Which color was your first computer?

[owen_g_richards@writing.exchange]

@Em0nM4stodon

Beige and dark (slate) grey - Sharp MZ700 series - with a faux wood finish portable TV for a monitor. **mumbles** years ago!

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@FeloniousPunk
Was it not an American secret service that kept NeXT afloat?
@Em0nM4stodon

[doctordns@masto.ai]

@Em0nM4stodon ibm pc with twin floppies

[ah_99@mastodonapp.uk]

@Em0nM4stodon Sinclair ZX81 in 1981 with a wobbly 16kb add on memory

[floe@hci.social]

@Em0nM4stodon Dark brown! It was a C16, a budget version of the C64 - same breadbox case, but different colour.

[nekoplanet@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon platinum silver. Still have it. Still works

[sothawo@social.tchncs.de]

@Em0nM4stodon Grey. Atari ST

[henriksundstrom@mastodon.nu]

@Em0nM4stodon
A friend built mine and it was in a wooden box.

[teapot_ben@glammr.us]

@Em0nM4stodon black with a rainbow, and rubber keys!

Modern PCs should have more rainbows!

[lorimolson@mstdn.ca]

@numbercrow @Em0nM4stodon mine was silver and black, but I know there was a beige version

[wnd@fosstodon.org]

@Em0nM4stodon it had a rainbow though

[ozdreaming@infosec.exchange]

@haitchfive @Em0nM4stodon same! Well, TS-1000 version.

[madalex@fosstodon.org]

@Em0nM4stodon An Atari 1040ST (FM) for which I later got the colour monitor.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@teapot_ben Agreed

[haitchfive@oldbytes.space]

@ozdreaming @Em0nM4stodon Same in spirit is what matters

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@Em0nM4stodon I voted beige, as that was the computer I learned how to use computers on.

The first one I owned myself (when I moved to college) was white.

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@Em0nM4stodon The first one I *owned* was black (a Spectrum). The first one I *used* was white (a ZX80).

[tstruthers@ioc.exchange]

@cosmic_gorilla @Em0nM4stodon we had a gateway tower with almost the same monitor and speaker configuration, I remember playing Outlaws on it, a sprite based shooter and it lee to begging my mom to get me a used computer I could rebuild. The rebuilt PC had a green and white monitor, pretty sure it came from a bank

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@Em0nM4stodon Beige. And my second. And my third... I lose track somewhere, but probably about six or seven, until my first Freecycled laptop without a hard drive (at first). So that's about... '78 to '05 or so?

[mossman@social.vivaldi.net]

@Em0nM4stodon black but not the period you're probably thinking of... It was an early 1980s ZX81.

Second was a lovely dark grey Amstrad CPC464. Only after that started the series of beige, beige, beige, beige, black (still have) desktop PCs, black netbook, white laptop, dark blue laptop, metallic green laptop