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What was your first Computer?

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First one I had as a kid was an Apple 2 clone, called Laser 128. It had an 4mhz processor. The first one I bought myself was an emachine:

Cyrix 333mhz
128MB of PC66
2GB HDD

I bought this is in year 2000 which was a very slow system, for that time. The upgrade bug hit me within a year of using it. I used this system until 2002 when I upgraded to an Athlon XP.
 
It was in May of 1995 and it was a Gateway2000 P75:

Case: Gateway Desktop
Mobo: Gateway branded Intel-made "Zappa"
CPU: Intel Pentium 75MHz
Hard Drive: Western Digital Cavier 1 GB 5400RPM
CD-ROM: Sanyo 3 Disc Changer 4X speed
F.D.D. : Generic
Videccard: Gateway branded ATI-made 2MB Vram "Graphics Expression" PCI
Soundcard: Soundblaster ISA
Modem: Gateway-branded US Robotics-made 14.4 Kbps ISA
Speakers: Altec Lansing 3 Piece
Monitor: Gateway-branded Sony-made Vivitron 1776 17" AG
Keyboard: Gateway Anykey Progammable
Printer: Epson Stylus Color ($500)

Total System Cost (including printer) - $3000 Ugggghhhh !!!!!!!!!
 
Packard Bell
75 Mhz Processor
4 Mb Ram
1 Mb Video Card
575 Mb Hard Drive
2x Cd-rom
Windows 3.1

Unbelieveably this computer is still used daily by my grandma for e-mail. She refuses to upgrade because this one does e-mail "just fine" LOL I keep wondering how long it will last but she just loves it.
 
Xebec AT/XT
Intel 80286 Processor (clocked at 2 MHz or 5 MHz with turbo button)
640KB RAM (with 128KB bad, so essentially only 512KB)
30 MB Hard Drive
5.25" Floppy drive
XT Keyboard
Hercles Monochrome Graphics Card
Monochrome Monitor.
 
My first computer was a Commodor 64 with an external floppy drive. It also had a cartridge slot and the word processor was IN a cartdrige! I didn't really use it for games; rather, I liked to write very, very simple BASIC stuff on it.

First PC was an Acer 386DX-33 with 2 Megs of RAM and a 40 MB HD (which was quite low even for then...circa 1992). I got it for games exclusively, though I was the cool kid at school for turning in papers written in Word. I later got one of those Logitech handheld grayscale scanners and I thought it was the most amazing thing in the world.

First PC I built myself: 486DX2-66 with 8 Megs of RAM and a 500 MB HD and a 4x CD-ROM drive with Windows 95 (which ran like hell, by the way). I later put a 14.4 Kbps Creative Labs Modem Blaster (Which came with a Warcraft demo...woot!) on it, giving me access for the first time to the internet.
 
First sometime in 1997 paid 1700$ at comp usa with 17inch viewsonic that works till this day on my other rig , rest were builds

Pentium II 300mhz slot 1 the only pentium i had and will ....
4gig Seagate sounded like a Grinder
48mb Pc66 Ram
4 mb vid card upgraded to 16mb voodo II
Windows 98se

second 1999

Amd Athlon 750mhz slot A That processor still hangs on my wall <Historic cpu hehe
15gig WD
Asus K7v Motherboard
768 mb Pc133 ram
16 mb Ati rage crap .. Upgraded to 128 mb ddr Ati Radeon 9200se agp 4x he
Windows xp

Third 2001

Amd Athlon Thunderbird 1200mhz socket A runs till this day
30gig maxtor = crap got a new 80 gig WD jb 8mb Cache Smooth and quiet
Abit k7a Motherboard
768 mb pc133 ram
128 mb ddr Ati Radeon 9200se
Windows xp

Fourth current see sig! 2004
 
Thanks for the replies... it's amazing to see what was the shizznick way back when... hearing the term "monochrome" a lot, and that makes me cringe 😛 Am just glad no one has yet said they had something that used punch cards LOL
😀
 
If you mean like the title says, First Computer, Commodore 64 and later Atari 130XE. Commodore kept blowing chips. Atari was very Reliable and I still have it on a shelf!

