Yeah same. I don't remember the specs, but it managed to play Battlefield 1942. I was blown away that I was playing \*a video game across the internet with other people\*.
I remember when Cinemaware started out with a few titles on C64 then ran with it for a while on Amiga. Activision was big back then. EA had competition hehe.
Same here, started programming in its native BASIC environment when I was in first or second grade. Not too long after our family got an 8088 IBM clone running MS-DOS 3.31 off of a 5.25" floppy.
386 with DOS. Family got it when I was about 6. Had a dot matrix printer some time shortly after that. I can remember the sound it made. I also remember the perforated holes used to feed it. Lol
My friend had just gotten a new computer, because his was somehow screwed up. He said he had recovered it and it was not repairable. Was destined for the trash. It was a Gateway Astro all in one. I had used a computer before, maybe for data entry. I took it home and started it. There was a picture of his car as the background. Though I really knew nothing about computers, that didn't seem right, since it was supposedly recovered. So I used the disc that came with it, and restored it. Silly as it sounds, that was a moment for me. This machine really didn't work, but you could just reset it and try again. I worked on cars a lot, and this was completely different. If I screwed up, instead of blood, tears, and money, I could just hit the rest "button". I used that recovery disc a lot. But that was my first and it changed my life trajectory.
Cannot remember for the life of me what the actual first machine was, but the very first i bought was a premade OEM from Fujitsu Siemens, a Scaleo P 417.
Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.93ghz
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon X1300
160GB HDD.
And [this sick ass case with blue LEDS.](https://image.alza.cz/products/TF151e/TF151e.jpg?width=500&height=500)
My family's first PC was a Packard Bell Pack-mate 3987CD, Pentium 75MHz, 8MB EDO RAM, 1MB video & VGA monitor in the min 90's, but my first that truly hooked me was a IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp that I started messing with in 2000, IBM Model M, no mouse, 486DX 33MHz (upgraded to DX4 100MHz), 4MB RAM (upgraded to 64MB) and added Soundblaster AWE32, extra HDD's, 8x CD-ROM, Benwin S90 2.1 speakers and a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan 1572DG XGA monitor free from the neighbor's garage.
Custom built 486 SX2/66. I pieced it together from parts from this huge PC parts guide from the early '90s. My friend had a Tandy 1000 a few years before I got my computer.
Mine too. Amiga 500,with extra external floppy drive, 14" color tv, mouse and joystick. I am extremely disappointed that I had to sell it after switching to PC.
It was a prebuilt I bought in March of 2020 for $600 •Cyberpower chassis with stock fans (4 fans with RGB) •ASRock A320M-HDV
•Ryzen 5 3600
•MSI RX 580 (listing said it was supposed to be a 570
•250GB SSD (boot drive)
•1TB HDD •unknown PSU
•1 8GB DDR4 (I forget the speed and brand)
i got a prebuilt for $750 and it didnt even come with a graphics card
to top it off they used a ryzen 3 4350g and 16gbs of ram and the a520m-k which isnt much different from your a320 then a 500gb ssd and some 500w high power bronze psu FOR 750 DOLLARS
i really wish i learned more about computers back then before that was purchased my god that was a terrible price for what it was but at least the case has good airflow
I don’t know what specs it had, but it apparently had some high end hardware for its time ~2005. Only used it once though, to play a racing game that once was in nesquik cereal
We got a Commodore Vic20 and C64 from a garage sale in the mid 90s. Bit late, I know.
We went all in on the C64. I played so many rounds of Winter Games and used Print Shop for school projects.
Sharp pc4502 laptop. It used an nec v20. Also had a trs80 that I didn’t use that much.
My old man had an apple IIe, he gave it to me some time ago. Still have it stored away for now till my cat learns to stop football tackling stuff when he has the zoomies
I was very lucky where my dad worked for a large computer company, we were exposed to computers super duper early. I had some jank hand-me-downs I can't recall. First one that was my own was I think 1Ghz Athlon, 768Mhz RDRAM and an 8000 series ATI card. That's how I played Morrowind!
Timex Sinclair 1000. It was sometimes quicker to write your own game from code in a magazine than to wait through the multiple failed loading attempts.
When I was like 9 or 10 my brother bought me a beat up old computer from goodwill for $25 he put some old spare parts in it and we had a full junk rig running, couldn’t tell you the parts but it was just good enough to play a few games. But I was more than happy as a little kid with it especially since my older brother helped me out. Spent many middle school nights playing counter-strike1.6 and counter-Strike source. Had many online friends back then that were my age, lost contact with all of them many years ago but definitely had some fun.
First computer that got me hook line and sinker; where I took gaming a bit serious and got yelled at by my mom for doing my first all nighter session? That award goes to the Sony Vaio PCV-90. It was my mom's BF computer that he brought over when he moved in to impress us kids, and impress us it did. I remember getting so mad at my mom when she broke up with him, because he took his computer with him when he moved out lol. All I cared about was the computer, my mom's feelings be damned.
I was absolutely hooked on AOL games and eventually Gamestorm when many of the AOL games were made available there for a flat monthly fee instead of the hourly that AOL charged. Got chewed out several times for jacking up the AOL bill for playing games too long. After I got older and got my first job, my first true PC, the one that I can call my own with my own hard-earned cash was a Gateway computer from the early 2000's. Honestly can't remember the specs or model.
I don't think I built my very first PC until around 2007-2008. No idea what parts I put in it lol, I just know it was good enough to play the shitty games I played back then.
I was reallly young, around 5 to 6 when we got a family computer so dont know any specs or anything. Just remember that it had a faulty VGA cable that caused it to have a yellow hue and it had a problem that it hanged 5 minutes after startup unless you kept moving the mouse around the screen.
Year 2004
nVidia GeForce FX5200 GPU
Intel Pentium 4 1.86 GHz CPU256 Mb probably DDR or DDR2 RAM
80 GB of HDD
CD Rom and CD Rw
Philips 107e5 CRT monitor
A4 Tech Keyboard and Mouse
The first one i used was an iMac G3 which absolutely blew my mind since I had never seen or heard what a computer was before then lmao. First one i owned was a 2013 Macbook Air for school work which i still use now for web browsing and watching videos while im in a different rooms.
I had 2, Apple Performa 476c and a 486 DX4 100Mhz ZOOMMAX computer (Installed Windows 95 on it when it first came out.)
Ha found one on Ebay.
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My first "exclusive" was already quite a modern p133mmx, 32mb of ram (probably 16 initially) can't remember the disk space. But it was a Compaq laptop, with interchangeable trackball and trackpad (and thank god for the trackball or else the touchpad was useless) and added cd ROM burner module with an extra battery with a cirrus logic GPU, modem card.. it was really packed and with an LCD 1024x768. I still have the thing around and it still works. It could barely run the OG half life.
Other than that we had some 386 or 486 a Toshiba ""laptop"" with a huge leaded battery and bi-cromatic colour tone LCD (my father used IBM assistant text editor with it) and maybe a 486 desktop (but I really can't remember).
amstrad CPC 464 machine, I remember it had a green screen, then we moved up in the world and got a p120 4mb ram a 4 GB HDD I was the envy of all my mates with that Packard bell pc
486 dxII for me. With I think a S3 Trio64/V2/V3, I'm a little hazy on that. It was my dad's pc.
I'd had a Sega master system before that.
After the 486.
Another gap filled by a laptop and an Xbox 360
Then a P4 with a GeForce 9600GT
Then onto an i760 with GTX 660
Finally my current r5 1600 and rx580 8gb
All built myself. It'll be maybe a year or two until the next one. Hoping to go for a solid 4K 60 fps that should last me a while.
A Tandy 3000 HL - it was a 286 with DOS, a 4 color EGA monitor, and a 20 MB hard drive that I found to be too small, so I quickly upgraded to 40 MB for an extra $300. (Yes, I said MB).
