What was your first computer?

[Gamingphreek]

Ill tell you guys right now here are my systems in the order i had them.

1. Atari.. 5 1/4 played Jumpman, Pac Man and Popeye on it. (Had to be aroiund 6 years old)

2. 486DX 33mhz (upgraded to 66mhz later) (Not older than 8)
ISA soundblaster card
Number 9 2mb Graphics Card
8mb of RAM (The stuff before EDO SIMM)
DOUBLE (Zoom) speed CD-Rom drive
floppy drives
14 inch monitor
Stereo Speakers
816mb HDD

3. Cyrix PR166 @133mhz (Later Upgraded to a Pentium 166mhz NON mmx) (No older than 9)
Unknown board
Same rest of stuff as above with Voodoo 2 12mb

4. AMD K6-2 400 (Later 2 450 and finally 500) (Around 11-12)
VIA 503+
Nvidia Riva 128ZX w/ Voodoo 2 12mb and Monster 3d 2 8mb(Later Upgraded to a TNT2 M64)
32mb of EDO (Later 64mb EDO after that 128mb of SDRAM DIMM then 192mb DIMM finally 384mb
DIMM)
Soundblaster 16 PCI
Various SPeeds CD-ROM
16xDVD Rom (Boy did DVD's crawl)

5. AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (14)
ECS K7AMA (Later K7S5A then MSI K7N2 Delta-L)
Geforce 2Mx (later upgraded 2 Geforce 2 Ti)
Soundblaster Ensoniq Audio PCI
384mb DIMM (Later 512mb DDR 2700)

6. AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (15-16)
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Geforce 2 Ti (Later to Geforce FX 5900XT)
512mb DDR 2700
Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI (Later to SB Live then finally to Soundstorm)
New case and what not...

7. ???? Who knows until next year around this time

If you want to list em all but hey first system is fine... just wanted to list my background

Hope you guys enjoy reminiscing!!

-Kevin

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Apple IIc.

- M4H

 

[Regs]

A compaq P2. Integrated graphics with a 7 Gig hard drive. Windows NT 3.51. It was a type writer with a monitor.

 

[CraigRT]

first machine was an IBM PS/1 286 /8MHz with 640K RAM, and a 40meg hard drive.
even had a 3.5" floppy instead of a 5.25.. it was futuristic!!

 

[fkloster]

Commadore Vic-20

 

[globalcitizen]

My dad's old Mac laptop back in 95. I was too young to remember the model name. But I learnt most of my basic stuff on that. Ironic that I find it hard to navigate OS 10 now.

 

[JE78]

1. AST - 486DX2/66 4mb ram (upgraded to 8mb) 30mb HDD Got that back in 1994 I think

2. Packard Bell - P1 233MMX, 4gb HDD. Upgraded to a VooDoo3 16mb PCI card and a Mitsumi 4x2x24x CD-RW

3. HP 7940 - 1GIG processor, 128ram, 40GB HDD. Upgraded to a ATI 7500 PCI.

4. P4 2.53, 512mb PC 2700, maxtor 60gb, and westren digital 200gb HDD, ATI 9000 128mb, NEC 3500 DVD-RW, Toshebia 16x DVD-ROM, Sound Blaster Live 5.1 sound card. ATI TV Tunner card.

 

[apoppin]

Atari 800
:shocked:

Miner2049er. PacMan, Centipede . . . word processing . . . programing in DOS
(good times?!?)
:roll:

 

[Matthias99]

Man, you guys are new-school.

The very first? The oldest one I remember being in my parents' house (that I used, anyway) was an IBM AT 8086 running at a whopping 4Mhz (I think, or maybe it was 2Mhz...)! Yay DOS 3.0 and 4-color CGA graphics!

The first system that was "mine" (in the sense that my parents bought it specifically for me to use, since I was in elemetary school ) was a Mac Classic (the old black-and-white "fishbowl" Mac), fitted with an external 20MB SCSI hard drive (which was the size of a large book and very noisy). Both are still sitting in my parents' basement, but sadly, I think the BIOS chip or RAM in the system is shot, since it wouldn't boot the last time I tried plugging it in (I got a frowny Mac icon.)

 

[naruto1988]

a sony vaio $4k package
basic specs were P1 200 megahertz, 32 ram, 2 meg ati rage, 3 gig hard drive.

 

[piasabird]

Tandy 1000A with one 360k disk drive. Later spent like $250 for a 20 Meg Hard Drive.

 

[Kasper4christ]

First computer i remember was our old Comodore 64, I could play pitfall on that thing..it was awesome.. also was the first computer I ever took apart (it broke, bad Cmos battery or something) funny thing, I learned back in computer class, the thing had NO hard drive.. lol..

