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Post your first computer, and specs
>1.3 GHz Celeron "Tualatin"
>GeForce 4 MX4000
>Windows XP Pro, also later ran Windows ME and Ubuntu (Dapper Drake)
300mhz pentium 2, 32 or 64mb ram. it ran windows 98. when i was like 13 i used to format that drive all the time because windows got slow. eventually i got a better computer and used the old one to run some sort of server.. i don't remember what it was. maybe some sort of seedbox? that would make sense but i don't think i thought about seedboxes back in the day. but i do know i installed debian or something in it and had it there. i ended up selling it, i don't know why. but i always keep a secondary machine with some services running. right now it's a pentium 4 with 512mb of ram. it runs deluged and an irc server
>>55003878
I was a baller back in the day, with my Intel Bentium D 840, 2GB RAM, and no GPU because I wasn't gaymen.
>>55003878
66mhz Pentium
8mb RAM
Windows 3.11 (upgraded to Win95 and 98 when they came out).
Eventually added in a Voodoo 3Dfx gpu from Monster when GLQuake came out.
MSI MS-5169
AMD K6-3 550ACZ
3dfx Voodoo 5500 AGP
512mb PC133
Creative ISA Sound Blaster
based as fuck gaming rig killed many noobs in Halflife and CS 1.6. Still have parts of it
8 Mhz 80286
OakVGA video card with 256kb memory.
Sound Blaster (the one with the volume wheel on the back)
20 MB Hard Drive
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy
DOS of some kind and I think Geoworks (GEOS).
I used to play all kinds of old games on that like Thexder and King's Quest.
>>55003878
I was pretty young so I don't remember all the details but it was a Gateway very much like pic related. I know it had a little over 1 GB of storage.
My next one, which more mine than the last one and was very similar to yours OP. An HP Pavilion 510c with
>Windows XP
>40GB HDD
>Intel Celeron @ 1.3GHz
>Integrated graphics (later upgraded to a PCI ATI Radeon 9250)
>256 MB SDRAM (upgraded to 512)
>CD Burner (added a DVD drive later)
>>55004047
Forgot pic
![snapshot_00.34_[2015.12.23_01.01.54].png](https://i.imgur.com/lKjXMiK.jpg "snapshot_00.34_[2015.12.23_01.01.54].png")
Compaq Deskpro EN Series
pentium II 400MHz
32MB SDRAM
ATI 3D Rage PRO AGP TURBO
win98SE
Packard Bell 120MHz Pentium
1 GB hard drive
16 MB of RAM
1 MB VRAM
Around 1999 I had an intel pentium 2 411mhz. 10gb hdd 64mb ram windows 98 with one of the original geforce cards. Cost about $3000 back then with all the peripherals and office software.
Mostly played Freespace, Quake and the FF8 port.
All I can remember is
>1996
>micron?
>800 MHz
>1.1 GB drive
>16mb
Played the shit out of Sonic CD, Sim City 2000, Caesar III, Broodwar, and that S3&K pack that sega made. Even as a kid I was raging pcfaggot.
>>55004135
>freespace
Oh look I've met the one other person on /g/ that played this
>>55003878
not my first computer, but fitting since its the first time I have fired it up since like, 99. k6-2 450 with 64 meg of ram. IE 6 cant do 4chins.
still remember the day came home from school and dad had a osbourne 486 setup
333MHz Pentium II
128 MB RAM
GeForce 2 I think
Windows 98
>>55003878
Tandy
I have no idea about the specs as i was six years old. came with no harddrive but a book of programs that you had to copy into ram to play. Giant floppy discs, like 7 inches. the thing was a monster.
![gallery_27823_643_424927[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/pqDirM8.jpg "gallery_27823_643_424927[1].jpg")
>>55003878
Atari 800. This is not my photo, but I had the disk drives.
This was in 1994 and I was 10 years old. I only got to use it for a few days before my dad sold it.
