What was your first computer?

[snerd]

I got a Packard Hell (Bell) in 1995 it had 8mb mem and a 420mb hard drive. It looked pretty much like this one.................

 

[Windows i7 920]

My first computer was one I got in 2002. It was an HP Pavilion I believe. It had 32 MB of RAM, a 3 GB hard drive, and ran Microsoft Windows 95. Also, a 1 MB graphics card. I used it for games. I believe it had a Pentium (original) processor. A 2x speed CD Drive. I usually had it in 256-color palatalized mode and played SimCity 2000 and the original Pipe Dreams. It was later "upgraded" to Windows 98 SE. I was unable to tell the difference between the two. So, I was 9, almost 10 when I got my first PC of my own, but I remember when I was 4 and Windows 95 was new. This thread is bringing some serious nostalgia.

When I was 4 I was obsessed with MS Paint and SimCity (original for SNES).

 

[msdos622wasfun]

Our first "IBM PC" was a PC/XT turbo clone from a local mom-n-pop shop (prior to that we had an Apple //e with only a monochrome monitor and a floppy drive).

4.77/8 MHz, 20 MB hard drive, CGA monitor, MS-DOS 3.something.

Boy, was I in awe ... it opened up a whole new world for me! Color! Subdirectories! Function keys! Bulletin boards! Structured QuickBASIC programming!

 

[Barman58]

ZX80 - The Good old days

Sinclair ZX80 - Hardware

 

[mickey megabyte]

sinclair spectrum back in 82.

played games and learned how to program basic.

ah, those were the days, when you had to type your own programs in...

 

[SledgeDG]

Isn't that the one, you could turn around if you forgot your eraser ?
I still remember hacking in pages over pages in hex code. Even take a program written for a different model and adapt it.

-DG

 

[mr pc]

Commodore Vic 20 with a cassette tape drive - It had some great games including some text adventure games we had to program prior to playing.

Radar Ratrace

 

[fireberd]

My first "PC" was a Commodore VIC 20. I used it for games and on line with "Qlink" (which later morphed to AOL). My screen name on Qlink was "fireberd" the same as I use today.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I got a Packard Hell (Bell) in 1995 it had 8mb mem and a 420mb hard drive. It looked pretty much like this one.................

i HAD THE SAME TYPE OF SET UP HERE MINE WAS A PACKARD BELL 133MHZ 8 MB OF RAM AND LIKE A 8 GIG HARD DRIVE WAS ABLE TO UPGRADE IT TO 200MHZ MAXED OUT RAM AT 32 MB AND BACK THEN I WAS USING WIN 95 HELL I THOUGHT I WAS FLYING NOT TO MENTION IT CAME WITH AOL 2.5 HAHAHA AND IE ADDITIAL BROWSER WAS NETSCAPE OHHH HOW I MISSED NETSCAPE

 

[snerd]

I got a Packard Hell (Bell) in 1995 it had 8mb mem and a 420mb hard drive. It looked pretty much like this one.................

Oh yeah.............. it was running Windows 3.11

 

[Joshatdot]

Laser 128 (Apple IIe clone)

Then I had a Atari 1040ST

Then a 386DX40MHz

 

[Pusspa]

my first computer was scamp2650, then i moved up to a system-80 (the australian clone of Tandy TRS-80)

 

[Trucidation]

I think my first PC was an NEC PC-8801B. The 8801MKII-AR certainly wasn't the first. 5 second boot straight to a command line, hell yeah! Well, it booted straight to BASIC so there wasn't really a command line. Brings memories of loading a cassette in the tape deck and waiting for a program to load while wondering at the marvels of technology ("cassettes are for music!").

...on a second though, that just made me feel old. Ugh. Anyway, what it was used for, I'm pretty sure it was my Dad's old machine. Me, I just messed around in BASIC. Attempting to port all those nifty games from magazines like Atom and Pet were really fun until you got to the machine calls, bleh.

 

[smarteyeball]

I worked out that you could copy the cassette tapes (my introduction to piracy aged 11)

The C64 was my piracy gateway

 

[MoInSTL]

Pionex 486DX2-50, 4MB RAM, 8 bit sound card, 9600 BAUD modem, 15" monitor, speakers. One of the first "multimedia" PCs. Can't remember the HDD size. Upgraded the modem to 14.4 and sound card to 16 bit. I used it to play D00M after I had a shop solder some on-board cache onto it! I also bought first version of Netscape so I could surf with graphics. Ran Windows 3.11. Custom built all subsequent desktops.

 

[EternalRZ]

My first PC was an old HP Pavilion cant remember the model since I got rid of it, but i looked kinda like an HP 8760C but it had an AMD processor instead of an Intel processor that i got when i was in the 5th grade, and i made it last 7 years till i got to my senior year (or jr) year in highschool...upgraded it from Windows 98 to Windows XP it was a REALLY good PC too. I kid you not, I NEVER got a BSOD on it, and it was able to run Photoshop and Illustrator CS2 (slowly of course, but what do you expect with 256MB of RAM). I miss that computer sometimes, since it had about 7 years of memories in it haha.

 

[roban]

My first was a Timex that used a B&W television as a monitor. I had to program everything I did using DOS. The printer was a thermal printer that used a roll of paper that looked like an adding machine tape. Some fun. Needless to say there was no Internet.

 

[thebladeroden]

Christmas of 1998 We got a Gateway with a Pentium II, Nvidia Riva TNT, 9 GB Hard drive, and good ol Windows 98. And of course AOL dialup.

 

[Darician]

October 1999. I bought a PC used from someone along with an Okidata Laser B&W Printer. The computer was branded as Datacom West and surprisingly the case was standard ATX as it could still fit today's parts. Originally, it had Pentium with MMX 200 Mhz CPU, 64 MB of RAM, a Yamaha built-in Sound Card, a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI Video Card with 4 MB of Video RAM along with a US Robotics 56K V90 Modem and a 15" CRT Pixie Brand Monitor. I thought I was so cool with this PC that one week after buying it, I went out and went to buy two games for it.

I bought Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit. I wanted to buy High Stakes but it was too expensive ($40) so I bought Hot Pursuit for $20. I also bought a boxed copy of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire for PC for $10. I remember the video card didn't work too well with it. I could never the Gall Spaceport level because I could never go fast enough in the Jetpack toward the end of the level. I kept thinking it was me but when I upgraded that video card to a smoking 3dfx Voodoo3 3000, I could then magically pass this level because the video card could finally keep up with the game. Yep, I thought I was real cool with this PC over 10 years ago now. How funny to think how far we've come now.

I still am looking to build a legacy PC to run some old games I have with that old 3dfx Card.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
don't have a pic of it -- it's long since gone to "Computer Heaven" but my first was an EXIDY SORCERER. The first App (and even todayit's similar to the app I use most) was a Spread sheet rather like 1-2-3.

You loaded the applications via "Rom Packs" which looked rather like a sealed version of old 8 Track tape cassetes used in very early Car music systems. - Anybody remember those.

Anyway I had a lot of fun with that machine and even learned some Machine and Assembly language programming -- ah those were the days before the boring pin stripe corporate suits and "reams and reams of Change Management and Risk assessement").

Here's some pics from the web however. You can see the "Rom pack" one shown is the "Word Processing Pack".

exidy sorceror - Google leit

Cheers
jimbo