What was your first computer?

[Xquisite]

My first PC I ever used was a Pentium 3 that I don't remember because I was too little maybe 5 years old or so, the second was a Pentium 4 (Dell Optiplex GX270). It was horrible and weighed a ton

[Clift]

First PC I ever had was a 486 when I was 7 or so. Don't remember too much about it aside from the fact I played Kings Quest on it and possibly the original Sim City although that could have been on the hand me down Pentium 166 I inherited from my brother. 

[Madbrood]

It was a 486 33MHz with something like 3 grams of RAM. Or something equally beastly.

 

Man, it was awesome. Played TIE Fighter and X-Wing so well

[MrImnotMLG]

The first one I used was some old compaq desktop that ran either 95 or 98 (I was just a toddler so I don't remember that well) but the laptop in my sig is MY first pc.

[Yummychickenblue]

It was a 486 33MHz with something like 3 grams of RAM. Or something equally beastly.

 

Man, it was awesome. Played TIE Fighter and X-Wing so well

 I don't think RAM is measured in grams.

[imthewalrus]

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.

 

Yes you are right. In Colombia (were I am originally from) businesses could not afford very good computers and they were not very educated when purchasing high quantities of personal cubicle computers. And I was estimating on the memory,  now that I think about it is probably not even in mb but rather kbs. 

[h3ll0]

Dell Dimension XPS T600r
Pentium III 600 chip
128 mb memory
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32 mb card

Windows 98

 

I got this computer on my six or seventh birthday as a present.

 

My mom bought it for $100 in 2003/2004 and my grandpa bought a need for speed boxset of games for me.

 

Then for Christmas I got a Saitek racing wheel. I had a lot of good times with this computer.

 

 

[StingBull]

I don't even remember what exactly it was though I don't even think it was branded. It was some Windows 95 machine with a horizontal case.

[tS_kStin]

Mine personally: The one I am using right now.

 

First one that I ever used: One from 1996 that is under the house right now I think. Idk what it is and I am too lazy to dig it out.

[Tr3vor]

I don't even remember what exactly it was though I don't even think it was branded. It was some Windows 95 machine with a horizontal case.

 

I'd guess a Pentium or Pentium MMX cpu, 16-64mb of ram and a 700MB-3GB hard disk.

[Wyre]

Apple ][+ clone

88086

88286

386 SX 25 w/ math co-processor

486 DX2 66

486 DX4 133

AMD K6III 600

intel Pentium III 600

Intel Celeron 600 @ 900

AMD Athlon Thunderbird @ 1.4GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1800

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2.4GHz

AMD Athlon64 X2 @ 2.4GHz

AMD Athlon64 X4 @ 2.7GHz

Intel Core2Quad Extreme @ 4GHz

Intel i5 3570k @ 4.6GHz

[MrNiceGuitarGuy]

First post ever!

I feel old...I had to do some research on this but I can't believe my first computer was an IBM 5170.



It was a hand me down from a family friend. It didn't last that long until I got another computer running Win95...I don't remember which model it was but it had a turbo button haha. That was when I was running the Star Wars XWing series and...omg happy childhood memories were had.

[Leinbert42]

I do not know what is the type,but it was an old ancient pc that use floppy disk, it still hasn't have any cd rom or what ever you call it back then.

[m00ndancer]

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.

 

The reason it was a slot so Intel could patent it. To make the other motherboard manufacturers pay fees. 

[hellyt6]

The first one I used is a old Win 98 tower and until my mother got a gateway Win. XP we had nothing else, Just recently (2010) got a dell with Windows 7 and until last year i had nothing but that dell. That all changed when i built my computer and i'm pretty sure that now and forever more i'll be on the front line of tech!

We have VERY similar builds. the only differences are your case, and you have a 660TI and an EVGA power supply. Everything else is very close lol. How ya like the motherboard?

[hellyt6]

So here's my first PC.. Loved this thing, it came with the original software pack that had Sacrifice and Giants: Citizen Kubuto and I played the crap out of those games. I think mine was a Pentium 3 though. 

[jaqiefox]

The reason it was a slot so Intel could patent it. To make the other motherboard manufacturers pay fees. 

Actually.... they could easily have gone into a socket, they just needed a new connector of some kind to lock out amd and ti and cyrix.  The reason it was a slot is that at the time L2 cache running at full speed was prohibitively expensive, so they put external L2 cache modules running at half or 1/3 speed on the slot and the main cpu without L2 in the middle.  They since figured out how to make L2 running at full cpu speed more cheaply, hence the death of the slot cpu form factor, because it is more expensive to make.

[Giancarlo124]

My real first computer.

It was lightning fast

[Wyre]

Actually.... they could easily have gone into a socket, they just needed a new connector of some kind to lock out amd and ti and cyrix.  The reason it was a slot is that at the time L2 cache running at full speed was prohibitively expensive, so they put external L2 cache modules running at half or 1/3 speed on the slot and the main cpu without L2 in the middle.  They since figured out how to make L2 running at full cpu speed more cheaply, hence the death of the slot cpu form factor, because it is more expensive to make.

 

Same for the original AMD K7 Athlon. The difference between the K7 and the Thunderbird was the Thunderbird had full speed on die L2 cache.

[KylSp]

Vic20 with tape drive

[Wyre]

Vic20 with tape drive

Freakin awesome! That is one that I wish I had experience with.

[rentaspoon]

486 with something like 8 or 16mb of ram, I couldn't use the eq on winamp because I didn't have enough RAM

[flibberdipper]

So here's my first PC.. Loved this thing, it came with the original software pack that had Sacrifice and Giants: Citizen Kubuto and I played the crap out of those games. I think mine was a Pentium 3 though. 

Holy crap, I had one of  those! It had a 1GHz Pentium 3 and a GeForce4 MX 4000 128MB. Good times were had. That's the computer I did an octo-boot on.

[Yummychickenblue]

Holy crap, I had one of  those! It had a 1GHz Pentium 3 and a GeForce4 MX 4000 128MB. Good times were had. That's the computer I did an octo-boot on.

what do you even need 8 OS' for?

[flibberdipper]

what do you even need 8 OS' for?

Wanted to mess with my friends. I normally only had Windows XP, and Windows 7 on it.