :)

Cheers!

Wow, I thought I was a computer geek but some of the very early brands you mention left me clueless. Never heard of them! LOL But once you hit the Commodore 64, then we were back in business ;)

I remember my first real interaction with a computer was my Dad's old IBM computer with the big floppy disk, etc. I don't recall the model as I was at an age I could care less & just wanted to USE the darn things for games (Wolfenstein!) & chatting on AOL lol. My dad was real thrilled with me when he received over a $300 phone bill from my AOL chat room use. (That is when they charged hourly rates! 🤣🤣) 

Also, the ATARI 2600 was my favorite gaming system - Asteroids, Yars Revenge, Space Invader, PacMan, Ms. PacMan & more :) I really miss that system haha

Thanks for a very interesting blog post. I enjoyed reading this & it brought back some good memories for me. :) 

Excellent discussion topic

My first computer experience was back in the 80's I was given an old XT computer,DOS - remember the flashing curser on black screen :) it had a massive 64 MB of Ram and 5.5 inch floppy disks, I was told at the time that there is no way I could break it, so I pushed the limits of hardware capacity and software development, I crashed the thing numerous times and rebuilt it quite a few, I learnt Database development on it and of all things early digital graphic design - Pre Photoshop

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