I had that exact same XT...the 1 meg ram card was about 15" long ...full depth of the box.

Wasn't my first computer...that was an XT clone...and before that a CBM64...

Oh...before that again was a Fortran [not mine, naturally ... I didn't have the building big enough] ...

Good one Doc. I always enjoy your humor.

I used Zenith and IBM computers like that when in the U.S. Air Force, but my first personal computer was an Apple IIe.

Quoting Jan Oscar,

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Do you still have it, and did you fire it up to create this screen shot?

I've been programming computers since the late1960s, but my first PC was one of the first IBM PCs, in November 1981, with 64K memory and one floppy drive.

This was my first one back in 82 I believe?

Thanks to everyone who shared their experience. It was fun to see all the computers.

Me too. I think the whole bunch of us are old farts!

My Dad an I put one of these together in a plywood box.

8088 Processor, Z-100 Bus,  CP/M OS, 32K. 8" Floppy Disks.

Software:

Wordstar, dBaseII, Lotus 1-2-3.

Long and long ago.

Quoting teddybearcholla,

reply 18

Picture it, Sicily 1980 something. Married with two children.  My sister sent the kids an Atari, which is probably not considered a computer. I used to love playing pacman, space invaders, etc. 

 1995 I moved to Arizona and  had a Windows95. 

I am old, but not an old fart, thank you!  

Had a TRS 80 in about 1980 did not stick with it.

Then in 1995 while in Phx bought a Compaq been addicted ever since. 

No longer in Phx but near were Coronado crossed AZ on the way to the GC actually live on the Little Colorado.

Okay, so my real first experience with computers was in high school. We had an extracurricular class on learning to code with BASIC. We had a small room (closet) with a teletype terminals tied to the University of Texas computational center's CDC6600. You saved and loaded programs using ticker tape. Later in college, I had access to this same computer, but we used punch cards and the FORTRAN programming language.   

Quoting pelaird,

reply 24

Quoting Jafo,

reply 22

Quoting pelaird,

reply 21

Later in college, I had access to this same computer, but we used punch cards and the FORTRAN programming language.

For me that was around 1970 [our Form 5 secondary school].  Punch cards were a pain...

1972 for me.

1964 for me... I.B. Oldman.