First computer thread?
What was your first computer?
What year was it?
What were the specs?
What did you use it for?
Mine was a Del lnsprion 8200 with a Pentium 4-M, 512mb RAM, and 30GB HDD. I played Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and TF2 on it. Other than that, just basic web browsing.
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A Sony Vaio desktop pc
1998 or 1999
Pentium 3, 4GB HDD, 48MB VRAM 128MB RAM, $2000 price tag is about all I can remember.
I played Heavy Gear, Warcraft 1, discovered mp3, Napster, emulators, free dial up internet, and top 100 hentai sites. The good old days.
Of course that was just a PC for the whole family, even though I used it the most. My own first computer was this (not my pic). A Vaio with a Pentium 4. Yeah, desktop cpu in a laptop. I thought it was the bee's knees. It was a terrible mistake I lived with for the next 7 years.
no clue, some garage sale DOS machine
Commodore Vic20
I believe I got it in 1982 when my dad got his Kaypro2
20kb ROM?
Learned to type, educational games, eventually Basic
386SX
The Power Macintosh 6200
got it in 1997 so it was 2nd hand
i don't remember much else.
Haha, you're old!
That was my first, too.
Oldfag VIC20 owners unite!
Digital Equipment Corporation with the red logo.
Pretty sure it ran Windows 95, so probably a Pentium, Pentium 2?
Had a DOS machine before that for educational games etc but those memories are pretty blurry
don't remember the DOS one or the second xp one, but the third one I chose myself back in 2004. it was p4 3.2ghz, 512mb ram, gt6600 and 160gb hdd. back then it was a monstrosity.
Didnt have access to a computer besides at school until i turned 18 and moved out (am 19 now).
!st computer is a Dell OptiPlex 755 SFF I bought off craigslist for $40. I currently use as a backup location for the shit i dont really want to lose on my dankpad.
A thinkpad, I believe my mother purchased it for her Ph.D and she did that from 2001-2003, so I presumably received it around 2003. I played Guild Wars when it came out, and at that point I had already had the laptop for a couple of years. Mostly just browsed the web.
First PC I bought was a 2007 or 2008 build. I had a Q6600, 4gb RAM, and some mediocre nvidia card. It was one of those cards that were flat but had a huge "cyclone" cooler thing on top that covered maybe half of the card.
I remember upgrading to a Radeon 5850 the day they came out in 2010.
Didn't use a pc until I was 13.
A few years later and got my first laptop. That still somewhat works to this day.
Says EEE 701.
The year was 2000
It was an Athlon 800 machine from a company called Mesh, 256 ram, can't remember how big the hard drive was.
When I was a kid my dad had let me use all his computers, the earliest I can remember is a DOS machine with a proper floppy disk drive which he later installed Windows 3.1 on.
When I got this Athlon machine it was running Windows 98, but when XP was released I installed that (muh bleeding edge) and when my dad saw it he was genuinely impressed.
I used that machine for about 12 years, installed numerous games, but my favourite was Civilization 3. Also, Half Life, Worms Armageddon (party game for everyone), RCT2, and other stuff.
It was the machine I did all my university work on, but wasn't connected to the intenet except for the very end, when I wanted porn.
I used to smoke while using it in uni, and I'm pretty sure this led to its eventual demise. There was something up with the motherboard, causing random errors and a buzzing sound, which could be solved by booting it on the side. Eventually one day it just stopped POSTing and I just put it in a cupboard and bought a laptop.
When I moved out I forgot about it, and my mum cleaned out my room and got rid of this brown, smoke-ridden, 15-year-old PC.
I lost all my uni work (I only have the hard copies) and some amazing porn, along with my collection of topless photos from every girl I slept with. Basically, every new girl would pose for a picture, and I saved them all in a folder.
I also lost my epic Civ 3 game with 8 nations all on their own continents with maxed tech and nukes, which I had saved in peacetime, and used to sometimes reload and play a thermonuclear war.
I was so fucking angry with my cunt of a mother. When I confrontede her she took all my GBP away and made me do my own washing. Bitch.
C=64, pimped out with both floppy and tape drive.
It was either an 8086 or a 286, with a monochrome hercules graphics card, 1MB of RAM (I think), no mouse, no hard disk, one 3.5 floppy drive and two 5.25 drives for some reason.
When you typed dir in DOS you could actually see new lines appear at about 2-3 per second. My vidya looked like this.