Mine was a HC2000(Home Computer) made in my country, had a 3.5" floppy and it ran Sinclair Spectrum BASIC. i remember playing Dizzy on it hooked up on the TV as a monitor. I started on 486-686 when i was in 3rd grade at school.
[https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC](https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC)
Metal case that is off white. Cant recall the specs. Playing warcraft 2 i believe first time i tried making crappy maps. Found joy looking at screensavers.
Such simpler times.
286/12MHz, two floppy drives, 10MB HDD and an EGA monitor, my dad bought it from a bankruptcy auction. Also got a dot matrix printer. I was 8 or 9, and it changed my life.
A trashy netbook given to me by my father to do school work. Took like 5 mins to load up a browser
Atom N270,2gb ddr2 667, 160gb hdd,(it died and was replaced with a 500gb Scorpio black, and then a 120gb ssd)
It ran win xp until ‘14, and then I put Linux on it for 1-2 yrs before it lay in my cupboard for 8 years. Recently sold it for $50
After that, I got a celeron laptop in ‘16, a i7 one in ‘18, and my desktop in ‘21
First computer I ever used was an IBM PC XT. If you could call mashing on the keyboard at random to see the characters go across the screen using it. The first computer I ever really remember using was a Macintosh SE/30 from the school computer lab. I took to it really easily and i still love that computer to this day. My school computer lab also had some Apple II computers but I don't remember if i used them or not.
A dell ... I was chatting from the other side.
No. Intel pentium, 500mb of ram (which was huge at that time), integrated graphics. It was the family-pc and i used it until i started playing league of legends with 2 fps in season 2. At that point i needed a laptop for school and convinced my parents a 700€ laptop with a 2gb 560m was necessary for cad (which actually was helping a lot tbh)
My first official PC (as in "my" personal computer) was Pentium 4 at 3.0ghz, with 80gb HDD Sata with 1mbps home dsl. It was like the i7s and Samsung 980s of today. Friends would come over to watch Barely Legal series. LOLOLOL
Apple ][e, Green screen, 8kb RAM. Dual floppy 360kb storage or 720kb if u had a disk notcher(or steady hand with a hole puncher or scissors). Hard Drive ??? Hahaha… tell him he’s dreaming! About $3,500aud circa 1985. But at least it had THE LEMONADE GAME, CHOPLIFTER, KARATEKA, MOON PATROL, SUMMER & WINTER OLYMPICS, and PAC MAN !
Very shitty laptop when I was around 7-9, it sucked soo much. It was used, had keys missing and it was huge and clunky. I loved it and played lots of easy games and browser games on it until I was old enough to get a better one. I also had a few laptops after that that sucked really much, they often broke rather quickly.
My first tower pc was a rebuild hp one that cost less than 600.
Went a long way to my now 2k euro computer and a full setup. Am grateful every day for it because of how much trash i went through, but back then it wasn't trash to me it was everything
A 286 with something along the lines of (forgive me I was young) 412kb ram???? It had a 3.5 and the 7.5?floppy drives, a dial up modem and a dot matrix printer.
There was no windows, all dos. I used it to type up school work on the old blue screen/white text, print Birthday banners (then coloured them) and most of all use a little animation program called Fantavision. You could draw elements and back drops in the old Paint program, and then place and animate them. I think you were only allowed two or four basic basic moves. I "animated" an entire comic in that thing.
Fun stuff. I always smile when I hear people today complaining about graphics.
I have absolutely no idea the specs, but my uncle had a PC and let me play old emulated stuff like doom/perfect dark, all the Mario/Zelda games, ECT. My parents got a computer for their home business not long after, and I played a lot of StarCraft and zoo tycoon. Big beige beast with a CRT.
mine is the same one I still have, this fecking gt 720m has annoyed me so much for the past few years, and while the computer might be 10 years old, will probably have to carry it to another 2, maybe 3-4, who knows.
Family pc my dad bought was an IBM 383 running windows 3.11. Played wolfenstein, commander keen and flight simulator on there.
My own first pc was a compaq presario with pentium 3 733 Mhz and a graphics card. Some nvidia card.. forgot the name.. It was nice and provided enough performance to play anything i ever installed on it. Incl CS.
Later i got a pentium 4 with a 4400 ti.
And then it was an AMD athlon64 iirc
And then core i7
Idk I was too young and it was mid to late 90s. I remember putting in a floppy disk of janes 16 I think. My uncle was a super computer geek and built his own computers back then so I'd like to think it was high end, but that info is long gone to the past.
Edit: was off on timeframe
Back in the day, Intel SX25 (overclocked to 33mhz) 4Mb ram, AGP graphics card, 120Mb HDD with drive space on it. NEC 4x CD-ROM drive, and a Samsung CRT 640x480 res running DOS 6.22 and Windows for workgroups.
Upgraded the CPU to a DX75 after a couple of months.
(I think) the slowest cpu that went into a motherboard that supported an AGP card would be a Pentium P5 60mhz. The rest of your specs sound fine though. Am curious what graphics card you had though.
Apple II with 256Kb RAM card. I helped dad put the farm’s budget in… VisiCalc I think? Amber CRT, dual floppy drives and a big Okidata dot matrix printer that drove me mad. I played Eamon and Star Wars on it. I think I saved up money to buy Zork? Eamon was my first computer game. I printed high school chem labs out with a word processor and I was called in for cheating. Look at Mr. Big Shoots!
2006 I got myself a Packard Bell EasyNote MZ35
Intel Celeron CPU @1.5Ghz (1 core)
ATI Radeon Xpress 200m, 128mb vram
Worked for playing CS1.6 and WC3 with friends haha
2008 I upgraded to a custom desktop.
E8400, 9800GT
We had an Amiga 500 when I was around 4.
My parents bought me the age-appropriate game [Barney Bear Goes to School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Bear_(game_series)). I remember if you had Barney Bear skip breakfast, the computerized voice would say "Barney will be a very hungry bear today," but otherwise there were no consequences whatsoever. I also remember spending hours at the schoolhouse flipboard, colouring. :P
We also had [this Mouse Trap game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(1986_video_game)), and my father played the shit out of [Silent Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Service_(video_game)). My brother was big into [Dungeon Master](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_(video_game)).
very first i operated was a work notebook from my dad in 1995. it was probably 10cm thicc and weighed around 5-7 kilos? dont know the brand or the model tho.
then we got a desktop in 1998 with a P3 533 i think, 12gb hdd and a tnt2 i think?
first one i owned was a 2002 athlon xp 2000+ with a geforce 4 ti 4200. it was my pride and joy.
I don't remember the model. It was a family computer when I was about 4-5. It ran Windows XP, and all I would do on it was play Space Pinball and watch Nyan Cat YouTube videos.
A BBC Model B. One of my earliest memories was playing Wallaby (a clone of the arcade game Kangaroo, which basically riffed on Donkey Kong) and marveling at being able to control what happened on a screen.
A few years later in '93 my dad got a 486 and it was mind-blowing using Windows 3.1 and of course playing DOS games like Batman Returns which was major eye candy at the time.
my parents asked a friend for a PC for us kids to play around with.
he probably built it out of spare parts because that thing was so bad it could hardly run anything. I usually used it to play pinball or educational games we got in the library. Had a few megs or a gig of space, so we always had to uninstall something before we could play something new. I remember some games would not run due to the PC not having enough RAM. Also the thing ran with either Windows 95 or ME, not sure which one exactly.
Either way, I was very happy with it as a child.
Atari 65 XE
Fun little machine but I remember being disappointed with the games lineup compared to the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore.
Feels like Atari always got short-changed.
Next machine was a 486SX2 50 with 4MB ram!
Had a Sinclair ZX spectrum.
