What was your first computer?

[eLucid]

An emachines amd athlon 2200+. God, I'm feeling nostalgic all of a sudden.

 

• AMD Athlon XP2000+ Processor 1.8 GHz
• Fast 266MHz Front-Side Bus
• 512MB PC2100 DDR RAM
• 100GB Hard Drive

 

 

 

[Colomon84]

-The family's first computer was a Gateway G6-350, don't remember much about this computer only thing I do remember is the cow and AOL free trial.

 

-The first computer I actually remember and played AVP and Lineage 2 on was a Dell Dimension 8300 big selling point of this PC was my dad upgraded the video card to the optional 128mb ATI Radeon. 

 

[diapersarefullofshit]

commodore vic20.

[andiireyhann]

my first experience with computer was a Pentium 4 desktop with 512MB DDR,80 gigs of storage Seagate Barracuda and an AGP GeForce (don't remember the exact model)..

 

though my first build was an AMD Athlon II x2 250, 4GB DDR3, 5570 1GB GDDR3, 500GB WD Blue,MA74GMT-S2 and VS 450 PSU on 2011

[Kerplunq]

My first PC is the Radio Shack TRS-80 Colour Computer 1980.  This baby has 16kB or RAM a  0.895MHz Processor.  I would hook this up to my TV and load games 3 different ways.  Cartridge slot on side, cassette tape or manually entering it in from books with the games coding.  So many hours as a small kid I sank into this thing.  I still own this baby in box

[papapoi]

18 minutes ago, Kerplunq said:

My first PC is the Radio Shack TRS-80 Colour Computer 1980.  This baby has 16kB or RAM a  0.895MHz Processor.  I would hook this up to my TV and load games 3 different ways.  Cartridge slot on side, cassette tape or manually entering it in from books with the games coding.  So many hours as a small kid I sank into this thing.  I still own this baby in box

i had the same thing but didnt want to show my age, haha  , i even had a commodore vic-20 with a tape drive 

[PianoPlayer88Key]

I don't remember if I've participated in this thread already, but ...

 

The first computer we had in our house, owned by my dad, was a 286-10 with 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB hard drive (don't remember what type but I guess it was pre-IDE, and I think it was a 5.25" drive). 1.2 MB 5.25" floppy drive, EGA graphics, etc.  He bought it for about $1800 or so in January 1989.  (I wonder how good of a system he could get for that price now?  Emphasis on longevity - still being relevant and "not feeling slow" for basic home/office tasks after 7-10 years, not necessarily up-front gaming performance.  In fact, gaming performance not necessary at all - I figure that even if he only got a 80-100 firestrike score or 300-350 cinebench score, he'd be fine with whatever he'd run on it.)

 

My first PC was an Athlon 64 X2 4000+ on a Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H board, with 2 GB DDR2-800 RAM (later upgraded to 4 GB), a 250GB WD IDE HDD plus either an 80GB IDE or a 750GB SATA (Black), can't remember now although I know I had both of those, just can't remember when), a Lite-On DVD writer (still have it in my newest system but I think it may be failing), integrated ATI Radeon X1250 graphics, etc.  I paid just under $500 not including the hard drives in February 2008.

[xentropa]

The first computer I used was a 386. 

 

The first computer that I built with my personal money was in 2000 which was a

 

Pentium 3 1000 mhz

Geforce 2 mx

256 mb ram

creative labs sound card

40 gb hard drive.

antec case

[redrobin]

The first computer I ever used was a Compaq Pentium II affair which featured a 4GB HDD, but that's all I remember. 

 

The first one I ever actually owned was a Dell Latitude D610 laptop. It has (I still have it, runs Windows 7) a Pentium M @ 1.86 GHz, 1 GB DDR 2 RAM, and an 80 GB IDE HDD.

[steamman212]

The first computer that we owned,  was a 286 IBM compatible, don't remember the name of it.  Had 40Mb hard drive, 16Mhz cpu, 1Mb memory, on-board video was vga, with a 14" monitor.  We also had a 9 pin dot matrix COLOR printer.  It used DOS 3.3, DOS 4.1, I think, was out, but like vista, no one real like it.  Over the years we did upgrade to the higher DOS's and even had windows 3.1, which I didn't like much.  Had both 3.5 and 5.25 drives.  I installed a very good sound card which made a huge different in game play.  One of our biggest games my son and I played, was the original Duke Nukem, we had all 3 disk/levels.  We used it for years. till we got a new computer that ran windows 95.

