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Your first computer.

Posted: January 24th, 2004, 12:46 am
by ccb056
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

Posted: January 24th, 2004, 4:43 am
by Smartweb
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.

Posted: March 26th, 2004, 7:50 am
by Sumpin_Wong
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

Posted: April 11th, 2004, 3:05 pm
by Matrix
I used to have on of then old spectrum things! Then I got a Dell and it still runs!

Posted: April 11th, 2004, 7:50 pm
by Tebow2000
I cant even remember my first pc

Posted: April 11th, 2004, 9:23 pm
by Axe
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 :D

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 :mrgreen:

Posted: April 11th, 2004, 9:27 pm
by Tebow2000
oldy

Posted: April 11th, 2004, 9:29 pm
by Axe
and proud of it :)

Posted: November 21st, 2004, 11:20 pm
by smileymattj
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.

Posted: November 25th, 2004, 10:26 pm
by Nolano
Pentium 2 266 with 32mb of ram and a 2mb integrated gfx.

wow

Posted: January 2nd, 2005, 10:55 pm
by Custom_Build
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.

Posted: February 20th, 2005, 2:22 am
by xandersen
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

Posted: February 20th, 2005, 4:01 am
by The_Man
Mine was 25 Mhz Pentium Processor 12 Mb ram Windows 3.1 a sound blaster sound card that all i remember

Posted: March 12th, 2005, 6:59 am
by indomidable
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

Posted: March 12th, 2005, 5:08 pm
by Riker
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

Posted: April 8th, 2005, 4:56 pm
by Arnoldt301
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.

Posted: May 2nd, 2005, 11:59 pm
by JIM2003
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

Posted: May 19th, 2005, 12:11 am
by Xitech
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;)

Posted: May 30th, 2005, 12:20 pm
by Tisumi
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 :(

Posted: June 6th, 2005, 11:41 am
by simon
AMD K6-450Mhz, 32mb ram, tnt card and a modem. It was fine running Unreal TOurnament but it was dead slow!

Posted: July 21st, 2005, 1:50 pm
by scf2510
I had an IBM Aptiva only remember it having a 2.4 speed modem took a really long time to download a **** picture

Posted: July 21st, 2005, 4:40 pm
by quickpcrepair
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!

Posted: July 22nd, 2005, 5:30 am
by CrashCore
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. 8)

First computer

Posted: August 31st, 2005, 5:09 pm
by AMD modder
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.

Posted: October 2nd, 2005, 3:56 pm
by beblet
Windows 98 300 MHZ 2GB thats all i remember, i was 8.

Posted: October 6th, 2005, 10:21 pm
by Derekmpage
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.

Posted: October 21st, 2005, 3:49 pm
by im_an_alien
I don't remember much 1GB Hard drive 100MHz cpu 40 or 50 something speed cd-rom

Posted: November 1st, 2005, 9:31 am
by leceur
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

Posted: November 2nd, 2005, 6:12 pm
by Xitech
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.

Your first computer.

Posted: December 19th, 2005, 6:30 pm
by dea old fart
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. :lol: