Your Computer Start?

[C4Tom]

Just wondering what was your first computer...

I started in 1983 on a Commodore VIC-20. Taught myself Basic and wrote a few games. Had the cassette tape drive too.

My first 'real' computer was a Wang Systems with an 8088 cpu and a 20MB HDD. Back then 8MB RAM stick cost $100

:D

[Dogsofjune]

Ran an old IBM 8088 with the monochrome screen for a bit. Back in the days of Zork. Little bit of Basic on it.

Then it was on to a 286 with VGA. Ooooooo, color pretty.

My first custom built system was a 386 dx40 with a 1 meg Trident SVGA video card runnin' windows 3.11 8 megs of ram, and 2 20 meg hd's and some off the wall sound blaster clone sound card with scsi cd rom. 2400 baud modem for BBS perusing.

After that, went thru a smattering of 486 sx 33's, dx266's, dx4100's, Pentium 60, 100, 133, 166, 200, 233.

Come to think of it, I think I have an old 20 meg hd still floating around. I know I have the 120 meg and 420 meg in a drawer somewhere.

I remember the days of playing Doom across a 14.4 and 5.25" floppies, thinking Pasqual is pretty coo.

[Hammer Head]

Apple II E (grandparents bought it for the house & I used it a lot) when I was 6/7. The I was given an old IBM 286 when I was about 10/11. I miss those days w/ the RPG computer games that weren't so full of action.. they were more like 'pen & paper' games.

EDIT: I also wrote a few games from some computer mags my cousin gave me. I wonder if i've still got them somewhere.. god, they'd have to be 15-20 yrs old by now.. thanks, Tom.. now you'd made me feel old. haha

[87wildside]

Commodore Pet with the cassette drive....

Think that's where my dislike for computers came from.

[dt4ts3]

does an Atari 2600 count? Probably not, so it was actually a Toshiba Satalite laptop in 2000. Yea that's right, I managed to avoid computers until 2000.

[bespurcell]

This is my first computer. I bought it in 2006.

[12sws27]

it was a packerd bell. it was like 150mhz or something. thats pretty much all i can recall.

[Mikz86TA]

The one I am on. =)

[XtremeZride]

My first computer, I built when I was 12 :) so in 2000. Still decent 2 gig of ram, 3 ghz pentium 4 processor, i think a radeon 9600 video card, cant remember. Built it for under 800 bucks including a 17" lcd moniter. Perty kick ass pc for that price back then.

[D-Caf]

The first computer I had access to was the one my parents bought for me when I was in highschool. Local shops custom 286 12mhz with a full 1MB of ram and a 20MB harddrive! VGA display and even an optional mouse! MS-DOS 3.x rocked! LOL

The next computer I got I purchased myself in college as a sophomore. Went all out, purchased a Quantex Pentium 90mhz, 16MB of ram, and an 850MB harddrive, coupled with a 2MB Video card and 15" Micron CRT. Doom and Wolfenstein were incredible when my roommates and I built our own 10Mbit/s ethernet network in the apartment!

[Gutling]

commodore 64, 5 1/4 floppy. made a yellow ball bounce across the screen with basic lol, that was my extent. that and the daily struggle to make games run, trying to find the file, etc.

[Akrodha]

1981 Magnavox Odyssey. Was considered one of the first "home" computers even though it was a game system. Reason for considering it as a home computer was because it had a touchpad keyboard. First "typical" type home computer was a Commodore-64, 2 1541 floppy drives, magnetic tape and a modem, and I was just a kid. Mom bought it all used for $65. I was connected to the original internet or BBS system as it was back in the day.

I now own 3 Dell D630 laptops, 5 desktops ranging from Precision 380 to Optiplex 745, run 2008 Server as my file store/DHCP/SMTP, running WinXP Pro, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate and just migrated 2008 to run as workstation which kicks vista @$$ with all the look and feel of vista with a few mods.

My career, I own my own IT repair/training center. So it paid off. Thanks to mom and that great techno start she unknowingly gave me.

[1low_s10]

my very first pc I owned was dell optiplex gx 110 that was bout 2~3 years ago!

[Akrodha]

I gave away 36 of those GX1's and GX110's 2-3 years ago.

[1low_s10]

I sold mine but it was upgraded also 100 gigs worth of hard drive...2 drives,I had 512 mb ram dvd burner

[missin]

i have no idea what my first one was i know it ran off dos and played 5.25 floppies was fun learning how to code...mustve been when i was 6 or 7...
burnt that hunk of junk in a fire i believe...
lol tiny 12.5inch monitor i thought it godly though never had anything but that and a sega genesis. till 97 rolled around.
after that i had some junk HP pavilion with a p2 with 98 128mb ram hey it ran starcraft and diablo on my old 56k modemn...that computer should never had existed lol still runs though my nephew has it plays old games on it n such of course with a few minor upgrades to gfx and hdda long with a 512 stick...its amazing what cost 400$ in 99 is worth 50$ lol

[oddball]

#1)Zenith 171 2 5.25 floppies
#2)Tandy sl2000 something 4? 8?mb ram 20mb hdd
you could get a monster 40mb hdd for a mere 400.00!

[Dogsofjune]

Well, if truth be told about my geeky background.

I was a former employee of the software corporation ENCOM, before running an arcade. I had been trying to hack into ENCOM's mainframe computer to find evidence that ENCOM's senior executive Ed Dillinger stole four video games I created. But Dillinger's supercomputer "Master Control Program" foiled my efforts to usurp anything that dictates and controls most of the computer systems.

One night, my former girlfriend Lora and her boyfriend, ace computer programmer Alan Bradley helped me to break into ENCOM to shut down the MCP with Alan's security program "TRON". But MCP uses Lora's matter transmission program and converts me into data and sends me into the computer. It was trippy.

I found myself in a electronic world ruled by the MCP and his evil chief henchman Sark, where computer programs are the alter-egos of their creators and are forced to compete in gladiatorial games. With help from Tron, a heroic and fearless security program with his lover Yori, and myself set out destroy the MCP and help Tron liberate the system from the MCP's control, for destroying the MCP is my only way of returning to the real world.

That was years ago. It was cool. I got a neat frisbee.

[The Enemy]

and what is Dan drinking tonight??????????? guess, and you, too, will win a frisbee*




*no guarantees....