What was the first computer you ever owned?
Not the family computer; the first computer that was ever yours and yours only.
What was the first computer you ever owned?
Julian Morgan
Kevin Taylor
This one. Moms bought me an Atari 800XL in the 7th grade. A few months later I got a tape drive for it. The following year they bought me a 1050 floppy drive and a plotter for it. I used every dime I made mowing lawns and shoveling snow buying games for that thing. Use to go to the local user's group meetings and local Atari shows and everything.
God I miss that shit.
Isaiah Richardson
K6 II 533Mhz with 64mb RAM, 20Gb HDD and running windows 98 SE.
Christian Watson
hp dv6000
Gavin Sanders
Mine was an iBook from in I think 2003. Golden age.
Christian Nelson
...a Chromebook.
p-please no bully
Cooper Cox
Well I had the old family computers after a new one was bought but the first one I bought myself:
>Pentium III 800MHz coppermine Slot-1
>GeForce 2 MX
>Windows 98 SE and later Windows 2000
I forget the other specs. I bought the box used for 200€ and used the monitor we had for a 486. I managed to recover porn from the hard drive the previous owner had deleted.
The GeForce had very poor picture quality. It was all slightly blurry when compared to a Matrox card with no 3D parts but that didn't matter when playing TFC, CS or Quake 3.
It had a cooler like the picture.
Lucas Baker
a tinkpad t43. in glorious 4:3 . took / stole it with permission from a friends garage. played thru g2a one and two on that baby + skyped my girlfriend in secret.
Adam Martinez
First computer I actually owned was a 17” Cyberpower laptop in 2008
2.3ghz quad core i7
8gb ram
250gb hard drive
Some 256mb graphics card
Played the fuck out of runescape tell u whut. Ran me close to $2k
Landon Davis
Probably a K-2? Hard to remember. My first family computer was a Cyrix 166mhz with 32mb ram, windows 95.
Elijah Martinez
>2k for that
>all of my wat
How? You either got ripped off or bought parts during high prices.
William Thompson
486 100 MHz, 8 MB RAM
all dem bitches be mirin.
Brayden Wilson
First one I owned or first one I built?
First one I owned was a Packard Bell 486 with a Pentium Overdrive processor.
First one I built was a dual Pentium III 450 GA6BXD (Gigabyte board).
Ah, memories
Leo Robinson
>It was all slightly blurry when compared to a Matrox card with no 3D parts
um... everything Matrox made all the way back to the Millenium and Mystique had 3D engines.
Joshua Johnson
Iphone 3gs
Leo Myers
Does the Nintendo DS count? It was technically a computer.
Tyler Hernandez
What's a computer?
Oliver Powell
Seems I didn't remember correctly. The 3D feature of this card doesn't seem like anything to brag about though and I had a Voodoo 2 for 3D when I used it.
The 2D picture quality was top notch though.
Mason Phillips
A scrap Socket A motherboard with a 800Mhz Duron in it. I still use the same ATX case.
Austin Davis
Apple ][+ and a Sinclair ZX-80
Noah Scott
Old thinkpad. T series afaik, running Windows XP.
I loved that thing! Used it many many years until it eventually died from a fucked up battery, porn viruses, and a dead HDD. Could have probably been salvaged, but the thing was getting a bit old and slow anyway.
Moved on to macs after that, and am currently using the 2012 retina MBP. The new macs look like shit though. This one at least has regular USB ports and HDMI. I'll probably go back to Thinkpads with my next lappy, or possibly Purism (gotta love those hardware kill switches!)
Blake Hill
hp pavillion dv6. It was a piece of shit. Screen shattered when I put it down on the table, and dropped it from 5 centimetres above it. Shit was so fragile, I'm suprised the pressure from carrying it in my backpack didn't mangle it to bits.
Charles Perry
a surface pro 3 that i'm still using
Owen Brooks
ThinkPad T430
Luke Diaz
pic related. first computer i actually bought new. i've had many computers that were 'mine' but this is the first time i went out and bought one brand new. it has shitty specs including 64gb ssd but can't nobody tell me shit i love this thing and i've definitely gotten my money's worth out of it
will probably end up buying a refurb surface book 1 or 2 by the end of this year to replace it
Jack Reed
My dad's gateway computer that I put a p4, radeon 9200 in and upgraded the ram from 256mb to 1gb. Also put in a better power supply and a dvd burner drive. Thing was bitchin with my massive 50lb+ flatscreen dell crt (similar to pic related) that I traded for a van that didn't run, that I got for $50 from my friend's dad's work buddy. Think it was 20" although I cant remember exactly. I think this was some time around 2005
James Stewart
Posted the wrong pic related
Jace Brooks
A cheap HP Pavilion that couldn't be upgraded worth dick, but played Diablo 2 and Starcraft pretty well.
