Post Your First Computer!

[DanTMWTMP]

some 286 i got from in 1991 or so.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Atari 800XL w/ 5-1/4" Floppy and cassette drives. I still have everything but the cassette drive. Even the games. I learned to program on Basic with that thing.
Next PC was a Tandy (Radio Shack) 1000TX. It played Space Quest and Kings Quest, so I was happy.

Oh wow... do you still have Star Raiders for the 8-bit Atari? That was one of the best games ever (at the time)!

star raiders was so awesome, it was the main reason why i wanted the atari, but also the main reason my dad got us the Apple II 🙁

 

[Zoblefu]

Originally posted by: Hannover
IBM PC Jr - 1984
8088 / 128KB

5 1/4 drive + two cartridge bays

Kings Quest, Lode Runner and Shamus got me started as a gamer : )

Same PC... although it may have been 1985


edit:
oh wait we had an apple II e before that one... I was born in 1980 and I think the family already had it then?

Could be wrong... understandably my memory of my first years is not perfect 🙂

 

[SirChadwick]

Originally posted by: Pioneer Premier
Post the specs and the year of purchase.

Specs:
P2 200mhz
32mb ram
8gb hd(I think)
Windows 95

Purchase date: 1995

You nailed it for me too. It was a Gateway2000 and cost about $4k in 95.

 

[AMDZen]

The first computer that was actually mine.

1994
Pentium MMX 120 Mhz
32 MB RAM
2 x 850 MB HDDs
1x Pinnacle Micro CD-R/RW (First one on the market)

 

[JulesMaximus]

TRS-80 Model I
CPU: 1.77 MHz
RAM: 4k, 16k max
Ports: Cassette I/O, video, expansion connector
Display: 12-inch monochrome monitor 64x16 text
Storage: Cassette storage
OS: BASIC in ROM

Edit-Purchase date: 1977 or '78 (can't remember exactly)

 

[broon]

Gateway PII 300mhz, 6gb HD, 16mb RAM, 8 mb video, Windows 98, 1998. I still have all the original parts...except the keyboard.

 

[Rubycon]

Some contraption running CP/M, 64K ram, dual 8" floppies with a green screen and Z-80 at 4.77MHz. This was back in 1979. I wanted a MUSIC computer and this hampered my interest until the Atari ST came along. :Q

 

[Mucho]

Commodore VIC 20, 1981 bought it used from a friend at work.

 

[So]

I can't find much info on it, so I'll go with what I can remember:

NEC
286 CPU
20MB HD
640Kb Ram

the rest is lost to me, I was 3 when my folks got it.

This is the most similar pic I could find:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=996

 

[40Hands]

IBM 386
4 MB RAM
20 MB HDD

 

[gamepad]

Damn, I'm so new to computers.

2000:

-433Mhz
-64MB RAM
-Voodoo3
Forgot hard drive size

My first upgrade was adding a stick of 128MB so I could play Diablo II better.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Atari 2600 - 1981

But for a "real" computer it was a Commodore 64 around 1985

Why post my own when I can copy this guy...

C64 ftw!

 

[Dacalo]

1991:

AMD 386DX40
1 MB RAM
20 MB HD
Trident 512K video card
PC speaker (later upgraded to SoundBlaster Pro)

Ran Dune II like a champ. I remember playing Stunts, Roger Wilco, X-Wing, Treasure of Monkey Island, Dark Seed, Gabriel Knight: Sins of Fathers (awesome game), and countless other games. Those were the days...

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
1991:

AMD 386DX40
1 MB RAM
20 MB HD
Trident 512K video card
PC speaker (later upgraded to SoundBlaster Pro)

Ran Dune II like a champ. I remember playing Stunts, Roger Wilco, X-Wing, Treasure of Monkey Island, Dark Seed, Gabriel Knight: Sins of Fathers (awesome game), and countless other games. Those were the days...

