What was your first computer?

[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)

[Supercian411]

some dell dimension with a pentium or something then came the acer ax3400 (im 13 so never used anything older then win 98)

[Sat1600]

First pc I owned was a dell 486 dx2 66. 8mb ram, 320mb hard drive, 15" crt. I wanted 16mb of ram but I couldn't afford the extra $300. I added a NEC CD-ROM drive for $200 a little later on.

 

The first computer I used was an apple IIE in school. 

[Hamako]

My first PC was some generic pre-assembled desktop. I can't remember its exact specs, but I know that it had an Athlon XP 2500+, probably 512MB of RAM, and possibly a GeForce4 MX with 64MB of vRAM. It had Windows 98SE installed.

[Moonzy]

some pentium 3, with 256mb of ram

and uh... some 20gb hard disk that costs about $500usd back in the days `-`

 

running windows 95 of course lol

[lh99]

a laptop toshiba what do i know , with 2gb of ddr2,128mb gpu, 2*1,8GHz and a 297 gb hdd

[porina]

Is this thread to age people?

 

The first PC in the family house was a 386SX and I can't remember the clock. It had a 40MB Fujitsu 3.5" hard disk and both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disk drives. Operating systems were MS-DOS and Windows 3.0. Can't remember the video card but 800x600 was about the limit on on the 14" CRT monitor.

 

The first PC of my own was a 486DX2 at 66 MHz. Feel the speed! I had a whopping 250MB HD to start with, and later added 850MB. I started with 4MB of ram and later upgraded to 8MB. Video card was something Cirrus Logic on VESA Local Bus. I also started on a cheap 14" CRT but later upgraded to a 17" Sony Trinitron which I still have somewhere. Almost tempted to dust it off and see how it looks now!

 

Speaking of my firsts:

My first PC build was based on a Pentium MMX 120 MHz. I can't remember anything else about it.

My first overclock was a Pentium II from 300 to 450 MHz just by increasing bus

My first dual CPU were a pair of Celeron 300 MHz on Abit BP6, overclocked to 463-ish MHz (103x4.5). I remember the Abit vs. Asus arguments in those days. Where are Abit now?

My first IDE CD-ROM drive cost me ~£200. Early 90's. I think the family PC had a CD-ROM before then but they went over other interfaces built in on sound cards.

My first CD-R cost ~£300 including SCSI card to run it, running at 2x write speed and unbranded blanks costing around £1. I think this was mid-90's.

My first "3D" video card that was actually useful for 3D: 3DFX. I bought it just to play FF7 in 640x480, instead of 320x240 software rendering. Other video cards claimed to have 3D capabilities but no software actually used it.

[BlueLightning]

Lol my first is a hp 15 1 ghz 500gb 4gb of ram..worked for 6 months now broken..took out the 4gb of ram and ig im just keeping it for someone that can use an upgrade to 8 in their laptop..so as of now its 1ghz 500gb 0gb of ram ?

[DebatED Nothing]

4 hours ago, soup said:

Yup.

E.H.S.C. 1977

PET2001 1980

386 1995

 

Jings makes me feel even older than usual.

You're probably older than a lot of people on here's parents.

[soup]

10 hours ago, DebatED Nothing said:

You're probably older than a lot of people on here's parents.

[Ayden Timmerman]

cpu: 1ghz 2 core 2 thread

gpu: 300mhz 0mb dedicated vram ( system ram shared )

ram: 4gb ddr3 667mhz

hdd:500gb 5200 spin rate

display: 1366 * 768 

mouse: crappy logitec mouse

keyboard: black silk (not mechanical)

Speakers: semi decent benwin speaker subwoufer combo

This was partly high end at the time, now it's complete shit

 

 

Now I have

Cpu: Amd Athlon II x4 640 3ghz 4 core 4 thread

Gpu: Amd HD 4200 700mhz 512mb vram ( soon to be gtx 970 )

Ram: 8 Gb ddr3 1300 mhz

Hdd: 1Tb WD Blue

Display: 1920*1080 40 inch tv

Mouse: emarth 4800 dpi 

Keyboard: Redragon K552 KUMARA LED Backlit Mechanical

Speakers: same old benwin holding up

Headphones: skullcandy InkD

[RahulR]

On 4/10/2016 at 2:20 PM, RahulR said:

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

What the hell? Did my thread just get turned into someone else's thread?

[errantblaze]

My first PC's I put together in my early teens were cobbled together abominations from the 90's/early 2000's from parts from friends and family, I could play Civilization so I was pretty happy.

My first "real PC" (still have it) was a Pentium 820 D OC'd to 3.0ghz, a EVGA 9800 GTX+ (replaced a EVGA 7800 GT), ECS P4M900-T, and a whooping 2 GB of DDR2. Had one of the last generation CRT Monitors for it too (was a beast to carry...)

[Djole123]

Inspired by the Linus' first PC, I wanted to ask you guys, what was your first PC?

 

I can't seek back very much, but, in 2009, we got a new PC. It was a Core 2 Quad Q8400, it had 4GB of RAM and an (unknown) Radeon GPU, but, it came with Windows Vista (we actually found Windows 7 Beta running better).

 

It could run any game at high settings, but, since we didn't have an up to date antivirus and Windows 7 Beta, today, this thing has some very hard issues (tho reinstalling Windows helps temporarily).

Now, it has problems running Minecraft, tho, it does still work.