Your First Computer

All i can say is that my computer is really cool ^_-
and my first computer was a Apple one

Windows 3.1
I loved it.

My first computer was a microsoft pc. I can't remember the model number, but it was a windows 95, and was quite old. It had a big ass screen ( I mean big as in deep, not that the actual viewable screen was large, lol) and was horrible! We got it around 1998, so it couldn't run almost all of the games and newer applications. It didn't even have internet. The only games it played were some very old disc games, pac-pac ( a GREAT pac-man ripoff) and a game called chips challenge, which had over 700 levels and could last anyone an eternity. Pretty decent system for it's time.

The first computer that my Dad brought was a Mac Plus in 1986, it was 8Mhz with 1Mb of RAM and it cost him over $5000 New Zealand Dollars. It was a good computer, you could do pretty much everything we do today, besides Surf the internet. You could be word-processing, play games... what more could you want?

Fast forward to 1996, my Dad brought a Pentium 2, 266Mhz with about 64Mbs of RAM? It ran Windows 95 and we first got on the internet when webpages were just blank pages with text on. And that cost him about $2000 and the internet was about $100 a month for dial-up.

Good times.

Originally Posted by zeldask8r

My first computer was a microsoft pc. I can't remember the model number, but it was a windows 95, and was quite old. It had a big ass screen ( I mean big as in deep, not that the actual viewable screen was large, lol) and was horrible! We got it around 1998, so it couldn't run almost all of the games and newer applications. It didn't even have internet. The only games it played were some very old disc games, pac-pac ( a GREAT pac-man ripoff) and a game called chips challenge, which had over 700 levels and could last anyone an eternity. Pretty decent system for it's time.

Ahh I remember Chips Challenge. Great puzzle game.

I have no idea what it is, but my mum is still running the damn thing. It takes a good half an hour to load up, it constantly freezes, and overall makes for a horrible experience.

It's also the computer I signed up here with back in the day.

An old workstation i got from my dad that he got for cheap from work, running with DOS

Originally Posted by Raccoon Mario

Ahh I remember Chips Challenge. Great puzzle game.

Yeah, chips challenge was great, it was one of the very first videogames I ever played. And I beat ALL of the levels, it took me over a year. Thank god that once you fail a level like, 50 times it lets you skip it if you want to.

Oh, god, I built my first computer. One of these guys that ran my scout troop, he took us to his computer lab, when i was like in 5th grade, so back in like 2001. He turned us out, and we went and pulled parts from all these dead computers, mostly stuff with tech specs from 1997. It was awesome. My station ran Windows, but I used it for DOS to run games like Doom, Day of the Tentacle, etc.
Tech Specs were like:
233 MHZ Pentium or Pentium II Processor
64 MB of Ram
15 Gig Hard Drive
Unfortunatly, I killed it in a freaky tragic accident.

Well, I've got a few here...

The first computer that the family owned (that I can remember) was back in the 90's, it ran Windows 95, I really don't know the specs but I know at one point my dad had an AMD K6-2, that might have been it. It was named Edgar. It's been rebuilt and had several reincarnations, and right now its a ~600MHz PIII w/ 384MB RAM sitting in my room, it's kinda just the old rig I experiment and put spare hardware in.

The first computer that was actually MINE (the family had several computers after Edgar) was an old Toshiba Satallite 225CDS, with a 133MHz (I believe) Pentium 1, 64 MB RAM, and currently running 98 (need to put Debian Linux on..) Got that one from my Grandpa back in ~04, I was psyched, and didn't know much about computers XD Actually tried running MS Combat Flight Simulator on it. At that time I used the family's Celeron for everything but schoolwork.

And finally, the first rig I built myself was actually last month, got the final bit of $$ I needed for my birthday His name is Prometheus (after the X-303 from Stargate ) and its got a Core 2 Duo E8400 @3.0GHz, 4GB (2x2) OCZ DDR2-800 RAM (with nice gold heatsinks ), MSI P7N SLI Platinum motherboard, EVGA 8800GT @ 650/950/1620, 520W Corsair PSU, a 250GB 7200RPM Seagate SATA hdd, a LiteOn 20x DVD burner, and to top it all off, a gorgeous Lian Li PC-65b case it runs XP Home right now, I'll stick XP x64 on when I can. Built this to replace the Dell P4 I upgraded, and it's great! (200+ fps in CSS FTW!)

I remember using it. It was an old Packard Bell. Used to play on it all the time. I just remember we had it up till about the time internet was revolutionizing the common world so we decided we would get it upgrade from whatever the hell OS it was to Windows 95. Had a 56k modem installed in it, and upgraded the RAM very little. Needless to say, it was still a POS, but it took care of writing papers. The internet was slow as balls on it though so we eventually got a new one with the wonderful, all loving, Windows ME on it.

My sister got some desktop when she went off to college. And now that I am in college, I've got a Dell Inspiron E1705. I likes it a lot.

A comadore 64, no hard drive and used those huge 6 inch floppies and really wasnt good for anything.