What was your first computer?

[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.

[kameshss]

There is already a thread for this.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/124020-your-very-first-computer-ever/page-37

 

Read CoC here Code of Conduct .

[arronleeds]

There is already a thread for this.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/124020-your-very-first-computer-ever/page-37

 

Read CoC here Code of Conduct .

shhhh, nobody cares.

[JefferyD90]

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.

HP Pavilion 6553.  That shit was so fucking crazy... could overclock the processor to like 600Mhz.

[arronleeds]

first ever pc bought was 2013, fx-6300, 16gb of vengeance (still use), gtx  660 and a sparkle-power inc 750 watt silver rated psu.

[arvark]

Shitty 2000s prebuilt. Built one: The one in sig, with no SSD and with a 7950.

[HumbleMobo]

My first PC I got when I was ehhhh maybe 7 or 6 years old?  I remember my dad going out to (brace yourselves) circuit city(insert lulz here) to buy me the brand new Compact Presario something model with an AMD Phenom II and the PC now is about I'd say 8 - 10 years old give or take.  But if we wanna go deeper my dad had an OLD old IBM Net Vista one of the first and he used to sit me on his lap and I thought it was fantastic!  He also has I think the first laptop the keys are pretty tactile on it!

[Zefues]

shhhh, nobody cares.

This is what I think of every time I come up to a comment like this. Here, have my like.

[arronleeds]

This is what I think of every time I come up to a comment like this. Here, have my like.

its just not needed is it, this is a forum and people are aloud to post what they want within reason, sick of people like "m888 thats already been posted" nobody cares quite frankly.

[don_svetlio]

Single core CPU around 400 MHz
256 MB DDR1 RAM
32MB GPU
Windows 98.

[DragonTamer1]

 

I don't know much about this PC, I was only about 10 years old at the time and barely knew what a processor was.

[Big_Chief]

Don't know what was in it but it was a funny yellow coloured case. Like someone had smoked a few thousand cigs with it.