What was your first computer?

[Coriander]

Family pc had a core 2 quad q9200 paired with an 8800gt. My first pc had an i3 6100 with an R9 390.

[Average Meatsack]

My first CPU was the venerable 6502 galloping along at a stupendous 2Mhz and my first GPU was VIDPROC, a custom-made Uncommitted Logic Array (ULA) made by VLSI. They were fitted into my BBC Model B microcomputer.

[Sfekke]

Pentium III (600MHz Single-core)

Intel GMA I think they called it that back then.

 

All housed in one nice vintage OmniBook XE2, first laptop I could call my own .. until it broke after 4 months due to extreme overheating issues haha

 

 

5 hours ago, seoz said:

First CPU was a first gen Intel Core i3-550 from way back. First GPU was an MSI Nvidia GeForce GT 710 1GB model, crappy by today's standards.  

Way back haha .. well depends on how you look at it

First new laptop I bought was close to that, but worse Medion MD 98580, 390M i3 & GT540M 1GB

Did the job fine for one year, before I killed it with heat once again..

Laptops I use seem to have one theme in common, me using them 12+ hours a day ends up frying something and taking them down

[Stefan Payne]

CPU: some 80286, don't know if AMD or Intel or something else.

GPU: I have no idea

 

After that, i486DX/2 with a whopping 1MiB Cirrus Logic card, AFAIR GD5426

[DimasRMDO]

Intel i5-4690 and Radeon R9 270.

[NelizMastr]

The first CPU in a PC that was fully mine was an Athlon 64 3200+ and the GPU in it was an ATI Radeon 9600SE. Previous PCs were shared.

[AngryBeaver]

My very first CPU was a 10mhz turbo mode intel. The first machine I ever used was 5mhz one I don't even remember the name of lol.

Now my first GPU and CPU combo was an old intel 266 with a Voodoo card... way back in 1997-1998.

[davrosG5]

The first CPU and GPU I owned in a computer I bought myself was a PowerPC G3/233 augmented by I think and ATI Rage 128.

Only got rid of it this year.

The first computer my brother and I acquired was a Sinclair 48k Spectrum, so, whatever was in that.

[kelvinhall05]

First CPU that I touched was some C2D from my mom's broken computer. First CPU (and GPU) that were in my own system were (was?) a Celeron 1007U with its iGPU.

[IrishDunner]

I had a c64 but my first proper computer was a Compaq Presario 4110, still remember q from Star trek welcoming me to it

[amusedschrodinger]

My first one was a Sempron system that, on its last legs, became a print server before finally being cannibalized.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

A WinXP Asus EEE Pc. My grandpa is actually still using it

[Salacious B Crum]

A radio shack Tandy TRS-80 my storage was an old school cassette tape deck the phone modem was a cradle that you placed the phone handset in, my 1st WYSIWYG was an apple macintosh and my color printer had a color ribbon that jumped all over the place based on the color required my 1st internet was CompuServe paid by the minute, yikes!

[xriqn]

First computer I USED:

• Intel Pentium M 740 @ 1.73GHz
• 512MB DDR2
• 60GB 5400RPM HDD
• Windows XP pro

Was my mum's laptop, I recently commandeered it so I could use it as a small linux box. Fun fact: I played my first ever video game on the same day I used a computer for the first time, 3D Space Cadet Pinball. Still a legend at it 13 years on (I was 3 when I first used a computer).

 

First computer I OWNED:

• Intel Celeron N2840 (Bay Trail) @ 2.13GHz
• 2GB DDR3
• 50GB eMMC chip
• Windows 8.1 Home
• Intel HD Graphics

Fun fact(s): took 10 years for me to get my very own computer, however in the mean time I did game on either the first computer I used, my snes or my ps1, all of which I still have to this day. The first computer I personally owned (the second computer in this post) was only used briefly, it's broken now and in its place I bought a Dell Inspiron 530 (the one in my sig) for £50, upgraded it from a core 2 duo e4400 to e8400, radeon hd 2400 pro to 5450, 2gb ddr2 to 4gb ddr2 and 320gb HDD to 1TB. Fast forward 4 years (present day now) and it's been upgraded once more to a Phenom X4 9650, 4GB DDR2, 250GB HDD (1TB is my current pc's backup boot medium), radeon hd 7470 and it now serves as my (trusty) secondary PC.

[Bramimond]

A KC85/3.

 

[PlayStation 2]

First one I ever used I believe was an eMac in pre-school. Thing had a DVD drive; Green Eggs and Ham is lit as fuck to this day.

First one my family owned was some semi-custom rig with a Pentium III 866MHz, some HP motherboard and an 80GB hard drive.

First one that was mine was an HP 2000-2d27dx from Best Buy; it had an AMD A6-5200, a 750GB hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 1600MHz RAM, the fastest the CPU could accept.

