What was your first computer?

[ygohome]

Tandy Radio Shack 1000 -

4.77 Mhz

two 5 1/4" floppy drives

 

 

 

 

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1210

 

 

I first learned to use databases with it.  Ashton-Tate dBASE III

 

For gaming I played Sierra Kings Quest and Space Quest series.

[mightytech]

My first that I could call mine was a gift from my uncle (Who builds PC's and got me into it). It had an AMD athlon 64 3700+,2 Gigs of RAM,and a Nvidia 6800GT with 4 blown capacitors. The PSU was a crap one out of a DELL and I couldn't even plug in the PCIe Power cable. He said the motherboard used to be a really top of the line one from ASUS so that's good I guess. It ran games pretty well but I ended up getting another PC from him that had a Athlon 64 X2 6400+ and 4 Gigs with the same GPU.

[SomnolenceGames]

It was a desktop PC which had been used in a lawyers office before they upgraded in 1997, it ran Windows 95 barely and was that old cream plastic that stains easily.  My mum "acquired" it from a friend who worked there as she couldn't afford to buy a computer at the time.

[WyzeGye]

I don't think you are allowed to have 192mgs of ram.

 

 

128mb+64mb I rocked the same setup.

[Yummychickenblue]

It was a desktop PC which had been used in a lawyers office before they upgraded in 1997, it ran Windows 95 barely and was that old cream plastic that stains easily.  My mum "acquired" it from a friend who worked there as she couldn't afford to buy a computer at the time.

was the hard drive wiped?

[Yummychickenblue]

128mb+64mb I rocked the same setup.

I thought you were only allowed to have the same amount of ram on each module.

[WyzeGye]

I thought you were only allowed to have the same amount of ram on each module.

 

 

for best performance, sure. But you can mix and match as your motherboard sees fit.

[SomnolenceGames]

was the hard drive wiped?

Yeah it had been and I was about 8 years old at the time and didn't think to try and recover anything with a recovery tool.  But I loved playing Rollercoaster Tycoon and Theme Hospital on it.

[Wyre]

Franklin Ace 1000

 

 

It was a clone of the Apple ][ plus. Cost over $1200 dollars in those days. Still half the price of the Apple.

[xyza]

can't really remember much but it was something powerful enough to run the really early versions of counter strike, maybe like a Pentium 3 or something with a graphics card (voodoo?)

[Tr3vor]

 

From my dads work, he got me an IBM with 256 mb of Hard drive. 

 

You can't connect a 256mb HDD to this computer. and I doubt any business bought PCjrs. If my some coincidence they did buy PCjrs, I feel reaaaally bad for them, they sucked.

 

You're probably thinking of a different computer. a 256mb HDD is more like a 486.

[Ferdian]

Mine very first computer is the intel pentium 3 with 320Mb SDram with Nvidia Riva TNT 64 pro graphic card

and i just can play GTA Vice city

[Darth Hideous]

 

Toshiba Satellite 220CS. Not to brag or anything, but it had a 1.2GB HDD...

[d3sl91]

First computer that I had was an AST Bravo 2: (was donated to me by my mom's place of work in 2000 ish - I was 8/9.)

 

First computer I bought myself was an AST Premium Exec 386SX/25. As in, 25MHz.

 

 

 

Sad part? This was back in... 2003 - I was 12/13

[d3sl91]

Internet went wonky...please delete...

[d3sl91]

Internet went /really/ wonky...please delete...

[Tr3vor]

 

First computer I bought myself was an AST Premium Exec 386SX/25. As in, 25MHz.

 

 

 

Sad part? This was back in... 2003 - I was 12/13

 

I have one of those, although its a 20mhz CPU

Its sitting right next to me actually.

[Hakka]

Commodore Vic20 with cassette storage

 

 

 

Ha, those were the days, start loading a game, come back in an hour to turn the tape over, come back after another hour to find out something went wrong and you had to start over again.

[Kev]

Mac Quadro 800. Uncle upgraded to something newer and gave is to me.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadra_800

[d3sl91]

I have one of those, although its a 20mhz CPU

Its sitting right next to me actually.

 

I... sadly probably have parts of mine in a back room. Sadly, because, I wish I didn't dismantle it.

See, I was 13. The reason I had to buy this laptop - was because I had destroyed (took apart because I was curious/bored) two 386-based desktops and a Power Macintosh before it. 

This guy was destroyed after I got a P2-based thinkpad and a DUAL (heck yeah) P2 400MHz IBM workstation. 

[Luke]

She was a beast, Lightning fast.

[Aukmed42]

My first PC I had for about a month and was a hand-me-down from my parents when they got their xp computer... It was a shitty win 98 tower that did all I could want it to do at 7 years old, which was play Space Cadet Pinball and Roller Coaster Tycoon. It was a champ until I installed and then launched Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 3 (I think). It lasted until 5 seconds into the race where it crashed and never turned on again lol

[Guarrand]

besides the philips 2000 console.. my first real PC was a Schneider Amstrad:

[AuXDubz]

I had something close to this. My father bought it from the place where he worked; they were probably upgrading to better PCs at the time. Man, was this thing like magic when it was there - just like the NES and N64 I had.

 

I think it was a Windows 95 PC and I remember using dial-up on this thing and playing Everquest which I didn't understand a thing about and my father ended up having to cancel the subscription over mail or phone. It was also how my father ended up learning stuff about computers. He opened it up, learned basic things about what does what, stuff like that - remember, this was the age before high-speed internet. Me, I learned through "newer" PCs and through the web. Funny how he was self-taught in many things; certain instruments like the mandolin and guitar, computers, automobiles. Basic knowledge, but knowledge nevertheless.

Wow didn't know G-Sync screens were standard back then

[Maxibonbits]

No idea what the model was but it had an incredibly fast 650Mhz single core processor and 64mb of ram.