What was your first computer?

[byalexandr]

Something similar to this:

 

 

The PC had a trackball mouse, Windows XP (no Internet, so I spent all my time on MS Paint), etc. Windows XP was still pretty new at the time. My very first laptop was an Acer netbook that I managed to play Halo: Combat Evolved and stuff on, then eventually installed Ubuntu (probably age 10 or 11 at the time). I remember asking my mom if I could install Ubuntu on it, of course she had no idea what I was talking about. Amazing how little I started with. I eventual got a Fujitsu Lifebook T4310 that my mom gave to me for my birthday, and I still have that, use it almost every day. I also had an HP Slimline dekstop that I had a project going on, but now it's ended up an entirely different system, which I am using today, right now actually.

 

Edit: My mistake, it was an eMachines:

[Guest Michelle68]

TRS-80 Color Computer, 1981.

[Phuzion]

My first "very own" computer http://www.pcworld.com/product/1300318/hp-pavilion-dv6-6124ca-entertainment-notebook-pc.html

same, only i still use it *cries*

[Virus__]

One of these.. Got it from my primary school for a massive $50, they were selling them off because they were upgrading to the brand new iMac G3 (so that was 1998..) as basic as it was, it was an awesome computer for young me. I wish I had kept it heh.

 

[Dinkleberg]

My first, and so far only, PC consisted of a Core 2 Duo E8400, an MSI P45 Neo3, 2GB of Corsair XMS2, XFX HD 4770 (why didn't I go with an HD 4850 ?), and a 500 gigs Seagate HDD, powered by an Antec NeoPower 500 and inside an Antec Three Hundred.

[Archetype]

IBM PS/2

 

[joaosambro]

I had an IBM like 10 years ago. Its amazing how the world changes. No I have a Dell Mini Inspiron.

[Silverer]

Pentium 3 @ 800mhz, 256mb ram, Radeon 9800 Pro, 20GB hard disk. I have a 256 MB hard disk somewhere, don't know what from....

It had an older GPU at some stage, a 600 something but I cant remember, I do remember the 9800 Pro because  I ended up using it in my Pentium 4 I got in 2004 all the way to 2009 when the cmos battery exploded and took out most of the motherboard... 

[RollinLower]

do laptops count? because the first pc that i owned myself was a laptop.

it was a fujitsu siemens esprimo mobile v5535

[Yumei]

Had my first like when I was in 6th or 7th grade maybe. 

Was some LG off the shelf PC, rocking Windows 98, a Pentium 4, a 20gb HDD, 256mb RAM, some nvidia card with like 64mb of ram. Spend so much time playing all kinds of games on it from Age of Empires to Vice City... fun times

[ThyFeared]

A Compaq Presario SR1719UK

[a_block_of_wood]

NEC PowerMate. Spec as I remembered it:

 

- Pentium 133Mhz

- 16MB EDO ram (upgraded to 48 later on)

- 1.5GB Western Digital HDD

- 8x CD-ROM drive, Floopy drive

- Not sure about the graphic, but everything seems to go into this expansion card using and ISA slot.

- Had to buy an external 33.6/56k modem that goes in the serial port.

- Windows 95

- 15" CRT monitor

 

Good memories:

- Installed Fallout/Fallout 2, minimum 1MB installation and load everything off the disc.

- Faxed something with the computer, felt like the king of the world, faxed without a fax machine.

- Microsoft Encyclopedia, World of flights, and some other content CD, can't remember since I'm only interested in the first two.

- Cleaning mouse balls.

[walwalka]

Something to the tune of this, Pentium 4 2.4ghz, 256MB PC133, 40GB HDD

 

 

[B16CXHatch]

Hmmmm, well technically it would be both an NES and some old IBM from the mid eighties. Both were actually bought before I was born (1988) I think. I didn't really use the IBM a whole lot. I mostly watched my older brother play some games on it. I played with the NES mostly.

 

My first actual PC would be some whitebox computer my dad bought from some local business in 1997. It had a Cyrix 233 CPU which was a horrid Pentium knock off that crashed every 5 minutes. It had I think 16MB of RAM, some Diamond video card, a 2GB hard drive, and Windows 95. Damn thing didn't even have USB or PS/2 ports. The mouse was serial and the keyboard used that old gigantic IBM connector. Man that computer sucked. Even with Windows Me, that old whitebox's Gateway successor was SOOOOO much better. It crashed only every 10 minutes.

[Agent181]

Damn my very first computer was a Compaq but I was way too small to remember the specs, my first laptop was a Athlon cpu with it that helped me through years then the pc building began and now my current craptop

[Lenidar]

It had a Pentium... I just remember staring at the maze screen saver and having fun...

[ZoZubin]

The first computer I owned myself! (like the first one I bought, not that I got from my dad cause he bought a new one) was the Apple iMac G5. that was very stupid because shortly after Intel based Macs came and within 2 years all the PowerPC support was gone. But I tried to do as much as possible with that old thing. even running PowerPC Linux what was very hard to install since the DVD reader was dead and the system did not support booting from usb. But I got it to work, and I learned a lot doing so.

[Jynx]

My first was a 486dx running dos and pctools.  My dad showed me how to build it when I was 12, it was my 13th bday present.  I then started going to computer shows with him after that and getting his hand me downs.  23 years later I never stopped. 

[Shin-Gouki]

 

The first Computer I helped my Dad build when I was 5 or 6 

 

 

IMSAI 8080

Processor Intel 8080

Speed 2 MHz

RAM 8K

Cassette tape 8" Floppy Disk Drive

 

 

Found an ad for the Pre-Built Version from when it launched

 

[Jynx]

I had started with a built 486dx with my dad and then continued to upgrade it however the first system I bought and built myself was a 650Mhz AMD Slot A.  Remember these?

 

 

[Real_PhillBert]

It's my sig build. Lol. I am a relative newbie.

[Ostwind]

3570k

Cooler Master V8

Sabertooth Z77

8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum

EVGA GTX 660 Ti Signature 2 FTW

Cooler Master Silent Pro M 700w

120GB OCZ SSD

1TB HDD

Corsair Obsidian 550D

[Sir Asvald]

My in signature.

[NumLock21]

Personal very first pc ever built.

Intel Pentium 3 800EB slot 1.

Some atx board

64MB sd-ram 133mhz

Ati rage xl 2MB agp

Creative sb live sound card

20Gb ide hdd

50x cd-rom

1.44mb floppy drive

Inwin case w/power man psu 200w

Case color? Beige

Windows Me

Upgraded that through out the years. Maxed ram to 384mb, 80gb hdd, asus geforce fx 5200 128mb dx 9 for gta vc, nec pci usb 2.0 card, d-link gigabit lan card, sony dual layer dvd burner, samsung dvd player. Had a acer and asus cd writer, both were crap. I still like how it has 2 leds, one is red so you can tell the drive is burning to the disc.

[walwalka]

AMD Athlon X2 3800+

4GB DDR 400

Biostar 6100 board

Ati x1600 512mb

Hipro 580 power supply

Random case