What was your first computer?

>>60118846
that's not even a computer

it's just a teletype

>>60118802
a bentium 4 machine with TNT/Riva GPU. I think we got it in 2003 or something.

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>>60118802

A pentium 4 one
Get mad geezers

>>60118802
HP G62

>>60118876
>negro format
Topkek

>>60118904

Nice

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>>60118922
fucking hell, never noticed that

>>60118802

windows 3.1 in like 1994 or some shit, it was a retailed PC that probably cost my parents a fuckload.

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80286 at 8mhz.
640k base ram nothing else
No hdd
Dos 3.3 on 720k 3.5 inch disks
360kb 5.25 secondary drive

some amiga when I was 3, it was a hand me down. It was purchased in the 80s. I was born in 1990. When I was 8 we got a windows 95 PC and I first visited the internet using netscape browser.

i dont remember. some piece of crap that couldnt even play red alert

pentium 200mhz
32 mb sdr
2gb hard drive
Voodoo Rush (i think it was rush but definitely voodoo accelerator)
Sound Blaster 32

i was 7 year old when i got that pc
[spoiler]and i had to use it till i was 13 ;_;

>>60119004
also we got internet for the first time when i was 14

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>>60118802

My own pc was a shop pre built (Scan computer Malta) with a c2d e8600 and AGP graphics slot, I think. I remember my father changed out the mother board and my amd gpu was gone because it wasn't compatible anymore. Which later lead me to work for a summer so I can get my 8600Gts 1gb from gainward.

>>60118802
Pentium II I think it was around 233mhz and had 16MB RAM and a 256MB hard drive and SoundBlaster and it had Windows 3.1 I eventually got it upgraded to Windows95+ and 64MB of ram and played a lot of Command and Conquer Red Alert.
Also someone gave me an old IBM with DOS 6.22 I dont remember the specs but the hard drive and floppy drives where like 5in.

>>60118802

This one

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>>60118802
Got it in 1997, Packard Bell Legend 822CDT

http://pbclub.pwcsite.com/wiki/index.php?title=Legend_822CDT

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>>60119061
I actually found an image. This is in its last years of life as I got my 560ti. At this point it had the core2quad 8600, 4gb ddr2 ram, 120gb PATA, 240gb and 500gb hdds. 550w psu

>>60118802
pentium 75, 16mb, 2001, im 24

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House? One of those HP never obsolete beige boxes, circa 2001
Personal? Acer aspire one d255

Take in account that I live in a third world country

>>60119026
17 for me, in 2010, had p150 until 2008, get on my level richfag

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First one that was actually mine was this, but first computer I ever used was some shitty compaq I think.

AthlonXP 2100+ Palomino housefire with Radeon 9600
killed 3 cheap PSUs before i bought a decent PSU

>>60118802
Some Dell hunk of shit with a Pentium II. There were some Apple computers before that but I don't remember anything specific.

>>60118802
I didn't know shit about computers but It was something that could run Windows 98 + Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Worms 2 and ZSNES, so it could be anything past a Pentium II, 32MB of RAM and a 4MB GPU.

p1 60MHz, 127MB HDD, 16MB RAM, win95, gravis FUCKING ultrasound
>tfw awesome midi quality, compared to my SB16 pleb friends

bought it exactly at 2001-09-11, I was 13 back then.

>>60119294
I can smell autism

486 DX2 66MHz

>>60118802
first pc I ever owned? p2 with an ati rage
first pc I ever used had casettes. I remember seing early text based internet with a printed directory. You would dial a number and set the phone receiver on the modem to connect. I was in middle school when netscape navigator released. I'm a grown man with a kid of my own now but I still come here and shitpost from time to time.

Commodore 128D.

Had no idea how to use it for shit besides games.

>>60119155

Hey, it's good to have a Vic20 bro out there. I remember playing Scorpion and Raid on Isram. Somewhere in storage I have a cassette tape of Ultima: Escape From Mt. Drash, though when I tried to rip it it wouldn't run with Vice.

First computer: IBM 2086 w/dot matrix printer/monitor/keyboard/mouse. Came with Dos 5.0/Windows 3.0/Word 1/MS works 2.5 (dos)/Oregon Trail game (dos). Later I upgraded the OS to Win 3.1 and got all four Windows Entertainment pack games. (My Aunt let me copy the Win 3.1 install discs). Also got a few dos games. Rotox,Life & Death, Some Grammar game thingy, and Jack Nickalas golf (I think that was the name) plus Same Game (Windows ver). I got my first modern pc in 1997, it was another IBM. An Aptiva. Win 95/Lotus Smartsuite 97. Cost quite a bit compared to now.

