What was your first ever pc?

SkylerRock

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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.
 
kawligia

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I had an old 486. It could run Asteroids and Centipede.

This was when the 486 was new though so it was totally pimptacular at the time.
 
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I remember playing SimCity Classic on this bad boy http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10653_div/10653_div.HTML
 
shaderkul

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Wow, this question brings back tears to my eyes......snifff. My first ever system was a dell laptop I obtained from my Uncle. It was a pentium 1 (pentium 266 it was called, I think?) laptop with 4gig hard drive, 6mb of ram and looked like an over sized calculator. It ran windows 98 then. Had so much fun with it those days learning AutoCAD and 3dMax 3.5 (kinetix).... I loved that laptop, it introduced me to the wonderful world of geekhood!

Ive burned through so many systems since then I cant remember them all, but I'll try:

Next i got an extremely used pentium II desktop which was not any better than the laptop. All I remember was I had to remove the casing lid and station it next to my window cause it shuts down every 20 mins!

The next system I had, I built myself: Intel Pentium3 900Mhz, I think? 15gig harddrive, 256mbs of Ram and my first video card: a geforce card, cant remember the exact chipset.

Next I built a pentium 4, upgraded almost every component except the processor twice then built a new AMD 64 processor desktop. After a very long list of upgrades and replacements, i retired it and built a brand new one which I'm using currently:

AMD Phenom X4 9950 quad core processor, 1.8 TB harddrive space, 4gig of Ram, Asus ATI Radeon EAH4850 series, 1gig ram and Im sooooo loving it!
 
Gruthar

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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.
 
wewontdie11

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Some truly awful Windows 95 thing. I have no idea what make or specs because I only ever used that heap of crap to do word processing for school etc.
 
Sewblon

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My first computer was a Mac, it was before Mac gaming died. my first PC ran windows 98.
 
nettkenneth

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hewlet packard pavillion dv4000

i belived computers where evil when i was young but i had to fall to the evil sometime so......
 
Flour

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233 or 333MHZ processor with a 3,1GB HD and a GeForce3 Ti200 graphics card. Can't remember the RAM exactly, but it probably was 32MB.

It was bought with a discount when the company my father worked for wanted to upgrade all computers. At the time companies were allowed to buy things for their employees with their own tax rates. So when the company my father worked for decided to upgrade all computers, they offered to buy one for every employee, and those that accepted got it at the price the company paid for it.(saved about 200 or 300 guilders [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilder])
 
Gitsnik

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133mhz with 64 MB of RAM (actually might have been 32). Was enough to get a trimmed down red hat on there running X, I bought, shortly afterward, a 333mhz machine which I upgraded to fit 512MB of RAM and a 250GB HDD. Now it mostly sits in the corner and does backup DNS and Mail services for my company, as well as supporting my nethack addiction - I never actually gamed on it.

She's still holding strong too, apart from a couple of upgrades she's had some really solid uptimes (Irony: Since upgrading to STABLE I've had a lot of instabilities introduced into the system)

Code: 
root@dreadnought ~# uprecords 
     #               Uptime | System                                     Boot up
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
     1   299 days, 05:01:10 | FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE       Wed Oct 10 04:27:24 2007
     2   185 days, 06:15:01 | FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE       Sun Nov 26 15:11:10 2006
     3    78 days, 18:11:29 | FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE       Mon Sep  1 15:01:28 2008
     4    78 days, 06:58:41 | FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE       Mon Jul 23 21:03:31 2007
     5    55 days, 05:01:56 | FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE        Thu Jan 29 15:21:28 2009
     6    47 days, 22:52:38 | FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE        Tue Dec  2 09:18:45 2008
     7    28 days, 04:46:08 | FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE       Mon Aug  4 10:05:29 2008
->   8    25 days, 15:03:07 | FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE        Wed Mar 25 20:25:29 2009
     9    12 days, 23:03:06 | FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE    Wed Nov 19 10:14:20 2008
    10    10 days, 06:30:20 | FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE        Mon Jan 19 08:18:36 2009
----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
1up in     2 days, 13:43:02 | at                        Thu Apr 23 00:11:37 2009
no1 in   273 days, 13:58:04 | at                        Tue Jan 19 01:26:39 2010
root@dreadnought ~#
My first gaming rig was a 2.6 with 1GB of RAM and a couple of 400GB drives in it. I still have that too, it serves as a table for some of my other equipment - before I finally got decent copper run to my unit, it served as the dial-up gateway so I could access the internet.

Last year.
 
InProgress

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A Pc with 433 MHz, 1Gb HDD, 32 Mb RAM, a 2Mb video card, a 56k modem. For that time it was great, as I got it free from my cousins because they were buying a new, up-to-date PC. I could only play 2D and pseudo-3D games. It's weird thuogh, because I was atempting to do 3D on it, even if it didn't support 3D :p. Ahh, nostalgia.
 
Datalord

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I still have mine in my room, my family had computers before that one, but that was the first one designated mine. I use it for LOTR battle for middle earth 1 and 2, while my little brothers use it for Battlefront 1 and 2. It was made in 2004 (i think), and has windows xp, however, my parents needed a better monitor for a dif computer in our house, so the monitor is a crappy one from 2000
 
Baby Tea

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Time for the older gents to have a trip back to nostalgia time with Baby Tea:

I had a sweet Tandy 2500.

33 mHz
2 megs of RAM
40 meg HDD
DOS 5.0
Windows 3.1

It cost $2,500.

Probably not the oldest PC on this thread, but man...that thing was sweet.
 
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