>>55004370
oh, and the specs
CPU: MOS 6502,1.8MHz
RAM: 8K base, 48K max
Display: 24 X 40 text
320 x 192 monochrome
160 x 96 with 128 colors
Expansion: 4 internal expansion slots
2 cartridge slots
Ports: 4 controller ports
RGB video output
TV video output
Storage: external 90K floppy drive
cassette recorder
OS: Atari OS
http://www.oldcomputers.net/atari800.html
Pentium 100 (upgraded to MMX333, such fast)
Voodoo 2
125mb of RAM
It was a pretty good machine, ran half lile , quake and some other games, never managed to make it run max payna unfortunatley
>>55003878
2.5Ghz Pentium 4
2Gbs of ddr1 ram
40Gb Baracuda drive
Geforce 8400 GT 512mb
XP Pro with the Royal theme installed
Needless to say, I was hot shit my Freshman year of Highschool
>>55003878
I also had an HP Pavilion! I don't know the specs for it but it looked just like that. It ran Windows XP Home Edition. It came with Microsoft Works (the poorfag version of Office).
>>55003878
I just remember trying to install some dedicated GPU with my dad on some junk pre-built and he thought he fucked it up because it booted weird and he kept saying "Shit - SHIT"
Saved up a lot of chore money for that GPU to play some garbage Medal of Honor game.
I love you, dad.
>>55004332
>7 inch floppy disks
They were 5.25 inches, but you're right, they were big
i7 4770K
32GB RAM
1TB SSD
GTX 980TI
>>55004498
Were you just born?
>>55004551
buying a rig wasn't top priority on my list to things to get done. now I can finally afford it
>>55003878
Pentium-90, 16 MB of RAM, some 1.08 GB Quantum Sirocco piece of shit, and a venerable Diamond Stealth64 card. Was originally a 486DX4-100 but got board swapped some time after, either way it wasn't terrible for 1996, wonder how my dad managed to get his hands on it.
Don't remember much, I was only 2, but it was all mine. Still have the case with some shitty PMMX-166 build in it, picked up a real P-90 variant of the same system years later that I still haven't done anything with.
>>55004484
He probably had one of the Trash-80s that ran 8'' disks.
>>55003878
My dad bought a commodore 64 for my mom to do some paperwork with way back when it was still fairly new.
I believe we have a GEos disk for it, but I've never tried to load it.
We still have it (and a surplus one from the local catholic school district) along with a Commodore brand RCA TV monitor, two game controllers, two 5.25" floppy disk drives, and a collection of games burned to floppy. Pitstop 2, Jumpman(not the Mario one), Pitfall, One vs One, Artillery Duel, Pogo Joe, Strip Poker(Dad never let me play that one for obvious reasons).
Unfortunately the banana to RCA component cable is broken, and I don't have any replacements to try them out with, but they both still worked last I checked.
Almost certain this is model my dad bought me as a kid.
Dat huge ass MFM HDD
If by "rig" you mean first computer in the family I used, then I guess you mean this. OG Oric-1.
If by the first one bought for me, an Atari 1040 STFM.
First PC I owned was quite a few years later, and was a, um, surplus Pentium 75 pulled out of a skip from someone who'd upgraded to Pentium 90s. It was shit.
First PC I built had an incredibly hot-running Athlon XP, a fucking enormous copper cooler, an EPoX motherboard, a pretty high-end ASUS GeForce 4, and some Delta fans.
>>55004811
I want a 55SX badly, they were pretty much the ubiquitous microchannel system, and probably the least shitboxy 386SX-16 system you can come across.
They didn't use MFM though, ESDI was way different.
>>55003878
800 mhz Pentium 3 processor, 256 MB ram, Windows XP, was a p nice laptop.
compaq presario
amd k6 233
windows 95
2mb ati rage
32mb ram
3gb hdd
>>55004408
That's just a case
>>55003878
>First rig
>Ghz
Faggot. Underage b&.
400MHz Celeron
96MB RAM
9.6GB HDD
Windows 98
1.023MHz CPU, 8bit data bus
128K RAM
Fuck I miss that.
>>55005116
oh yeah and before this one i just was always at my friends houses on their computers
>>55005142
Not necessarily. The first computer that I _owned_ was a Pentium 4 in the Ghz range. Granted, the first computer I operated was a 386. I am 27 for reference.
>>55003878
Compaq Portable II
Pentium III 600 MHz.
512 mb ram.
40 gb hard disk.
32 mb video card.
