What was your first computer?

[Tilaron]

We started with a Gateway 2000 maybe, it was certainly in the late 90s we got it. As my dad is a contractor and spends his working life with computers he didn't really want one at home, but as tech was progressing rapidly and me & my bro kept pushing him, he caved

After that piece of shit that couldn't even run GTA 3, we upgraded to a beautiful Dell somethingsomething with a Pentium 4, and my gaming life took off!! I wish I could remember model names, all I really remember is the Dell being ugly and the Gateway coming in an awesome cow-pattern box, which we still have somewhere

[plsno]

I don't know the name but it was some old mac at my elementry school back in the mid 90s.

[Tilaron]

My first self-built computer had an AMD Athlon 64 X2 somethingthousand+ Black Edition and a 9600GT and that is literally all I remember about it. We used an old Dell case for it, but it was unspectacular to say the least, plus I had help from my brother... so, my first 100% built-by-me PC is probably this computer right now (specs in profile). I think because it's such an open case and I'm way more experienced I just did it without really thinking too hard about it. There would probably be times when I'd forget something important, like the mobo power, and wonder why it isn't working  :rolleyes: 

I've pretty much always had one or two other people with me when building computers; one friend has dainty hands for tight spots and the other has brilliant bodge ideas, just give him some duct tape and little wedges of plastic or wood and he'll make almost anything fit and stay still  :lol:

[typographie]

My elementary school's computer lab had Apple IIe's, I think that was probably the first.

 

Look, here's one in a literal museum exhibit:

 

[mikat]

posted from my very first computer

i borrowed a very old g4 or g5 book thing from my uncle one year b4 the macbook air

so the macbook is still the first computer that i OWNED not had

[DebatED Nothing]

Sorry for duplicate threads Didn't realise there was a thread like this already.

[NinjaJc01]

Family PC: Pentium 4 and integrated ATI graphics

First PC I owned personally: Core 2 Duo @3Ghz, HD 6450, 2GB DDR2, 250GB HDD, a Dell Optiplex 960.

[Ottawa_Brewer]

Macintosh LC III.

 

[DRGSaber]

Bondi Blue iMac G3 running OS 8....let the hate come

same

[guitarboy012001]

Fist PC I technically owned is a chromebook.

[Gikero]

A custom built PC. No idea where my dad bought it. He gave it to me somewhere around 2003.

266Mhz Cyrix II CPU
48MB PC100 SDRAM

4.7GB ATA HDD

Win95, later upgraded to Win98 SE

No idea what kind of GPU it had, =(

Sweet ass 48X CD-R/W that later ate my Command and Conquer: Red Alert disc. It lagged playing Diablo II, tried playing Bualder's Gate II on it and had something like .5 FPS.

[Squirrel724]

First PC that i remember was an old Compaq desktop (win 98 iirc) that had the creakiest CRT ever. Touch that thing at all it would make horrible noises. First one that belonged to me was an ASUS k53e laptop with i3, 3gb ram, 300gb hdd, windows 7. Used that thing all through high school before replacing it this spring.

[Coaxialgamer]

First family pc was an apple 2.

I used a variety of generic oem pcs and laptops then i built my own ( in sig).

Recently found a dec digital rainbow for 1982. Gonna have fun with it.

[Bean86]

Pretty sure that's the oldest computer we've had so far tell us Gramps, what was it like in the roaring twenties? [emoji14]

80s actually - I'm not that old. The first modems existed already in the twenties, though my first one was fortunately much faster a whooping 9.6kbs - yup that's not a typo. Imagine my exitment when we got to 56k

Had a BMX game for my first PC on a 60min tape, yes I had to switch to the B side after 30min to continue loading

[DebatED Nothing]

80s actually - I'm not that old. The first modems existed already in the twenties, though my first one was fortunately much faster a whooping 9.6kbs - yup that's not a typo. Imagine my exitment when we got to 56k

I know, I was joking. I hardly remember having dial up at all

[nightmarevoid]

I remember it fondly haha. It was a mid tower system in the inwin griffon case with a sandy bridge i3, 4gb of Kingston 1333mhz memory, and an Asus gtx 520. I could play dead space for about an hour before the game would crash. I kept upgrading it whenever I could until I ended up with the beast I have today.

[LukeTim]

My first ever build (back in the summer of '08) remains my current PC, albeit after a Haswell (i5-4670) upgrade, storage upgrades (250GB SSD) and a GPU (GTX660) upgrade.

Q6600 (with G0 stepping! I remember that this was supposed to be a good thing but I didn't and still don't really understand what it meant. )
8GB OCZ DDR2-800
Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
Radeon 4850

Scythe Ninja Mini (Mini only in name, that thing is big)
Corsair TX650
LG BD/HDDVD combo drive (you can tell I built it a long time ago, before the HD disc format wars had ended - though Blu Ray won about 6 months later)

My biggest problems were:

• I bought a copy of Vista. Not a good move.
• Dead RAM slot, falsely attributed to RAM stick, too lazy to RMA, ran on 1 4GB stick for months before figuring out I could try the other two slots.
• Reference 4850s had really inadequate cooling (strangely, it was only a single slot blower) and so got really hot, I remember seeing 85-90 under load.
• I've been disappointed with my case for a long time. I intended this as a HTPC at first, but it has turned into a Desktop, but it still has a HTPC case, meaning fitting GPUs in there is really not easy.

So, in summary:

• Don't buy Vista.
• If your RAM doesn't work, try the other slots and don't just imagine it's the stick (and assuming you just bought the kit, RMA it! It's really not so much hassle, which I found out later with a monitor)
• When reviews say "this card gets hot", pay attention. Or, just go for after-market cooled cards exclusively is probably a safe strategy.
• Cases are important! Really research your case well, and make sure it can fit your graphics card. Fitting my 4850 in was a really tight squeeze.

[LukeTim]

First computer I ever owned myself?

I half owned one of these with my younger brother:

 

I got a Radeon 9250 128MB PCI edition (these PCs had no AGP slot) to put in it for my 16th Birthday... which actually must have been about 2 years later.

My brother also stuck an extra 1GB stick of DDR in there too, so I had 2GB of RAM.

 

It ran Counter Strike Source and Call of Duty (original) well enough, so I was happy.

[Crowes]

First computer I used? I don't even know the name.

First computer I properly used? Some Toshiba Sattellite with a square display and slow everything.

First personal computer? A6-5400K, 500GB HDD, ASRock FM2A55M (IIRC). I still use the Monitor I got with that.

[LukeTim]

Packard Bell 486SX

 

Ahh, my Uncle had one of those. Brings back memories. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

One of these running Windows 95. It had a turbo button what a beast.

[Belgarathian]

Apple Macintosh IIsi. It was awesome, had a portrait A4 B&W Screen. This was followed by a Quadra 800 in '93 that had dual 18" CRTs. Upgraded that puppy to a 4GB hard drive in 2003, used it until about 2005. 

 

[typographie]

One of these running Windows 95. It had a turbo button what a beast.

 

Whoa, and dat LCD frequency monitor. That's actually legitimately badass.

[SansVarnic]

386sx running DOS 4.0

[Makarov_9mm]

Packard Bell (circa 1998) running a Pentium 100. Played Centipede and "Jump Start" educational video games on it. I recently pulled it out of our attic and dismantled it.