>>60119368
We didn't have a lot of money, so I had to type in games using code I got from magazines

>>60119428

Oh yeah, I did that too. I remember a text adventure called Arkenstone that came out all buggy and screwed up. I was never sure if I had made a mistake or the game came like that with the magazine.

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what does /g/ think?

>>60119428
>>60119472
wow, I never knew that existed, that's amazing.

some amstrad, 464 I think

remember having magazines that came with source code in BASIC for a game

too bad I didn't start actually programming until like 15 years later

Some gateway compaq with windows 2000. I remember drawing OCs in wait with it. Haven't used or seen it in years.

>>60119498

The best type-in games were in Ahoy! magazine, because they had an editor called Flankspeed that let you basically type in machine code from the magazine, and the last two bits were a checksum so you couldn't type it in wrong.

They had some surprisingly good C64 games in there, like the Vaults of Terror series (by noted game designer and mega-weirdo Cleveland M. Blakemore).

Another type-in classic from over in Compute! was Crossroads, and its sequel, Crossroads II - Pandemonium. They were sort of like Wizard of Wor on steroids, with bigger mazes and a ton of different monsters, each with their own behavior and food chain.

>>60119655
*paint
fucking shit

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TI-99/4A that my dad found in storage at his office. I only had two games for it. A pacman clone called munchman, who instead of eating pellets instead shat brown X's out his ass and a decent version of Hunt the Wumpus.

>>60119656
I got my games from the source code in Compute! magazines, but I must have missed the Crossroads games. I loved Wizard of Wor, so I'm sure I would have loved them too.

pentium 3

>tfw have a useless C64C

>>60119690

Yeah, you should give 'em a go sometime, they're best with two players, but still awesome otherwise.
http://dessgeega.com/crossroads.html

>>60118802
HP laptop running Windows 8
[spoiler]Is that a problem, /g/?[/spoiler]

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Poorfag's C64

>>60119753
I thought the VIC-20 was a poorfag's C64.

>>60119753
It doesn't even say Tandy wtf

>>60118802
Razer gaymen laptop :^}

>>60119779
that doesn't really work when its a predecessor to the C64

>>60119779
Let me restate, poorfags that shopped at fucking Radioshack. I didn't care, I got to play the shit out of Dungeons of Daggorath as a kid.

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they fucking used to make things ""beige""

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This

I don't remember what it was. We had a 386 laptop that my dad used for work. All I remember about it was that it ran MS-DOS and had a trackball mouse on the back which my dad called the mouse of course. When I first encountered a Macintosh at school I was confused for a minute when the teacher told us to move the mouse to move the cursor because all I saw was a white clicky "mouse" looking thing with a cord. It was a couple minutes before I realized that was what a real mouse looked like and felt really stupid.

300mhz Celeron
Windows 3.1

Fucking thanks for nothing Dad

>>60119892
Same. My mom bought a blue one in 99 and I think she still has the floppy disk reader with different colored covers on it. I'll look for it if I remember later on.

>>60119838

They were sold alongside each other for a while, with Commodore marketing the Vic-20 as like an entry level computer.

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Never forget

>>60118802
Apple //c, with lots of educational software I didn't play much and lots of really crappy games that were 10 times better on the Commodore 64.

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>>60119497
My high school actually used Compaqs. They weren't actually that bad

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I also had access to the Compaq Portable (a.k.a. the suitcase). No hard drive, so everything was installed via 5.25" floppies

>>60119922
Dude those 300MHz Celerons were great. Most of them could overclock to 450 with a big heatsink. Try getting 50% OC on air with modern CPUs. Also they worked in the dual-socket server motherboards so you could run SMP 10 years before Core 2 Duo brought it to the masses.

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compaq presario (r3000 i think) was the one i remember bc i still have it

Some 1993 model Gateway
300MHz Pentium CPU
32MB RAM
Soundblaster
CD-ROM
350MB HDD
Windows 3.11

Great family computer. My dad paid $2000 for it.

I can't even remember. But I know that it had 800 MB of hard drive, 8 MB ram.

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ZX81. We got the 16k rampack later on.

>>60120154
Correction, dunno where I remembered 300MHz from, the P5 shipped with only 60MHz, everything else looks accurate though

All I remember is that it was a laptop with a red and black display. And we would play that gorillas throwing bananas from skyscrapers game

An old 16:10 thinkpad that I used to play tf2 back when I was 10
it died when I was 15 because screen connector issues
I miss that thing
rip 1650 x 1050

Not a clue. It was a used office special that my uncle brought home from work. All I remember about it was that it ran Windows 95 and had a 512 MB hard drive.

I don't remember what it was, all I remember is that it ran BASIC and that it definitely wasn't a C64 because it felt like there were no games for it.