Ran everything till 2007.
>>55003878
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
256 MB 133Mhz SDR-RAM
GeForce 2 MX 400
Windows XP
>>55005201
>The first computer that I _owned_ was a Pentium 4
So you're still in high school? That's nice. You little shit.
Using a Tandy here, but you can see part of the C64 that was my first rig.
>>55005243
like you're hot shit because daddy gave you a piece of shit 8-bit someone was going to toss in the trash
the P4 era was when computing /really/ started to make inroads into every household, it's not really surprising to see 20+ year olds who never had a computer until then
>>55005243
Nope. Mommy and daddy just didn't buy me expensive shit. That Pentium 4 was paper route money well spent. I'm actually guessing you're underage because multiple computers in a household was pretty rare back then.
>>55005264
My copy of "Programming the Commodore 64" on the shelf. Still have this book somewhere.
>>55005270
>>55005243
And for clarification, we did have multiple old dos machines, starting with the 386 I mentioned in my basement. I'm just not calling that my rig because that was my dad's. I used it, sure, and played some commander keen and king's quest on those... but they weren't mine. The pentium 4 was.
>all this talk about commadore 64
BRING BAG TERRY GENERAL
>>55004199
>winamp
nostalgia
>>55005264
This fucking guy
>>55005281
Compute! magazine and the C64 reference guide got me going. Wrote a Choplifter type game when I was learning assembly language. Had pretty much the entire memory map of the 64 burned into my brain. Sprites were awesome.
I was 12.
>>55005281
>goosebumps and programming guides
>>55004436
>P4 cpu in 1st gaming rig
Underage detected.
Thinkpad 760.
Some prebuilt with a badge that had an "RC" with a blue crown on top, it had an AMD 386 in it, and some Reveal ISA video card. The Sound Blaster inside was a huge piece of shit, and the replacement Sound Blaster 16 was the finest sound card I ever used up until the Audigy 2 ZS I grabbed further down the line
>>55003878
Pentium 100
S3 graphics.
I don't remember ram. Few megs
1gd hdd.
Sound blaster.(forgot which one)
commodore 64, unless you mean PC, then: Celeron 433 mhz, 64 mb ram, riva tnt2 32 mb, some sound card.
>>55005243
you should come and apologize for making such an ass of yourself
Celeron 533Mhz
64MB RAM
Riva TNT M64
20GB HDD
Soon after purchase RAM upgrade to 128MB because no Flashpoint for me on 64MB
good times
>>55003878
Every time I turn on my PC this was the first image.
>>55006865
that's a lot of games
Apple //e, my man.
>pentium 4 2,66 ghz
>192mb of ram
>the other 64mb were for the not-that-shitty-considering on board gpu
>40gb hd
>windows xp
That 192mb ram was suffering. Cpu overheated like crazy and I had to put the laptop on the floor if I wanted to use it in summer. It was also heavy as fuck, thanks to the CPU's massive cooler. 2/10 would never recommend.
Next year I bought a cheap desktop, which is still my family's main rig and I use it to play games when I'm home.
argh, cant find a pic of the case.
>2ghz penttium 4
>1 gig of ram
>cheap graphics card
it was quite a beast
Pentium II 366 Mhz
128MB RAM
10 GB Hard Drive
Had a Voodoo 2 in it
Miss it badly :c
AMD 386 33MHz
4MB RAM
100MB HDD
13" color monitor
1MB display card (no 3D capability)
Windows 3.11
3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives
Didn't use it much as I was rather young and my dad replaced his, resulting in me getting his old PC. Mostly similar specs but it had an AMD 486 66MHz, 14MB RAM, CD, and Windows 95 but the rest was identical.
pc xt, 12mhz (i think) cpu, 40mb hdd, can't recall mem. everyone i knew only had a 20mb hdd.
>>55003878
Dang, lot of kids here now...
486SLC-25mhz
4meg EDO RAM
105 IDE HDD
2x CDROM and SB Pro stereo sound card
(well, first computer was Commodore 64, assume you meant PC though)
- 733 mhz Celeron
- 64 MB DDR1
- 20 Gt HDD
- No GPU whatsoever...
Still regret that purchase to this day.
