What was your first computer?

[nate42nd]

Here's my first one. I was 9 and my dad brought it home one day. It must have cost him thousands. They had just come out. I spent hours and hours typing code from books and magazines into this thing. Apple IIc

 

[Carl Lawrence]

What was your first PC? & what do you use it for?

Hello guys,

My first computer was custom built desktop. Built by shop called Active Computers in Bexhill, East Sussex. I got it with the idea of using it for college work, but ended up playing games on it.

 

[Thorsen]

I had a Gateway computer. It was nice for its time, but not a great gaming comp. I used it through College. It had Win98 on it and I no longer have it. that was my first personal computer. previous to that, my family had a HP and a Commador 64.

 

[ITChick]

I had a P3 custom built PC with win98 on it. I used it for school and although I still have it, I don't use it - it's a dust collector now.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I had a 386SX 25 (yes, 25 MHz) with 4MB or ram. Used it for gaming, yes gaming, and played the original Wolfenstein 3D and Twilight 2000

I even remember buying a 512k video card for it

 

[ITChick]

My son had a 386 when he was little! of course I didn't even know how to turn the stupid thing on so I wouldn't let him play on it. My how times have changed...

 

[Dinesh]

My 1st PC is a 2-year old laptop and I m still using it.

 

[Kirsch]

First computer was a family one we got for Christmas when I was 6 or 7, looked almost exactly like this one

Then we had a few HP's until I built my own computer that I still have (just been upgrading it, also now have new monitors, keyboard, and mouse )

 

[applepie]

My first P.C. was a very old computer donated to my by an organization that works with people with disabilities the computer had an ancient Operating System called M.S. Dos, which I used to just typing I couldn't save any documents and I played a few games on it. Sorry for writing so big I can't write or read in small print it strains my eyes.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Managed to find a pic very VERY similar to my old pc I mentioned before :roflmao:



I think it cost nearly £1,300 at the time :shock:

 

[hello people]

My first PC was a Commodore 64...we used it for games...later I think we might even have started using some ancient form of MS Word on it and a dot matrix printer (which broke every half turn of its spindle) to do school work.

 

[DocBrown]

Yep, Commodore C-64 in 1983

 

[Zepher]

My first PC that I bought was an Amiga 3000.
It had 6MB Ram, 120MB SCSI hard drive and a 14" Multisync Monitor.
Paid $2500 for it in 1992. Used it for gaming and multimedia work.
the following year I upgraded the machine by adding 12MB more ram bringing the total to 18MB, adding a 345MB SCSI drive, a Video Toaster 4000 card, and a 1.78MB Floppy drive. Total upgrades cost me $3400 (the VT4000 card alone was $2500 of that).
Upgraded so that I could start doing 3D work with Lightwave 3D.

I ended up trading the Toaster card for a PC when Lightwave 3D was released by itself, then sold the Amiga when Lightwave was available on the PC since the PC's at the time, Pentium 100-133's, were much faster than the my Amiga and a processor upgrade card for it was about the cost of a complete PC.

I still have an Amiga, a 3000T model that was given to me 12 years ago and I'll take it out of the closet sometimes and play some of my games on it,

 

[SledgeDG]

Vic 20 with a tape drive as mass storage at first...later then a Single sided 5.25"Floppy drive (~$350in GE) for gaming of course and to learn 6502-Assembler so I could play with the Epromer (Eprom/EEprom programmer).

-DG

 

[karlsnooks]

Youngsters,
My first computer even predates the intel 4040. God, you people make me feel old.

In case you are wondering, first was self-designed.

 

[strollin]

My first PC was an IBM PC like this one purchased in 1984:

4.77Mhz (Yup, Mhz, not Ghz) CPU, 256K RAM, 2 360K floppy drives. A color monitor capable of displaying 4 of the ugliest colors imaginable. Used it to play games, write letters and develop software.

 

[Hopalong X]

I bought my younger brother a Commodore64 in the early 80's. Being seven years younger he was in on all the early video arcade games. He has a Masters in Computer Science now and teaches at a college.

I didn't catch the PC bug until 2002.
HP Media Center XP-PRO with P4 HT 3.0GHz. Top of the line then.
Still running. I gave it to my parents in '05. Still checks the mail and does the pictures etc. for them.

 

[xarden]

I still have this from my 2nd computer
Its a Cyrix 6x86MX-PR200, 75Mhz


Because we all like to compare sizes, the one on the right is a Pentium4 2.4Ghz

 

[yowanvista]

P3 800Mhz
64MB RAM
Win98SE
20GB HDD
8MB SIS dx8.1 graphics
2.1 system

 

[tw33k]

Amstrad CPC464 (1984)

Zilog Z80A processor, clocked at 4 MHz
64 kB RAM
640×200 pixels with 2 colours (green screen)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_AY-3-8910AY-3-8910 sound chip
BASIC 1.1
Internal cassette deck (for loading games)

I played games. Had lots because a friend and I worked out that you could copy the cassette tapes (my introduction to piracy aged 11)

(picture in my sig)