Your first ever computer

**gigagaia** · December 26, 2006, 10:06 PM

Mine was the good, old, TI-99.
It didn't actually have a harddrive, we had to use cartridges to run different programs. In many ways, it was more like a Nintendo than a computer.
Those were the days, though. After that, my dad bought an xt, and that was illuminating in comparison! It had its own harddisk and we could save word processing files.

Ah nostalgia...
What about you all? What was your first computer?

**boofhead** · December 26, 2006, 10:10 PM

1984 my dad got me an Apple IIe with greenscreen and a DOUBLE 5 1/4" floppy disc drive. It seemed really advanced (except for the monitor) at the time, as I was the only one among my 13yo friends who could COPY pirated games!

Prior to that the only PCs I'd played had all programs on casette, and it would take you FOREVER to load up a stupid 2D game like Space Invaders or something! And I mean forever, up to 45mins!

**the_mango55** · December 26, 2006, 10:13 PM

We had a computer before this, but this was the first one we bought new.

Pentium 1 89Mhz
I think 32 megs of ram
around 400 MB hard drive
2x speed CD-Rom drive
Windows 3.1
13 inch monitor

**vikrant** · December 27, 2006, 01:59 AM

my/our rig in the year 1997
intel 486
16 mb ram
1.44 FDD
256 mb HDD
windows 95

**aorz** · December 27, 2006, 02:25 AM

It's amazing looking back how bad computers were, and that was only ten years ago. I just gotta wonder how many cores a processor needs before it becomes overkill.

But I had something like vikrant. It had a wheel of fortune game with gigantic pixels. It was really sad I thought it was amazing, looking back...

**Nutsack** · December 28, 2006, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by aorz

It had a wheel of fortune game with gigantic pixels. It was really sad I thought it was amazing, looking back...

Don't be sad, it WAS amazing!

800 kilobytes on ONE floppy disk! Now that's what I'm talking about!

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=282
Not really MY computer, but my family's. Macintosh Plus 1986 Edition, BABY!

End of production line: 1990, a year before my birth. It never saw the days of my dire usage but I did try it out quite a few times (black & white, yuck).

MY first computer was an old IBM which I can not find on the internet. Heck, I could play games like "Math for ages 4-6" all day long. Super!
Apart from that the computer obviously was one of those oldies, but it had color!

I remember how I tried to get all my friends to get ICQ (I think it was 2nd grade) as I noticed my 5 year older brother was chatting with his friends that way.

"Amazing! Now we don't need to dial a number and talk to each other by phone!" - It was a huge failure.

**SPARTAN VI** · December 27, 2006, 10:47 AM

The first computer I owned was a Commodore64, followed by the Commodore Amiga. Not much later I got a hand-me-down Intel Pentium 90MHz.

**Sidus Preclarum** · December 27, 2006, 10:56 AM

Atari 1024 STE.

**Shaun** · December 27, 2006, 01:18 PM

My first Computer was something my dad got home from work in 1993. Thats all I know though.

**John I Tzimisces** · December 28, 2006, 12:46 AM

My old Apple 2...worked until maybe 2 years ago.

**allthesedamnnamesaretaken** · December 28, 2006, 01:13 AM

I got my first computer in 1995 and it was an Intel Pentium 90MHz, 8MB RAM, running windows 95. I later upgraded it to 16MB RAM because I found out it couldn't play VCDs on 8MB RAM. That 8MB DIMM upgrade cost me $50! It's a little more expensive now but last summer I bought TWO 512MB DIMMS for $80

One of the first programs I installed was ICQ, one of the first instant messenger programs out there. I thought it was the best thing ever invented. I would stay up until dawn playing C&C: Red Alert with my friend over dial-up. Ah, good times.

**krazykarl** · December 28, 2006, 09:10 PM

My first rig was the wonderful 80286 with a whopping 1 or 2mb of ram and a trident 256k video card. I remember playing Commander keen and the original duke nukem.

**PyrrhusIV** · December 28, 2006, 09:22 PM

Well, the first ever computer I used was at my grandfathers, it was this:
AppleIIGS

He eventually, in 93 or 94, bought the AppleIIc Plus , which I used for a long time....

In 1998, my parents finally bought us a computer. I don't know how much it cost, but considering it was custom built, ouch:

Pentium I 270mhz (I think, or was it 180?)
64MB RAM
(2) 1GB HDD's
8MB VC

Yeah, actually not half-bad... but those seem real high for 98....

I still use it...

**Ulyaoth** · December 29, 2006, 12:28 AM

My family's first was some old Mac my granma gave us because she got a new one. None of us used it. Then we got an old DOS computer from my mom's work, we played some pinball games and such on it. Then our first real computer I spent any time on really was Windows 95, my dad's friend built us a new one, I got hooked on PC gaming from that, because he gave us Red Alert free. I remember I was mad my dad got Red Alert at first, because I wanted some star wars game, that eventually we got and I absolutely hated, while I loved Red Alert and played for hours.

**danzig** · December 29, 2006, 04:17 PM

First computer for me was a Commodore Vic-20 with a whopping 3.5k of free ram! I remember fondly the days of typing in programs from computer magazines (for the C64 as well). From there moved to Commodore 64->Commodore 128->first PC a 286 machine->Amiga and so on and so on. Had alot of odd ball computers in between the time period, an old Atari 800, a TSR-80 a quite a few others oddly never owned an Apple not the old IIe or Macs though we used them in school at the time.

**Sétanta** · December 29, 2006, 04:21 PM

The computer I am typing this on is my first ever computer. My families first ever computer was an ancient microsoft machine that looked more like an overly large Gamecube attached to a typewriter.

**Rex Invictus** · December 29, 2006, 04:26 PM

my was a 386sx 4mb ram no cd. os was msdos until i got myself windows 3.1

**Markas** · December 29, 2006, 04:46 PM

Computers:

Commodore64-> Amiga1200-> P75 PC-> Upgraded PC

Consoles:

Atari2600-> Sega master system-> Megadrive-> Dreamcast.

Strange how it took me four consoles to realise they sucked.

Ah C64's take me back... I blame them solely for my gaming addition. They hooked me on Barbarian II, Last Ninja series and Heroquest...damn them, damn them all to hell!

**~~removeduser_426582376423734~~** · December 29, 2006, 04:47 PM

It was some dirt Packard Bell Windows 95 that couldn't work anything at all. Only thing it could do was run this pretty crappy but fun simulation game with different types of balls and scenarios.

**Sidus Preclarum** · December 30, 2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Shyam Popat

It was some dirt Packard Bell Windows 95 that couldn't work anything at all.

that sentence is highly pleonasmic.
it has been established, that much of the sales Packard Bell has somehow miraculously been able to make, where attributable to consumer confusion with Hewlet Packard