Post your first computer

[mgb]

If you can find a picture - This might help. (http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp)

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/tandy_trs80-model3_1.jpg

And the first game

http://www2.asub.arknet.edu/wade/monopoly.gif

[Serotonin]

The Apple IIe
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/apple_IIe.jpg

["InsertNameHere"]

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich/unix/xterminal/images/xterminal.gif
My bro found it next to a dumpster!


http://nitros9.stg.net/leisure_suit_larry_intro1.gif
my first game, it came with the computer. lol. Imagine a little girl playing this! haha I had an interesting life

[meshou]

Personally, a white iBook. Counting the parental unit, probably a Macintosh.

First games I remember:

Inigo Gets Out, Cosmic Osmo, The Manhole, and Spelunx. Good site here. (http://www.smackerel.net/black_white_03.html)

[mgb]

First "portable"

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Compaq_PortableII_System_s2.jpg

[adamjaskie]

First family computer:
XT borrowed from a family friend for a couple weeks while they moved.

First family owned computer:
Macintosh 512k purchased very cheap from another family friend that upgraded to an LC575.

First new family owned computer:
HP Pavilion 7050 - Pentium 100MHz, 8MiB RAM, 1.2 GiB hard drive, S3 Trio graphics, later upgraded to 40MiB RAM, and a 4 GiB hard drive. Windows 95.

First computer owned by me, (graduation present - most of my friends got cars, I wanted a decent computer):
Dual Athlon 2600+ MP, 1GiB RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, two 120 GiB hard drives, Linux.

First computer purchased by me:
1GHz 12" iBook G4, 256MiB RAM, 60GiB hard drive, bluetooth, airport extreme.

[Hypnos]

Amiga 500, bitches

http://the.feds.are.lookingat.us/pictures/amiga-500.jpg

[Shai Gar]

cannae remember, looked like MGbradsch's

came in only one colour text, green.

the background was a standard black

[Dunearhp]

Radio Shack Microcomputer Trainer.
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/sfmt.gif (http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/sfmt.htm)

The best game involved manually entering the machine code, after which you could play tennis on the LEDs at the top.

Edit: Some further information.
The green area on the top left contains the amplifier and speaker.
The small green area on the right contains the timing crystal.
The blue area in the top middle has seven LEDs that normally display the current register address in binary.
The yellow area on the top right contains an LED digit display that normally displays the contents of the current register in hexadecimal.
The light blue area on the middle left contains the battery (on underside).
The red section in the middle is the actual microprocessor.
The large pinkish section at the bottom contains the keypad. The right column of keys are for control (Reset, Exec, Increment and Recall if I can remember properly). The 16 other keys are for data entry in hexadecimal.
The bottom left yellow area is the command reference.

[Shai Gar]

jesus christ that is old school

[Dunearhp]

Of course I was happy when I finally upgraded to a Commodore 64

[Shai Gar]

are you 80?

[Dunearhp]

What's the matter, are 8 bits too hardcore for you? :nerd:

Life is tough when you're an old man at 25. :blink:

[Geoff]

A Sinclair ZX81.

It has 1k of memory and of course no hard drive or personal storage.

It resembled a doorstop with no real keyboard (just pressure sensitive keys on a flat panel)

No colour, only very limited ideas of sound.

Very few games - it was mostly necessary to type in basic programs (there were lots of computer games magazines around that published 'games' 50 or so lines of basic that you would then type in and play)

I loved it.

-Geoff

[Architectonic]

Tandy Colour Computer. :D

[nBT]

MSX2

[YardGnome]

Macintosh LCII

http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~danbo/gif/lcii.gif

Hypercard... OH YEAH!

[codeElemental]

First family pc

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/mm-se.jpg

The Old Mac SE w/ dual drives, no HD, monochrome... oh the memories of Test Drive 2 and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.

The first I could ever call "mine" was a used C64, though.

[jread]

The first computer I actually owned was a 386sx. It had 2 megs of RAM (after upgrading) and ran on DR-DOS. I eventually installed windows after upgrading my RAM:

http://www.pheather.plus.com/images/viglen386.jpg


The first two games I had:

1. Wolfenstein 3D -
http://images.linspire.com/applications/3373/12661/wolf3d/blurb_wolfgl.jpg

http://download.dosgamesarchive.com/wolf3d.gif


2. Legend of Kyrandia -

http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/images/Westwood_Studios/kyrandia1.jpg

http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/westwood_15/screens/kyrandia.jpg

[crule81]

I had an Apple IIE also. I loved the summer olympics game they had for it. I got to be very good at the diving event, just like Greg Luganis.

