what was your first computer?
Mine was a 1999 compaq presario
A hot wheels desktop with flames all over.
>>51230895
Some custom built MSI rig.
Don't remember everything about it but i know it had these colorful bubbles on the sides.
>those presario internet zone buttons
i had a packard bell something something
in 1996 or around there
My dad give us a 486 back in around 2000 and we used that thing to run Windows 2000 up until about 2006 I guess that counts as my first machine
Commodore 64 with Commodore 1541 disk drive, Commodore Datasette 1530, and Commodore 1670 modem
A Tandy 1000 from radio shack. I still remember playing the really shitty drawing games and having to boot from a 5.25 floppy since there was no hard drive.
I'm not that old, my dad was just cheap as fuck. This was when pentiums were just coming out.
1992; Zeos 486DX2-66, later we got a soundblaster 16 when my pops bought return to zork for christmas. Then a year or so later we got a NEC 2x CDROM drive.
My first computer was a Pentium 4 with 256 MB RAM and 40GB HDD running Windows XP. My dad gave it to me in 2004.
Also a 1999 Compaq Presario. There were 64 megs of ram on that bad boy and ran Hitman 47 pretty nice a year or so later.
ti99
Not gonna lie it was a Mac. The one we call Macintosh Classic today. But Macs were actually good back then.
IBM 8080
2 or 4 MHz (don't recall)
>>51230659
Hp inspiron 1000
>>51231538
Hell yes!
>>51231571
but 90's macs weren't bad, modern apple is cancer though
My very first computer
Packard bell ixtreme something
Celeron 2.6ghz
ATI 9200 SE fanless
256mb ram
updated to 1gb or ram 8 years after initial purchase
>>51231933
Intel mac gets the job done and build quality works. But i have a softspot for the wallstreet g3 powerbook Just loved the hot swappable batteries and drives you could do in it. Don't need drives? two batteries it is. Oh need a drive swap in a super disk drive or a dvd drive or a zip disk drive easily. You could also upgrade them with 3rd party upgrade cards to get a g4. Would have been my first laptop but the PowerBook g4 500 mhz titanium came out and I was like shit shit god damn. For saving up for a year for a beast laptop I was happy and I dual booted Yellow Dog Linux and OS X and then Gentoo and OS X for a long time.
This thing. It was pretty legit not gonna lie.
>>51230659
Amiga 500+
Performa 630CD
>>51230659
Not my first PC, but this Compaq was my first laptop. Used to charge it up overnight for playing AoE on the bus.
I see them at thrift stores a lot these days.
>>51230659
I bought one of those forever ago from a thrift store, wish I saved all of the '90s porno screensavers it was loaded with.
>>51230659
First computer was like a Macintosh Quadra/Performa 630 or something similar, but my first real laptop was a TP 600E. I was the shit at school.
I wish I knew then what I did now, though. I used to hate it because it was so slow, I got a new 600E a while back and put NT4 on it, it fucking flew and now it's probably one of my favorite systems. I wouldn't have been able to play games, though.
some shitty gateway with a 133mhz pentium
>>51230659
Commodore VIC-20 with some aftermarket tape drive similar to the one in pic. We could successfully load published commercial applications from tapes (yep, they existed), but I don't remember ever successfully reading any of the programs we created and wrote out to the tape drive.
this bad boy, with a hockey puck mouse and Mac OS 8.
>>51230659
Amstrad PC 1512
Custom build minitower from local computer shop in 1996.
Only complete desktop computer I've ever bought.
Replaced every component several times over, but it's still the computer I use today.
>>51233652
>dat mouse cup
I had one of those on my Amiga 2000. In retrospect, I have absolutely no idea why. I never really needed or wanted to put my mouse away.
>>51233641
Did you grow up to be gay?
>>51230659
>>51231464
Damn that's pretty shitty for that time period.
>>51233719
It's like making your bed.
People were retards in the olden days.
They did all sorts of pointless things.
>>51233779
I was about to say, that was considered a cool upgrade back then.
People just wanted neat computer STUFF. Didn't really matter what it was. "Oh, that seems like a clever solution that will really improve my quality of life!" Or, "Billy really loves computers, he'll love this!"
Basically, exactly the same thing as those retarded infomercials that get posted as GIFs these days. Good ol' fashioned appeal to consumerism.
