What was your first Computer?

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486 DX-2 66MHz (still have the CPU for sentimental value)
4MB RAM
260MB HD
Sound Blaster 16
1MB ATi Mach 32
14" Datatrain monitor

Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.21.

I took it up to 20MB RAM and a 3.2 GB HD, threw in a 56K modem and thought it was the shit. Good times playing King's Quest, Warcraft II, C&C, and the first GTA which ran in slow motion.

Oh and it had a Turbo button to slow it down in case the MHz were too much

Then I upgraded to a Cyrix 166+ if you can remember when they were still around. That was a piece of garbage... moved on to a P200 MMX, Celeron 300A@450, K6-2 450 with 3DNow!, Celeron 800 and finally got a decent computer (at the time) with my Athlon XP 2100+ now a 2500+@3200+

Looking back it's amazing how far we've come... and I started pretty late in the game. I
don't even know what half the crap above me is all about.

Edit: I can't forget to mention the one that preceeded them all - my brother typewriter with an astounding 12 character edit buffer. In case you made a mistake you could amazingly correct it on the dot matrix LCD!!
 
Some Commodore or something.
Good times, playing tape-drive games.

Here's my timeline:

Commodore --> Apple IIe --> IBM 386 (or something) --> Pentium 120Mhz Clone (my first real computer/i.e. not just for games) --> Pentium 333Mhz Clone --> ...
 
It was a macintosh Performa with a 33 mhz processor. I use to play a lot fo Wolfenstein and Marathon on it. I remember I had to put more RAM in it to play Star Wars Dark Forces.
 
First computer I ever used was a Commodore PET... I wasted hours of my young life playing Miner... well, waiting for it to load from the tape drive anyway.

First computer I ever owned was an XT clone, had an 8MHZ NEC V20 chip in it... that was twice as fast as the 4MHz 8088! You know what all it ran? Jack crap, pretty much, but I did play a bunch of Sierra games on it, and learned to type book reports in PC-Write.

Funny story about that XT. I once installed a disk drive controller and a brand-new at the time 1.44MB floppy drive... without shutting the thing off! NOT RECOMMENDED. I got a nice spark and pop out of it. The batshit thing is, the computer still worked fine and the disk drive worked too--after rebooting of course. Ahh the lessons we learn when we're 12 or so.

Sometime in high school, I bought a 486-DX2/66... I played Doom, went onto BBS's, and basically killed a lot of time I should've spent pounding twat. At least by then I was unplugging the computer before opening it up.

About 5 years of constant upgrading and keeping up with graphics hardware followed, and then I became fed up. I recently replaced a P3-600 I'd been using since 2000 with a 1.6GHz laptop; I intend to use it for 5 God damn years too. PC gaming and its constant hardware upgrade curve can go to hell.

Besides, PC games haven't been any good since the days of King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and Sam N Max. Or Miner, for that matter.
 
First home computer was this:

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Complete with Space Invader and breakout ripoffs on 5.5" floppies. Had a very VERY old version of Carmen Sandiego too!
 
Hmmm

The first computer I owned and could program was the Atari XE "Game System"... which I got from my grandparents because it worked with the old Atari 800 we had had 3 years earlier. The problem was that the 800 only had 2 game cartridges, and was somewhat useless as a computer... with the XEGS, I got my hands on a tape drive and (later) a disk drive and modem. The XEGS was handy... I used it through high school and, eventually, took it to college for the first year or two.

Back in second grade, I was programming in BASIC on the school's Commodore PET and Apple II computers.

Side note: It's a crying shame that the newer computers and "OS" systems don't have a simple programming language installed with them, like BASIC... computers allowed kids and teens to create things way back when... now they are getting more "passive". True, the internet allows for creativity to a certain extent, but you aren't getting the early algebraic training!
 
I didn't get my first computer until freshman year. It was about...733mhz.

I mainly used friends' PCs beforehand.
 
It was a Mac Performa. We still have it, but it was our main computer from 1996 to 2001. It had one gigabyte of hard disk memory space, but we ended up updating it in 1999.

Right now, we have the computer that replaced the Performa, a Mac G4. I'm guessing the next one my parents will buy will be the Intel Macs.

Got a couple good games in though. Played Day of the Tentacle (which made me an instant Adventure game fan), Descent, System Shock, Warcraft, The Sims, and others.
 
First Computer was a Texas Instruments something or other that hooked up to the TV.

