What was your first computer?

[cleb]

MY first computer,  as in I had ownership rights of in my house,  was some level of Athlon X2,  a gtx 6800gs,  4gb of ddr2 ram,  and some case by someone called power something or other.  Still have the card.  

[GregButcher]

I can barely even remember it, my parents had it in the late 80's before i was even born. Can't even remember the proper name for it, but we still have it stashed away somewhere at my gramps place and it still runs afaik. I do remember tho it had a CPU overclockable with a button combination and you could change between clockspeeds of 4-8-10MHz, and remember it having a 21mb hard drive. Ran with a monochrome green screen and obviously ran DOS

 

I remember learning the basic DOS commands around 3yo, I was able to play a few oldie dos games on it and mainly atari and zx spectrum ported games. Test Drive, Battlezone (the wireframe tank game) and Impossible Mission 2 comes to mind as some I can distinctly remember.

[Danielh90]

The first computer that I can call that I owned my self 1 user account on there and it was my account. It was a Toshiba notebook. I got that when I was in at the end of 3rd and going in to 4th grade. Then half way in to 4th grade I figured out that the Toshiba notebook was crap. So I talk to my dad to see if I could upgrade my Toshiba notebook to a laptop and he said he would get everyone laptops that Christmas. So I got the Toshiba laptop that Christians. I had the Toshiba laptop all they way threw middle school and at  the beginning of 8th grade I believe I built my first (Gaming PC) and I still use my Gaming PC Now I'm a Freshman now. Looking to upgrade my gaming pc and buy a gaming laptop for traveling. Hope you liked my story. 

[kcaBsIsuxeN]

Was given a Pentium 386 by my dad as a hand-me-down from his work.  Not sure on spec as at age 6 I had no idead how to get the most of MS-DOS, yes this was pre Windows 95.

 

All I remember is playing prince of persia via 2.5" floppy on it, it also had a purely orange CRT monitor.  

 

It was fucking great, I owe it and my dad a lot as it developed my ms-dos command line skills early, everything from then was a relative doddle.

[flibberdipper]

Mine was something like an Emachines 450is or something. It had a 450MHz Celeron, 64MB of RAM, and Windows ME.

[Dash Lambda]

My first PC, technically, was a shitty old Gateway laptop whose specs I can't remember because I didn't even know what they meant back then.

 

My first desktop PC was actually built into a dresser drawer as an HTPC, a little like a rackmount chassis except more ornate. It has a Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, a 9800GT, 4GB of RAM, a TX750 and some random tower cooler.

[Master Disaster]

The first family PC was

IBM 80386

4MB EDORAM

50MB HDD

Windows 3.11/MSDOS 6

 

I can remember my uncle giving me 16MB EDORAM (4 x 4MB) and a ISA sound card/modem all in one thing to upgrade it so I could install Win 95, unfortunately the mobo didn't support more than 8MB but 95 still remarkably well on it.

 

My first machine was a

Pentium 75

256MB SDRAM

40GB HDD

ATI Rage graphics card

Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card

Windows 98SE

 

And I remember purchasing a Real Magic Hollywood Pro DVD decoder and a Pioneer DVD drive from a local shop and being the envy of all my friends running my PC on my TV via S Video and being able to watch DVDs. Thinking about it that PC lasted me ages, by the time I replaced it it was running 2000 and XP was just released.

[PlayStation 2]

My current piece of shit laptop that I'm about ready to chuck off a cliff.

[Sauron]

If you mean the first computer I ever used, sadly I don't remember the specs (I was way too young to care). If you mwan the first that I could consider mine, it was an old junkyard residue pentium III with half a gig of ram and a 40gb hdd (IDE of course) iirc. Worked fine to be honest, especially with windows 2000. I remember considering linux, but discarding it because it couldn't run age of empires 2.

[B16CXHatch]

The first I really used was some white box system my parents bought from a local shop. Cyrix 233 CPU, like 16MB or 32MB of RAM, 2GB HDD, and a Diamond Stealth video card of some kind running Windows 95.

