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Mine was a Commodore 64, bought in 1993 with my very first wage. Mostly games and a bit of BASIC and I couldn't tell you the names of half of them. Finally I sold it to get my first car.
Not the family machine, not a hand-me-down from an older brother or sister. The first one that was properly yours.
What was yours, and how did you end up with it?
(Image credit to Digibarn Systems)
This is the Gazelle, a minicomputer made by Seattle Computer Products in the tail end of 1979 and one of the first computers to use the Intel 8086 CPU. It came packed with two 8-inch floppy disk drives with a 1.25 megabyte capacity, an 8-inch Winchester drive, and 18 S-100 expansion boards on the inside. The Gazelle, while kind of a footnote in the history of computers, does have historical significance. Seattle's Tim Paterson programmed the quick-and-dirty operating system on the Gazelle. This led to 86-DOS, which would be infamously purchased by Microsoft for $50,000, and would become the OS for the IBM PC.
I'm in the middle of my first bartop arcade project and pleased with it. The plan is to put a nice neon colour t-molding on the front edges but struggle to find the best way cutting the groove. Any advice guys?