What was your first computer?

[Tr3vor]

Wasn't 95 DOS based? (I shouldn't say since I wasn't alive when DOS was popular.)

 

Yeah, but there is a big difference between using straight DOS, 6.22 and below, and using Windows 9x. Windows 9x is like DOS easy mode.

 

I'd only call a computer a DOS computer if its running windows 3.11 or earlier DOS. I'd classify win9x machines in another category.

[Alpha17x]

Mine was an Apple IIe at the dawn of the 486.

 

My dad worked as a janitor for the local school district and they offered one to him.  Apple IIe with the Monochrome green display.  

We had that for two years and he managed to upgrade us to a 486 that was so dated that the cd drive did not load with a tray; you put that cd in a cartridge and hen put the cartridge in the tray.  In hindsight he might have gone with it because it was a kid safe design. 

 

Man this topic is nostalgic.

 

For the curious; my dad's abilities were eventually recognized and he does a lot of the system building for the school district now. they realized they were wasting talent and moved him up the ladder.

[D3MON]

first personal pc is in my sig but with a inno geforce4 mx440 64mb (black pcb),which i still have, all still runs just needs a new gpu fan.
runs xp sp2 with a black vista theme, now has speccy, chrome and vlc aswell. still usable....except the xp bit.

not bad for a 1999 era pc...

first home pc we had was some acorn thing with a black screen and green text and only did text documents with a dot matrix printer for homework...which really is all it could do, the first REAL family pc was an amd athlon 1600+ or something with like half a gig of ram (estimate) xp and god knows if it had a graphics card, it played viper racing pretty well back in 2003 when i was in secondary school (uk) had winamp on it and spent many a night getting/listening to music and watching movies 

[Yummychickenblue]

first personal pc is in my sig but with a inno geforce4 mx440 64mb (black pcb),which i still have, all still runs just needs a new gpu fan.

runs xp sp2 with a black vista theme, now has speccy, chrome and vlc aswell. still usable....except the xp bit.

first home pc we had was some acorn thing with a black screen and green text and only did text documents with a dot matrix printer for homework...which really is all it could do, the first REAL family pc was an amd athlon 1600+ or something with like half a gig of ram (estimate) xp and god knows if it had a graphics card, it played viper racing pretty well back in 2003 when i was in secondary school (uk) had winamp on it and spent many a night getting/listening to music and watching movies 

Sounds like the OS you are describing with the green text is MS-DOS.

[Tr3vor]

 

first personal pc is in my sig but with a inno geforce4 mx440 64mb (black pcb),which i still have, all still runs just needs a new gpu fan.

runs xp sp2 with a black vista theme, now has speccy, chrome and vlc aswell. still usable....except the xp bit.

 

 

first home pc we had was some acorn thing with a black screen and green text and only did text documents with a dot matrix printer for homework...which really is all it could do, the first REAL family pc was an amd athlon 1600+ or something with like half a gig of ram (estimate) xp and god knows if it had a graphics card, it played viper racing pretty well back in 2003 when i was in secondary school (uk) had winamp on it and spent many a night getting/listening to music and watching movies 

 

 

I don't see too many Slot A Athlons. Most Slot CPUs I see are Slot 1 CPUs. 

Very cool.

[D3MON]

I don't see too many Slot A Athlons. Most Slot CPUs I see are Slot 1 CPUs. 

Very cool.

got given a pentium 2 slot1 recently currently residing in a 9400gt box..

will take some new pictures soon, ignore the weird speeds, in bios theres the option to overclock with a 110fsb and a 115fsb, no voltage though and it does work at 110 (715mhz!! WOO WOO) but can be a bit wierd, gonna put the mx440 back in once i get a new cooler for it.

[matin94]

mine was so old i couldnt find an image.

[Lord_Revan]

Yeah, but there is a big difference between using straight DOS, 6.22 and below, and using Windows 9x. Windows 9x is like DOS easy mode.

 

I'd only call a computer a DOS computer if its running windows 3.11 or earlier DOS. I'd classify win9x machines in another category.