Don't let your kids buy market prebuilds, fellas.
>>55003878
Pentium 3 500MHz Slot 1, 64MB of RAM, TNT2. Think I had a CD burner, that was cool.
>pentium 3 450 MHz
>64 MB of RAM
>Voodoo2
>20 GB hard drive
>Win 98 with bluescreens galore
gateway 2000 p5-100 running windows 95
my cousin later overclocked it to 133mhz
Promicro case
Intel celeron 400mhz
128mb ram
8gb hdd, later upgraded to 20gb
no gpu
played Recoil (BFT tank game), Doom 1 & 2, bunch of emulator and flash games (whip the worker and bbq)
>>55009152
forgot pic
After a few of outdated secondhand pcs:
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
ASUS A7V8X
512MB SDRAM
GeForce 2 MX400
>>55006916
For you
>>55003878
266MHz Pentium II
128MB RAM
Riva TNT2 I think
Windows 2000 Pro
Used to play around with music CDs and played Crazy Taxi once. Then I got a XP machine and the only thing that was main on games were,funny enough,Pinball and Solitare.
>>55003878
Not a "Rig". But the first PC to have for myself.
Was good for what it is.
>>55010454
That's a pretty interesting machine.
Guess it had a proprietary motherboard though? Or some simple AT or ATX board?
>>55010487
Found this image of its inside.
I abandoned it completely in 2003.
But if it could take any thing ATX like, I would have loved to keep it.
It was a great case.
Pentium 1
Win98
64 MB RAM
2GB HDD
Sound blaster 16
ATI 2D GPU
Intel main board
This fucker
Minus the floppy drive
Added a SyQuest drive later
>>55010610
why do 15yo cases look like actual computers in comparison to today ones
>>55003878
>Post your first computer, and specs
eMachine
>NEVER OBSOLETE !!!
>>55003878
Holy shit me too except I had the lower or older version worth xp no graphics card. Just dog shit computer
Pentium 100MHz
32MB of RAM
1600MB of disk
Win 3.11, later reinstalled to pirated Win95,98 and Linux
Parents had 486 and even an PC-XT before that but that Pentium was first of my own.
>>55010725
>look like actual computers in comparison to today ones
Because actual technology intimidates normies.
They just want to be entertained and browse social media without being reminded about the mechanics behind all this
Macintosh Performa 630CD
>33MHz Motorola 68LC040
>8MB RAM
>250MB HDD
>Mac OS 8.1
First computer specs
> Intel Celeron
> Dedicated GPU
> 512MB SRAM
> Windows 98
Tandy 486 66mhz processor
8 MB of RAM
200mb HDD.
14.4k modem.
Took 12 minutes to download a single pixelated porn pic. Spent my childhood plays MUDs.
Man the nostalgia.
eMachines tower desktop computer
733MHz celeron
64MB RAM
I got it when I was 12. I used it for playing emulated megadrive, snes, nes games and posting on Sonic the hedgehog ezboard/phpbb forums.
I used it for about two years, during that time I (actually, my brother) fitted it with extra RAM and a video card.
When I was 14 my brother built me a new computer with an Athlon XP processor.
>>55003998
same here, except my first CPU was 75MHz and I skipped 95.
i5 34?? 3.5~3.8 ghz
gt720 2GB
8GB Ddr3
Ran league of legends with it, although being a noob i ran the game with integrated graphics.
>>55010725
muh minimalism
muh apple is the greatest
>>55010521
Should've kept it anyway, early multimedia shit like that was neat, they crammed so much weird shit in those things to make them stand out from other manufacturers.
6950
Asus x99-a II
3x Gtx1080 founders edition 2way sli and physx
128gb ddr4 3200mhz
1tb 950 pro
Windows 7 home
Pentium 133, 16mb ram, Windows 95
Eventually I upgraded the video to a Lightspeed 128, which greatly improved the performance of Duke 3D. 3D acceleration wasn't really around yet.
Then 3dfx released the Voodoo card, which used VGA passthrough. So you connected a VGA cable from your main video card to the Voodoo card. Your regular video card did all the 2D stuff and the Voodoo card did all the 3D stuff.