 

The first that was actually considered to be MY computer was one a friend of mine gave me when I was like 13 or 14, an eMachine eMonster 600. A bunch of crap was missing but my tinkering with my parents' computer left me with some spare parts to resurrect it. It had a Pentium III 600MHz (Slot 1), 384MB of RAM, 20GB HDD, a GeForce 2 MX200, a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 and a factory DVD drive (which was frickin' amazing for a computer that came with Windows 98se). About all I did with it was use it as a DVD player in my room until my brother gave me an actual DVD player for Christmas one year.

[darealsoulless]

On 4/28/2016 at 0:22 PM, 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.

My first PC was a Dell OptiPlex. Windows Vista, 4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo.

[Elena Mathew]

Hi all, 

 

I am writing my first answer here since i don't know where to start. 

 

In 2012, i got my first and last laptop from the brand called samsung. That was brought by my father during my college days (He thought that i need it  at that time)

 

 

[Wardaddy]

Processor- Celeron 420 1.6Ghz

GPU- None

Ram- 1.5gb (yeah that's right, 1.5 gb)

HDD- 160gb 5400rpm

and a CRT monitor of 800x600 res...Brings back memories

[Boobies Sprinkle]

Deez nuts. 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Some Win 98 PC. Should've kept it. I'd have a relic by now. 

[JoeCoke]

266mhz, 16mb of RAM and a whopping 3GB of storage!

Too bad it doesn't work anymore.

[Mitko_DSV]

My first PC was an eMachines eTower 466i with Intel Celeron 466MHz, 64MB RAM (latter upgraded to 128MB, then to 320MB, and now it's 512MB - maxed out), ATi 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x 4MB (upgraded to Ginward nVidia GeForce FX5200 128MB PCI), 6.4GB HDD (upgraded to 40GB) and it was running Windows 98SE, but later me and my dad installed Windows XP on it. It ran somewhat OK with XP and I used it until June 2015 - only for music at my second house.

[PentiumIIFTW]

dell optiplex gx620

pentium D 3Ghz

1tb hdd

intel onboard graphics

4gb ddr2 ram

320w psu

windows 7 pro

i still got this thing sitting here next to me. hopefully i can make it useful again...

[ddrkreature]

First computer I've had that was MINE mine was, if I remember right, was a Pentium 4 with 512 MB ddr1 and 250gb HDD. Or something close to it

[Hameck]

my first computer was actually a laptop.

 

I present to you, the IBM Thinkpad 760e

[MoonlightSylv]

If this is already a thread link me it and delete this one.

 

Anyway this is my first PC I built:

(Yes I know running it without a case was terrible and I regret it because that GPU had a low profile bracket)
Specs:
Motherboard: MS-7525 from an HP Slimline PC
CPU: Intel Pentium E5300
RAM: 2GB of DDR2
GPU: AMD Radeon R7 240 (bleh)
PSU: Some 400w Slimline unit from eBay (I'm surprised it didn't explode)
HDD: WD Black laptop HDD

I actually used a cardboard box at one point but I don't think I have a pic of it, no joke.

 

Edited June 17, 2016 by ShadowTechXTS

[hex4]

Pentium D 930 Presler core

4GB DDR2 something megahurtz ram

ATi X1550

 

All i know is that i used toothpaste for thermal grease when i knew nothing about thermal paste, smelled nice though.

[MoonlightSylv]

2 minutes ago, hex4 said:

Pentium D 930 Presler core

4GB DDR2 something megahurtz ram

ATi X1550

 

All i know is that i used toothpaste for thermal grease when i knew nothing about thermal paste, smelled nice though.

LMAO

 

Did the fan smell minty?

[hex4]

1 minute ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

LMAO

 

Did the fan smell minty?

Honestly i was new to this stuff, i took the CPU out experimenting as you do.... thought that stuff was just glue to hold the cooler on, i put it on with nothing there and in bios CPU was at 134C, so i shut it off and had to find something to substitute...

 

After learning in magazines i bought, i then bought thermal paste LOL.

[Gale]

It's the one in my signature, it's just that I've been gradually upgrading it. The motherboard hasn't changed, so you can guess how old my build is.