[Ebonsaber]

First home PC was a US Navy surplus 286 Zenith with a 20MB HDD, 1MB RAM and a CGA Graphics.  It still had the "Property of the US Navy" metal stamp on one side.  It was the most my parents could afford, and it was around the time Pentiums were about to come out.  First PC that I bought with my own money(saving up from my allowance) was the surplus Pentium III(RAM 512MB, HDD 2GB) which parts I showed in the retro parts thread.  First PC I bought with my salary from work was a surplus pre-built low-profile that had a Sempron 3000+, 1GB Ram and 80GB HDD.

[DrMacintosh]

PowerMac G3

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

7 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

PowerMac G3

I still remember the first Mac I've ever used. It was one of the earlier Sage iMacs running OS 9.2.

The computer labs we had at school were odd ball as we only have like 6 of these. The rest were a mixture of Macintosh LC 500s, PowerMac 5200LCs, and some forgettable PowerPCs. 

[Chronified]

First home PC (parents) was a generic beige Pentium III 800Mhz machine with 16MB of SDRAM, a generic 2MB display adapter, Western Digital 4GB 5200RPM IDE HDD and Windows 95 (later updated to WinME after XP was found to be WAY too slow).

I can still hear the dialup modem in the back of my mind. We had it as long as I could remember, keeping in mind I was born in 1996 (22 years old)

Countless hours of scorched earth were played on this PC. I was so excited to play new games when my mom finally gave into upgrading from Dialup to DSL around 2003-2004 (6-7 years old), only to realize that the system could play hardly anything that was out currently and the PC was way too underpowered for XP.

 

 

My first personal PC was given to me by a techy uncle around age 8-10 (2006-2008) and the crappy base specs are honestly the reason I'm into PC building today.

It was a compaq Evo D510 

It came with a Pentium 4 @ 2.4Ghz (sat at 1.8ghz due to bad thermals) , 1x256MB DDR, a 40GB IDE drive (although 1 Sata 1.0 port was available), 32MB IGP, a CD ROM drive and a beefy 450w PSU (later helpful for upgrades). 

 

It was given to me with Knoppix (children's linux distro) installed because "I was a kid who broke electronics" according to my parents. That was quickly swapped out for WinXP 32bit as soon as I found the DVD burner in the dumpster PC.

I quickly dove into the PC as it was easily disassembled and learned of the modular components.

Over the next couple years I collected parts cheaply as possible, seeing as I was a child who couldn't afford anything

2x1GB sticks of DDR ($9 on eBay)
a 120GB Sata HDD (smashed laptop w/o screen on side of road)

Pentium w/ HT @ 3.4ghz (dumpter PC that wouldn't turn on)

DVD Burner (also the dumpster PC)

AGP FX 4400 256MB, $12 on eBay

 

As the years went by, Windows 7 got released and the system felt aged, a friend taught me to build PCs with an Phenom x4 system on Am2 and my the compaq evo was put to rest. Ever since I've been slowly inching my way up the ladder.

 

**Funfact: my parents are still running the same modem we had with the beige box when we upgraded from dialup, Bell Canada won't upgrade their 2wire modem until they upgrade from DSL to Fibe.

[CarlBar]

We've all had that first PC and distressingly, (for me anyway), things have reached the point where people who had commodore 64's and other oddball old school weirdo's of a machine are a bit of a dying breed in the tech community. So i'm curious what your old clunker of a first system was.

 

Mine was an off the shelf E-Machines E-170, still using the keyboard believe it or not, think it's a mechanical, real brick of a thing.The rest of the spec is what you'd expect of a severely budget early 2000's PC. 

 

Intel Pentium 4 generation Celeron at 1.7Ghz with 128mb of ram and i think a 128GB HDD running on integrated graphics. The memory got pushed to 512mb with a new MB and a proper graphics card, (Ge force 4 Ti4200 8x), about a year later.

 

It's so funny to think about because these days there are hard drives with more on board cache than i had system RAM. Hell I suspect some of te real massive cored monsters out there might have more CPU cahce than i had system RAM, and their are certainly systems out there with more system RAM than i had HDD space.

 

What was your like?

[it_dont_work]

First at home was a packard bell 386 thing. We did have a commodore 128 but that was only ever used by my dad for CAD. I think my first system was a Pentium 100 can't really remember anymore since it got upgraded whenever parts were available and sort of changed fluidily over the years. 

[Helibert]

Weirdo here

Amiga A500

 

[Pico]

Had a MSX on late 80's early 90's, dont remember. But my first "IBM PC" was a 386 SX 33Mhz (don't remember the rest of the specs) on early 90's.

 

[Fredrikmikael]

Ah yes, i remember i begged my mom to get me a PC back in 2005 so that i could play counter strike 1.6 and world of warcraft with my friends. After finally convincing her, i got my older brother to pick out the parts and the only parts of the computer that i still remember is the CPU and GPU.

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+

GPU: GeForce 7800 GT

The computer was a BEAST at the time.

But little did my mom know that i would turn into a degenerate that still sits inside all day and play world of warcaft to this day.