[s0978]

Mac SE - a glorified word processor. Bought it stolen for $500 in 1989, sold it for $20 in 1998.

[mgb]

Mac SE - a glorified word processor. Bought it stolen for $500 in 1989, sold it for $20 in 1998.

They were $3700 new, that's a pretty good deal.

Speaking of which, remember when computers cost like $5000 - $10000. Crazy.

That old portable computer I showed cost about $3200 in 1986(adjusted for inflation to 2003 is about $5200). Which is a lot for no hard drive and a 286.

[Star]

http://amiga.emugaming.com/a600.jpg

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~fvandenb/hobby/PCgames/classic/fullsize/lemmings.gif

[mgb]

Is that lemmings?

http://www.nacionarcade.net/reviews/sq1/sq1_03.gif

[Star]

Is that lemmings?

Of course. That was the Amiga 600's killer app, and my first piece of warez. (:

Fun computer that was; it had RF modulated video so that you could hook it up to a TV, and was designed to be small enough to fit in a backpack. Had a command shell, a windowing system, an internal hard drive (!) and emacs. 8O

Belonged to my bf.. I loved it way more than him.

[mgb]

Of course. That was the Amiga 600's killer app, and my first piece of warez. (:

Fun computer that was; it had RF modulated video so that you could hook it up to a TV, and was designed to be small enough to fit in a backpack. Had a command shell, a windowing system, an internal hard drive (!) and emacs. 8O

Belonged to my bf.. I loved it way more than him.

Poor guy. Used for his computer.

[s0978]

So mgb, your first computer, what year are we talking? I have never seen such a thing.

[snarled]

Amiga 500 as well.



I remember being in absolute awe of such mind-boggling graphical superiority.

International Karate
Barbarian
Shadow of the Beast
The New Zealand Story
Test Drive
Rick Dangerous
Ports of Call

Ahhh....

[YardGnome]

Is that lemmings?

http://www.nacionarcade.net/reviews/sq1/sq1_03.gif


SPACEQUEST!!!! YESSSS!!! I used to love that game!

[Hypnos]

Amiga 500 as well.
[...]
Test Drive

Hell yeah.

I also loved Gravity Wars and this Summer olympics-type game the name for which I don't remember.

[YardGnome]

Who could forget this one...

http://www.abandonia.com/games/10/Prince_of_Persia/images/games/Prince%20of%20Persia1.png

[mgb]

Who could forget this one...

http://www.abandonia.com/games/10/Prince_of_Persia/images/games/Prince%20of%20Persia1.png

I just finished it last year. Actually, my friend borrowed an old computer from his dad (so it was slow enough) and we played it on that. Good times.

[mgb]

So mgb, your first computer, what year are we talking? I have never seen such a thing.

I think we got it in about 1984 or 1985. It had been kicking around an office. It was a beast.

The hand/eye coordination really got worked over, switching the DOS disk out and putting the game (program) disk in.

[Dman]

The old VIC-20 (predecessor to the Commodore 64)

Had to use cassette tapes and cartridges, no floppy disks.

Don't remember any of the games for it, off the top of my head.

Incidentally I also had the first version Apple Macintosh ('84?), which was such a superior computer to anything else that I was still using it to type my papers for my undergraduate degree in 1996 -

[Thermo]

The first computer I bought for myself was a AST Pentium 90 that I paid about $3,000 for. They went out of business shortly after.

I remember taking songs off CDs in wave format to find out they were about 800 MB or so and most of my disk space.

I remember being a usenet junkie, too.

[Birdsnest]

My first computer was a DOS computer that I built myself in 1992 and had a black and white screen with windows 3.1. The computer didn't even have a brand name, I think it was 500 mb worth of memory. I learned how to use the DOS system, and word processing skills for the first time on that. This was thru a class from a newspaper ad from a company called Mantracon that said if you took this three month class, where you build a computer and learn word processing skills, you could keep the computer IF you got a job at the end as a result of your new skills. It had a game on it called "Wheel of Fortune".