If you mean First PC like in your text, Homemade Intel 286/16 System with 1-Meg RAM, 40Meg WD HDD, Trident 1-Meg ISA Video, 3.5" & 5.25" Floppy Drives in a FULL SIZED desktop case. It first had Hercules Monochrome graphics card with Amber monitor, but went color shortly after.
 
one of the first apple, the one that came before the (original) IBM/PC and macintosh.
anybody know the name of it?
 
Originally posted by: Noema
My first computer was a Commodor 64 with an external floppy drive. It also had a cartridge slot and the word processor was IN a cartdrige! I didn't really use it for games; rather, I liked to write very, very simple BASIC stuff on it.

First PC was an Acer 386DX-33 with 2 Megs of RAM and a 40 MB HD (which was quite low even for then...circa 1992). I got it for games exclusively, though I was the cool kid at school for turning in papers written in Word. I later got one of those Logitech handheld grayscale scanners and I thought it was the most amazing thing in the world.

First PC I built myself: 486DX2-66 with 8 Megs of RAM and a 500 MB HD and a 4x CD-ROM drive with Windows 95 (which ran like hell, by the way). I later put a 14.4 Kbps Creative Labs Modem Blaster (Which came with a Warcraft demo...woot!) on it, giving me access for the first time to the internet.
Click to expand...

True dat, but it's allin the past now right?
 
packard bell
pbl 7800

intel p2 350mhz
64mb pc100
se-440bx2 mobo
6gb hard drive
ati rage

that was my first computer, i used it until about 2002. it was the first computer i fully took apart and put back togeather.
 
Someone i knew years ago used to be a programmer on the old punchcard systems.

He moved to a new company, and changed the room-sized computer from 12K to 24K by bypassing the manufacturer's lock. Saved the company about $20000!
 
The first PC our family had:
- 386 DX 33MHz
- 4MB RAM
- 85MB hard drive
- 1MB ISA Trident video card
- ISA IDE controller
- 15" monitor
- DOS 6.22 and Win3.1
It was bought from a guy who built PCs in his home, back when doing that kind of thing was still profitable.


The first one I ever built myself:
- Pentium II 300
- 64MB PC66 RAM
- 6.4GB hard drive
- 4MB Trident 9750 AGP card (mistake), augmented later by a Matrox m3d PCI card. Later, I got a good deal on a TNT card, my first "real" AGP videocard. Damn that thing was fast.
- ESS 1869 ISA sound card, the best generic ISA sound card I've ever used
- 15" monitor
 
My first computer was a Commodore 64. My first real computer and by that I mean a computer that ran DOS, Windows etc... was a Tandy 486SX 25MHz with 4MB of ram and a 1X CD-ROM. At least the cdrom didn't have a caddy...heh.

The first computer that I built was a PIII 450MHz with a 440BX chipset. Ahh, the 440BX, what an awesome chipset. I think the mobo was an Abit mobo but I'm not certain.

The first true 3D card I had was the TNT 2 Ultra card with 16megs of ram I think it was. That was a good card! I say true 3D because I had a Diamond V something with 4 megs of ram and they said it was accelerated but it was crap. The Diamond card came with my Micron PII 400MHz system with a full tower.

That was the last computer I bought. I've been building them ever since!
 
Coco 80 from Radio Shack. The screen was the TV. Storage was on a regular tape drive...loading games was somethin.

Then it was a IBM PC clone : 10 Mhz in turbo mode (why they even had a turbo mode is beyond me...who would turn turbo off?), 30 MB hard disk, amber screen, and a 5 1/4" floppy.

 
First PC I owned.

IBM clone
486SX33
80 mb drive-running stacker to double the storage
4 mb memory
2x cd rom - with it's own controller card
5 1/4 floppy
3 1/2 floppy
All in a full tower case.

Had a lightning strike take out most of the system. Homeowners insurance paid around $800 to fix the system.

upgrade time 🙂
new mobo
P75
420 mb drive
16 mb memory
2 mb video card
8x cd rom

Now I was running a mac-daddy computer. 😉

I took a computer progaming class in high school.
We used the punch cards.
The teached had to haul the stacks of cards off site to run the programs.
 
Originally posted by: montag451
Someone i knew years ago used to be a programmer on the old punchcard systems.

He moved to a new company, and changed the room-sized computer from 12K to 24K by bypassing the manufacturer's lock. Saved the company about $20000!
Click to expand...

:Q :Q WHOA!
 
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