What was your first computer?

year 2000
pentium 133 mhz, windows 98, 2 GB hdd
struggled with starcraft

>>58932182
Whatever a high end pc from 1999 would have been. Now if it was the first PC I ever bought with my own money then it was a thinkpad

Some beige shit
How am I supposed to remember, I was like 10

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>>58932182
Don't know first but second was pic related

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The Sam's Club special.

>>58932182

I first had a TRS80
Then I got a Commodore 64

My third computer, first IBM compat PC, was a hand me down 8088. Bear in mind 586s were already common at the time. Poorfag as fuck

>1999
>486DX2 66MHz
>~170 MB HDD
>Windows 95
>No sound card (with a number of failed attempts to get one working)

Spectravideo, can't remember which model. Soon after that a Commodore 64, then years later a 386.

>>58932182
1996
Pentium 100 MHz
16(?) MB RAM
Some Sound Blaster 16 clone that had a fugly cyan VGA UI for tweaking settings and making annoying noises.

Was amazing at Duke3D and Quake; friend was stuck on a crappy Packard Bell 486 and could barely run either without slideshow framerates.

Some old Compaq laptop.

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First computer in the house, ~199something - only remember it was MS-DOS, mainly for my dad's work stuff
First shared computer with big brother, ~2002-2003 - prebuilt, no idea on the original specs, started out with Windows ME, upgraded many many times, brother still uses the Antec Sonata Piano Black case
First own computer, 2007 - Custom, don't remember the original specs apart from the ALiveXFire-eSATA2 motherboard and ugly as sin NZXT Apollo case

>1996
>Pentium 120MHz
>48MB EDO RAM
>1.2GB HDD
>S3 Trio
>28.8kbps modem
>some kind of sound blaster
>15" SVGA monitor
>Windows 95

>>58932649
>486 in 1999
I'm so sorry. even my Pentium was becoming very outdated by then.

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>>58932750
This right here windows 95 i think either that or 98

>second pc
>mfw celuron d
>20-28 fps halo 1 low settings

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>>58932182
C64, but switched to pic related.

some emachine gateway pc

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1987 Atari 520ST
Got it as a hand me down around 1990.
most of you niggers are fucking young as shit.

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>>58933566
If you got a computer as a hand-me down in 1990 you must have been born at least before like 1976-78, which officially makes you old as sin.

Anyways, I'm basically still an embryo compared to Methuselah over here, so my first computer was a Thinkpad R31

IBM 5150

Soviet-made Commodore clone produced shortly before the fall of The Union.

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Amiga 600

First one was a Pentium 133 with windows 98, two hard drives about 10 gig each, motherboard had parallel PCI and ISA.
Can't remember more than that since the dude died years ago by electrical failure.

I still have the two disks and some peripherials tho.

My first very own computer was an acer aspire one, one of the later models with windows xp.
120 gigs sata disk, 1.5 GB ram, probably a celeron? I forgot. It died last summer by electrical discharge from a shitty charger. Shit i was about to install San Andreas on that thing. It went out with a bang.

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>>58933566
Fantastic machine.
After the c128 i went with Jack and had 520, 1040 and mega 1. Everything is still working like a charm.

>>58933688
I'm 31. Got the atari when I was 4 or 5.

Amiga something. It was a hand me down. When I was 8 got a windows 95 PC for the whole family. I've been on the internet for 20 years since. Back then there was kids chat rooms. Talked to children from all the world. I wonder if any of them were actually old men. Lmao.

>>58934105
I didn't have a hard drive, just a 3.5" flaccid. Every time you started it was like a fresh install.

>>58932182
some random dell laptop

>>58934197
>kids chat rooms
beseen chats ftw. i got my first screen name because of a dbz chat.
also messaging random people on aim just because we had similar interest listed. saw my first pair of tits because of those.