I had the same exact system...i think....i was 6 at the time but it was a 486 and had 2mb of ram everything else was the same...I loved X-Wing and Roger Wilco 😀

 

[ZetaEpyon]

We had a Commodore 128 in the late '80s, but my first IBM clone PC was our 386DX 33Mhz (AMD chip even) with a 40MB hard drive that I built with my dad in 1991 or 1992. I'm guessing it had 4MB of ram, but I don't really remember. Good times, good times.

 

[amish]

Leading Edge Model D

8088 processor
2 X 5 1/4 drives
dos 3.2

edit: i think we got it in 1988.

 

[Rubycon]

AMD's 386-40 was an awesome CPU. Better than the (then) more expensive i486 SX25.

 

[Anghang]

Commodore 64 with 1541 Disk Drive
Peanut Butter Panic was my first game for it, cartridge

 

[drnickriviera]

Ti-99
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99

 

[Golgatha]

Late 1996 or early 1997 - Bought it so I could type my papers at home instead of having to stay in the school's computer lab all hours of the evening, and really I just had wanted my own computer for quite some time. Little did I know, many of my Computer Sci. major friends would get me immediately hooked on multiplayer LAN games. Warcraft II, Shadow Warrior, and Descent were some of my fondest memories of LAN games over at different buddies houses.

Anyway, here are the specs of that first machine...

AMD K5 233Mhz
32MB EDO SIMMs
2MB Matrox Millennium PCI video card
4.3GB Maxtor HDD
24x CD-ROM
Floppy Drive
33.6k Modem
17in CRT Monitor
Windows 95 SR2

Added 64MB to get to 96MB the day I purchased the computer, and I distinctly remember the tech asking me what I could possibly run that would use all that RAM. Also added a Zip 100 drive and 10/100 3Com NIC, not too long after I purchased the computer, to get it ready for college and the beginning a long-term addiction to LAN parties (I was one of the few guys that had a 10/100 NIC back then and I remember paying ~$100 for it). I bought the NIC specifically to participate in LAN parties.

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: waggy
my first computer was a timex sinclair 1000

Introduced: July 1982
Price: US $99.95
How many? 500,000 in first 6 months
Weight: 12 ounces
CPU: Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz
RAM: 2K, 64K max
Display: 22 X 32 text
hooks to TV
Ports: memory, cassette
Peripherals: Cassette recorder
T/S printer
OS: ROM BASIC



in fact i think its in my basement heh

Same here, except mine is loooong gone. It wasn't worth having, really. I followed it up with the Vic-20, a much better computer.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Any of you C64 people remember the game Save New York City? How about the racing game where you could make tracks, design motorcycles, trucks, jeeps, cars, etc, and race em? Anyone else spend an entire summer trying to kill Krill, or see how long you could play before you tried to kill Floyd yourself? Original Bard's Tale? Questron? hehehheehhe, I'm a teenager again in my head.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Bard's Tale for sure man 🙂

I honestly can't remember too many C64 games. I played Hardball a lot, Pool of Radiance, Archon, quite a few more. I know I played all of the LucasArts games (Maniac Mansion, Zak Mc, Monkey Island(s), etc.) but I'm not sure which were on my c64 and which were on my Amiga 500.

Oh yah, Ghosts & goblins!

 

[mrzed]

Originally posted by: waggy
my first computer was a timex sinclair 1000

Introduced: July 1982
Price: US $99.95
How many? 500,000 in first 6 months
Weight: 12 ounces
CPU: Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz
RAM: 2K, 64K max
Display: 22 X 32 text
hooks to TV
Ports: memory, cassette
Peripherals: Cassette recorder
T/S printer
OS: ROM BASIC

Quoted for Laziness.

Never did get the cassette to read properly. Perhaps it was the cheapass tandy cassette recorder I was using. I got bored with it when I was unable to save programs. Damn. If it hadn't been for that stupid cassette, I'd be an IT multimillionaire by now.