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[paste]

What was your first computer?

Mine was an IBM PCjr.  I got it in around 1985 or 86.  It had one 5 1/4" floppy drive and two cartridge slots.  Truly a gaming machine.  You boot up and you get this familiar screen:



Then I'd usually either play with the IBM PCjr Sampler* or maybe maybe first favorite video game, Boulder Dash, or some other games with hazy residences in my memory.  I can't precisely remember whether this is what I started playing around with BASIC on, though...

So what about you?  What hardware sucked you into computing?

*It had pink or purple hearts dancing around in one part and played some classical music.  Can anybody help me out with this?

[Razz]

Windows 98 I think. I feel young.

[phubans]

Haha, I think mine might have been an IBM, too... I can't really remember. I just remember that being the highly sought-after brand-name in the early-to-mid 90s. I never owned a personal computer until around 1993, when I was 12. I remember being fascinated by the rainbowy sheen of CD-ROMs, and the strange smell that accompanied them. Come to think of it... Age 12 was also when I started feeling depressed and having existential thoughts for the first time in my life   Coincidence?!

But anyways... I think it was for my first computer, but I remember needing more RAM (or so the store said) and I bought a 4MB stick of RAM for around $400

I can't believe that... What a robbery. And it was probably all so I could run some stupid game or something that may or may not have even worked afterwards. Even though my family wasn't made of money, it was just kind of accepted that computer stuff was expensive. In retrospect, I felt like it wasn't right to be paying that much for so little

Wait, how old are you Paste, that you were buying & using computers in 1985? o_O

[Kuppo]

Commodore 64.
I used to tinker around with Basic 2.0, until the video output got all screwy, and I just about obliterated the poor thing in the process of trying to repair it.

[Razz]

I didn't even know the Commodore 64 was a computer until now. (NINTENDO 64 ... ??) You guys are old

[Bood_war]

Some Windows 95 that my dad rescued from the curb for me back in 2003 or so.

[ink.inc]

We had a couple family computers, but the first computer I legitimately owned was a laptop that my dad and I built together back in 2005ish. I'm still using it. It's a solid piece of equipment.

[Riley Adams]

Dell Dimension XPS M200s, I think it had a 133mhz Pentium I, 32mb of RAM and an either 2 or 4mb Matrox video card.

[Türbo Bröther]

Microbee.

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[Μarkham]

"My" first computer was the old family one that my grandpa fixed up after my father bought the Win 95 Pac Bell we used to have.  Mine ran Windows 3.1 (not 3.11), an upgraded motherboard that ran a 150mhz AMD 6x86 processor (previously it was 486 step-up chip), and had a 400mb hard drive.  I remember saving up $100 for a 6x CD-ROM drive.  I still consider it to be the computer I have now, since I've been progressively upgrading for over 14 years now.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

an IBM-compatable 486 66 Mhz with 8MB of RAM, i don't remember the brand. it had dos 6.0 and windows 3.1

[phubans]

Incidentally, Eres is still working on that machine.

[s0]

Does this count?

Probably not the exact model. It had a first-person maze game that I play almost exclusively.

[Türbo Bröther]

At least yours had arrow keys.

[reetva]

an IBM-compatable 486 66 Mhz with 8MB of RAM, i don't remember the brand. it had dos 6.0 and windows 3.1

I had the same thing (approximately, at least) as my first family computer, but the first thing I owned was a desktop my dad and I built together in... 2002, I think.  It held until 2005 when the heatsink fell out and got badly damaged.  It also smashed into and destroyed the RAM(!).

[Squiggly_P]

TRS80 Color Computer II


When you turned it on, you got this beautiful screen:

[Ni-al]

My first computer was a Packard Bell Legend 100CD, and I still have it.

We got it in 1994, and it had a Pentium processor and 24-bit color capabilities.  Its OS was Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with MS-DOS 6.2.  It was my main computer for like five years (although we kept the OS modern, all the way up to Windows 98, the first edition), before I finally got with the times and got a new computer in like 1999, which was also Packard Bell.

[Riley Adams]

Do I get bonus points for still using the keyboard from my first computer?

[slembcke]

My dad gave me his old Apple Powerbook 140 that he used to use for work in 94 or so. I loved that thing! I made a bajillion Hypercard stacks, and taught myself to program in several languages on it. Somehow I managed to squeeze a ton of crap onto it's tiny little 40MB hard. I used that thing until 1999 or so I think. Pretty good run for a laptop.

[Gold Cray]

Do I get bonus points for still using the keyboard from my first computer?

90MHz Pentium 1, Windows 95. That's all I remember. It was an old family computer that got replaced by a newer one.