Post Your First Computer!

[BoomerD]

Coleco Adam...circa 1984-85. No idea of the internal specs, but it was tape drive instead of floppies.
Jump to the late 80's, and we got a used 8088 from my wife's place of employment. dual 5-1/2 floppies, DOS on disk. Amber monochrome monitor.
92, moved to a Packard Bell 386 with a 10 Gb HDD and 3-1/4" floppy drive. Don't remember the actual speed, something around 25 mhz? Pretty fast for it's day. One of the early Windows OS, maybe 2.something? Paid $500 for that from a friend who worked for Comp USA,
First "real computer" was a Sony Vaio with the Original Pentium 200 Mhs with MMX! Had a 4.3 Gb HDD and Windows 95!

 

[hjo3]

486 SX/66
4 MB RAM
60 MB HD
2400 bit/s modem

 

[MisterJackson]

First one I ever seriously used was a 286 with COLOR!!

A year or two prior to that I used an Apple 2e that our principal taught us how to write basic code on.

I used a 486 through my middle school and most of my high school years.

The first one I built though was a Celeron 300a that I overclocked. That PC was what I consider my FIRST PC, as I built it myself (a great feeling of pride when you do that for the first time)

 

[nageov3t]

1996

133 MHz CPU
8MB ram
4GB hard drive
4x CDROM
2.4 dial-up modem (man, I thought 56K was the shiznit when I upgraded to it!)

Price: ~4K. not 100% sure on the price since my parents bought it for me as a gift to congratulate me for getting accepted into a pretty solid private high school.

 

[myjaja]

Originally posted by: markgm
1979 Sony SMC-70

2 1.44" floppy drives
Dot matrix printer
Color Trinitron monitor
CP/M OS
Z80A , 4.028 MHz
64 KB RAM

It got fried in an electrical storm around 1993. I think the insurance company gave us around $3000 for it since it was impossible to get any replacement parts. After that it was some Compaq system that kept getting replaced from Service Merchendise because of different problems. Then in 1996 we went to a computer show and got the computer that started my tinkering with PCs. It was:

Pentium 166 (ooh, with MMX)
16 MB RAM
1.6 GB hard drive (I have it sitting around somewhere)
28.8 modem (I wonder how many hours I spent on the local BBS before they got "the Internet"
17" monitor
Soundblaster soundcard
6x CD ROM drive

The first computer for my use was a laptop from HyperData in 1998 (I think they're still in business, they shouldn't be!) I'm not positive of the stats.
It started out as an AMD 300 which wasn't compatible with the system, so they swapped it out and put in a
Pentium II 266
128 MB RAM
8 GB hard drive
12x CD ROM drive
Cardbus 10/100 Ethernet card
Internal 56k Modem

poor Sony pc

 

[MustISO]

Commodore 64 1980's. I remember getting a 2nd 5 1/4" floppy drive so I didn't have to swap discs so often when playing Ultima III.

First real PC was in 1992. A Dell 486/33 with 4MB of RAM. It was $1,200 (or maybe $2,000). It was $$$, I remember that.

 

[KarmaPolice]

No idea what it was called. Lets see...

It was 1990 or so when we got a first computer because my dad worked for IBM. It had a blue word processor, could play pac man, ghostbusters, and reading rabit..and it also could use compuserv....



good times.

 

[jjones]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe

 

[Martin]

1996 Acer

133MHz Pentium
16mb ram
2gb HD.

 

[FreshCrabLegs]

Specs:
286 33mhz
2mb ram
100mb hd
Windows 3.1

Purchase date: ~1991
Nostalgia

 

[foghorn67]

Forgot year.
But it was new at the time

Packard Bell 486 DX2 50Mhz
8MB RAM, Upgraded to 16MB.
210 MB HD.
Added on Sound Blaster for Wolfenstein fun!

 

[erub]

Commodore 64
(hand me down in 1988, I was 4 years old)

Dell Intel 386 25 MHz
2 MB RAM (upgraded to 4)
40 MB HDD
Both floppy types!
1990

 

[HannibalX]

1987 - Tandy 1000 SX! POWER BABY! WOO!