But I dunno, maybe other people really had a lot of trouble keeping their mice on their desk while doing other stuff back then. We certainly spent longer periods between mouse uses, and likely depended more on books and printouts balanced on our overcrowded desks, so who knows...
Commodore 64
I think I used it only to play sk8 or die.
>>51233845
>People just wanted neat computer STUFF. Didn't really matter what it was.
So you're saying nothing has changed.
>>51233641
...maybe.
>>51233897
Pretty much.
However, now you can hop on Amazon and see fifty reviews that say, "my mom bought this for me, it's completely pointless and a waste of space."
>>51233933
I would never say that about a gift from my mother.
First computer was a Performa 5200 followed by one of those colorful iMacs.
I remember being about 6 years old and I would wake up at 5:00 AM before my dad got up. I'd rush to the computer and just use some weird graphics modeling program. I just spent hours making 3D cones and shapes.
It was the most joyous experience of my childhood. I even managed to get a copy of Myst and I'd have a large notebook of clues and sketches. Somehow I managed to beat the game but I remember it took me a while. I don't think I will ever feel that excitement again.
can even remember what it was i think a pentum 3 but i do remember playing EQ and it taking like fifteen minutes to zone lmfao
a ipad :)
>>51230659
Desktop - Random Pentium 3
Note - Toshiba Satellite a70
>>51230659
My first computer I called my own was a Lenovo 3000 N200. See pic.
>>51230895
Mine too, finally gave it away last year. Still have the CD holder and all the games though.
>>51230659
I bought this one in 1991
RAM 4 Mo / HD 40 Mo
>>51235004
What is a Mo?
Dell Latitude XPi CD from 1997
thing weighed a ton, but not bad.
Pentium 120 with MMX
ISA SoundBlaster
Serial ball logitech 3 button mouse
Some random beige keyboard
13" CRT 800*600
2 hdds totaling about 4.3gb
Either some Voodoo or S3 virge, I forgot.
128mb ram
14.4kbps dialup
Blazing fast 8x CD drive.
HP Deskjet 610
Oh and a Macintosh LC that I rarely used, except for CannonFodder and RISK.
>>51235017
"Megaoctet"
It's Frog for "Megabyte"
The lesser-spotted Commodore 16
>>51230659
1994 Sun SPARCstation 5
>>51235983
I fucking doubt that.
>>51235017
French for megabytes. They like to call bytes "octets", which is technically correct.
2002 HP Pavillion ze5500.
Still running strong.
An Amstrad PCW. It was given to me when a family friend upgraded to an Osbourne Windows 3.1 PC.
My dad had a Macintosh Classic II before that, but I didn't really use it.
First (family computer) had a 133mhz CPU, a 2gb hard drive and cost $2000.
First I actually bought had a 1.4ghz Athlon XP 1900+ CPU with a Radeon 9000 GPU, 40gb HDD and 256mb RAM.
An NEC Versa 2405CD with a 100MHz Pentium and some other shit I don't remember. I think it ran Windows 98. My stepdad used it as a work computer for a bit before handing it off to me. I was like ten at the time and it didn't have any games or an Internet connection so I didn't really do much with it.
>>51233719
I have one on an old compaq presario all-in-one. It actually has a point, though, since the mouse is wireless and it's nice when you're moving/storing the system.
>>51236241
people were throwing those shitboxes out left and right in the 2000s, I don't.
>>51231933
>but 90's macs weren't bad
early 90s macs weren't only NOT bad
They were the best.
I would always get hyped when my dad took me to his university's computer lab.
>>51233774
you are dumbtarded
>>51236241
he never said when he got it
>>51239465
not really. it's a professional workstation that would have cost 7k for the basic setup. not something many home users would buy.
>>51239515
They deprecated pretty fast, especially the low-end models like the SS5. Go to any collector's page on these things, they were swiping them up for incredibly low prices. He probably had a parent that worked at a university, factory or somewhere else that was tossing them. That's how I got my first computer.
> that would have cost 7k for the basic setup.
Ha, you wish. Even a piece of shit like an IPX would probably run you into five-digit territory.
Toshiba T1200XE then a NEC Versa 2000C
HDD on the Toshiba is dead, the Versa works fine.
>>51230659
An IBM PS/2 that my mom bought off of the Home Shopping Network in the early 90s.