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>>60118802
I dont know the brand. It ran windows 3.1. From what I remember it had very little ram, but we did manage to load rarly webpages on it. It was my first access to the internet in dial up days. Couldnt find dick all til I figured out search engines. I was like 8 or 9

>tfw I used to install games with commands as an 8 year old, now as a grown man Im a windows babby that relies on google for all my solutions.

>>60118802
Commodore Vic-20 sometime in '88

>>60119689
i was looking for this before i posted it. this mkaes me tear up a little.
i had the exact same games, plus i would program the basic games from the programming magazines. had a tape drive to store that shit.

Apple Powerbook G4 that some family friend left me. Sturdy muhfugger, but the titanium case was just unbearable in third-world tropical-tier heat. I gave it to an other friend, and kinda miss it, would be perfect to fuck around with Linux. Also, first internet connection around 14. Good luck guessing my age tho

>>60118802
A "snow globe" iMac. I hated Windows even then. I was especially happy about finally being able to play Warcraft 3 which my family forbid me from installing on the family computer convinced it was a "virus".
the system got racked several times over from my siblings pirating music.

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>>60118802

Vic20. :3

>>60118802
quantex qp5 with the pentium mmx. dad got it in 97.

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osbourne 486 was the first pc dad brought, played wolf3d together

comfy

IBM T42

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>>60118802

C64 with Dos 3.6

didn't really play games all that much just did my home work
the few games i had on it
where
lemmings
Pacman
Ghost busters
Turbo

and just my homework

Now i'm a old man with a kid of my own lol

>>60120569
>tfw I used to install games with commands as an 8 year old, now as a grown man Im a windows babby that relies on google for all my solutions.
t. rich fag.
owning windows 3.1 was expenise as hell had to have been rich to own it.
>300USD for the CD copy

>>60120394
most probaby a orgional IBM machine yeah good luck that what pile of dug.
Basic was a horriable nightmare of a O.S.

And I still know how to code it and it STILL looks like shit.
I still can't understand the appeal of /vintage/ retards stll liking MS BASIC.

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>>60119753
I came here to post this.

Got a modem for BBSing and used to get completely assmad when people called it the Trash-80. Which they did often on account of the uppercase posting giving me up.

ti-99/4a

first internet capable one was some mac performa from 1993~94

>>60118802
First one I used: in HS, we had two; don't recall brands. One ran off 8" floppies; the other ran off cassette tapes.

First one I owned: IBM 486-DX, 8 MB RAM, 212 MB HD, don't recall any other specs.

>>60119956
nice, I was I think 5 or 6 when I first got it, was like 2002 I think

Windows 2000

>t. 21 year old
Yeah, I'm quite a youngfag compared to most of this board's users. Some people here are even in their early 40s.

>>60122077
>What was your first computer
>Windows

>>60122090
It was a bulky white CRT monitor, I forgot the brand name

Some beige Gateway machine running XP

486 with a turbo button and a key to lock it.

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>>60121619
>Got a modem for BBSing and used to get completely assmad when people called it the Trash-80.
I wonder when the very first computer network shitpost was made, and what it said. Something so valuable lost to history...

Pic related was my first computer, along with a datasette drive and a B&W TV. I begged my parents for the modem one birthday and got it, but the damn thing wouldn't connect to anything so we took it back and I got something else. (Poor phone line???)

My first shitpost didn't come until years later with a PowerBook 145 and an external modem.

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>>60122077
>>60122090
>>60122136
>first computer
>"windows"
>oh right anon it was a big white monitor

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>>60118802

Atari Video Computer System (the original wood grain, 6 switch console) w/Basic Programming cart. Circa 1980-81.

My next machine would be a Timex Sinclair 1000 (aka Sinclair ZX81 to you yur-peens)

>>60122077
>Some people here are even in their early 40s.
Hold on to your ass anon. At 21 I never felt like "where did the time go?" My life to that point seemed like a vast expanse of history.

21-40? Jesus Christ where did the time go. I don't know what changes about life or brain chemistry, but when you are in your late 30's / early 40's you feel like yesterday you were 20 with everything ahead of you and then FUCK you woke up 20 years later.

I fucking hate it.

>>60122435
I know that feel.

>>60122372
>I wonder when the very first computer network shitpost was made

Well you could probably find the first shitpost in the usenet archives.

>>60122404
hah, I had a TI99 with BASIC cart which i never learned.

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It was awful playing Sim City 2000 on this. Had a crt plugged in with 16 colours. 4mb ram. No sound except beep bop. The game was laggy, but I still played the living shit out of it.

Win 3.1 mane

>>60122906
Nah...the first shitpost had to be earlier than that. Something post WWII if we're talking digital computers.

>>60119005
what a steal!

>>60122965
>SimCity 2000
3000 was my favorite of all, but I spent hours on 2000.

