Your first computer.

Post by **ccb056** » January 24th, 2004, 12:46 am

What was your first desktop computer?

NEC
75mhz Pentium 1
8mb EDO RAM (upgraded to 16mb)
1GB hard drive
Floppy Drive
28.8k modem
Windows 95

Smartweb · Post by **Smartweb** » January 24th, 2004, 4:43 am

I don't remember exactly, I was two:

- some not too many MHz cpu
- 2 MB Ram
- 128 MB HDD
- monitor
- Some version of Dos
- No CD Drive
- 5.25 and 3.5 " Floppy drives

Manufactured by IBM

Costed about $3,000. About 1991.

Sumpin_Wong · Post by **Sumpin_Wong** » March 26th, 2004, 7:50 am

Commador VIC 20

I don't remember any of the specs, I just remember I couldn't get anything other than <SYNTAX ERROR> to appear on the screen.. lol

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » April 11th, 2004, 3:05 pm

I used to have on of then old spectrum things! Then I got a Dell and it still runs!

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » April 11th, 2004, 7:50 pm

I cant even remember my first pc

Axe · Post by **Axe** » April 11th, 2004, 9:23 pm

My first computer was an Amstrad CPC464... oooh, absolutely wonderful machine, with its whopping 64K ram, built-in tape-drive. I even had a colour monitor

My first PC was a 286 10Mhz, 3Meg RAM, 1Meg Cirrus Logic graphics card. Hot lil machine - Wolf3D was smooth as a baby's butt

Then I went up to a Dell Dimension 450v (486DX2/50, 8Meg RAM, 2x Panasonic CD-Rom drive, 1Meg VesaLB Cirrus Logic video, 15" Monitor). Was the best money could buy at the time. Kinda pathetic & weedy now though

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » April 11th, 2004, 9:27 pm

Axe · Post by **Axe** » April 11th, 2004, 9:29 pm

and proud of it

smileymattj · Post by **smileymattj** » November 21st, 2004, 11:20 pm

mine was an old Tandy 1000, i forget the exact one, i cant find one that looks like it, its not like the others i see, but its been a long long time since ive seen it. that thing was awsome i could print in red, black, green, or blue, and take all night to print a pic of a christmas tree, i went to sleep many nights with the joyous loulybye of a dot matrix tandy printer.

Nolano · Post by **Nolano** » November 25th, 2004, 10:26 pm

Pentium 2 266 with 32mb of ram and a 2mb integrated gfx.

Custom_Build · Post by **Custom_Build** » January 2nd, 2005, 10:55 pm

Wow, my first kind of out-paces many here lol (and I thought I had it bad).

Intel Celeron 400MHz @ 66FSB
Onboard Rage 128 8MB
128MB PC133 RAM
Integraded Audio
Windows 98

Thats about all I can remember. I actually ended up adding a Radeon 7000 64MB and 256MB of RAM a few years down the line and did quite well with Tribes 2 and some of the newer games at the time.

xandersen · Post by **xandersen** » February 20th, 2005, 2:22 am

my first personal machine still runs, actually, im on it right now, lol. PII 300 mhz 192 mb ram (3x64) running Win98 SE as long as you keep it clean and have almost no unnessesary processes it runs just as effeciently as a friends celeron, I love it

The_Man · Post by **The_Man** » February 20th, 2005, 4:01 am

Mine was 25 Mhz Pentium Processor 12 Mb ram Windows 3.1 a sound blaster sound card that all i remember

indomidable · Post by **indomidable** » March 12th, 2005, 6:59 am

1984 - Radio Shack TRS-80 My first personal not shared PC was in 1992 80386-25SX Ran DOS 6.0 or 3.1 can't recall wich. If DOS 6.0 then I had windows 3.0 if 3.1 I had Windows 1.0

Riker · Post by **Riker** » March 12th, 2005, 5:08 pm

486 DX2 66 MHz 4 megs of ram, or was it 8 2x cd-rom drive 420 Mb hdd Windows 3.11 14 or 15" monitor

Arnoldt301 · Post by **Arnoldt301** » April 8th, 2005, 4:56 pm

Mine was a Tandy 1000. Not sure on the specs or anything other than that it was a Tandy 1000. Still have it also, it is sitting in my parents attic with the original box. One day I will pull it out and turn it on and stare at the dos menu.

