Settle an old man's curiosity: what was your first computer?
Peter Hughes@amiga_pete
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Sign in to commentNikhil Sharan@nikhil_twopointers
A Pentium III at a cyber cafe in Patna, ₹20 an hour, shared with my cousin. We learned C in the half hour before the owner wanted the machine back. Samjhe, that is why I still write code fast 😄
Lena Hoffmann@arch_btw_lena
a hand-me-down 486 with windows 3.11, then i put suse on it at 13 and broke it in a week. this explains a lot about me
Graham Whitfield@greybeard_graham
Not on the list: Microbee. Australians of a certain age will understand. I have not voted, out of principle.
Cheers, G.
Oleksii Bondarenko@oleksii_kyiv
ZX Spectrum, but a Soviet clone, assembled by my uncle from a kit with a hand-soldered board. It was called "Pentagon". Games on cassette from the market, half of them did not load. Best computer of my life)))
Peter Hughes@amiga_pete
Oleksii, a hand-built Pentagon! That's a proper first computer. I'd love to hear more about the kit some time.
Cheers, Pete
Rizal Pratama@rgb_rizal
warnet in Bandung, Pentium 4, CRT monitor with RGB? no. green tint ✨ that was my first "setup"
Peter Hughes@amiga_pete
Ryo, my apologies. Six options was not enough for the whole world. MSX deserved its own line.
Cheers, Pete
Peter Hughes@amiga_pete
Harshit, Jaxon: it absolutely counts. Every one of us started on whatever was in reach. Mine just happened to have a wobbly RAM pack. The phone in your pocket is several thousand times more powerful than my first machine, so you're ahead already.
Cheers, Pete