That lead me on to take a whole bunch of other computer classes and get a degree later.

[Shadow]

My first computer was a generic 80286 PC with 1MB of RAM and a massive 30MB hard disk. The only thing recent about it was it had MS-DOS 6.2 installed on it (recent for 1994). I just loved how the system didn't have a CMOS setup program on the BIOS ROM (which I realized after the 4 AA CMOS batteries died and needed to reconfigure it).

[Utopmk]

I'm embarassed to say that I don't remember the name of the first computer i tinkered with.

I was 4 or 5 and barely remember anything except that it had a tiny monitor and I played some smurfs game and one where you go around in a tank shooting other tanks. I also remember it was black and white.

[Heather Harrison]

My first real computer was an Atari 400. (I had an Atari 2600 game system before that, and still have one.) I can't quite remember which game was the first that I played on it, but it wasn't long before I was programming it - that's what I wanted it for anyway. Not long after getting the 400, I graduated to an Atari 800, and I still have one today. It is sitting on my computer table next to the one I am using now, and it is in good working order.

On the Atari 2600, my favorite game was "Adventure", the game in which your character was a solid square (the size of a pixel in Graphics Mode 3), the dragons looked like ducks, and the bat kept stealing your objects and flying away with them. I have been recently working on a re-creation and expansion of this game for X-windows, but being a good "P", I will probably never finish it.

Heather Harrison

[Geek Engineer]

Hey my first computer was a Atari 800. Sort of simmilar to Heather. Wow I remember those darn tempermental tape drives too boy those were the days. I think I finally upgraded to a floppy disk and got a thermal printer for it eventually... Sold it so I could buy some new stuff for my next one my gandmother won and gave it to me. It was a tandy 8.66Mhz PC Compatible.

[Hypnos]

Hey my first computer was a Atari 800. Sort of simmilar to Heather. Wow I remember those darn tempermental tape drives too boy those were the days. I think I finally upgraded to a floppy disk and got a thermal printer for it eventually... Sold it so I could buy some new stuff for my next one my gandmother won and gave it to me. It was a tandy 8.66Mhz PC Compatible.
I remember in 4th grade I wrote this big "choose your own adventure game" in Logo off an Atari 800. It took 8 minutes to load off of either floppy or tape.

Halcyon days *sigh*

[ApeTheDog]

a 286 with a 40Mb hard disk, 16mb RAM, a 3,5 drive that couldn't read HD disks and a floppy drive.

I used it to program in Qbasic and play small games. The very best game I could run on it - and I was tremendously surprised to find out it ran on my pc - was Dune 2. I played that game so much...

[Heather Harrison]

That Atari 410 tape drive was awful! The slightest defect in a tape would cause the computer to make all sorts of funny noises and dump out with an error. Did you ever take out a tape that was failing, manually turn it to a point where there was a bump in it, and stretch it to smooth out the bump? That sometimes worked. I wonder if the later tape drive, the 1010, was any better.

I was so happy when I got my first disk drive, an Atari 1050, and I was even more overjoyed when I got the Happy enhancement board which allowed it to work in double density and copy copy-protected disks. I later got a second 1050 with a Happy. Both of those disk drives are sitting on a shelf above my Atari right now, next to where I am sitting. They still work. The 410, of course, is long gone. I never used it after I converted to disks.

Hypnos, so you used Logo. I remember it; I dabbled in it a bit. I used Basic, and I was elated one day when I got a Basic compiler so that my programs could be translated to machine language and would run faster. I never quite picked up Assembly - not enough time to learn it, and 6502 Assembly is notoriously difficult.

I have a friend who is a serious Atari collector; he has an entire room in his house devoted to displays of various Atari products, including a number of prototypes. He even has the sought-after but never-released 1450XLD computer with built-in disk drives. I hate to admit it, but I think his collection is neat.

Heather Harrison

[Hypnos]

[...] Hypnos, so you used Logo. I remember it; I dabbled in it a bit.[...]
Oh yes, i was a Logo master -- not just drawing repeating 2D geometric patterns for me. :P

[Mountain_Recluse]

The first computer that I learned on was an IBM System 360 Model 50
(it was for a Fortran programming class)

Years later the first desktop I used was a DEC Rainbow at a college

Then I used a Mitac 8088 at the same college (they upgraded 8O

Then I used Gateway 386's (which I arranged purchase of a bunch)

Then I used a Mac SE and left Windows 3.1 behind.

