What was your first Computer?

[oktalist]

My first computer was bought within a month of my birth (1984).

Tandon
Intel 386
5.25" floppy drive
14" CRT monitor
EGA graphics
MS-DOS 5

Don't know anything else about it. We still have it in mothballs, though. And an IBM 286 from before I was born. My favourite, however, was the BBC Model B I was donated by a friend of the family.

 

[Vie]

An Acorn Electron - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Electron

My first x86 computer was a HP Pavilion built in the Czech republic, fantastically well built machine actually. 1.8ghz celery, 128MB of ram, integrated graphics, I think the hard drive was a 60GB or a 80GB and it ran XP Home.

It was a huge step up from the 633Mhz celery, 64MB ram, 40GB hard drive and WinME machine I kept running for the family for FIVE LONG YEARS without having to reformat.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

A Target 300-something running MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.11. I don't know its specifics, but I remember a 'Turbo'-button that could be pressed to increase it's clock speed and that it had a horribly low amount of RAM.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

A really old MAC back in 1997

 

[YoUnG205]

I cannot be specific like you were. but it was Daewoo, (Yes the car make!). Plus i was still only young and only used it for paint and mine sweeper amy way.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Entirely mine? I inherited my Dad's old work laptop a few weeks ago and have been getting Linux-related headaches ever since. Packard Bell Easynote with 512mb RAM and 40GB of hard disk space. I like the little thing.

 

[cieply]

Only thing I remember was 133 mhz pentium and prolly 32 mb of ram, though I'm not sure of the ram...

 

[Ioncannon]

My first computer is a Pravetc 16C - that's a Bulgarian built machine.
It has 12 MHz CPU, a 5" floppy disk and a 32MB hard disk.
I used to play Digger and Load Runner until I would start to dream I was still playing... but then the video card died and my father bought me a 100MHz 486DX4.
I still have the Pravetc, but I cannot find a replacement video card to see if it still works.

 

[esperandote]

LANIX
Pentium MMX 266MHZ
Windows ME
4GB HD
32 MB RAM
800x600 monitor (wich i kept using until i bought my Acer LCD)

 

[Kushan101]

An Atari 2600
Followed by this bad boy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum]

Don't know what my first PC was...

 

[Wintermoot]

fogot the specs it was a pentium 2 or 3 with windows 98 it was an hand-me down until I blew it by switching the red switch at the back

 

[Tattaglia]

Spoiler

The computer part was actually the front panel on the left there. The massive compartments were for storing bodies.

In all seriousness, a Windows 95 with a cracked screen. Playing Space Invaders on that son of a ***** was like shooting flies down a well.

 

[ribonuge]

Packard Bell - Windows 95. It was for family use. The days when having the internet was a rarity.

I'm surprised nobody has said Gateway 2000. I can remember everyone I knew having one of them first.

Spoiler

Perhaps it was an Irish thing.

 

[Calgetorix]

You know, it's quite saddening to look at some of the specs, see the price tags and then think "Hah, so much money for so little!"... only to realise you may look back on the computer you have now in the future and think the same : (

 

[MorsePacific]

My first computer was an old Dell with a Pentium 2 processor. Had a 32 GB hard drive, 128 MB of RAM and somehow managed to run XP.

When I built the delicious monstrosity that I currently use, I used the old Dell as practice. I ended up turning it into a piece of scrap because I accidentally shocked the motherboard.

 

[Marcus Dubious]

I cant remember.
But have a working one of these from 1973 in my hand

http://www.vintage-technology.info/pages/calculators/decimo/decint.htm

Yes, that's a working 36 yr old pocket calculator

 

[orangebandguy]

An IBM with an impressive 3GB Hard drive. It had Pinball, I love Pinball.

 

[Jiggabyte]

Family computer was... well... I can't remember much. All I know is that it used DOS (I think), it used floppies and we were using it in when Windows 98 was out. I remember one which used the big ol' floppies, but that may or may not have been that one.

The one which actually belonged to me? A little before the Wii came out (I think) I got a laptop with Windows 2000. Pathetic little thing which couldn't run any games, really. Got hot real quick and it rarely connected to the internet. That died due to what we now think was a poorly-fitted component, but we don't care anymore. It was cheap.

 

[KB Rocker]

at first i had an awesome microsoft computer than my mom started working for apple and really messed things up