Your first computer?

[Mercutio]

I'm a little surprised, no Trash-80's, Amstrad CPC's, Acorn's, BBC Micro's, Amiga's? Or even shock, horror, a Macintosh. (later called the Macintosh 128K or Mac Classic).

I didn't know anyone who had a Commodore until I went to college. By that time the Amiga was already kind of a dinosaur, but some people were still using them.
My high school used Macs for the newspaper class, but mostly what I remember about that was how annoying it was trying to interchange data between a PC and Mac of that time.

 

[ddrueding]

My elementary school had a lab full of Mac Classic IIs that no one used because no one knew how to use them. IIRC, they sat there for 3 years before they were removed and the space converted to a classroom. I don't even know if they were switched on once.

 

[fb]

The first school computer we had was Compis (COMPuterInSchool, kompis=friend in swedish). Designed in Sweden, used the CP/M OS, you did the programming in the Comal language, a mix between Basic and Pascal. All the computers in the classroom were connected to a central HDD with (I think) 20 MB capacity.

 

[LunarMist]

My elementary school had a lab full of Mac Classic IIs that no one used because no one knew how to use them. IIRC, they sat there for 3 years before they were removed and the space converted to a classroom. I don't even know if they were switched on once.

When I was in elementary school all we had were slide rules. They booted instantly though.

 

[ddrueding]

When I was in elementary school all we had were slide rules. They booted instantly though.

I actually watched a YouTube video recently on how to work one of those. No thanks.

 

[CougTek]

When I was in elementary school all we had were slide rules.

I've used those too, but not on a regular basis (I hated them).

 

[sedrosken]

The computers we had at my first school were all iMacs, that is, the old iMacs with the colorful cases and handle on the CRT casing. I want to say they ran Mac OS X 10.2 or something. This was in 2003, mind, when 500 MHz PowerPCs weren't that special. The oldest computer I used in school was a Packard Bell that ran Windows 95. Was probably a 486DX2-66 with 8 MB RAM. It was running Office 97. Everyone thought I was weird because I'd call that one before the newer ones. I was really into the older stuff back then.

 

[Stereodude]

I had an obsolete Heathkit computer with a Z80 that ran some flavor of CPM that was given to me when I was in 5th grade. I had all sorts of fun with it.

 

[P5-133XL]

I was trained in high-school to use a slide rule for math and science classes (calculators were just starting to exist and were still quite expensive: Several hundred dollars for a basic scientific calculator). I still have a slide rule from high-school and think that whomever first created the slide rule was a genius! If we are really counting those as computers then by that interpretation my first computer really was the abacus that I used in elementary school to help learn simple math (addition and subtraction) way before the PDP-8/L.

 

[Bozo]

This was the closest thing to a calculator when I was in school - besides the slide rule.