What was your first computer?

[hellraiserqq]

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[hardtofindinthefuture]

So, what was the first ever PC you used?

Mine was..its a story

One day my dad brought home a old Windows ME gateway when i was only like 4 or so and i would do stuff on it...then we got rid of it

ahhhhhhhhhhhh vivid memories

[yathis]

A calculator then probably an Atari, but to be literal, could say I used something to do with a baby being born. Air pump perhaps. For me to be using it, myself, thermostats werent advanced enough back in the 60's. Digital Watch.

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah Atari

[Skiiwee29]

an old apple from the 80s at my aunts house that you would have to use command lines to reach the games and files to play them. 

[Xanthe_2871]

Just now, legacy99 said:

an old apple from the 80s at my aunts house that you would have to use command lines to reach the games and files to play them. 

Was it fun?

[yathis]

Oh them old apples, I remember them well.

[Skiiwee29]

1 minute ago, Xanthe_2871 said:

Was it fun?

hellz yea it was, I was like 7 or 8 at the time I think?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

One of these in school.

[LienusLateTips]

I used to have a COMPAQ from the 939 days. Semperon 1900+ i think? Don't remember the model but I can go look at it because it still works

[hardtofindinthefuture]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

One of these in school.

 

is that kermit the frog?

[crzyces]

Actual PC? Of my own? It was an Aquarius. Kind of a Hybrid PC/Console. It could not do much computing wise though, so I guess it would have been my C64. I remember staying up all night in elementary/middle school playing the Gold Box Pool of Radiance series. I won my schools science fair in 5th grade by coding the star spangled banner with a red white and blue theme in BASIC. Oh the good old days.

[Guest]

20 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

So, what was the first ever PC you used?

Mine was..its a story

One day my dad brought home a old Windows ME gateway when i was only like 4 or so and i would do stuff on it...then we got rid of it

ahhhhhhhhhhhh vivid memories

some sort of win 2000 or xp with crt monitor 

[Gaurav S Rao]

The first pc i ever encountered was a dell inspiron 530 (a year later i was born)(the motherboard died after 5 yrs so changed it with a generic motherboard,i still have the dead mobo) the dead mobo is a a foxconn G33m02

[crzyces]

I still have my C64 (now a 128 as I upgraded the memory to 128 kilobits (not bytes, bits) , the 9lbs external floppy drive, and a baud modem that charged insane amounts (like a 1mb transfer would be about $75usd) and typing "Hey, how are you" would take 5 minutes to go 15 miles up the road.

[crzyces]

This was before web shells like Windows 3.1. Early 80's I guess. Wow I look good for an old guy ;^) .

[Gaurav S Rao]

My first laptop

 

[PineyCreek]

First 'PC' was a TI994/A with the full disk expansion system.  Then Apple II's and IBM 8086's at school.

 

First personal system was a 286 12MHz hand-me-down.  Played carmen sandiego and scorched earth on it.

[crzyces]

I can still hear that song "Where on Earth is...Carmen Sandiego".

3 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

First 'PC' was a TI994/A with the full disk expansion system.  Then Apple II's and IBM 8086's at school.

 

First personal system was a 286 12MHz hand-me-down.  Played carmen sandiego and scorched earth on it.

 

[Conan1600]

The first PC i ever bought was  a Commodore 64. Basically dumber than a calculator but cost a fortune.It had a whopping 64 Kb of ram lmao, I used to love to play strategy games on floppy disk though.

[Marine_Boy]

It was a Pentium II 233MHz powered PC with 64MB graphics card and 256MB of RAM. Ahh... Damn it was slow  Before that there were all kind of Pegasus like consoles. Few examples:

 

 

 

 

[crzyces]

Pegasus played Atari and Nintendo games right? Or was it Atari and Colecovision? I forget. My dad had one. He wouldn't let me play it much though. Maybe twice.

[soldier_ph]

My first PC I've ever used was a slime HP Compaq with Windows XP on it with a VGA Monitor and Standard HP Mouse and Kedboard. I was about 5-6 years old.

[Automobili3XF]

It was a "white" Windows XP computer from my webdesigner (now bitcoin miner) cousin, circa 2004. He was still running a CRT monitor.

By the time i only had a PS1 and he had this computer that could play NFS Underground and GTA Vice City, i was blown away!

I was going to get my first computer only in 2008, a Vista laptop, it sucked hard.

My interest with computer hardware would only surface after i built my socket 775 system.

[KuJoe]

My first PC that I had in my room was when I was in elementary school in the early 90s, it ran Windows 3.1 (with Workgroups! ) and I had it for a few years before I upgraded to a Windows 95 PC with a 333MHz Intel Celeron with 128MB of RAM, I remember all of the computers in the house were on a bus network and we had to terminate the cables with these guys but playing multiplayer Doom was one of my most vivid childhood memories. The first computer I purchased myself wasn't until the early 2000s when I built my first PC with an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton that I overclocked with a pencil.

[Misanthrope]

In elementary plus a few relatives had 286 rigs. I remember I used to play this on them:

 

 

Compared to most atari games of the time it seemed far more advanced and fun.