>>58932182
Atari ST

>>58934188
I'm older than you :)

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If your answer isn't AMSTRAD then you aint shit

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>>58934205
This was the most common config. The mega 1 in pic also doesn't have a HDD. It's just the "desktop ST". (I did not connect my megafile 060 to take the pic)

>>58934351
>britbong computers 3 years behind all the murrican stuff
was the spectrum too mainstream for you?

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Ubuntu 5.10 for the win.

>>58934351
Nice to meet you, britbong.

>>58932182

Pentium 120Mhz
16 MB RAM
1.6 GB HDD
Diamond Edge3d 2MB
Sound Blaster 16
Sega Saturn controller card

NASCAR Racing, Panzer Dragon and Virtua Fighter were awesome.

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>>58934384
Family didn't know shit about computers back then so who cares

>>58934384
>>58934404
also Irish not britbong. I lived a stones throw away from the huge Gateway plant they had in Dublin. Our first true "PC" was a Pentium 3, I remember my dad driving me into the plant grounds and we walked around the fucking showroom they had for their computers, looked like something from a car dealership

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>>58934351
Wasn't my first computer. Btw. I really like Amstrads XT clones.

>>58934482
>I remember my dad driving me into the plant grounds and we walked around the fucking showroom they had for their computers, looked like something from a car dealership
That sounds fun. I miss when video game and computer stores were fun places to go.
>>58934482
>Irish not britbong
still britbong

it was something with an am486 dx-40, 8mb of ram and a 40mb hdd

i was using it mainly for word processing and shit

>>58934509
>still britbong
no you

also 90s cringe time, the security hut is the one I remember us driving past

>>58934608
https://youtu.be/WSqxK1QIcAk forgot the link

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First computer parted by me. Dual booted NT and Redhat 4.0 in 1996. Four years later I got a sun ultra5 for college.

>>58932608
The FD from this lives on in my Pentium D Gateway

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>>58932182
My first computer...

Ever? As in any computer at all?

I suppose it was a programmable calculator which was given to me to take to school with me in kindergarten in 1989. I have no idea which brand or maker it was other than it resembled this HP 12c programmable calculator. I know it had similar functions.

This type of calculator is a computer.

>1995
>486 DX2 66Mhz
>1 MB Trident video card
>8 MB RAM
>Floppy drive XD
>No multimedia kit

>>58932750
Running Win95 was comfy
Running Win98 and playing games on it blew my fucking tiny 7 year old mind

>>58934704
Objection! Win95 Plus was comfier.

>>58934715
Never used it. Went to XP after Win98

>>58932182

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k.
1983.

Z80 CPU 3.5Mhz
48 Kilobytes of RAM

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>>58934693
I also had one of these a little later on. In the early 90s you could find these in thrift and junk stores and I loved to play with them and pretend I was using a computer.

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>>58934737
It was really just a software and theme package, but it added a lot to the experience.

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my grandmother bought me one of these for christmas when i was maybe 5 years old?
and these were still kinda pricey back in 2001, just entering the palm pilot era, so a quality casio organizer was 100$+

>>58934853
Changing mouse icons and system sounds were maximum comfy
>swapped log in sound with warning

>>58934853
the space theme that came with 98 plus! was fucking fantastic

>>58934715
Wasn't free

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Does this count?

>>58934877
> 5 years old
> Back in 2001
I guess a was on a Rammstein concert when you was born... Damn, i still own bandshirts older than you. Fuck. I'm old.

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Commodore VIC 20

captain kirk approved

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>>58932182
My father gave it to me in order to get into programming. I guess it worked.

>>58932182
the only thing I had was a busted old windows 95 machine and crt monitor with no internet access.
I loved that thing, I learned how it worked, etc.

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An old 286 PC/AT clone

I learned how to program in qbasic on it

>>58934996
Yes

>>58936130
a UNIX workstation is a great start for a budding computer scientist. Keep those math grades up muh man!

>>58932608
I had the exact, and I literally mean the exact same thing as my first computer as well.

