What was your first computer?

[hypnodog]

The first PC I ever had was the Compaq Presario 5320US. It ran Windows 98 (or 95 idr), which was later upgraded to Windows XP. It died around 6 years ago, and my mom threw it in the trash when I wanted to take it apart

[cortexcortex]

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/15849.jpg (Macbook Pro - 2005 if memory serves me) & https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/IMac_G5_Rev._A_front.jpg (iMac - 2005)

[bcredeur97]

Dell Dimension 4600 I believe. Found it in the back office at a church, was told it was broken and I could have it if I fixed it lol. Only thing wrong with it was a dead CMOS battery that made you wait a good 2 minutes after powering on to revert to BIOS defaults or whatever it does (they never left it on long enough to realize it wasnt broken LOL) I was honest with them though and they told me I could still keep it lol. So that became my first PC and we had many adventures together.

 

My parents didn't like me owning a PC. They eventually let me keep it but I was banned from using Ethernet and wifi. I listened... sort of. At night I would get on the neighbors wifi with my PSP (lol) and browse the internet looking for things to do with my new computer. After about a year of owning it, they finally let me use the internet with it and things just took off from there. No more slow PSP wifi from the neighbors. I used the computer to learn. Those were the good days.

 

Then I discovered games... so I looked into upgrades (didn't know anything)

Had a Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz and 512MB of DDR RAM later upgraded to about 1GB after mix matching ram from a bunch of old PC's

I swapped the GPU one day when I didnt know what I was doing for a Geforce 6200 (was an upgrade but not much lol) and that let me play minecraft beta on it for the short time I had it. 

I also had ubuntu on it at one point when I first ran into Linux (I found an ubuntu cd in an old hp laptop and I put it in my desktop to find out what it was )

 

I also remember trying to overclock it with CPUFSB but never could find the right settings. It was around this point I started looking into a new computer, and learning about modern hardware and what to get and I "built" a gaming PC (on the cyberpower site lol) after I got that PC I learned I could build one myself thanks to sites like newegg and amazon which I literally didn't know existed somehow LOL after a year or two I discovered Linus and the rest is history.

That was the first one I've owned, but I have used an old windows 95 computer before as well, also used one that only had MS-DOS. But I didn't own those so I guess it doesn't count.

[Centurius]

The technically first one was basically a bunch of second hand very old parts combined together that could barely run Windows 98 and of which I don't remember the specifics. The second one which I used for years was a few months after the first and had a mindblowing Pentium II and Riva TNT2

[MoonlightSylv]

It was a 1998 presario, I don't remember the model number but I still have it. (Non-working)

[brandishwar]

First computer I used was an IBM XT. First I bought for myself was a used Gateway 486-DX2 with Windows 3.1

[DevTechStudios]

Mine was an iMac G4 15 inch. lol. yeah. 

[Eman Resu]

My 1st PC back 1993: AMD Am386DX-40 +  2 MB of memory + 52 MB HDD + some crappy graphics card. HDD felt large enough - until I installed Ultima VII:The Black Gate. 25 MB.

[TheMechEngineer]

I didn't know anything about computers before my family got one back in 2002, when beige was still a thing:

• Custom-built
• RAM-branded ATX case
• 230W power supply
• Gigabyte ATX motherboard
• Intel Celeron 1GHz (based on Pentium III)
• 256MB SD-RAM
• AGP VGA graphics card
• Sound Blaster sound card
• 20GB hard drive
• Floppy drive
• CD drive
• Windows XP Home Edition
• COST WHEN NEW: At least $2000.

I still have that computer now, albiet in an Antec Soprano case and upgraded with new hard drive and 512MB SD-RAM. Still runs just fine but I rarely start it up.

 

The first computer that I, myself, ever had was some kind of crappy LGA form-factor Slot 1 Pentium III that ran Windows ME. My dad bought it from someone else for $20.

 

It was a pretty slow computer and so I never got sentimental about it and ended up throwing it out soon after I upgraded to a Pentium 4 Dell (which also delivered pretty sad performance by Pentium 4 standards).

 

After that I think I upgraded to a Toshiba Satellite gaming laptop, which completely died last year, and ended up buying my current Core i5 4670K machine as a permanent fix for my computer needs.

[Avalen]

 

My very first PC was a laptop very much like this. I got it when I was like, 3-4 years old? Back in 2000-ish.

[samcool55]

I was too young to properly remember, but i knew it went "magically" from W95 to W98

I downloaded demo's from download.com (i think) and played that for months!

 

Until we got a Packard Bell when XP was just released, damn i played midtown madness 2 on that thing for a LOOONG time. And the bunch of demo's that came with it.

