What Was Your First Computer?

Steve Jobs' death got me thinking about the first computer I ever owned.

My first computer was a Macintosh Classic. I just fired it up... and it works perfectly. I have fond memories of it (although very few.) I remember playing Shadowgate, Dark Castle and Pirates on it. Also has an Acorn Electron at the same time, which I remember playing Monsters and Bandits at 3 O'clock on. Good times.

What about your first computer(s)? And what are your first memories using it.

I've never been that interested in the name of the computers. All I remember is that it was a Dell running Windows 95. My mother and her friends upgraded it Window 98 when that came out.

It had TriPeaks on it and we had it in the basement so it could tap into the phone line for internet access. I always sat on the chair with my feet under my thighs because we had spiders down there and I didn't want them crawling on my feet.

It's the only computer I've ever owned that I know the name of. Simply because Macs are released more like games consoles... And on the front of the computer it says "Macintosh Classic".

I only know the makes of subsequent PCs. (Viglin, Dell, Toshiba, HP, Sony, Samsung, Gateway, Acer) Not their models.

mine was a dell in 96.

thanks to that "dude, your gettin' a dell." dude. fast foward to today, i'll never buy a premanufactured pc again. it's the worst ripoff. i'll just built it myself from now on like i just did about a month ago.

I hear you there. I've had nothing but trouble with my last 3 PCs... I will be building my next computer.

Mine was a 2003 Compaq which i brought from PC World for around £300, i still have the monitor to this day.

I don't remember the names, but I do remember booting stuff through DOS as a kid... even before they had those buttons that shifted between 32/64 bit

never owned a Mac...

My brain: great for visuals, less so for calculations.

The pimp strikes again! 😉 anyway my first computer or I should say my dad's was an Apple. I kind of miss those.

An Intel 486 with Windows 3.0, later with 95.

My first PC a generic brand running Windows 95.

It's still with me and displayed in one of our bedrooms, but I no longer use it.

I don't remember the computer but windows 95 was the OS.

Windows 95. ermm

Sony Vaio w/ a 1.0ghz Pentium 1, 8mb of ram and Windows 95, paid a bit over a grand for it.

I get free comps or build my own now, mostly free.

I don't remember our first computer because I was like 4-5 when we had it, but our second computer was an HP Pavilion.

it was Commodore C64 we got in '87 i guess

Mine was a very old computer. I don't remember the name/brand because I was too young. However, it booted MS-DOS 2.x on it. That's where I learned all my DOS commands and learned how to play games. It used the the ol' 8 Inch floppy disk format. Lotus 123, anyone? It also could run Word Perfect (I did some homework assignments using WP...those were the days) and this Unicode centipede game...which I played the most.

Next up was a computer that had a turbo button. I believe it went from 8 Mhz to 12 Mhz on its clock speed. That computer ran Windows 3.11.

Next was a computer that ran at 120 Mhz. Lots of fun games on that like Wolfenstein 3D and Blake Stone. It was a powerhouse PC that run Windows 95 and later Windows 98. I remember being proud of it...until Intel went crazy. We were poor, but my father got cmoputer parts from his employer to build PCs with.

My second (got for free) was a Pentium 3 @ 500mhz with something like 256mb ram, a 10gig Hard-Drive and ran Windows 2000. I was amazed at how much faster this was than my P1 100mhz.

My second computer was ran on Windows 3.1. Don't remember much about it... only that it didn't have sound.

After that I had a Windows 95, Pentium @ 133mhz... I remember being amazed because it had like 2gb hdd space.

Didn't get another desktop until XP after that though.

Originally posted by parenthesis
Windows 95. ermm