What was your first home computer and how powerful was it?

What kind of home computer did you and your family use? How powerful was it? What kind of programs did you run?


My family's first computer was an Amiga 500. I used to play Capone and F/A-18 Interceptor on it. My parents never used it for work.

It had a 7MHz CPU, 512kb of RAM, and no hard disk. Every program had to be loaded from a floppy disk.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17055292828926432.webp

It ran on a proprietary operating system called AmigaOS, also loaded from a floppy disk each time.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17055292830174816.webp

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I got this as a hand-me-down. It was a family friends laptop he split wine on so the keeb, mouse, and battery didn't work. :turtoisedrunk:

we were :marseypoor: but I managed to scrounge together external keyboard and mice to use. I put so many linux distros on the things because the family friend had an old Fedora install on it. :marseypenguin: !zoomers !codecels origin story.

Prior we had a Dell prebuilt that ran Windows XP, I cut my teeth with Pokémon hacking with that. :marseyparas:

I do have an 8-bit collection though. I've got a C64, VIC-20, TI-99\4A, TRS-80 and an Apple II+ :marseyretro:

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:marseygroome#rarch:

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:marseya#gree:

At least it's helping me build a career without a degree :marseyexcited:

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