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You and I both spent a good deal of time on that trail.

Hmm…my first computer…486DX with a whopping 120 MB of HD space and 4 MB of memory.

The first computer my family had was a Sinclair ZX-81 that my Dad bought as a kit amd we put together. After that there was a C64 and then on to a PC clone, a Zenith if I remember correctly.

First actual computer at our house (not counting the Apple IIs at school) was a Tandy 8088 running the Deskpro “Operating System” on a 5.25 floppy. We upgraded the thing to 640kb of RAM (from 256) and had a hard drive (50 megs) installed so we could run Quickbooks 1.0 for DOS, and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.

I remember my first computer, let me tell you I loved it more than my current superfast Dell. Mine was the Atari 800
Yes I said it , I was able to do anything with that machine (Basic Atari Programming, Pac Man, Surfing then at the amazing speed at 300 bauds) Hey I could go on and on but I think Chris is very generous here with us fellow geeks.
What I'm really tring to say is that was my youth the early 80's . I loved being a teenager back then and all my firsts were great at that time, I'm sure you know what I'm saying.
We can never go back, things may get bigger and faster but always remember your firsts…I sure will

ZX-81 too… good ol' times.

My first computer was a 512k Mac, that's where I learned. I also used the Commodore 64 to play Squish'em and Type Attack. I used that Mac waaay too much. Eventually I got to put a Mac II on my desk in my room, I think I was 10?
The first computer that truly was mine was a PowerMac 8500/120 AV. It survived three strong years from the end of High School until the end of Junior Year. It was replaced by Rapier, my PowerBook G3. Rapier still hangs around, but isn't used for much.
Now I have Apollo and Smithers. Apollo is my serious axe these days. It handles a lot of my good stuff. Smithers is my Video machine and storage beastie tower.
I've never built my own computer. I've tinkered deeply with Smithers' inner workings, and have disassembled Apollo a few times for fun and profit.

dude, i played the oregon trail all the way through science class in the 8th grade way, waaay back in 1999! that's right Lake City, FL yup we still play the oregon trail on the old mac!!!!! THE GAME SHALL NEVER DIE!!! MUUWWHHAHHAHAHA

My first was a zenith with a 60 mb hdd and 1mb of ram the only thing i could put on it was DOS and wolf so i spent a long time mastering dos… then there was my zenith laptop that was 6″ thick and you HAD to boot from a disk (it had 3.11) … a compaq laptop it had a 600 mb hdd and 16mb of ram (i stole 95 from my dad's work and put it on there)… a HP elite 100mhz 32mb ram 100mb hdd… (i fit 98 on it after i compressed it and partitioned it a few times)… the list has about 11 computers in all… Most of which i suped up some how, I built my first home made computer 5 years ago… I have now reached the age of 14…… YAY

1st computer: Timex Sinclair 1000. Later used TRS-80s in grade school. Family bought an Apple IIc, then got an AT Clone. I bought a 486DX4-100, Pentium 90, Pentium 2 - 200, Pentium 3 - 933, AMD K6-2, Athlon 1.1Ghz, Celeron 1.0Ghz, P4 - 2.54Ghz, Yadda, Yadda, Wing, Wing, Yatta, Yadda, Yatta. HAL9000, KITT, and Mother.

I have a IBM PC with a Old windows and with that old wordstar.
Then I had a P3 533 Mhz with a 8MB video card and a 62MB Ram.
Then I had a AMD 1.1 Ghz with 256 MB Ram, a 128 MB Video Card.

Commodore PET 2001 > The pyramid looking thing with a cassete drive and a 5.25″ floppy drive the size of a really big shoebox.

Macintosh Classic in grade 1! And then in grade 3 I started using a telnet program on an Apple to access Star Wars MUSH. Hah. I spent every single day after school in the school library on that thing. I also made a shiznitty little school web site with Claris Homepage! Woocha.

mine was a 386 IBM PC, running windows 3.1! I was visiting my uncle in Boulder CO and bought it used at a place called “Computer Rennisance” (sp?). I still have this computer in the garage. Wonder if it still runs?? Then I got a 486, and currently have a pentium 2 Compaq Presario.

Macintosh SE in 1988. I hardly used it also. I wasnt into computers back then. If I had only known, I would have kept that POS Mac.

My first computer was a Texas instruments *something*. I spent hours copying a program from a book to make a stick man do jumping jacks, then saved it to a cassette tape. It was the coolest thing ever. Next a commodore 64, High school computer class; next bought an HP Pavilion; then built my own;next built 3 more. I'll never buy an OEM PC again, only laptops. Last purchase was an iBook < love it.

I just found a free copy of the oregon trail game (mac only)
http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/otrail.shtml
let's see if it'll run on osx.

nope.

First computer in the family was something from RadioShack that had 2 5.25 floppies mounted on the side of the monitor. That was just a business computer though. First home computer was an Apple IIe. First one I built myself was a P233 w/32 mb of ram and a 3.1 gig drive. Just upgraded to a P4 2.4 ghz last month, ahh so nice.

