What's the first computer you remember having?

Core gen-y. Very first computer I ever used was my uncle's Tandy 1000 from RadioShack that booted from 3.5 floppies. First computer my parents purchased and was used by the family was a Pionex with Windows 98. It was a piece of shit with absolute bare minimum for specs; I remember my dad reformatting it so many times. First computer I personally purchased and have fond memories of was an HP Pavilion with Windows XP. I learned how to upgrade parts inside and eventually led me to building my own.

A pentium 3 I believe. Since we are at it, what about first video cards? Mine was this bad boy

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My dad doing work stuff on a win 95 machine, Clippy seemed so fun.

Some IBM 286. I played Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on it all the time. Looking back, I don't remember a thing about MS-DOS.

486 dx, supposedly

Mattel Aquarius with a 16KB RAM expansion cart. Horrible rubber keys. Stole my brother's Commodore 64 post-haste. And get the fuck off my lawn.

remember that I bought S3 Virge

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Some high end mail order custom overclocked gaming pc in the 90's.
Got it for my best, but it was fucking unstable as fuck. Ended up returning it, and getting a Vaio.

I had a 386, and it broke somehow and the only way to turn it on was to press the power button repeatedly with a very specific timing, almost like you were tapping in morse code

Commodore 64 with a tape drive.

BBC Micro.
Repton 3 ftw.

>tape drive
The true name, "datasette", has been lost to the mists of time.

Fuck that - the original Elite.

some performa mac from '93 or '94

Macintosh SE/30
shit was fucking awesome
best floppy games ever

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Well, later when we got a floppy drive, the 5.25" floppies had "diskette" on their paper cases. I was so proud being able to "paint" by filling the screen with
PRINT" "

to draw stuff.
Guess I'm also Core gen Y.

Atari 800XL - my dads old cast off.

An old family computer. Don't know its specs except I think it was a pentium 4 cpu or that might have been the one after that. But here's a picture of me with it

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Elite is undoubtedly one of the most important games ever made, so far ahead of it's time it's scary, but that doesn't make it the best. Top 5:
1) Repton 3 (plus expansions)
2) Elite
3) Chuckie Egg
4) Exile
5) ????????? (really hard to fill this slot, so many contenders. Jet Set Willy perhaps? Citadel? Any suggestions?)

Motorola MEK6800D2.

Amstrad 6128+

Shit was cheaper than an Atari ST or an Amiga, a micro computer for poor households basically.
Based on a Zilog z80 (4MHz) and with 128kB of RAM it wasn't more powerful than a commodore 128.
It featured more colors and graphical modes IIRC and came with a 3" diskettes drive (3" disks where expensive compared to 5.25" or 3.5"ones because of their rarity).
Was also sold for the equivalent of about 800 modern dollars with a color monitor, two gamepads and a game cartridge (burning rubber, a car racing game).

The interface was just a basic prompt (locomotive basic 1.1, Amstrad proprietary basic).

I had hundreds of games on diskettes, copied from my older cousins who owned amstrads 464,so games were free, basically. Allowed me to learn rudiments of programing in basics. I loved it even if it was a previous generation computer.

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Not entirely sure, but I did have this to play. Some sort of win95 machine for sure.

This piece of shit.
I'd borrow computer books from the library or get magazines for BASIC program listings to try but I could never type out an entire program of any appreciable size in a single sitting because the keyboard was the earthly embodiment of suffering. I'd either have to leave it running or save and load back from tape and continue later.
It came with a Space Invaders cart, at least.

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REVS, the Geoff Crammond Formula 1 game, way ahead of its time.

Texas instruments TI-994a
had some good games on cartridge

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1985 C64

P1 60MHz
16MB RAM
127MB WD hard disk
8xCDROM
Gravis Ultrasound ISA
Windows 95

bought it used from my saved money exactly on 2001/9/11

I had the power button break on my 486 so I pulled the plastic out and would ram a screwdriver into the switch to close the contacts whenever I wanted to power on the machine.
Being an AT class machine this meant that screwdriver was live and had to be left in as long as the machine was to remain on.

Apple ][+, 1981

Amiga 500

being the color of shit was a bad idea, but the Atari 800XL was a killer gaming machine for its day

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no idea what model it was bcos i was super young but it was running windows 95 but the first computer that i owned was a compaq running pentium 4 with 512 mb ram that was running windows XP i believe

>that hard drive in that bentium
>and of any use whatsoever even to a hobo in 2001
doubt.arj

>parents were tech illiterate work and garden slaves
>literally couldn't program a fucking TV
>had the grand total of 0 interest in computers
>I wanted a computer
>that crap was the cheapest in a used PC shop

Ran windows 95 and played ancient game demos i got on a CD extra of a computer magazine from the 90s from a bro (warcraft 2, duke3d etc) on it all day. I upgraded to a 512MB HDD quite soon after buying it, disk was barely enough for anything.