That combined with the fact that I didn't like the idea of 3dfx's practice of pushing their Glide API led me to buying the Nvidia Riva 128, which was Nvidia's first real 3d accelerated card. It was a single video card that did 2D and 3D, and it supported both DirectX and OpenGL.
>>55012945
Today, with the widespread of mITX it would have been a fantastic thing to keep around.
my first rig, see the cartridge at the back thats 16k up yo ass
>>55013099
Nah, fuck that, it's one thing if it's some generic box but modderfags always want to destroy the actually interesting shit. Sucks.
From what I've dug up on those things they're super rare too since nobody really bought into them.
>>55003878
soviet clone of an old DEC, ran a modified version of BSD 4.1 or 3
>>55004029
Are you me?
>>55013427
I want the shit out of an Electronika BK desu
>>55006056
i had one back in the day, 8000 series
Man what a piece of shit original MacOS was
>>55004473
Is your dad still alive, anon? Underrated post either way,
I did own a commadore 64 a black one and yes it was painted black with orange keys
I used a TV on my frist with some adapter on it.
it was the family PC and i was 5 then so didn't play anything but pacman and space invaders.
>>55003878
Philips P 3348
Intel 386 SX 25 MHz
8 MB RAM
MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11
>>55003878
Think it was a 286 and 1mb of ram inside it(would show 1024 when you turned it on)
Ahh still remember the good old Targa. To start the installer for windows 98 we had to use the floppy disk.
>Win 95
>Pentium Pro 166 - NO MMX
>16mb ram
>Some shitty 2d card
We had that computer for ages, was a gift from the kindest gramps. I wish he could see me now, all computer pro.
>>55013427
Sergey Panchul detected
>>55003878
Send price of shi- antique with floppy disks and windows 95 was too young to remember the exact model but it was rented from Sears
RIP
>>55004473
This post gave me warm feels
I'm actually building my gfs first build.
She likes things to be very pretty, so I found the Lian Li PC-O5X case for her (pic)
Anyways here's what I have so far:
>GFX: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 OC 2GB GDDR5
>CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 860K 3.7GHz
>CPU Cooler: Stock
>MB: GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI
>RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3-1866 DC - 8GB
>PSU: Enermax NAXN ENP-500AGT
>CASE: Lian Li PC-O5X Mini Tower (very pretty)
>>55018019
That should run the Diablo 2 and homeworld pretty nicely
>>55003878
Apple //c. 1MHz 65c02, 128K, one single-sided floppy drive and more software than I could eat.
Good times. Learned a lot, particularly when I bought a modem. BBS 4 eva.
>>55018032
It should be able to do a little more than that.
>>55004729
the commodore monitor was god-tier gaming monitor
>>55003878
I had that exact same looking case,man. Mine was a few years older though
>500 Mhz Intel Celeron
>256MB RAM
>Win 98
God, that thing froze so many times back in the day. Spent so much time playing Need for Speed III & Rogue Squadron 3D on it. Came with a HP monitor with speakers you mounted each side.
Athlon 64 3000+
BFG 6800GT
1 GB RAM
WinXP
lasted so long....
>>55003878
Pentium pro, 200 MHz
>64MB RAM
>Windows 98
-First computer by senpai: some ibm rectangular desktop thing with a square intel cpu in it. Ran on 3.1/95
-First one given to me: some emachines with a celeron in it. Ran on XP
-First try at building: bought a bundle with an amd xp cpu on it and ati x800. XP
-First full built from scratch: athlon 64 x2 4400, ati x1900 aiw and 2gb ram and an asrock mobo. XP
>>55020458
So close relatives are automatically a senpai now? Get out with this weaboo shit mods.
>>55003878
Commodore 64c
but first PC was a Tandy RSX 386. That was such a well designed machine.
>>55020470
Uguuuuuuuu~>>55020470
>>55003878
Had an HP like that.
>1.1GHz Celeron (Coppermine)
>128MB RAM
>40GB HD
>XP Home
Later upgraded to.
>512MB RAM
>80GB HD
>Geforce 2MX 400 (GF4 MX4000 even later)
Really miss that machine for nostalgia reasons.
i386 (Compaq Deskpro or something)
>>55004115
Same here
There is a front hatch that holds 3 cds.
