What was your first PC or Computer

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Commodore 128 baby!! Dual processors, yeah.

ah... the 128 superiority still looms over me! i can still feel it!

/clings to 64!!

I loved that C128. So much fun.
Bought a 512k external memory cartridge with DMA --- wrote my own code for a RAM drive including adding a real basic command.
Won money writing quirky but useful programs.

Ohhh the memories.... :heart:

nice. i remember editing my BBS graphics in BASIC.. that was fun.

Did you have an Epyx Fastload cartridge too? Remember copying games with Fast Hack'em? LOL!

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Commodore 128 baby!! Dual processors, yeah.

ah... the 128 superiority still looms over me! i can still feel it!

/clings to 64!!

I loved that C128. So much fun.
Bought a 512k external memory cartridge with DMA --- wrote my own code for a RAM drive including adding a real basic command.
Won money writing quirky but useful programs.

Ohhh the memories.... :heart:

nice. i remember editing my BBS graphics in BASIC.. that was fun.

Did you have an Epyx Fastload cartridge too? Remember copying games with Fast Hack'em? LOL!

Nope nothing like that.
I remember entering 10 pages of DATA lines from a computer magazine just to be able to use the awesome assembler editor. The hassle we went through back then.... LOL
I was hooked on programming back then, not so much gaming. 6502/8510 assembler and the (good) Basic 7.0 in the C128 kept me busy many many nights.

 

[ThePresence]

Commodore 64. I STILL HAVE IT.

 

[Crucial]

Commodore 64 if you coun't the 1st computer my dad bought for the family.

The 1st PC I bought was a Dell Dimension desktop with a pentium pro 200 in it. It was still in use up until 1 year ago when it was finally retired. It still ran like a champ though.

 

[MangoTBG]

The only computer that I hold dear to me (i had prior handme downs) was the Compaq Presario 7AP140 that I purchased with the first $2500 I saved from working when I was 15. 800 MHz AMD . I spent $500 on a 19" flatscreen (not panel) KDS and it was like $1700+sales and warranty at BB (I didn't know better then, give me a break). Mind you this was when 1000 MHz was top notch so I thought it was pretty badass

 

[Fenixgoon]

Intel Celeron 366 @ 533
Voodoo 3 3500 AGP
256mb PC2100 RAM
SB Live! Soundcard

 

[mzkhadir]

Sony Vaio - $2000

 

[jeffeh]

My first computer was a P133 16mb Ram back in 96... Doesn't really compare to others here but I'm not that old either... Then had a 333mhz p2 and not a 2.8 p4... good times lol

 

[Nevada]

custom built system back in 1997

intel pentium 200mhz mmx, 16mb ram, 2gb hdd, soundblaster 16 sound card, 1mb trident video card, windows 98

 

[Schadenfroh]

Gateway 386 with windows 3.x.

 

[BurnItDwn]

"My" first PC that I actually built was a (Gasp) Cyrix P200+ with 32MB of SDRAM and some crappy generic motherboard. I had a 4.3GB Quantum Bigfoot hard drive, an 8x cdrom drive, a 4mb S3 Virge video card, a 14inch CRT moniter, an IBM Model M keyboard, and a Microsoft PS/2 mouse. I had a zoltrix 33.6k modem. I also had a Sound blaster 16 clone.

Before that I had a 486 that I got for free since someone was throwwing it away. I used the Keyboard and Monitor from the 486 for many more years.

I was 16 at the time, and a complete hardware noob. My build was < 1000, and this was before the days of the sub 1000 PC, so even though the CPU was a steaming pile of crap, I made off OK.

It played Duke Nukem 3d and Total Annihilation quite well. My friends P133 was faster for games, but the Cyrix held it's own and usually came out ahead vs another friends P75. About 7 or 8 months after I built the box, I shelled out a few more bucks and Purchased an AMD K6 233 and a new motherboard. It was MUCH faster and more stable then. Once I picked up my Canopus Pure3D 6MB 3d accelerator card ... the box SCREAMED in Quake.
I kept the K6 233 as my only box for a couple of years. It played everything great up to and NOT including Half Life. Halflife was a slideshow.