>>51239593
at least she had good taste
>>51239556
No, you're wrong. In this catalog you can see how much it cost back then. https://books.google.nl/books?id=ljgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=sparcstation+5+price&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6wEwAGoVChMIuo-q1vn_yAIVyNQOCh1KGA1x#v=onepage&q=sparcstation%205%20price&f=false
>>51239635
Pretty cheap, not bad.
Still, by the end of the '90s you could score one of those pretty cheaply in the second-hand market, companies and universities were ditching entire fleets of them. It's of course very unlikely to see regular people daily driving one at home, but it does happen.
I think this?
A graphic design firm was going to throw it in the dumpster. But it played Worms and Realmz so I was happy with it as a babychild
>>51239494
Your dad owned a university? Shit, guess I can't brag about my dad working for Nintendo anymore.
IBM 386. mine was a mid tower. can't find a picture of one.
then a 486, then a Packard Bell Pentium 120mhz, then a custom built machine with an AMD K6-III 400mhz and a Voodoo 2 video card. That thing was a beast in its day. it had a 2X cd burner that could burn an entire 650mb CDR in 37 minutes. And it could play Quake III Arena at high graphics settings. It was beautiful.
The first computer I owned was an Atari 800, but there'll always be a soft spot in my heart for the first computer I ever used, the Radio Shack Model I. Had about 3kB of memory and a shitty cassette player load programs.
I was in college before I could afford a computer with even a disk drive (MacPlus) and I stayed with Macintosh for a while, getting a Performa and then a IIcx (5 grand). After that I got tired of buying a new computer every time Apple release an upgrade to the operating system, so I bought a Gateway, and it's all been downhill since then.
...since I upgraded my laptop from Vista to Win7, M$ is convinced I want to continue the upgrade path to 8 and 10. I've uninstalled their threatware and telemetry, but after every reboot it's back. Think I'm finally ready for a LINUX box.
>>51230659
My first own? Some shitty Compaq desktop with a 19" CRT (which I miss dearly), that I got from a friend of my dad for 10€.
>>51239839
...dad?
My first computer was an Atari 800XL my dad gave me. it had grover's space adventures
![apple][c.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QkUnNf0.jpg "apple][c.jpg")
This. My dad got a 386 around 1990 but I was never allowed to touch it. My first Windows (95) PC was a ProGen Pentium 100 MHz with a 1 GB HDD and 8 MB of RAM.
>>51233737
The first iMac was interesting in that it set a trend for bright translucent colors that many companies tried to follow even in products that were entirely unrelated. It was also one of the first, if not the first, computers to drop legacy connectors like serial, parallel, and PS/2.
Do believe it was a 496 or P1 woth 32mb of ram, 5 1/5 floppy, 100 mb hd, windows 3.1
>>51240210
Meant 486 not 496
>>51240210
32 MB of ram? Shit must have cost $5K
>>51240294
Not really this was after it was top tier shit, P2 were out so it was all second hand crap
a gateway 500s
never had my own computer, use my family pc
>>51231933
>No fucking memory protection or preemption until OS X appeared and released in the 2000's
I don't think someone this nostalgic is in a position to call things "cancer."
EzBook 700E/953E
First I used was some IBM with DOS.
>>51230659
Self built Athlon x64 pc. Shit was cash. I had ms encarta and a bootlegged need for speed game on it. And every now and then I would dial up on the internet late Saturday night and play games at nicklelodean and Cartoon Network. That pc got me though hundreds of hours of runescape and unreal tournament 1999 and 2003.
A Packard Bell with a 75 MHz Pentium.
Commodore VIC-20.
I'm so old.
>>51241211
Welcome to the main menu of Navigator.
Yeap. Me too anon. Was too lazy to get pics.
>>51231175
This
>>51233980
This was my first computer too... I still have the urge to use OS 9 from time to time even though it hadn't come out for a while after I had that comp, it was just so damn comfy
40mb MFM HD. Still have. Bunch of SCSI shit too.
>>51241345
>tfw I still unironically use OS 9 because it's cozy as fuck
Commodore 64 until 1994.
When i started to work i got a Celeron with 233Mhz, 2GB RAM and a Trident Imagine 9750.
Had to open it 2 months later to switch MB so i could OC to 400Mhz and add a Voodoo.
Thanks for making me feel old now.
