What was your first Computer?

[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.

 

[crudus]

Deepblue. I miss that computer. I had to ditch it because its graphics card was terrible and its mother board doesn't support the new ones.

Seriously: 2 gigs of RAM, 1.6 gHz, 50 gigs HDD.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

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).

 

[300lb. Samoan]

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.

Dude, that's the Presario I had! No coprocessor tho and our monitor couldn't hack more than 800x600.

 

[KillerH]

MITS Altair 8800

I worked at that kit for three days until I got it together.

 

[HatchetDown]

An iMac... What?

 

[cleverlymadeup]

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)

yeah i remember those old 5 1/4 inch disks. i also remember the 8 inch ones too.

i miss my good old green and black screen of my Apple ][e

 

[Beartrucci]

I can't remember, I got it in like 2001, it was a major piece of shit, struggled to play Age of Empires.

 

[Artorius]

Note!! People Please stop posting about your Current Computer please .
thank you ^^

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.

yes of course xP..
the good old times xP..

Spoiler

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)

yeah i remember those old 5 1/4 inch disks. i also remember the 8 inch ones too.

i miss my good old green and black screen of my Apple ][e

my uncle had Apple ][c haha..

Spoiler

its till rotting away in his trash cabinet xP..

 

[atol]

I'm pretty sure my first computer's processor had 300mhz processing power. It was hot stuff. I think it was pushing a gig of HDD space, which was a huge landmark.

 

[WolfThomas]

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.

 

[bilkobob]

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.

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.

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.

 

[TheDoctor455]

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.

 

[Rockatansky]

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.

 

[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.

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.

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.

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.
*Grabs cane, goes to yell at kids on lawn*