What was your first Computer?

[.Warheart]

Mine was a Dell of some sorts? No? I can't recall. It had a 733Mhz processor and was good at the time.
After that a Pentium 4 2,8Ghz + 9800GT videocard. Now I'm on a QuadCore 2,91Ghz + GTX260 + 4GB RAM desktop, and often on my QuadCore 2,00Ghz + GTX260M + 6 GB RAM Laptop.

 

[ctrl-alt-postal]

Well, my first gaming experiences were on these family heirlooms:

Spoiler: c64

load"$",8,1

Spoiler: oric1

cload

Still got the oric, fired it up a few weeks ago. Still works, got "Dinky Kong" (yes, you read that right...) on tape, but missing a tape player for it.

But my first purchased box was (I think)...a Pentium MMX. I remember the C64 and oric more fondly....

 

[Qujibo]

I'm going to go ahead and give my comp life story =D

1st:
E Machines
700mhz cpu
like 10 gb hd
ati 128 pro or something (had either 32 or 64 mb of ram)
about 512 ram
win 98

2nd:
IBM
1.4 ghz Pentium 4
1gb ram
440mx agp card w/ 64 mb vram
80 gb hd
win xp

3rd:
amd 4600+ dual core 2.4 ghz
3gb ram
SLi 7600 gt 2x 256 mb ea
750 gb hd
win xp

4th:
amd 955 3.2 ghz 4 cores
4 gb ram
8800gt 512 mb
1.5 tb hd
win xp

current:
intel i7 8 cores @ 1.77 ghz each
6gb ram
2 tb hd
260gtx 1gb ram
win 7

 

[rokkolpo]

uhhmmm grey?

Be more specific! What shade of grey?

that one grey between light-dark grey.
you know, THAT one.

 

[BringBackBuck]

an apple ][e

now get off my bloody lawn

Awesome. Me too. I cut my teeth on Sammy Lightfoot & Karateka
Apple ][e = 64k ram
no hard drive, everything stored on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks (which were actually floppy)

 

[A random person]

Some Pentium II thing that ran on Windows ME. It crashed quite a lot.

 

[Valiance]

I had a 20 meg hard drive.
80386 SCREAMER, 33mhz processor.
an ENTIRE MEGABYTE of ram.
it was awesome.

 

[bombchu]

I had a HP... and it blue-screened often. It was really the house computer but I used it way more than everyone else. I think I was in 5th grade...

 

[MMMowman]

Anyone remeber the Omega computers?

 

[Earthbound Engineer]

I believe it was a Macintosh Performa 6200 that I picked out of someone's garbage. The thing could barely run Mac OS with like 8 MB of RAM and a 75 MHz processor. Oh, and it had a 1GB hard drive. *cackle*

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

My first computer was from my uncle, who was getting rid of some stuff and offered it to me when I was in the 7th grade. Of course I snatched it up. It wasn't that great, but it could run Quake 2.

 

[e2density]

Lemme think...I can barely remember...

64MB of RAM
16MB Generic Graphics Adapter (Can't remember the brand)
Intel Celeron @ 800MHz (I think...)
10GB HDD

Man I had one hell of a time playing Minesweeper.
Current PC:

2GB DDR3 RAM
ATI 5770 1GB
AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition @ 3.1GHz
320GB 7200RPM HDD
64GB Kingston SSD

 

[Hiphophippo]

1994.

Compaq Presario
Intel 486DX2-50 w/math co-processor
4 Mbytes of ram
1 Mbyte of video ram
270 Mbytes of hard drive space
Windows 3.1, Dosshell, Dos
1024x768 VGA with .28mm pixel, 14.5" diagonal CRT monitor
HP 300dpi parallel port inkjet printer
Additional 2x cd-rom drive (did not come standard)

Total cost...$2800 USD....on sale.

Basically mine as well, but mine had 8 megs of RAM and, I think, 400ish mb of HD space. Also, it ran Win95.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

My first was some really old thing from like '95 or something. It could run Age of Empires II and that was about it. Then some old Dell that had onboard graphics and only 256 ram.

Spoiler: Now, I have this.

 

[Simriel]

I can't actually remember the name of the O.S but it was the Microsoft one before Win95 and it had a (B drive. an actual B: drive. What ever actually came on those discs?

 

[sidexwalk]

A Compaq Presario laptop in like '01...Fucked if I remember the specs, though I still have fond memories of playing VTM: Redemption, Roller Coaster Tycoon and Operation Flashpoint...Before people started regarding PC gaming as some kind of reprehensible taboo.

 

[Brok3n Halo]

I can't really remember my very first computers specs, I never really used it much. The first computer in my house that I actually used though was the following:

25 Mhz 486SX
8 MB RAM
Sound Blaster Pro
2 HDDs: a 128 MB and a 256 MB
DOS as a primary OS and Windows 3.1 on one HDD and 3.11 for Workgroups on the other
1x Cartridge load CD-ROM drive
Floppy drive (5 1/4 in)
Diskette drive (3 1/2 in)
External 14k modem
hand operated scanner wand (Color even!)

Eventually deleted Win3.1, not sure why there was two on there in the first place. We bought it used from one of my grandpa's friends and it came with a ton of awesome games pre-installed:

Doom 2
Wolfenstein 3D
Rise of the Triad
Raptor
Commander Keen (1 and 4 I think)
Wacky Wheels (A Mario Kart clone)
Jazz the Jackrabbit
Lemmings 2

And I'm sure there were more, but those are the ones I played all the time and remember.

My first computer all my own was a huge laptop I bought for my first semester of college. Got it for both school and gaming with the one requirement of it needing to be powerful enough to run Doom 3 at reasonable settings.

16" screen @ 1024x768
ATI Radeon 9600 w/ 128 MB RAM
3.1 Ghz Desktop class Pentium 4
1 GB RAM
DVD burner
Windows XP SP1


EDIT:

Since some people are throwing in current specs too, figured I'd add mine:

Fate (Desktop):
Core 2 Duo 2.4 OCed to 2.8
4GB RAM
SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer FPS
2 Radeon 4870s w/ 512MB RAM in a CrossFireX configuration
DVD Burner
Blu-Ray Drive
2 320GB HDD in RAID 0
Logitech z5500 Speakers
2 24" Dell LCD @ 1080p
Logitech back-lit Keyboard
Logitech MX Revolution Mouse

Rico (Lenovo X61 Convertible Tablet/Laptop):
1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
12.1" Screen (Wacom Penabled and Resistive Touch) @ 1024x768
Intel GMA 950 Graphics
Secondary Dell 20" Display @ 1680x1050

 

[coldfrog]

Does the Commodore 64 count? Yes? No?

OK. If not, I don't remember any of the specs anymore, but it was a green and black matrix monstrosity that looked like it smelled: Likely to catch on fire.

5 1/4 inch floppy drive and state of the art 3 1/2 inch drive on which I could play Simcity or Wheel of Fortune! I had Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing as well. It was a grand old time.

I also had a grey on grey Toshiba Lappy with everyone's favorite word processing application, WORDSTAR! Also Quattro. Yeah quattro. Again, I could play Simcity. Wonderous times, my friend.

 

[smudgey]

Commodore 64, with tape deck. Dangerous Dave and the haunted mansion, Impossible Mission, Outrun... gaming heaven! The only bad thing was forgetting what to type to get the games going. None of this "icons" and easy to use OSes back then, no sirree. We did things the hard way. And we walked 15 miles to school in the snow. Uphill BOTH ways.

 

[RanD00M]

Some crappy thing that was bought at an auction.My father bought it for $80 there.It cost some $450 just to make it good.And he paid for the upgrade on it.