I think it was a 1.6Ghz with 512MB or whatever, i don't know...

 

I still want that weird construction game back... 

[Stija]

Does this count

 

[beach_boy98]

 

 

I had that pc in my house the otherday. Then i binned it. Sorry.

[bcredeur97]

I had that pc in my house the otherday. Then i binned it. Sorry.

it's ok. not like it's useful anymore

[Cwazywazy]

My very first PC was a laptop very much like this. I got it when I was like, 3-4 years old? Back in 2000-ish.

I actually only had it for a little while. It was really slow/loaded down with crap and part of the backlight didn't work. I upgraded to a Toshiba Satellite Pro of about the same vintage. Much faster. Could play Myst on it no problem.

[Tweakforce_LG]

Hp probook 6730b

Intel core 2 duo p8400 2.26ghz

2gb ddr2

Win 7 32bit upgraded to 64bit then to win 8.1 64 bit

150gb hdd

Gma4500mhd graphics.

Got it in 2012, only retired it tge end of last year, im using it again bc my new computer screwed up.

[PiGHamM3R]

HP Something Something Dark Side....

I wasn't technically-inclined when I had it, but the specs were:
> Intel Pentium 3 866MHz

> Windows ME (I later upgraded this to XP [see end of life])

> 40GB HDD (eventually went up to a 500GB)

> 128MB SD RAM (Upgraded this to 768MB for Empire Earth [good game] as I always lagged out of my total domination matches)

> 17" VGA CRT monitor

... I don't even remember the chipset she was running...

 

All I remember (again, being technically-handicapped [i was ~11]) is trying to get more power to it, so I looked at the back of the PSU and switched it from 115v to 220v thinking I'd get a boost in performance... Nope, I was wrong (Yes, you all may laugh at me). This prompted me to start building my own system, and through about a month of crying, dealing with no-name brand parts, and borrowing my dad's credit card, I finally built a Frankenstein computer (mostly new parts, just recycled the IDE ribbon cables for the floppy drive and CD Drive) and put it in a nice blue case with a plexiglass window.

[TheMechEngineer]

HP Something Something Dark Side....

I wasn't technically-inclined when I had it, but the specs were:

> Intel Pentium 3 866MHz

> Windows ME (I later upgraded this to XP [see end of life])

> 40GB HDD (eventually went up to a 500GB)

> 128MB SD RAM (Upgraded this to 768MB for Empire Earth [good game] as I always lagged out of my total domination matches)

> 17" VGA CRT monitor

... I don't even remember the chipset she was running...

 

All I remember (again, being technically-handicapped [i was ~11]) is trying to get more power to it, so I looked at the back of the PSU and switched it from 115v to 220v thinking I'd get a boost in performance... Nope, I was wrong (Yes, you all may laugh at me)

 

Back in the day when I had too much time on my hands, I took a computer fan and installed it on the intake of a crappy car sitting in the shed.

I thought it would act like a supercharger by helping to feed more air into the engine, but unfortunately (a) it didn't increase the power at all, and (b ) it threw the engine management all out of whack because of the different air sensor readings. The thing idled like a dog, constantly wanted to stall and took weeks to return to normal.

So....yeah, turned out to be pretty dumb, but you live and learn.

[Tilaron]

Before getting my own little 'beast', me and my bro shared some Dell monstrosity.

 

 

.. brace yourselves ...

 

 

 

 

 

From what I remember, it had a 6800GT, Pentium 4 2.somethingGHz and ... some other stuff. This was Christmas 2004, my brother put it together for me and I played the hell out of HL2 and CS:S for a week, good times.

 

Being a 15-year-old at the time I thought this case was the best thing I'd ever seen.

 

I miss it sometimes

[kameshss]

Look at my signature, It's my first computer.

[Dimetime35c]

What was everyone's first pc they bought and what was the first they built?? The first one I bought was when my parents got a intel windows 95 machine. The first one I built is my current i5 4690k gaming rig I have now.

[Arty]

WE had a 95 and a 98 then when i was 4/5 me and my dad found and rebuilt XP's and sold em, then a vista or to then some 7;'s

[LLOYD-AF]

The first computer I had myself was a I-Mac I think a G4/5 model, then when I got into gaming my friend helped me build a custom pc and since then I've built various systems every 2/3 years.

[Hackzzila]

My current one other than a few laptops

[cd5josh]

my first pc i bought myself was an acer aspire.

 

2008ish- athlon dual core, 4gb ram, pci-e which i never used.  ran that computer until about a year ago.

 

first built - g3258, h81, gtx750 ti, evo 212, 16gb corsair vengeance.

 

current built - in sig, some aspects remain the same from my first.