/FCG/ First Computer General

What was your first computer Jow Forums?
Mine was pic related
>15' monitor
>Celeron 1.6 Ghz single core processor
>40GB IDE HDD
>128MB RAM
>Windows XP Starter Edition (God how I hated that shit)
>Tons of bloatware with system
>No DVD Reader/Writer, only CD
>56k Modem, average of 3,6Kb of internet connection
>If someone used the phone the connection would go down
>3~5 min to reconnect, had to use after midnight to not pay by minute
>15 minutes to boot system completely

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PC AT and Amiga 500, can't remember which was first
After that a 486 and 1200

This thread will be nice for 20 posts after which time there will be a large enough amount of variance of years at which point everyone will get into their gay little 5 year groups and the shitflinging will start on which period of the internet was the best regardless of the fact that everyone in it was circlejerking their lives down the toilet on a text based chat system

This thing on the picture, the Delta-S, a Russian clone of the ZX Spectrum. I remember drawing a snowman in BASIC and playing Galaxian on it. All programs had to be loaded from a cassette tape, I had a small pile of them, all hand-labeled.

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Nah, you never visited the old /retro/ threads, did you?

God damn I don't feel old anymore

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I had a compaq presario, I don't know what the specs were on the processor, but I do remember sifting through disgusting black dust bunnies to upgrade it to 1gb of ram so I could upgrade to windows vista. However, technically my first computer was my mom's pinstripe g3, but it technically wans't mine and I wasn't allowed to use it other than to play crazy machines and jumpstart. I made some of my first flash games on that presario and watched newgrounds porn as an eight year old

My first time using a computer was the Bionic Beaver (the nickname for the Unisys Icon, a 386 computer made exclusively in Ontario Canada that ran AIX with an educational interface called Iconix). My very first computer was an IBM XT.

I was eight years old, so I barely remember, but it was a 386 with DOS and some kind of DE where the desktop shortcuts were resizeable rectangles. Played wolfenstein, doom, and Magic candle 3 on it. This would have been around 1998, so the pc was pretty old to begin with.

they were still fairly common in the 90's, that poster was probably born in the 80's and is maybe 10 years older than us at most

I was too young to remember the exact model, but I had a shitty Compaq desktop Rocking a Pentium II. I ran MS-DOS 6.22.

Actually I take that back. My dad owned some Packard Bell with a 486 prior to that. I used it to play Duck Tales.

upgraded to 2 drives and 640K after about 1 month
$100 for 256K
so 16GB would have cost me 6.4 million dollars
not that I could have installed it

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Sony VAIO with Windows 95

Processor Pentium II (266 MHz, internal 512 MB secondary cache)
Main memory 32 MB (standard) expandable to 128 MB (EDO)
Graphics accelerator ATI 3D RAGE II
Video memory 4 MB
Display modes 116.77 million colors (1280×1024, 1024×768, 800×600, 640×480)
Floppy disk drive One 3.5-inch drive (1.44 MB / 1.2 MB / 720 KB)
Hard disk drive 4.3 GB
CD-R drive 8x reading, 2x writing, CD-R FS compatible (ATAPI)
MPEG-1 real-time encoder board Video capture function
TV tuner (channels 1-62, stereo audio)
S-Video / composite input jack
Selectable compression modes
External interfaces (rear panel) One keyboard interface
One mouse interface
Two serial ports
One printer port
Two USB ports
Audio I/O (an extra audio input located on front panel as well)
Video I/O (S-Video / composite)
(an extra video input (S-Video / composite) located on front panel as well)
Display output
MIDI / joystick port
Two modular modem jacks
Expansion slots Three PCI, one PCI/ISA, two ISA
Audio functions SoundBlaster PRO compatible
FAX modem 33.6 Kbps / DSVD / data / fax
Display 17-inch Trinitron monitor
(0.25 mm AG pitch, multiscan)
Stereo speakers with a built-in woofer
USB pass-through connector

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>17"
>Pentium 3 500MHz
>8GB HDD
>64MB RAM
>TNT1 16MB VRAM
>Windows 98 SE
>CD ROM drive
Was pretty good in 1998 but basically useless ~2001. Late 90s early 00s was one hell of a ride for computers.

I no longer have the computer, but the monitor still works and is used for a windows 98 computer that my parents still have. They use it for old edutainment games from the learning company that don't work on modern computers for my niece and nephew to play when they visit.
There is a massive book of games that run on that old windows 98 PC hundreds of games in a cd case.
Seeing my 6 and 7 year old niece and nephew playing the old windows 98 and genuinely being more interested in it than the ipads that my parents have, puts a smile on my face.
It also might be proof positive that old PCs were objectively better than the soulless tablets that exist today.

I don't remember the exact details because I was fucking 7 when I had my first computer.
>14" monitor, I think
>one of the first Celeron processors (probably between 300-500 MHz?)
>4 GB IDE HDD
>32 MB RAM
>Windows 98 SE
>3 1/2 inch floppy drive
>CD-ROM drive
>3-button, RS-232 mouse
>heavy as fuck DIN keyboard
I remember the fucker could even emulate PS1 games consistently.

Very similar to this one

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Dell dimension xps d300 win95 pII 64mb sdram cdrom floppy dial up. Played C&C alright though.

I still have one of these on a desk, It's an emonster 600
I had two other ones that I stupidly tossed
This particular platform of emachine PCs seemed to be common as shit, they where purpose built to be cheap PCs but despite that the cases are still tanks

>never obsolete
good bye e machines, you will always be a long remembered friend.

Yep, back from the time when consumer electronics were still built to be repaired and upgraded. Now everything seems to just fall apart.

486 DX4 100Mhz
16gb ram
300-something Mb IDE hdd

Ms DOS 6.22
Win 3.11

You haven't lived until you've fucked with dos driver loading until you can fit some faggot game into "conventional memory".

Fugg, 16Mb RAM

Here it is actually
Stock DVD drive and CPU fan was fubar with the stock HD is not far behind
It has its max 256MB RAM and a GeForce 4 MX440
Haven’t spent a dime on it though as all the upgrades and replacement fan has been just stuff I had
It’s not the gateway machine I had as a child but it fills the void

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>Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.4ghz
>256MB of SDRAM
>Radeon 9700 Pro 256MB
>WinXP Pro SP2
>80GB HDD
>17" Viewsonic CRT

Dad was a baller back in the day for PC hardware and this was his long-term upgrade machine that he handed down to me as the family machine/my NFS3 workhorse.

E Machines died the same year that XP was discontinued, 2013. 2013 was the end of the computer age. We're now in the shitty mobile dystopia where everything seems to be made for toddlers and retards.

my own first PC would've been a pentium 133 clone with a turbo button on the case

Had a few handydown computers growing up like the computer in

but in 2005 my dad bought me Compaq from circuit city to really call my own. Used it daily till 2012 when I got myself a Asus desktop and then replaced it with my current custom rig in 2015.

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