What was your first computer?

[Rex Hite]

The first household computer was a Commodore PET (CBM 8096) with floppy drive, tape drive and printer my parents got.

 I still have them and they work like new. Occasionally I write a stupid BASIC programme on it to remind myself why I never became a programmer. But it's fun.

 

 

[eBrocoli]

On 1/6/2013 at 1:25 PM, xserd said:

Hi guys! just wanna share. Mine was an Intel 486 with 4mb of ram, 100mb hdd, 5 1/4 floppy drive, I can't remember the graphics card and the power supply but it came with a mechanical keyboard that uses an AT connector and a serial mouse.

mine is an crappy intel core 2 duo E6300, 2gb ddr3 low density RAM, with random chinese G41 mobos

[TheCoder2019]

Mine was an eMachines EL1852g-50w or something like that

[Spindel]

Commodore 128 with tape deck no floppy drive. I didn't have a monitor so I ran it connected to a TV with the RF adapter.  

 

I learned to type on that computer, I learned basic Basic programming on it and I played a lot of games on it. 

 

Still have it stoved away in the attic. 

[Uttamattamakin]

52 minutes ago, Spindel said:

Commodore 128 with tape deck no floppy drive. I didn't have a monitor so I ran it connected to a TV with the RF adapter.  

 

I learned to type on that computer, I learned basic Basic programming on it and I played a lot of games on it. 

 

Still have it stoved away in the attic. 

Awesome.  In some ways they were more user friendly in those days. 

Have you heard someone is trying to recreate it using modern off the shelf components.  The commander 64   Though... it would be even cooler if an official "mini C64" or C128 was made.  I'd wager almost all of it's circuits could be implemented in a single chip these days.  actually I just did the search... that was done twice.  

 

[Spindel]

4 minutes ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Awesome.  In some ways they were more user friendly in those days. 

Have you heard someone is trying to recreate it using modern off the shelf components.  The commander 64   Though... it would be even cooler if an official "mini C64" or C128 was made.  I'd wager almost all of it's circuits could be implemented in a single chip these days.  actually I just did the search... that was done twice.  

 

Coolest thing is some one (might be 8-bit guy) made a MOS-6502 table size from discrete components. 

[lboolaka_33]

My first computer was a Pismo PowerBook G3, handed down from my father. 

It was really old by the time I got it, so I typically just tried to get on one of my parent's laptops. 

[cardboardtruck1000]

the one i currently have

[tkitch]

286 6/12MHz, with 1MB RAM and a 20MB HDD

5.25 and 3.5" FDD Drives

[da na]

It was a Raspberry Pi 2B because my parents didn't trust me with an actual computer. So I was stuck with a computer that couldn't play back 360p youtube.

[ncrmro]

My first computer was an old Being Compaq that handled RuneScape pretty well lol. Later on my grandmothers IT guy sold me his custome built computer and that's how I started my journey. This got me into world of warcraft.

[The_Machine125]

My first computer was some pre built with a socket 476 Celeron D with Intel GMA chipset graphics and like half a gig of ram. For some very basic early gaming (see edutainment stuff) or now some retro gaming after chucking in a Pentium 4 its pretty ok.

[Tonny123]

First one I ever used was an HP Compaq NC6400. I still have it to this day!

 

The first one I ever had as my own was some Dell Inspiron from 2007. It came with Vista but my Dad installed Lubuntu on it. I used it for a few years, I believe early 2010s, so 2011/2012. My family Desktop PC was a custom built on Win7.

[sam d yt]

I was born in 2004 so I got my first real PC later than most on here, in 2015. It was a P4 HT w/ 2GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive and Windows 7 Pro. It ran like crap but it helped get me into technology so will always be an awesome machine

[WhitetailAni]

ASUS V400C laptop. Core i3-2365M, 4GB LPDDR3-1333, 500GB HDD, 1366x768 60Hz screen, Linux Mint 17.3.