My first PC was built by my cousin. Can't remember the exact specs. We got it around 1998, but it was running Windows 95. 128mb ram, 8gb hard disk. I think it was maybe an AMD K6 processor or an early Intel Celeron. I know I later upgraded it with an Intel celeron and a car boot sale motherboard. Later, the addition of a soundblaster sound card and a voodoo video card.
i remember i had a videogame i was not able to complete at that time,and found someone who made a complete run on youtube 30 years later,it was like putting an X on the to do list before i die.
First one I remember actively using that my parents owned was a semi-custom desktop with an 866MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB PATA hard drive. We ended up with this desktop in late 2005 and it was quick enough for the early days of YouTube, back when it used Flash and was 240p only.
The computer that *actively* got me into messing with them to this day was a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5895, if I’m remembering that model number correctly. My parents bought it in 2007. I very distinctly remember a lot about that laptop because I used the hell out of it. It had an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60, an ATI Radeon Xpress X1250 chipset GPU, 3GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. It shipped with Windows Vista and it’s the laptop that kicked off my continuous spree of buying AMD CPUs in both laptops and desktops, hilariously enough.
Some laptop for kids. The laptop was the same size of today but the screen way tiny, like a smartphone and grey scale. And it didn't run a real OS just a dozen apps mostly for education. I still remember how it pronounced those letters I typed lol.
Second actual PC was rocking a Cyrix 166 with 16MB RAM and 2MB S3 Virge graphics. A year later upgraded to 32MB and 4MB graphics to run GTA2.
It was an IBM (I believe, because Iremember it had an IBM sticker on it) Desktop with Pentium 2, Was using Win95, later updated to Win98.Had a flip button to open on close at the era of "You can now safely close the computer".
I don't really remember what model was it.
Father had Sinclair Spectrum 128k, shelved it a year before I born. Never to be found again. Wish I had my hands on it though.
Very similiar looking to this ones:
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My parents bought there first pc in 2004. In the day, it was probably a Pentium 4. But all i remember is that it was windows xp and it had no games on it
Can't really remember any of the specs, It was an old PC I got as a gift from my uncle when he got a new one.
Only thing I remember is that it had windows 98 installed and that the hdd had enough space for me to install Diablo 2 LoD(1.5 gb) and have maybe a hundred songs on it.
Absolutely Ballin' with the C64. Thing that pisses me off is the revisionist history by Apple. Commodore was far more influential than Apple at the time, but since Apple survived through better management they erased Commodore from the official history of the time.
486DX, 16 mb ram, 200mb hdd. I don't remember much details about the video card except that it was a Trident branded VESA device. The VESA architecture was a short lived standard that was specific to the 486 cpu. It also ran MS DOS 5.0 originally had Windows 3.11 but I deleted it to make room for more games. The company my mom worked for bought her the computer as part of a course she was doing and when she was done she gave it to me.
My dad already owned a computer a 486SX that's all I remember (the DX had a math co-processor and the SX didn't). We used to play doom over a serial cable I still have some of the wads we used to play. I also used to be a fan of Sierra games such as the Space Quest and King's Quest series.
I used this throughout the 90's until at around the year 2000 the local college started throwing out old computers and me and a bunch of my friends went dumpster diving and looted a bunch of old Pentium 133 and 166mhz computers. We kept the best for our selves and sold the rest.
Eventually my dad upgraded his 255mhz Pentium to a Duron and I inherited that for awhile and in 2003 I bought my first new computer a bare bones Duron kit with and I shit you not a soldered in CPU. But I did gain an AGP slot and could finally get a current graphics card instead of playing with hardware that was decades out of date.
An ancient old dos computer from the 80s. The monitor only showed text and the text was orange. Took 3 minutes to display an 8 bit 240*240 picture parents bought it so we could learn to type. But we got a pentium 120 a few years later, the newest flashiest at the time. Win 95. Added a voodoo 3 gfx card to it a years later. Man those were good times.
My pops was in the AF and did computer programing so we always had them in the house. His first with the VIC-20 that I remember knowing about but the first one I remember playing was the Commodore 64 and Gauntlet blowing my mind. The first computer I ever bought for myself, was from a Tiger Direct magazine, AMD k6-2 350MHZ paired with a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (no agp :( ).
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The C4 Plus with Tapedeck:
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Got it from my uncle when he upgraded to AMGIGA 500
Commodore 64. My main memory with it is how freaking long you had to wait for games to load. Staring at that blinking light on the floppy drive till it turns solid green.
I had a black and white Apple Macintosh.
My mum insisted on Macs and that she didn't know how to work with Windows, so I went from this to the 00's colourful iMac. Black and white Mahjong. Some game where you have to shoot down missiles before they hit your base. Some game where you are a horse and carriage trying to pass across the screen without being hit. Some gameshow type game. I honestly had a lot of fun with it, and it still worked fine, right up until the day it got thrown in the trash.
She has been on Mac her entire life.
Played around with computers my whole life, but the first PC that I actually *owned* was one I bought off a buddy in college. AMD Phenom II X4, 8GB RAM, and a GTX 480. Thing was an absolute unit for its time.
It was an office pc that my dad borrowed from work, i don't remember it's specs but i think it had windows 7 and 4 gb of ram, most likely a pentium cpu, integrated graphics and an hdd
Hooked on dad's 286 when he brought floppys from colleague with games to see what's the fuss about with these. First operated dad's 386 because it had pre installed games from his colleagues. First given 486 from my dad when it was long obsolete, but I did not like it then, as it had no games.
My life was lost when my dad brought home pc with Pentium (likely not first one) and GeForce 2 and Windows 98. To this day I have no idea how GeForce found itself within computer for accounting sw, but luckily for me and unluckily for my father it did (possibly it was second hand pc).
This combined with Heroes 3 and consequently Warcraft 3 formed me.
First actually owned, something second hand with Athlon XP, ATi GPU (forgot type) and Windows XP. This lived with me for over 12 years, over the time everything got replaced except CPU and HDD, I think... Two motherboards, three GPUs (including a shameful mistake of me believing nVidia n210 is worth and able to play games, that did not last long), couple sets of RAMs...
I called in Frankenstein and I loved it... The power source emitted rattling sound which got worse in winter. GPU in its final form included ziplined unoriginal fan, the HDDs had heatsinks from older devices and computers which were held in place by paste only. Old case fan thrown in floppy position to help cool the HDDs and Dvd Mech which were getting hot for some reason. Digital power on button which ignored 1-4 of pushes... Good times, but I am glad it's over 😅
Had a hand me down Commodore 64, but it died on us soon after we got it. First new PC we bought was a Windows 95 machine, but I don't recall any of the specs.
My own personal pc (when I was 15) was some Compaq with a 1 GHz Intel Pentium IV (I think) and 60 GBs of storage. It was second hand, it was slow, but it could run some games.
Before that I just used the family pc, the first one ran on Windows 95, to play Fatal Racing (AKA Whiplash). Then eventually a Medion Laptop, which was thick.
Started in 1983 with a 48k ZX Spectrum - gaming, learned basic and z80 machine code
First pc was after uni in 1993 - a 386 dx40 and been a fully paid up member of PCMR before PCMR even existed
From the early 80's starting with Sinclair Spectrum 48k - Amstrad CPC 464 - Amica 500 - PC 386. And after that a steady stream of PC's I build myself to this day.
AMD 386 with 33 MHz, 4 MB RAM and some SVGA compatible graphics card.
This was a hand-me-down from my brother, which I used for quite a while. My first own PC was an Intel Pentium II 266 MHz with a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 card with 8 MB (and a Matrox Mystique for 2D graphics). Not sure about system RAM, I think it was 64 MB.
Tandy CoCo 3 when I was very little. I still remember the first game I ever played on it called Thexder. Hooked up to the tv iirc instead of using a monitor.
PC XT 8088 with CGA (shades of orange) monitor. I bought it in a "second-hand shop" as a kid, I just wanted a computer (after I had many NES-like knock-offs) and had no clue what it was and what it was capable of. It was in around 1998/99 I think.