Had a Performa 6300CD (100 MHz PPC) at the time so it ran pretty good.
>inb4 performas were shit

>>60119173
>implying a normal fag would even consider that a computer
sad bait!

>>60118802

First home microcomputer was a Spectrum 48k, 1983...

>>60119497
I think that's fuckin badass

>>60118802
A c64 and it was super fantastic. I'm in the process of setting up retro pie and reliving my childhood playing atari 2600 c64 and nes games.

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Kaypro II.

It weighed a ton, but they called it portable because they attached a handle to the top of it.
#ladder4life

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>>60118802
Don't exactly remember the exact model, but it was some early to mid 2000s Compaq laptop like this. Loved it because it was free and didn't die until 2009.

>>60120154

Nah, that machine is from 1998, apart from the hard disk and the OS.

It looks like someone switched out the 4gig hard disk it originally shipped with and stuck something ancient in there.

>basic unbranded beige box
>486DX2 66 MHz
>~170 MB HDD (upgraded to 1.2 GB later)
>no sound card
>no CD-ROM (installed later)
>13" Daytek CRT
>Windows 95

>>60122435

43 here.

I love being an old cunt. The pressure is off.

When I was young I felt like a spectator in my own past. Now I feel I've arrived in a future I belong, with impossibly fast comupters, robots and more porn you can shake your cock at...

I dont remember
Pentium 2 with win 95 I think

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The Atari 800. And I had a box for a monitor with a seven inch green screen.

>>60122435
This is why at 39 I have a 1 year old! Makes me feel like I should have done this in my 20's.

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>>60123135

I got an Atari 800XL after my Timex Sinclair 1000 (>>60122404). I owned it for 13 years before making the utterly horrible decision to toss it along with my 1040ST+color monitor, 1050 floppy drive, data cassette, plotter, and a shitload of floppies and mad game carts.

I regret that hasty decision to this very day. Somehow the Centipede cart for the Atari 400/800 managed to survive and I have it to this day.

>>60122435
>even in their early 40s

And some of us are even in their late 40's.

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Well, it was my parents'.

>>60123313
I will never forgive this thing for causing my GS' processor to be underclocked.

>>60123283

some of us are mid-40's.

>>60122435
share your wisdom with us senpai

>>60122435
>you feel like yesterday you were 20 with everything ahead of you and then FUCK you woke up 20 years later.
You missed the starting gun.

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i spent hours coping the sprite program in the back of the manual.

>>60119497
Dad bought one of these when I was like 7 in 1998.

I ended up with it around 2001. Used it to play old games and fuck around with visual basic.

Still remember my first time online. Went to AOL Kids, which was entirely text based, and downloaded a picture of my favorite hockey player, Ed Belfour. At the time I thought it was the best quality picture I'd ever seen. It was probably 800x600 and took 20 minutes to download lol

>>60123416
some of us are mid-50s

>>60118802
C64,

>>60123523
That looks nothing like an authentic c64 in your pic, what is it?

C64

>>60123970
Thanks for destroying the futures of everyone younger than you, boomers.

486 100 MHz with 8 MB RAM.

>>60123970
After everything your generation did to the western world...KYS.

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The first computer I actually remember using in my house was a Gateway we bought around 1995. I remember that computer very well. Before that, we had an Apple (either an Apple IIGS or Mac SE/30), but I don't remember that computer. (Born 1989.)

The first computer that was entirely "mine" was an HP Pavilion from Walmart and that was around 2000. There was a Celeron processor. I think the clock speed was about 800 MHz.

I don't know what happened to it. I wish I had kept it because computers are my career now and that machine is where I started. I remember installing a graphics card. The case design was horrible.

Either people just posting random old tech, or the avg age of this board is about 40.

>Tandy TRS-80
>Profound IBM XT
>Amiga 500
>A bunch of pcs after that, can't remember exact details

>>60118802
It was some IBM Windows XP PC around 2003 when i started high school. I can't remember the model since i knew nothing about PC's at the time.

>>60124087
Later boomers(1954-1964) didn't really cause as much world-destroying shit as early boomers(1946-1953)

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>>60118802
i dont have a pic, but it was like over 1m tall, had turbo button 20/40 hz and it had windows, but it wasnt 3.11, something else

>>60124243
The generation hating shit is so tiring. You are living in the most prosperous time and no serious economist would debate that.

Show some fucking respect for your (our) elders who actually made it possible.

>>60124310
>You are living in the most prosperous time and no serious economist would debate that.

Err... the World economy is floating on around 200 Trillioin dollars of debt.

We are living life on credit.

>>60118976
Microsoft Flight Simulator 3?

>>60124018

Commodore USA sold an Intel atom PC in the casing of a C64 a few years ago.

Its shit.

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Deal with it, punks.