Could barely get 20 FPS on CS1.5, got it to 30 after stealing some SD Ram from my high schools computer class.
Michael Williams
Pic related, is sort of what it looked like. Good times. Remember that 56k modem starting up now.
Isaiah Bailey
Some Windows 98 I got second hand in like 2002. I don't remember the specs but it could play Runescape.
Asher Taylor
Pic related. Came with Windows Vista. The Athlon X2 and Radeon chip let me play Runescape with no problems. I was also able to play WoW at lowest settings possible @ 20FPS in crowded areas on my 768p screen.
It died of heatstroke. I knew absolutely nothing about computers then, so I didn't know what the fan going 100% for 8+ hour a day meant. I miss you Gateway :(
Logan Brooks
Our first "family" computer was an Amiga 500
The first computer I bought with my own money was a K6 233MHz with 64 MB ram, 6 GB hard drive and a Matrox Mystique graphics card. And a huge 17" screen
I forget when I upgraded to a K6-2, but it would have been in the early 2000s
Easton Cox
Truly mine?. IIRC:
> Athlon XP 3200+
> DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra
> 1GB Ram
> Radeon All-In-Wonder 9600
> Pioneer DVD-RW
> Windows XP Pro
After a while, thing started to BSOD every few hours, but still loved it. Used to burn PS1/PS2/DC games all the time with it and play CS1.6/Source.
Ian Ramirez
holy fuck, are you me?
instant nostalgia. waiting 30-45 mins for a 20 second video to download.
>30 second pfap
Brandon Morris
Jack Hill
We had a lot of family computers and the first computer given to me was also family computer, it was core2duo, 2 gb ram, amd 5450 gpu, still have it but its power supply got bopped
Asher Cox
A pizzabox 486SX. Yes, pizzabox not just a desktop and a Amiga 500.
Juan Clark
commodore 64C and later on a PC XT Clone. Never shared computer with anyone.
Lincoln Hall
Celeron 333 mhz, slot 1, 256 mb of RAM, 8 GB Fujitsu IDE hard drive, ASUS cd-rw, abit mobo..
And this PC was 1 year older than me.
Lucas Wilson
Nicholas Watson
fagget
Christopher Smith
Nigga, it looks like mine packardbell tk81 with phenom II x4 inside. And boy, it runs hot, but still runs.
Caleb Sanchez
My first computer that wasn't the family computer was this mini Alienware based on the Shuttle SB51G. I got it around 2003.
>Pentium 4 2.66GHz (Northwood)
>Radeon X700pro (came with GeForce FX5600, which kinda sucked)
>1GB DDR RAM
>Sound Blaster Audigy
>120GB Seagate HDD
It sits under my desk now and I still use it sometimes to write floppies.
Occasionally I use it for gaming. Only thing is, most of the games from the XP era run fine on modern systems. A lot of the Steam games I used to play on it no longer run acceptably because Steam has become a resource hog and all the Source games have been updated to require far beefier systems than they did at launch.
Josiah Gonzalez
Well, MY first personal computer that wasn't family's was this HP Pavilion 6746c. The damn thing would always have heating problems so bad that anything not idle, would cause it to shit itself.
So it became dubbed the "Ass Packard" by the entire family.
My dad fixed the heating problem by cutting a hole in the side of the case and adding an old delta fan in there.
Except the problem was, I couldn't play Devastation, IGI Convert Strike, UT2k4, or even Metal of Honor Allied Assault Demo (back when demos were still the shit.)
It would get about 8 frames a second, and everything were white boxes.
Xavier Young
Then my dad felt bad that I was the only one in the family that had a shitty computer. My brother even had hacked out Gateway 2000 with modern (at the time) parts. An AMD 64. Which was absurd.
So he went out to Sam's Club and let me pick out one. Which ended up being one of the greatest computers of the era. The Media Center edition.
This computer was great for everything (at least I thought it was, because it was better than the ass packard. I could at least get 25 FPS on Guild Wars 1)
Then later down the road, GW 1 started doing some graphical updates to the point where I'd get 3 FPS, so I eventually had a ATI graphics card put in.
It came with the that-god-tier-microsoft mouse that I still use to this very day.