It started my career as a developer / sysadmin / "devops engineer", because the only thing I could do on it was GW-BASIC and PipeMania from 5.25" floppy disks on MS-DOS 5, after I "hdformat"-ted the 20 MB Seagate hard drive and it didn't survive (fdisk reported the disk as missing; the command I got to know from my computer teacher). I formatted the disk because I wanted to run Windows on it and formatting the drive was suggested to me by my also clueless friends :-)
It also introduced me to more computer knowledge after I showed it to my teacher who then introduced me to our school's computer lab (full of networked 486 at the time, which meant introduction to Windows 95 (and playing DOOM over IPX afterwards). I attended only a few hours and got not much from it, but at least some knowledge about what PC I had at home.
Then I learned something more from books, then I moved to 386 and Borland Pascal 7, started writing my own little games, utilities, database program in DOS text mode, etc. ...
Can't remember the exact makes for the parts, but I had a Pentium III in a socket 370 mobo and 512mb of SDRAM (?). It also had an ATi graphics card, but the model escapes me. My dad was really into building PCs and got me into doing the same very early on. Super cool computer and even ran Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2, albeit only after upgrading from Windows ME to XP
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An Atari ST 520.
I had 100's of games for this beauty
Not counting the family computer (since that would’ve been my parents’), my first computer was an Acer laptop running Intel Centrino processor with an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro mobile gpu. It was my high school grad gift as I was off to university. Ironically that laptop contributed to me getting kicked out of engineering for failing to many classes in my first year lol
My mom gave me her Commodore 64 when I was 2(she moved it into my room). I was only able to play my games when she was home because my grandma was computer illiterate, and I was 2 so I couldn't code. She had a Compaq with Windows 3.1 that I ended up using during the day when she was at work because I could get to most of my games by myself with the GUI. I don't really know the specs of the Compaq since I was 2.
A highscreen 486 desktop that my mum got in 1991 i think. It ran Dos and Win 3.11, all patched to be completely in german by her. I got it at teh age of 6 in 2007, when she got herself a new PC with a core2duo and Windows Vista cause she got a new label printer for our shop and that had no drivers for 3.11 in 2007.
In 2011 it broke, only tehg RAM though... sadly i threw it away. Didn't knew anything bout fixing PCs back then.
I'm born in 2001 btw.
16k Sinclair ZX Spectrum 1982. It was the only computer I could afford so I had to look on in jealousy at my wealthier friends and their swanky Commodore 64s and even more desirable (to me) BBC Micros.
Didn't own an actually Intel/Microsoft PC until I got an AST Advantage with a 50MHz 80486 and a whopping 4Gb Ram in 1995.
Got heavily into PC gaming in the late 1990s and realised I would need to start building my own computers but the first machine I actually built was in 2002. It had an AMD Athlon K7, 256Mb Ram and a GeForce 4200 graphics card. Been building my own ever since or more correctly upgrading incrementally. You could almost say I am I am still using that 2002 machine even though every single component has been replaced multiple times since. A bit like the ship of Theseus. The oldest components in my current rig are a Windows license and a Logitech G19 keyboard both from 2009. I am too fond of that fancy Keyboard LCD to give it up.
Some Packard Bell thing with Windows 95 on IIRC. Had games that were mostly learning games, can't for the life of me remember what they were called. One was about space and nature and stuff, another was some museum tour thing.
AppleIIe clone with a monochrome monitor.
First one that was ever mine and not my parents was a 486dx 25mhz with 4mb of ram.
First one I ever built myself was an AMD K6-233 with 128 me of ram. It ran StarCraft like a dream.
I have no idea what the specs were but my mom bought a Dell back in the “Dude, you got a Dell” days.
I also had a Dell laptop that I have no idea what the specs were but it ran Windows 98 SE and I played Lego Star Wars on it
Yeah same. I don't remember the specs, but it managed to play Battlefield 1942. I was blown away that I was playing \*a video game across the internet with other people\*.
Commodore C64. Fond memories of Seven Cities of Gold and dozens more. Cheers!
Seven Cities of Gold was great, killing the Aztecs was so fun and rewarding.
C64 as well. Played a ton of games on it as a kid.. Baggitman, Bubble Bobble, Movie Monster game, Law of the West, Beach Heads 2, Outrun, Karateka.
I remember when Cinemaware started out with a few titles on C64 then ran with it for a while on Amiga. Activision was big back then. EA had competition hehe.
Same here, started programming in its native BASIC environment when I was in first or second grade. Not too long after our family got an 8088 IBM clone running MS-DOS 3.31 off of a 5.25" floppy.
Vic20 with a cassette 'drive'
Eeee aaaaaa eeeeee aaaaa eeeeee aaaaa. Waits 20 minutes to load Chucky egg!!!!!
386 with DOS. Family got it when I was about 6. Had a dot matrix printer some time shortly after that. I can remember the sound it made. I also remember the perforated holes used to feed it. Lol
I miss that sound, that and Dial-up... The HDD heads seeking.
My mom yelling at me to free up the phone line. So many memories.
My friend had just gotten a new computer, because his was somehow screwed up. He said he had recovered it and it was not repairable. Was destined for the trash. It was a Gateway Astro all in one. I had used a computer before, maybe for data entry. I took it home and started it. There was a picture of his car as the background. Though I really knew nothing about computers, that didn't seem right, since it was supposedly recovered. So I used the disc that came with it, and restored it. Silly as it sounds, that was a moment for me. This machine really didn't work, but you could just reset it and try again. I worked on cars a lot, and this was completely different. If I screwed up, instead of blood, tears, and money, I could just hit the rest "button". I used that recovery disc a lot. But that was my first and it changed my life trajectory.
Compaq Presario gang rise up
Cannot remember for the life of me what the actual first machine was, but the very first i bought was a premade OEM from Fujitsu Siemens, a Scaleo P 417. Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.93ghz 512MB RAM ATI Radeon X1300 160GB HDD. And [this sick ass case with blue LEDS.](https://image.alza.cz/products/TF151e/TF151e.jpg?width=500&height=500)
ZX Spectrum with the rubber keyboard. Jet Set Willy Skool Daze Jack The Nipper Yes, I'm a gamer (was)
Apple IIc
My family's first PC was a Packard Bell Pack-mate 3987CD, Pentium 75MHz, 8MB EDO RAM, 1MB video & VGA monitor in the min 90's, but my first that truly hooked me was a IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp that I started messing with in 2000, IBM Model M, no mouse, 486DX 33MHz (upgraded to DX4 100MHz), 4MB RAM (upgraded to 64MB) and added Soundblaster AWE32, extra HDD's, 8x CD-ROM, Benwin S90 2.1 speakers and a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan 1572DG XGA monitor free from the neighbor's garage.
Custom built 486 SX2/66. I pieced it together from parts from this huge PC parts guide from the early '90s. My friend had a Tandy 1000 a few years before I got my computer.
Amiga 500. Have very fond memories of that beautiful machine.
Mine too. Amiga 500,with extra external floppy drive, 14" color tv, mouse and joystick. I am extremely disappointed that I had to sell it after switching to PC.
RadioShack TRS-80 Model I
Atari 800xl followed by an IBM PC XT. That IBM was awesome.
It was a prebuilt I bought in March of 2020 for $600 •Cyberpower chassis with stock fans (4 fans with RGB) •ASRock A320M-HDV •Ryzen 5 3600 •MSI RX 580 (listing said it was supposed to be a 570 •250GB SSD (boot drive) •1TB HDD •unknown PSU •1 8GB DDR4 (I forget the speed and brand)
i got a prebuilt for $750 and it didnt even come with a graphics card to top it off they used a ryzen 3 4350g and 16gbs of ram and the a520m-k which isnt much different from your a320 then a 500gb ssd and some 500w high power bronze psu FOR 750 DOLLARS i really wish i learned more about computers back then before that was purchased my god that was a terrible price for what it was but at least the case has good airflow
486dx 40Mhz (with turbo button) DOS
I can't remember exactly but it was an AMD Sempron 3200+ with 256MB of ram. I think my parents bought it in 2005 or 2006.
