What was your first computer?

[Mr.Cellkill]

Had a commodore 64 first. But never saw it as a PC.

Olivetti pcs 11 Complete set. (Not my pc on the picture)

 

[swifty7]

first comp for me was the commodore vic-20.....I know...I know I'm a fossil.  But if you mean the very first proper desktop pc then it was the Amiga 1000.  I still love the Amiga line.

 

ahh!!  the good'old days!  

[virtualTune]

my own first PC was some Medion in 2001. My parents bought our first family PC in '94. Grey, everything was grey (or gray for the 'muricanos)

[Cupitor]

Dragged this out. Man, there was a 150 baud modem, cassette software player, two floppies. Dunno? Lost forever.

Specs: 6502 CPU running at a speedy 1.X MHz, 4Kilobytes of ram.

Goddamnit. I've hated apple since 1979.

[lx_srs]

Mine was an IBM. I was really young, so I don't remember the exact specs.  1 MB of RAM. 1GB hard drive.  Windows 3.1.  Could run Descent on max settings.

[Wingfan]

my first 

[Pesmerga]

An amiga 500, I was very young, used it mostly for games but I had workbench as well, years later I even got a printer for it, I wonder where it ended up, the Amiga itself is in my garage, I wonder if it's still ok D:

[Flight1sim]

Umm a sony PCG-something from 2000

 

And 2 older Pentium I and II systems from I think 1995 and 1996.

And a 2004 PC with an Athlon 64 

All at once

with RIVA TNT2 VANTAS, some old ATi cards, and a Geforce 2400 

[Guest]

My first computer was an IBM ThinkPad 385D that was running something like 200mhz and had 8?MB of ram. Didn't use it for much. I was super young. Played Flight Simulator 95 on it a bit.

 

Second was a Dell 4600 or something like that with a Pentium 4 HT and 512mb of ram. It's sort of what I consider my first real computer since it was the first one I actually really got into gaming on and the one I was old enough to use and understand properly. Spent many hours in Zoo Tycoon, Age of Empires 2, Halo, and Midnight Club 2 on that thing.

[PenguinDude]

I used apple before it was cool.

[Opcode]

I honestly cannot remember, but it had an i386 in it.

[killcomic]

ZX Spectrum with an AMAZING 48k of on-board memory! 

[noyster]

Old Gateway with Win 95 

[Rev_W.T.Cracker]

Dell 4300......Oh Ya with the HARMON KARDON Speakers

I thought I was so kewl! LOLZ    

[Cupitor]

Fact: first time I saw an Amiga I about shit myself. My eyeballs fell out and I got that queasy-jealous gunna barf everywhere feeling. Anyone else remember and/or experienced that childhood tech-sickness? Happened also when I (2600) went and played my friends' intellivision.

I could see a 20k TV Tomorrow, go "hmmmm", tap the panel once and go get tacos

[swifty7]

@[member=Cupitor]

 

It's a feeling that you never forget.  I remember being awestruck by it.  I will never forget the day/feeling when my mom came home and surprised me with it.  I was in a state of grace.  I couldn't believe she spent that much money for me and it wasn't even my birthday.

 

to this very day, I still play a few Amiga games here and there for nostalgic reasons....all emulated of course 

My two all time favorite games were:  Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon/ Defenders of the Crown followed closely by Test Drive and Shadow of the Beast.

 

I couldn't even fathom what the Amiga had to offer in terms of colors, graphic resolution and sound.

 

I remember the Amiga was the only computer at that time that could produce 4096 colors using a technique called H.A.M aka Hold and Modify but only in 320x400 resolution but later on, they were able achieve the same in its maximum res @ 640x400..LOL!!...not even full VGA

[Innug]

First computer was given to me by mine Grandpa. It was an iMac G3 1998:

 

I have literally no idea where this thing as now, I wish I still had it.

[Cupitor]

haha! I 100% percent forgot about cinemaware(?). Vivid memory...walking into Babbages..."hmmm, look a new game. Defenders of the Crown". I pick up the box to check out the bac...OMG WTF??? Those graphics are fake. Yep. I didn't see see that.

That was the first game I saw that did have 4096 colors at once. I (even) remember a princess-characters' face on the box. It looked like a painting. I remember H.A.M...the same game devs, I think made a cinema-three stooges game too. Test drive...ahh yep. Here's a burn which may help other posters understand how monumental the Amigas were. I saved up the $ and bought Def of the crown and had test drive as well. My (cough) epic build had an epic full-length CGA card. 320x200 with 4 colors at once. Two palettes- test drive was Puke purple, something blue, white and black. The other was green, yellow, red and black. DOTC looked like 4 bits-a-puke. I didn't know anyone who had an Amiga but I spent many Saturdays at the 1 place in town that sold them. Apple was crap back then, the PC, er international business machine was just as bad. The Atari 800 pictured above was way ahead of the others, until the c-64/128 showed up,

The sound on the Amiga too. It was a freak anomaly.

