Which color was your first computer?

[jo@infosec.exchange]

@Em0nM4stodon purple!

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@jo Whoa!!

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@DelilahTech @Em0nM4stodon they cost $5000 in 1971, comparable with a Corvette, so they were not at all common. But if your dad works where they make them, maybe one comes home and stays for 10 years.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@MyricaGale

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon greige 🤨

[z3r0fox@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon White

[templailloahi@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon Gray

[crabbypup@cosocial.ca]

@Em0nM4stodon

No idea what the board was in it, but it was a generic beige 486DX4 mini tower running OS/2 WARP 4.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@X31Andy

[fritzoids@mas.to]

@Em0nM4stodon

I'm taking this question to mean "which color was the first computer you were allowed to futz with regularly?" not "which color was the first computer that was your own?".

[thedutchchief@mstdn.social]

@Em0nM4stodon I marked beige, but that was my first PC, maybe grey-ish. Thans I remembered my first computer was a ZX Spectrum, it was black naturely.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon
Gray
@blogdiva

[clancyparliament@mastodon.online]

@Em0nM4stodon
But what color was the monitor screen?

[julescelt01@universeodon.com]

@Em0nM4stodon This one...

[the5thcolumnist@ottawa.place]

@Em0nM4stodon

I guess this is beige

[crypticrainfall@app.wafrn.net]

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

I never thought of the old plasic off-white as "beige", but I suppose it does fit.

First computer that was mine or does a family computer count? I think the first computer in my house was a gateway desktop, so that off-white beige. The first computer that was mine was a hand-me-down macbook that was silver.

Is the turquoise option here for those clear blue plastic macs?

[cleoqc@cosocial.ca]

@Em0nM4stodon
I don't recall for sure if it was beige or black. The screen was green and black, without a doubt. Oh wait, maybe It was amber and black? Naw. Green for the first one. Amber must've have been the second screen

[n3c14@veganism.social]

@Em0nM4stodon dark gray Powerbook 145. i loved it dearly and more than any other laptop i encountered since.

[just_one_bear@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon Beige for the Vic-20 which was the first computer in the house (not mine alone). Dad upgraded to the Commodore 64 not too long after.
The first mine-alone computer *could* be the Radio Shack Microcomputer Trainer kit, but if counting more general-purpose and complete systems it was the Color Computer 3 (in that case: white).

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@Em0nM4stodon My first personal computer: Black and grey…

A Toshiba Satellite A200-TR6