What Year Did You Get Your Very First Computer?

Commodore 64, it was my son's actually; can't remember the year.

I got my Windows PC in 1997. It came with a small library of instruction manuals and discs.
 

Around 1986 I got my first computer mostly for work as I was self employed.
It was a Tandy 1000 (Radio Shack).

An 8088 processor with 128KB of memory and 2 5 1/2" floppy drives.
It cost $200 to upgrade to 256KB or 640KB, I don't remember.

I also added a Tandy 10MB hard card for $799.

I was running DOS 2.? at the time.

Wow have things changed.
 
In the 80's my wife decided the boys needed a computer. And, if I didn't pick one out, she would. A friend at work recommended the TI 99/4A, so we bought one. As it turned out, the boys didn't care anything about it. But, I did. I learned to program in basic and even wrote some pretty neat software. I had a lot of fun with it and eventually bought a Commodore 64 which I practically wore out. The keyboard is shiny from my hand resting on it.

In '93, I bought a generic IBM 286 compatible. Since then I've built several from components. It was fun, but no longer worth doing. Our present machines are stock Dell and Lenovo.

Don
 

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