What was your first Computer?
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When I was about 8 my uncle gave me an IBM 80286XT with less than a megabyte of ram and a 40mb harddrive. It could barely run Wolfenstein 3D (couldn't hack Windows 3.1) so our family later got a Compaq 486 with Windows 3.1, 400mb harddrive, and 4 megs of ram. Upgraded it to 8 megs and installed Windows 95, then was still pissed that it couldn't run Mechwarrior 2 at full tilt. First computer I ever bought completely with my own money was a 2ghz single core with 512mb DDR ram and a GeForce 440MX graphics card (and probably 20gb harddrive or something).
Dude, that's the Presario I had! No coprocessor tho and our monitor couldn't hack more than 800x600.GrandAm said:
yeah i remember those old 5 1/4 inch disks. i also remember the 8 inch ones too.BringBackBuck said:
i miss my good old green and black screen of my Apple ][e
I can't remember, I got it in like 2001, it was a major piece of shit, struggled to play Age of Empires.
A generic Hewlett Packard from 2002, over the years I slowly replaced everything including the case and had the harddrive wiped a couple of time and it's still the computer I own today.
Though I am writing on my notebook (which I love for its size)
Edit: I did have earlier computers, but those were "family" computers not my own.
Though I am writing on my notebook (which I love for its size)
Edit: I did have earlier computers, but those were "family" computers not my own.
Ha, some of the kids in here would freak out if they had to use that old tape deck style thing. I had that as it came with the TRS-80, my first computer. You had a tape recorder instead of a floppy disk, and I think you had an attachment that allowed a type of cartridge for the side. I think the only game that came with it was some type of frogger game.smudgey said:
For the rest of you, if you are posting that your first computer was even from the 90's (forget about the 2000's), then you've no idea how powerful things have really gotten. I don't joke when I say your i-pods and cell phones have more computing ability and power than 20 or 30 machines that we had when we were your age. It's hard to imagine something the size of a credit card is hundreds more times powerful than something that was the size of a suitcase.
Smudgey, those Commodore 64's were great for Sid Mieir's Pirate's Gold
Oh, and you guys talking about the old Apple eII... all we did in school was use them to play Oregon Trail. Damned rivers.
My first one was some shitty compaq pc that would crash if you so much as coughed at it or called it mean names. I wish I was kidding.
I didn't have the box or monitor, just the base unit which plugged into a normal TV. Top games included TI Invaders, Hunt the Wumpus and Tombstone City.
This thing could take a beating too, when I lost it playing TI Invaders I'd smash my child fist down on the big section of metal behind the keyboard and it wouldn't even glitch. That section of case was concave after about five years of merciless beatings and it still booted up first time, every time. No idea what happened to it, guess it got binned after I left home, damn shame as that machine had character.
Ah, yes, a friend of mine had Pirates on his computer. It looked like fun, but he would never let me play it. Bastard. We had those good ol' black & white Apples in school with which we played Sim City. Good times.bilkobob said:
*Grabs cane, goes to yell at kids on lawn*
it was
2,6 GHz amd 64
1gb 400-ddr
ati x1600xt
it broke this autumn so the next one will be
amd x4 620 2,6Ghz quadcore
4bg 1333-ddr3
and same gpu
2,6 GHz amd 64
1gb 400-ddr
ati x1600xt
it broke this autumn so the next one will be
amd x4 620 2,6Ghz quadcore
4bg 1333-ddr3
and same gpu
Apple IIe, or my first PC was a 386 SX25. I don't recall much about it, but it had an EGA (16 colour) monitor, 16 meg of ram and ran Dos 3.3.
Given that it was a while ago this is probably the closest spec to the computer I had. Well, it was the family computer and the first one we were allowed to use after the BBC MicroGrandAm said:
. I loved Windows 3.1, why did it have to change?!Also I think the monitor was a bit smaller aswell :/