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>>58932182
my first personally owned computer

>tfw gramma bought it for me :3

A Compaq Presario

It had a Pentium 3, like 64 or 128 RAM and a 13 GB hard drive. Even Counter Strike ran like shit. It was already preowned and died shortly after I got it.

Then I got a Pentium 4 524 @3.06 Ghz, 256 RAM I upgraded to 1 GB, 80 GB HDD and a GeForce 6200. That was more decent.

First I used was some custom built one from some computer place near Northampton MA. It had a 200MHz Pentium, 32MB of RAM, a 2GB hard drive, an ISA SB16, and some S3 card. It lives in in a half completed state on my other desk. My first that I owned was a CTX EzBook 700E. It died a decade ago, and I bought another one to fuck around with last year, and had the pleasant surprise of finding that I saved the hard drive from my old one.

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>>58932182
Radioshack Color Computer II

First programming language was also Color Basic, where the book I learned it from talked about how "in the future, computers may come with screens capable of displaying different colors" and talked about how you would control those colors, theoretically.

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TI-99/4A

>>58932182

BSR 386sx-16mhz with 2MB of RAM and 256K VRAM VGA video. Yes, I'm older than dirt.

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A 2500 dollar packardbell prebuilt with a radeon x600 powercolor card

I was like 10 and I thought I had made the deal of the century because the sales guy threw in a free Mx510 with my purchase

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Pentium 3
256 mb ram
10 gb HDD
Or something like that

>>58938273
Year 2006 (third world country)

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>>58932182
This shit right here...
Saved my code on an old cassette recorder.

>>58932182
I don't really remember, I think it was a Pentium or a 486. I was 6 years old and it was 1997.

My first decent computer had a P3 850 mhz. Played AOE2 like a boss.

>>58932182
286, 640kb of RAM, 20MB hard disk (IIRC), AND A FUCKING COLOR MONITOR

Ran Prince of Persia, Outrun and Wolfenstein

Best childhood ever.

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>>58932182
>i wish i wasn't old

Never had the disk drive, just the tape drive, so I was limited to vidya (cartridges) and BASIC programs I typed in.

First computer I felt I could really do a lot with was a Mac Plus.

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My uncle gave this to me back in 99. before that there were many family computers, but this one was MINE. Wish I kept this wonderful thing.

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>>58932182
Apple IIGS

My mom was a school teacher. They let her bring it home. I played a lot of text adventure games and pretended typing jibberish into a text editor was code.

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gateway 2000 windows 95
125mhz
16mb ram
1gig hard drive
Shit was $3000 for the desktop + monitor. My parents got it for me in 1996. I didnt even ask for it. It ended up changing my life though. there was a floppy disk version of win 95 17 floppies in all.

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First computer was an old IBM ps/1 with windows 3.1.

>>58932608
This was my second PC with windows ME. first computer I had with internet.

Year 2003
Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 120 GB HDD
Ran GTA Vice City, Beach 2000, FIFA of the following 2 years, Halo CE. It was nice!

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>>58938644
Oh shit I was just about to post almost this same thing. I was only about 5 years old or so when we got it so I don't remember barely any details except it looked alot like pic related, came with Windows 95 and I think a 1.3 GB hard drive. My dad told me we had one before it that ran DOS but I have only the faintest memories of it.

>tfw trying to delete random stuff to make room for Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and ended up breaking it.

Macintosh Performa 630 CD
>68LC040 @ 33MHz
>8MB RAM
>250MB HDD
>Mac OS 8.1

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dell dimension l800r

what a hunk of shit

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>>58932182
First IBM compatible was a Magnavox 386sx 16mhz. My dad had a 286 compaq laptop with a CGA plasma screen before that I got to play on a bit, and first computer was a TI99/4a

>>58938323

I had a data set as well. BASIC programs were fun but I remember typing in that machine code from the back of Compute! magazines and the like and then trying to tweak it. Anyway, I quickly dumped the data set and managed to convince my parents to get me a 1541.

>>58938643

I actually wrote a text adventure game on a IIGS...for a class assignment. It was mostly condition statements and disk writes but still - pretty cool back in the day.

