What was your first computer?

[Wyre]

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

 

Come up with a budget... (then mow lawns, babysit, collect aluminum cans, what ever it takes to meet that goal) You can have a computer if that is really what you want.

[NerdNinja]

Come up with a budget... (then mow lawns, babysit, collect aluminum cans, what ever it takes to meet that goal) You can have a computer if that is really what you want.

 

Yea I have everything planned out! I have two jobs but I only get work during the summer. I have my 4k ready build planned out but I need a good $500 build to hold me off until I have enough for my main rig.

[DaRk0]

Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz

256 MB DDR1

Gigabyte Motherboard

GeForce 2 MX (with active cooling lol)

40 GB IBM HDD

300 Watt PSU

[Thunderjolt]

The one in my signature (Since I don't really know the make/brand of the other past premade ones I've had)

[Leonard]

My first PC was a hand me down from a bank in 1999 when they were changing their PCs. At that time i was a noob and was hired by a friend of a friend who had the contract to restock the bank with new PCs and he just gave me one of the old ones. This was my first purchase.....http://www.amazon.com/Sony-VGN-S260-Pentium-Processor-Centrino/dp/B0002XUXBQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Yeah look at me with my 60GB hdd and my top of the line CPU....yeah!

[Brapson]

Had an old HP, got it around the age of 6 or 7, Loved it to bits, died a few years back though I fixed it last year (First PC I ever repaired) even though the guys at the local PC Repair shop couldn't work out how to do so. Came with a big chunky CRT. I remember playing MineSweeper and Club Penguin on it as a kid.

 

[ShadowCaptain]

THIS - i think it was 300mhz, had 13gb of storage, and some ancient voodoo card i believe it was I cannot remember

[n0ah1897]

My first computer I've ever used was an old Gateway running Windows ME from forever ago. It's actually sitting in my basement right now and still works. The first computer I've ever owned myself (so not my parents computer, one that I bought) was an Asus laptop. It was just some $350 with a 2nd gen i3 and 4GB ram. Nothing special.

[Rashy]

I cant remember it was 2004, its still in my hall of olds but i have the spec:

• ASUS P4VP-MX
• A 1GB DIMM ram and 1GB SO-DIMM
• A 32GB or something around that HDD
• A Pentium, but cant seem to open it because the motherboard is drilled in!
• Oh it has a weird Airduct system like a hole but it leads to the cpu fan, so no case fan

[Knighthawk270x]

Dell Dimension 4400

[SadTech]

lol well I am 26 so my first computer was when I was 11 and it was a Packard Bell. It was actually really nice and I would rip Wolfenstein and Doom all day. Then we upgraded to a HP when I was 13 and had that for like 8 years. I would rip Diablo 2 on that old HP all day. It only had 256MB of RAM but back then that was really nice.

[Snapy1]

This....

I was four years old I remember for my brothers birthday party I installed a Clifford the dog game  

[Rashy]

lol well I am 26 so my first computer was when I was 11 and it was a Packard Bell. It was actually really nice and I would rip Wolfenstein and Doom all day. Then we upgraded to a HP when I was 13 and had that for like 8 years. I would rip Diablo 2 on that old HP all day. It only had 256MB of RAM but back then that was really nice.

I remember Wolfenstein... CRT Monitors, the days...

[illBelief]

E-Machine... something something...

 

I distinctly remember the case saying "2GB Hard drive. NEVER OBSOLETE!"

[schwat]

Found the box for mine up in the attic awhile back:

 

 

 

25MHz, 4MB ram, 170MB hard drive

 

 

 

[MegaDave91]

I was using computers at a very young age in school, but my very first computer would have been the family desktop we got in 1999. I got my own laptop in 2006 and have gone through about 6 of them since (none of them had problems; just felt like upgrading).

[MellowCream]

 

 

 

p4 at 2.66GHZ

 

512MB Ram

 

40GB IDE HDD 4600RPM.

[adamdidthis]

Yeah baby
 

[joemc99]

it

[MadZee]

I was a cool kid, lol;

P4 HT @ 2.65 GHz

1GB od RAM (not sure if DDR or DDR2)

Don't remember the mobo

A really nice Sound Blaster Audigy sound card

And two DVD drives, perfectly fit for all my YARR needs.

All this was run off a 350W PSU.

Not bad for 2003-2004-ish

[Doxxy]

My very own was a laptop, my first real PC was the one in my specs.

[Commander Llama]

I was too young to even know how to check hardware specs on my childhood computer, but based on the POST screen, it had an Intel Celeron 266Mhz running it.  I seem to recall a 20GB hard drive as well.  So much!  I'll never run out of that much space!

[Skandha]

Sony Vaio that Originally Shipped with Windows ME,

It had a 40GB Deskstar (Deathstar) Drive

like 512MB ram

Not sure what else, 

 

By the time I got it it was running XP, I used it for a few months then It's hard drive crashed when I tried to install Windows 7 on it.

Booted from USB to Ubuntu until I got a laptop later that year.

 

Strong Bads Cool Game For Attractive people was the only game I ever got the chance to play on it.

 

[Sihastru]

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum East-European clone. It had a Zilog Z80 CPU running at a blazing 3.5 MHz. I can't remember if it had 16kB of memory or 48kB, but I think it was the former. The language of choice was BASIC, but the more adventurous could give Assembly Language a try. You could manually save and load data from standard cassette tapes (MC) using a normal boom box. Whatever can be said about it, I think I had more fun programming that thing that I do now on my Intel 4930k that has 64GB of RAM and Intel SSDs in RAID0.

 

That being said, I think that I am one that can really appreciate an Intel 4930k that has 64GB of RAM and Intel SSDs in RAID0. Up until a few years ago I kept dusting off the old ZX Spectrum but it developed problems with it's keyboard. Fixing it requires a bit of DIY since replacement parts don't exist anymore.

[TAK]

Ah, time to show what an old fart I am.

 

I got my first PC around '93-'94 (I'll let that sink in a bit).

It was a no-brand clone, came with 4MB of RAM, 1/2MB graphics card and some really crappy sound card. The processor was an AMD 486DX2 running at 80Mhz (I was later able to underclock it to 13Mhz, which was all kinds of awesome). Oh and the OS, Windows 3.11 (Finnish).

Oh boy, the times of creating .bat files to run games and such, I feel so spoiled with new PCs.