Carter Mitchell
But the FIRST computer I BOUGHT with my own money was a rig I put together. (and I still cringe about it a little to this day, but at the same time, it was THE MOST stable rig I've ever had even today. No blue screens of death or never had to trouble shoot a single thing)
Phenom II X6 Black Edition
750GB Black
16GB Ram
2x ATI 5770
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
I learned a bunch of important lessons from that rig.
ATI's drivers would cause blue screens if I updated them.
AMD's single thread performance was just shit.
And thermaltake can't make cases for shit.
Josiah Turner
Oh, and we even made a little logo for the computer using Photoshop 4.0
I think it was impressive for back then, but of course, it looks terrible now.
John Martinez
When was this?...
Jonathan Sanchez
Fucking kek
Dylan Parker
This fucking brick. I paid like $1200 for it in late 2006. It came with a 1.6GHz Core2 CPU, a 40GB HDD, 2GB of RAM, an ATI X1400, and a 1400x1050 display and it ran Windows XP Pro.
I still have it and I regularly shitpost from it. This laptop is utterly indestructible. I installed Debian with TWM. Over the years I upgraded the RAM to 4GB, put a 64-bit Core2 Duo in it, upgraded to a 128GB SSD, and replaced the battery. I still have the original battery, and it works despite the 30 minute run time. I've beat this laptop to hell and back and it works like new.
Jeremiah Butler
Athlon 64 X2 2400
2GB DDR2 upgraded to 4
610m integrated gpu upgraded to 8500GT then to GT220 512MB
I can't believe I remember all those names, living in a shit third world country those specs made me the cool kids among nerds
That was in 2009 btw, which makes it worse
Kayden Garcia
I heard K6 or K6-2 had lots of compatibility issues. Was it true?
Hunter Price
>17” Cyberpower laptop in 2008
He jewed his parents into buying him a gayman cucktop.
Mason Gray
Didn't even have a HD.
Had to load DOS into memory then load another floppy.
Had a compartment to hold cables,
Found it in the bins behind a conference centre.
Isaiah Price
>Found it in the bins behind a conference centre.
Isaiah Turner
>Athlon XP 3200+
>ATI Radeon 9600 pro
This truly was the golden AMD+ATI era
not like when
Hudson Jackson
The Laptop that I use right now is the first thing that's actually mine.
Acer Aspire E5-573G
Intel Core i5-5200U Processor 2.2GHz up to 2.7GHz.
15.6" LED-backlit Display (1920 x 1080 resolution).
8GB DDR3L Dual Channel Memory
NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 2 GB of DDR3 VRAM.
1TB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Currently running Ubuntu on it. Had it for about 3 years now, but I feel it dying on me already. I'm not sure what I can do to see what the problem is either. I think I might get an SSD and replace my HDD with it because I'm pretty sure the hard drive is failing, but again I don't have a clue.
I also want to buy a new screen for this. I really don't think I can justify getting a new laptop yet.
Ryder Cook
It was a Dell Dimension C521 running Windows Vista.
I never personally saw anything wrong with the OS: I could play enough Battlefield 2142 on it.
Jace Roberts
Holy fuck are you me? Mine was similar but much inferior
>Athlon XP 2400+
>Radeon 9600se
>512MB DDR
The AMD Athlon XP was beastly underrated, gave P4's a run for their money. Mine didn't have a case and I turned it on touching the power pins with a screwdriver. (Learned that technique on Call For Help or Screen Savers on TechTV I think...)
Ryder Perry
My first PC was a 80mhz Intel 486dx, it didn't even had MS-DOS, it had DR-DOS and Windows 3.1, I used it mainly for homework, I was in the Uni learning Pascal and C++ programming at the time, good times.
Hudson Jones
No bully, just underageb&.
Kayden Lopez
2003, some kind of Gateway machine I believe. Played Age of Mythology and Warcraft 3 on it like clockwork
Carson Rogers
The first pc i bought with my own money was a Cyrix P166+ (133MHz), 32MB RAM, 2,1 gig harddrive.
It had a Tseng Labs ET6000 Graphics card, which i eventually upgraded to a Creative 3D Blaster Verite.
After that, Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz, 64MB RAM. Cant remember which VGA i had, but i had a Miro 3D Voodoo graphics card with 6 mb ram on it. Upgraded that to a Voodoo2 after a while.
