What was your first computer?

[Eddy]

most of you people here are new, i been using pc's since the 80886 chips without windows. Back when two separate chips where needed, a math processor and the chip itself, lol, those where the days

 

[yogaman]

oh ..
1) 286 with 40mb harddrive
2) 386 with about 12mhz
3) powermac with cd-drive (wow)
4) well a p3 650mhz - I'm still stickin' with

 

[cooliscool]

1) Some OLD Amstrad
2) 386 SX 33MHz 4mb ram
3) 486 DX 66MHz 16mb ram
4) P75 with 8mb ram
5) Pentium III 733mhz with 128mb
6) Pentium III 1.13ghz with 512mb ram
7) K6-2 500@550 with 128mb ram


I still have every one of them too.

 

[cooliscool]

most of you people here are new, i been using pc's since the 80886 chips without windows. Back when two separate chips where needed, a math processor and the chip itself, lol, those where the days

So have I good thing today's processors have built in FPUs along with instructions to help speed them up (sse, 3dnow, etc).

 

[Trotterwatch]

6) Pentium III 1.13ghz with 512mb ram

If you have a computer such as that, then why are you using, 7) if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Eddy]

i remember when mmx was introduced 'the key to multimedia' lol stupid campaign advertising

 

[cooliscool]

6) Pentium III 1.13ghz with 512mb ram

If you have a computer such as that, then why are you using, 7) if you don't mind me asking?

Because 5) and 6) are the "family" computers, while 1) 2) 3) 4) and 7) are in my bedroom. Coming this january i'll have a much more powerful computer than 5) and 6) anyway. :satisfied

most likely along the lines of :

P4 2.8GHz 512L2, 533mhz fsb
1024MB DDR-SDram
GF4 Ti 4600
two 80gb ata-100 HDDs
SB Live! Audigy Platinum
And my dsl will be in my room also

I discussed it with my parents and they say i need a new computer since technology is "evolving" so rapidly. Man i love them :inlove:

 

[Acorn]

Good thread

1 I was 4, some computer with a 5-6 inch green screen. My dad doesn't even remember what it was
2The computer that got me into computers, 8088 with no hard drive. Played a few cool little games, Chopper Attack or something like that.
3 286 with a *spacious all you'll EVER need* 40mb hard drive, and 5 1/2in drive. Learned DOS on this system, which also ran GeoWorks (anyone remember this?).
4486/66DX - 16mb RAM
5Pentium 133/32MB RAM. The first computer I actually owned. Someone gave it to me because it wouldn't turn on (the cable to the power button on the case had came off the motherboard).
6Celeron 400 - 32mb ram, rage pro graphics card. Bought this one from lawn moving money
7Athlon 700 - 64mb RAM, TNT2Ultra when it was still the best, and a humongo 20gb hard drive. Also went away from the 15" moniter - if we have any anandtech'ers here, this was when hotdealing was getting big. Remember VDollars? I got this thing for 150$ off.
8Athlon 950 Duron/128mb sdram, 30gb hard drive, geforce 2 mx. Parents comp.
9Athlon 1.2GHz Thunderbird. 256mb DDR. Geforce 2 Pro. 40gb hdd
10Athlon Xp 1.73Ghz
512mb DDR
Geforce 4 TI 4400
120GB IBM Deskstar
19" Philips Mon
dvd, cdrw
& lots of fun little toys

#1 belonged to a church my dad worked at, #2 we sold at a garage sale for 50$, #3 we gave to a friend, #4 we still have... in parts, #5 still runs like it was just shipped from the factory, #6 has bad memory connections, but will still boot sometimes (not put together), #7 Got fried by lightening when the storm was out of visual range lain2: , #8 is still my parents comp, #9 is running beside me, and #10 I'm on. From all the non-working ones we have a lovely collection of parts, fun fun.

Ahhh, good to remember!

 

[iq_132]

Actually, if you consider a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data, I might consider my NES that i got in like '87 my first computer. But I might be wrong.

 

[Eddy]

well mine would be the nes too

 

[cooliscool]

Yep, mine too. That was the first computer-anything that my parents bought me.

 

[mesman00]

my first computer...wow, this is going back years ago. Let's see, it was a 386, with a 5 1/2 inch floppy drive. i don't know any other specs, i was so young. all i know is that my dad used it alot with Lotus 123.

 

[Slougi]

A blazing fast 286 @ 8 Mhz with a wopping 786 KByte of Ram, a lighning fast OAK technologies ISA video card with 256 KByte of memory and an immense 20MB HDD, and of course the standard 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives.

Hey, it played Commander Keen Now THAT was a game

 

[Lachp30]

Commander keen was my faviourite computer game back 5-6 years ago. I also have an old TOSHIBA laptop, but i don't know its specs.

 

[Lachp30]

Does anyone have any pictures of their old computer?

 

[Falcon4ever]

My first computer was a Commodore 128 ( that could run in C64 mode) bought in 1986...

 

[RPGlover12]

Does anyone have any pictures of their old computer?

i think i have one i dont remember where it is but am gonna search for it then scan it

 

[icepir8]

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair. Then a TRS80 model 3, then a TR80 model 4, then a Radio Shack EX, then a Raido Shack TX, then a IBM XT, then an Amiga, .....

there was a Mac 512 in there somewhere. I also had a cartridge for my old Atari 2600 that let you program in basic. Hmmm.. forgot to mention my TRS color computer.

 

[Mayco]

1- some commodore thing, i could program in basic on it
2- a AT, orange screen, 5,25'', dos, dynamic enviroment (some all-in-one office packet), dunno more about it
3- a XT, 4-color screen, 3,5'' (only 720k), 20MB hd, 640kb ram, dos
4- a 286, 40 mb hd, 2 mb ram, it ran win 3.1, 3,5''
5- a 386, ran win 3.1, 4 mb ram, 150 mb hd, 3,5''
6- my current pc, which is extremly outdated :blush:

 

[icepir8]

Opps, I forgot about the PDP-8 that I bought from the GSA.