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Don't have a picture of it as it started (was pretty much a unmodded, nice looking smaller Lianli case and on air)

Got it mid/late 2005

-Abit KN8 SLI
-AMD Athlon X2 4400+ 2.2ghz overclocked to 2.6ghz
-4x512mb cheap ddr400 kingston ram
-ATI x800xl 256mb
-WD Raptor 74gb
-Lian Li scand7
-Bzerk 550w

Then in 2006 it transformed to this (pic related):

-DFI Lanparty NF4-D
-Opteron 175 2.2ghz overclocked to 3.2ghz
-2x1gb (later 4x1gb) Ocz EB Platinum ddr500, overclocked to ddr550 3-3-3-8
-Sapphire X1900XTX 650/775mhz overclocked to 800/900mhz
-WD Raptor 150gb + 2x WD 320gb
-Creative X-fi Xtreme Music soundcard
-Chieftech Mesh case
-PcPower&Cooling 750w

A friend gave me a hd3850 late 2008 I think, which extended it usefull life some..

Ran the rig until late 2009 before I finally got a job again and upgraded.

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>>60118802

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>>60118802

A 1997 or 98 thinkpad

300 MHz Celeron
192 MB RAM (Upgraded)
2.5 MB MagicMedia 256 GPU
3.2 GB HDD
Floppy/CDROM
Windows 98

Amiga 500

>>60124087
Will you ever fuck off and stop hijacking w your paranoid bullshit, /pol/

For my third and truly my own computer a dell dimmension 3000 which got upgraded piece by piece until there wasn't a single component left. My second computer, a compaq presario where I learned how to debloat a factory OS install of Windows 98. My first...
>>60119753
My first was a Color computer 2. Them (megapak?) cartridges son. Joysticks, modem, 5 1/4 drives, a printer, and hooked up to a tv for video games.
>Canyon Climber
>Clowns and Balloons
>Popcorn
>Mind roll
>Poltergeist
>Dungeons of Daggorath
My dad gave me his and I loved it. Definitely got me into computers for sure. Also desensitized me to extremely high prices on computers and software from all the catalogs around.

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>>60118802
Apple IIe with a printer & software

Found a newspaper ad for it and bought for $125 with allowance money when I was 7

Parents didn't have a computer or even a remote control for the TV

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>>60118802
I bought a intel 266 overclocked to 400 in '97-'98 for my thesis to run autocad and photoshop, and play Subspace.

4 years before that, someone gave me a desktop with a turbo button and a lock which I used for writing term papers using wordstar.

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Whenever there's a problem, just try SCE to Aux

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is it aesthetic or just my nostalgia?

>>60126803
Is that what I think it is?

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>>60118802
>tfw when old as fuck

to be fair though, it was secondhand, bought at a garage sale in the early 90s.

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>>60126812
>CAPS SHIFT
mfw I witnessed my sister toggling caps lock on typeracer a couple days ago for every capital letter in the quote

>>60126911
Break a finger as a lesson.

C64C

Getting on a bit

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A 486DX in an IBM AT case and a 12" b/w monitor and 3.5" + 5.25" floppy disk drives. Pictured: my actual CPU. Technically, we had a Commodore VIC20, just as pictured in the OPs image, long before that - but that was the family computer.

>>60127268
MUH NIGRA!!!
486DX master race!

>>60123041
i like how you think mid 2000s to 2009 is a respecable amount of time for a laptop to remain functional

Commodore 64C when I was 9.

>>60119046
>you have to be older than 18 to post here

>>60123034
>paying 1795 dollarydoos back in those days for a desktop computer
What the fuck was the target audience for these things even supposed to be? Why did people need computers in an age without internet? Calculators and typewriters already existed and large businesses probably used larger machines for real calculations so what the fuck was the appeal of a machine like this? Wouldn't a computer hobbyist just buy a Commodore 64?

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>>60127502
>paying a 1000 dollars in current day for a mobile phone

war, war never changes

>>60127121
I don't believe in capital punishment.

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>>60118802
Oric 1
16KB RAM

>>60127502
Videogames and spreadsheet software like VisiCalc. Also tinkerers and enthusiasts liked these things.

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>>60127614
2nd

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depends, first computer i owned?
some few-years-old ms-dos machine from a garage sale, have poor long term memory so remember nothing specific about it, this would have been around the mid-90's though, likely a 286
first new computer i used a lot was the family machine gotten in 2000, a DELL Optiplex GX110, pretty nice machine, but aged quickly, at least for gaming, as it had no AGP slot
first new computer i owned? (or at least mostly new parts) custom made by myself in 2006, had been piecing together machines pretty much since the start, but didn't have the money to get new stuff until then

I've been told that the first PC I ever used was a 486 setup, but I was too young to remember anything about it. I do have some extremely fond memories for the next family PC though, it was a 100 MHz Pentium with 16 MB of RAM, a 2 GB HDD, some Diamond Multimedia video card (ViRGE I think?) and a Sound Blaster AWE32 (still by far the largest addon card I've seen, modern GPU's are nothing in comparison).