Having or owning? First time computer I used ever was my dads C64.

And old ass compaq. Was a mentium III running 98SE. Played a fuckton of Adibou and Doom as a kid. also finished Riven on this thing. Got my first pc when I was very young too. It was a toshiba satellite laptop running XP, I was 8. Played a lot zdaemon, nes, atari, doom builder.

Some IBM Aptiva running Win95

We had another before but the first one I remember was a Dell Dimension.

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Some brand I can't remember. I do remember playing mechwarrior 2 on it though. Felt good man.

>tech illiterate parents
>still bought us Commodore when going abroad sightseeing
>still kept buying and upgrading PCs for us
and then I realized how lucky we were.
Our first x86 was a Pentium1 166Mhz with 16MB RAM and a 1.6GB HDD Windows 95 machine though.

>I upgraded to a 512MB HDD quite soon after buying it
That would have been unnecessarily expensive in 2001. Kind of like old CF and pre-SDHC cards today.

IBM 286 with black&white monitor

looks comfy

Sinclair Spectrum was the first computer I used, was my dads so was not technically my first one, I guess a C64 was my first computer.

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BBC Micro.
I admit it's been a long time since I played any Repton games, but the original Elite takes some beating, and I'd definitely rank it far above any other BBC Micro game. I spent so many hours on that game as a kid and never got bored with it.
I'll give Repton 3 another go next time I'm in the mood for old games.

>hunks of shit
You take that back right now! GX1s were legendary business machines back in the day, I had one and upgraded the GPU in it. Kinda miss it.

Some p3 machine running win98.

he probably got the drive for free or something

you really think those were expensive? They were already considered useless by 2001. THe absolute state of Jow Forums

A no-name IBM-PC clone in 1993, probably a 286. It had a monochrome screen and didn't have enough memory to install Win3.1 so we stuck with just DOS for awhile. First thing we played on it was Shadow Knights by Id software.

Thing about first computers is that when you're a kid you never look into what the hardware is in more detail. It's just a magical (and very expensive) box of modern technology that you're constantly afraid of breaking. Just loading a game from 5.25'' floppy and entering the commands to run it without error felt like playing with fire.

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I had some kind of Dell desktop, but I can't remember it well. It wasn't great. However when I was 7 I got a core 2 quad and a gtx 260 and me and my father built a gaming pc from that. I used it for about 9 years until I built another pc, with a core i7-6700k and a gtx 970.

I gave my old pc (pic related) to my best friend who doesn't have one at all. He likes it, he can play games like gta4 and emulators. Good to see that my childhood computer still lives on after 13 years.

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Some custom 386sx without a sound card in 1990
Kino

You can stop larping anytime.
The cheapest disks in 2001 were multi-gigabyte, which even a shitbox first gen penium board could use, and even if your bios couldn't address more than 2gb and you didn't know about disk overlay software it still would have been more storage for cheaper than a sub-gb drive, which by then were rarer as they died or got bought up as spares to keep old pro/industrial equipment running.

speccy 2+

I was I think 7 or 8 and got one for christmas. I know it sounds weird getting a whole computer for christmas at that age but all I did since I was 4 was play games on the family computer. It was low end in one of those dell cases your school probaby uses with windows XP on it. Would play games on it 24/7 until I got my first gayming pc at around 14 wit win7. Then I only replaced that at 21 a couple weeks ago, running Debian.

Early gen y am I still a virgin hahaha

Some Compaq laptop with a 486, 16 MB RAM, a 640x480 color screen and Windows 3.11. Actually my dad's. I made a DOS boot disk to start it with HIMEM.SYS and pretty much nothing else loaded so it could start certain games without running into conventional memory issues.
Was probably pretty fucking expensive now that I think about it.

The average new drive around that time was 20GB. If you wanted used for dirt cheap you'd probably get a 6GB disk. Going much smaller would actually get more expensive thanks to supply and demand.

my first true love.

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AMD K6-2 450 Mhz
32MB RAM
S3 Trio 3D 4MB

Muh nigga.

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iMac G3, either late gen y or early gen z depending on who you ask

Don't remember the model, but was a Compaq with Pentium 3 and 100 MB hard disk.

first computer was the Commodore 64. The first desktop computer was a IBM XT.

