What was your first computer?

[Slinkey]

Dell Dimension 8000 series or 9000 series. With Nvidia 8800 GTX

[Gazereths]

Mine was an Atari ST520e, it got me into computing and gaming at a very early age. Ran a Motorola 68k cpu and 512 KB of RAM.  I still remember the 'console wars' of that generation between the ST and the Amiga, it's not a new phenomenon that started with the xbox vs playstation crap that's still going on today.

 

[TheKDub]

 

The bastard served me moderately for probably at least two years until I accidentally spilled milk on it and it died..

 

Then I got an ASUS K53TA, which killed itself a little over a year ago, just a week after I built my current desktop PC.

[DKL]

First COMPUTER ever was a Gameboy Color with Pokemon Red. 

First DESKTOP was an iMac G3 running OS 8

First Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/3FFA/saved/9QYD4D

[GoldDimTzam69]

I tried running gta iv on it when I first got it and then I saw how bad it was.

[bucklingspring]

The Power Macintosh 6100/66

It had a PowerPC processor, as well as a Pentium processor so we could switch from Mac OS 8.1 to Windows 95 without rebooting!

[KrakensKitchen]

A whitebox PC with an iCute case and a sketchy case power supply. It had a Pentium 4, a Gigabyte motherboard, 512MB of RAM, Gainward MX440 AGP card, stock Intel cooler and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB IDE hard drive.

 

I remember playing some weird educational games on it before it got replaced by a HP Pavilion desktop with a Pentium D and Geforce 7500LE in mid 2007.

[PC POWER]

If a Gameboy counts, does my Speak and Spell when I was 3 years old count...

[linuxfan66]

The Power Macintosh 6100/66

It had a PowerPC processor, as well as a Pentium processor so we could switch from Mac OS 8.1 to Windows 95 without rebooting!

That existed? Cool

[bucklingspring]

That existed? Cool

Yep! It was pretty awesome.

[Arty]

[DebatED Nothing]

 

The bastard served me moderately for probably at least two years until I accidentally spilled milk on it and it died..

 

Then I got an ASUS K53TA, which killed itself a little over a year ago, just a week after I built my current desktop PC.

That might be the exact model of my first laptop

[TheKDub]

That might be the exact model of my first laptop

 

IBM Thinkpad T42.

[DebatED Nothing]

IBM Thinkpad T42.

Think so. The little rubber nipple thing was so much better than any trackpad I've ever used. Also that fingerprint scanner which never worked when you wanted to show someone how cool it was (and was entirely pointless for ~8 year old me...)

[TheKDub]

Think so. The little rubber nipple thing was so much better than any trackpad I've ever used. Also that fingerprint scanner which never worked when you wanted to show someone how cool it was (and was entirely pointless for ~8 year old me...)

 

Fingerprint scanner worked for me, and I didn't use the rubber nipple, never really liked it much.

[That90sKid]

The first computer that I ever owned was a Lenovo G700. I had been using computers many years before I had this one but they never belonged to me. The first computer I ever used was a Compaq Presario 5000 that I used to play Runescape on. 

[EvilWiffles]

Think so. The little rubber nipple thing was so much better than any trackpad I've ever used. Also that fingerprint scanner which never worked when you wanted to show someone how cool it was (and was entirely pointless for ~8 year old me...)

 

I also had the T42. I agree completely, the trackpoint was just the best thing I've used. Then I got a new laptop and absolutely hated having to use the trackpad.

[Goat]

I can't remember my first computer as I was very young at that time ( 2-3 years old ) but it was those 1990s computer that looked something like this. My parents didn't buy this as my personal computer but I learnt how to use a computer with it and played some kid's games on it.

[Feetzor]

I think the first computer I actually owned for myself was a medion pc with a q6600 processr and around 2-3GB of ram. Thing had a 1TB Hard drive though and rocked!

[iHardware Shelden]

I think the first computer I actually owned for myself was a medion pc with a q6600 processr and around 2-3GB of ram. Thing had a 1TB Hard drive though and rocked!

Q6600 is a butt kicker still to this day

[TheMechEngineer]

First computer I owned myself was some kind of Acer with a 400MHz Pentium III, 64MB SD-RAM and LPX form factor motherboard with a riser card that had ISA slots on it.

From memory it also ran Windows ME, and when I upgraded to Windows XP it was too slow to run any games except for Pinball.

[nhannon9]

My first computer was none other than a business classic, the Dell OptiPlex GX260 (SFF). The GX-series itself was very mass-produced, and I still find them everywhere to this day. 

 

 

This was of course when I was young, and I eventually saved up for a full tower GX620 in which I installed an Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT.

[Pitythefool]

Pac Bell computer from like 1996. I'll find a picture and upload it or take a picture of the actual tower which is sitting in a nearby room.

[Nyraion]

First one for me was a Dell Inspiron 530, with Vista 32 bit, some crap single core Intel Celeron, 6gb of DDR2 ram, (yes i know on a 32 bit OS), A 320gb HDD, and an AMD Sapphire HD 5450 2gb.

Still have the machine but my Parents want me to junk it, I will probably just scrap the case though

[Devendra95]

Dell Dimension E521 with 512mb of ram and an 80gb hard drive. Also with a single core AMD athlon 64 processor. Believe it or not, it still works up to this day