What was your first Computer?

[Horsepower]

IBM PC didn't even know about speeds then, 2-5.25 floppy drives, NO hard drive. Color monitor, Hayes modem, Okidata printer. Costed me $5500.

 

[l Xes l]

386 w/ windows 3.0! >_<

 

[apoppin]

Atari 800xl . . .

. . . . way back when

 

[Greenman]

A Timex Sinclare, little tiny thing. You could use just about any tape recorder for storage, and any tv for a screen.

 

[RichUK]

A Pentium 100Mhz Fujitsu dogshite ... ohh i remember those days ... good old memories, i remember when i used to type a 5 line paragraph in word or wordpad what ever it was ... over half an hour i think it used to take me ... and i remember the only thing i new how to do was navigate through the programs list in win 95 (to the games that was) i cant remember the size of the HDD but i remember when i bought Unreal (the original) it took pretty much all the HDD space..

haha man that was a long time ago

 

[Umberger]

Apple IIGs

 

[ecvs85]

386 DX 16Mhz
2MB ram (forgot which type)
onboard video
120MB hdd
5 1/4" floppy
3 1/2" floppy
no sound
NEC pinwriter

running primary on DOS, with windows 3.1. You gotta love this thing without any need for heatsinks

 

[deathwalker]

Compaq 486 SX25...what a screamer..hehe...and it cost a fortune at compusa..if i remember right it was over $2000

 

[robertcloud]

first was a Tandy 386 running windows 3.1
then was a pentium 75 mhz running windows 3 but later upgraded to 95
then a pentium 166 which came w/ win 95
then a p3 450 which came with win 98 and a riva TNT2 ultra video card
then an apple powerbook 867 mhz G4
then dell p4 desktop
then athlon 64

 

[santaliqueur]

apple IIgs, 1 MHz/2.8MHZ cpu, 128 kb ram, no hard drive. still works, too.

CJ

 

[cecco]

Commodore 64 with huge double density floppy drive and tape player.

LOAD "*",8,1

 

[imported_Mitchell]

Commodore VIC-20. Then I moved up to a 386 25Mhz, to bad it only ran at 8Mhz, bad motherboard I think. But that was back in the day where it cost a fortune to get stuff fixed so I lived with it.

I ran a BBS with a 300Baud modem!

 

[SlitheryDee]

I had a Packard Bell Pentium 75mhz w/ 4mb RAM whan I was 12 or so. The first computer I built was a K6-2 300mhz w 32mb RAM a couple years later.

 

[CalvinHobbs]

P III 800EB, 64MB, 20Gig HDD was my first pc and then upgraded it along the way till my A3500+

 

[Swanny]

K6-2 450Mhz
9.1Gb HD (7200 RPM was hot stuff back then)
128Mb SDRAM
Voodoo 3 3000

 

[airfoil]

My first 'computer' was a Sinclair Spectrum, circa 1986. I believe it had 64 kb RAM and loaded/stored programs on an audio tape.

My first PC was a Pentium 166, with a 2gb HDD, 32 mb EDO RAM and a crappy 2 MB SiS PCI video card (9215?).

 

[Sforsyth]

I bought an 486 for the local college about 8 years ago when they updagraded, after that it was a AMD 333 I think K-6 or K-5

 

[TP]

486dx with cutting edge windows95 technology

 

[LxMxFxD2]

I got you beat. Although I sort of owned a 486 DX4 100mhz AMD for a while, the first one I purchased with my own money was:

P90
16MB DRAM
850MB HD
4X CD ROM
2MB ATI video card
14.4kbps modem (28.8 was too expensive!)
Ensoniq elite sound card (this wasy waay before they were purchased)
15" CRT
Rolling ball mouse & crappy keyboard
Cheap ass speakers
Got it 5 days after win95 was released like, 9/5/1995

This thing cost me $2300!!!!!!!! And it was a bargain at that price. Ram was $40/meg then!

Lets see, what did it lack:

No network card
No USB
No Firewire
No FAN on the heatsink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No stability!!!!

 

[TechHead87]

My VERY first computer was some Tandy-looking setup with an ungodly green display. I couldn't begin to tell you any system specs. It had some version of Ms-DOS. Very old and tired.

My REAL first system was a Fingerhut special...Cyrix 233Mhz chip on some mobo that was SUPERGLUED to the case...a 2gb hard drive....32mb RAM (i think), and a CD-ROM.

The first system that I built was basically a hand-me-down system of my older cousins (who originally got me into this comp-tech thing). P3 700Mhz, Asus mobo (can't remember exact model), 8gb HD, 32mb video card, generic sound card that came with system listed ^^above. Cousin originally put all the parts together, and basically sold me the main parts that he was replacing, and we put them together with some of my old Fingerhut leftovers.

 

[daniel49]

packard bell platinum series.
1.2 gb hd
1mb onboard video memory upgradeable to 2 mb
16 mb ram
windows95

still runs today

 

[nygiftinc]

apple II double floppy 64kb

 

[Amplifier]

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[Suspicious-Teach8788]

First:

Some 286 with Windows 3.0
DUAL 5.25" Floppy drives (OMFG thats like BURNING ON THE FLY)
640kb memory
So little HD space, I couldn't install a 5.25" floppy of games that my uncle gave me =(
But this was a company pc my mom brought home

First real comp:

P90
1GB SCSI drive (wewt)
16MB RAM (later upgraded to 48)
2mb Diamond Stealth 64
M$ ball mouse using serial
PS1 Keyboard
Some Creative sound card.. was it SOUND BLASTER back then?
Win 95 was released 2 months later... so I had 3.1

I OCed this computer in my freshman year (5 years later) to 100 MHz, and tried 120 but wasn't stable. 100 ran well =).

Lets see I got a 14.4k modem some time later from a friend, but we never paid for internet, so I never could go online =(. It was only until my mom got an ISDN line and brought a unix machine home that I could go online. Then the P2 266 that she brought home was godlike because I could finally install Flight Simulator 98.. YEAaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The first system I built is my current system in my sig. Sad isn't it. February (winter break) 2001 of my freshman year. I am currently on my laptop that I bought in senior year before going to college.

So yea.

1) 286
2) Pentium 90
3) Pentium 266 (my mom's comp really)
4) K6-2 400
5) Athlon 1100 (upgrade to 1400)
6) Dothan 1.8
7) Athlon 64 3700+ (HAHAHA I'M DREAMING of this one)