Post Your First Computer!

[zylander]

First computer I can remember was a 486 runing Windows 3.1. I had a computer even before that, with a cmd line OS but I cant remember what it was, (it wasnt linux).

 

[effowe]

I had an old 386sx/25 I believe that was bought around 1991 or so. I don't know the price since my parents bought it.

 

[Suture]

Atari 65XE
64K memory
1.79Mhz CPU
Floppy Disk Drive after I saved up the $400 for it. I don't recall the model.
B&W TV for a display

Man, I loved that thing.

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: Pioneer Premier

Originally posted by: compman25

Originally posted by: ATLien247

Originally posted by: drnickriviera
Ti-99
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99

Me too! I was in 2nd or 3rd grade... so around '82-83.

Me too. I was in 5th or 6th grade. I loved Parsec. That game was great.

Have you ever played Wacky?

nope, just parsec and lots of games you had to write in basic that i had gotten from magazines and had to save to tape. I remember I had a GE tape deck for it, those things sure were damn slow.

 

[slackerinabox]

My dad's but I used it until I was 12, then jumping to a 486 DX2..

IBM PC XT,
640K ram, 10 mb hd, 5 1/4 floppy drive, 1200 baud modem

 

[ForumMaster]

my dad got his first computer in 1994.

it was an apple Power Macintosh 6100. the first one with a PowerPC CPU.

specs:
40MB of RAM (upgraded from 8MB.)
1.1GB HDD (cost a lot)
66MHz CPU.
CD-Drive and floppy drive.

 

[dennilfloss]

First one I used would be an original Mac in 1984, followed by a Mac Plus, Mac SE30 and Mac 2C.

First one I bought would be in 1999.

Celeron 433
Aopen AX6BC mobo
128 MB PC66 RAM
14 GB Quantum Fireball HDD
4X CD-ROM
19" KDS monitor
Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 (not Ultra) graphic card
Windows 98
Logitech Internet keyboard
Logitech Trackman Plus trackball
Altec ACS45.1 speakers
Generic case
Generic power supply

 

[JRich]

C64C with a 1541 drive

 

[crab]

Am386DX33
8mb ram
100mb hd

 

[WingZero94]

IBM PC
8088
Monochrome Monitor
5.25 Floppy
NO HD

 

[AbAbber2k]

386 33mhz
4MB RAM
50MB HDD

 

[jhayx7]

My very first computer was an 8086 but we took it back within a week after we figured out it wouldn't run anything (including SimFarm)

So my parents got a new computer:

Intel P133Mhz
32mb ram
1.5gb HD
33.6k modem
ATI Video Card 1mb of RAM!!!

 

[Britboy]

Spectrum Powa!

16K of memory baby. I added a 32K ram pack to it so I could play games like Manic Miner which was a 48K game. From there I got a C64, Amiga, then PC's.

 

[ultimatebob]

My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a tape drive and a B&W TV! I got the whole setup for $10 from a yard sale in 1990.

The same year, my dad brought home a PC from work... An IBM PS/2 Model 50Z. It was a good system at the time, with a 10 MHz 286 processor, 3.5" HD floppy drive, 30 MB hard drive, VGA graphics, and a memory expansion board with a whopping 4 MB of memory!

 

[EKKC]

the year - 1995. was 15 yrs old

Pentium (1) 90Mhz
16MB RAM
850MB HDD
1MB Graphics
4x CD-ROM
Windows 3.11 workgroup (and a few months later bought Windows 95 upgrade for $150 or something)
Cost - $2000 - my dad still talks about it how he spent so much money and I only used it for a few years... sigh...

i took it to the local shop to get a modem and sound card. i remember they charged me $200 or something for it. then i got AOL for $20 a month. i remember pr-n used to be jpegs that take up to 10 minutes to download.

 

[her209]

1993

486DX2 - 66MHz
4MB RAM
250MB HDD
3.5" Floppy
5.25" Floppy
14" SVGA monitor
Microsoft Windows 3.1

:Q

 

[IronWing]

Kaypro II
Zilog Z80 2.5 Mhz processor
64kB RAM
2x191 kB 5¼ inch SS/DD floppy drives (w/ virtual memory handling)
9 inch, 80 column text-only CTR monitor built in
CP/M
1983

 

[Leros]

My dad got a laptop around 1992, I just remember the screen was black and white.

 

[judasmachine]

I want to say it was about '96, but it was an Acer Pentium I 133. It was suprisingly good now that I look back at the three store bought computers I've owned. If I remember the specs it goes something like this:

Pentium 133
12MB RAM
1.2GB HDD
Windows 95

What I can find on Google says it came with 16MB of RAM, however I remember thinking my second rig (Pentium 166MMX) had more, and I KNOW it had 16MB. But who knows I was about 20 when I bought it.

 

[makken]

IBM Aptiva
P1 100Mhz
8MB Ram
1.0 GB Hard drive
4X CD Rom drive

 

[prontospyder]

Acer Aspire
Intel Pentium 75Mhz CPU
8MB of RAM
14.4 Modem
Windows 95

$2000 @ Best Buy in 1996.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Dually 486/66
16 MB RAM
Windows NT 3.1 Beta
2 GB SCSI HD

 

[TechKnight]

386SX
25Mhz
1MB RAM
20MB HD
5.25" and 1.44" Floppy Drive
Trident ISA graphics card
Windows 3.1
-> 1992? ($1000)

486DX2/66
66Mhz
8MB RAM
100MB HD
1.44" Floppy Drive
2X CD-ROM Drive
->1994 ($2000)

486DX4/100
100Mhz
32MB RAM
540MB HD
1.44" Floppy Drive
4X CD-ROM Drive
->1995? (+$250 - upgraded to this from above)

 

[AndrewR]

Apple II+, 64K RAM, year?? Can't remember.

Oh, yeah, it had DUAL 5.25" floppies -- it was THAT badass!

 

[bluestrobe]

08/1997

233mhz P2
Shuttle Spacewalker motherboard
64MB EDO
5.1GB Hitachi HD
24X NEC CDROM
S3 Virge PCI 4MB
AWE64 ISA Sound Blaster