What was your first ever pc?

[Sonicron]

I think it was in 2000. Pentium III, 900 mHz, OS was Windows ME... that's all I can remember.

 

[Therumancer]

Commodore 64

 

[Mardy]

I love my windows 98, I still have it.

 

[BubbleGumSnareDrum]

My first PC ran on Windows 3.1 and the internet wasn't commonly used by the general public back then.

Damn. I feel old.

 

[New Troll]

Commodore 64.

 

[cathou]

a COCO3 also know as TRS-80, running at 0.895 MHz with 128k or ram, upgradable to 512.

at first we had the tape deck to record our data, but my dad bought the floppy (5 1/4 inches) extention for like 300$ when they released it.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Windows 3.1, 3GB memory upgrade, green monochrome second hand monitor, chunky keyboard, weird smell....

 

[Martymer]

Ah, good times.

My first PC was a Packard Bell 486 DX2 with 4mb of RAM, and the game that I bought with it was none other than Star Trek The Next Generation: A Final Unity. As far as I remember I actually had to go back to PC World and spend £40 on another 4mb of RAM to be able to play it...

I miss Heretic.

Ah, memories... I ran that game on my first PC too. 33 MHz 486... Barely worked. Lagged like a ***** by I didn't care 'cause I was such a trekkie I just had to play that game! Doom worked perfectly, though.

 

[munx13]

Dont remenber exact specs, but it had 32MB RAM, a 200MB hard drive and it ran Windows 3.11

I used to play Catacombs 3D, wolfenstein 3D, Indy 500, Sim city and Doom on it.

 

[ultimateownage]

We upgrade ours like every other week so I haven't got a clue, it was also bought before I was born, so it didn't have windows 95 or up.

 

[Doug]

Dude, I remembering coveting those newfangled Pentium computers when I was a kid. The first computer I had (or more accurately my parents had) was a Leading Edge Model D:

It had a green monochrome display, had Castle, Gomoku, Space Wars, a Pacman knockoff, and Leisure Suit Larry. You could not type up a document and play a game - your doc would be erased. Funny thing was I could not read yet, so I would just copy the DOS commands my dad would use. 'dir' was my best friend. Next one was a Gateway 2000 486, though I don't remember the clock speed. Did have a shnazzy 'turbo' button, though. You had to put CDs into a plastic cartridge before you fed them into the computer.

I get a nostalgic feeling whenever I see the big ol' floppy floppies.

I remember when my school had those and was proud about them, heh. Add to that, my first 'PC' was the old caskette type machine. Hence, my first ever game was an old Batman platformer, or an old R-Type thing (can't remember the name, it was with you above the ground, shooting at ground troops and defenses, heh).

Amazing really, when we think about modern 3D gaming, how far its come in only 20 odd years. Its like going from the primitive black-and-white soundless hand cranked films to modern cinema in the same time (about 100 years or so since the first movies - in fact, the earliest known 'video' is from a German-French border war over alsace-lorraine in the 1870's).

 

[Valiance]

haha. Windows.

First PC I had ran DOS and kickass games like Commander Keen.

It's been so long though, I don't remember any prompts...

Agreed, Commander Keen kicked ass.

I had a IBM 386 33MHz "SCREAMER!!!" (no joke, it said that in the brochure because it was so fast at the time.)

With, you won't believe it, a WHOLE MEGABYTE of memory.

But yeah. And it had both floppy drives. The big ones and the small ones. We upgraded it to have the small one.

My family had it slightly before I was born.

It had a green monochrome display, had Castle, Gomoku, Space Wars, a Pacman knockoff...had a shnazzy 'turbo' button, though. You had to put CDs into a plastic cartridge before you fed them into the computer.

I get a nostalgic feeling whenever I see the big ol' floppy floppies.

I had a turbo button on my 486, but not my 386.
And my 486 had the CD plastic cartridge things..^^
And I love old floppies.

Was your Pacman knockoff "CD-Man" ? I'm just curious.

 

[Inverse Skies]

The family one was some stupid computer from years ago, I can't remember anything about its specs, I was a little young. My first computer personally was the laptop my parents had to buy for highschool, it was a Toshiba notebook with about 4gb on it. It ran half-life well so thats all I worried about.

 

[kickin wiing]

Packard Bell FTW.

 

[Oopsie]

100 mhz. Pentium processor
32 mb of ram
850 mb HDD
8x CD-rom drive
and windows 95.

Those were the days.

 

[Kirra]

This one is my first computer, before i got it i used my brother computer but only rarely.

It's a laptop.
Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7068
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHZ
3 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
And probably some other fancy technical stuff.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

First off this seems a good enough thread so Mac > PC

Ahh first was some IBM running 98 (purchased in 2000) had that until 2006 when my father finally decided to upgrade and purchased an intel chip iMac, best decision of our lives! The first computer which has actually belonged to me and me alone is a 15" MacBook Pro (2006 model, purchased 2007). 1GB memory, 120GB HDD, 2.16 GHz intel processor, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Graphics card. Originally had Tiger but I've since installed Leopard. <3 my Mac

 

[mikecoulter]

First off this seems a good enough thread so Mac > PC

Ahh first was some IBM running 98 (purchased in 2000) had that until 2006 when my father finally decided to upgrade and purchased an intel chip iMac, best decision of our lives! The first computer which has actually belonged to me and me alone is a 15" MacBook Pro (2006 model, purchased 2007). 1GB memory, 120GB HDD, 2.16 GHz intel processor, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Graphics card. Originally had Tiger but I've since installed Leopard. <3 my Mac

I do enjoy a good old net browse and iTunes chillout on my Mac. But in all honesty, I don't prefer either Windows or Mac OSX. Why not just enjoy the best of both?

And sneakily leave out that pesky Linux ;D