What was your first computer?

[Toasted1]

Mine was an IBM PS/1 286 12mhz, no HD, 1.44 floppy, monochrome (black and white) monitor.

http://www.sandyflat.net/digerati/ibmps1/ps1.jpg

Surprisingly it was fairly cheap back then and I am pretty sure it was <$400.

[evildave101]

compaq presario

[Toasted1]

compaq presario

Yeah what were the specs I believe they have been making those forever.

[tommyk90]

Commodore 64.

Next after that, some HP beast that was absurdly expensive by today's standards

I took a picture of the specs before we gave it away.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/tommyk90/P1240035.jpg

Windows 3.1 btw. Check out that badass 4x cd-rom!

[evildave101]

5BW---5000a series. dont know the original specs off hand, but it had ME and was a hunk of shit, had like a 10 gig hd.

[pl8er]

I can't totally remember...but I want to say 33mhz dx (which was so cool cause everyone else had the sx) 4 or 8 mb of ram and a very very small hard drive.

When we got th 100mhz, oh man! I was so excited!! I didn't have to use a boot disk to load doom anymore

[Toasted1]

I can't totally remember...but I want to say 33mhz dx (which was so cool cause everyone else had the sx) 4 or 8 mb of ram and a very very small hard drive.

When we got th 100mhz, oh man! I was so excited!! I didn't have to use a boot disk to load doom anymore

I think the 33mhz was a 386. I had a 486 DX2/66 and a DX4/100 and both of those were a nice upgrade from the 386SX/16 before them.

[Toasted1]

Actually there was a 486DX33 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486_DX

[atoz350]

MY first computer was a Compaq ProLinea 486. 244mb HD Windows 3.1

Before that my cousin and I shared a computer. It was a Tandy 1000.

[reson8]

IBM 8086 clone with a 2400 baud modem was the first pc I ever used (was my dads).
First pc I ever owned was a 386 something or other.

[bluecar]

Some Packard Bell with WIndows 95. 75 Mhz and 16 RAM.

Can't believe that thing was ~$2,000.

[Toasted1]

Oh man I remember 2400 it would take like 30 minutes to download a 100k picture. :laugh:

[reson8]

Oh man I remember 2400 it would take like 30 minutes to download a 100k picture. :laugh:

Yup, thats about right. Was the bomb for bbsing however! :p

[bluecar]

I just remember trying to sign onto AOL for hours and it would be busy.

[Spider Monkey]

It was an Apple. The monitor was connected to the brains. It booted to a menu. Shit was green man. GREEN.

Then we got a Apple IIe with a color monitor yo!

My first own PC, I built for my senior project. Had a smoking fast P1 and only cost 5K in parts. Shit was fast yo.

[atoz350]

It was an Apple. The monitor was connected to the brains. It booted to a menu. Shit was green man. GREEN.

Then we got a Apple IIe with a color monitor yo!

My first own PC, I built for my senior project. Had a smoking fast P1 and only cost 5K in parts. Shit was fast yo.

Shit only had like 4 colors!

[JimJ]

First computer I used was my dad's IBM PCjr...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCjr

First computer that I remember using as "mine" was one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_512K

[brynm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q

Then an Apple IIe compatible with the green only monitor.

[Spider Monkey]

Shit only had like 4 colors!

So. It was tight shit at the time.

[hemroids]

apple IIe my grandma bought it for us. I am going to see her in a few hours.

[MOT]

packard bell, 80mhz processor, 8 megs of ram upgraded to 16, 20 meg hard drive, 2x cd drive and 14.4k modem.

[IamDeMan]

Commodore 64

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5370/commodore64540x359.jpg

Surfed numbers on this

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4580/commodorevicmodem.jpg

Even had to load shit from one of these.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9592/commodoredatassette.jpg


My brother had the Vic-20 which I pecked on a little, but this was what I really started getting hard core on.

