What was your first PC?

[dilpickle]

12 hours ago, WillOfTheLand said:

I still remember mine, it was a old macintosh with a orange and black monochrome screen and the freaking 8.5' floppy bays.

 

 

 

 

That's not a Macintosh. I think you mean Apple II.

 

And that is a 5.25" Floppy.

[bondoao1]

My first PC that I bought was an HP Pavilion 8750 when I was 20 years old.

it was the biggest purchase I had ever made outside of cars and car parts at that point in my life.

 

[whm1974]

1 hour ago, Hakemon said:

My first PC is my IBM PS/2 Model 25.  I still have it, and it's still used since it still does the tasks I used it for well, and can side-install the same programs on my PC via DOSBox and transfer disks between systems.  8086 8MHz, 640K RAM, not an MCA based PS/2, it's ISA.

That was a rather strange Beast. I first encountered those in JR College. A i8086 in ~1987? Couldn't IBM used a i386sx instead?

[whm1974]

35 minutes ago, Hakemon said:

It was a cost saving computer, built to be cheap.

How cheap was it? When was the Model 25 and 30 released anyway?

[RoseLuck462]

My first one that was completely my own instead of a hand-me-down was an eMachines pre-build with an AMD 2200 Sempron CPU.

[X-System]

My first personal computer (family) was Apple Macintosh SE with internal HDD at the end of 80s.

 

 

 

And my first x86 personal computer (family) was Compaq Presario 7000 series equipped with Intel 486DX4/100 and CD-ROM drive in 1994. My family switched from Apple to PC x86 because I want to play real video games when I was a kid

 

 

 

And my first own personal computer was an assembled PC equipped with Intel Pentium II 233, 32MB SDRAM, 2.1GB HDD, ATI 3D Rage Pro 4MB AGP, Creative CD-ROM 24x, big tower and 15" CRT Smile Cromaclear in 1998

[WillOfTheLand]

13 hours ago, dilpickle said:

That's not a Macintosh. I think you mean Apple II.

 

And that is a 5.25" Floppy.

You may be right, my earliest memories of it were the mid 90's, so it's been a while, if I still had it I could confirm. Thinking back it could have been the 8 or 5 inch ones, they seemed gigantic in comparison to the 3.25 inch ones, so wouldn't be surprised if it was 5.25 inch. I just grabbed the best images off google that seemed the most accurate to what I remember, it wasn't long before I upgraded to a actual windows machine so I only used it for a short time.

[bluengreen04]

For me i think it was some IBM PC with Windows 3.1 back in '97 mostly used by me and my sisters for word processing and I would sometimes play Commander Keen shareware on it.

 

But I consider my actual first pc the one my parents handed me down in '98 which was a Packard Bell Multimedia D160 with Windows 95. Boy did I use this PC a lot! Used it all the way to 2002..mostly cus my parents weren't made of money. I remember using the Spiderman Cartoon Maker game, playing shareware game compilations cds on it, using the internet for the first time, composing music on Notation software. Good times.

[FRD]

I can't recall my exact first PC, but I remember I had two and I still have them stored.

First one was actually my uncle's, it was a complete IBM desktop setup with the famous IBM keyboard. It was so fun to run games on that, everything felt solid.

First real PC we had at home was a Dell desktop with Windows ME Millenium on it and some Pentium processor I believe.

Kids these days don't know how easy they have it with ultrafast SSDs, processors, a bunch of storage, etc.

[kes2006]

My first pc was a Toshiba laptop with like a pentium from like 2009 or something and like 3 gb of ram eventually I sold it and got a Packard Bell laptop with 8gb of ram and a second gen i5 that run at a whopping 2,4 ghz after that I build my first pc with a Ryzen 3 2200g and a asrock b450m pro4-f and a single 8gb stick of Corsair vengeance lpx 3000mhz and I upgraded it to the state that it is in now now I’m still rocking a 3200g and a b550 gaming x v2 for gigabyte and 16gb of Corsair vengeance lpx 3200mhz and I got a gpu but it isn’t that good it’s an gtx 770 but I’m gonna upgrade to a 1080 or something when the prices come down

[Dedayog]

Commodore 128

 

Or if you want to PC technical... 486sx25 from Sam's Club.

[CrowTheRobot]

My first ever: some Compaq I convinced my aunt to buy in the early 90s when my dad lived with her for a bit.  Just remember it had Windows 3.1 and some sort of specialized “launcher” software over it to sort programs more like a planner. 

 

My first personal “I own this” unit: A 12” iBook G4 in 2005 that crapped out totally after about a year and a half and a full logic board replacement (looking back, I should’ve gone back to the Apple Store to have it checked again in case it was the logic board again and would’ve been covered)

 

First personal build:  I don’t remember the specs at all, but it was AMD based in like 2007 or 2008 and frequently crashed really hard (like frozen screen and a forced hard power down each time), had issues with most games I tried to play, and had a crappy CRT because the LCD I ordered was DOA and at the time Newegg didn’t do replacements.  I ended up getting scammed out of it by a former boss, which I guess was okay given that it had so many issues. 

[BetteBalterZen]

Some sort of prebuilt Acer with a AMD Dual core CPU @ 2.2 GHz with DDR2 RAM and no graphics card, haha. I remember getting the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 512 MB as a christmas present so I was able to actually play video games

[CaptainReynolds]

My first PC was a 386 with DOS4; it wasn't brilliant.

I soon built myself a 486 SX33 running DOS5 and Windows 3.1, the SX was easy to overclock to 66mhz but you still didn't have the (unnecessary) maths co-processor.

[AMD A10-9600P]

It seems I'm a bit younger than a lot of you here and got my first PC a bit later on, but my first was a HP Pavilion TouchSmart laptop in 2014, still working flawlessly to this day, even on Windows 10. It had a dual core, 4 thread i3-3217U, that only went up to 1.8GHz, with Intel HD 4000 graphics, which actually coped fairly well with most games I threw at it at the time, though it would not fare well with today's games. It also had 4GB DDR3, a 1TB HDD, and a 720p touch display. It's not as retro as a lot of the other stuff here, but still my first PC!

 

My first desktop was only last year, with an i5-9600KF at 4.8GHz all core, 2x8GB DDR4 @3000MHz, GTX 1660S 6GB (I was lucky to get it when I did, as even a 1660 is worth a lot now...), 512GB NVMe SSD, and a 2TB HDD.

[Alan G]

Compaq circa 1989 or so with a smallish hard drive, a 5.25" floppy disk, running MS-DOS.  IIRC it had an i286 CPU and 64 MB RAM.  I remember putting a 256 baud dial up modem in it and it connected the first time to CompuServe.

[Adirman]

My first PC was an old HP laptop hand-me-down from my dad. about 4gb of ram and some pentium cpu idk which one. literally got it when i was like 4 or 5 ik ik im spoiled lol

 

 

my first actual build was one I did back in feb with an i5 9400f, gt 710, and 16gb of ram. was only using for school but planning to upgrade soon.

[RaidenX]

Dell XPS 13 Core i5 5200u with Intel HD 5500 Integrated graphics 8gb ddr3 at 1800mhz with a 256 gb ssd. I used it to play minecraft and some homework. 

 

[s3riouscat]

The first family PC was 486DX33. Used Apple IIes, mac, 286s, commodores at my parent's workplace before that.

[da na]

First PC: Raspberry Pi II

First computer I bought: Asus laptop I still have with a 4 core FX and RX 560 (896SP version)

[Slayerking92]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20

 

[ericdylan]

My first PC was Dell Inspiron 27 All-in-One. I loved it. I made a website first time on my first PC.