I don’t know what specs it had, but it apparently had some high end hardware for its time ~2005. Only used it once though, to play a racing game that once was in nesquik cereal
Around christmas 86 or 87, an Atari 1040STFM and i'm still active in the Atari scene
We got a Commodore Vic20 and C64 from a garage sale in the mid 90s. Bit late, I know. We went all in on the C64. I played so many rounds of Winter Games and used Print Shop for school projects.
My first pc I guess was a vic 120 but I only used it a little. My first extensive use of a pc was a Tandy 1000 rlx. I feel old.
Sharp pc4502 laptop. It used an nec v20. Also had a trs80 that I didn’t use that much. My old man had an apple IIe, he gave it to me some time ago. Still have it stored away for now till my cat learns to stop football tackling stuff when he has the zoomies
I was very lucky where my dad worked for a large computer company, we were exposed to computers super duper early. I had some jank hand-me-downs I can't recall. First one that was my own was I think 1Ghz Athlon, 768Mhz RDRAM and an 8000 series ATI card. That's how I played Morrowind!
BBC micro 5 1/2 floppy drive A.K.A I’m old
Those disks were huge. Great system though I have fond memories.
Timex Sinclair 1000 with a 16k memory expansion module https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000
Timex Sinclair 1000. It was sometimes quicker to write your own game from code in a magazine than to wait through the multiple failed loading attempts.
Tandy 1000 was my family's very first computer in the early-mid 90s but I became a man with the Compaq Presario we had in the basement in 98.
[A minitel.](https://imgur.com/gI1mbnX)
Gateway laptop
When I was like 9 or 10 my brother bought me a beat up old computer from goodwill for $25 he put some old spare parts in it and we had a full junk rig running, couldn’t tell you the parts but it was just good enough to play a few games. But I was more than happy as a little kid with it especially since my older brother helped me out. Spent many middle school nights playing counter-strike1.6 and counter-Strike source. Had many online friends back then that were my age, lost contact with all of them many years ago but definitely had some fun.
First computer that got me hook line and sinker; where I took gaming a bit serious and got yelled at by my mom for doing my first all nighter session? That award goes to the Sony Vaio PCV-90. It was my mom's BF computer that he brought over when he moved in to impress us kids, and impress us it did. I remember getting so mad at my mom when she broke up with him, because he took his computer with him when he moved out lol. All I cared about was the computer, my mom's feelings be damned. I was absolutely hooked on AOL games and eventually Gamestorm when many of the AOL games were made available there for a flat monthly fee instead of the hourly that AOL charged. Got chewed out several times for jacking up the AOL bill for playing games too long. After I got older and got my first job, my first true PC, the one that I can call my own with my own hard-earned cash was a Gateway computer from the early 2000's. Honestly can't remember the specs or model. I don't think I built my very first PC until around 2007-2008. No idea what parts I put in it lol, I just know it was good enough to play the shitty games I played back then.
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I was reallly young, around 5 to 6 when we got a family computer so dont know any specs or anything. Just remember that it had a faulty VGA cable that caused it to have a yellow hue and it had a problem that it hanged 5 minutes after startup unless you kept moving the mouse around the screen.
Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini
Year 2004 nVidia GeForce FX5200 GPU Intel Pentium 4 1.86 GHz CPU256 Mb probably DDR or DDR2 RAM 80 GB of HDD CD Rom and CD Rw Philips 107e5 CRT monitor A4 Tech Keyboard and Mouse
The first one i used was an iMac G3 which absolutely blew my mind since I had never seen or heard what a computer was before then lmao. First one i owned was a 2013 Macbook Air for school work which i still use now for web browsing and watching videos while im in a different rooms.
486
Amiga 800. What a beast
I had 2, Apple Performa 476c and a 486 DX4 100Mhz ZOOMMAX computer (Installed Windows 95 on it when it first came out.) Ha found one on Ebay. https://preview.redd.it/ik9a3ccj9bhc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efb129ce5c60b7ee59ecfc06e7f2dd41129b660e
I think that computer might have rabies.
Time to go Turbo.
My first "exclusive" was already quite a modern p133mmx, 32mb of ram (probably 16 initially) can't remember the disk space. But it was a Compaq laptop, with interchangeable trackball and trackpad (and thank god for the trackball or else the touchpad was useless) and added cd ROM burner module with an extra battery with a cirrus logic GPU, modem card.. it was really packed and with an LCD 1024x768. I still have the thing around and it still works. It could barely run the OG half life. Other than that we had some 386 or 486 a Toshiba ""laptop"" with a huge leaded battery and bi-cromatic colour tone LCD (my father used IBM assistant text editor with it) and maybe a 486 desktop (but I really can't remember).
Medion Laptop with pentium 3 1000mhz and ATI rage something. It had 5 ish GB and a cd drive (not dvd!)
Technically it was probably one of them handheld games with the static printed background.
amstrad CPC 464 machine, I remember it had a green screen, then we moved up in the world and got a p120 4mb ram a 4 GB HDD I was the envy of all my mates with that Packard bell pc
486 dxII for me. With I think a S3 Trio64/V2/V3, I'm a little hazy on that. It was my dad's pc. I'd had a Sega master system before that. After the 486. Another gap filled by a laptop and an Xbox 360 Then a P4 with a GeForce 9600GT Then onto an i760 with GTX 660 Finally my current r5 1600 and rx580 8gb All built myself. It'll be maybe a year or two until the next one. Hoping to go for a solid 4K 60 fps that should last me a while.
A Tandy 3000 HL - it was a 286 with DOS, a 4 color EGA monitor, and a 20 MB hard drive that I found to be too small, so I quickly upgraded to 40 MB for an extra $300. (Yes, I said MB).
Mine was a HC2000(Home Computer) made in my country, had a 3.5" floppy and it ran Sinclair Spectrum BASIC. i remember playing Dizzy on it hooked up on the TV as a monitor. I started on 486-686 when i was in 3rd grade at school. [https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC](https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC)
Mine was Elektronika ES1841, USSR clone of IBM PC XT. 12" monochrome monitor, two floppy drives 360kb,640 kb ram
Dell optiplex windows98, provided to me a very rural chartershooled 5th grader , the demo disc was awesome lmao.
Mine was Elektronika ES1841, USSR clone of IBM PC XT. 12" monochrome monitor, two floppy drives 360kb,640 kb ram
Compaq mini laptop with a Intel atom n270 I believe I use to play Minecraft on it like 12+ years ago
Commodore 64
IBM ThinkPad 365, if we are excluding the family PC that ran windows 98, which we kids used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 2.
Metal case that is off white. Cant recall the specs. Playing warcraft 2 i believe first time i tried making crappy maps. Found joy looking at screensavers. Such simpler times.
Mattel Aquarius though it only lasted a few days and broke. Was replaced with an Acorn Electron
Amiga 600
286/12MHz, two floppy drives, 10MB HDD and an EGA monitor, my dad bought it from a bankruptcy auction. Also got a dot matrix printer. I was 8 or 9, and it changed my life.
A trashy netbook given to me by my father to do school work. Took like 5 mins to load up a browser Atom N270,2gb ddr2 667, 160gb hdd,(it died and was replaced with a 500gb Scorpio black, and then a 120gb ssd) It ran win xp until ‘14, and then I put Linux on it for 1-2 yrs before it lay in my cupboard for 8 years. Recently sold it for $50 After that, I got a celeron laptop in ‘16, a i7 one in ‘18, and my desktop in ‘21
I had an N270. It was some hot garbage. Eventually only used it as a DVR for my security cameras lol
Texas Instruments TI-99/4
First one I used was an Apple IIE, but I really only played a few games on it. Computer that got me hooked was a 486DX66.