Then I BOUGHT MY OWN --- a Mac SE/30
http://www.tcocd.de/Pictures/Micro/Apple/macse30_system.jpg

Next was a used Mac 840AV

AND NOW --- bought new and still using a PowerMac 9600/350Mhz
(soon gotta upgrade the RAM beyond 448MB -- can't afford all the new versions of my once new software for a new Mac or especially a Windows machine)

[CoHo]

TI-994a

http://www.computercloset.org/TI994A-CosbyAd.jpg

PARSEC = best game ever!

[Mr Pink]

Got a hold of this baby in '87 or '88:

http://home.no.net/avassbo/C64/Commodore64.jpg

A few selected games of awesomeness:

http://home.no.net/avassbo/C64/bdash.bmphttp://home.no.net/avassbo/C64/intkarate.jpg
http://home.no.net/avassbo/C64/schooldaze.gif
http://home.no.net/avassbo/C64/wgames.gifhttp://home.no.net/avassbo/C64/sgames.gif

I haven't left the screen since that.

[tinribz]

A ZX81 with whopping 1k memory, no harddrive. My parents actually hired it for me for a few months at like a £1 a week from a guy who must have had one of the first computer shops. Well more like a market stall I seem to remember.

http://www.dascomputerlexikon.de/museum/zx81.jpg

I would spend hours typing in BASIC games from magazines. I learnt how to programme by figuring out why they wouldn’t work and pin pointing where the incredibly bad photocopying had made a semicolon look like a colon.

‘Dim’ is still a mystery and I got an air rifle for Christmas instead. In my dreams I see the eyes of all the birds and rabbits. The're waiting for me, one day I'll join them...

[afton]

Generic 286, sorry no pic.
Most probably now the remnants is polluting the environment.

[Ivy]

We first had a Commodore 64 with a tape drive. Then we upgraded to the 164 with the floppy drive.

Mr. Pink-- Summer Games. OH YEAH. Masturbate the joystick to swim faster! Pull down HARD or your gymnast will break her neck! Good times, good times.

Other games: we subscribed to a periodical called Lodestar, and it came with a floppy disc or two every month (maybe every quarter? I forget) that had all kinds of programs. Text games, little crappy graphic games, music programs, that kind of thing. Some of it was really good stuff! We still had the Commode-Ore until about five years ago, and I wish we had kept it.

[Watermark]

Commodore 64 (http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html). I originally bought it to program music when I was in high school. No miracles or grand creative expectations compared to what you can do today with computers. But, it something new and different to do back then.

[Ivy]

Commodore 64 (http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html). I originally bought it to program music when I was in high school. No miracles or grand creative expectations compared to what you can do today with computers. But, it something new and different to do back then.

Somehow, the whole computer gig was a little more magical and exciting to me then than it is now. I may be alone in that.

And then again, my first internet experiences (ISCABBS, 1994ish) were pretty magical and exciting, too. Could just have been the novelty.

[Watermark]

No doubt the newness was magical back then, although, I don't think I'll ever tire of using a computer or surfing the web.

[purple13]

I couldn't remember if I already replied to this thread. Guess not. Anyway, it was Commodore Vic 20.

[Sue Denim]

The old VIC-20 (predecessor to the Commodore 64)

Had to use cassette tapes and cartridges, no floppy disks.I had a VIC-20, also, but no tape drive. I used it while taking BASIC in HS, and had to type all my programs in each time I wanted to run them. I got lots of practice this way...

[Hexchild]

My very first computer (although, it wasn't just mine; my parents bought it for the whole family) was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16K, later upgraded to 48K and eventually the scandinavian ROM.