Nicholas Gray
It was all I could afford :(
Jace Roberts
running mac os 9.1
Jose Campbell
Pentium 4 (kek) running at 3.06Ghz, with 512Mb of RAM, 80 gig drive and a Geforce FX 5200
Henry Ross
2008 white MacBook with 1GB RAM, an 800 Mhz processor, and a 120 GB HDD
Noah Nelson
Alienware X51 r2 my dad bought me. The main reason I hated it was because I couldn't swap out parts. I changed monitors twice, swapped out the RAM sticks, and got 2 external drives but I just wanted to upgrade other shit.
Nolan Scott
One of these in 2001. HP pavilion with a 15inch CRT monitor and a matching printer.
This thing was fucking awesome with it's powerful 800mhz Celeron and a massive 128gb of ram. But that wasn't all anons it also came with a big ol 20gb HDD and a Freaking CD rw drive! You could burn your own CDs with this thing!
Also had a floppy disk drive and windows ME.
800 bucks.
Sebastian Collins
vaio with 1ghz athlon thunderbird and a sick ass trinitron
Evan Phillips
Toshiba L305D-S5928.
Rest in piss, you pile of shit.
Funny, those things actually still hold up pretty well nowadays as long as you avoid Chrome and pretty much any modern application.
Top-tier shitposting machines.
Luis Wilson
>all those good specs (considering it's 2001)
>Windows ME
fucking gimped
Bentley Perry
ME wasn't that bad. It worked fine enough for the time...it's flaws were pretty overblowb
Daniel Perry
Canon 490CDS
Pentium 133MHz and something like 16MB RAM.
One of the dumbest purchases I ever made since I had no use for a laptop.
Easton Scott
i had several garage sale/flea market machines and parts before we got a family computer
i don't remember exactly what hardware they had, 286 or 386 dos machines
as for first new computer (mostly new, anyway), that had an Athlon 64 3500+, 512M ddr2-800 (had to skimp on it to start with since i didn't have much money), 7600GT 256M. reused: dvd drive, hdds, 350W psu (died pretty quickly with the new hardware though)
Ryder Evans
Compaq Persarrio
Most reliable, shit computer/laptop I ever owned. Windows Vista and could barely run games, but oh the fucking fun I had on it making stick men animations and playing Halo CE online.
God, I don't think I ever thanked my dad enough for getting it for me when I was a kid.
Lasted me 6 good years
Mason Perez
I've noticed, that shitbooks do last longer, than anything premium. Why?
I can't imagine MacBook from 2010 still working, or Thinkpa-... No this tank will work just fine, unlike modern ThinkGarbage.
John Barnes
Typically because they weren't too good, so they put more on making it reliable.
People would pay less for it, but still last longer than more expensive stuff, therefore getting their money's worth
Consumer's were happier with the product
Thomas Robinson
A knock-off NES clone in a keyboard shell, from a telemarketing show.
It came with a cartridge consisting of 80 games. It might have had a BASIC in there though I was too young (10) and being the fact that it came with no manual whatsoever and me being non American with no knowledge of English (lessons would begin next year), it wouldn't do me any good.
It didn't have any programs in bundle with the system. Everything you'd ever want to do had to come in form of a cartridge.
The 80-in-1 had some programs to make music, spelling (like it would have been useful to me) and touch typing.
Julian Butler
This little beastie.
Laptop with a trackpad. It was soooo comfy, you can't even imagine.
Specs were also not too shabby.
Ryan Kelly
A cheap Dell Inspiron that cost $200 at Walmart. I still have that thing, torn to shit. It ran GMOD at 15 fps and it was my baby.
Oliver Wright
they're like spiteful old people, so full of hate that they'll never die
Landon Phillips
Some HP AthXP prebuilt from 2004. Lasted five years.
William Brooks
>Local Atari computer users group
I thought it would be a neat bunch of people to hang out with. Little did I know going to a random Meetup on a yellow flyer posted on a cork board in a grocery store would begin my downward spiral to my permanent status of neckbeard.
David Clark
Some random Dell Optiplex, I think. Was a Pentium III Celeron, but don't know the model number since it lost all its casing when I started fooling with the internals. The first I know the model of was my Dimension 2400, the absolute beast it was. I remember going to Micro Center and picking out 2GB of RAM to max the sucker out for no good reason, and playing so many shitty Mario fan games that it's a miracle it didn't get a virus. I also changed the XP bootlogo to Garfield and installed a custom theme. I played a lot of Mario 64 on it too, though only on the keyboard. Ran like a dream. It'd still work too, if I hadn't been dumb enough to break the heatsink and throw it away.
