your first compuer

[SenorBiggles]

An Atari 800XL
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/a800xl.html

 

[yellowvespa]

Back in Jan. of '98 I took one in trade on a car. It was a Cyrix P166. 6 months later I was building 'em and haven't stopped. Still don't know anything but boy have I had fun .. and that's what it's about.

 

[Fangorn]

It was a good ol' Commodore 64, I used a 13" TV as my first monitor, had a big ol' external 5 1/4 floppy drive...
I can still remember typing in my first BASIC programs and getting little sh**ty sprites bounce around the 80x25 char screens...

 

[WTT0001]

1st was a commodore 64 w/tape and 5 1/4 (still using the screen for watching videos)
2nd was a Goldstar 086 (dos 5.0)
3rd was a packard bell from walmart, Pentium 100
4th and current is a compaq, AMD K6-2 400.

Looking to get a new one soon though

 

[Atlantean]

my first was a 486, I was only like 7 or 8 when I got it though I think...

 

[Heisenberg]

386DX 16Mhz with 2 Megs of RAM and damn was it fast.

 

[Burnt]

Cyrix 120mhz :|

 

[ViperMagic]

Apple IIe -> PII 300MHz, then I got a pair of 233's, now a 1.33 Athlon

 

[Jen]

Atari 800xl was my first computer
then i went out of computers till 1998

then i got a K62 266
then a 300a at 450
then a 366 at 577
on to a 366 at 616 peltier
then to a 550e at 825
on to a 600e at 930 peltier died of frost bite
then to a 700e at 1001 with h2o for cooling
on to a 1000mhz bird at 1233mhz h2o for cooling
then to a 1333 bird at 1600 h2o for cooling
now to a 1800+ xp soon to be overclocked as well with h2o

Jen

 

[jjones]

Apple IIc
128 k ram
no hard rive
5-1/4" floppy

kick-butt machine

 

[Lars]

C64 (1988)
486 33Mhz (1991)
Pentium II (1994?)

single part upgrades after that

 

[fatbaby]

I got in late too:

486 dx2 66 mhz
400 mb hd
16 mb edo
2x cdrom
floppy 3.1
dos 6.0
win 3.11

and some sort of "virtual svga" thing

~fat

 

[fatalbert]

1st PC was a 286, that thing rocked

 

[jdavis71]

trs-80 model 1. We soon upgraded to the 128k expansion module that was about as big as a keyboard is today!

 

[HombrePequeno]

Tandy 1000

 

[Tallgeese]

Kaypro II:
All-in-one design
CP/M
Dual 5 1/4" floppies
Portable (it had a handle, at least)
Integrated (green) screen

 

[todpod]

Vic 20 $88 at Kmart clearance sale
C64 Sears like $400 with floppy
IBM PS/2 model 25 Had a 8086 (though that made them with 80286 with the later ones) $1500 dual floppy added a 20mb hard drive for $240
First one that I built 286-12 mhz, 1mb ram, 40 mb hd, 256k vga graphics, 3.5 and 5.5" floppy drives 2400bps modem, it was a screamer ran dos and windows 3.0, actually ran windows on the PS/2 to.

 

[Whitecloak]

a digital hinote ultra 2000
i still have it

 

[JC]

Timex-Sinclair 1000

2KB RAM
B&W TV for monitor
cassette recorder for storage

 

[ChrisADuffy]

200mhz pentium from Compaq, hated it. Thats when I started building my own. Thanks Compaq!

 

[Timmeh]

The CLASSIC Sinclair ZX Spectrum + which had 48k. Then I bought a Spectrum +3 which I think had 128k, AND a floppy drive! (It didn't work tho, hehe).

I loved my spectrum. To this day, I'm convinced it's the best computer I've ever owned. The games were fantastic - Bomb Jack, Jet Set Willy, Horace Goes Skiing, Dizzy, the list goes on

 

[gentobu]

Apple Macintosh LC III 25MHZ 16 Megs ram 100 something MB harddrive. I had photoshop 4 and director 6 running on it though

 

[murphy55d]

AST Adventure! AMD K6 150 or something, I forget exactly.

Then moved to a P2 350 Compaq.

Now, using the system in my profile which I built.

 

[ProviaFan]

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My first computer was an IBM PS/1 with a Intel 80286 processor at a blistering speed of 10mhz with a whopping 1 MB of RAM and a 30 MB hard disk, and one 1.44MB 3.5in floppy drive. Before that, though, my dad had an IBM PS/2 Model 50 (iirc) which had a 10mhz 286, 1 MB RAM, and a 20 MB hard disk, and a 1.44MB floppy.
My next system was a Packard Bell 486 thingy with way too little RAM and a teeny hard disk, which I had only for a short while.
After that came a 200MHz Cyrix system which I built myself, then that was upgraded until it morphed into a 400MHz AMD K6-2 system, and after that one broke I built an 800MHz Duron and a 500MHz Celeron system, both of which have a few parts in them which are remnants of the original Cyrix (that would be the 4.3GB WD harddisk which is in my Celeron system and the Lucent PCI modem and floppy disk which are in my Duron system)

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

i'm young !

Family's first computer (that i could remember)

DX-2 66Mhz
8 meg of ram (this was HUGE at the time)
2 meg video card (also considered HUGE at the time)
2x CD-Rom - one of the first CD-Roms on the market
500mb HD (i added another 500mb HD and thought I was l337 cuze I had a 1 gig drive)
15" beautiful display (this was at the time when 13" monochroms were the norm)
9600bps modem - BLAZING FAST!
Windows 3.11

MY first computer

Compaq Presario 4704 (yes, i remembered the model number)

P1 133MHz
32 meg ram (upgraded from 16)
2 gig HD
1 meg video
16x CD-Rom
Win95 w/ wacked out Compaq Windows shell

Bought for $699 (a steal) from Office Depot/

This was back in 1993. I was playing with my dads Tandy TRS-80 programming in basic a couple monthes ago. That was fun!