My dad had a sinclair tucked away in the attic that I got familiar with later after we had the 64.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5870/ts1000.jpg

[IamDeMan]

I just remember trying to sign onto AOL for hours and it would be busy.

I remember dialoing into AOL before they changed their name to AOL.

Q-link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgH27p-FAM

[darthvibrator]

i find it amazing that you guys remember what your first computers were.

all i remember is the first computer we had, i would play duke nukem and prince of persia on it

http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/prince-of-persia.gif

http://ben.bacchus.com.au/vpcblog/images/dn12.PNG

[Sex Cells]

i find it amazing that you guys remember what your first computers were.

all i remember is the first computer we had, i would play duke nukem and prince of persia on it

http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/prince-of-persia.gif

http://ben.bacchus.com.au/vpcblog/images/dn12.PNG

lol. asshole you think we dont realize thats an emulator?

[darthvibrator]

lol. asshole you think we dont realize thats an emulator?

broski, i just looked up "prince of persia old" and "duke nukem old" on google to get some pics.

where do you think im going to get pics of these games from?

emulator, ejaculator, mosiphitacitactitator. the point was the game looks like it did on my old ass computer when i was a kid.

[mcsoul]

Amiga 2000 no hd ftl

[dman4486]

some custom built thing with windows 3.1. It had all the latest amenities.....3.5" and 5.25 floppies. I can remember going to an engineering firm and teaching all the "engineers" how to do shit in Dos as a kid.

I will get a pic of my dad's first computer when I go home if I remember. it is the size of an oven.

[Sex Cells]

broski, i just looked up "prince of persia old" and "duke nukem old" on google to get some pics.

where do you think im going to get pics of these games from?

emulator, ejaculator, mosiphitacitactitator. the point was the game looks like it did on my old ass computer when i was a kid.

Look Bro, I caught you.

[ThomasG]

Windows 95

[tapout]

1987. Tandy. Dos. 1MB RAM. 5.25 floppy

[Randy Savage]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eA3XCvrK90

[IamDeMan]

i find it amazing that you guys remember what your first computers were.

all i remember is the first computer we had, i would play duke nukem and prince of persia on it

http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/prince-of-persia.gif

http://ben.bacchus.com.au/vpcblog/images/dn12.PNG

Because I was a geek.

[Spider Monkey]

I remember dialoing into AOL before they changed their name to AOL.

Q-link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgH27p-FAM


Prodigy FTW

[IamDeMan]

Prodigy FTW

The wanna be business version that failed miserably, YAY!

[ragar31]

Mine was a project some guy build for school that didn't have a hard drive and ran dos off a floppy, then you have to put other floppys into it to run a program. Going from that to my 486 was amazing, eventhough I had to use a boot disk to play doom.

[Sex Cells]

I remember having an epson laptop with a blue screen (that would literally fill your fucking lap) and playing reader rabbit.

[bigtoyota479]

I had a Pentium 200 mhz, 128 MB of RAM, like a 2 gig HD, and a whopping 14.4k dial up modem.

The first machine I ever built myself was an AMD K6III 500, 256 MB ram, 8 gig HD, Windows 95, and the vid card was a Real 3D Starfighter with 16 MB of ram, but I can't remember the chipset. All I know is that HL1 was teh shit on that thing.

[Jameseypoo]

http://zayarsan2.googlepages.com/MacintoshCentris6101993.jpg

[Sex Cells]

I had a Pentium 200 mhz, 128 MB of RAM, like a 2 gig HD, and a whopping 14.4k dial up modem.

The first machine I ever built myself was an AMD K6III 500, 256 MB ram, 8 gig HD, Windows 95, and the vid card was a Real 3D Starfighter with 16 MB of ram, but I can't remember the chipset. All I know is that HL1 was teh shit on that thing.

No way you had 128mb of ram faggot.

[Deerhunt1988]

My dad had some old ass computer he used to get on "The Wire" to buy baseball cards and stuff off of. I think it had Windows 3.1.

