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Bremen, KS | No love for the Radio Shack Color Computer? I started in 1983 with a CoCo 2 that featured 16k Extended Color BASIC! I build it up adding new RAM chips to boost it to 64k in '85 or '86. I bought a disk drive and a printer and used that setup for packet radio beginning in late 1987.
In summer 1989 I picked up an IBM XT clone from an acquaintance that had 640k of RAM, two 5.25" floppies, an amber monitor, and a genuine IBM keyboard for $500.00. A year later I added a 20 MB hard drive bought from another acquaintance and later that year I bought a 3.5" floppy drive and a 2400 baud modem. In early 1991 I added a VGA card and bought my first color monitor. That setup was instrumental in my success in electronics school.
A succession of clones, genuine IBM and now Lenovo computers followed. The biggest change was discovering Linux in 1996 and adopting it as my primary system in early 1998. I like the PC hardware platform for the simple reason is that hardware is cheap, plentiful, interchangeable, and well supported by the Linux kernel these days.
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What was your first computer?
