What was your first computer?

[Andreas Lilja]

Pentium II 133mhz.

16mb ram (?)

Cirrus Logic video card (?)

 

It ran Age of Empires 1 flawlessly so best build ever.

[Emanbaird]

My first machine was a PIII machine running 95, My dad set me up with SNES emulators and i had a hell of a time, this would've been back in 04, the first PC i really remember was my Athlon II X3, with an 8600GT, i got it for free because my dad built it for the church we went to at the time but it wouldn't boot vista, so they let him keep it.

 

The first PC i built was a Xeon W3530, and GTX 295 Build, I found the GTX 295 in a literal overstock pile at my dads friends house and he just let me have it. I had to get a MOBO, and i used a sacrificial laptop HDD as a boot drive, but all in all it ran BF3 at 80FPS just fine, and between the free parts and a $50 wal-mart giftcard that bought me 8GB of DDR3 i only spent around $100 getting it running, and then i ran it from 2011-2013 then gave it to my Ex in 2014.^{God i miss this PC} It was the singlehandedly most jank PC i ever built i literally had to reinstall chipset drivers everytime i booted in order to get my GTX 295 to work on both cards.

[Tristerin]

Dell OEM with a Pentium single core - the one before they introduced hyperthreading, was my first personal computer I owned.  Had no AGP slot and had to put a PCI slotted GPU in it to play games lol.  Of course went to Best Buy and bought an AGP card first lolol.  A few computers before that but they weren't "mine"

[Amazonsucks]

1989 or 90 Acer brand(i think) IBM PC clone with a 186 CPU

[Canada EH]

35 minutes ago, CarlBar said:

 

What was your like?

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[DataEmo]

Mine was a custom built PC with an Intel 486 DX2 66Mhz that has been upgraded from 8MB to 24MB RAM by my dad and an 400 MB harddisk

[RejZoR]

I've had Commodore C-128, but that probably doesn't count...

 

The first PC I actually bought myself was Celeron 333MHz, 128MB RAM, 4GB SCSI HDD, S3 Savage 3D 8MB and Diamond Monster soundcard with Aureal Vortex. That was back in 1998 I think. It was actually a pretty sweet system, especially because of the S3 Savage3D graphic card. It wasn't anything special as is, but in games running Unreal Engine, it was out of this world amazing when running on S3 Metal API which was supported in tons of games since tons of them used Unreal Engine back then. I was getting really sweet performance at 1024x768, all maxed out. Something only people with Voodoo 2/3 and TNT/TNT2 cards got back then. Not to mention games looked better thanks to S3TC and higher resolution textures that were not even supported on Voodoo cards...

[JoeCoke]

A socket 370 IBM PC running Windows ME with a celeron @ 500somethingmhz and 64mb of RAM. I actually really loved that computer and it lasted me years, and was reliable.

 

First computer I ever built though, was a Athlon 64 3000+ with a 9600 pro and 1GB of DDR. AbSOluTe uNIt

[GDRRiley]

some old HP or compact likely a P3

before we got the first system I actual remember a core 2 quad, 8gb of ram and a 1TB HDD. 

Then I got a laptop with a I-7 36-- and a GT 635M

Finally moved to NightHawk 1.0 Basically the system in my sig but no HDD, 2nd SSD and my 580 was swapped for a 970.

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

First one I used was a Ti99 4/A with a 3.0 MHz cpu. First one I paid for with my own money was a system I built around the AMD K6 200 MHz cpu. Both were pretty killer gaming systems at the time.

[pawn63295]

my first ever I don't remember the specs of. My parents bought one when I was 9 that was in 1992. But the first one I remember was an AMD 233 Mhz. Also, the first ever GPU I bought was a VooDoo 2. back when the internet was the wild west and we used Prodigy and AOL. Good times 

[CalculatinGenius]

mine was a hand me down laptop my mom found in a file cabinet. dell inspiron e1505. it had:

 

core duo t2300e

1gb ddr2 667mhz ram

intel gma 950 (i think)

 

i got this laptop in early 2015 and used it regularly until late 2017 when it died. i got a better laptop in 2016 that became my main, but that laptop was really special to me and i still have its 80gb hdd in my main laptop. my main laptop holds 2 hdds btw, im not running windows xp as my main anymore.

[Canada EH]

@CarlBar

 

Sign of the times

 

OK I will throw in ananecdotal thing, twisted but "clean"

A droplet of nostril hair, trimmed to 1mm in todays "tech" would have more memory then a 5.25" floppy disk of that era. That will make your head turn a full 360. Life is in the numbers.