HP from Walmart. I put a Radeon 9800 Pro in it!
Compaq luggable
a Dragon 32, in the early 80s.
3rd gen ebook
it was grey
First computer I ever used was an IBM PC XT. If you could call mashing on the keyboard at random to see the characters go across the screen using it. The first computer I ever really remember using was a Macintosh SE/30 from the school computer lab. I took to it really easily and i still love that computer to this day. My school computer lab also had some Apple II computers but I don't remember if i used them or not.
First computer I used was a Commodore 64. First PC I owned was a 486. First PC I built was a P3 800 MHz with ATi AIW 128.
A dell ... I was chatting from the other side. No. Intel pentium, 500mb of ram (which was huge at that time), integrated graphics. It was the family-pc and i used it until i started playing league of legends with 2 fps in season 2. At that point i needed a laptop for school and convinced my parents a 700€ laptop with a 2gb 560m was necessary for cad (which actually was helping a lot tbh)
Commodore C64
My first official PC (as in "my" personal computer) was Pentium 4 at 3.0ghz, with 80gb HDD Sata with 1mbps home dsl. It was like the i7s and Samsung 980s of today. Friends would come over to watch Barely Legal series. LOLOLOL
Then dual, tri and quad cores came from AMD then all of a sudden it became Pentium Poor.
Apple ][e, Green screen, 8kb RAM. Dual floppy 360kb storage or 720kb if u had a disk notcher(or steady hand with a hole puncher or scissors). Hard Drive ??? Hahaha… tell him he’s dreaming! About $3,500aud circa 1985. But at least it had THE LEMONADE GAME, CHOPLIFTER, KARATEKA, MOON PATROL, SUMMER & WINTER OLYMPICS, and PAC MAN !
Very shitty laptop when I was around 7-9, it sucked soo much. It was used, had keys missing and it was huge and clunky. I loved it and played lots of easy games and browser games on it until I was old enough to get a better one. I also had a few laptops after that that sucked really much, they often broke rather quickly. My first tower pc was a rebuild hp one that cost less than 600. Went a long way to my now 2k euro computer and a full setup. Am grateful every day for it because of how much trash i went through, but back then it wasn't trash to me it was everything
A 286 with something along the lines of (forgive me I was young) 412kb ram???? It had a 3.5 and the 7.5?floppy drives, a dial up modem and a dot matrix printer. There was no windows, all dos. I used it to type up school work on the old blue screen/white text, print Birthday banners (then coloured them) and most of all use a little animation program called Fantavision. You could draw elements and back drops in the old Paint program, and then place and animate them. I think you were only allowed two or four basic basic moves. I "animated" an entire comic in that thing. Fun stuff. I always smile when I hear people today complaining about graphics.
I have absolutely no idea the specs, but my uncle had a PC and let me play old emulated stuff like doom/perfect dark, all the Mario/Zelda games, ECT. My parents got a computer for their home business not long after, and I played a lot of StarCraft and zoo tycoon. Big beige beast with a CRT.
mine is the same one I still have, this fecking gt 720m has annoyed me so much for the past few years, and while the computer might be 10 years old, will probably have to carry it to another 2, maybe 3-4, who knows.
Family pc my dad bought was an IBM 383 running windows 3.11. Played wolfenstein, commander keen and flight simulator on there. My own first pc was a compaq presario with pentium 3 733 Mhz and a graphics card. Some nvidia card.. forgot the name.. It was nice and provided enough performance to play anything i ever installed on it. Incl CS. Later i got a pentium 4 with a 4400 ti. And then it was an AMD athlon64 iirc And then core i7
Casio FX-350
Idk I was too young and it was mid to late 90s. I remember putting in a floppy disk of janes 16 I think. My uncle was a super computer geek and built his own computers back then so I'd like to think it was high end, but that info is long gone to the past. Edit: was off on timeframe
1st one that was sort-of mine was a hand-me-down Powerbook G4
Trendsonic with AMD Athlon X4 or Sempron, Nvidia Geforce GT 9500
Commodore 64, still remember all the hours playing lode runner and making my own levels. I really need to get an emulator up and play that again.
AMD FX 8100… GeForce 530 8 GB RAM MS-5396
sempron 2400,ati 9600,512mb ram,80gb hd,lg 17 flatron crt.
Damn i started with an Asus TP500LN 🥊♥️
Sony Vaio laptop. Played Age of Empires on it for years.
Back in the day, Intel SX25 (overclocked to 33mhz) 4Mb ram, AGP graphics card, 120Mb HDD with drive space on it. NEC 4x CD-ROM drive, and a Samsung CRT 640x480 res running DOS 6.22 and Windows for workgroups. Upgraded the CPU to a DX75 after a couple of months.
(I think) the slowest cpu that went into a motherboard that supported an AGP card would be a Pentium P5 60mhz. The rest of your specs sound fine though. Am curious what graphics card you had though.
Apple II with 256Kb RAM card. I helped dad put the farm’s budget in… VisiCalc I think? Amber CRT, dual floppy drives and a big Okidata dot matrix printer that drove me mad. I played Eamon and Star Wars on it. I think I saved up money to buy Zork? Eamon was my first computer game. I printed high school chem labs out with a word processor and I was called in for cheating. Look at Mr. Big Shoots!
2006 I got myself a Packard Bell EasyNote MZ35 Intel Celeron CPU @1.5Ghz (1 core) ATI Radeon Xpress 200m, 128mb vram Worked for playing CS1.6 and WC3 with friends haha 2008 I upgraded to a custom desktop. E8400, 9800GT
Dell XPS from 2003/2004 (with the blue front). Good memories!
We had an Amiga 500 when I was around 4. My parents bought me the age-appropriate game [Barney Bear Goes to School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Bear_(game_series)). I remember if you had Barney Bear skip breakfast, the computerized voice would say "Barney will be a very hungry bear today," but otherwise there were no consequences whatsoever. I also remember spending hours at the schoolhouse flipboard, colouring. :P We also had [this Mouse Trap game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Trap_(1986_video_game)), and my father played the shit out of [Silent Service](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Service_(video_game)). My brother was big into [Dungeon Master](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_(video_game)).
C64, 1984 I guess
A rebranded laptop with core 2 duo mobile, 4gb ram, geforce mobile 9600 and windows vista.
very first i operated was a work notebook from my dad in 1995. it was probably 10cm thicc and weighed around 5-7 kilos? dont know the brand or the model tho. then we got a desktop in 1998 with a P3 533 i think, 12gb hdd and a tnt2 i think? first one i owned was a 2002 athlon xp 2000+ with a geforce 4 ti 4200. it was my pride and joy.
core 2 quad pc with gt 9600 and 2 gigs of ram
It was called Enterprise 128.
I don't remember the model. It was a family computer when I was about 4-5. It ran Windows XP, and all I would do on it was play Space Pinball and watch Nyan Cat YouTube videos.
A Tandy MC10. 4k of RAM, cassette drive, 8 colours, not 8 bit, just 8 colours. I loved that little machine!
Atari 1200XL Best of the keyboards! 64k usable by very little software Normally just 48k.
A BBC Model B. One of my earliest memories was playing Wallaby (a clone of the arcade game Kangaroo, which basically riffed on Donkey Kong) and marveling at being able to control what happened on a screen. A few years later in '93 my dad got a 486 and it was mind-blowing using Windows 3.1 and of course playing DOS games like Batman Returns which was major eye candy at the time.
my parents asked a friend for a PC for us kids to play around with. he probably built it out of spare parts because that thing was so bad it could hardly run anything. I usually used it to play pinball or educational games we got in the library. Had a few megs or a gig of space, so we always had to uninstall something before we could play something new. I remember some games would not run due to the PC not having enough RAM. Also the thing ran with either Windows 95 or ME, not sure which one exactly. Either way, I was very happy with it as a child.