The Oregon Trail on the Apple ][e ? I vividly remember playing that game in the library at my Elementary School on a several-times a week basis from 4th through 6th grade. Wow. It was only at the end of my 6th grade year that they got a computer with Windows 95 on it. Thanks for the total flashback!

yup, my first, apple IIe with oregon trail, and logo (still remember my computer class teacher, she was hot! :) . Then my first monopolized one, 486sx.

I also spent a lot of time on that trail, as well as trying to find a green pixelated Carmen Sandiego. Next up was a C64 with a tape drive and a 300 baud modem. Those were the days.

actually I played oregon trial again with a emulator for the IIe under os9 about a year ago. Can't remember the links but google may help.

First computer was in 1986 - an Amstrad PCW 8256 with a long obsolete 3″ disk drive, 256k of RAM, monochrome monitor and a dot matrix printer. No hard drive, and the OS was CP/M. We did add a bubblejet printer in 1990 (which still works today) and upgrade the RAM to a whole 1MB though. Took us 9 years before we got our first PC in Jan 95 - 486DX2 66 running Win3.11 and DOS6.2 and 4MB of RAM.

First computer that was more a gameing machine was my C64. First “IBM” clone was a 386 sx25 with 40gig drive, 2 meg ram, 64 k of video memory, 2400 bps modem. Ahhhh those dirty pics off the bbs's flowed like h2o.

First computer: Commodore PET in grade 5, playing ASCII pacman and learning BASIC.
First real home computer: C64 with a 1541 disk drive,a 300 bps (how far we've come) VicModem, and a dot matrix printer.

Altoona, huh? Well, that explains a great deal! :)
One of my first computer experiences was APL on a box at the College of William & Mary. We had to wear these short britches and codpieces and, ah, nevermind…

Back in 1972 my first Personal Computer was a KAYPRO II with CPM as the operating sytem (yes) I am old! I also own a Texas Instrument 99. For work mainly use mainframe Vax, PDP-11s etc.
Now I purchase a new computer about every 6 months. Never own an Apple and probably never will, don't want to start an Apple vs PC war just stating a fact.

My first computer was a Texas Instrument 99 then 486 then a 586 then a pentium system and also an apple. When i was in school I used Apple IIs, tandys and 486. Now i have 4 desktop pcs, laptop, an older mac, and a 486. I love playing oregon trail and the other cool games on the mac in school.

The first computer I owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000. Eventually I purchased a 16K RAM expander for $50 and a thermal printer.
I also wired an old typewriter keyboard to the Sinclair with the help of my uncle.
I really did HATE backing up to tape cassette.

First HOME computer was a Commodore Vic-20. Though I had used an old Commodore PET.
My first actual EXPERIENCE on a computer was at school on an Apple II.
After the Vic20, we moved up to a C64, on which I cut my machine language coding skills; then an IBM 8088 with an astonishingly clear Hercules monochrome monitor and 80M hard drive.

My first computer was an apple IIgs with no hard drive. I got that at about the age of 5 or 6. played games and typed stuff on it (carmen san diego, karatika etc.) Then I upgraded to a Macintosh centris 650 with a 25mhz 68040 proc and 8mb ram 230mb hd. I could believe when I saw a crisp sharp color picture on that thing. Then moved onto a Power Computing mac color circa 1997 with a 225mhz 604e processor. The thing was crazy fast when i got it but now seems lagging behind, but i still enjoy using it every day. Its all about the mac!

486sx 4mb ram 128mb hd 2x cdrom 3.5floppy 512k video 8k l2 cache….i remember when i put in my 8xcdrom and that dx4 upgrade chip. my comp went so fast at the time i had to clock it down to play wing commander I…

I was late in the game with the computer trend. My first computer was an IBM 486 and I bought as a fist purchase on my American Express card. Members did have its priviledges when I had to return it because 5 months later the first Pentiums came out and I had to upgrade. They werent as stupid when I made the same attempt with the Pentium II upgrade…

Chris,
The Altoona Public Library in Altoona, PA? I was born in Altoona. Don't know too many people who hail from there…later…it-geek

I remember using the Apple][e trying to figure out that damn turtle program where you could draw things with the little triangle. But, I also had a TI 99-4A at home that played cartridge games and programmed in TI-BASIC. We still had it working until my mom GAVE IT AWAY last year. Why mom?

Oregon Trail Rocked!

1984 Apple Macintosh 128k. We put in a full megabyte of memory (!), added a 2nd external floppy drive and later added a 20 meg hard drive (which sounded like a Fokker Triplane taking off). Lode Runner kicked ***.

A Commodore VIC20 with it's massive 4K RAM. I bought RAM expansion cartridges and chained them together and got 84K so I could run all of those buggy programs you had to type in from Compute! magazine. I think over the years I got 1/2 of them to work!The 22 column display left little to be desired too.

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