What was your first Computer?

[fuzzynavel]

spectrum 48k......followed by a few atari games consoles (2600 &7200??not sure) then was the commodore amiga.....

Then I convinced my parents to part with £2500 for a Pentium 133Mhz...were we ripped off.....was right at the top of the line then!!! with the 3dfx voodoo graphics!

 

[MDE]

AMD K6-2 400 overclocked to 430
PC Chips M598LMR motherboard
onboard video, upgraded to a PCI Radeon 32MB SDR
10GB 5400RPM WD hard drive, upgraded to a 60GB later on
Crappy 14" Dell monitor (still works actually )
64MB PC100 (upgraded to 128, then 384)

Then I moved up to an Athlon XP 2600+, 512MB RAM, GF4 Ti 4600, 17" Sony Trinitron monitor and all was right with the world

 

[AJPatel]

IBM 486 computer with a monochrome monitor

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Hurricane Andrew
Ha! How about a TI99/4A? I learned BASIC on that thing. Memorizing the code for a quick bubble sort helped my team take 3rd in the state computer fair back in like '83 or something. Forgot most of it though...

Talk about bringing back memories. I still have a 99/4 (as well as the 'A' version) laying around. And the joysticks and tape cable and a few decent game cartridges

I remember the thrill of saving my banking data to a cassette tape. It was so exciting. And writing in BASIC...

 

[mindwreck]

8088 based packard bell
25mb hdd
5 in floppy
don't remember the rest
still runs today

 

[bocamojo]

First one the family had was a 286. First one I bought and owned by myself was a 386SX 20Mhz with 105MB hard drive, 4MB RAM and both 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppy drives. CD-ROMS hadn't come out yet. Later upgraded the system from DOS to Windows 3.11 for workgroups and added a 1 Speed CD-ROM. Before I was done with it, I maxed out the memory at 8MB RAM, and added an x586 processor that upped the CPU speed to around 100MHz.

 

[Archman]

Wow, talk about a lot of interesting computers... some must be collector items

 

[Lalakai]

Kaypro "lug-able". One of very first portable. Mono screen (about 5"), 1 5.25 floppy, no hd, and want to say it only had 64k ram.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

some sort of PowerMacintosh---a Quadra 610 or....something....not sure at all.....

 

[Loop2kil]

I got the cheap 1 @ $3500 from a local pc shop in 1990

pentium 60
420 mb hd
onboard 1mb video
14.4 us robotics
8 mb ram...lol
14" vga monitor
lexmark color printer
2x creative cdrom

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Orginal IBM PC with 4.77MHz CPU, 16Kb of RAM. We bought RAM chips to fill the on-motherboard RAM (64KB I believe), and installed two full height 360K 5 1/4 floppies.

After a couple of yearas, it had been upgraded with a new crystal (~6-7 Mhz), 2 half-height 1.2 Meg HD 5 1/4 floppies, and a half-height 10Meg Hard drive. Also had about 2 Meg of expanded memory on a card for a RAM disk. We could load all of Wordperfect into the RAM disk. Boy was that fast!

 

[6000SUX]

A Packard Bell 486-SX2 50Mhz. It was a sexy beige color, came with a whopping 4MB of RAM and a 350MB hard disk, and proudly proclaimed via a sticker on the top that it met the latest multimedia standards. It was a gift from my mom. Like all Packard Bells, it only accepted proprietary-format PB cards.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Tandy 1000...it had no hard drive, no modem, nothing...but it came with Prodigy online service prepackaged??? Nice of them to package something you needed a modem to use...hehe

 

[Night Blade]

First computer was the Vic20, still have that thing sitting around at my Dad's house, should check it out sometime .

First PC was a clone DX2/66 machine, 16mb ram, 1mb video, 512mb hd, 14" monitor, 14.4k USR sportster, Windows 95. Cost me around $2300 CDN!

First expierence with a computer was a Commodore Pet & Apple II back in public school in the late 70's or early 80's, still remember seeing Centipede on the Apple II, first time i've ever seen a game on a machine other than from the arcade & I was in awe.

 

[ts3433]

Mac Plus. This was in the early 1990s, when I wasn't in school yet.

First build was last fall.

 

[thecrecarc]

the first computer that was actually MINE is the one im using now. amd xp 1800 128 mb ati 9200 adn 512 ram! BOOYA!

 

[thegimp03]

HP Pavilion

75 mhz
8 mb ram
4x cd-rom

Use to love playing Monster Truck Madness on that thing.

 

[Skotos]

custom built

pentium 2 400mhz
384mb ram
8xcdrom
and Ati 3d rage pro

 

[Novaoblivion]

My very first was some really old IBM I cant even remember the name of it but I took it apart and when I put it back together it never worked again lol. My first windows pc was a 200mhz p1 with 32mb ram 1.5gb hdd a all in wonder and win 95 lol.

 

[Evenkeel]

Okay, I'm really going to date myself, but my first computer (that I really used) was a Leading Edge. My first, first computer was this bizarre little keypad thing made by Timex in--believe it or not--Scotland. It hooked up to the TV. Can't remember much about it, but it probably just used a simple, BASIC-type language, and didn't really do anything.

The Leading Edge came w/two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I remember at one point I upgraded to a 10 MB hard drive--and that was a big deal at the time, not to have to keep swapping out 5" floppies!

Boy, green monochrome screens--now that takes me back!

 

[yokomo]

OH man the good old days... some kind of com64 with the tape drive and if you screwed up and grabbed the wrong unlabled tape you were lost for life...

 

[Rankor]

Gateway 2000

Intel 486SX-25MHz

 

[Robor]

Family = Apple 2e

Before that a friend had a some sort of Tandy. Don't think it was a TRS-80 but maybe. If not it was in that era.

 

[IGBT]

...Commador 128/64 and I also have an Amiga 500..still have em. What should I do wit em??

 

[Whiznot]

My first PC was a leading Edge model D with an 8088 processor circa 1987. The first microcomputer I used was a Wang tape drive unit circa 1974.