What was your first computer?

[GimpyOne]

Well, far enough back, but we first had a TI/99 4a, the cool silver one with the giant cartridge slot. I remember writing code to make little squares bounce all over the screen, or a millipede to wander down the screen and change colors.

We then also ended up with the IBM PC-jr a few years later. I remeber the 128Kb expansion was about 4in x 1in x 12in long. A giant cartridge that plugged onto the side.

 

[TGHI]

Anyone remember the Commodore PET? I do....

 

[Cawchy87]

Compaq

Celeron 266.

Had that until 2 years ago.

 

[2Xtreme21]

PC Junior. 'nuff said.

 

[tinyabs]

Originally posted by: SourTimes
First computer was from my folks when I was 15. IBM XT 8MhZ, 640k, cga, 5meg hard drive i think it was.

I don't even have a harddisk. Just a dual 360K floppy.

circa 11 years old
1988 - PC/XT 4.77MHz, 8MHz Turbo, CGA
1991 - used 286 12MHz, broken after first start cos took out a RAM chip., EGA
1995 - Cyrix x86 100MHz, S3 Virge
1995 - AMD 486DX4-120MHz, Tseng 4000
2000 - Celeron 300MHz (OC to 450MHz), GeForce2
2001 - AMD 1.4G ThunderBird, GF2
2002 - AMD 2000XP (Palamino), GF2
2003 - AMD 3200XP (Barton), 9800XT
to 26 years old

 

[raanemaan]

Originally posted by: fkloster
Commadore Vic-20

Had a cassette recorder to save the programs. Got it from K Mart

 

[nxh]

packard bell pentium 100 (slow) 14" monitor and
windows 3.11 w/ free upgrade to windows 95 with 8mb ram for $2300 on sale at compusa.
later upgraded an additional 8mb of ram for $400 extra

 

[thegimp03]

HP P1 75 mhz, 1.2 gb hd, 16 mb ram, 4x cdrom.

 

[imported_smilingcrow]

Originally posted by: raanemaan
Had a cassette recorder to save the programs. Got it from K Mart

Cassette recorder! I used to dream about cassette recorders, I had to use cuneiform to save programs. Dragging up the clay tablets from the river and laying them down in the sun to dry used to take a fair bit of time. And people complain these days if the access time on their disk drives is over 10 ms. Huh.

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
PC Junior. 'nuff said.

I am SO glad my first PC was a Tandy 1000SX. That was the first of the Tandy 1000's that were totally un-proprietary. 50% faster than the 4.77MHz IBM PC (7.14MHz!) Came with 384k that was easily upgraded to the 640k maximum a few years later.

More important, that PCjr near-EGA 16 colour graphics and cool 3-voice sound made all my friends with CGA, Hercules monochrome and one-horrible-note PC Squeaker OHHhhh so jealous!

Then I got the first AdLib card loong before anyone. It was my house people wanted to see the games at! Pity 5.25" floppy was sooooo slow.... at least I had two of them.

 

[Megatomic]

My first box was an Atari 600XL with cassette drive and floppy drive. I actually wasted my time and learned basic on that POS.

 

[salvorhardin]

My first PC was a IBM P2 300, 8GB, 64MB RAM, 4MB ATI Rage Pro. Was my main computer for 6 years until i built my current computer that's in my sig.

 

[Bugler]

Apple IIc. In law school, my friend had one and everyday at lunch, we went to his nearby apartment and played some olympic game. It got me hooked so I bought one. I even used it for school work once in a while. It was 1986.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

the first computer i ever used wasn't really mine, it was something i saw at the private skool i used to go to in pre-k and kindergarden, it was this really old IBM or Mac (hell i don't remember) that had a green-and-black screen, ran no OS whatsoever, you just plopped a 5.25'er in there and fired her up, damn, the only crap they'd let us play was reader rabbit, they had a COLOR one in the pre-k class after i moved onto 1st grade.

