What was your first computer?

[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.

[Stardar1]

4 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

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.

the first one i built? FX 4300, GTX 660, 8GB RAM

 

First one I had for just me was a Toshiba laptop with 8GB RAM and a 2nd gen i7

[ThinkWithPortals]

A VAIO craptop. Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz, 1GB of DDR2, 100GB IDE HDD and integrated graphics, running XP.

[I am an SSD]

2 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

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.

Mine was the Duckminster (you can  laugh...i like ducks)

 

Pentium 4

256mb RAM

Intel desktop board

Geforce fx 8350 (or something)

[Djole123]

3 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

A VAIO craptop. Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz, 1GB of DDR2, 100GB IDE HDD and integrated graphics, running XP.

Same specs as my comp has lol

[Sir Asvald]

A gateway PC with a Pentium 3 that had windows 95. <3

[Steve N. Mavronis]

1987 PC/XT clone w/640K RAM, 30MB hard card (HDD), dual 5.25" FDD, and monochrome CRT.

[bgibbz]

My first PC that i remember was an old gateway desktop. Got it about 10-12 years ago. The first one i built is the computer listed in my signature.

[don_svetlio]

The ones I remember in order

1 - Asus Laptop

Athlon X2 @ 2.2GHz (believe it was K7 or K8 based)
2GB DDR2
250GB HDD
ATI HD 3000 iGPU

2 - Custom PC #1

Athlon II X2 250 @ 3GHz (K10)
Asus M5 board
4GB DDR3
ATI HD 5670 (later a 6850)
CM Elite 460W
Random case
WD Blue 1TB

3 - current sig rig

4 - current sig laptop

[KWelz]

My first computer was a TI-99 in the early 80s.   I actually still have it and it still actually works.    

 

First real computer though was an Apple IIGS.   I have been nostalgic for that lately and checking for a fully working one on ebay.  

 

[JR1911]

My first computer was the Commodore 64 which I had from 1985 - 1991. I then had an Amiga 500 from 1991 - 1993 when I got my first PC:

 

486DX2 66MHz

4MB RAM

343MB HDD

3,5" floppy drive

14" SVGA monitor

[TonyTheNain]

My first computer was a mac... because i tought it was the fastest computer ever... Now it is soooo freakin slow  

And i tought i could game on it... what a noob 

 

 

 

I was younger okay! Don't hate on me! x)

[TidaLWaveZ]