Ran any version of Minecraft all the way up to 1.11.2 (max it could run, it officially supported 1.12.2 but that didn't work) at 40-50 FPS. Adding mods brought it down to 30-35 FPS but it seemed the same to me.

 

It died last year. I dropped it.

[y3llowduk]

First computer that was actually built/bought by myself was a AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition, 4GB RAM, XFX HD6850 and Windows XP because I couldn't afford legit Windows 7

[Kanna]

I don't remember but I know it was old old windows XP computer probably 2 gb ram and an intel pentium 4 paired with some GPU that was 256mb video memory and had VGA

[Wolly9102]

Mine was an HP laptop with an Pentium M 1,73 Ghz 40 GB HDD and 512 Mb Ram. It ran Windows XP and also was the first pc I upgraded the RAM of to 1 GB in this case.

I have it stil lying around and it still works. Not getting rid of it because of sentimental value.

[OrangeSunshine]

My first pc that I bought myself was a nextbook... It was terrible, but it ran google docs well enough to take notes. I think it had like less than 2 gigs of ram and a awful atom cpu in it. I don't know how windows 10 updating did't murder it.

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/nextbook-ares-11-review/

 

[Darkwing Drex]

I had an IBM PS/1 with an OLD Intel chip. It could run Reader Rabbit and Wolfenstein (sometimes).  Storage was in the Megabytes if I remember correctly (this was in the early 90s). Two floppy drives, the big wide one and the smaller hard 5KB ones, and an external CD Rom. And a CRT that you could drop through a car today.

[GuiltySpark_]

I was all Apple when I was younger because that's what our family had. I went to college with a Macbook Pro. Before that it was a Performa 550C, PowerMac G3, PowerMac G4, iMac G5 then an Intel Macbook, the first Intel model with the Core2Duo.

 

It wasn't until 2008 or so that I built my first pc:

 

Intel Core2Quad Q6600

Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L

2x2GB G.Skill DDR2

Some random hard drive until I got the first Intel SSD, the X25-M 80GB.

[BondiBlue]

8 minutes ago, Darkwing Drex said:

I had an IBM PS/1 with an OLD Intel chip. It could run Reader Rabbit and Wolfenstein (sometimes).  Storage was in the Megabytes if I remember correctly (this was in the early 90s). Two floppy drives, the big wide one and the smaller hard 5KB ones, and an external CD Rom. And a CRT that you could drop through a car today.

Ah, the PS/1. I've got a model 2011 with a 286, 1MB of RAM and a 30MB HDD. Those were nice machines. It's a shame mine doesn't work anymore, but oh well. 

[Colonizor48]

Some sager laptop. My first computer i used personally. I had some others i shared with my parents before this but those have been lost to time

 

6gb ddr3

GTX 280m gpu

Some first gen i7 cpu

1tb hdd 250gb ssd.

 

Got this around 2014-2016 i think? Used it until 2019. One of the coolerswent missing for some reason leading to average temps of 70 degrees and the pc would frequently thermal throttle due to this. Eventually got a weaker but usable laptop.

 

 

[cacoe]

• Cyrix 486 dx2 66mhz
• 8mb ram SDRAM
• 2mb.... rando graphics card, can't remember which, wasn't that important
• 800mb HDD
• 2 speed cdrom
• 14 inch crt monitor
• not sure on the mobo, was a pre-built from a little computer store circa 1995
• Windows 3.1

I was over the moon to get this for Christmas 1995. I also toasted it the same day and cried like a baby. There used to be a voltage switch on PSUs (for a while I think they put a blank plate over them and then just phased them out entirely for region specifc version), I was a very... trial and error kind of learner and I learned not to switch that again. Went up in a puff of electrical smelling smoke. My dad wasn't too pleased but he took it back, complained that they never mentioned anything about that switch and they replaced the PSU as a result.

[Middcore]

First computer that our family bought was an IBM Aptiva with (I think) an AMD K6 at about 350mhz. Not counting work laptops my dad had before that.