What was your first computer?

[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

[Muzammil Shaikh]

Will there be bottleneck in the following

i5-8400

Asus GTX 1050ti Cerberus

 

[Dedayog]

Commodore 128 with fast boot cartridge.

 

First real PC.. 486 sx 16, 4MB RAM, 170MB harddrive.  Added another 4MB RAM and a 3dfx 4MB card to it.  Blazing!

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

intel core 2 due, Nvidia 7300, 2 gb Ram, 160 gb Seagate HDD , that's all i can remember.

[IceCold008]

3 hours ago, WereCatf said:

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

Yea the pic is like your first girlfriend, its a amazing experience back then. But looking back at it now. Shes old and slow and the tape drive is never used anymore lol.

[WereCatf]

17 minutes ago, IceCold008 said:

Shes old and slow and the tape drive is never used anymore lol.

Sounds like it's time to experiment with the other ports, then

[Sir Asvald]

Pentium 3 

64mb of ram

A whopping 6GB HDD

And I believe a matrox or Voodoo graphic card.. not sure..

Windows 95. 

[Sir Asvald]

On 11/2/2018 at 11:10 PM, Helibert said:

Weirdo here

Amiga A500

 

Lol. You're a grandfather. Lol.

 

/jk /s

[karn_evil]

ahh, my first PC was crap but I loved it

 

It was a packard bell.  Had a Pentium 60mhz, 540mb HDD, 8mb ram, and ran Win95.  Don't remember what the video card was in it, but it wasn't very good.  Still miss that old beast. 

[ZcanKal]

Good ol' Family PC, a Pentium 4 based desktop, but this was all the way back in 2006 and I can't remember the specs.
My first personal computer was some old Centrino based laptop.
The first PC I remember is my 2012 Acer Aspire One, with a Sandybridge Celeron and 2GB of RAM.

[Druegan]

Heh.. My first "I guess you could call it a computer" system was a Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1..

Specs.. um.. it had a Zilog Z80 processor running at 1.77 MHZ, 4k of ram, and data storage was on a separate cassette tape.. yeah.. like audio cassettes.. if anyone remembers those..

The first thing I'd call a "system" by today's standards was an IBM PC, sporting an 8088 processor cracking out a whopping 4.77mhz, 256kb of ram, a Color Graphics Adapter "vid card", and dual 5.25" floppy drives..  Bought it second hand from a friend of the family who had used it at Caterpillar Inc and was getting a new one provided by the company...

[Badger906]

I could go back and say I had a Pentium 1 setup. But first every for me should be the one you bought yourself first! 

 

For me that was an Intel core 2 duo e4600, asus p5b deluxe motherboard, 4gb OCZ 800mhz platinum ram and an ATI Radeon x650. Circa 2006!