What was your first computer

An Epson they had stacks of at Best Buy. (1990ish) Cost about a grand and had a 2 MB hard drive. Definitely doesn't get the oldest computer award.

As a student, first one used was an Apple 2E.
 
Spectrum 48 and always envied those cool C64 games for the fancy color and sound.
then moved to spectrum 128! Ye baby!
 
Times Sinclair 1000

followed by the Commodore 64 from Crazy Eddie's in the Bronx

I still have both, and they both work.
 
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You are plain wrong. It was a mainframe, had a 36 bit architecture and ran the TOPS 10 operating system.
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My bad, I/O errror, read "10," processed "11."

OK, the PDP 10 was maybe not the first time sharing machine, but the first commercial time sharing mainframe. It was very popular with universities, and it brought time sharing to the masses.
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Agreed, the 10 was successful. But, it wasn't the first commercial timesharing system. That goes to Dartmouth TSS which ran on the GE-200 series mainframes.
 
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One further comment on nostalgic DEC machines. The baby of the PDP-11 range was the LSI-11 (Large Scale Integration). It was effectively a micro computer in the days when the competition was 8080, Z80, 6502 etc. The LSI-11 was ridiculously superior to these in just about every possible way and it was a long, long time before Intel, Motorola etc produced anything comparable. DEC was a fabulous technology company and it is a shame it is no more.
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Hold on!

Just because it used LSI to shrink the processor down to 4 chips did not make it a microcomputer.

The difference between a micro and a mini had nothing to do with size. It was all about the difference in processing power and an I/O bus that could support multiple users simultaneously via separate consoles.

What killed the PDP-11 series was the 16bit architecture. The writing was already on the wall when the 32bit 68K came out in '79.
 
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My friends got the Commodore 64 and I remember they had all the cool games (Karateka, Defender of the Crown come to mind)
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Did you have Fast Hack 'em with Tough Nuts Utilities so your friends could have a copy too!
 
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