>>51230659
My first comouter was a hyundai 386 (amd processor!!), 2MB ram, hd 16MB... I remeber also my first commands: cd asteroids \n asteroids.bat
>>51239514
2001. Bought it cheap with money from my first job at the age of 14.
First computer I had access to that was actually mine, ie shared with nobody else.
![plus4[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Qmmq7DV.jpg "plus4[1].jpg")
>>51230659
A Commodore Plus 4. It was one of Commodore's most ill-advised machines and most of the games were atrocious, but I loved it.
Some shitty prebuilt with windows 98.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AxDVyx4pfM
Played this shit all day err day.
Amstrad CPC6128, with green monitor. It's all I could afford those days.
>>51233719
The Amstrad PC1512 is a very basic DOS machine (with CGA graphics, and not much memory) so you don't often need the mouse. Even hard disk was an option, not default.
My aunt was using one of these, with just the two floppy drives and a modem throughout most of the 90's. Well it had a dot matrix printer too. That was plenty enough back then.
>>51233779
I used to religiously put my dust cover back on my Amiga when I was finished using it.
Nowadays I give zero fucks.
zx spectrum 16k
1981
ohhh fuk u op, that was painful
My dad bought my older brothers an Apple II, but they never let me touch it.
I just used my dad's win '95 machine to play digdug/invaders and shit since they never bought me videogames due to my brothers ruining it for me.
>>51230659
>first PC
>1999
Parents brought home a used 486 machine with windows 95. The joys of discovery and the trouble I got into for using the PC in my super young age.
Presario 1260
CPU became extremely faulty over time, to the point where Debian, FreeDOS and Windows NT can't boot because of faulty control register behavior.
Back when I was in my childhood school, the first computer I ever experienced was an IBM PC 300GL with Windows ME on it and some educational games.
The first computer that I had that was for me was built by my dad when I was ~9. Only parts I can remember from it was that it had a GeForce FX-5500 and the case was an Antec Super Lanboy.
I've still got that case in my closet along with a GTX 460 in case I need to throw together a cheap computer for myself or a family member. I've had the case for so long I don't think I could bring myself to ever get rid of it.
My first machine I used was some 1994-era Gateway 2000 machine. Earliest computer memory I remember was installing Win95 on it.
First machine I had that was mine was a Dell Inspiron from 2001, my dad gave it to me, had a hilariously massive 512MB ram (was his old work machine when I got it in 2003), 850Mhz P3, and 8MB Rage video.
used it until like, 2009 maybe
>>51230659
>1999
Digital Celebris FX-2
Pentium I 133MHz
32MB RAM
Windows 98
![HP_PAVILION_a367c_2012_06_18[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/GkhoivY.jpg "HP_PAVILION_a367c_2012_06_18[1].jpg")
this. almost the same specs except it was a 2nd gen celeron and 80gb hdd
>>51233737
Nope, a computer for the Internet age. Fun fact, that's where the i prefix comes from
oric-1
>>51233641
I just bought the keyboard last week. It even came with the shitty mouse. I used the mouse for 10 minutes and put in a drawer where it belongs.
>>51249842
I never understood the hatred for the hockey puck mouse
>>51250125
Hands aren't hockey puck shaped.
>>51250125
>small so it sucks for people with big hands like myself
>cannot scroll with it
>only one button
>short cord
>>51250242
And? I don't wrap my hand around a mouse, I hold it between my thumb and ring finger with my index and middle fingers resting on top.
>>51250275
>small
You're holding it wrong
>cannot scroll
Why? Space and Shift+Space
>only one button
And?
>short cord
It plugs into the keyboard, the cord would be far too long if it was any more than two feet
My dad and I built some awful Pentium 3 abomination together. That's when I learned that WD hard drives of the time were utter shit.
>>51230659
>Athlon XP 2200+
>Nvidia Geforce4 MX440
>Abit KD7
The was much CoD2 played on this machine.
Some hand me down machine my dad got from a friend who worked in tech at a company. All I remember about it was a 2 core 1 ghz processor that I played garrys mod on with the lowest settings. Then they upgraded the game and I couldn't run it for about a year so I started playing all my dad's old shit, Diablo 2, Duke Nukem. Good times.
Zeos 486 DX66MHz 90MB Hard Drive 8MB Ram
This thing was the shit for me in the early 90s.
Wolfensteen, Doom, LaLaLaLa Lands of LoLore with that sweet stuttering patrick stewart. Lucas Arts games from catalogs.
DOS being a thing.