Blake Rivera
e8400
i should have gotten a q6600 but I was an idiot
Kayden Sanchez
Compaq Presario 5441
Neat little machine. I still have it in a closet.
Aiden Gutierrez
If that had an SB Live! in it then I picked one up at a thrift store a while back, though it had its RAM stolen and its hard drive removed.
Juan Carter
Keked
Or they are too cheap to design them to fail?
>Typically because they weren't too good
Sure, they were not good, but not bad either.
My PackardBell TK81 keyboard felt just like... well it wasn't bad, but wasn't something nice feeling, like Thinkpad or MacBook (I am speaking of 2012 pro).
Touchpad - well, it has dedicated buttons, but overall it was just works.
Screen - screen is good, made by Acer's AUO, or LG. Both are good.
Cooling - loud, but unlike Apple's joke it can dissipate all 35W of heat of AMD Phenom II X4 N970 and some more heat from 6650M Radeon, unlike MacBook, that ran hot.
Battery - 3 hours when was new, now is like 20 minutes... But I guess 7-6 years is good result for battery with Sanyo cells, unlike chinks MacPuffy.
Also I had ASUS X80L (2008) with Celeron. I killed it in 2013, but It would work today, if I'd not kill it... Same sort of shitbook, but with shitty CPU.
I think those chink laptops are Hyundai Accent or Toyota Yaris of laptops, they just work.
Christopher Powell
this gateway was first I paid for, ex took it, then I just built after that
Cameron Morales
werked on my machine(tm)
I found a web page that I'd made in Aug 2001 listing all my computers, and it seems like I was already well on my way to my current computer hoarding habits
>main computer
Pentium II 350, 192MB, 20GB, Matrox G200
Windows 95, 2000, Solaris 7, Linux (probably Debian)
I remember that 20GB IBM drive because it died and I didn't have backups yet. Lost quite a bit of photos and documents there. It was clicking for a few days/weeks and when I finally decided to copy shit off it, it didn't start anymore.
>gayming computer
AMD K6-2 450, 128MB, 6GB, 3dfx Voodoo3 3000
Windows 95, NT 4.0
Not sure why this (I assume slightly more powerful) system wasn't my main
>server
Sun Sparcstation 5, 64MB, 18GB, Solaris 8
I had a home server very early on because the phone and therefore modem was downstairs and my room was upstairs
So I had the server hooked to the modem and used NAT to share it via coaxial 10Mbps ethernet to the other computers
>previous server
AMD K6 233, 64MB, 6GB, Matrox Mystique
This is actually the original system from , bought in 1998
It seems to have been running Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17
>laptop
Compaq Armada 1750, Pentium II 333, 64MB, 6GB
Windows 98SE, 2000
Dual booting with a 6GB hard drive, must have been fun
I also had an HP Apollo unix workstation, an HP X terminal and a couple 486 machines, at least one of which was my original home server a couple years earlier
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Xavier Long
>I can't imagine MacBook from 2010 still working
It will, unless it had nvidia graphics
>or Thinkpad
my T60 still going strong(ish)
Jace Barnes
>1998
Omigurrd, that's like ancient.
Leo Rivera
>It will, unless it had nvidia graphics
They all had novidia back then I think, because Intel graphics were a joke, not capable even of Windows Aero.
>my T60 still going strong(ish)
Thinkpads build before 2012-13 I think were real tanks. New thinkpads are just ideapads with nipple. And yet they cost more, than ideapads.
Xavier Moore
I second that, I remember using ME and it was fine. I think people just bitch because it wasn't really anything 'new', it was just Windows 98 with "98" changed to "ME".
John Gonzalez
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Have the same laptop. Heavy as shit but ran Metal Gear Solid V incredibly well. Probably the best laptop I've had
Isaiah Nelson
I have only ever bought laptops. All my desktops were thrown together from an absurd pile of pc parts that sits in my closet.
Ian Powell
When I had windows 10 on this laptop it could barely open chrome without a bunch of stuttering and the fans going crazy... maybe my laptop is a lemon or something. Definitley wouldn't be able to run Metal Gear Solid V
Xavier Hernandez
HP Pentium 512r, aged IBM keyboard you could hear thru the walls, 2 56k modems, Visual C++, Visual Basic, and mic for Y! Chat if I got suspicious
Cameron Parker
Shitty CPU maybe? MGSV is easy enough to run, but I managed to run it at medium settings, 1080p, and 50-60 FPS. I ran GTAV pretty well too, but that's it in terms of really intense games