What was your first computer?

[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 

[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.