What was your first computer?

[ShadesOfGrey]

Our family's first computer was a "US Computers" tower with Windows 95.  We got it for Christmas 1997.  I couldn't even tell you any specs, but I can promise that it was lower-end.

 

My first computer was a Toshiba Satellite A-Series with Windows XP that I bought in August 2004.  it was $1000, had an AMD Athlon, 512MB RAM, and probably some baseline integrated graphics card.  Funny to think that that laptop was likely baseline back in 2004, but it was the price of a higher-end laptop nowadays (I'm guessing).  I got five years out of it, finally buying a new laptop in September 2009.  Hell, the screen hinges broke, so for the last year or so of its life I had to use something to prop up the screen.

 

It was comical how little I knew about computers back then.  I really screwed that thing up.  Got plenty of malware, once got it so bad that I had to reformat.  And I knew little about maintenance or security, so it was running really slow there towards the end.  Would take Firefox like two minutes to boot up.  It actually took me losing my install disc when I needed to reformat again (to escape the slowness.  Again, didn't know very much) before I just realized it was time for a new one, anyway.

 

Every computer I've bought since then has also been a Toshiba.

[Kobrastachka]

My first Pc was a Packard bell With a intel I486 DX , I still have the CPU from it. 

 

[Patrick3D]

Timex Sinclair 1000 (actual size footprint is smaller than a sheet of paper):

 

It came out in 1983 for under $100, one of my uncles gave me his after he got a Macintosh in '84. I spent many nights going through the manual and teaching myself programming with the sample programs listed in the back of the manual. The brick you see on the back is a 16KB memory expansion module and it stored data using cassette tapes. I had mine hooked up to a ~10" black and white TV. There were 2 problems I experienced with it: after 30 minutes the video would start to get wavy from overheating and the sample "Monopoly" game in the manual would never work (kept getting errors), I was only 6 years old at the time so not very good at debugging.

[Praesi]

Amiga 500.

I still have it and ~300 Games for it.

[RossMadness]

I don't remember the brand, but it ran Win 3.1. I would play Commander Keen for HOURS. It was glorious.

[Tribalinius]

An old second hand 486 DX2 that my sister bought when she was in college. That thing was awesome. I remember that when we got it, it had WarCraft and Dune II installed on it. I fell in love with RTS the first time I laid my eyes on Dune II. I found WarCraft two weeks later. It lasted a while, I even remember playing Diablo, StarCraft and Roller Coaster Tycoon on that thing before switching to a PIII 733MHz in high school .

[jvo33]

Hp pavilion. 

366 mhz cpu

64mb ram

4.5 gb HD

onboard graphics. 

 

Played diablo 2 like a dream. 

[Joshua_Meunier]

I had a desktop computer, but not sure what it was. I was only about 10 at the time. It was DOS based and only used 5 1/2" floppy disks to run programs. I miss that wizard game I played. "Go NORTH."

[ThinkWithPortals]

 

 

 

Finally, my current gaming/workstation desktop PC. Specs in the spoiler in my sig.

[UL_42L]

I had used a few computers before, but MY first PC was... a slightly modified HP Pavilion laptop a few years ago. It, uh, wasn't very good... and I don't remember the model right now. I think it's hard drive died, then I took it apart.. and then IT died.

 

Really wish I would have known as much as I do now back then...

[alphaproject]

IBM PC XT - $1500

 

I thin it had 640K ram.

 

Upgraded 10 gig HD

 

5.25 Floppy

 

CGA monitor.

 

I ended up stealing a freaking modem for it.... back when that shit was possible. $300 modem, lol 9600 baud rate.

 

I did save up for awhile and buy a $300 ATI video card that turned CGA into EVGA on a CGA monitor.... normally unheard of back then.

 

Kings Quest 4 here I come.

[a-zA-Z09_-]

My first computer was a laptop

The dell inspiron 15R 5521

CPU-Intel core i7 3537U @2.0GHz single core turbo upto 3.1Ghz

GPU-intel HD 4000 iGPU and AMD radeon 8750M dGPU with 2GB GDDR3 VRAM

RAM- 8GB DDR3L SODIMM

STORAGE- 1TB HDD(5400 RPM)

DISPLAY- 1366*786 Touch display with 10 touch points

PERIPHERALS- 2 USB 2.0, 2 USB 3.0, 1HDMI, 1 DC adapter, 1 SD card slot, 1 ethernet port

[Cory_plays_games]

This pice of crap.