 

[Fayd]

first computer.....Apple II GS
Second Computer...... Macintosh SE
third computer.......pentium 1, 90 mhz
fourth computer.....pentium 3, 600 mhz
fifth computer........pentium 4, 2.66 ghz
6th computer........AMD x2, 3800+ <-------current.

 

[Patt]

Originally posted by: BUTCH1
Commodore VIC-20, 3K ram cassette storage

Also included in my package was Logo, a programming introduction app, and several other cartridge games. Early 80's, not exactly sure if it was 82/83? Almost bought one on eBay the other day ...

edit: it was bought for my brother, who struggled in school in an attempt to get him more interested, and since he never used it, it became all mine

 

[AdamK47]

I have you all beat. In a previous life I had one of the first computers ever built. The year was 768 BC and I was the supreme ruler of Mesopotamia. I got tired of running out on fingers when counting so I sent a pigeon message to one of the local staffing agencies. In the message I stated that I wanted the best and the brightest among their plebian staff to devise a machine that would do counting for me. What's funny, and I still laugh about it to this day, is the man they presented to me. His name was Pythagoras who, as we all know, went on to even greater things. I nicknamed him Paggy. Ol' Paggy I'd call him. He did a great job on the device if I do say so myself. The device had a wooden frame with several rods connecting in between. Along the rods stones were positioned. These stones were able to slide up and down the rods. The position of the stones determined the value displayed. It was top of the line in the day, but technology moves so fast it's hard to keep up.

 

[JDub02]

NEC 486/33, 4 MB RAM, 240 MB HD, 3x CD-ROM, Windows 3.11

I was the first one at my school to have a 3x CD-ROM.

From there, I went to a Pentium 100 and Windows 95, then to a P2-333, then to a P3-600, then to my current Athlon XP 2500.

I'm due for an upgrade, but the ol' girl keeps chuggin and handles all I want to do.

 

[Nightfall]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
8088
Dual 5.25 floppies
DOS 6 on floppy
CGA Monitor

1989-1990...something like that

No hard drive

Same as mine! I only has 256k of memory in mine though. In order to run games like empire though, I had to have 640k of memory. It sucked!

My first DOS version was 3.1 and ran all the way up to DOS 6.

 

[Fern]

1993 or 1994
Pentium 80 or 90
800+ MB HDD
Diamond Stealth PCI gfx card
16mb ram
Sound card
CD Optical drive
modem (there wasn't much to the internet back then. I used to research on gopher & wais or something like that)

The thing was top of the line and about $4K. It lasted for about 5 years b4 the mobo crapped out.

I had it custom built for me by Micron. Mostly I choose them because they were the only provider of the large sticks of ram (8mb at that time IIRC). They were the only one's manufacturing them, and the only way to get it was buy a PC from them.

It came with all the bells & whistles, joystick, sound system etc. I used to play some Star Wars game on it.

Fern

 

[Dr. Detroit]

1996
Cyrix 166mhz processor without MMX
1.6GB HD
AOL dialup
15" CRT Monitor

Paid $1,000 used. My freshman year of college.

 

[Soundmanred]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Oh hey, are we counting the Magnavox Odyssey II? I'd consider it more of a console than a computer, but *shrug*

Hahaha! I had one of those too! You could get a programming cartridge for it, but I doubt it was a big seller. I liked Pickaxe Pete the best. Mining games FTW!

 

[Tobolo]

486 DX2 66mhz
4 mb ram (upgraded to 8mb)
500 mb hd
windows 3.11 and Packard Bell OS

Eventually upgraded to Windows 95

ITS STILL RUNNING

 

[Extelleron]

Intel Pentium II 400MHz
64MB RAM
16MB Voodoo Graphics
20GB HDD
Windows 98

Purchased in 1998

Technically I had an Apple before that, but I don't even know what it was.

 

[saymyname]

1986
Mac Plus
8MHz
1 MB RAM
8" B/W screen
800 kb floppy
20 MB Ext HD
$3000 (HD was $600)

 

[mooncancook]

Packard Bell
486 SX2 50MHz
4MB RAM
340MB HDD
2x CD-ROM
Local video