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I am dead serious.

My childhood was fucking awesome. It came with a bunch of games and my dad put emulators on it for Sega Genesis and SNES along with a gorillion ROMs. Thats how I was able to play Crusader of Centy and Megaman X2/X3 as a kid.

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>>58937225
>about to say "You must be 18 to post here"
>tfw 2005 was 12 years ago

Apple IIe. My grade school also had them up until they went with Pentiums, due to the Multimedia fad.

Some old generic Intel 80286 beige box running DOS, then Windows 1.0 then 3.11 Then eventually running Slackware in 1994 after none of my fucking 16 bit Windows applications would run on the win95 beta but everything had perfect working Linux alternatives.

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I don't know how I convinced my mom to buy this. All I did was play Utopia on it.

First pc:
Pentium 4 3ghz single core
1gb ddr2
Geforce Gt8600
80gb
Win xp

>>58932237
are you me

Expensive beige laptop in 2008. How the fuck am I supposed to remember?

i3 2100
4GB DDR3
HD 6850
360gb hard drive

>>58932182
My dad gave me his old computer everytime he bought a new one.

2000 : I got a K6 350, dad got a K7 900 socket A
2003 :I got a K7 900 , dad got a pentium 4 3.0 ghz
2006: I bought a Athlon 64 3200+ for my self

>>58932182
~1997
Windows 95 (later 98)
Pentium II 233mhz
32MB RAM (later 128MB)
4.4GB HDD (later 21GB)
some graphics card with 4MB RAM, was barely enough to play basic 3D games.

>>58939438
you ought to build a modern pc and paint the case up like that

>>58934457
>fell for the 16MiB RAM meme

>>58932182
Amiga 600 in 1994.

My first PC was a pretty beefy 266MHz Celeron with 32MB of RAM which I got in 1997. Also had a 3GB HDD and bought a Voodoo2 accelerator (which I daisy chained to the earlier S3 card, don't remember the model) the following year.

Well, it wasn't mine, as I was 8 or 9 at the time, but the first computer we had at home was some prebuilt that had an 486 on it. Not entirely sure which one, but going by year and frequency it ran at it could've been i486SX2. I don't remember any other specs. One day when my father came back from work he found me in the living room surrounded by the parts of said computer. I was "making it better". Father was not amused.
All in all good times tho.
>tfw bringing my 32MB RAM stick to the shop to exchange to a 64MB stick, because there was just a massive RAM price drop
>tfw driving me to the city to get a Riva TNT from his friend who was selling them
>tfw getting a CD-R drive

>>58942308
>>tfw bringing my 32MB RAM stick to the shop to exchange to a 64MB stick, because there was just a massive RAM price drop
>>tfw driving me to the city to get a Riva TNT from his friend who was selling them
>>tfw getting a CD-R drive
I know those feels

and
>tfw buffer underrun when burning CD's

>>58932182
1982
had a zx81 and then a spectrum 48k

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I can't just trash it so it's been sitting there for literally over a decade

>>58932182
a 1985 compac

>>58933566


ZX Spectrum 48k -> Atari 1040STFM -> Amiga 500+ ->486SX25...

>>58942340
Upgrading back then was so exciting. Now I look at my 11 year old nephew who's getting a new GPU, and it's just so... "mundane".

>>58942355

What is that?

>>58942397
Amiga 1200

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>>58942355

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Tandy 1000. Still miss that fuckin' joystick sometimes.

>>58942214
Kek

>>58932182
An 33 MHz 4 Megabyte Pentium.

>>58933895
Muh nigga.
A500 here

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>>58932182

sinclair ql

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>>58932182
This one back in 1999

Pentium III, 4GB HDD, 64MB VRAM. Over $2000. Came with Heavy Gear and Warcraft 1.

>>58932182
Half broken install of 98SE on a failing hard drive.