The first computer I actually personally owned was a Core 2 Quad setup I got as a birthday present in high school, I've been upgrading it piecemeal as the need came up and nowadays only the original HDD remains.

>>60118802
Mac LC475, hand me down from dad's home office. Year 1998, it was outdated as fuck already, but still, dad bought a bunch of games for it when he give it to me.

Still remember playing simcity2000 in it, and a platformer like prince of persia, but the MC has guns and futuristic background i forgot the name. Good ol times and thanks dad.

Sadly a year later, all the coolkids were playing counter strike and i crash my piggybank for a wangblows machine, and asked dad to help me purchase a PC. have no idea what the specs as dad simply tell the store clerk "a pc that can play 3d games" and it costs about 1600$, i vaguely remember that my piggybank only contain somewhere in 700$ range...

So.. thanks again dad

>>60118802
I honestly can't remember because I was really young. It was like 91 I think. I remember 6 months after we got the computer we got dial up internet and upgraded the memory to 128MB which according to my dad was a HUGE deal.

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>>60127950
>platformer like prince of persia, but the MC has guns and futuristic background i forgot the name
this one?
similar hard, trial-and-error platforming as prince of persia, and it has a gun in some parts

Some 2001 Gateway running Windows XP when it was new
I was 8 at the time

>>60128070
Maybe, but I dont remember, but it was have this (awesome for its time i guess) cinematic cutscene during the opening where the guy is being chased and shot at on a somekind of a jet bike

>>60127950
I'm pretty sure It's Flashback (it was also ported to Genesis)

>>60128199
well, another world does have a really awesome intro cutscene, but that description doesn't fit it

powerbook g3

>>60128242
>>60128253
Just googled both, and Flashback it is... According to wiki it was a very popular games in the 90, but i still remember being stuck on the level where you can ride a train thru cities... Maybe my 7 year old brain cant comprehend how the game works yet lol. Gonna try finish the game with genesis emulator

>>60118802
>>60118876
>>60118904
>>60118976
>>60119004
>>60118991
>>60119005
>>60119046
>>60119134
>>60119166
>>60119155
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>>60119290
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>>60119689
>>60119753
>>60119892
>>60119981
And more
Fucking worthless milennials. I really wish they'd be banned. You don't even deserve to be alive.

>>60128345
edgy, bro.

>>60128345
Young edgelord pls be careful

>>60118802
Some OEM 386SX. Pretty nice pc, never gamed as much as 20 years ago.

Something windows 3.1, all I remember is booting up maddog mcree in dos mode constantly in those days, and early Internet on some pre AOL dial up

>>60118802
My dads old 286

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Commodore 64. The next real computer we had was some Compaq Presario shitbox

Some fujitsu siemens laptop back in 2008, it had a core2duo but the gpu was totally shit, some sis mirage 3 graphics that barely could run counter strike 1.6 at the lowest resolution.

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>>60118802

>>60128355
>>60128364

Typical milennials, easily offended.

>>60119497
I used to have that same pc. omg the nostalgia with AOL AND ICQ

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>>60128345
>TI-99/4A
>TRS-80
>ZXSpec

>millenial

Some Compaq with Win98

>>60129718
dude, i could run HL on a K6-2 300MHz with the software renderer
a core2duo would do software mode HL/CS1.x in much better than lowest resolution

486dx

>>60118802
Dunno exactly
was some random pc with 13Mhz CPU and windows 3.1 on it

>>60120196
Fellow belonging to me of african origin.

>>60118802
Commodore 64 with a tape drive.

Some windows ME never oboslete emachines.

It was a PC of some form, it ran Win95 and had a cowboy FPS game. I also remember playing some sort of pipe game in a secretary's computer, it was probably running Windows 3.1

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>>60124048
whiny millenial detected

>>60124310
you dumb retards raped the planet for your entire lives and pretend you're the best thing to ever happen because your parents fought the nazis

>>60119250

are you me?

some hp laptop with windows vista

>>60121509
Really? I mean my family wasn't very rich. Mom worked at a collections agency but it wasnt great money or anything. I think her boss might've given her the PC as a hand me down or something since it was around the same time PCs with CDrom drives were coming out. I visited an actual rich kid's house one time and he had one of those win95 PCs with the two huge speakers sticking out the side of the monitor.