One thing that was good about having a 1 sound at a time/4 colors at once 40lb 8086-8088 PC...was this: there were great games out, the stuff from SSI, the actual small dev games, made by a little company called "Electronic Arts", Epyx, Broaderbund, and my all time favorite, the original Origin/Rich Garret, the fat man.,,the game-devs which were had imo, much more talent then the Car-Macky coders.

Doom was a "game" changer- no doubt. That was the first (followed by many years of nothing) game I showed to a girl (9th grade) that not only played it but was into it enough, she'd show up during the witching hour to play I had..,a sound blaster 16.,,and many long chords that hooked up to a rock-solid 1 ton Marantz tuner and some high end infinity speakers, back before they went into the consumer stuff. Tweeters+mids were e-static design, the wood was stained oak, they were 5'+ tall and weighted 80 lbs each.

That was the equivalent now a days of a 780Ti with a top tier sound card /w the ultra sound set up. Also 320x200 VGA. Was fun stuff.

81-86 were my hard core gaming years,

Come home from school (3-4 ish). Grab some pizza rolls o.,.load up Ultima (IMO, Ultima V was/is the hi-mark for all RPG/Fantasy games. Anyway, my flag would begin yelling around 10pm. Things went ugly around 12. That's a full time job!

the mind gave zero shits concerning the graphics. The mind was able to focus on the story, the issues...no health packs and well. I don't know what goes on with the new battle-duty games. I bought call o duty and returned it the next day. Made me dose off. Half life? That was a good one.

Anyone remember planescape-torment? much of the content in the game dealt with concepts 4th philosophy students would have problems understanding...

Consequently soon after, a short lived renaissance in gaming popped up. I think..,the story-driven guys of Baulders Gate fame did p-scape. There was a group of 20-ish game dudes..,some were Black Isle, some were from the Kotor 1 (not obsidian) team, a few from fallout 1.,,and bioware dudes.

Fallout 1 was amazing. Bio-infinite was somewhat related , but looked "made for TV".

Kotor 1, which sounded terrible was another AAA+ game. After that (by this time I was living in hamburg, Japan doing things 100% non-techy,

I gotta say I was really blown away by mass effect 1. That was the last game I played. I played the damn think twice!

If there are any games now (as in 2009-2014) which have more than "compelling" story-arc, A genuine "whoa. I laughed, I cried I felt the narrative..,.big time".

please name any titles.

I have 2x 1200x1920 monitors and an MSI lighting (780) which OCs to ref TI specs.

[13CA350]

One of these: 

 

Now I run this:

[RoninComputers]

some old compaq laptop.  Don't even remember the name,

[achillesviper]

man.. my personally owned first computer? was my very first gaming rig my cousin helped me build... it had a frosted dragon plexiglass window..and thats about all i could tell you.. but the first pc i used was an old compaq desktop running windows 98. i was 3 when that pc came out so again, no clue what its "specs" were. i know how it died! lightning..

[Rbolsen]

what was your first pc that you ever got? and was it a laptop or a desktop?

 

Mine was a compaq cq62 with 2 gigs of ram and a single core amd cpu.

[ZetZet]

AMD Duron 1400mHz 256mb of ram and a 40gb hard drive with windows 95, was a monster, then I had xp on it later was even more monstrous, had a gpu too, nvidia something.

[OriginalPromise]

My own "personal" laptop was a Dell Inspiron Mini 10z...

PROCESSOR, N270, 1.6, 512KB, DMV, C0

LABEL, CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY, WINDOWS XP HOME, LOW COST, V#2008

DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE, 1G, 800, 128X64, 8, 200, 1GBIT

HARD DRIVE, 160GB, S2, 5.4K, 2.5, SGT-WYATT

 

It was shit/ I got it for $199 with a promotion that when you buy a XPS desktop, you can buy the mini for $199... 

This was when I was 10

 

I don't remember the first computer my family had though. 

[JR1911]

Intel 486DX2 66MHz

4MB RAM

343MB Conner HDD

Some SVGA graphics card with a Tseng Labs chip (can't remember the exact one, might have been a 5626 or something like that) and 512kb VRAM

14" monitor

3,5" floppy drive

 

I got this computer at christmas 1993, it was quite high end at the time.