What was your first computer?

[Gareque]

So yeah, as the title, what was your first PC that you remember owning?

 

For me, it was a HP Pavillion 4450 lol.  Got it on my 16th birthday as a gift from my parents.

 

Had the following, whopping specs:

CPU: 400MHz Intel Celeron

RAM: 64MB

GPU: ATI Rage Pro

Storage: 6.4Gb

 

Take a look at the beautiful beast lol

 

 

So now that you are clearly all jealous, what systems started all of you off to PC building and what-not?

[PlayStation 2]

The very first computer I used that I distinctly remember being owned by my family was actually something custom that had an 866MHz Pentium III and an HP motherboard.

The first computer I owned was an HP laptop that had an AMD A6-5200 and 4GB of RAM.

The first desktop I owned was basically a rebuild of my older brother's former rig that had an AMD FX-4100, a Radeon HD 7850, 8GB of RAM and hard drives that I had lying around. I still have mostly everything from that rig.

[Firewrath9]

my first one was ~2001-2002 (i think? +- 1 year), some athlon (either 64 or XP), and an ATI r9600 pro 256MB. I think it either had 512MB or 1GB DDR1 ram. I upgraded it to 2GB DDR1 (2x1), and still have my ram sticks + gpu)

[GoldenLag]

well....... i dont remember what it was, but i can tell you that its CPU is on my keychain

[Bartholomew]

Hi,

 

My first pc was a no-name intel x386-dx-40, whopping 2mb of memory... before that it was allinones, amiga, c64 and the first first computer was a vic20 (with a gigantic just under 3.5 kilobytes (3400 or so bytes) free after start...

 

High-res mode on the vic was 160 x 100 pixels (text was 24x20 chars or so)

 

Yes, im probly as old as santa

[Gawron10001]

My first pc had Core 2 Duo E8400 and Asus mobo, Rampage formula i guess? I could mess up the cpu. But i think it was it. 4 gigs of ram, GT 8800. I got it from my dad when he decided that he is buying himself a new pc

[DrMacintosh]

PowerMac G4

[Gareque]

5 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

well....... i dont remember what it was, but i can tell you that its CPU is on my keychain

That is possibly the nerdiest, yet coolest, thing I've never thought of...

[Princess Luna]

My first ever PC was an IBM Aptiva running Windows 95.

[mach]

My first family PC was a pre built from a company that doesn't exist anymore. 

I was too young to know the spec or anything about it. (milky white chassis and CRT era, running windows ME)

[TheElectronicGeek1]

It all started when i was 3, I used my dad's old work pc. A dell with a pentium 3 and 256mb of ram. And some s3savage4 graphics card thing. It ran XP it's what i learned how to use computers on, and i actually still have the board, cpu, and ram. Then i got my moms old inspiron 6000 which is what i used for a while until i built the one i use now.

[GoldenLag]

6 minutes ago, Gareque said:

That is possibly the nerdiest, yet coolest, thing I've never thought of...

Spoiler

Oh it gets nerdier. It is next to my Opteron 6178 delidded 12 core server CPU.

[AmpedUpDad]

My parents had some clunker sitting in our living room for the longest time. I don't remember the specs... or anything about it really.

 

My uncle had a spare pc that he gave me when I was 13-14...but I can't recall the specs. That was about 15 years ago.  I don't even think it ran Diablo 2 well...if at all.

[Radium_Angel]

Bondwell 286 laptop with 1MB ram and a 20MB hard drive.

Prior to that, an Atari 800XL

[Beaker99]

Mine was a Sinclair ZX81. I even had the extra 16kb ram pack. 

[JSFetzik]

Depends on what you consider a PC.

 

The first computer I owned was an IMSAI 8080 back in the late 1980's. Toggle switches and LED's for the win. Didn't have a monitor or keyboard.

 

My first DOS based PC was an Epson Equity II. Had a NEC V30 CPU which could run in either 8086 or 8080 modes. Also ran at a blazing 10MHz IIRC, faster than any of the Intel 8086 based machines.

[MadmanRB]

It was some sort of custom machine we got from the farmers market.

No branding, dont remember the specs but I do remember it had windows 98 on it

[kpluck]

3 hours ago, Gareque said:

So yeah, as the title, what was your first PC that you remember owning?

I guess that depends how you define "PC."

 

My first Windows box was a Gateway P5 90, got it in 1995. However, my first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. A ways after that but before the Gateway, I had an original 128K Mac.

 

-kp

[Slayerking92]

Depends if you want to call the "Magnavox Odyssey²" a computer.

 

otherwise it was a VIC20

[WereCatf]

15 minutes ago, kpluck said:

I guess that depends how you define "PC."

Heh, this is exactly what I was about to say. My first "PC" per se, was a Commodore 64, but the younger folks nowadays wouldn't call it a "PC", I suppose. My first computer that people nowadays would call a "PC" was some random i8088 I got by going around the town and asking companies if they had any old tech that they didn't use anymore and if I could have it. I got lucky

[Gareque]

Just now, Slayerking92 said:

Depends if you want to call the "Magnavox Odyssey²" a computer.

I'd say that's more an early console lol.

[Gareque]

I'd say in terms of defining PC, I'd say anything that wasn't all in one.  Something you could pull apart and change bits out on a consumer level.

[Crunchy Dragon]

My very first computer was an Acer laptop, no idea what the specs were. It was from the XP/Vista era, so not that good.

 

The first system I built was based around an AMD A6-5400K, 8GB of DDR3, and a 1TB Barracuda that lives on in my main rig.

[Slayerking92]

11 minutes ago, Gareque said:

I'd say that's more an early console lol.

Well, I did some research, and the Magnavox Odyssey² did have a version of Microsoft Basic available,  I would then consider that a "Personal Computer".

 

it did also have an Intel CPU. (Intel 8048 8-bit microcontroller running at 1.79 MHz)

 

[Gareque]

1 minute ago, Slayerking92 said:

Well, I did some research, and the Magnavox Odyssey² did have a version of Microsoft Basic available,  I would then consider that a "Personal Computer".

 

it did also have an Intel CPU. (Intel 8048 8-bit microcontroller running at 1.79 MHz)

 

A modern console has an OS and a CPU inside it :P.

 

Couldn't the odyssey only be used to play games?  Which would make it the antithesis to a PC