Commodore 64

>>60132085
>through hole

pentium 2
good times :p

>>60123041
i have this with arch on it

Well my first REAL computer (Windows) was some 600 MHz machine in 2000. I was pretty normie before that, now I sit at the computer all time time ;_;

>>60132525
nowadays it's possible to sit at a computer often and still be a normalfag

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>>60118802
My dad bought me pic related to play runescape and learn computers with when I was around 6 years old. As a stupid child, I thought the brand-new, expensive laptop I had just got wasn't fast enough. I wanted the fastest computer in the world (totally ridiculous, I know.)

About a year later, and shitload of whining and complaining, my dad went out and bought me a custom Alienware PC that boasted an Intel QX6800 Quad CPU, 16 GB of DDR2 RAM, a 500 GB 7200RPM HDD - paired with a 150 GB 10k RPM VelociRaptor, and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX GPU (and I got another 500 gig HDD & an extra 8800 GTX about 6-8 months later. Some technician my dad knew installed and configured the parts for me & SLI'd the GPUs.)

Since then I've had so many PCs, permutations of components, etc. -- I honestly can't remember most of them :^)

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>>60126584
I had one of those, too! It was an upgrade from this.

>>60118802
I had a 486 pc at one point but I didn't really own it. My very first computer that I owned had the following stats (before some later upgrades) :

Pentium 120mhz
16 gb ram
1gb hard drive
Win 95

>>60133476
*16mb ram. later upgraded to 32mb.

The computer I got after that in ~'98 was an absolute beast that had a 450mhz pentium 2 with 2 voodoo2 in SLI mode. I think it had 512mb of ram.

Pentium with 750 mhz, 128 mb ram

Don't know. It was an old desktop my dad gave me for school. all I really remember about it was it had Red Hat on it.

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>>60133792
>it had Red Hat on it.

+5 dad points

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>>60118802
emachines squad roll out

>>60118802
The first one that was actually mine was an AMD k6 166mhz processor, and I think it may have had half a gig of RAM on two SIMMs. I eventually got a Voodoo 3 3d card for it, but it started with just a VGA card. It had a coax NIC that I used, too lol.

Of course, my family had computers before that, but they weren't mine.

>>60118976
Wow, I bet that cost a fortune when it was new.

>>60126817
God damn right

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>>60126803
>>60126817
>>60134103

You're shitting us.

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BBC Micro model B

My dad bought it in the 80s, it was the only computer we had up until I was about 5 years old.

I remember playing playing games on it as a young child, and since most of the games were written in Basic I also occasionally LISTed the program and tried poking around at the code, changing numbers, deleting lines, messing around to see what would happen. Usually it just broke the games but I remember a couple of occasions when it got something interesting to happen.

Sadly the Z key stopped working reliably, which was terrible because most of the games used the Z and X keys for moving left and right. Then when I was around 5 years old my dad bought an A3010 and the BBC was unplugged and moved off of the table. I remember feeling sad to see it go at the time.

I actually still have it, I got it out of the attic last year and I've been writing Basic programs and stuff on it. I also managed to fix the broken Z key.

>>60134076
>AMD k6 166mhz
>half a gig of RAM on two SIMMs
No chance, mate.

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Had a C64 when I was super young but this was the first machine that really got me in to computers. Still have it though my daily driver Amiga is a pimped out A1200.

First PC was some non-descript 386. First machine I built myself was a K6 200 with a Voodoo 1 right after glquake kicked everything off.

Amd phenom X2
Radeon hd 5500 series don't know which one

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>>60134325
Another Micro fag reporting. Now I only have the introductory books and casette.

BBC Micro

I don't remember but it asked me to physically push the shutdown button after exiting the system. I don't know what bit was running but later we upgraded to a Windows 95 computer, so DOS, I guess.

As I'm not rich, I never owned a computer

>>60118802
I don't recall the model, but it was a Packard Bell, if that says anything.

eat shit you stupid faggots

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there is one of these (Apple II writer) on craigslist for $100 near my apartment. What should i do, is that too much?

>>60134344
Could be remembering it wrong, that was like 20 years ago. But I think that's about it.

>>60134395
>K6 200 with a Voodoo 1
That's way too much CPU for your GPU.

>>60118802
commodore 64

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>>60128345

>>60128345
Woah there Gramps, busy yourself in organizing your weekly pill organizer.

>>60134093
Tandy was pretty affordable. Only problem was IBM compatibility was a little iffy on most models.

>>60135336
MS-DOS and workalikes didn't have a shutdown message. They gave zero fucks if you killed the power.

>>60118802

Born in 1987, but parents were poor, so until 1999, we had a bunch old computers purchased from garage sales - a Commodore 64 with a shit ton of books and software (including a Super Mario Bros clone), an old Apple Macintosh with an external hard drive (I remember how my Mom fucked it up by hitting it too hard) and a PC XT.