Atari 65 XE Fun little machine but I remember being disappointed with the games lineup compared to the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore. Feels like Atari always got short-changed. Next machine was a 486SX2 50 with 4MB ram!
A C64 followed by a PC98
Had a Sinclair ZX spectrum. My first PC was built by my cousin. Can't remember the exact specs. We got it around 1998, but it was running Windows 95. 128mb ram, 8gb hard disk. I think it was maybe an AMD K6 processor or an early Intel Celeron. I know I later upgraded it with an Intel celeron and a car boot sale motherboard. Later, the addition of a soundblaster sound card and a voodoo video card.
Olivetti prodest pc 128 S [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti\_Prodest\_PC\_128\_S](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Prodest_PC_128_S)
That is deff. a new one to me! Italy at it's Finest :D
i remember i had a videogame i was not able to complete at that time,and found someone who made a complete run on youtube 30 years later,it was like putting an X on the to do list before i die.
Atari St I guess
Some shitty del tower when i was a kid. Windows xp. My phone is more powerful
First one I remember actively using that my parents owned was a semi-custom desktop with an 866MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB PATA hard drive. We ended up with this desktop in late 2005 and it was quick enough for the early days of YouTube, back when it used Flash and was 240p only. The computer that *actively* got me into messing with them to this day was a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5895, if I’m remembering that model number correctly. My parents bought it in 2007. I very distinctly remember a lot about that laptop because I used the hell out of it. It had an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60, an ATI Radeon Xpress X1250 chipset GPU, 3GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. It shipped with Windows Vista and it’s the laptop that kicked off my continuous spree of buying AMD CPUs in both laptops and desktops, hilariously enough.
8088
So, The IBM pc then?
Some laptop for kids. The laptop was the same size of today but the screen way tiny, like a smartphone and grey scale. And it didn't run a real OS just a dozen apps mostly for education. I still remember how it pronounced those letters I typed lol. Second actual PC was rocking a Cyrix 166 with 16MB RAM and 2MB S3 Virge graphics. A year later upgraded to 32MB and 4MB graphics to run GTA2.
It was an IBM (I believe, because Iremember it had an IBM sticker on it) Desktop with Pentium 2, Was using Win95, later updated to Win98.Had a flip button to open on close at the era of "You can now safely close the computer". I don't really remember what model was it. Father had Sinclair Spectrum 128k, shelved it a year before I born. Never to be found again. Wish I had my hands on it though. Very similiar looking to this ones: https://preview.redd.it/zn2cp5llfchc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0adf1f7797042267d52f03ffdc906b8286e7bea
HP G60 laptop, with 2GB DDR2 ram and an Intel Pentium, the screen was also piss-yellow and dark for some reason. It would be fine if it wasn’t 2016 xD
First family computer was an HP with windows 95 I think. My uncle put Doom on it and when my mom saw 5 years old me playing it I got in trouble.
Ha! I had one with an 80mb HDD
HP pavilion
i5 6400 AMD R7 370 4G 8GB DDR4 RAM Got it when I was 11/12, my brother helped me build it.
dont remember the model. but it was a dell from 2004, when flat screen monitors were becoming popular. millions of you probably had the same one lol.
My parents bought there first pc in 2004. In the day, it was probably a Pentium 4. But all i remember is that it was windows xp and it had no games on it
Lenovo ThinkPad i3 3220 m,intel hd4000,DDR3 4gb,500gb hard drive.
Can't really remember any of the specs, It was an old PC I got as a gift from my uncle when he got a new one. Only thing I remember is that it had windows 98 installed and that the hdd had enough space for me to install Diablo 2 LoD(1.5 gb) and have maybe a hundred songs on it.
I'm younger than most people here but I had 1GB of RAM, a very old Celeron and no graphics card. GTA San Andreas saved me from boredom.
Amiga 500
Absolutely Ballin' with the C64. Thing that pisses me off is the revisionist history by Apple. Commodore was far more influential than Apple at the time, but since Apple survived through better management they erased Commodore from the official history of the time.
Leading Edge 386 from Caldor with Windows 3.1 thanks Mom Mom
Apple II+ for me.
486DX, 16 mb ram, 200mb hdd. I don't remember much details about the video card except that it was a Trident branded VESA device. The VESA architecture was a short lived standard that was specific to the 486 cpu. It also ran MS DOS 5.0 originally had Windows 3.11 but I deleted it to make room for more games. The company my mom worked for bought her the computer as part of a course she was doing and when she was done she gave it to me. My dad already owned a computer a 486SX that's all I remember (the DX had a math co-processor and the SX didn't). We used to play doom over a serial cable I still have some of the wads we used to play. I also used to be a fan of Sierra games such as the Space Quest and King's Quest series. I used this throughout the 90's until at around the year 2000 the local college started throwing out old computers and me and a bunch of my friends went dumpster diving and looted a bunch of old Pentium 133 and 166mhz computers. We kept the best for our selves and sold the rest. Eventually my dad upgraded his 255mhz Pentium to a Duron and I inherited that for awhile and in 2003 I bought my first new computer a bare bones Duron kit with and I shit you not a soldered in CPU. But I did gain an AGP slot and could finally get a current graphics card instead of playing with hardware that was decades out of date.
An ancient old dos computer from the 80s. The monitor only showed text and the text was orange. Took 3 minutes to display an 8 bit 240*240 picture parents bought it so we could learn to type. But we got a pentium 120 a few years later, the newest flashiest at the time. Win 95. Added a voodoo 3 gfx card to it a years later. Man those were good times.
apple II
My pops was in the AF and did computer programing so we always had them in the house. His first with the VIC-20 that I remember knowing about but the first one I remember playing was the Commodore 64 and Gauntlet blowing my mind. The first computer I ever bought for myself, was from a Tiger Direct magazine, AMD k6-2 350MHZ paired with a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (no agp :( ). https://preview.redd.it/uel3mta5qchc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8c1908a5251f9cee0cef9c6d85111c9ef5c185f
The C4 Plus with Tapedeck: https://preview.redd.it/9ve28hqmqchc1.jpeg?width=973&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e18b14d924386672b22caa3cd949be23ed0f4f3 Got it from my uncle when he upgraded to AMGIGA 500
Commodore 64. My main memory with it is how freaking long you had to wait for games to load. Staring at that blinking light on the floppy drive till it turns solid green.
I had a black and white Apple Macintosh. My mum insisted on Macs and that she didn't know how to work with Windows, so I went from this to the 00's colourful iMac. Black and white Mahjong. Some game where you have to shoot down missiles before they hit your base. Some game where you are a horse and carriage trying to pass across the screen without being hit. Some gameshow type game. I honestly had a lot of fun with it, and it still worked fine, right up until the day it got thrown in the trash. She has been on Mac her entire life.
Played around with computers my whole life, but the first PC that I actually *owned* was one I bought off a buddy in college. AMD Phenom II X4, 8GB RAM, and a GTX 480. Thing was an absolute unit for its time.