Atari ST
Only had it for like a month though, and I was 4.
First one I cared about: Amiga 500

>>58932182
powermac 6200 @75mhz
a hand me down from dad's office

i still remember it have a flight sim game where american invade east timor or something

>>58943701
in 1999, was 8 years old

Pentium 4 1.8ghz
80gb HDD and a 250hdd for mass storage
1gb of ddr2 ram
Nvidia mx400 64mb
Windows XP

The GPU and the Asus mobo died 3 years ago in the same power surge , If wasn't for that, it would still be running.

>>58932608
This was also my first PC..
I remember bricking it due to porn, before I knew about antivirus.. I was so freaked that my dad would find out.

>>58932182
First one used? Amstrad PC1512.
First one purchased? Mac Mini G4.

dont remember my first computer (was a shared computer of my family, i only rememer it running win95)

my first own computer was with a pentium 4 @3GHz, 40GB HDD, 1GB RAM and an AMD 9200 first (upgradet it to a 9550 later)

>>58932275
This

>>58932182
Ur mum

Where could someone buy old cases like these?

It had a 5¼-inch floppy drive and ran Windows 3.1. Its hard drive size was measured in double-digit MBs and not many, though I don't remember the exact number.

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>>58932182
commadore 64.

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1998
Pentium 233mhz with MMX (Ballin')
32MB Ram
ATI Rage
Win 95

Played a lot of Simcity 2000 and Hover.

>>58938322

Sounds about right! Endless gaming sessions with my best friend. Good times.

>>58932182
Pentium 166MHz, 32 MB RAM, 3GB harddrive in 1999. Played Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, GTA and chess on it, also watched cartoons. Got internet 10 years later, I think, I already lived separately.

>>58933883
>Soviet-made Commodore clone
a Comradeore?

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Olivetti M19, 8088, 640k and dual 5.25'' drives

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Victor 9000

best computer I've ever used period.

>>58948525
>best computer I've ever used period.
You poor bastard.

ZX81, Acorn Atom (Technomatic kit, 2.5 KB static ram), Acorn Electron, Atari ST 1040, AtariSTE, PC 386 DX 25....

The first one I used was and old 386 that barely ran doom and never even saw a Windows 95 upgrade

The first I owned was an AMD phenom II 955 with 8gigs of ddr2 ram and a radeon 4670

Currently I am running an i7 6700k with 16 gigs ddr3 ram at 3000Mhz and a GTX 780

My first PC was a Celeron Tualatin 800MHz with like 2 weeks of use. The fucking idiot who bought it put in like 512MB of RAM and a Voodoo 5 5500 and was underwhelmed by it's performance compared to the money he spent. No, I don't know why it was either, but my father's technician friend was so fucking confused when he saw it that he didn't even want it around and sold it to us for about 700U$S, and at the time all of this would've been going for almost 1300U$S in my country. My first personal PC was the same one, but with a CPU upgrade to a Pentium 3 1.2GHz I believe, and the Voodoo changed for an ATI Rage 128 MAXX that performed about the same but had more compatibility because it was an actual OpenGL GPU and not the bastardized GLide that Voodoos had.

We had a ZX Spectrum Argentinean or Brazilian clone before that but it barely got any use because we couldn't get any games in this shithole and the internet wasn't a thing in my country.

How old are you people? You must be in your 30s and 40s. What are you still doing on 4chin?

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poorfag green screen edition

>>58950778
There's people older than home computing on here. My 63 year old dad lurks on /mu/ and /vr/ sometimes.

>>58950778
Keeping up with all the dank memes my kids spout

>>58950778
i like to look at the nude ladies

>>58950778
Where else would we be?

Compaq Presario
400mhz
128 RAM
8 GB hdd
Windows 98

It was the first PC my family bought, back sometime in 2000. I was probably 9 at the time. I knew about computers and my dad always brought in some laptop from work that I used to mess around with, but the Compaq was our (my) first PC.

