What was your first computer?

[tzarinna]

PowerBook G4, and I'm still using it.... right now.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

A 2003 HP,lasted until 2007.It Still works somewhat,but I just after getting it fixed twice I gave up and put in the attic.

 

[3rdstone]

I was more or less terrified of computers in the 80:s, but when I went for a second run on the university during the mid-late 90:s, I of course had to learn them. And discovering internet of course helped me get more interested.

Me and my ex-wife got a used Packard Bell as a wedding gift from my family in -97. The Pentiums had arrived then, so this 486 SX50 was a bit cheaper than those. 14 inch screen, 4Mb ram I think. Then we got a 33.6 dial up modem. I remember just D/L:ing Netscape Navigator (the good alternative to IE back then) from the university servers took like an eternity.

After our divorce I kept it, and upgraded it w/help from my brother as far as I could.

 

[Mr.LethalWeapon]

PC#: 1
Commodore 64

Exclusively mine. I played "Crush, Crumble and Chomp" on it, but it didn't get much use at the time because I was having too much fun with my NES.

PC#: 2
My father bought it for Christmas for the family.

Compaq Prolinea
486 DX2 @66 Mhz
8MB RAM
~200 MB hard drive space

This was the machine that made me a PC gamer:
Doom 2, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2, C&C: Red Alert 2, X-Wing...
...good times.

 

[RockSP]

Wasn't "mine", it was the family computer...but it was made by Texas Instruments, can't recall an exact name. I remember a few of the games we had like "Hunt the Wumpus" and a Space Invaders knock off.

 

[UltimateWebhead]

First family owned PC was the Apple IIc. My first PC was the Commodore 64. And just for sh_ts and giggles, my first video game system was the Atari 2600.

 

[Tanin]

386 with Dos 6.0 and one megabyte of ram. I upgraded it to 4 so I could play Doom!

 

[3rdstone]

386 with Dos 6.0 and one megabyte of ram. I upgraded it to 4 so I could play Doom!

Doom is probably the only pc/video game I've played seriously. It was Doom II in my case, wich flowed fine on the ol' 486.

 

[maniat123]

dell is my first computer.
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[lavegor50]

Please add the Atari 800. I remember computing on this when I was a wee lad of maybe four or five.
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[warhorse78]

Packard Bell was the first one I had, but I hardly ever used it. It was a real POS. Later, my first real computer that I actually loved was a Gateway laptop. Don't remember what model, but I had that for years until a virus killed all of my icons, and it was just cheaper to buy a new computer than to try and fix it. I've now been on my current Gateway, for almost ten years now. I'm going to have to get a new one soon. It's been pretty banged up. The laptop monitor is getting getting ready to fall off, my space bar and T key stick, I have Windows XP, which is going to be very obsolete very soon, the RAM is pretty much all used up. Yep, time for a new one. I got my eye on that Sony Visio 17.3" for under 800 bucks on Amazon. Just buy some additional RAM, and I think it'll fit the bill nicely.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Not exactly on topic, but as I created the thread...

Been suffering with various PC problems over the last 9 months or so, which had gradually been getting worse. So as time and money permitted, I renewed/upgraded several components within the case.
New SSD drive with a larger capacity (the old one had well documented problems, unfortunately not when I bought it)
New motherboard that supports i7 CPU, USB3, faster PCI-e bus and 64Gb RAM potential
New i7-3820 CPU (my research indicated I could have an intermittent fault on the MB or CPU so got both at the same time for a "belt and braces" approach)
Had to get a new water cooler as the existing one would not fit an i7 CPU (Grrrrrr!)
Then because of all these changes, I started to get power problems. PC would randomly shut down without warning, as if I had simply pulled out the power lead at the back.
New PSU of higher quality and capacity purchased. Problem vanished.
Things were looking better, although these last three months I have still been getting regular crashes, but many less blue screen ones.
Finally got around to analysing the crashes to see if there was any commonality and my findings were that the only thing that could be making me experience all these different types of crash was faulty RAM. Got some new and faster RAM yesterday. Spent some fun time fitting it(!) and so far not one program crash or blue screen, even when stressing the CPU and GPU out.

Yay!