What was your first home computer?

[Dotdot]

1st PC was

Intel P4 1.5ghz

256mb DDR1 (i think)

GeForce 2 MX 32mb

40gb Western Digital HDD

[SIObserver]

My first "home" computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer from Radio Shack. I wish I still had it. I wrote some interesting programs with that 32K machine. I think I purchased it in 1980 shortly after it was available.

[Coagulated]

I think our first family "PC" was an Apricot PC, after that we got a Windows 95 powered beast with an astonishing 16mb of RAM - it could play Half Life and Championship Manager, so I was happy enough.

 

My first personal one was an E-Machine if I recall correctly with the dreaded Windows ME installed on it. I'd gotten it for Christmas, I'd asked for one as a joke... come Christmas morning I was told to go outside and there it was all boxed up.  Came with Rayman 3D, Rollercoaster Tycoon and that Mickey Mouse Disney art type software.  Within 24 hours the PSU blew because it had to be hard reset so many times due to a 'kernell32.dll' error that came up after an unspecified period of time, and if you kept closing it / clicking okay it eventually killed explorer.exe and crashed the system.  I used to just hide it under my task bar and continue playing Starfleet Command on MPlayer - ahh the days of being young and more so inexperienced!

[Redmak Administrators]

  On 25/10/2013 at 07:46, Coagulated said:

I think our first family "PC" was an Apricot PC

 

I used to work for Apricot :)

 

First computer was a Commodore VIC 20

 

[game_over]

AMD Athlon XP 400Mhz (or something lik that)

64MB RAM

Nvidia 8MB graphics card

3.1 GB HDD

65K modem

 

I remember

being jealous of my brothers 4.2GB HDD

downloading songs off Napster at 4KB/sec and absolutely buzzing at the speed

getting Black & White game and it running like ###### and me being devastated

only being allowed online after 6pm when it was free with BT, but deciding i couldn't wait, using it anyway, running up a large bill and my parents going crazy.

[jasondefaoite]

 

It's a SONY (or it was back then). Sony's initial offering of the MSX standard of computers.

[Tews]

Comodore PET..

 

 

[gameboy1977]

I remember I had first computer was Commodore 64 before....  until 1995 to 1997, I had MSDOS computer (cannot remember it),,,, then 1997, I got new PC had about 233MHz with 64RAM later... then gained to 128MB RAM with Windows 95, 98, and Me. 2nd PC was 900mhz & 128 RAM then now 256 RAM for Windows 98, Me, 2000 and XP, but the motherboard dead already. in 2003, I got new PC for Windows XP with 1.25 GHz with 640 RAM until 2007, then I got other Windows XP Media center 2005 with 2.0Gghz with 2GB RAM, in 2008, I got Windows Vista 64 bit on Acer with 2.50Ghz with 4GB, then switched to Windows 7 preview (test), then switched to Windows XP Professional 64 bit.

 

I really love Windows XP, and 7 so much.

 

now I am using this laptop with Windows Vista 32bit it is  very slowest for gaming. booo! soon, I will get new computer in few months later... :)

 

May the Force be with you, everyone! :)

[trek]

Inherited an Apple IIe from a relative for my first computer (1989?). It's still in the garage...

[Rohdekill]

Apple ][ +

[NightScreams]

First used: TRS80

First owned: Compaq AMD 350mhz/32mb ram/4 gig drive/windows 98se

[John.D]

First PC I had was a sega SC something, then a crap 486, which spent more time in the shop than with me lol. Then an Amiga 500 till the battery leaked in it, and killed it completely.

 

Then a P4 socket 478 system, I built myself. Then the 2 I have now (put together by myself as well). 1 2.5 Ghz socket 775 4 GB, and this one 2.8 Ghz socket 775 system 8 GB. 

[Nogib]

First computer was an Atari 1200XL.

 

First PC however was a Packard Bell 386SX/16.

[Moss Planktor]

My first computer was one of these Amstrad 464, then a Spectrum 128, an Amiga 500 (I still miss that comp), and i now have this An Acer Aspire. I have a Toshiba Sattelite laptop as well as a spare.

[medium_pimpin]

Commodore 64

[+gaburko Subscriber¹]

  On 06/11/2013 at 15:57, Moss Planktor said:

My first computer was...then a Spectrum 128...

My first one was the Spectrum 128. Learned BASIC on it...glorious times :)

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

My first 'computer' was an Amstrad CPC.

 

My first computer than ran Windows however.. I don't remember what brand it was, but it had a Pentium MMX in it. 

 

The first computer I bought myself with my own money was one I'd built myself. It had a Socket A AMD Duron in it, 1GB RAM and A 256MB Radeon X1600 Pro in it. It was okay.

[Moss Planktor]

  On 06/11/2013 at 16:20, gaburko said:

My first one was the Spectrum 128. Learned BASIC on it...glorious times :)

I learned Basic on the Amstrad,  it was Glorious times :)

[Steven P. Administrators]

England as a kid: Commodore 64 (1985)

Later in The Netherlands: 386SX midi tower (1994 I think)

[Vambo]

My first was a Sinclair ZX81, complete with ram pack wobble :s

[AJerman]

My parents, and thus arguably my first computer was a Macintosh Plus. MY first computer would have been some random 286 from a yard sale. I used to get my parents to buy me old computers at yard sales to play around with. The first computer I built was a 233 MHz Pentium based system with I believe a 3dfx Voodoo 2 graphics card.

 

Those were the days!

[king_of_hearts]

IBM Personal System (model 57, or later)

 

Not sure on system specs, but had at least a 386 processor.

 

I do remember it running Windows 3.1 (later Windows 3.11), but could have came with DOS.

 

SkiFree. This is the one application I can vividly remember as a child.

[fusi0n]

Leading Edge 386 Laptop my dad gave me when was about 7.. After that, 486DX2.. I tried installing one of those Everygreene PCI upgrades.. but they didn't really work.. My next computer wasn't for a while because I just used my dads.. but it was a AMD K6-2 500Mhz 128MB Ram, Voodoo 3, 10GB HDD.. 

[spikey_richie]

My first PC exclusively for me was an Intel 166Mhz MMX with 16Mb of RAM, a 4Gb HDD and a 4x CD-RW. The first PC I had regular use of was an Amiga 500.

[winrez]

Commodore VIC 20