First computer we had that i used was a Packard Bell.
133mhz
64mb Ram
1.2GB HD
28k modem

[IamDeMan]

No way you had 128mb of ram faggot.

Possible, but expensive and I have my doubts as well. In that era 32MB would have been a default amount for most consumer machines. What I find weird is that in 1997 56k would have been a default modem for most consumer machines as well, so why does it have a 14.4?

[bigtoyota479]

Ya know, you're probably right about the ram. It was a Compaq, but I know for SURE it had that modem in it, because two years later I put a 56k modem in it. We got that PC in 1995, hence the 14.4k modem.

[IamDeMan]

Ya know, you're probably right about the ram. It was a Compaq, but I know for SURE it had that modem in it, because two years later I put a 56k modem in it. We got that PC in 1995, hence the 14.4k modem.

I am guessing you meant a Pentium Pro 200 then, which dates it to 95 where 14.4 and 28 were more popular. Pentium 200's(MMX) weren't released until 1997, However the PPro 200s were released in 95. If it was a Pro then it wasn't built as a common consumer machine. It would have been a workstation or server. So it was still possible to have 128MB, but that would have had a decent price tag in 1995.

[Spider Monkey]

Dork

[IamDeMan]

Dork

The correct term is GEEK and many people appreciate the knowledge and even take advantage of it through IM.

[Spider Monkey]

The correct term is GEEK and many people appreciate the knowledge and even take advantage of it through IM.

:sneaky:

[Deerhunt1988]

I just remember playing Echo the Dolphin and some comic book game that came on our Packard Bell..And watching my bro play checkers on Yahoo! Games and then ratting him out when people cussed on there.

[bigtoyota479]

Fuck, maybe it wasn't 200 mhz either. All I know for sure now is that we got it in 1995, it was a Compaq Presario with a 14.4k modem, and it just finally gave up the ghost this last year. It lasted 13 fucking years. Lemme see if I can find it on teh intarwebz and gets da hardware specs.

[IamDeMan]

Fuck, maybe it wasn't 200 mhz either. All I know for sure now is that we got it in 1995, it was a Compaq Presario with a 14.4k modem, and it just finally gave up the ghost this last year. It lasted 13 fucking years. Lemme see if I can find it on teh intarwebz and gets da hardware specs.

Like I said, it could be 200Mhz, but it wasn't a standard Pentium. It was a Pro. Compaq made many Pro servers and workstations back then, but I don't know what the naming was on them(presario, etc)

Pros were Multi capable, I believe up to quad processors. They were the precursor to the Xeon lines and ran on a socket 8

[bigtoyota479]

In that case, no, it wasn't 200 mhz. Probably 133 or 166. I do remember it was hella expensive, on the order of 2 or 3 large.

[IamDeMan]

In that case, no, it wasn't 200 mhz. Probably 133 or 166. I do remember it was hella expensive, on the order of 2 or 3 large.

If a standard pentium then it would have been 133 as the top tier that year and yes it could have easily ran 2k if the RAM was topped out on it.

[bigtoyota479]

Actually, now that I think about it, I think the tower is still sitting over in my Dad's shop, which is like 5 minutes from my house. I have to go repair the roof over there in the morning tomorrow, so I can get some firm specs on that thing.

[Sex Cells]

MMX were the shit.

What were you using a computer for 13 fucking years for?

[bigtoyota479]

It wasn't mine, it was my folks. After my sister went to college, it got moved out to my pop's office in his shop, where he would sit and play FreeCell until the cows came home. She went to college in 02, so it was in my Dad's shop for 6 years.

Last summer, the monitor dumped, so I gave him my old one. Not even fucking two weeks later, the tower dumped, so I built him a new one. They don't make shit like that anymore.

[IamDeMan]

MMX were the shit.

What were you using a computer for 13 fucking years for?

I used my c64 for 10 years. Didn't replace it until DOOM came out and I just had to be able to play that game.