 

 

 

[shmoochie]

first one I ever built was a Athlon 860k and r7 260

 

but ive had many others in the early 2000;s just the basic dells

[LukeSavenije]

The first pc I played on was a big one for the time. 2003. Pentinum 4 3ghz with a fx 8400 and a SATA HDD. Nothing by today's standards, then 3000 euros

[Ebonsaber]

Back in 1993, I was needing a PC for classes(our high school curriculum included BASIC, Pascal and C Programming) and as money was very tight, my parents got me a refurbished Zenith 80286 from some surplus store.  It had 1 MB RAM, a 20 MB HDD, two 5.25" Floppy Drives and some CGA video card.  It even had a small metal stamp that said "Property of the US Navy".  My fondest memory was playing the original Prince of Persia on it, and as the limited color pallete rendered grey shadowed parts and skin in Cyan, every time the player character jumped it looked like he had a hole in his pants...

[Learned Robb]

Mine was an old 386 sx25. 1mb RAM, 3.5" disc drive, 40mb HDD, 1mb VGA graohics card. Ah, memories.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

The first PC our family had at home was bought from a local store in January 1989, with

• 286-10
• 1MB RAM
• 40MB Seagate MFM HDD
• 1.2MB 5.25" FDD
• Standard AT desktop case & 200W PSU from the era
• EGA Graphics & monitor
• DOS 3.3

 

 

My own first "computing device", I think (not sure if I had something previous, idk if scientific calculators count like the TI-30) was a TI-92 graphing calculator that I got in high school.  (I graduated in 1999.)

I later upgraded to a TI-92 plus, first with a plug-in module, then a new calculator cause the original died, iirc. (Idk if I was in college yet at the time.)  I still have it, but haven't used it in several years.

 

 

 

My first desktop was custom built in Feb 2008, with

• Athlon 64 X2 4000+
• Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H, onboard ATI Xpress 1250 GPU
• 2GB DDR2-800 RAM (later 4GB)
• 80GB + 250GB IDE & 750GB SATA WD HDDs (already had before, still have now)
• Lite-On DVD Writer
• XION XON-303 case & OCZ 500SXS PSU
• ViewSonic P775 CRT, iirc (was my dad's though)
• Windows XP Home 32-bit

[Delicieuxz]

My own first system, or my family's. Hmm. The first PC we had in our house was a small apple computer with a black and white, or orange and black, or green and grey... I can't recall which (I think it was greyish colours) display that my dad's work gave him to use at home. The first PC we had was a 486 SX 33 with 4 MB of RAM, and I think a 14" monitor.

 

The first PC that I bought myself might have been a P4 2.4 Ghz (that I overclocked to 3.2 or 3.4 Ghz) with 4 GB of RAM. I'm not sure on that, though. I used various monitors that I found discarded by other people for a while. I got some decent 16-ish" ones that way. I still have one in my basement and also that 2.4 Ghz system - though it has no GPU or PSU in it right now.

[Guest]

Macintosh Classic

Display	9-inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, 512 × 342 pixel resolution
Storage	40 MB SCSI hard disk drive optional, Built-in SuperDrive 3.5 in floppy disk drive
Processor	8 MHz Motorola 68000
Bus Speed	8 MHz
Random Access Memory	1 MB, expandable to 2 or 4 MB using 120 ns 30-pin SIMMs and optional custom RAM-slot expansion card
Read-only Memory	512 KB
Networking	AppleTalk
Battery	3.6 V lithium
Physical dimensions	13.2 in × 9.7 in × 11.2 in (33.5 cm × 24.6 cm × 28.4 cm; height by width by depth) 16 lb (7.26 kg)
Port connections	1× ADB (keyboard, mouse) 2× mini-DIN-8 RS-422 serial ports (printer, modem, AppleTalk) 1× DB-19 (ext. floppy drive) 1× DB-25 SCSI connector (ext. hard drive, scanner) 1× 3.5 mm Headphone jack socket
Expansion slots	none
Audio	8-bit mono 22 kHz
Gestalt ID	17 (computer identification code)
Codename	XO[33]

[WereCatf]

On 11/3/2018 at 1:04 AM, CarlBar said:

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.

My first one was a Commodore 64, and I ain't planning on dying just yet!

[IceCold008]

Commodore Vic 20 with tape deck lol.Then it was a Commodore 64, Then Commodore 128 then Amiga 500, Then 286 PC and you get the drift lol.

[WereCatf]

16 minutes ago, IceCold008 said:

I thought the TOS says you're not allowed to post porn in here!

[Guest]

A celeron machine with 1 gig of ram, 50 gigs of storage, and a 15 inch 4:3 monitor to go with it. It could run civilization 1 so well! But now I have a dell Chromebook 11 so its all better.

[LinusOnLine]

First ever computer was a Sinclair ZX-81 followed by Vic 20, Sinclair ZX Spectrum+. After that came the PC's and an Atari 1040STE for Notator