Your first computer

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I hope this subject wasnt discused before...

Anyway, i'm wondering when did you guys first own a PC. No consoles count, just PCs (not Player Character ).
And what OS did you have on it?


I got the first one sometime in 1993. It was miraculus. Everyone from the street went to have a look at it. I remember i felt so proud. Its not it was the only one but it was one of the first ones where i lived then.
IIRC it was pentium already. The first one naturaly. It was normaly running on 20Mhz... but check this out... i could boost it by pressing a button on the box to 40Mhz!!! A real monster

And i had DOS on it. Dont know what version or anything else... i was only 8 or 9 years old then.

 

The first PC that my family owned was an 8088. Before that we had an Adam. The first computer that I had that was solely mine was a 286. I would say that the 8088 was purchased in the early 80s and that I probably inherited the 286 in the late 80s shortly after the 386 came on the market.

 

'89 or '90, sort of. 8086 commonly known as XT. No hard disk, 5.25'' floppy, Hercules graphics, amber only screen. No sound, not even a PC speaker. It was heavier than my head in mornings and slow.

 

At the beginning of second millenia ( ) I got my first PC. Wasn't even very good, but then I didn't know very much of computers. It had 500 MHz Celeron (****), and TNT2 graphics card. OS was, what else?, win98. It used to sin and crash every second hour and I often had lustful thoughts of hammering it to little pieces, but then a greater wisdom showed me the Way; a good kick the rear helps. Thus was the evil vanquished once again.

Then I got a new comp

 

I didn’t get my first home computer until 1997. I had always used them at work, but I just didn’t really need/want one at home until then. It was AMD 166, 32MB, 2GB hard drive – nothing special, but not bad at the time.

 

I got my first and only computer in 2000. It's a HP Pavilion 566 celeron, running windows 98. I'm suprised the thing still works, after all the things I did to it

 

My first computer was an old Macintosh, all in one piece, black and white screen, that my dad brought from work one day. (must have been in the late 80ies) Man, I spent entire days playing Lemmings on it with my cousins, the memories...

 

I got my first Pc 1996, it was a P166 Mhz, MMX with an onboard graphic card. I still have it and use it, if I have to type something or if I want to play my old Snes games

 

I guess I used my dads PC (which he had for his business) for a gaming machine in early 90'. That was before all the pentium stuff and I guess if I should give it a number it was a 33 mhz. IBM business PC if I remember correctly.

I was in my NES days that time until my nephew came for a visit with some strategy game. He installed it, I took a look and saw him explore lands, build square colored cities and build roads and irrigation. You guessed it, it's the game that made my PC gaming too what it is now: Civilization

 

Mmmh, must have been that Olivetti M24.
Somewhere in the mid 80's. Started my passion for Fantasy Games with playing Sierra's 'King's Quest'.

 

Intel 486 100 Mhz, 16 Mb of RAM, 512 Kb S3 graphic card and Windows 3.1
Got it in 1995

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1983, the Sinclair Spectrum. DMC, please pass the Geritol.

Here's what this proto-home-computer looked like. The Sinclair Spectrum

I believe mine was fluourescent blue. To make it work, you connected it to your television and an audiotape recorder. Games were generally purchased as a few pages of code that you typed in yourself and saved on the audiotape.

 

My first copmputer... ah, those were the days. I bought it used from a relative of as relative... It was in 1994 or 1995, I think. It was a pentium, I have no idea of the mHz:es... It never really worked. It had both DOS and the "miraculous" Windows 3.1.... :/

Those were the days. I still miss Paintbrush... so much better than Paint...

 

I remember Paintbrush. Still got it on the old comps, lol.

Hmm, absolute first one, a 1987 Epson Equity. I think it only had a few kilobytes of RAM, not even an 8086 processor, no hard drive, no video, no sound card.

First gaming one was a much older IBM AT that my dad brought home from work. It actually had a hard drive and Windows 1.0! Who remembers that?

 

First one? Must have been about 1981-1982 that my family got a TI 99-4A. It was mostly used for gaming with the game cartridges, but by attaching an audiocassette recorder I could write programs in BASIC and save them as audio signals. It must have been running some version of DOS. That was when I began my lifelong career.

The first one I bought on my own was a 16.67MHz 286 w/ 2MB RAM, and a 20MB HD. It ran DOS and Windows 3.1.

Gosh, I must really be getting old!

 

My first comp was a 486 with 33 mhz and 8 mb ram. We bought it used from a friend sometime around 1994, and it came with lots of games. I still miss X-Wing, both Indy games and the first game I bought with my own money: Worms!

 

An Osbourne running CPM in 1982-83. 5MHz. 64kb memory, 5-1/4 drive. I feel OLD

 

Well, my (or my family's) first computer was 486 with 25 mhz (I thought that it is far too fast ). We got it in 1994. I played Tetris and other arcade games with it. And, of course, drawing with paintbrush was great.

 

My first computer was a 386(18 MHz and if you pressed the turbo button it was on 40 MHz). My father bought for my brother(because he broke his arm) but I palyed too. This happened in 1993 IIRC. Then a 486, a Pentium 1(I still have this one), a Pentium 3 and now a Pentium 4 - 2,4GHz.