What was your first computer?

[boogieboy]

i think it was 286 DX

 

[Shootist]

A 286 with 512KB of memory, it was on board. No more memory could be added, slots were bad. It was a gift from my brother in-law. It ran MSDOS 5.x with a program call GeoWorks graphical interface. That was in 1992.
GeoWorks (PC/GEOS) Version 1.2
GeoWorks was a step ahead of Windows but they didn't market it like MS marketed Windows so they died.
From there, 3-5 months later, I bought a Dell 486 and that was the last desktop I ever bought from a company. Have been building and fixing my own and others since then.

 

[Lava King]

My first real computer was a Tandy 1000TX. By the time I replaced it I had installed a 32 MB hard drive, VGA graphics card, Sound Blaster and a 2400 bps modem. Bought it new in January, 1988.

 

[stevieray]

Love reading these tales from the dawn of the computer age. Great stuff! Some of you are real pioneers. As for me, I came late to the party.

My first was an IBM Thinkpad E600 (running Windows 2000), built back in '99. I got it in 2007, at a yard sale, for $50.

A few months later I stopped by a friend's company just to say hi. Turns out he just upgraded all their computers that very day, and I walked out of there with a Dell OptiPlex GX50 (XP Pro) for the best price possible -- free! It was a few years newer than the Thinkpad, and a whole lot quicker. Had a rockin' 512mb of RAM and a 20G hd. That kept me happy for about a year and a half, until 2009 when I built my current one.

 

[UnderJonathan]

TRS-80 I think.

 

[Britton30]

Year-1971-I used a computer at a NAPA parts store I worked at. There were Terminals at each of 3 branches and the "main frame" was at one of them. connected via dedicated phone lines. The computer was the size of a refrigerator, had a hard drive consisting of 10-12 14" metal disks. To order from the warehouse one dialed the number and placed the receiver in the modem and waited for the connection.


My first PC was given to me by a bro-in-law, Windows 95, 16K RAM (yes, 16K) with a HDD of 480 or so megabytes. He bragged, "That's almost half a gig." It had a TI printer tractor-fed continuous paper dot matrix.

 

[rbeldua]

1st PC of mine is a Compaq desktop 133 mhz upgraded to 166 mhz, 2 x 64 mb of ram (EDO), PCI nvidia VGA card 64 mb, 10.2 gb maxtor hardrive, 15" NEC monitor, infrared mouse.

softwares installed:

Windows 98 2nd Edition
Office 97
Norton Antivirus
Autocad 2000

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Think my first computer was hamster driven.
I remember purchasing a separate math chip for it! Remember those days?

 

[xarden]

Think my first computer was hamster driven.
I remember purchasing a separate math chip for it! Remember those days?

My 2nd computer was gerbil driven.
I purchased many potato chips for it.
It was expensive running costs back in the day, but it made up for it with a lot better performance than that apple IIe.

 

[Joshatdot]

Think my first computer was hamster driven.
I remember purchasing a separate math chip for it! Remember those days?

Yep yep .. I installed a math-co for my 386DX40 back in the day

 

[jacksunny]

My first computer was an Acer Aspire One Netbook running Windows XP. It still works (sort of)

 

[BugMeister]

some kinda Sinclair - black - spooky - amazing..!!

 

[Fantail]

Tandy 1000 SX with a 720k floppy, 640k, a 30 meg card drive & deskmate II software. CGA monitor.

2nd. PC was a 386, my first build, if memory serves I ran OS2 Warp on it. Skipped over the 286 jazz.

 

[Audasiti]

Im not very old but mine was a Imac g3 lolz...

 

[Bongo]

Here is what I had in 1984/85 Commodore Plus 4

I typed in 100s of letter/#s to get it to play "Mary Had a little lamb" hooked up to the TV that was all I did with it.
Commodore Plus/4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jerry

 

[stevieray]

Thumbs up for MS and IBM

As I was reading through this thread I was inspired to rummage around my basement to find my first PC... an IBM 600E circa 1998.

I managed to track it down, covered as it was by four years of dust, paint cans, body parts from stray hobos... y'know, the usual detritus we've all got in our cellars. Even found its old Windows 2000 installation disc!

After a thorough cleaning I fired it up, fully expecting at best to need a reinstall of the OS... at worst a loud pop and a quickly spreading fire, but to my surprise it powered right up! It even found my wireless router with the old Belkin card sticking out of its side.

To make a long story short, an sp4, a roll-up, and 90+ regular updates later (all successful 1st shot) it lives. She's a tough old bird. So here's a tip-of-the-hat to MS and IBM for a job well done.

 

[bishop101]

A Celeron in 2001. I thought the 20GB hard drive is small compared to what I have now. But WOW 10mb Hard disk for $695? How much would that 10mb HD cost if adjusted for 2011?!?! It is amazing how fast tech evolves, now you can buy 20GB thumb drives for $10.

 

[BugMeister]

As I was reading through this thread I was inspired to rummage around my basement to find my first PC... an IBM 600E circa 1998.

I managed to track it down, covered as it was by four years of dust, paint cans, body parts from stray hobos... y'know, the usual detritus we've all got in our cellars. Even found its old Windows 2000 installation disc!

After a thorough cleaning I fired it up, fully expecting at best to need a reinstall of the OS... at worst a loud pop and a quickly spreading fire, but to my surprise it powered right up! It even found my wireless router with the old Belkin card sticking out of its side.

To make a long story short, an sp4, a roll-up, and 90+ regular updates later (all successful 1st shot) it lives. She's a tough old bird. So here's a tip-of-the-hat to MS and IBM for a job well done.

ha, ha - most excellent..!!

- I've still got the Sinclair somewhere up in the loft - along with 3500 tapes..
- I'm not going up there - there's old computers all over the place..
- mostly Sinclairs of various size and shape..


- and spiders..!! :shock::shock: