Your first computer?

[PSPgoOwnsMeself]

I will start us off.

This is just my current monitor.

[RockMessiah123]

my first and current computer

[Ultor]

At 11/7/09 05:07 PM, RockMessiah123 wrote: my first and current computer

Nice one I had a dell dimension v350 with pentium 2 running windows 98 not a bad starter PC for the time. Good memories.

[Timmy]

I don't remember what model my first computer was, but I do remember having to type in "c:/win" in order to start it up.

Also, I remember playing a LOT of SkiFree and Chip's Challenge.

[leo967846]

I don't remember it much but I do remember that it was slow, and old. It also had dial up.

[BabiesAteMyDingo]

Ah, I remember it so well. It was a Windows 3.1 and I thought it was amazing because it had upgraded memory. 8 MBs! Whilst everybody else only had 4. Suckers!

You had to type all commands into DOS to run programs, of which there were about 20 to chose from.

I'm just glad technology has moved on. Now that I build computers for a living, you should see what I'm running on now!

[TacoFreak]

At 11/7/09 05:19 PM, BabiesAteMyDingo wrote: Ah, I remember it so well. It was a Windows 3.1 and I thought it was amazing because it had upgraded
I'm just glad technology has moved on. Now that I build computers for a living, you should see what I'm running on now!

shitty case kthx

[Leidolfr]

my first computer, i do beleive was an ibm from the 80s, and it ran on a green DOS prompt. I also had a mac from the 80s as a kid, but, i dont remember if it was before or after the ibm

[Digital-Terror]

Ah, yes. I had an ancient office computer I got a garage sale for the price of exactly $2.35, which happened to be all the money I had at the time.

Looking back, I used it a bit too long. DOOM was always fun, nonetheless.

[newgroundslover94]

my first one was this shitty windows 97

[nsc007]

My first? Something I forgot the specs of running windows 98. It rarely ever crashed, and, amusingly, had a broadband connection in the 90's.

[Samen]

I remember distinctly that it ran OS 8, but other than that, nothing.
I used to play these two awesome Winnie The Pooh and Magic School bus games on it, even though they froze up a lot. :3

Memories.

[yellowklayman]

this is mine

[alhanelem]

windows 95, shitty pentium 1 or 2, cant remember.

[robin1232]

couldnt find a picture, but I think the brand was Compaq Presario and it had speakers on the sides of the monitor
it ran windows 95 and I played putt putt on it, then we got a new PC with windows 98 and it didnt run putt putt anymore...
we kept that for lots of years, even installed XP on it later, then we got another PC wich was huge (it had a tv tuner)
after, we got a really bad pc, first the salesman said you couldnt upgrade the CPU... altough you can with AMD! then he said vista was actually a good operating system without bugs and my parents believed that, and he sold us an ASUS EAH 3650 graphic card, wich started functioning right yesterday when I installed windows 7 (crysis on very high!!!).

because vista sucked so bad, I purchased a macbook a couple of months ago, its the most awesome machine, but I really miss gaming... and I cant get bootcamp to partition because my hard drive is fragmented too much...

[SuspiciousPenguin]

Some windows 95 bollocks my dad didn't need, it was truly awful

[Bak2BaseX]

My first computer I got in 2003 it was a Dell Dimension 8300, it was good for a few years but I used it to the point where it took 15+ min to open internet explorer

[SteveGuzzi]

an IBM PC XT manufactured the same year I was born.

[Leidolfr]

At 11/7/09 07:17 PM, SteveGuzzi wrote: an IBM PC XT manufactured the same year I was born.

That looks almost exactly like mine, but...uhh, mine actually looked older and crappier than that, somehow

[Master117chief]

I broke my first computer the first day it was in the house.

[YeOldeSierra]

I still have my first computer. I remember the specs for it pretty well:

AMD Sempron @ 1.00GHz
256MB RAM
80GB HDD
Integrated motherboard and so on
Windows XP Home 32 Bit

It's slow as shit, but I'm tempted to upgrade it slightly. Some extra RAM would possibly make it bearable to use. It's from about 2004, and my family spent £800 on it. Complete rip off. I have the monitor from it set up with my laptop for a second screen. It was probably the best part of it. It's 17", and displays at 1024x768.

[Lorkas]

Dunno, it was from the late 90s.

[SteveGuzzi]

At 11/7/09 07:18 PM, Leidolfr wrote: That looks almost exactly like mine, but...uhh, mine actually looked older and crappier than that, somehow

That's just some image I pulled from Google, but yeah, that's the type of computer I had.

CGA graphics, 10MB hard drive, 360KB floppy drive, 256KB RAM, 9600 baud modem.

THE PINNACLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT lol.

...

I remember leaving the screws off the case because often when I'd boot the computer the hard drive would fail to spin and the system would boot straight into BASICA as if no drive were present. So I'd boot it up with the cover off, shaking the hard drive around as I flipped the 'on' switch as a way to jump-start it. Aaaaaand that eventually stopped working too.

I actually still have files for some of the old BASIC programs I wrote back then.

NERDALERT

[gr8job]

At 11/7/09 05:09 PM, Ultor wrote:

At 11/7/09 05:07 PM, RockMessiah123 wrote: my first and current computer

Nice one I had a dell dimension v350 with pentium 2 running windows 98 not a bad starter PC for the time. Good memories.

pretty much the same as my first

[MwnciHead]

ZX spectrum 48k, with rubber buttons and everything...

[DrClay]

first computer was those kinds you see at your dad's workplace, just something to fool around with until we got a real one, the floppy disk taking kind

then I got a 95

[SaltshakerClock]

iMac G3. We had one earlier, but I don't remember the model.

I loved that thing.

[GOTHCLAWZ]

Technically my SNES is my first computer, but boy do I have something hilarious to show you. It's a colourful laptop I got in the late 90's.

[JKMonkey]

a Amstrad PC-1512 DD, worked like a charm from what i remember.

[Winking]

At 11/7/09 04:36 PM, PSPgoOwnsMeself wrote: I will start us off.

This is just my current monitor.

WTF, my computer looks exactly like that.