Also my dad's funny as hell interactive porn cd roms.
If only shit was this simple again.
A Zenith 8088 clone with monochrome display, no printer, no modem, no hard drive and no software except WordPerfect. In 1995. I never did much with it, and I got a Mac Plus at a yard sale in 1997 which was somewhat more useful because it had a printer and a hard drive with some games on it. (But ironically, no word processing program at all.)
>>51249842
Why are these so nostalgic?
>>51230659
Around 93 I got a used PS/2 Note. Beautiful machine, still have it. Sadly the display is dead (think it's the PSU).
This bad nigra http://www.fixmylaptopnow.com/gigagon/amd/19981126_ibm_e2u.jpg
>>51230659
loved this thing as a kid. got it as a hand be down from my brother and was the same type that we used in school.
>>51230659
Compaq Presario 7AP170
Compaq Presario circa-1996 or so, pentium 133mhz with 8MB ram and 28.8k modem
>>51230659
Texas Instrument 99/4a
1981 I was 13 I made my first code with that (basic embedded in the OS).
No floppy you had to use external cassette player. Nice games also.
Commodore 64
learned BASIC and Assembler on it
>>51231538
Is than an Atari ST... showing the Amiga's kickstart screen?!
a apple II with audio cassette tape storage facility
Damn can't remember the brand, too faded to remember. But it ran Windows 95, had a CRT , and I used to kick the shit outta it when it froze, i was like only 6. Played G NOME and rollercoaster tycoon. Yea buddy
Also some sort of a Compaq Presario, but newer than the one in the OP image.
It was silver. Anyone know what it could've been?
Pentium III 750 E
128MB RAM
20GB HDD
Upgraded the motherboard and OC'ed to 860Mhz, 386MB RAM And upgraded the VGA to a GeForce 4ti4200 8x
Dem feels
A second hand PC ~1999
The hard drive must have been tiny, my recollection is just uninstalling things.
It's long gone but I recently found a boot floppy for it, so maybe could figure out the exact brand and model one day.
Texas Instruments TI-99! I had that same sweater too
>>51233597
>verkkokaupan pelimuseo
Dad built us a celeron machine back in 97 and used it til 2005 when the proc literally blew. I was sad that day. Got a p4 to replace it a few days later from the local shop.
Some old gateway macheine, it had a voodoo fx2000 gpu.
some junk running win 95, installed doom 2 on it using like 20 floppy discs
good times
then i had a macintosh laptop
then some upgraded windows and usually windows all the time up to 2015 when i switched to mac
Compaq Presario 1200 mah nigga!
had a pentium MMX before this one, later upgraded to a K6-2 but this one had a K6-2, 500MHz and just overall better specs than my desktop machine. in the end i carried it anywhere i go. highschool, etc. t'was a solid machine.
also, who needs a docking station when you have ALL those ports available?
Who /TIME/ here?
>>51265478
And this is my second PC I built in around 2003 I think. Kept the ol' TIME monitor.
>>51265478
omg this was my first computer too!
>>51265593
Windows ME, with the free scanner and webcam? Was a total crock of shite of a computer, barely ran Windows 98.
>>51230895
>>51234954
This one?
Antikythera Mechanism
Ti-84
>>51230659
Amstrad CPC 464 with the Color Modulator for your TV, some time in the mid Eighties.
>>51230659
I still have to use one of those at my job. Nobody wants to move the software on it to another machine.Fucking dispicable.
>>51265286
Why is your wallpaper gomunisd?
>>51265478
I had a TIME 953E with the screen from an EzBook.
Was TIME just a rebrand of CTX products?
>>51231175
This, minus the disk drive and the modem.
Had some nice carts though.
My first shitbox was a PI 133 that had that magic turbo button to boost that SOB to 166. It had 32MB of EDO RAM which I kept trying to upgrade to 64 but could never find the right sticks. Obviously a floppy drive but I added a CD writer to it. It had 2 hard disks, one 512MB which dual booted Red Hat 5.1 iirc and Win98, the other was 4GB for data.
Mind you this was in 2004, but that POS got me hooked on building and computer repair. I got a dual CPU PIII 800 after that and wanted to build an AMD setup but couldnt afford it.
>>51230659
I don't remember what it looked like exactly but something like this.
>>51232160
They stole that from IBM though.
>>51230659
Never had one but I have a special soft spot for this thing.