I found this picture on the 'net; this is what it looked like with the original casing (which I can't seem to find anymore):

http://www.interface1.net/zx/images/zx48.gif


This is what it looks like now, with Beckman's robust keyboard; the original keyboard stopped working years ago:

http://hexchild.crypt.cx/pics/hexspeccy.jpg


I don't remember what our first game was, but I still hang on to quite a few of them (and there's some utility programs in there as well):

http://hexchild.crypt.cx/pics/hexgames.jpg

[Spartan26]

Crap, it may've been an Apple IIe that we had to learn how to use in middle school. SOmething pretty basic but I had the hardest time w/it. My sister had an HP or other IMB clone about that time. I remember in 8th grade that we weren't allowed to use computers for our reports or papers. The perferated paper was messy and the dot-matrix printing was hard to read. I think the p's, q's & g's looked the same.

[Rajah]

My first computer was a TRS-80, already posted by mgbradsh. I remember my dad and I going to a computer fair of sorts. I was probably 3 or 4. We bought a "green screen", which was basically a piece of green plastic you put over your TRS-80 screen to change the type to green. Techy stuff. :)

The first "game" I remember playing was Dancing Demon. Here's a screenshot:

http://www.arrowweb.com/mkr/dancing_demon.gif

Basically, all you did was program the demon to dance. I loved it, though.


Also, I remember lots of old Scott Adams text-based adventure programs being played in our house. I think, though, that might be from when we had our TI-99 4A.

[mgb]

My first computer was a TRS-80, already posted by mgbradsh. I remember my dad and I going to a computer fair of sorts. I was probably 3 or 4. We bought a "green screen", which was basically a piece of green plastic you put over your TRS-80 screen to change the type to green. Techy stuff. :)

The first "game" I remember playing was Dancing Demon. Here's a screenshot:

http://www.arrowweb.com/mkr/dancing_demon.gif

Basically, all you did was program the demon to dance. I loved it, though.


Also, I remember lots of old Scott Adams text-based adventure programs being played in our house. I think, though, that might be from when we had our TI-99 4A.

That game looks so ghetto. Apparently the rapid advancements in technology weren't available to you at the time. :P

I wonder how much those games cost anyways? I'd guess at least $100. But I might be off.

[Rajah]

That game looks so ghetto. Apparently the rapid advancements in technology weren't available to you at the time. :P

I wonder how much those games cost anyways? I'd guess at least $100. But I might be off.Yeah, though it had amazing "tap dance" sound effects. Dancing Demon was quite the suave little demon...

I don't know how much it cost. But I know my dad bought the TRS-80 when it first hit the shelves, 1977 or so, and it was freakin' expensive. My two minutes of intense research indicates it retailed for $600. The Expansion Interface was $300, with an additional $100 for some other expansion. Given that my mom still speaks of how much that computer cost, I'm envisioning that my dad managed to spend way more than that.

It seems Dancing Demon came out in '79. My intense two minutes of research did not turn up a list price for that, or even for TRS-80 software generally. (Except some accounting programs that were, like, $20).

[Wiki]

TRS-80. Learned to write games on it at the age of 10. Never grasped machine code. I think I could learn to program visual basic because of my experience with basic and the similarities.

[hardkar]

Ah nostalgia!

My first computer was a IBM PS/2 (unknown model number) with 4 meg ram. It ran MS-DOS (unknown version) and Windows 3.1 on top.

I fell in love with the IBM Model M keyboard in I was in ecstasy when I found out that www.pckeyboard.com made clones of them. So since july I'am writing on a clicky quality keyboard.

It should also be noted that the IBM PS/2 and Macintosh SE 30 are in my opinion the best looking computers all time. Yep and everybody say that I have a bad taste in design.

Anyhow here's a picture of the bad boy which was first computer. (Not mine but a look-a-like. If there's a IBM fanatic here they might step forward and tell me the model number)
http://pc-museum.com/gallery/rcm-022.jpg

[charred_heart]

Amiga 500, bitches

http://the.feds.are.lookingat.us/pictures/amiga-500.jpg
same here, my big brother got it in '91
I loved listening to techno music on it. Yes, actual stereo music! My computer teacher couldn't believe it, telling me 'computers don't talk'
it was very exciting, but maybe too expensive for everyone. ppl were still cursing their retarded 8-bit PC's :P

[cryokinetic]

First computer(s) ever used by me:
An original Tandy 1000 at my grandparent's house and either a Tandy 1000SX or an original with a hard drive thrown in at my dad's house.

