What was your first computer?

[X-System]

My first computer was Apple Macintosh SE with internal hard disk drive.

 

[marknd59]

First computer I ever used was a DEC PDP 11/45. I can't remember the 1st computer I bought but it was back in 1979 so what ever was around then.

[Sahl]

If Commodore 64 counts then that was the case.

My first PC was based on the Intel 486

We had plenty of different types of consoles as well.

[R0ot]

I don't count the family PC we had as a first one or the old BBC computers with the 9 inch floppy disks but my first proper build was made up from spare parts of junkers. I managed to get something like 256mb of RAM and 500mb hdd running on this case that weighed a tonne. I was so proud of that thing and it lasted for ages. Had some really crummy Samsung monitor at the time. Remember running a few a basic games on it and having the time of my life. I think it was about 9 months to a year when the harddrive caught fire and I had to rapidly disconnect the power and that was the end of my first machine. 

[vortextech77]

It's not as old as the PCs you guys got but the first family computer was a Dell Studio 1909. 3GB of DDR2 RAM, 300gb HDD, and an Intel Pentium which was a dual core I think. There was also some NVIDIA graphics that were intergrated into the motherboard, but I'm not sure what model. I still have the CPU and RAM sticks.

[UltraTech]

Okay, I am only 14.5, so my first PC was only 10-12 years ago. It had the following specs:

 

Case: Raidmax xA

 

Motherboard: ECS G41T-M (V2.0)

 

GPU: Intel GMA X4500

 

CPU Cooler: Stock Cooler

 

PSU: Raidmax PSU that came with the case (surprising lasted 8 years, 2-3 of those years were it being stored in a garage in Arizona).

 

CPU: Intel Pentium E2200

 

RAM: Patriot 667Mhz 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2

 

HDD: SeaGate Barracuda 1TB (Still works today).

 

ODD: Sony AD-7190A

 

OS: Windows XP Home 32-Bit

 

Bonus:

 

Monitor: Dell 2005FPW

 

It wasn't that powerful for the time, but it wasn't super low end either I don't think. The CPU is comparable to a Core 2 Duo T7400, which can be found in old iMacs, the GPU is honestly the biggest bottleneck, since it probably wouldn't even run demanding games from 2009 or 2008, and the RAM was a decent amount for back then. The monitor is actually my daily driver now, since it is still 1680x1050, and it is overclocked to 75hz.

[Mark Kaine]

Fujitsu Ergo Pro X

ErgoPro x653 H5/H6/H7

CPU133,166,200MHz Intel Pentium

BUS:PCI/ISA

Standard memory:16 or 32 MB 

Max memory:64 MB

 

 

Played mostly Stunt Car Racer 4D on it, pretty great game. PC still works too! 

 

(and I still think it's a great design) 

 

 

ps: I also still have original keyboard, original mouse and original monitor somewhere! (too lazy to dig those out lol) 

[owwnoooo]

A custom built Windows XP machine IDK the specs I was 5 years old when that machine was replaced by a HP core2duo laptop

[Gix7Fifty]

Texas Instruments TI 99/4.

Used to play Hunt the Wumpus.

[Anghammarad]

1. Atari 800XL with a Datasette

2. Commodore C128 with a 1571 Floppy drive

3. Amiga 500

4. Amiga 1200 (which I still got and is still working madly pimped)

5. a Pentium 1 233 MMX

6. a PIII 800 MHZ/Celeron 400 MHZ (768 mb Ram) Gigabyte SLOT 1 Mainboard

7. AMD Athlon 2600

8. Core 2 Duo E4300 @3 ghz

9. Core 2 Duo E8400

10. Core I 5 (the machine in the signature)

 

Time for an upgrade

[atxcyclist]

My parents had a Commodore 64, so that was the first computer I really used. My personal first computer though was an IBM 5160 XT that I pieced together from spare parts at my grandparents house. 4.7mhz, 640k ram, dual floppies, 20 or 30mb hard drive, and Hercules monochrome graphics with an IBM 5151 green phosphor display, very crisp. Oh, and of course I had a Model F keyboard. I also had a 1200 baud Hayes modem stuffed in there, but didn't use it too much as having a second dedicated phone line in the house would have been expensive.

[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.

 

 

[XDXD_CHGQJHU]

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

[coderrquitsreality]

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

[danalog]

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.

[DJ_Jay125]

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