i got my first PC when i was like 6 years old:
HP Pentium 200 MMX (dude, i remember telling friends i could control the apollo spacecraft with it )
32 MB RAM
A whopping 3.8 GB harddrive made by what is now Seagate (that thing was LOUD)
Quote directly from label on PC, still have it "2 MB of EDO Video Memory for High Resolution Graphics and Gaming", lmao, dude, that thing had an S3 Virge in it, i was playing games no one else could
33kbps Fax Modem, the thing came with videophone software i never used
and it had a 15" monitor with it i STILL use today, this thing ran my dad like 2000 dollars

lucky number 2, also an HP
AMD Athlon 900 MHz
128 MB of RAM
uh-oh, uh-oh, oh yeah, nVidia Vanta LT! whoo!
40 gig HD
first person on the block with a burner, 4x2x16, also first with a dvd

number 3, guess who made this one? HP!
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
512 MB RAM
16x4x32 burner (i think)
pioneer 16x dvd (the one everyone had)
crappy prosavage gfx
60 gb HD

my current rig, made by yours truly
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 3200+ (most of the times)
512 MB RAM
2x 120 GB SATA HDD
GeForce FX 5700
pioneer dvr-107 and some samsung dvd cdrw combo drive

 

[WW2Planes1]

1. TI-99 Although i really don't remember it that well, my parents had it when i was 5 or something... i think its still in the attic

2. Amiga 500 (also still in the attic) also where both myself and my mom developed addictions to SimCity. man those are good games.

3. Cyrix 486DX66 w/ a 500MB hard drive (i remember this is where i first learned what a hard drive really was. for the longest time, i thought the old 5 1/4" floppies that my elemtary school used in their apples were floppies, and the 3 1/2" disks the Amiga used were hard disks... oh come on, i know almost all of the people here thought that)

4. Pentium MMX 166 later upgrated to a 233. 3.2GB hard drive (i remember when i thought that was more space than i could ever possibly fill)

5. Homebuilt Athlon 1.333c downgraded to Duron 750 after a catasrophe, upgraded to an Athlon 1800, then dismantled to provide parts for....

6. Homebuild Athlon 64 3000+ (now i've got 360GB of unformatted, and i think I need more... funny how times change.)

 

[nortexoid]

yeah, a lot of new school users here...

ATARI 800XL w/ tape drive

8086 w/ 5.25" Floppy, later upgraded to RLF 10MB HDD; 512K RAM

IBM PS2 with 20MB SCSI Microchannel HDD 8Mhz 286; 1MB RAM

Cyrix (?) 486SLC 33MHz - soldered onto the board; 4MB RAM; 40MB notebook HDD w/ adapter

UMC U5 486SX 40MHz - had more cache than Intel/AMD chips

Intel Overdrive (5.0V) 486DX2 66MHz

AMD 486DX4 100MHz on a tomato board

Cyrix PR166

AMD K5 350MHz OC'ed to 450MHz

AMD K7 700MHz Slot A

AMD Duron 1.1GHz

Intel Banias (Centrino) 1.4GHz

 

[LongAce]

Originally posted by: 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!!

looks similar to mine except mine was a clone without the harddrive and 3.5 floppy.

 

[Painman]

First was that wonderful Coleco Adam, it set itself on fire after a week :Q

Replaced that with a Commodore 64 and 1541 disk drive. Good times.

 

[Pavica]

33mhz 486SX
7,xxx KB RAM
240MB HDD
Windows 3.11

 

[nageov3t]

I forget the brand, but I remember the specs...

100 MHz Intel
8 MB RAM
4 GB hard drive
integrated 14.4 modem
1 PCI slot
and a bunch of ISA slots

I remember the day I upgraded to 32 MB. that was pretty sweet

 

[TStep]

-First computer I ever used - a punch card reader at a summer long computer school when I was a kid (late 70's). Yes, I did drop the shoebox full of card on the way from the puncher to the reader.

-First sort of computer I owned - Mattel Intellivision ('79 or '80?)

-First sort of Laptop - HP41 programmable calculator (mid 80's and still use it today), When I got a job surveying this thing was the nuts. Save oodles of longhand trig calculations. You could either write your own programs in HP's special language or buy the plugin modules. By far the single most important and productive computer I have ever owned.

-First desktop - a 286 something (late 80's?) - too long ago to remember. Was sort of a waste of $$$ since I used the HP41 for work. However, I got a few COGO and design programs that I eventually used.

 

[Mem]

Commodore 64 followed by Atari ST and Amiga A500,after that is was 486DX-66 .

The Commodore 64 and Amiga had some classic awesome games.

 

[ectx]

ibm xt

 

[ed21x]

an Apple IIe Those 5.25'' diskettes are badass. I later moved onto a Macintosh LCIII (the most stable, dependable, rock solid, never crashed in 20 years, system I've ever owned-- and still occasionally use to back up papers and important files. After that, it was all IBM- cheap and functional

 

[TreyRandom]

Timex Sinclair 1000