What was your first computer?

[Yummychickenblue]

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

where did you even find the hdd space for it?

[flibberdipper]

where did you even find the hdd space for it?

2x 40GB, 2x 120GB. Largest install was Windows 7 @ about 15.8GB.

[Yummychickenblue]

2x 40GB, 2x 120GB. Largest install was Windows 7 @ about 15.8GB.

I am pretty sure 7 is only about 10GBs

[flibberdipper]

I am pretty sure 7 is only about 10GBs

I used it for other things. Hell, my current Windows 8.1 install (with all of my apps and crap, with about 3GB of music alone) is about 60GB... I don't know how I lived with the 15+40GB HDD's in my first real "internet-ized" computer.

 

EDIT: And I still don't have everything installed, so that number will climb to at least 65GB by the end of this week.

[Yummychickenblue]

I used it for other things. Hell, my current Windows 8.1 install (with all of my apps and crap, with about 3GB of music alone) is about 60GB... I don't know how I lived with the 15+40GB HDD's in my first real "internet-ized" computer.

 

EDIT: And I still don't have everything installed, so that number will climb to at least 65GB by the end of this week.

yeah windows is fat.

[flibberdipper]

yeah windows is fat.

I have a ton of apps and programs. I did a full install of Office 2013 Professional Plus, which ate up close to 4GB itself I think... But, we better shut up before we derail this thread too far.

[Yummychickenblue]

I have a ton of apps and programs. I did a full install of Office 2013 Professional Plus, which ate up close to 4GB itself I think... But, we better shut up before we derail this thread too far.

Yeah.

[Tr3vor]

I'm pretty sure that heat dissipation was an issue on the slot form factors later on, there's only so big of a heat sink you can put on the things.

 

I'm also pretty sure that the Celeron 300a was the first P6 based CPUs that put the L2 cache on die. Makes me wonder why Katmai and Coppermine didn't go back to a socket.

[Wyre]

Makes me wonder why Katmai and Coppermine didn't go back to a socket.

 

Katmai and Coppermine were on both slot and socket. 

[Tr3vor]

Katmai and Coppermine were on both slot and socket. 

 

I just looked it up, I'm suprised that Coppermine was on socket, I've never seen one out of all the pentium 3s flooding out of peoples' houses lol.

 

Katmai wasn't on socket though.

[WAI]

let see....

 

the first computer i ever touched was a P1 100mhz 16MB RAM and a 2GB HDD (Had DOS on it then Win.95)

 

the second was a PII @300mhz 64MB RAM 15GB HDD (Had 98SE)

 

the third was my very personal PC build from a friend that had Athlon Thunderbird 1.67ghz 512MB RAM 40GB HDD MX400 Geforce (then a 4200 ti  ) had 98SE

 

my forth which i sold was my first custom built which had a AM2+ Athlon II x4 260 2.6ghz OC@3.1ghz 4GB DDR2 RAM 250GB HDD (ATI 4850 then ATI 6850) Windows vista then to Windows 7

 

 

my current was is a AMD APU Trinity 5800k 3.8ghz 8GB 2133 RAM 500GB/1TB HDDs (Dual Graphics with a 7750) Windows 7

 

[peaking duck]

486 DX2 66mhz

 

[Wyre]

I just looked it up, I'm suprised that Coppermine was on socket, I've never seen one out of all the pentium 3s flooding out of peoples' houses lol.

 

Katmai wasn't on socket though.

Sorry you are correct - the Katmai was not - the coppermine was the only one that was on both - during the transition from slot to socket.

[CtW]

Mine was an old Compaq that was older than me. I don't remember much about it as we got rid of it when I was 5 (it was the former family computer that was put in the basement) except that it ran Windows 95, was VERY beige and its monitor broke, resulting in the colors to be screwed up. The first computer that was definitely mine was an Asus Eeebook netbook thing that I got for my 11th birthday. After that came another Compaq (this time a laptop) which happens to be sitting in pieces in my room.

 

Pics of the Compaq laptop:

The keyboard^

main enclosure/screen^

Motherboard^

Best part about it is its socketed AMD sempron. When I first discovered this, I was astounded and amazed.^ 

[acidydragon]

The oldest computer I can remember my family owning, is a Dell (that's now 12 years old.). Before that, we had a computer, but I can't remember much about it.

 

My personal first computer was a Studio XPS 9000.

[BKOben]

First Computer I used that my dad owned was a Tandy 5000 mc, I played a jetfighter game, test drive, and manhunt. This brought me into the world of pc gaming! I only ever had consoles for nintendo titles as i was growing up. I was just a little kid using MS Dos and Tandy DeskMate. After that my own computer that was mine wasnt until high school and it was a Compaq Presario 5000. I upgraded the graphics to a Nvidia TNT2 when I purchased Operation Flashpoint and couldnt run it with out the upgrade. That was my true first computer.

 

[OneGun]

I bought a Alienware back in 05 lol..I didn't know any better as I just lost use of my arm and they financed me..

[Caspian]

First Personal computer was a 2009  Lenovo   3t s10   with an Atom and 1GB of RAM

 

 

It was horrible. It lagged running Pokemon in an emulator and was so slow that if you tried to rotate the screen or use the touch functionality it practically died.

It was so bad I gladly accepted the Mac I was offered ._.

[snowpike]

I had a Windows ME desktop, with celeron processor

[Austin:P]

Calculator 

[Victorious Secret]

 

You need to understand that as a kid, this was the greatest thing science had ever managed in my mind. I thought it was THE coolest thing ever.

 

Now that I think about it, I haven't even had a desktop till this January. 

[NerdNinja]

I have yet to "own" a PC. 15 years old and I have never had a computer to my name always using other peoples.

[MarioCardona1981]

My first PC was a Compaq Evo D300v, my dad gave it to me back in 2002
CPU : intel Celeron @996mhz
Ram : 128mb Dimm PC133mhz - then I upgrade it to 512 mb 
Video : 4mb intel chip - upgrade it to 128mb ddr Geforce MX4000 ;  then to a 256mb ddr Geforce MX5200

OS : Windows XP home / Professional

HD : Maxtor 20gb

 

On this PC I played  Resident Evil 4 on low settings - GTA Vice city , GTA San Andreas and some emualted games like N64 and PSX

It had a sad end of days, I gave it to a cousin in 2008, and find out a year later that the motherboard died

 

[Josh Smith]

 

My first personal pooter was this HP 2000. Kinda runs like butt now that it's a couple years old, but considering the life span of most laptops I suppose i can't complain about it too much. 

[-iSynthesis]

Cant post a picture ATM, will post in some hours since im not at home atm.

It had/has AMD Athlon x2 7750BE (That thing was shit in oc'ing, only got it to 3.1GHz)

Some MSI Motherboard

AMD Radeon HD 4300 (Later upgraded it to a sapphire HD 6670)

4GB DDR2-800MHZ i think it was

750GB WD Caviar Green

 

 

 

Before that i used a win95 PC, wasnt mine though and even before that when i was like 7 i used my grandfathers 25MHz WinSX or WinMX dont know anymore. The win95 PC was like 800MHz Dual Core, 2x8gb Caviar Blacks and a 16gb maxtor drive and some mb of RAM. It played an illegal copy of rayman so thats nice lol