[291156_1454182507]

Im quite new to this world so i dont have something as old as you guys unfortunatley i had an old pentium dual core laptop (dont remember the exact model) 512mb ram and a 60gb hdd

[Agent_Niraj]

SEE MY PROFILE AND CHECK MY PC SPEC..NOW I AM STILL USING MY OLD PC..6YEARS! ..I CAN PLAY GTA V HIGH SETTINGS IN 1360X768..

[RahulR]

So I just want to know what everyone's first ever PC was. Not your first build, but your first PC ever.

Mine was an IBM 300GL:

 

Pentium III - 300MHz

128MB RAM (Upgraded to 384MB)

1MB Video Card

[PlayStation 2]

First family PC was some custom piece of shit with a Pentium III in it.

First computer I've used was some eMac back in elementary school.

[DXMember]

IBM Cone, a Gateway 2000 with 512MB of hard drive

[ThinkWithPortals]

Some Vaio laptop with a Pentium M, iGPU and 512MB of DDR2.

[soup]

First computer I used was a huge thing which didn't have monitor or keyboard (card reader) that was the "Lothian high schools computer" which was wheeled in once a month .  First PC I programmed was a PET (or rather CBM) 2001.  First PC I owned was assembled by a friend of mine it had a 386 proccessor in it, 4 Meg of RAM and a 40Meg hard drive.

[RahulR]

2 minutes ago, soup said:

First computer I used was a huge thing which didn't have monitor or keyboard (card reader) that was the "Lothian high schools computer" which was wheeled in once a month .  First PC I programmed was a PET (or rather CBM) 2001.  First PC I owned was made by a friend of mine it had a 386 proccessor in it, 4 Meg of RAM and a 40Meg hard drive.

Wow, that's old

[givegomezthegun]

My first build WAS my first pc.  It featured a 120mhz cyrix 586 cpu, 8mb ram, a soundblaster 16 sound card, diamond stealth 3d 2000.. I can't remember what size the hard drive was.. I want to say 500mb but I can't remember, it was like 20 years ago.

[Sir Asvald]

My gateway PC. <3 Pentium 3. With 4mb of ram and a HDD of 2GB and it had windows 95 then my dad upgraded it to 98. 

 

This is the one, my bae:

 

[kingatlas]

Im 16 now, my first build (w/ my dad)  was a amd phenom 9850, nvidia gt 7950gt and 6gb ddr2. When I was 7 I believe

[SparkyRain]

Windows 3.1 in highschool. I don't remember any of the specs (neither had I any interest..) 133 - 166mhz TURBO button 

 

From some online search there could be an old pentium 2 in it. All we where allowed to do was a dumb 10 finger typing tool and ms paint.

[Waqas409]

It was a  P3 700Mhz, 512MB ram, 40GB HDD and 32MB External GPU( don't remember the name of GPU, but i bought it for $19 ). Good Times

[B16CXHatch]

The first computer I can remember is an IBM Personal Computer XT 5160. My parents bought it right before I was born and remember watching my brother play games on it. The first one I can remember using were the ones at school but I can't remember exactly what they were. I wanna say they were late Apple Macintoshs but I honestly don't know. The first one I really used at home was a whitebox system some local shop built. It had a Cyrix 233 CPU (crap Pentium knock off) with like 16MB of RAM and some Diamond video card. It had Windows 95 and crashed about every 5 minutes.

[soup]

2 minutes ago, RahulR said:

Wow, that's old

Yup.

E.H.S.C. 1977

PET2001 1980

386 1995

 

Jings makes me feel even older than usual.

 

About the same time as the PET I was also using a Cromemco Z2D but this was more used as an industrial controller and as a tool for learning assembler.  As it wasn't really used as a PC haven't included it.

  Used a ZX81 to do some coursework about '83 or so, was a bit of a trial trying to write basic programs for it that did anything usefull (the one that springs to mind was working out the radius of Gyration for various beams)