Ooh right, stupid me. *facepalm* Well, at any rate, the only thing we did on it was play DOS games. Useless for anything else really.

[orangecat]

I dont know exactly what my first PC was but i know it had a intel Pentium 3 @ 800Mhz, some random ATI Diamond stealth AGP vdeocard, 512MB of ram, 40GB HDD and a yellow ASUS motherboard and holy crap was that system fast. I used to game on it all day playing C&C generals and freedom fighters along with some other crappy games but i was always trying to get AA to work without lagging my games up. Oh and I still have the old CRT i used to use and i still love it.

[v3nture]

I dont quite remember the first computer I had

 

The one I remember the specs of the most was an Athlon 64 clocked at 1.6ghz, 1.5gb of ram, radeon 9250, and 30 wopping gb of hdd space.

 

shit was tight yo

[nosirrah123]

I used a 2001-2003 Mac Pro, still a snazzy looking case, so much so that they only recently replaced it with a trash can, but inside the one from 10-13 years ago was a potato chip and a half empty bottle of flat coke. It had a really low res monitor that looked really dumb but I can't find it. My mom STILL has this computer, and she refuses to throw it away! It won't boot, but she STILL maintains that it's perfectly fine, and keeps it plugged in and set up in her bedroom.

[lucky74dog]

The first computer I have ever used was an old pentium something XP computer, with an unnamed nvidia card, that my dad thought was radeon. That thing lasted more than 12 years with people from age 5, to 15 using it at the same time, downloading who knows what. The first computer I "Owned" ( Bought by my dad, given to me and my brother) was a 3rd gen i7 Toshiba with integrated graphics, and a 720p screen. $700. What a steal. The first computer I (mostly) bought, and is mine is my current rig. Caselabs with i5, samsung 750Gb SSD(Gb/s+ read and write times!), and soon to be 780 and H105. By far, the best computer I have ever used.

[DarrenP]

My very first computer was a Compaq Deskpro 4000

 

Had a 233 Pentium II Processor 

64MB (Yes Megabytes) of RAM

3.5GB HDD

1MB Matrox video card

Came with a 1024x768 CRT monitor

 

Thing was a beast and still is for my old games!

[Recon-UK]

Pentium d 930 presler. Foxconn mobo. 4gb kingston 800mhz. Powercolor 4670 1gb, gigabyte odin 500w psu. 1360x768 crysis high @ 24 fps good days

[Xquisite]

Mine was a Pentium III which I was allowed to use when I was 7. I basically played NFS II SE all day.  :rolleyes:

[ViruZ_HUN]

something like this. It was not my PC, but it was the first computer i was able to use:

 

[DrilyDixon]

A Windows 98 machine with 32mb ram and 6mb hdd. Played FIFA98 well

[Nickolas47]

a very old acer laptop

[flibberdipper]

A Windows 98 machine with 32mb ram and 6mb hdd. Played FIFA98 well

I think you mean it had a 6GB HDD, not 6MB HDD. Windows 98 wouldn't even come close to fitting on a 6MB HDD.

[Chuck Norris]

My first system was a dell dimension xps t500.

 

Specs:

20gb hdd

128mb ram

pentium 3

windows 98

 

[KingKeith55]

Compaq Deskpro DPEND

 

CPU: Pentium II 400

RAM: 128mb ram

HDD: 6.4 GB 

GPU: ATI Rage 3d Pro

 

 

[terrytek]

Well, it is mostly a laptop.

 

IBM Thinkpad 640

Intel Pentium (the original)

32MB RAM

5GB HDD

13" 640x480

3.5" floppy drive and no CD drive

Windows 95

 

I still have it, believe it or not, and it still functions. Still want to buy a CD drive for it, tho. I play 24 Games for Windows 95. They are still addictive.

[Wano97]

Got it from my dad when I was a kid

[terrytek]

Got it from my dad when I was a kid

Isn't that a Mac 256K?

[Wano97]

Isn't that a Mac 256K?

I think so, I've never actually checked that since I only used it when I was young(er)