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kennyb: What was the first computer you ever used and how big was it?

ocdspectrum: An Aquarius. Mainly for games. It was not so big.
gamer667788: A DOS only and I can't remember
the manatee: Don't laugh, but it was a Wang. A big old boxy thing. There wasn't even a keyboard: you coded on cards.
oriecat: Vic 20. It was standard Vic 20 size.
MetalHead84: something 486, with windows 3.1, the computer cost 3000$ CAN with a printer and it was used
ricardofo: Burroghs B-6700 (when I began to study engineering at UFRJ in 1978). Very big.
senorcoo: Commodore 64. You know how big it was. We all had one.
Woelf: Commodore 64 - it was basically just a fat keyboard attached to a 5 1/2" floppy drive and hooked up to a television, so it really wasn't much bigger than a typical modern-day console (360/Wii/PS3/etc.
Polgara: 286
jrbentley: Good ol' Commodore 64. By size, do you mean RAM? Well, it had.....64K. Duh.
Phil Fleischmann: Timex Sinclair - about the size of a dvd box
Zedsdead: My first computer filled only one warehouse, was covered with vacuum tubes, and could do complicated arithmetic like subtraction and multiplication in mere minutes! (Incidentally, isn't your question just a complicated way of asking "How old are you"?)
MamaRat: Something by Texas Instruments, I don't really remember how big it was. Then we got a Commodore 64.
zingor1066: TI99 4a. It was about the size of a cinderblock, I believe.
soundpreacher: Timex Sinclair 1000 - a whopping 2K of memory. Woo hoo!
Steerpike.Instance: size is not important and my memory is going
KakarisMaelstrom: My dad used to work for IBM so I grew up and learned to read on one.
shteev: Commodore PET. My mum had some at the college where she taught, and she'd get to bring one home for the holidays.
milhouse46: Vic-20. Big like a big keyboard
crobledo: 486 with windows 3.1; it was about as big as a full tower today.
Mr_Smallberries: A TRS 80! Read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80
aleo09: commodore 64
cgund: It was this old Timex dealie you hooked up to the TV, very small and flat/thin. The keyboard was just a touch-sensor thing, no actual keys.
cleonhard: I think it was a TI 99/4A... about the size of an Atari ST.
ctrzn: Actually I don't think I used one until Windows 95.
krainer: Mainframe DEC something, to which i submitted punchcards, with a 2 day turnaround as they had to be sent downtown.
DHEK: It wasn't that ancient. It was an Apple II, and around the same size as today's PCs.
Benzebub: Apple 2E. It was pretty big. I still have it, and it still works. ;)
Butterbane: It was one of those monstrous things in the early 80's that recorded stuff on cassette tapes instead of floppy or cd
Beyak: Large mainframe, can't remember the name
Guantanamo: that 4k thing by commadore
BuddyLee: TSR80
jeffwolfe: TRS-80 Model I
Leo-T: Apple IIe - not very
ansc1023: Apple Macintosh, when I was in elementary school, I do not remeber how big it was
HScottBuck: Amiga, about 2 feet by 1 foot by 8 inches
greglios: Commodore 64, it's not that big, maybe a bit bigger than my keyboard now.
szilaj: Commodore 16. And it was as big as a Commodore 64.
prolifekilledmywife: C64, which is smaller than the average desktop today.
cleavet: That would be an HP 3000 mainframe. I never saw it as it was locked away in a system room.
Leif: Vic-20
Csteb: Apple IIe
dmomo: Coleco Adam. That I can remember. About 2x the size of Ticket to Ride box.
vampywife: i don't remember, but it was in the 90s, so it wasn't that big
nexttothemoon: I think it was a Radio Shack TRS 80...and it was about this big.
brainrob: It was a Commodore 64+
MisterCranky: Who knows? It was 25 miles away and all I ever did was send them my hollerith cards and they'd send me back some greenbar.
_Kael_: Commodore 64. Look it up.
SVan: same size as they are now, just way less powerful.
scriptorum: TRS-80 Model I? Vic-20? Not sure.
lauramath: OMG a Commodor (SP?) It took cassette tapes?
Chris Page: Apple II, early model. Bigger than a breadbox.
LemonyFresh: ATARI 800 XL. Wasn't tremendously big.
Grizzley91: the immortal IBM PCjr; it was the same size as my tower unit is now, just had no computing power.
schlappy: late 70's "ticker tape" rolling workstation.. pretty big
chillrunr: My Simon game. About the size of a Simon game
ZombyDawg: I took a class on Computer Aided Drafting and Design at Computervision in 1976. I think the computer was called a Nova or something. It was as large as a small bookcase.
vetinari7878: The wonderful Commodore Vic 20.
POvidiusNaso: I think it was a TRS-80. It was pretty big and played video games off a tape player.
Unitbuster: It was an EPS and it was the size of a bull moose, and as loud when booting up
e.c.r.: forget the brand - it weighed about 20 lbs
GI Joe: Original TRS-80. It had all of 4K RAM. Hahahahaha.
GuyHill: MSX - 64 kbytes of memory
axarca: Atari 800XL - 800kb internal RAM - NO disk drive. The size of a 2600 game console.
consolewa: I think it was an Apple II back in 1984. It wasn't very large at all, really, though it probably had the computing power of a modern day wristwatch.
ctgamer: ti99 - replaced by a c64 in 2 months
Belash: I can't remember
Cerebus: Timex-Sinclair 1000. About the size of a book.
Karlsen: PDP-8E 16k and ran 4 users better than most Windows PCs run 1
Cavedog_pdx: The Apple IIe
DonO: Burroughs B6700, might barely fit in a small house.
jellospike: Mac Classic :)
Chris Barnard: Sinclair Spectrum 64k.
sourwyrm: 286
UhhhClem: It was a CDC 6600, and it was big enough that I never saw it, just its peripherals.
Lord_Prussian: I believe it was a big mainframe as big as a house. Well a room in a house anyways.
Great Dane: RC4000. It filled a very large room
InfinityMax: Texas Instruments thingy - about the size of an LP, hooked to the TV
warpozio: IBM XT
SteveK2: ICT 4130 - like an 8080 the size of a car
notquitekarpov: Offsite mainframe whilst at School. Room filling (@1979)
kgnunn: Timex Sinclair 2000 - It was about the size of a shoebox.
Ardos: The Commodore PET
Ebon Wendigo: Does making punch cards in Fortran count as "using" a computor. If so I don't know how big it was because I never actually saw it.
djlg: Dick Smith TRS-80. 1metre x 0.5 metre x 0.1 metre (not counting the B&W TV used as a monitor).
skrutsch: Apple iic. The computer itself was about the size of today's notebook computer. The monitor was about a cubic foot.
heli: not sure, but it was by DEC in 1979 and probably 24 cubic feet
Mike A: Commodore PET. It was Commodore PET sized.
viogression: TRS80 Model III. Desktop.
CDRodeffer: TRS 80, about 3 cubic feet.
Gargoyle: Hmm... I think it was Commodore 64.
chaddyboy_2000: Apple IIGS
jttm: An apple. Green and black screen. About yay high.
snoozefest: i think it was a PET, about the size of the original imacs + keyboard space and a little area for the computer
CortexBomb: Well, it had a casette style tape storage drive...
Tim Synge: Can't remember.
skelebone: I learned computing on an Apple IIe
Spielfreak: An IBM mainframe at the BU Academic Computing center. I never saw it, but imagine it was the size of 4 or 5 refridgerators.