3ghz pentium 4
Inboard graphics
256 mb of ram
Was a great dos box
First computer ever owned or first built? - My first ever family computer was my mom's 512mb ram HP mini tower shitbox on Windows 2000.
-My first ever computer that I owned for myself was a $300 laptop in 2011, ran Windows 7. Pretty sure it had an APU. Mobo cooked itself to death. Ran WoW at a solid 20fps except when a raid boss was pulled, went full slideshow.
- in early 2015 i put together a computer with AMD Fx 8350 (i found a cheap ass cpu/mobo combo, don't judge), gtx 960, 8gb ram Corsair 500r case. I'm going to start overclocking this baby and hopefully get 2-2.5 years out of it before I go full flagship.
>>55005226
Mein negger
>>55008760
Wow I had the exact case... but had an athlon slot a processor in it. This is the motherboard
>>55021116
Was really excited when it came... first computer with dedicated graphics.
Leading Edge Model M. Don't member the specs but it had CP/M as the OS. Still have it somewhere.... pic related.
386SX, with a turbo button that made it really fast
Very similiar
Technically a family computer. Some shitty old Packard Bell from 2002.
>900Mhz Celeron
>Pretty sure it had integrated graphics
>256MB RAM
>5GB HDD, later upgraded to a slightly older Quantum Bigfoot
>XP Home with a load of crapware
Lived happy with it for ages, later got gifted an Acer Aspire 1640Z:
>Pentium M 735
>Intel 915GM
>512MB RAM
>40GB HDD
>XP Home, later upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 (had this machine forever)
Don't know what happened to the packard bell (probably got scrapped) but stripped the Aspire for CPU gold.
nostalgia is a delusion, OP
>nobody posting that old dell conputer everyone had.
>Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
>not sure about RAM but I believe 1GB
>First GPU I ever bought was a Nvidia 7600GS 512MB
when I was around 15 I made my own build:
>AMD Phenom II x3 at 2.8Ghz
>4GB RAM
>GTX560ti (Later SLI)
>Nvidia GTX275 1GB
upgraded the CPU to a AMD Phenom II 1090T x6 later.
I'm 22 now
Build a new pc a month or 2 ago:
>i7 6700k
>16GB DDR4 2800Mhz
>waiting on my GTX1080 to arrive
>>55022972
I ment I upgrades from the GTX275 to a GTX560ti which I put in SLI later on
>>55003878
Athlon 2000+ (@1667MHz)
FX 5200 (256MB)
512MB DDR1
80GB HDD
Windooz XP
This was @ 2003. Could run most games at its time, lots of fun had with this qt machine.
>>55005152
I put a Zip Chip in mine.
Made some games unplayable.
But with the Zip and the Beagle Compiler things were really fast.
Some packard bell 486 hunk of shite..
Ran 3.1.
Pentium 166mhz. My stepdad made us get 32MB RAM and a 1.2GB HDD instead of 16MB and 2GB and I never forgave him.
Later on we built some kind of AMD Duron-based monstrosity.
133 MHz Pentium
16 MB RAM
2 MB Video RAM
Windows 95
Compact Disc Drive
>>55003878
First computer was an Amiga 500, first rig I built myself back in '99:
>Athlon K7 (700Mhz, as I recall)
>256MB SDRAM (PC133)
>40GB HDD
>TNT2 GPU (upgraded this to a 32MB Geforce 2 when that came out a year later)
Shit cost me like $1700 (Eurofag, tech's expensive here, even more so in those days)
Atari 400.
Announced: December 1978
Released: November 1979
Price: US $549.95
CPU: MOS 6502,1.8MHz
RAM: 8K base, 48K max
Display: 24 X 40 text
320 x 192 monochrome
160 x 96 with 128 colors
Expansion: 2 internal expansion slots
1 cartridge slot under front cover
Ports: 4 controller ports
TV video output
Storage: external floppy drive
cassette recorder
OS: Atari OS
I had the cassette drive and floppy drive and everything. Played Jet Set Willy, Time Warp, Fort Apocalypse, and everything available from the British pirate BBS through translator 2.
Note the keyboard was exactly like the McDonald's register boards of the day. Perfect training for the industry. POKE 32.
