What was your first computer?

[Shiv78]

On 1/12/2017 at 1:11 PM, 2Buck said:

Thanks for creating this thread, I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

NP!

 

Those two retro rigs seem like great little monsters lol

[Ithanul]

On 1/19/2017 at 1:30 AM, Bleedingyamato said:

Do you mind if I ask your age?

 

I don't mean to seem too nosy or rude but I'm curious since you said the computer had what has to be a rather old version of Windows.  

27.  That was my first computer I got to use when I was little.  My Dad bought it so I could have a head start learning how to operate one.  Figuring out MS-DOS terminal commands to load games off a floppy was a strong incentive back when I was young.

 

These the games I grew up with. 

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I wonder, how many remember this little stinker.

 

Graphics sure have changed in just a few decades.

[NoCarrier]

first CPU was an NEC V20 8088 clone, running at 10mhz turbo speed.  Unlike you kids with your fancy boost clock, to go from the bog standard 4.77mhz  (yes megahertz) to 10mhz, you had to press a turbo button.  The reason you wouldn't leave the turbo button depressed all the time was because it was TOO FAST for some games.  No active cooling, no heatsink even.  At full chat you can put your finger on it no problem. 

 

first GPU was a taxan CGA adapter.  Though it's not accurate to calling it a GPU since it didn't do a whole lot of processing.  It was probably longer than your fancy pants 1080.  How many stream processors and memory you say?  Well, not sure about memory, but it reserved 16k of RAM for it's frame buffer.  The defacto display mode was 320x200x4 colors.  People did some pretty creative things with black, white, magenta and cyan back then. To be fair it had a couple of different palettes and if you dropped the resolution lower I believe you could have gotten up to 16 colors.   8bit ISA bus, none of this PCIe business.  

 

Throw in a 200watt PSU, a case, dual 360k 5.25 floppy drives (no hard drive), a ISA Floppy controller, an ISA Serial/Parallel controller (none of this stuff was built into the motherboard back then), a motherboard and 640K of RAM, a keyboard, no mouse, and a CGA monitor.. that first build was $880 USD.  Which is like a billion dollars in today's dollars.

 

[WkdPaul]

My first CPU was a Pentium 4 1.8Ghz ... that thing overclocked like a boss (easily ran at 2.8Ghz for 4 years)

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And my first GPU (that I got with the P4) was a GeForce 2 MX ... of course!

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[Bleedingyamato]

2 hours ago, Ithanul said:

27.  That was my first computer I got to use when I was little.  My Dad bought it so I could have a head start learning how to operate one.  Figuring out MS-DOS terminal commands to load games off a floppy was a strong incentive back when I was young.

 

These the games I grew up with. 

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I wonder, how many remember this little stinker.

 

Graphics sure have changed in just a few decades.

Your dad sounds nice.  ?

 

My parents didn't buy me my first personally owned computer until I started college.  

 

Yeah things defintely look a lot prettier now.  ?

 

 

Two two of the first pc games I can remember playing I think were both crazy old Star Trek ones.  One was Next Generation I'm sure and the other was Original Series I think.

 

I think the Next Generation game was maybe for W95 or W98 but it could've been a different older version.  I'm guessing about some of this but I think you moved between systems and in each you could run into enemy ships or I think hazards like black holes or planets.  You had a limited number of torpedos but also could use phasers.  I forget if there was a limit to phaser use like running out of power.  

I only played it a few times on some computer my uncle had.  

 

The Original series game was older I think and I'm not sure if it was Star Trek of just heavily copying it.  The game was again divided into box shaped systems that you warped between and I think you could set your direction (degree number out of a 360 degree circle) and warp speed on a sort of clock looking screen.  Faster warp speeds consumed more power I think.  The graphics had a strange color pallet I think.  

 

 

I wish I could remember the names of those games.  Or get to play them again. But I can't remember.  ?

[asand1]

First GPU I bought was a gt 6600. Can't remember my 1st CPU, second was Athlon 3000+ 2.08GHz single core.

[Sors]

 

[8uhbbhu8]

Pentium 3, 521MB Ram, igpu, later on a TNT2 32MB

[Aniallation]

 

 

 

EVGA 8800 GTS 512MB

 

This was in 2008 so was a plenty decent system for the time.

[f688xt6]

The MOS 6502 in the Commodore VIC20 was the first one the family had.

 

Personally though, 486/33.

 

I don't really know about the GPU though.

[CyberJeff3000]

These are the specs of the first desktop I ever owned (around 2003-2004)

[SirWendall]

CPU: FX6300

GPU: EVGA 660ti SC

[Mug]

I don't have my first computer any more :'( Gave it to a mate because he needed one for Uni back in the day and haven't asked for it back.

[MeepLikesToBuildPc's]

Pentium III, that's all I remember

[evolv]

My first CPU was Intel Pentium III 800MHz EB (I don't even know what's EB meant) and the GPU was HIS Radeon 9200SE 128MB (I know it's cheap)

[lettuce head]

ah yes, the i5 4460 and a windforce gtx 670. <3 those were the days.

[Timbs]

I don't remember my first ever computer. But the computer that I personally owned, I know the specs for.

 

CPU: Intel Core i3 2120

GPU: EVGA GT640 OC Edition

RAM: 8GB DDR3

HDD: 1TB WD Blue

Optical Drive: Yes

Case: Gateway DX4860

Mobo: idk lol

 

Been making changes to this PC over the past few months. I've now got 14GB DDR3, and an MSi GTX 1050 Ti.

[Timbs]

On 1/20/2017 at 11:05 PM, Aniallation said:

 

 

 

EVGA 8800 GTS 512MB

 

This was in 2008 so was a plenty decent system for the time.

That GTS looks like its been set on fire, thrown in a landfill, pulled out, lodged in mud for 13 days, and set on fire again.

[iRileyx]

I dont remember sadly, but my first pc that i had to myself was about 8-9 years ago, so it probably had some variant of a core 2 quad with integrated graphics  

[Guest]

My first that I actually put together?

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz

GPU: GTX 660

My first that I purchased?

A slow, horrible Celeron laptop with 4 GB of RAM...  

 

Feelsbadman

 

[MedievalMatt]

CPU - Phenom II X6 some model number

GPU - Nvidia GT 440 from Zotac

 

Used mostly for 3D modelling and Game development College work.

[DexterSmythe]

I had some dual core AMD processor with integrated graphics in a HP laptop.

[HelplmChoking]

This guy right here, a Pentium 4 630. I had some sort of crazy GPU with a red shroud and a dragon. It looked really tacky, and I never found out what it was (I think it was something around the HD3xxx generation). But it never worked, so I ran off the integrated graphics. Several years later, I found out that PCIe was disabled in BIOS...

 

[Mooshi]

Some random celeron grade P3 chip and onboard graphics fitting of a cheap HP desktop in the early 2000's

[Aniallation]

2 hours ago, a e s t h e t i c a s said:

That GTS looks like its been set on fire, thrown in a landfill, pulled out, lodged in mud for 13 days, and set on fire again.

I peeled the sticker off the day I got it. Looks like this underneath.