First real computer was a 286.
 
386
4 MB RAM
80 MB HDD
Windows 3.1

I had to use a boot disk in order to play some games.
 
A TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (better known as the "Trash-80"). Programs were on tape, or cartridge.

Bonus nostalgia--remember when issues of computer magazines came with "games", except that what you really got wasn't a disk or anything like that, but the printed program that you had to type in to the computer first? I'd spend entire Saturdays typing in code for those games.
 
Apple IIGS (and I've been buying Apple's ever since), like the picture on the first page except with a better monitor, a floppy drive and a HUGE (and expensive) 20 meg HDD.

IIRC, the 20 meg HDD cost $1000 back then...

I used to play Ultima IV on it all the time. Swappin' floppies everytime you switched from the overworld to the town and waitin' 5min for the town to load was the state of the art at that time.
 
wobedraggled said:
Here's Mine:

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Timex Sincliar 1000, with a whopping 2k ram.

Edit: this pic has the 16k expansion, which I had but newver worked properly.

This thing a hd a "plot" command where you could draw a dot on the screen, or unplot it and take it away, hours of fun I tell you.
Click to expand...

I had a very similar Sinclair ZX81, it came with 1k of memory, but I also had the MASSIVE 16k expansion pack. It sort of worked, but didn't fit well, if you moved the computer in anyway when you were working on it, it moved the expansion pack and the computer reset.....


First real computer was a Packard Bell 486 SX 33mhz, 4 megs ram, 200 MB hard drive, itegrated video. I could have sucked, but it worked well enough for several years, I upgraded it as far as I could until I got a new one about 4-5 years later.
 
wobedraggled said:
Here's Mine:

ts1000.JPG



Timex Sincliar 1000, with a whopping 2k ram.

Edit: this pic has the 16k expansion, which I had but newver worked properly.

This thing a hd a "plot" command where you could draw a dot on the screen, or unplot it and take it away, hours of fun I tell you.
Click to expand...

The same... my expansion pack worked though... now the first PC I worked on in school was a:
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With an external cassette for storage.... you people today bitching about load times know NOTHING of my pain...
 
286 IBM compatible shit computer with Hercules graphics or something which only let me play some stupid golf game, all other games i tried didn't work with it.
 
Hmm, I can't recall which we had first, but the two earliest computers we had were a C64 and an old IBM PS/2 (8086 with MCGA graphics). I had more fun with the C64, but I did manage to get some enjoyment out of the 8086.

Didn't actually get ahold of a faster machine until we got a 486DX2/66 (a Packard Bell).

Beyond that, I didn't get a new PC until I bought my own. That was a K6-233. From there, every other computer I've owned I have built myself and I've been through many.
 
486dx100 (100MHz) bought at Comtech data.
I dont remember the original HDD size, but I remember we bought a ~500MB HDD for it later. I think it had 8MB RAM at first, then we bought a 16MB(?) stick for it.

I even had Win 95 PLUS installed on the computer. We played Jetstrike, Raptor, Duke Nukem 3D, the Worms games, even Worms 2 worked on it (must have run like crap, cuz I remember we could not aim properly in Worms 2.). :D Oh and the computer even worked online with a US.Robotics 56k modem. :P
 
Colecovision ADAM given to me 6 years after the fact, my grandfather found a ton of them stored in his warehouse from years ago. Fooled around with it a bit, I remember playing Buck Rogers on it. First IBM PC was a Gateway 2000 Pentium 75 with 1 gig hard drive and 8MB RAM. Had games like Doom, Mechwarrior II, Entomorph, NHL 96, One Must Fall, Jazz Jackrabbit, for it.
 
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Wish I could find a better picture, but my first computer was a desktop IBM Craptiva. It came with a 33MHz 486/SX processor, a 200MB HD, 4MBs of RAM, 2400 baud modem, and bitchin' SB16 soundcard. I remember having to create a boot floppy when Doom 2 came out just to get it to run. I eventually upped the system to a whopping 16MB of RAM and later replaced the processor with a 100MHz 486/DX4 Intel Overdrive processor. At that point it could run Quake 1...kinda, and with the 'turtle' icon permanently planted on the screen. This was the little box that got me started down the path of dorkdom.
 
CTX Computer

133 Mhz
16x CD Rom
10 Gig Hardrive
64 MB Ram
56 K modem


It was the shit back then :(
 
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