When the Celeron 300a and BH6 deals started showing up ... I again upgraded .... But that's not my First PC, it's just my first real "performance" PC

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: crownjules
My dad borrowed an IBM 286 from work, that was the first computer I used regularly to play Joust, Simcity, and Battlezone.

First one my dad actually bought was a custom built (by a shop) 486/33.

First one I bought (and built) was a P2 800, 32MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 16MB ATI RAGE, Turtle Beach Quadzilla sound card.

Pentium 2 never went to 800 mhz, I think you mean Pentium 3?

 

[Aquila76]

I had a VIC 20 someone threw away. I can't remember what it was exactly, but there was some busted cap or resistor on it that wouldn't let it boot. One trip to Radio shack and $2 later, it worked again.
My Dad came home with a friggin' huge ass Xerox machine a bit later. It was just a word processor, but it had a full page display, daisywheel printer that would eat your fingers if you stuck them in there, and a round touchpad built into the keyboard. I have no idea where he got it, or how. Every section of that PC weighed about 80+ lbs.
Then my Dad got a Wang 286 PC, and an AST 386 laptop.
After that, I got a job with a server company and was able to piece together a 486 SX system. I remember the CPU was soldered into the mobo with some crazy looking heatsink on it. - Free, boss gave me the parts as a summer bonus.
My next systems were a Pentium 233 MMX (my Dad still uses this one today - he only does Word and some e-mail) - Spent around $1000, a P3 933 (now my Linux fileserver) - Spent about $1000, and finally the A64 3500+ rig in my sig - Spent $1400.

EDIT: for Prices.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: AcidBath

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
My first computer was a Gateway 2000, G6-266 model. It had a 266mhz Pentium II processor with MMX technology! I think it had 64 bit of ram and it had a 2gig hard drive. Final cost $2100

LOL, the system I picked up for free last weekend was a Gateway G6-333.
God how depreciation is amazing on these things we obsess over

I hope the Gateway 2000 is still working...I sold it on the For Sale forum to a member in my town for 30 bucks. He was going to run a linux server on it.

 

[MX2]

My first actual computer was an Atari 800XL. God how I loved to play Zork and Ultima on that thing

Memories

 

[Modeps]

*My* first computer was an Atari400. Yes it was a computer. We then got an Atari800... My sister, around the same time got an 8088... My first real desktop PC was a 80286.

 

[sdifox]

Apple II clone. With the Green CRT and no tape drive. I believe it was either '79 or '80. First in my howetown, no one knew how to make it work. We had to call the capital city where my dad picked it up to figure how how to make it work. We went through all the tape deck we carried (audio/electronics distributor/retail) and turns out the cheaperst one worked because it did not have noise filtering.


All I ever did on there were games

 

[Winchester]

First of my own:
Toshiba 205CDS
100mhz
8mb Ram -> upgraded to 40mb later
810mb HD

First Family
Atari 1200xl

 

[TheAdvocate]

Packard Bell Pentium 60MHz - yes the original Pentium chip that was slower and crappier than the last 486 chips. It had been upgraded to 16 megs (ohhh!!!) of EDO RAM, had a 640MB hard drive, a 9600 baud modem, and a 2x CDROM drive (ub3r).

It was a pile of crap, and the PSU died 3 months after I bought it. The onboard video sucked something awful too, randomly displaying the photo-negative color instead of the right one. Stuck a 2MB Trident 2D PCI card in there though, and it played the hell out of some Warcraft II. Wore the machine and the game disk out, but worth every penny of the $500 I paid.

 

[Xylitol]

Sony Vaio
2 GB HARDDRIVE
678 mhz Pentium 1 Processor
16 mb RAM

More than 2000 bucks

 

[geecee]

Originally posted by: MX2times
My first actual computer was an Atari 800XL. God how I loved to play Zork and Ultima on that thing

Memories

More memories.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: TheAdvocate
Packard Bell Pentium 60MHz - yes the original Pentium chip . . .

You could heat dinner on that chip!

 

[ShadowBlade]

some IBM running windows 3.1
the only stats i remember was the ~400MB hard drive

i thought i was sweet when we upgraded to windows 95

 

[Lumathix]

a Gateway P2 300mhz, and I paid around 3 grand for it.

 

[TBone48]

Systemax PII350
64 mb RAM
128mb ATI video