 

[Cory_plays_games]

My first computer was a laptop

The dell inspiron 15R 5521

CPU-Intel core i7 3537U @2.0GHz single core turbo upto 3.1Ghz

GPU-intel HD 4000 iGPU and AMD radeon 8750M dGPU with 2GB GDDR3 VRAM

RAM- 8GB DDR3L SODIMM

STORAGE- 1TB HDD(5400 RPM)

DISPLAY- 1366*786 Touch display with 10 touch points

PERIPHERALS- 2 USB 2.0, 2 USB 3.0, 1HDMI, 1 DC adapter, 1 SD card slot, 1 ethernet port

How much did that cost?

[kels]

My first computer was a shitty IBM laptop- looked a bit like this.

 

[App4that]

Apple II Plus

[deWaardt]

Some 2001 Asus laptop with a single core 32 bit 2ghz pentium 4, 512 entire megs of RAM, 40gb hard drive and some ati GPU with 32mb of vram.

I've played Minecraft on that thing and dayum, it ran pretty smooth (30fps) with everything ultra low.

It died unfortunately 4 years ago.

[spyder]

My uncle ordered my first computer after my parents gave him the money to do so. It was made by Evesham which is long out of business by now. Had an Intel pentium D single core inside, IDE hard drive, ATI graphics card, two Optical drives. Came with a grey monitor, greyish keyboard and ball mouse before laser became a thing. Had xp home edition installed. That's all I remember since I was like 6 or 7 years of age back then.

[jamajka000]

My first PC was a IBM 600x Pentium 3 based laptop with 256mb of ram and 20GB HDD. It still works and i use it as a "server" for my printer. Next i got a custom build PC with Intel Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.2ghz 4gb of ram and 9500gt (512mb version) i sold it to a friend and it still works perfectly. And you can check my current build in my profile.

[agent_x007]

Desktop :
Celeron 766MHz (Socket 370)
128MB SDRAM (100MHz)
GeForce2 MX 200 (32MB w/o TV-out), passive cooling
20GB HDD (5400 RPM i think)
Soltek MB (no integrated sound ), don't know exact model...
SoundBlaster 128 PCI
300W PSU (I think, probably no-name).
Modem 56k
Philips 105S monitor (1024x768 @ 60Hz CRT)
Windows 98 SE (<== still have it)

First thing that broke was floppy drive  :lol:

Rest :
"Generic speakers"
HP printer + Plustek scanner (i think), both USB 1.1

[dcb-z]

my first desktop was an old dell, i think it was a dimension, one of the XPS T series. i think it ran win98 but i can't remember. wikiped says they ran a pentium 3 and around 128MB RAM.

 

my first laptop was given to me as a toy by one of my dad's college friends who no longer needed it and knew i loved messing with computers. it's a 1994 compaq 425 LTE/lite upgraded to run win95. monochrome screen, built-in trackball, still in full working order save for the floppy drive which seemed to have suffered some trauma at the hands of a certain 3 year old (i had to fix the door on it when i dug the laptop out). i think it has around 4MB RAM and a 20MB hard drive

[Augurian]

My first PC?

 

Pff... It was a 486 DX4 at 120 MHz. I don't quite know for sure how much RAM it had, I vaguely recall it being 16 or 24MB (eventually). It had a Gravis Ultrasound soundcard, which had awesome quality! It started out with just an S3 Trio 64v+ card for graphics, but I later added a Voodoo (1) card which actually had an external passthrough. I bought a huge 250MB disk for it, which would surely last forever as it was more storage than I'd ever need right? And I was glad to have a four speed CD drive, as Encarta would load so much faster... Although I mostly ignored the new Windows 95 stuff as DOS was so much more easy and faster to control.

 

Ahh... those were the days!

 

(Am I showing age? )

[Sithhy]

My very first PC was... I don't remember really, it was like 10 years ago + I haven't had it very long because firstly the monitor died & the PC after it... It was running on a AMD processor & an nVidia GPU but don't remember which one [emoji52]

[TheAceOffRoad]

The first that I remember was my Dell Inspiron 1525:

 

[MerryfurrTech]

Some professional IBM pc. Had pentium 4 with 512mb of ram. IDK graphics. Back in 2003