what was your very first computer? (1 Viewer)

[theism]

be it your family one or your own personal one.

mine was from 1997 or 1998 i think it was.

200mhz celeron
whopping 32mb of ram,
8mb video card
30gb hdd

 

[lonely-lass]

It's the same for me from 2003. Thinking about buying laptop.

 

[mcflystargirl]

mine was a Compaq one
It has like an 800mhz processor
64MB of ram
10GB Harddrive
Floppy drive
CD drive that was not a burner

it was heaps good then and it ran windows 98
It still works today i think but with XP

 

[ChockoRepublic]

all i remember from my first computer was that it had a 2-3 gb hard drive, and an entire gig was taken up by windows.

 

[aussie-boy]

My dad used to have one that ran MSdos, black screen with green font and cool games such as hangman and pacman

Then in 95 we paid $4k for this 70mhz, 16mb ram, 2gb HDD (thats $5600 in today's money)

 

[Absolutezero]

I had one I occassionally used for typing, which had Windows 95 as its main operating system. The first proper one we had though ran Windows 98, and had no sound card.

 

[SeCKSiiMiNh]

i had typewriter as my first "computer". Ahh the memories...

 

[pman]

First one had MS-DOS, nothing more...our second one had just enough power to run sim earth on the old 7 inch floppy's must have gotten it around 94/95...don't remember the specs, we upgraded b4 I started school! I got my first (and only currently working compy) in 2003/2004 sumer holidays cos I needed it for high school! 1gb of ram, 64gig of storage, pentium 4 processor...it was the bomb!

My first lappy had 2gb ram but only a 16gb harddrive, load of crap that had several software and hardware faults so the wireless stuff didn't work, even when we changed the card...HP couldn't solve the problem, nor could the techie from CERN

 

[Phoenix Fury]

95ish
~200Mhz
16mb ram
4-8mb video
<100mb Hard Drive

late 96 / early 97
~500mhz
32 ram
8 or 16 video
850mb hard drive

Next comp after that was like 99, then ~02, 04/05, 2008 and my current comp was end of 2008.
Also after each upgrade my sister and I got the old comps so yeh, they didnt just break/not be used after 2/3 years.

 

[vds700]

1995(family)

Pentium 1 i think 77 Mhz
16 mb ram
2 gb hd
Windows 95

I still remember the first day we got it, me, my dad and brother played pinball on it for a few hours, lol. We had it for 5 years.

late 2005 (personal)
AMD 3200+
1gb ram (now 2)
160 gb hd (now added extra 500 gb hd)
128 mb ATI X300 graphics
Windows XP (now added 7 on second hd)

 

[Phoenix Fury]

for 95-97, you seem to all have abnormally large hard drives...

Where abnormal is of course going by what I remember of the then, but yeh.

 

[Omie Jay]

pentium 4, single core, 650MHz
128MB ram
12GB hard drive
integrated graphics card of some sort

we still got it upstairs, we play doom, mortal kombat 4, virtual cop 2, aladdin, lion king, and worms world party on it

 

[theism]

for 95-97, you seem to all have abnormally large hard drives...

Where abnormal is of course going by what I remember of the then, but yeh.

i know what you mean

i think i must of had 3x 10gb hdds, or 2x15 (if they made such things).. maybe it was 2x16gb

 

[tehpyro]

We had a Commodore 64 as my first computer-- moved to Windows in 1995.

MOS 6510 @ < 1 MHz
64kb RAM
20kb ROM

 

[MHael]

Technically a Vic 20, but I can barely remember it. Our first modern form computer we got in '97. Bit fuzzy on the details (6 at the time) but I think it was something like this:

8x CD Drive <- might be a replacement from the original
Pentium II 400 MHz ?
32 Mb Ram
8 or 16 Mb Video
2 or 4.2 GB HD (Still using the 4.2, but it could've been a replacement for when the computer got struck through the phone line.)
14.4k modem -> 33.6k after lightning strike.

15" monitor
Colour Ink Jet printer
Win 95

All up it cost around $3,500 I believe.

The Vic 20's still in the cupboard, along with a spare for parts. It might still work.

 

[Sokolov]

Enigma machine

 

[appletoa]

My first was an Apple Performa 5400, back in '96. It had a 180 mhz processor, 24 mB of RAM, and a 2gb hard drive (surprisingly, it came with a couple of features that you still don't find often today, such as an inbuilt TV tuner, a video input, and a remote). It actually still works, although it's rather slow and normally resides in the shed.

The oldest working computer I've collected since then would be either a Mac Plus or an Amiga 500.

 

[hollyy.]

i dont know the stats but would have been say 1995 cause it was at the old house. i remember it had a good kids game where you were this cartoon in a treehouse lol. i thought it was epically fun.

first computer of my own was a disney one my sister bought me in year 8. it had a 40gb hard drive and now my 6 yo neice has it.

 

[x.christina]

compaq, with windows 1999, bought it in 1999 and it partied like 1999

complete with crt monitor, and like, 3 programs

it even had the interwebs!?!?!?!!!! lol dialup

 

[Arcorn]

i dont know the stats but would have been say 1995 cause it was at the old house. i remember it had a good kids game where you were this cartoon in a treehouse lol. i thought it was epically fun.

first computer of my own was a disney one my sister bought me in year 8. it had a 40gb hard drive and now my 6 yo neice has it.

Sounds like The Treehouse. I had that on my 93(?) computer, all I can remember about it is that it ran Windows 3.1 and had Indy and Links on it. Also some Hugo games.

We had some Compaq in 98ish running Windows 95 originally. All I can remember is that the 3GB hard drive slowly ran out of total space till it was a 512mb hard drive >.<