How bad was your first PC?

[rcarteraz]

TRS80 Pocket Computer Model: PC-2 + printer interface

 

I believe Tandy was the OEM and Radio Shack rebranded it.  I was the envy of others due to the printer expansion:

 

 

Many were destroyed and died unloved deaths, bearing the nickname Trash 80, but now everyone who visits my office admires it.  Turns out time can make vintage diamonds out of shitty coal.  

 

To load software you bought a book, typed in the program via that shitty little keyboard, using the tiny little screen.  Then it didn't run because you made a typo and you became angry, yelled at it for awhile, and then just assigned the task to a grad student.  Sadly for me I often was that grad student.  

 

One for the archives. Everyone pay attention to this history class!

 

That's awesome.

[Pugs501]

Lenovo T400

[Textosterone]

Ur lookin at it       v

[pokechat8978]

My dad built me a PC with a Pentium Extreme some time back with a GTX 7800 damn remember those Prescotts?

I was quite surprised it could even run the games I played back then lol.

Mostly Runescape from 2005-2009, did some rendering with it in 2008, even tried playing Minecraft in 2010 which it almost didn't run lol.

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

eMachines laptop with

 

Celeron

2GB DDR2

320GB Hard Drive

 

Let me play Minecraft, that's all I cared about. Got a new laptop two years later, the thing started going hayyyyyyyyyywire and back then there wasn't really anyone I knew that would fix it.

[EpicAdom]

It was an HP laptop with a dual core AMD Athlon CPU, an integrated ATI Radeon HD 4250 GPU, 3GB of RAM, and a 320GB HDD.

[omniomi]

First computer was an IBM PC XT running PC DOS 2. Was black & yellow though not black & green like the one in this picture:

 

[Sors]

First computer was an IBM PC XT. Was black & yellow though not black & green like the one in this picture:

 

-snip-

 

The thing is that at the time, that PC wasn't bad at all, it was top of the line, since we only had 1 processor to choose from.

 

I had the same, except mine didn't had a case, I had it prop on top of a shoe box. 

 

I think I still have a few of those around here somewhere.

 

I loved the HDD spin up sound back then.  :lol:

 

[EricX2]

IBM Aptiva with Pentium 133 with 16mb RAM 1.2gb hard drive and 4x cd-rom drive. 15" CRT with max res of 1280x1024 at 256 colors.

 

 

But I don't think it was bad, it was 1996, that was a real nice computer at the time.

[thekeemo]

First one I used was bad. Pentium 3 up to 2006

The first one I owned is even worse. It doesn't exist.

[TheMechEngineer]

Mine was an Acer AcerPower 2100.

 

LPX form factor

Pentium II Slot 1 400MHz

64MB RAM

Onboard graphics

7GB HDD

Windows ME

 

It's so old that I can't even find a freakin' image of it online lol

[dcb-z]

I don't remember how bad my first computer was. I do know that as the youngest person in my family, I always got the oldest computer, and that my dad didn't really upgrade that often. My first computer probably ran Windows 95 or 98, and I think it may have been a Dell.

 

The first computer that was actually mine (as in, not a hand-me-down) was a Cyberpower. It started with some Radeon card, 2GB DDR2 RAM, and used an AMD Athlon X2 240. We upgraded it to 4GB RAM and ended up having to put a GTX 460 in it (which was supposed to be my sister's after a surge killed her GPU (our dad figured we were too young to really need surge protection/a UPS), but the 460 wouldn't fit in her case).

[skkane]

Mine was a 486 dx4 100mhz. It didn't suck, was fkn awesome actually Brings back good memories.

 

Not a particular brand, built from parts, only the chip mattered in those days anyway Until 3dfx came out. Had S3 trio and got the 3dfx voodoo 1 accelerator when it came out. You needed a separate 2d graphics card as it only did 3d Fun days

[TheRandomness]

Asus A8J Core 2 Duo T7200 @ 2.0GHz, 2GB DDR2 and an ATi Mobility Radeon X1700 with a whopping 512MB dedicated memory. Fun fact: Still alive and kicking today

 

EDIT: Nevermind, it's an nVidia Go 7700 512MB Discrete card

[SteveGrabowski0]

AMD K6-2 200 MHz system I built in 1997. I forget what GPU I put in it, but it played all the games of the era really well. It was awesome.

[BlackHoleFox]

4690k 970 16gb ram 

 

Well thats better then my current rig ;/

[baxtmann]

pentium laptop that was 6 years older than my own age... ( i was 15)

[baxtmann]

err. i mean it was 6 years old when i got it when i was 15... if that makes any sense

[Darkman]

Think it was some Compaq computer with a AMD K6 cpu. Running good old Windows 95... It's been sitting in my (parents) garage for ages... Kind of tempted to see if it works... Then also have a dell dimension with a P4 at like 2.8GHz sitting somewhere in my house that still works...

[Shrake907]

Hewlett Packard Pavilion 533 MHz

Godawful integrated graphics used to play EverQuest 1, Tribes 1 & 2 with

No idea on RAM amount, I'll guess 256 MB

40GB Hard Drive

56k dialup

 

19'' CRT 

Good times.

[Godlygamer23]

It had a Phenom II x4 840 with a 560 Ti.

[Godlygamer23]

AMD K6-2 200 MHz system I built in 1997. I forget what GPU I put in it, but it played all the games of the era really well. It was awesome.

What frame rate and what resolution?

[RevoltTrain]

Mine is actually my current one. Not bad for being saved up for by a 15 year old (17 now)

[vanished]

Mine wasn't personal one, but it was actually (for the time) pretty great, but by today's standards it's totally laughable.

 

200 MHz Pentium

Voodoo graphics card (don't remember which one specifically, I was like 5)

Can't remember how much RAM.  I could swear it was like 128 MB but that sounds too good... it had been upgraded a lot though, so maybe I'm right

3 HDDs - a 1 GB, a 2 GB, and a massive 8 GB  All of which still work, if you can find something that connects to IDE

Windows 98, when it was like brand new

 

Our motherboard must have been really fancy because - well, you know how now with the UEFI BIOS you can use your mouse?  It had that way back then!  The cursor was a little computer mouse icon with a cord for a tail that wagged

 

My first personal rig was pretty nice too

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (I later OC to 2.7 GHz from 2 on stock cooling so that was a great chip)

1 GB RAM (later upgraded to 2)

300 GB HDD (I later added the 8 GB one from the build above for hackintosh experiments, since those were the days when it had to be on the first partition of the primary master drive )

XP SP3

nvidia 7600 GT (later upgraded to 9800 GT)

nForce 4 motherboard

1280x1024 19" LCD display

 

those were the days... 

[xxtoochxx]

Was a Gateway tower from like 2002. Had a flat panel though!

 

Had a Pentium 4, 1GB of Ram and TERRIBLE onboard graphics. Could play minecraft a few years ago...

 

Then I had an iMAC

 

Then I got a 2500k/GTX 660 machine. Better much.