A white dell computer running Windows 98. I can't really remember the specs as well as the exact model but all I remember is that IDE hdd sound. It was like porn to my ears.

actual first one? not sure, first couple were old cheap flea market grabs, dos machines with 5.25" drives, that's all i really knew about them
first one that really lasted, and actually learned enough about it to remember it's specifications was;
- 486DX2-66 (intel overdrive)
- 8M ram (32M by the end)
- 450M hdd (had a 1G drive at one point, but it died, then had two 450M drives)
- windows 95 (i remember getting it because i knew it could run 95, but forget if it came with 95 already on it or not)
- 14" SVGA colour monitor (notably had a switch on it for VGA/SVGA)
- some OAK video card, 512k iirc
- no soundcard (later a soundblaster pro)
- forget if it came with a cd-rom drive, but had one installed later, 4x, then 6x, then 32x. speaking of, is it just me, or do all 32x drives suck? seriously, i never met a 32x drive that didn't suck

first time i ever played an mp3 was on that machine, possibly first time i burned a cd also

>first time i ever played an mp3 was on that machine
>486DX2-66
Probably had to be the only task running, too.

Atari ST
I was a tech hipster before any of you.

I think it was this model, can only remember it being a Compaq and having 233Mhz.

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Don't know exactly, but it looks a lot like this one. The one we had got a purple button on it.

I remember my dad coming home with it late one evening. That thing was a true adventure to 5yo me. Wish I could go back to those days.

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Core boomer. I got a Pentium I 200Mhz, 32mb RAM, 3GB HD. It came with POD and Mechwarrior 2.

tfw zoomer

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yea, the only player that could do it was winplay3, and it couldn't do full depth/frequency (16/44.1), just wasn't fast enough

I got second hand computers from companies.

Those sucked, no games, no multimedia, barely useful.

Had a 286, a 368 and a 486.

The first real one was a:

P III 800Mhz
128MB of RAM, upgraded to 640MB really fast
40GB HDD
GeForce 2 mx 400
Sound Blaster Live
DVD reader
CD-RW
56K modem (later DSL)
17" CRT

Acorn Archimedes
it was quick and better than the Amiga, just that nobody bought it.

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486sx with 4 mb RAM

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Millenial here
Buying my dad's first desktop with my parents and pirating Windows 2000 Pro on it and getting his floppy disks from work to run on it, the CRT we had and hooking up the dial-up modem which we unironically used until something like 2008 cuz shithole

Custom built with parts all obtained at a computer show from the Ohio Expo Center in Dec 2000.

AMD Thunderbird 700
GeForce2 MX
512 SDRAM
unknown 350W PSU
Unknown mobo
10GB WD HDD
Kenwood 72X CD Drive
Random ATX case
Win 98SE

A hp laptop with windows vista was my first computer, on my second hp with 8.1 still.

>512mb ram in 2000
Are you money?

The ram was star surplus ram.
I wont say im positive it had 512MB, but the only upgrade i remember making to it was toward the end of 2001 when up upped the ram to 768

Some branded 486 PC running Win 3.1.

Wait a minute, wasn't the 16K version a grey colour, and the 48K was the black model?

i relate to all of these

what does this make me

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That makes you a core gen Y. You're young enough to enjoy Pokemon cards as well as being young enough to enjoy minecraft.

I'm an early Gen Y, I kinda remember transformers toys when I was too young to play with them, but I definitively remember pogs.

Urge, as it was called in my country (or surge), and pokemon cards came a bit later, when I was in late elementary school, and the lower gen Y thing is barely something I remember. I was too old to ever enjoy minecraft for example, and I have no idea what the other Gen Z toys are.

when I was around 8 I was allowed to have an old Pentium 2 Windows 98 PC, but without internet connection. That way I got into mid to late 90s games and software. With 12 I got one of those Netbooks which were the hot new thing but this time with an internet connection and then it went all downhill for me obviously

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Hello old friend. I miss mine too. Packard bell broke my cherry too. Windows 95?

it was similar to one of these with the awful Intel Atoms so I tried to find any ways to make it run better. One guide suggested to install Linux and I think Ubuntu 9.10 was my first ever Distro

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we tend to forget how expensive PCs in general were back in the day

i recognize the faggot spanner, a friends' kid has one
can't tell what the early Z toy is, kinda looks like lego bionicle, but that's probably too old to be in that category

a used XT clone my dad bought me. 12mhz, i think. 40mb hdd, which i never got even close to filling. now i'm thinking of getting another 3tb. my first virus was ping pong.

>my first virus was ping pong.
first i remember was something that caused the machine to boot to a black screen with red russian text, no idea what it said