My first was similar to pic related structure but it was running 512 MB of i think ddr ram
Celeron thats clocked in 1.5 Ghz it's was alright PC and i loved it but my parents couldn't connect it to the internet because of to much wires in thr walls in our home also we haven't heard of wireless NICs because we used to live the southern area where we barely get any news about new things comming out.
First used? Apple II - 1986
First owned? Commodore 128 - 1992
First PC? 486DX 33 / 8MB RAM / 170MB WD / DOS 6.22 / WFW 3.11 (Harpoon 2 was fucking awesome)
No pics but my first pc was a powerhouse during its time.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+
1.5GiB of Ram
2x40GB HDD raid
nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200
and a really cool looking case. dont remember the name of it.
Upgraded the pc several times...
New cooler for the cpu
bought a GTX 550 Ti in it after quake live had an update.
Lasted me until about 2012....
Shit played mafia 2 really good
And batman arkham asylum.
my first PC was a Gateway desktop, it had a 400Mhz celeron, 32 megs RAM and a 6 gig harddrive, win98 preinstalled, and within a month of going online i discovered Linux and was dual booting Redhat-7.0 (before redhat got all enterprizy) and ISOs of redhat could be downloaded free< and within another two months switched to Slackware-8.0 because i needed to escape from RPM hell
been a Linux geek ever since
here i am 17 years later and been through several PCs too,
friendly reminder that if you browsed the web on your first computer ever you are an underage babby and don't belong in here
Nigga wtf is wrong with you. I clearly remember growing up using shit tier dial up in the mid 90s. I'm from South Africa and I'm 25.
hes a butthurt neckbeard.
AOL, half life 1, need for speed II SE, and drawing in ms paint
Good times
zx spectrum 48k
My first pc in 2006 was a desktop, 448MB RAM, later upgraded to 2.5 GB, single core 2GHz AMD CPU, Nvidia GPU with 256MB memory. Played San Andreas on medium, NFS prostreet and earlier, Half Life 2
Also 900p widescreen LCD, when most of people were still using square ones
In 1987 I got an Amstrad cpc 6128 for Christmas. When that broke my dad took it back to the shop and swapped it for a ZX Spectrum +3 128k. For Christmas 1991 I got a Commodore Amiga 500 to share with my brother.
First pc was a family pc in 1994 - 486 sx 25mhz with 4 meg of ram and a 210 meg hard drive. I added a sound blaster 16 sound card and a 4x speed cd rom drive. It ran Command and Conquer quite well.
tape recorder storage / Tv
zx81 1k
got 48k ram pack
zx spectrum
acorn electron
....
amstrad pc1512 (early pc) 10mb drive
compaq aero (was rich, getting on)
that = 386
bucket shop fast 386 paid £2k for it, sold for £300
486 DX2 -- no fan, overheating
can't remember
assorted laptops
dell desktop
hp workstations
now = 1 dell laptop & several raspberry pi 3s running mate
pc is dead IMO "is a bump on the HDMI cable"
with the raspberry pi3
which work with efficient software, not the browser -- laptop for browser
all my stuff now fits in a shoebox
Ibm 286
Maybe 1997? Can't remember.
Hah, don't remember any of its specs except that it had like 40MB storage.
Used it for goofing around Norton commander and eventually learning a bit of Pascal. I was like seven years old though, big bro guided me.
they weighed a ton
> 40mb storage
remember the drives used to make squeaking noises
and always had a little green rectangular light when accessing [ ]
Here's my first:
imgur.com
@ 2003
ATHLON 64 3000+
512 DDR1
FX 5200
80GB WD
USED IT FOR GAYMS.
They sure did
I miss that actually, it's like making the transition from a car with an engine that you hear to one that is silent.
While our first computer was Truly a TI 99/4a (beige model), I only used it a couple times.
I also got a PCjr, but it only had 512KB and no hard drive.
This is the first real computer our family had.
IBM PC Portable (Model 5155)
Upgraded with:
AST 6 Pack Plus w/640KB
Quibie 20MB 5.25" HH Hard Drive (MFM)
IBM 1200 BPS internal modem
IBM Color Display (added much later)
Aceex 14.4Kbps External Modem (much much later)
IBM ProPrinter II
Mouse Systems optical mouse
Ran IBM DOS 2.1, 3.1, MS-DOS 5.0, 6.0, 6.2, 6.22
> acorn electron
elite