What was your first computer?

[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

[Slayerking92]

53 minutes ago, Gareque said:

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

It was mostly used for games.  But with the Basic cartridge, you could write your own code on it, and save it to a storage media (cassette tape), and had a built in keyboard.  i would say that makes it the same as the PET/VIC20/C64.  Do you not consider those a "personal computer"?

 

[noobofepicness66]

2014 macbook air

[Gareque]

20 hours ago, Slayerking92 said:

It was mostly used for games.  But with the Basic cartridge, you could write your own code on it, and save it to a storage media (cassette tape), and had a built in keyboard.  i would say that makes it the same as the PET/VIC20/C64.  Do you not consider those a "personal computer"?

Fair enough, didn't realise that!

 

I retract my prior statement lol.

[Banshee4711]

Commodore 64

 

[Soppro]

HP Pavilion dv6000 with Vista, so it ran like a pile of hot garbage. I remember it being slow as absolute hell, you had to wait at least 10 minutes for it boot up and get things running smoothly to a point where you can actually start opening programs. 

[NunoLava1998]

It's an old PC from about 2007, 2008. I used it until about 2016. It had a Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD (with a whopping 8 MB cache!), and a GeForce G100 for graphics. I built my second system in mid 2016 because the old one was very slow for the games I wanted to play and it also started freezing and crashing. The new system was a Haswell i3 system with a GTX 950. Quite a capable machine at the time, and I added my first SSD in early 2018 (a Patriot Burst 240GB). In late 2018 however I upgraded my system to a Ryzen one and OCd it to 4GHz, and last month I upgraded my aging GTX 950 to a RX 570 4GB. And that's my current system.

[Hans Power]

Commodore C128 here - but I pretty much always used it in C64 mode.

[_Hustler_One_]

Custom build AMD AM2+ Athlon CPU, cant remember which Athlon was, with Geforce 8600 GS based PC back in 2007, built together with my friend.

[DesolationGod]

not sure what model but when i was a kid it was an old ibm my dad brought home...had the true floppys and ms dos

[robosheep]

This was my Dad's and the first computer I used. Never used it as a laptop (he didn't ether). Apparently called a "Apple PowerBook Duo 2300c"
We had virtual PC on it so I could play my Reader Rabbit games.

[ItsBazza]

I had used a lot of computers that my parents owned. But when i got my own PC it was an acer aspire sa20 with Celeron D 2.93ghz and 256mb ram with a 80gb hard drive and the only games i ever played was halo ce and sim city 2000.

 

This was the closest to mine but the monitor was a crt

https://www.cnet.com/products/acer-aspire-sa20-celeron-d-2-93-ghz-256-mb-ram-80-gb-hdd

[RasmusDC]

well after C64 and Amiga 500, i got my brothers hand me downs, when he upgraded to a 486..

 

so as i remember it was a 386 33mhz, with a Co Processor, and an 8 bit Soundblaster card. i cannot remember the drive size, but think it was 80-120mb´s, but it did have a turbo butten ...

 

and 4mb of ram... (think i bought the CD-rom drive later)

 

Remember playing Rick Dangerous, as the first game i ever played on a PC.

 

my first own purchase was a Pentium 120mhz with an S3 card, that was a beast. 

[RasmusDC]

On 3/21/2019 at 11:53 PM, Slayerking92 said:

It was mostly used for games.  But with the Basic cartridge, you could write your own code on it, and save it to a storage media (cassette tape), and had a built in keyboard.  i would say that makes it the same as the PET/VIC20/C64.  Do you not consider those a "personal computer"?

 

think it was branded otherwise, but that was the first computer we had indoors in our house, you could program on it as i remember.

 

we had a Cowboy game, a monkey game, and some sort of racing game... very simple, but played it so much.

[Raycoops]

Mine was the Atari 32 back in 1979