In 1999, we finally joined the future and got a $1000 Daewoo machine from Costco. It was crap; I remember how the BIOS went to shit and I was too stupid to fix it. That lasted until 2004, when we got a Compaq.

>>60120196
me too, it was bollocks

My first was a Commodore 64. After that my mom got a Tandy XT clone with a big fucking 10 meg hard drive which I played MS flight simulator on for more hours than real flight hours years later lol.

>>60118802
Commodore 64. First x86 was the IBM XT.

>>60118871
Underage not allowed here.

>>60139074
Mathematics tell me that people born in 1991 are not underage.

>>60127502

Spreadsheet programs were the killer application. They made computers essential for business.

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But with a b&w monitor

>>60127502
>Why did people need computers in an age without internet?

You realize computers can organize and store your shit, control machines, process and automate all without the internet, right?

https://youtu.be/0FuSmXKMp-c?t=85

>Calculators

Not all data processing is straight numbers and calculations, and ordinary calculators are still very manual and limited in operation. Especially back then.

>Typewriters

You can't very easily share, edit or print multiple copies of a document on a typewriter.

>>60120196
>>60139029
>spend all day loading 48k program
>rampack loses contact

>>60118802
An Apple IIe. Possibly a fake/Chinese ripoff.

It's long dead now, it shows like 5-6 vertical lines on the screen and does nothing.

>>60118802
i think the first machine i used was an i386 or 80286 DOS machine. Running....DOS 2 something? Im 20 and i clearly remember playing OG Wolfenstein, Crystal Caves, Commander Keen, and some dumbass pool game

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>>60143315
something like this

>>60118802
Bantium 4 HOUSEFIRE edition @3.06Ghz, 256k of RAM and a GeForce 5200GT.

>>60139074
the 2000s was when a lot of people young and old finally got into computers because they were cheaper and finally actually useful, unlike the nerd toys you think you're cool for probably doing nothing but playing shitty video games on as a kid

>>60118802
Compaq LTE 286 laptop.
DOS, Windows 3.0
Best game was Stunts.

A windows 98 prebuilt, probably.

No clue what was inside it, because it was trashed before I cared about tech.

>>60127604
kek

>>60128345
Grandpa please leave.

>>60145237

Day old bait, anon. Throw it back.

>>60118922
hah

>>60128345
>over 30
>still browsing chans
I'm sorry.

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>>60118802
pic related
cost pretty penny but good featur

Some windows 3.1 Machine when i was like 4.

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>>60118802
Powerbook G4 12 inch. Got it in 2005. It was the first computer I actually owned. Before that my family computer was a shitty old Gateway that ran Windows 98.

>>60146171
I call bullshit. that's a cabbage difference engine, a working model was never made

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>>60118802
Macintosh Performa 575
Bought by my single mom for us in 1994. I miss the days of buying LucasArts computer game 5-packs at electronics boutique or whatever the fuck the site was back then.

>>60146396
Store*

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The first computer I used was a Packard Bell with Windows 95 on it.
The first computer I actually had to myself was a Presario like this.

>>60146396
Had a Mac like that, it was pretty good for the time. AOL on a 2400 baud modem, took an hour to download a 150kb Jay-peg.

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This was the first senpai computer.

>>60146396
I miss my old performa. first device I ever used to connect to the internet as well.

TRS-80 hand me down from my dad in 1986

>>60146494
had the same computer, thing was a pile of shit looking back on it.

>>60147096
>RAM/ROM cartridges

Oldschool as fuck. Too bad nothing really took advantage of them.

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Macintosh IIcx

I think it had 8 MB of RAM and an 80 MB hard drive.

>>60134325
>BBC

BBC Micro

>>60118802
Commodore 64.

Tons of days wasted dabbling in BASIC

>>60124140
No. I'm 27, but my father had one of those ancient Atari game machines.

Some might be 40, others are younger with parents that kept their old tech.

>>60124460
To whom is it owed too?

Whom created all that credit?

>>60146073
>milennials
>Allowed on the Internet
Goddammit thus is why youtube went to shit

Some gateway 2000(loaded with windows 98) my dad got out of garbage from some rich folks in Manhattan in the building he was working in(he was the handyman).I didn't have that magic interest in computers, it was just a box to me, did shit and took me to places where I could get pokemon pics and descriptions, some years later Id have to use it for school projects.

Trs-80 iii

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>>60147971
mfw I could have been playing serious sam

>>60118904
this, but some soviet version
27

Pentium 3 at 500mhz + 64MB RAM

>>60147796

China.

>>60118802
C64

I'm only thirty though, we were just a little behind.

>>60128337
There's a sequel to flashback called fade to black and it's 3D.

>>60119689
>ESDX

>>60118802
In any case, being younger means being better at tech because old people's brains cannot keep up with innovation.