What was your first computer?

[JMSOG]

It was 2009, and it was a low-to-midrange computer at the time that my parents got me. It had a .5gb ATI graphics card of unknown name (which i assume is one of those low-end "Media PC" cards), a dual core i3 (i think) and a 1080p 60fps LCD monitor. It served me well for a while. I've given away the desktop to a family friend since then, but that monitor still serves it's purpose as a second monitor, can't complain

[Dumaurier]

The first computer I remember at home was the family computer, an Acorn Electron, although shortly before that we had a Sinclair ZX 81.

It was on the Acorn that I first started basic coding be reading the magazines and typing in the pages of code that where listed for the games. We didn't have "demo" discs back then and it was a way to get free or "shareware" games easily as there wasn't a lot of people we knew at the time that had access to the casettes.

After that the first home pc we got was an Olivetti 486 with 4Mb of ram and at the time Windows 3.1 and DOS

[soup]

1 hour ago, Dumaurier said:

 reading the magazines and typing in the pages of code that where listed for the games. We didn't have "demo" discs back then and it was a way to get free or "shareware" games easily

Easily?

I remember spending hours laboriously typing in lines and lines and... of code only for one comma to be wrong and so the whole thing didn't work then spending more hours trying to find what was wrong.

[Dumaurier]

On 03/07/2016 at 8:29 PM, soup said:

Easily?

I remember spending hours laboriously typing in lines and lines and... of code only for one comma to be wrong and so the whole thing didn't work then spending more hours trying to find what was wrong.

haha, yeah it did have it's downfalls and was worse when there was a misprint in the magazine so was even worse trying to find where the error was.

At a young age though, it was easier than trying to get access to regular cassettes to get the games though :-)

[JoePro87]

What was your first computer? What were the specs? OS? Mine was technically an old Point of Sale computer that met it's fate quickly by my hammer....but my first REAL PC was a 1998 Compaq Presario, with an 800Mhz single core (I think a Pentium 3?), 128MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and Windows 98, with dial-up! What a beast it was...

[radical guild]

Acer e15 with windows 8 with a i3 4gb of ram a 500gb HDD 5400rpm

[MalaySausage]

my compaq laptop was a duel core pentium with 2 gigs  of ram and the worst display ever 

                

[Creiger]

Can't remember what it was other than it was Win98 though, and when I compressed the hard drive, I had a tiny bit over 1 gig of space.

[LizardsAreOP]

Dont remember the specs,Dont remember the OS but i do remember it was a ATI card

[AresKrieger]

I don't know what it was called but it was an HP from 95

[BlueCrazii]

Unknown Case Unknown CPU 512 MB ram 6GB HDD windows 2000 

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, MalaySausage said:

my compaq laptop was a duel core pentium with 2 gigs  of ram and the worst display ever 

                

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

[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.