JIM2003 · Post by **JIM2003** » May 2nd, 2005, 11:59 pm

My family got ours when I was 5. Gateway 33mhz 8mb RAM 4mb video 5.25 and 3.5 floppy 1x CD Rom soundblaster card 500 mb HDD

Xitech · Post by **Xitech** » May 19th, 2005, 12:11 am

OMG I had one of the old tandy's too!! That thing was soooo sorry, but it ran some awesome games on that 5.25" drive, which I still have, running on xp. Figure that one out;)

Tisumi · Post by **Tisumi** » May 30th, 2005, 12:20 pm

I know it was an old Compaq atleast 1995 Maybe older I was 7 at the time so it was about two years old when we got it. But the first one with the internet is the one I have right now. A Dell Dimension 2400

simon · Post by **simon** » June 6th, 2005, 11:41 am

AMD K6-450Mhz, 32mb ram, tnt card and a modem. It was fine running Unreal TOurnament but it was dead slow!

scf2510 · Post by **scf2510** » July 21st, 2005, 1:50 pm

I had an IBM Aptiva only remember it having a 2.4 speed modem took a really long time to download a **** picture

quickpcrepair · Post by **quickpcrepair** » July 21st, 2005, 4:40 pm

8088 IBM clone, Hercules graphics adapater (simulated CGA using monochrome!), dual 5 1/4 floppy drives, 20 MB hard card hard drive. I got Quest for Glory II - Trial by Fire that Christmas, and was hooked on computers ever since!

CrashCore · Post by **CrashCore** » July 22nd, 2005, 5:30 am

Riker wrote:486 DX2 66 MHz 4 megs of ram, or was it 8 2x cd-rom drive 420 Mb hdd Windows 3.11 14 or 15" monitor

I'm guessing mine was something like this. My family maybe got it in '94, I at least remember it's OS was Win3.1. Gotta love good old 3.1.

AMD modder · Post by **AMD modder** » August 31st, 2005, 5:09 pm

My first computer is the one im using that i built about a year ago. Its and AMD athlon 2500xp+ on an abit-an7 mobo, it has 512mb DDR400 RAM. It also has a Nvidia Geforce FX5700LE 256MB graphics card and a win TV PCI card. Storage wise i have a Maxtor 40gb and a western digital 200gb and i also have a dual layer dvd burner. If you're wondering how i managed to build this, its because i did my work experience at a computer shop and i learnt to build computers while i was there.

beblet · Post by **beblet** » October 2nd, 2005, 3:56 pm

Windows 98 300 MHZ 2GB thats all i remember, i was 8.

Derekmpage · Post by **Derekmpage** » October 6th, 2005, 10:21 pm

Power mac 550 or somthing 133 mgz .94 gig hard drive cd rom 56 mb or memory i used to play Full Throttle on it all the time.

im_an_alien · Post by **im_an_alien** » October 21st, 2005, 3:49 pm

I don't remember much 1GB Hard drive 100MHz cpu 40 or 50 something speed cd-rom

leceur · Post by **leceur** » November 1st, 2005, 9:31 am

LOL. A 8086 8Mhz (with Turbo button 10Mhz) 650KB ram (Yes KB!) 20MB HDD 1 x 3,5" and 1 x 5,25" floppy drive's Hercules video card Black/White screen

Xitech · Post by **Xitech** » November 2nd, 2005, 6:12 pm

Jeez, that's the worst yet. I'm going to go cry now. While I'm doing that, you might want to go look for that computer, because NASA still buys the 8086 chips and boards and I've seen them pay up to 500$ for them before.

dea old fart · Post by **dea old fart** » December 19th, 2005, 6:30 pm

The first computer that I worked on did not have any storage other than the 16 k of ram it had in it. It was a comador 16 pre dated the vic by a few years in fact the 16 had no drives at all and you had to type in every program you wanted to play and if it got turned off you had to start all over again. It took days to put in a program of the easiest nature. I don,t even remeber when we got the books with th programs in them to put in the thing. I remeber when tape drives came out and it took only 15 minutes to a half an hour to get a program running it was quite the thing at the time lol.

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