What was the first computer you owned?

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1. 1977 OSI Challenger, with 4K RAM and just the 256 byte monitor program. I soldered the chips for 3 more 4K boards and a floppy disk controller board, over 2000 pins in total. I never did get the 8 inch floppy working; I should have settled for cassette tape storage. As it was, power outages were really painful.

2. 1980 Atari 800, with some cartridges and cassette, eventually the serial-based 5.25 inch floppy. High point was a round the clock MULE tournament during Spring Break 1984, with 4 joysticks.

3. 1984 Original Macintosh, eventually spending an insane amount of money for a memory upgrade to a "Fat" Mac, and printer.