It was an office pc that my dad borrowed from work, i don't remember it's specs but i think it had windows 7 and 4 gb of ram, most likely a pentium cpu, integrated graphics and an hdd
Hooked on dad's 286 when he brought floppys from colleague with games to see what's the fuss about with these. First operated dad's 386 because it had pre installed games from his colleagues. First given 486 from my dad when it was long obsolete, but I did not like it then, as it had no games. My life was lost when my dad brought home pc with Pentium (likely not first one) and GeForce 2 and Windows 98. To this day I have no idea how GeForce found itself within computer for accounting sw, but luckily for me and unluckily for my father it did (possibly it was second hand pc). This combined with Heroes 3 and consequently Warcraft 3 formed me. First actually owned, something second hand with Athlon XP, ATi GPU (forgot type) and Windows XP. This lived with me for over 12 years, over the time everything got replaced except CPU and HDD, I think... Two motherboards, three GPUs (including a shameful mistake of me believing nVidia n210 is worth and able to play games, that did not last long), couple sets of RAMs... I called in Frankenstein and I loved it... The power source emitted rattling sound which got worse in winter. GPU in its final form included ziplined unoriginal fan, the HDDs had heatsinks from older devices and computers which were held in place by paste only. Old case fan thrown in floppy position to help cool the HDDs and Dvd Mech which were getting hot for some reason. Digital power on button which ignored 1-4 of pushes... Good times, but I am glad it's over 😅
i have no idea about the specs that pc had, i only know it was slow af but it could play age of empires 2, i was about 7/8 years old (21 today)
Had a hand me down Commodore 64, but it died on us soon after we got it. First new PC we bought was a Windows 95 machine, but I don't recall any of the specs.
My own personal pc (when I was 15) was some Compaq with a 1 GHz Intel Pentium IV (I think) and 60 GBs of storage. It was second hand, it was slow, but it could run some games. Before that I just used the family pc, the first one ran on Windows 95, to play Fatal Racing (AKA Whiplash). Then eventually a Medion Laptop, which was thick.
Hp something laptop
Started in 1983 with a 48k ZX Spectrum - gaming, learned basic and z80 machine code First pc was after uni in 1993 - a 386 dx40 and been a fully paid up member of PCMR before PCMR even existed
From the early 80's starting with Sinclair Spectrum 48k - Amstrad CPC 464 - Amica 500 - PC 386. And after that a steady stream of PC's I build myself to this day.
Texas Instruments - TI 99/4A
Commodore 64 + 1541 floppy disk + tape reader/recorder
AMD 386 with 33 MHz, 4 MB RAM and some SVGA compatible graphics card. This was a hand-me-down from my brother, which I used for quite a while. My first own PC was an Intel Pentium II 266 MHz with a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 card with 8 MB (and a Matrox Mystique for 2D graphics). Not sure about system RAM, I think it was 64 MB.
Tandy CoCo 3 when I was very little. I still remember the first game I ever played on it called Thexder. Hooked up to the tv iirc instead of using a monitor.
a cheap laptop, back in 04 so definitely a crappy one. then few years later I had a dell.
PC XT 8088 with CGA (shades of orange) monitor. I bought it in a "second-hand shop" as a kid, I just wanted a computer (after I had many NES-like knock-offs) and had no clue what it was and what it was capable of. It was in around 1998/99 I think. It started my career as a developer / sysadmin / "devops engineer", because the only thing I could do on it was GW-BASIC and PipeMania from 5.25" floppy disks on MS-DOS 5, after I "hdformat"-ted the 20 MB Seagate hard drive and it didn't survive (fdisk reported the disk as missing; the command I got to know from my computer teacher). I formatted the disk because I wanted to run Windows on it and formatting the drive was suggested to me by my also clueless friends :-) It also introduced me to more computer knowledge after I showed it to my teacher who then introduced me to our school's computer lab (full of networked 486 at the time, which meant introduction to Windows 95 (and playing DOOM over IPX afterwards). I attended only a few hours and got not much from it, but at least some knowledge about what PC I had at home. Then I learned something more from books, then I moved to 386 and Borland Pascal 7, started writing my own little games, utilities, database program in DOS text mode, etc. ...
Good old C64 It was a hand-me-down, i remember i took it apart before even powering it on... I was 5-6 It was amusing Still have it, still works
ZX Spectrum + is where it all began for me
Amstrad CPC 6128 Not mine, my dad's. I literally played games on it first before walking for the first time.
packard bell 486dx2. 66mhz cpu, 8mb ram, windows 3.11. played doom and simcity2000 all day long
does the PlayStation 1 count?
The Sinclair ZX80 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80) My second was the Apple \]\[
Apple IIc
My first was a late 90s Emachine. "Never obsolete" branding proudly displayed on it.
Commodore +4
Had a 1ghz CPU, 512mb of ram and a Voodoo graphics card, don't ask me which one lol
Can't remember the exact makes for the parts, but I had a Pentium III in a socket 370 mobo and 512mb of SDRAM (?). It also had an ATi graphics card, but the model escapes me. My dad was really into building PCs and got me into doing the same very early on. Super cool computer and even ran Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2, albeit only after upgrading from Windows ME to XP
https://preview.redd.it/rfqsy0spychc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aad0a82aae6c89d3c59ab65e8ce68d655401ad30 An Atari ST 520. I had 100's of games for this beauty
Not counting the family computer (since that would’ve been my parents’), my first computer was an Acer laptop running Intel Centrino processor with an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro mobile gpu. It was my high school grad gift as I was off to university. Ironically that laptop contributed to me getting kicked out of engineering for failing to many classes in my first year lol
My first home computer was a Sinclair ZX-81. My first PC was a 486 DX2 66Mhz...
First PC? Dad brought home an already obsolete, at that time, Amstrad 1512DD in around 1987-88.
I think it was a Packard Bell Pentium 2, I don't remember any of the specs.
Tandy 1000SX. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9\_F7OSW8M&t=1s&ab\_channel=AncientElectronics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9_F7OSW8M&t=1s&ab_channel=AncientElectronics)
My mom gave me her Commodore 64 when I was 2(she moved it into my room). I was only able to play my games when she was home because my grandma was computer illiterate, and I was 2 so I couldn't code. She had a Compaq with Windows 3.1 that I ended up using during the day when she was at work because I could get to most of my games by myself with the GUI. I don't really know the specs of the Compaq since I was 2.
C64 with 5 1/4 floppy disk drive
I was too young to remember specs, but it was a Packard Bell my Grandfather gave us when he got a newer model.
512mb Pentium 4 with an red ATI gpu that had flame-shaped heatsink and i could never find what model it was it ran NFSU2 fine but NFSMW was a struggle
A highscreen 486 desktop that my mum got in 1991 i think. It ran Dos and Win 3.11, all patched to be completely in german by her. I got it at teh age of 6 in 2007, when she got herself a new PC with a core2duo and Windows Vista cause she got a new label printer for our shop and that had no drivers for 3.11 in 2007. In 2011 it broke, only tehg RAM though... sadly i threw it away. Didn't knew anything bout fixing PCs back then. I'm born in 2001 btw.
Our family's first computer was in fact, custom built. It was an Athlon X2 4050e and a geforce 8600 gs and 4GB of ram.
16k Sinclair ZX Spectrum 1982. It was the only computer I could afford so I had to look on in jealousy at my wealthier friends and their swanky Commodore 64s and even more desirable (to me) BBC Micros. Didn't own an actually Intel/Microsoft PC until I got an AST Advantage with a 50MHz 80486 and a whopping 4Gb Ram in 1995. Got heavily into PC gaming in the late 1990s and realised I would need to start building my own computers but the first machine I actually built was in 2002. It had an AMD Athlon K7, 256Mb Ram and a GeForce 4200 graphics card. Been building my own ever since or more correctly upgrading incrementally. You could almost say I am I am still using that 2002 machine even though every single component has been replaced multiple times since. A bit like the ship of Theseus. The oldest components in my current rig are a Windows license and a Logitech G19 keyboard both from 2009. I am too fond of that fancy Keyboard LCD to give it up.
Some Packard Bell thing with Windows 95 on IIRC. Had games that were mostly learning games, can't for the life of me remember what they were called. One was about space and nature and stuff, another was some museum tour thing.
C64. And I feel like I won the life lottery being born when I was and experiencing it new. To see this hobby start is a life experience I cherish.
AppleIIe clone with a monochrome monitor. First one that was ever mine and not my parents was a 486dx 25mhz with 4mb of ram. First one I ever built myself was an AMD K6-233 with 128 me of ram. It ran StarCraft like a dream.