Before that I remember messing around with a computer that a neighbor had a few years prior. Remember playing Prince of Persia a lot on that thing. I wish I knew what kind of machine it was, that was sometime in '94 or '95.

Amiga 1200 in the early 90s (was 6 I think), hand me down from my spoiled cousin. I ended up being the only one using it, and I used it till like 2003 when we got some Celeron based HP POS that ran like shit but had a demo of a some First Person space fighting game preinstalled on it.

I am an Amerifag, not a britbong

An fx 8350 with gtx 750ti

I still have it in my basement lol

>>58938294
Still have mine

>>58951244
haha troled :^)

>>58932182
486 dx 33mhz

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I don't even know. I do remember a commodore and I do remember a 286 based PC. I didn't know much about hardware back then. I do remember a black and white screen as well. And the supremely annoying buckle spring keyboards.

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I used to play on my dad's 80286 w/ 2MB RAM back in the day. It would play Mortal Kombat 1 soooo slowly. I was super stoked when we got an 80386 as our first home computer. I had to learn DOS to play games. Made me the l337 h@x0rz I am today.

>>58938322

>tfw had to play prince of persia on a black and white monitor

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I grew up in a low-class area so I rarely touched computers when I was growing up, I did end up playing Runescape in some youth center in town during the early 2000's.
In 2007 I had saved up enough money, even managed to get some tax cuts through my uncle and bought the black macbook.
That machine was fucking perfect.

Though, I really hate Apple now.

dad was tech savvy (around 8086 and whatnot), started out with a athlon xp 3200+ oc'd to 2.6ghz with a ati 9800pro, Still have the mobo (a7n8x-e deluxe) and cpu but the gpu was lost a long time ago.

Still grateful of how lucky I was.

>>58932182
Pentium I with 133 mhz and 64!!! MB of RAM.
Was able to use a word processor AND listen to music at the same time!

>>58956145
i could do that on my 486SX-50 laptop with 24M ram

>>58956236
Yeah? My mom build that 486SX-50 laptop with 24M ram using a pile of wood and a piece of chalk... on a rainy day... on an island in the Pacific Ocean ... on MARS!

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This beauty. Playing games back then was pretty fun.

>>58956236
Frankly I didn't mean it that it wasn't possible otherwise - just that the stuff I had was pretty crappy for that time - and rather slow. So that extra RAM really helped keep stuff going without too much slowness in Windows 95.

1992 - Atari 1040 STe

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this 486-clone shitbox was my first PC
it still runs

had the following specs:
>Abit FA4 mobo
>Cyrix Cx486DLC-33
>8MB RAM
>212MB Seagate ST3243A
>VGA Headland board (upgraded to ISA ATI Mach32 after it failed a few years ago)
>Sound Blaster 16 Vibra PnP (though when we first bought it all it had was PC speaker, I think we added this around 97-98)

that was the family PC from 1996-1999

then we upgraded to a HP 6640c (500mhz AMD K6-2, 64MB RAM, shit SiS 530 integrated gfx that was later upgraded to a Radeon 7000)

was a huge upgrade

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This guy.

Atari ST

the family computer in the kitchen.

my mom used to always get angry at me because I'd spend hours playing vidya on the computer while she wanted to check her emails.

Eventually my dad bought me a desktop so that she could use the kitchen computer in peace.

The weird thing about this story is that we were always a "tech family". Dad is director of security operations at a Fortune 500 global company, and Mom is a database administrator for some company that handles Medicare data for the gov't. One of my favorite things to do used to always be to sit down on the ground behind my Dad's chair and watch while he configured our home firewall, server, network, etc.

Looking back, I don't really understand why I didn't at least get a laptop earlier.

>>58958371
i had a few cheap garage sale dos boxes before, but somehow i managed to convince my parents to get a family machine in 2000
i suppose they thought they might use it themselves, but not really
my dad only ever used it for the occasional stealth shooter and flight simulator, and my mum never touched it ever
my sister occasionally used it, mostly for IM and the sims
i'm the only one in my family who was interested in computers themselves