What was your first computer?

[gastew15]

Some creme colored cookie cutter PC from 98' I believe with a rockin' Pentium 2 Cartridge processor.. ( I still have the processor laying around somewhere.)

[RWT98]

How can we get this topic pinned ? 

[Lil Chillbil]

How can we get this topic pinned ? 

 

doubted, considering the experiences with non techies has over 150+pages and hasn't been pinned. 

[harrynowl]

Well I'm only 16 so no 8086 or anything but....

 

Athlon 64 @ 2.2GHz. 3000+ I think. 2001 is on the IHS.

[flibberdipper]

Well I'm only 16 so no 8086 or anything but....

 

Athlon 64 @ 2.2GHz. 3000+ I think. 2001 is on the IHS.

I'm 15 and I have an 8086. Age has nothing to do with what you have.

[harrynowl]

I'm 15 and I have an 8086. Age has nothing to do with what you have.

Generally the first computer you get would be something applicable to the time you'd be getting a computer

[flibberdipper]

Generally the first computer you get would be something applicable to the time you'd be getting a computer

Guess my family is off. My first was a Socket 370 Celeron 633 MHz eMachines.

[Legion]

Something with windows 95 on it. That's all I remember.

[The_Evenger]

my first computer (I was round 6) my father helped me build (more like I helped him), it had an AMD 939 3800 2X 64 processor, 512MB of RAM, a (I don't remember the name of this GPU exactly) GeForce gt 8600?, it also had no fan on the heat sync, 75GB HDD, 2 optical drives, both CD drives, the best future to have of its time, a 350w PSU, and a floppy drive... [i have no idea what mobo it had] and I still have it!

 

man technology has come a far way in 10 years, considering my current build...

[Yummychickenblue]

Always had laptops, never built a rig yet I really want to. (parents say no, laptops are the future quit thinking about desktops)

 

Anyways, my first system was a Lenovo T41.

My parents let me build a system (although it was mostly my dad doing the building) It was probably because they weren't paying for it and I have an eye impairment so I needed the screen size.

Anyway my FIRST compooper that I owned (I spelled the word like that for a reason) was a dell D630 my dads work lets him take home old laptops that aren't in use.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

it was 16 years ago. a IBM with a Pentium Slot 2 (before sockets), 4 128Mb sticks of RAM. 5gb WD 300 and a 5.25 inch 13gb Maxtor Bigfoot

[Tr3vor]

it was 16 years ago. a IBM with a Pentium Slot 2 (before sockets), 4 128Mb sticks of RAM. 5gb WD 300 and a 5.25 inch 13gb Maxtor Bigfoot

 

No.

 

There were sockets far before slot CPUs. the only CPUs to use slots were Pentium II and Pentium III based computers. the 8088/86, 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium MMX and Pentium Pro CPUs used sockets. The 286 and 8088/86 used DIP sockets while the 386 sometimes used LIF sockets. the rest are ZIF sockets.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

Hmm. You learn something new everyday. Well every computer that age or newer I was given or I worked on/took apart was slot. I guess I could say before socket was the only removable option. . . but if I did say that, somebody would probably tell Mme there was a wireless based CPU or something like that.

[Fred Castellum]

First computer I can actually say I own would have to the HP dv6, it had a dual core AMD at 1.8Ghz and came with 1gb of ram.... upgraded to 2gbs a couple of years down the line. Dang.... those were the days... 

[Vitalius]

I don't remember.

All that I remember is playing a game that was nothing but black and orange with a block that ate letters in a maze thing. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd like to know what it was. I'd love to play it again (literally my ultimate nostalgia).

Whatever computer that was, it was my first one. I was 3-4 years old which put it at 1996-1997.

[Misanthrope]

This little beauty:

 

Here are the specs:
Developer Compaq

Type Desktop/Small form factor
Release date 1997
Discontinued 1998
Operating system Windows 95
Power Steady-state 51 Watts
CPU 180 MHz Cyrix MediaGXi CPU
Memory 16 - 32 MB EDO RAM / 80 MB Maximum / 12 MB On-board Memory reserved for display
Input PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse
Connectivity Dial-up Modem upgradable to 56K ; 33.6K modem standard

[Tr3vor]

This little beauty:

 

Here are the specs:

Developer Compaq

Type Desktop/Small form factor

Release date 1997

Discontinued 1998

Operating system Windows 95

Power Steady-state 51 Watts

CPU 180 MHz Cyrix MediaGXi CPU

Memory 16 - 32 MB EDO RAM / 80 MB Maximum / 12 MB On-board Memory reserved for display

Input PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse

Connectivity Dial-up Modem upgradable to 56K ; 33.6K modem standard

 

Eew, Cyrix CPU. Runs hot and poor FPU. Also, a black case from the 90s is awesome, really can't find many of those. That was the beige era.

[Misanthrope]

Eew, Cyrix CPU. Runs hot and poor FPU. Also, a black case from the 90s is awesome, really can't find many of those. That was the beige era.

 

Oh that machine was an eternal struggle but I strangely have many fond memories of it staying up all night to download 2 or 3 new mp3 songs or playing Doom and Blood. Interesting fact: To this day I never actually owned a desktop with an intel processor: after that one all my systems have had AMD processors. 

[nkfw]

I have been thinking about this for a while, but I can't remember what was in it, it was in 1990, and it was home built. waaaay too long ago to remember! 

[JupiteL]

It was using pentium 4 and run windows 2000. Given for donation long ago unfortunately.

[pbenologa]

Back when i was 6 my dad brought a Pentium 1 PC. A flat one not the tower type. I used to play mario dos and tetris. And sometimes scare myself in windows screensaver. 

[pspfreak]

An HP Pavillion a610y with 256MB ram integrated graphics and a 80gb seagate baracuda IDE. 

Full specs: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00191016&tmp_track_link=ot_faqs/top_issues/en_us/c00191016/loc:4&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=425924

[t0ps]

Mine was some frankensteined thing that ran ms dos only. Good ol' days of /run Aladdin and Lion King. It was the family computer my brother brought home one day, it blew my mind out of the water.

[iris7]

My first computer was a Tandy machine.  Don't remember the model numbers.  I also used a Gateway 2000 that ran windows 95.  At the time, the computers were family computers.

[DrCobras28]

Our family had some crappy 15 year old dell desktop that crashed if you tried to download anything. I don't know the specs because we got rid of it before I became interested in them.