lol....... my first ever machine was an ATARI XE, which i believe had a tape deck loader
ATARI.jpg
& some of the finest 2D graphics on the planet

loved that rig



SK

I well remember my first computer, back in 1983. It was a Commodore 64 and I had many hours of pleasure and enjoyment using it. Prior to that, I remember using the Commodore PET at college (this was an all-in-one unit).

I cut my teeth on a trash-80 (trs-80 by radio shack). It's total memory o/s + programming was 16kb. It used a tape recorder as it's "drive" and some ungodly thermal printer. I actually programmed my own games on it, since there were no software stores. And networking? lol. Yes, it predates you commodore people, and I had one of those too! My first real pc, didn't come with a hard drive, just two 5 1/4 inch floppies. When I did get a hard drive, it was a big sucker, and state of the art at 20mb! Monochrome was the monitor of choice at the time. Although software was becoming more available by this time. Yes, I guess, as far as computers are concerned, I *am* an old fart

Here's what the trs-80 looked like:

The good old days of the Commodore 64. I remember them fondly. I had two drives, the RAM extension cartridge, modem cartridge, and a million 5 1/4" floppies that my friends I made copies of to each other.

The Commodore 64 was not that bad at all for it's day.

I started out on a zx81, but that was soon replaced with a Commodore 64. Oh the fun of waiting 30mins for a game to load from tape and learning to program in BASIC with no resources other than the user manual.

And now we cannot even wait a nano second for Broadband to get to the next page! How things have changed.