ORIGINAL: jim y
... I made my first sequencer with this with the help of an 8bit DAC chip driving an Arp Axxe synced to a Roland Dr5.

Jim

Ahh cool!

My first computer was a Speak and Spell. after that, it was Intella-vision or somethnig like that
Cj
Edit. The speak and spell obviouslly did not work

LOL - Hey, CJ, maybe your dad reprogrammed the Speak-n-Spell so that it would teach you to spell INCORRECTLY!!!

Laugh if you will (I would but I end up having coughing fits and fall out of my rocking chair, and the nurse has to help me up and tie me back in), but my first computer was the original (cough cough):
SINCLAIR ZX80

Northstar Horizon, about 1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthStar_Horizon

We had one that would edit video (by controlling 2 x Sony Umatic VTRs)
and later we got one of those new fangled 'Mac' things that ran Sound Designer II and did the audio without a tape recorder.

ORIGINAL: slartabartfast

Laugh if you will (I would but I end up having coughing fits and fall out of my rocking chair, and the nurse has to help me up and tie me back in), but my first computer was the original (cough cough):
SINCLAIR ZX80

Did you have the one that was a kit and had to be soldered and put together? One of my friends had that one and it lead me to purchase the Timex/Sinclair 1000 which came out shortly after the Sinclair ZX80 kit. Timex bought them not long after they originally came out and re-labelled them and sold them assembled (which is the one I got). I also got the 16K memory expansion module and the printer (thermal) as well as the cassette serial cable.

Mine was an Intel P2 266MHz. That's all can remember. It was so slow compared to PC now, but I was having a a ball with it in my dorm room hehe.

Atari 1040ST here too. That was an awesome machine for MIDI sequencing.

My dad worked for IBM and in 1981 brought home one of these

I had to carry one of these to school everyday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eniac




Including the people! I tell ya...I had a pretty big knapsack...

OK, since you did not clarify:

My first work computer was some massive IBM in a building far far away where I had a terminal that looked up day old information. 1974-1977.

My second work computer was a Basic 4 Business computer. There I was only allowed to see printouts. 1977-1978.

My third work computer was an HP3000 Series II. I first worked in Fortran writing business applications (I know, makes no sense). Then moved on to COBOL. 1978-present (I still have a client who uses it and I occasionally write program patches to their system).

My first personal computer was an original IBM XT PC with a 10MB disk and two 5 1/4" floppies. Monocrhome monitor and a dot matrix printer. DOS OS. 1985.

Sorry, links on the business computers were not available. Eveyone should know what an IBM XT PC looked like.

IBM PC/XT wiki

Yup, that's it!

Now go find the others, will ya?

I'm a lazy a$$ programmer.

I'm not as old as some of the previous Sonorians posting here, so I can't link to photos of dinosaur hardware from my past. But I can tell one nostalgic tale:

I spent my first 25 years pretty much computer free. That includes getting a bachelor's degree in public accounting - doing all four years of accounting proofs and formulas with pencil on paper. (The kids these days don't know how easy they have it! : )

In my early 20s I started teaching myself keyboards, and since some of them had these new things called midi ports, I eventually bought an Alesis MMT8 sequencer. Did quite a few years worth of tunes on that cassette-backed-up beast.

By now it's the mid 1990s, and from reading keyboard magazine, I was hearing about all of these cool programs that you could use on a home personal computer to sequence midi. Interesting, I thought.

So in 1995, I followed up on a newspaper classified from a guy who sold used computers. $500 hooked me up with a used IBM clone 386, complete with a fuzzy 15" monitor and mouse, and a (hopefully?) licensed copy of MS's latest OS, Windows 3.1.

Shortly after getting it home, I drove to the local mega music chain and walked ( ..... queue the string section fade in here! ... ) to the pro audio department and asked about sequencer programs for home PCs. I browsed the shelf, and bought


CAKEWALK HOME STUDIO! My first computer program ever.

This was 1995. Oh, the memories! The screen displayed a big round circle for every measure that contained recorded events! (No, not a display of the events, just a circle indicating that that particular measure was "not empty".)

We have come a long way, baby!

an Atari Mega 2...2 wopping mb of RAM...and an external 30mb hard drive that was 12" square by 2" thick!

yikes

ORIGINAL: plainfaced

So after 3 pages, noone else has owned a Microbee??
Has anybody even heard of one?

Plain, it was another one of them none starters I guess.. much like the jupiter ace , coleco adam , oric 1 / atmos , sam coupe, enterprise, Dragon 32 and the list goes on and on.hehe

although the best ever selling computer of all time still remains the c64.