What was Your First Computer?
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by WinMonster2 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Mine was a Packard Bell
200 MHz MMX Pentium processor,
32 MB of EDO RAM
20 GB Quantum hard drive
3.5" floppy drive
GoldStar 16x CD-ROM drive.
2 MB of video memory
Windows 95
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Reply #2 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:13 PM
Mine was a Compaq 486 with little or no grunt.
1.2ghz Intel
32mb RAM
10gb HDD
on board graphic/sound
14" monitor
Win 98 SE....
Whoa, compared to what I have now, it was miniscule.... 'cept the monitor was heavier than my 1st wife. 
Reply #3 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:40 PM
1994 Gateway 2000 Win 95 System
Intel Pentium P1 Processor (75mhz - 90mhz when Turbo button was pushed, Overclocked with Graphite Pencil mark to about 105mhz)
32mb RAM
120mb 5400rpm hard drive
Floppy drive
Rage Pro 16mb Graphics Card
Loved rocking out with Doom 1/2, Decent II, Chip's Challenge, Starcraft (just barely! Min requirements were 90mhz), Age of Empires, and Nascar Racing. 
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:23 PM
A nice ol' 286 with a whopping 20MB HD. It had DOSShell, and both kinds of floppies! I played a Jeopardy game all the time, which is odd, because it only had one set of questions. It kind of turned into a memory game, rather than a trivia game, but I still enjoyed it.
Reply #5 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:35 PM
I think Rosco_P is the only one with one older than mine. So far.........
Reply #6 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:53 PM
CBM64.
First 'PC clone' was an XT..... then a genuine IBM XT .....that one had a ONE MEG ram extension card about 20 feet long [it seemed like it, anyway].
Those two were monochrome....though the IBM was at least 'green'....
Reply #7 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:53 PM
Oh, that's easy, my brain, the interface was either a pencil and paper or my eyes if I was reading, secondary interface was my ears if I was listening, which never really worked well. 
First home computer was a Commodore VIC 20. 
Reply #8 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:55 PM
Ryat....the first Computer I 'played with' was a Fortran from Melbourne Uni ... only one of about 4 or 5 computers in the country [Oz] at that time ... 1968-ish. It used punch cards for input.
Reply #9 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:57 PM
Bamboo so it wouldn't warp. Memory? Mine. Never broke down. Was beyond cool.
Reply #10 Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:06 AM
Doc...yes, I forgot the shuffle-stick.... I still have mine [it was plastic]...and my dad's...it's cane and enamel...
Reply #11 Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:19 AM
Mine was the VIC 20, made a program to keep cricket scores for the year and used the tape drive for the database, ah the memories... 
Reply #13 Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:01 AM
a 386. I'm sure my dad paid alot for it. Then I took it apart, built a 486... and so on. The rest is me building and upgrading pc's for the rest of my life.
Reply #14 Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:26 AM
Reply #16 Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:41 AM
Knew there would be older ones after I said that.
Reply #18 Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:07 AM
Quoting pacov, reply 13Then I took it apart, built a 486... and so on.
Yeah, I did that.... took it apart, not that I knew what I was looking at, but the fact it worked when I put it back together encouraged me to take apart and build more.
Finally. Someone understands surgeons!
Reply #19 Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:36 AM
I had a wonderful Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) with a whopping 8K of memory, that I purchased in the Fall of 1977. It had the "Basic" language built in. Within about 18 months, I traded it in for a "top-of-the-line" Commodore PET with 25K of memory.
Ah, the good old days! ... (and yes, I had a Slide-rule in college, but I don't think that counts, 'cause it wasn't electronic, at all ... ).
(The first computer I ever "programmed" was an old IBM Model 1620, which used Punch Cards, and a primitive computer language called "autocoder". It was in my high-school, during my senior year (1966). YES, I am old ... 
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Reply #20 Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:38 AM
I briefly used the one below but then was in the military and didn't have one for some time.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:58 PM
Apple II GS.