First computer I picked out for purchase:
Hewlitt Packard 386DX w/ 4mb of RAM (later upgraded to 20mb), a 500mb hard drive, and a 4x CD-ROM drive

First computer I actually owned:
Homebuilt system made by Nighthawk... P1 90mhz

First system I actually purchased:
My current machine. It started off as a Gateway the my grandpa bought for me when I went off to college... the only remaining original parts are the case and the processor.

[Hypnos]

Amiga was ahead of its time in several respects:

* Stereo sound (8 bit, I think, but might've been 16 bit)
* 256-color graphics
* Integrated MIDI
* Many great video and sound editing (including musical notation) apps

The games were great.

[coffeezombie]

Apple IIc Plus
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/appleiicp.JPG

[Hexchild]

Amiga was ahead of its time in several respects:

* Stereo sound (8 bit, I think, but might've been 16 bit)
* 256-color graphics
* Integrated MIDI
* Many great video and sound editing (including musical notation) apps

The games were great.

I'll have to correct you on a few of those.

- Indeed, the sound was stereo, and strictly 8-bit. It also had two separate channels per speaker, using which you could get more precision with a bit of tweaking.

- There were 6 bitplanes of which 5 were used for color selection, which amounts to 32 simultaneous colors. The 32 color palette could contain any of a set of 4096 unique colors until the enhanced chipsets came (with the Amiga 1200) where that set was expanded to 16777216 unique colors.

- "Integrated MIDI" is an overstatement. The serial port was flexible enough to communicate at the speed required for MIDI. You still needed a hardware interface to make the MIDI support complete.

I do agree that it was a wonderful machine though. Programming the Amiga hardware was extremely fun :)



EDIT: I neglected to mention that the Amiga had two additional graphics modes:

- A "hold-and-modify" graphics mode which potentially allowed you to use all 4096 colors at once, though it had a few quirks which made certain combinations impossible, and which also made the mode unsuitable for quick graphics calculations, so it was rarely used in games.

- A "half brite" mode in which the sixth bitplane extended the 32 color palette into a 64 color one, although the second half of the palette was hardwired into being darker versions of the first 32 colors.

[Hypnos]

Hexchild,

I bow before your geek knowledge :) I was around 11 when I had the Amiga, and the most sophisticated thing I did with it was BASIC programming and music editing. Then I moved to PC with OS/2, then Linux.

[zhang_bob]

I remember we had a Amiga, Commodore and Spectrum,I am to Young to remember which we got first.

My family first pc was a Pentium 400MHz, 4.2 GiB hard drive,I think.

My first pc was a shuttle AMD 2.8 gb,160gb hardrive, 128bit nivdia (256mb)and 1 gb of ram, i got the other year.

[Zero Angel]

http://imrl.usu.edu/OSLO/images/Commodore64.jpg

It came with the most functional keyboard I ever had.

[charred_heart]

For a bit of Amiga nostalgia, check out Prehysteria (http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=20456)
http://pouet.net/screenshots/20456.jpg
That dinosaur looks suspiciously like the one from Chuck Rock :P
It's a musical demo resembling the old ones on the Amiga. The music style especially.

[Tlalocone]

My first ComPuter-Pc was similar to this onehttp://www.learningwithtoys.com/images2/493%20Melissa%20And%20Doug%20Lights%20Camera%20Interaction%20Wooden%20Abacus.jpg

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[jax0m]

Radio Shack Microcomputer Trainer.
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/sfmt.gif (http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/sfmt.htm)

The best game involved manually entering the machine code, after which you could play tennis on the LEDs at the top.

Edit: Some further information.
The green area on the top left contains the amplifier and speaker.
The small green area on the right contains the timing crystal.
The blue area in the top middle has seven LEDs that normally display the current register address in binary.
The yellow area on the top right contains an LED digit display that normally displays the contents of the current register in hexadecimal.
The light blue area on the middle left contains the battery (on underside).
The red section in the middle is the actual microprocessor.
The large pinkish section at the bottom contains the keypad. The right column of keys are for control (Reset, Exec, Increment and Recall if I can remember properly). The 16 other keys are for data entry in hexadecimal.
The bottom left yellow area is the command reference.

I HAD THIS ! IT WAS SO COOL !

I haven't thought of it in years, but I think I had it when I was about 10. Got my first computer at 12 (A 486 DX Acer), was hackin it up on *nix by the time I was 14.

[bananan]

:banana: EC1841