What was your first computer?

[Norwegiantweaker]

A Lenovo G570, first computer I had that was only mine, it was my Baby :wub: , Core i3 with Radeon Graphics, a great laptop, added more RAM to it, replaced the thermal paste, almost replaced the CPU, and I replaced the keyboard. but then the LCD screen died a week before my birthday   and it was too much to fix, so I got a new $1000 AUD laptop (in hindsight that cost a bit more than fixing my old laptop), I salvaged the hard-drive and RAM which I shoved in my new laptop. The HDD just sits with an eSATA cable, ah well.

 

i dont get it... screens are like 20 on ebay?! how can you justify to spent 1000 over 20-100 kek

[xtelemonx]

hp pavilion dv6 laptop from ~2007

[The Crazed Child]

I wish I remembered. It was this creamy-coloured desktop machine that ran Windows ME or 2000 (IDK). It actually had an offline-based copy of Wikipedia on it, which I still laugh at today lololol.

 

I should have kept the case and put hihend-parts in it, so my PC is not at risk of being stolen.

[Forren]

It's hard to say what my first computer was, I remember a very old packard bell computer that ran a skinned version of windows or DOS.  It wasn't a pre-rendered 3d thing either IIRC.  We have had many computers since then, an old IBM with a Pentium II in it (that still works, I think), a few emachines (I think both had celerons in them one was ~500MHz and the other was like 2.6GHz), and then we had 2 HP PCs which were AMD based (Semprons, these were two identical machines except for one was 1 revision newer and had a SATA hard drive and I upgraded the RAM in one of them).  Then in 2008 I built my own PC, an Athlon X2 6000+ with 8GB of ram and a nvidia 9600 GT.  I've come a long way since my first build, doing incremental upgrades every couple years or so (first major upgrade was to a 9800 GTX+ from XFX when they still made nVidia GPUs, I'm still nostalgic about that card).

 

My parents had a Commodore 64, though that was many years before I was born.

[KarsonC]

Two 512MB sticks would only equal 1GB, silly.

Thanks for reminding lol Just typed the new specs

[Puma911]

Gateway 2000. I live where Gateway was based. Practically 20% of our city worked there lol. (Sioux City) Gateway even has an exhibit at our local museum which is kinda neat.

[jackwins6]

A Fujitsu Amilo li 3710

[TheAddiction2]

Mine was one my father built (don't have a picture) which ran Windows XP, had 1GB of DDr2 RAM (bleeding edge right?) a 4000 series ATI Card and some sort of Celerom processor.

[greenroost1445]

Some ancient machine with Windows 98

[Jade]

*This was a gift* My first personal computer was an HP laptop. I'm not sure what the model was, but it had 3GB of RAM and an Intel Pentium @ 2.1GHz, 320GB HDD (Toshiba). Served me for 4 years before the lid hinge broke.

*also a gift* Second one was also HP; Pavilion g7-1261nr. 4GB RAM, 500 GB HDD (Hitachi), Dual core Pentium @ 2.1GHz. Still functions.

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Third computer and first desktop is fairly recent and is my first personal desktop. While it is on the cheap end right now, I had a personal need to get to desktops, as a laptop just wasn't cutting it anymore. I do fully intend on upgrading it soon, but I didn't have money to go all out at time (my family isn't the most stable financially.) Will edit in a picture or two when I get home in about an hour.

[Darkspacekilla]

i still have a cpc-464 (from 1984) on my desk

Awesome, Do you still have the Model-M keyboard that cam with it?

I use my Model-M everyday

[Funkymonk]

My first ever PC that I owned was a Dell Inspiron 1300. It was given to me by a friend for free. I still have it.

[ubuntusuperuser]

Awesome, Do you still have the Model-M keyboard that cam with it?

I use my Model-M everyday

it does not come with a model-M (the computer is build into the keyboard)

[Darkspacekilla]

it does not come with a model-M (the computer is build into the keyboard)

Ah shit , you have an Amstrad! My mistake I was confusing it with an ibm 5150 for some bizarre reason...

Ever play Roland in the caves? 

Childhood memories..."Flashback"

lol

[Gilvalion2]

Amiga 500 with 512 kb extra memory bumping it up to a megabyte of memory! Technically an Amiga 1000. Now I have 32768 times that in my computer, hmmm..

That was mine, but my father had some random computer with green text screen way back in 88, I wrote "game" with basic on it.

[Turdsandwitch]

i had an IBM 386 running windows 3.1, prince of Persia was my game of choice. im glad i never have to go back to those days haha

[SeanE]

Luckily, mine was the one in my sig. I just decided one day that I wanted to build a PC, so I saved up for it. I went sort of big, that's for sure.

[flibberdipper]

Thanks for reminding lol Just typed the new specs

No problem!

[Steemax]

This was my very first machine, used OG 5" Floppy Disks and only ran MSDOS. This was in 1994

 

[terrytek]

I also have some 8088 PC from 1988. I think it was IBM. A few years later, I bought a Model M to go with it. I still have the Model M, not the PC. Still salvaged the 8088.

[germslopz]

My first computer i bought was a Dell Inspiron Laptop back in 2004. Then i bought an HP a1040n prebuilt POS

 

I had the HP for about 4 years (im embarrassed to say) and in 2009 I built my very fist PC, totally awesome feeling.

[theelitegamer]

I still have my first computer, first time I opened a computer case was when I was 6 (my dad fixed computers since they came out) so he always bring home computers and I would watch him fix them and I learned that way.... I can't tell you the model, but I still keep the case from memories. 

[Tr3vor]

This was my very first machine, used OG 5" Floppy Disks and only ran MSDOS. This was in 1994

 

Did it have a hard drive? Do you remember what video adapter it had?

[IKnowNothinAboutTechnology]

My first system was pretty old

 

AMD Duron (something) @ 1.1GHz

256MB DDR

250GB IDE Seagate drive

some crappy steel case with no ventilation

2 broken 80mm fans

4MB AGP card.

 

SO MANY ISSUES

[Steemax]

Did it have a hard drive? Do you remember what video adapter it had?

Oh I really don't remember, I want to say it did not have a hard drive.