What was your first computer?

[MoonlightSylv]

The first PC that I actually owned was a Dell Inspiron Mini laptop (I'm 13, had some computers before that but my parents owned them)

 

The first desktop I had was this custom built beauty

I'm serious, I ran without a case for a while.

 

[JoePro87]

2 minutes ago, Creiger said:

Can't remember what it was other than it was a fairly junky Dell with the cow packaging that I got from my grandparents when they upgraded. Know it was Win98 though, and when I compressed the hard drive, I had a tiny bit over 1 gig of space.

I remember those old cow boxes! I thought it was Gateway that had them?

[MalaySausage]

3 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

Yeah...worst display ever? Try getting an old DOS monochrome monitor

you couldn't see it unless the room was dark and you were looking it strait on 

[Herman Mcpootis]

i5 650, 8gb of ram, leadtek gtx 650ti and some shit vios/headway(think of them as our local logisys) case. built this last year.

[DevilishBooster]

Vextra VE8 DT 

Pentium II 350MHz

SDRAM (64 MB max)

http://www.cnet.com/products/vectra-ve8-dt-6-350-64mb-3-2gbhd-ether-ntws-win95/specs/

 

 

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, DevilishBooster said:

Vextra VE8 DT 

Pentium II 350MHz

SDRAM (64 MB max)

http://www.cnet.com/products/vectra-ve8-dt-6-350-64mb-3-2gbhd-ether-ntws-win95/specs/

 

 

MAN that thing is OP! Actually, truthfully, I bet it was perfect for playing Doom.

[DevilishBooster]

1 minute ago, JoePro87 said:

MAN that thing is OP! Actually, truthfully, I bet it was perfect for playing Doom.

It was amazing for Doom. I also played a ton of OG Command and Conquer and Age of Empires, as well as a bunch of OG Star Wars games.

[byalexandr]

Some eMachines rig with WinXP.

[-rascal-]

First computer that was pre-built

• Some Windows 98 PC made by Compaq
• Some weak AMD CPU or Pentium III
• On-board graphics

First built computer

• Athlon XP 1700+ Through-Bred rev B (Unlocked CPU multiplier)
• Gigabyte GA-7ZX-E Motherboard, Socket A
• 512MB of PC-133 MHz SDRAM (256 + 128 + 128)
• MSi nViidia TNT2 AGP (32MB?) video card --- ATi 9600 XT 256MB AGP
• 20GB + 40GB IDE HDD
• FSP 300W Power Supply
• Some beige computer case 
• Windows 98 / XP

[Clanscorpia]

A really old Dell  Can't remember the model

[Creiger]

3 hours ago, JoePro87 said:

I remember those old cow boxes! I thought it was Gateway that had them?

Oop; you're right. That was Gateway. The Dell was my 2nd one and far less crappy(ish) The Gateway was the holy crap one; lol.

[Josh2003]

I practically just got my first computer! It's an AMD Athlon X4 860K with 8GB of RAM, and it's my first build!  (Sorry the pics are so big, idk how to shrink them.)

Edited July 9, 2016 by Josh2003
Apology for HUGE pictures

[Tieox]

Pentium 1 100mhz 16MB ram, some basic graphics, think it was TNT2 or something like that. Ran Windows 95.

[vorticalbox]

first computer that was fully mine was an amd Athlon 64x2, 2GB and 500GB HD running windows vista. It had massive problems with sata drivers. It was fixed in an update but then it would blue screen while installing then it would have to start over. Super annoying.

[Fontaine]

An IBM with an 286 processor with no hard drive or even windows, booted into some crazy thing from a floppy disk believe, when I was like 8 years old or there about, quickly followed with an upgrade to a 486 dx with 200mb hard drive and 4mb of ram..... 90's computing...

[Techbyte]

I honestly have no idea of the specs of my first computer. I was in elementary school and I am now 30 years old. I can tell you that it had a "green" display, took larger truly "floppy" discs, and played Oregon Trail like a boss!

[NunoLava1998]

When i was 3 (yes, i am that introduced to computers) i had a Windows XP computer (i don't really remember). I think it was a EEE computer.

[NunoLava1998]

10 hours ago, Techbyte said:

I honestly have no idea of the specs of my first computer. I was in elementary school and I am now 30 years old. I can tell you that it had a "green" display, took larger truly "floppy" discs, and played Oregon Trail like a boss!

Apple II - Apple IV i think

[awesomes8wc3]

19 hours ago, Kierax said:

Pentium 1 100mhz 16MB ram, some basic graphics, think it was TNT2 or something like that. Ran Windows 95.

Wowee a Pentium 100 with a TNT2? Talk about a bottleneck. TNT2 was quite decent actually. If you were running an M64 I could maybe forgive you ;-)

 

1 hour ago, NunoLava1998 said:

Apple II - Apple IV i think

Pretty sure an Apple IV doesn't exist ;-)

He was probably running some flavour of Apple II, although there was an IBM compatible version of the Oregon Trail which kind of throws a spanner in.

[lazaro_ourique]

After a bit of research and a phone call to my father, i believe it was a IBM PS/2 model 70. Initially it was my fathers pc that was passed down to my brother and me when he bought a new one for himself.

[mrclsu]

My first computer was an eMachine laptop with a Pentium Dual core, 3Gb ram, 250Gb HDD, running Windows Vista. 

[Tieox]

4 hours ago, awesomes8wc3 said:

Wowee a Pentium 100 with a TNT2? Talk about a bottleneck. TNT2 was quite decent actually. If you were running an M64 I could maybe forgive you ;-)

 

Pretty sure an Apple IV doesn't exist ;-)

He was probably running some flavour of Apple II, although there was an IBM compatible version of the Oregon Trail which kind of throws a spanner in.

 

 

Kept that TNT for years moving it from system to system.  Was an antique when I gave it up. 

[TheSuspect]

Intel Celeron B820

2gb Ddr3

320gb hard drive

1366x768 15.6" monitor

 

heh.

[dave909904]

Quite a bit newer than most of , but still bad compared to today. An Acer netbook with 512mb of ram, an Atom at 1.5, and 200gb of storage. It got bogged down from using chrome os.

[WarReaper-1]

Had a used IBM PC XT, monochrome monitor, and a IBM DOS book in the early 90's to teach myself how to use it. Remember playing Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest on that old machine. Learning on that really gave me an appreciation for what's under the hood of today's modern GUI's