 

[Hulk]

Atari 800

I still have it and the Assembly Language programming cartridge.

 

[ethebubbeth]

old IBM XT my dad had... wow that was a long time ago >_<)

 

[GnomeCop]

amd 386 25mhz 8mb ram 80mg hd
tseng labs video, no sound card
5.25 floppy
3.5" floppy
no cdrom

 

[peacemaker1ps]

Comapq 433mhz.

I still have it.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: fkloster
Commadore Vic-20

Me too. Shows our age. circa 1982

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: fkloster
Commadore Vic-20

Me too. Shows our age. circa 1982

Yup, me too. I had the uber Datassette and 4 game cartidges, it was a smokin system!

 

[Heretik]

Commodore 64 with 1541 floppy drive.

Also did my first mod on the Commodore 64. Took an old SID chip from a broken C64 and put it in the other for "stereo" effect.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

some amiga thing i duno it was like a computer and keybaord intergrated together, and it had a floppy drive. also had a SEGA Master System....that thing rocked

pc wise

1. Packard Bell something.....Pentium 100mhz (non mmx) win 95, upgraded to 40mb ram, 10gb hdd ?
4 speed cd drive, and 4mb graphics

2.Tiny (god what a sh!te comapny) P3 650mhz (slot 1) 128mb PC100 (upgraded to 256 once i put xp on), Msi apollo mobo, creative somethig sound, Nvidia TNT2 M64 pro 32mb, 20gb 5400rpm drive, 4 speed cd-rw.

3.custom built .... (dont let it fool u its still sh!t) Athlon xp2000, 256mb pc2100 (upgraded to 512 later) 40gb IBM 7200 drive (added a 40gb WD drive later) MSI KT3 Ultra 2. 32speed cd-rw, Geforce 4 MX440. (hey i was impressed by how good 3dmark 2000 looked!! conartist computer fair!!!) this was later upgraded to a geforce 3 ti200, then a radeon 9500pro

3. P4 2.4A, 768 Mb RDRAM (Rambus) PC800, 80gb WD HDD, audigy 1, put the 9500pro in it. thermal takes thermo-electric cooling system.

4. Athlon 64 3200 (newcastle) 1GB Geil Value DDR400 (cas 2.5 4 4 8) Asus K8N-E Deluxe, Audigy 2 6.1, leadtek 6800gt, enermax noisetaker, iiyama prolite e431s-b, antec p160 case, logitech z-3 2.1 speakers, avermedia dvb-t digital tv reciever. nec ND2510A dual layer 8 speed dvd rw. few other bits n bobs

 

[lrmat]

comodore 128. i loved it.

 

[Kabob]

Gateway P90. Good ol 90MHz Pentium, it was top of the line when we got it in '92. 695MB hard drive, 8MB RAM (Later upped to 16) 2x CD-Rom drive, the works! My first game ever on it was the original Tie Fighter game from Lucasarts...came on 5 floppy disks...what a game!

-Kabob

 

[Trey22]

My first PC was a $2500 P1 120mhz, 16MB RAM, 2.1GB HD, ?X CD Drive, Soundblaster16, 15" monitor. No modem, that was another hundred bucks for a 14.4.

 

[cheesehead]

Computer #1(given to me by uncle who no longer needed it):
Commodore 64 with no upgrades. I had a game called "Tink" which I played relentlessly as a three-year-old.

Computer #2(for parents' use):
Apple Quadra 650, 33mhz 68k processor, 16mb of RAM, 500 mb hard drive, poky graphics, and a remarkably decent 15" monitor-all for the low, low price of 2500$!

Computer #3my folks', once again)
Gateway PIII 350, Nvidia GEforce graphics (8mb), 64 mb RAM, 10 gb hard drive

Computer #4 (MINE-but it's dead....anyone want an ibook LCD?):
Apple Ibook G3 800mhz 100mhz FSB 256k cache, 640mb PC133 (effectivelyPC100), 16mb ATI Radeon 7000, Combo Drive, 30gb hard drive, 12.1" LCD, mac OSX 10.2.8

Computer #5 (should be here on the 11th):
Compaq Presario R3000z, A64 3000+, 256mb of RAM (soon to be 768mb), 64mb GEforce4 MX 440, 8x(!) DVD-ROM drive, 40gb 4200rpm hard drive, 15.4" WXGA LCD, 54g wireless, assorted other random goodies.

 

[Ricemarine]

Sony Vaio

233 MHz (yeah baby, it was fast back then)
4 GB HDD
Zip Drive
a nice 4X CD-Rom Drive
Some kind of ram I frgt, but we later added 128 mb that was slow.
14.4k modem..

Had all the old games, space pinball, chips challenge, hover, oh yeah... Civilization 2 and Mechwarrior II. Good times...