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[Rug Monkey]

Mine was an Olivetti M240 including: i8086 processor, 640Kbytes of Ram Memory , Hard Disk of 20 MBytes, EGA (Enhanced Graphic Adapter) with 16 colors, no mouse. It would run Windows 2 but not 3.0. It cost £1,200 ($1730 which is equivalent to about $4000 today eek)

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Apple IIGS

My dad won it at work.

 

[Rösti]

I don't know what model or brand it was, but I remember it being a used computer that had been at some school. It ran Windows 3.1x, not much else.

 

[neptunes]

Commodore 64? if not a 386

 

[AxeMan]

IBM JX

 

[Mohasus]

A Pentium 200 MMX.

 

[Delicious Waffles]

Some piece of junk from Gateway. It only had a 10GB HD.

 

[DeSo]

A Pentium 200 MMX.

Same.

I remember trying to overclock it to 233, can't remember if I ever did it. Probably not.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Pentium II 400 mhz and Voodoo3 2000 pci gpu, and soon after a AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1ghz, and NVidia MX440 gpu... god I loved that PC

 

[demon]

In 1997 I got some Compaq computer from Office Depot that had, I think, a 120mhz Pentium, with MMX! Whatever the fuck that was.

 

[Dr.Acula]

First the 286, but around the same time my brother got an Amiga 500 which hauled, then we got the Pentium 90 as a family computer, that led to the PIII-450 with a VooDoo3 3000! My first personal PC was the Athlon XP 2100 with a Radeon 9000.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

something like this

 

[abolisher6812]

Apple IIGS

My dad won it at work.

This was the first one I had as well.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Conpaq Persario 486DX/33 CPU. 4MB of memory, iirc. And my first game for it was Falcon 3.0.

 

[j_k_redtail]

A 386 running DOS 6 and eventually Win3.1 4 MB of RAM and a turbo button.

 

[Ryaaan14]

Packard Bell pile of shit

 

[TKM]

Our first serious PC was an AMD 386DX 40Mhz with 5MB of RAM.

 

[low-G]

My first IBM PC compat was a custom built (by a coworker of my mom):

486SX 25MHz
4MB RAM
some Trident video card
210MB HDD
13" SVGA monitor (did 1024x786 officially)

I had a computer before my IBM PC though...

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Packard Bell pile of shit

lol Packard Bell. Those things made people into Console gamers.

 

[Laws00]

I don't remember my very first PC I do remember the 2nd one we owned. It was a massive update then what he had. Or maybe it was the 3rd pc we had

i dont remember but the memories

 

[CadetMahoney]

Commodor amiga 500 + monitor

 

[crisdecuba]

All I remember is it cost $2500, had a 28.8k modem, and it could run Duke Nukem 3D.

Edit:

I don't remember my very first PC I do remember the 2nd one we owned. It was a massive update then what he had. Or maybe it was the 3rd pc we had

i dont remember but the memories

Oh! Now I remember mine was a compaq presario too!

 

[superNESjoe]

Dunno specifically but it was some sort of Windows 3.1 machine.

The first computer I remember having in our house though, was something with a dual floppy drive. The big floppies that were black and actually floppy. I never used that computer.

 

[Cormano]

Compaq Presario 486

 

[VoxPop]

Some HP Pavilion

333MHZ 64MB RAM 4GB HDD

Half-Life running at 5 fps. It was glorious.

 

[QualityPixel]

My parents got a 386 when I was 4, and for its time it was pretty top-of-the-line. Then we used it for aaaaaaaggeeees (till Christmas 1999).

I built my first computer for Christmas 2004 and it had an Athlon XP 2000+ and an awesome motherboard that had a sweet nvidia chipset that an awesome onboard sound and a Geforce 2 MX gfx. I soon got a Radeon 9500 a few months later (which soon died and was replaced with a Radeon 9600).

 

[Dishwalla]

An old Micron computer, possibly something like this.
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/micron_millennia_large.jpg

Those prices though, holy hell.

 

[Krejlooc]

An epson 8088 with dual 5.25" floppy drives and a CGA adapter (glorious 5 colors). We upgraded later to a 10 mb HDD and installed a 14.4 kbps baud modem, first took it on compuserve in 1988. No mouse. we eventually popped an EGA card in the thing. The card was over a foot long.

I still have it, and it still runs.

 

[DMczaf]

AST Computer back in 1995

 

[The Real Abed]

We weren't lucky to have a regular PC like a classic Macintosh or a Commodore or Amiga or something, instead we had a home-brew. We went through a few before we settled on the one we kept for a while. It was a 286 with DOS. They all were. After we retired it to get a Windows 3.1 PC it went into a closet until I uncovered it in the late '90s and taught myself QBASIC while our current PC was out of commission. (Like 3 weeks without internet, even late '90s internet, was horrible. But learning QBASIC was worth it.)

 

[Renekton]

486SX-25
4MB RAM (upgraded from 1)
40MB HDD or something

My stock-trader uncle got the PC to avoid paying hefty subscription to Reuters. But the generic software was so ass he dumped it and bought a Bloomberg terminal. He threw the 486 to me in disgust, wanted nothing to do with it.

1st game was Simcity 2000, immediately it needed more memory so bought sticks next day.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Gateway 2000 awww yeah.

This bad boy had like a 6 gig hard drive and something like 64 megs of ram, some intel pentium era cpu that i dont even think was pentium 2.

 

[SoulUnison]

A 386 running Windows 3.1 with a 504MB HDD.

Also, my desktop wallpaper was a picture of Spider-Man.

 

[Nosgotham]

it was an Acer desktop. it was 1996 i believe. i have no clue about the specifics other than i had aol 3.0 and it came with P.O.D. racing.

 

[Mission]

It was from a local shop. 486-DX2 33mHz if I recall. That DX2 was a math co-processor. Really sped things up. That's all the detail I have. It was 1992 or 1993.

 

[DarthWoo]

My first PC of any kind was probably a hand-me-down Apple IIc from my older brother.

My first Windows-compatible PC was another hand me down. I can't remember the specs since it was so long ago, but it was either a 386 or 486 in the double digits MHz. Don't remember how much RAM it had, but it had a whopping two ~100ish MB HDDs. I didn't even run Windows (3.11) much on it except for word processing and a couple games that required it.

My first new PC was a Dell Dimension XPS T500.

 

[User 479360]

A pentium 1 in 1996. I don't remember the brand.

 

[Mr Nash]

An Apple IIe in 1984-ish.

 

[Beerman462]

Forgive the potato image

It was an NEC I bought it in 1997. The tower was a really dark blue/black and the CD-Rom and floppy drive were in their own module that could be placed on your desk while the rest of the PC sat under.

Specs:

266MHz Pentium 2
32MB EDO RAM(I doubled it eventually)
10GB Hard Drive
4MB Trident Video Card

 

[Shaneus]

Somehow, for some reason, I kept the pamphlet:

 

[MrCunningham]

My first computer was this guy:

The Tandy Colour Computer 3.

The first computer my parents bought was this:

Tandy 1000 (though I forget what the specs were since I was to young to know)

 

[Suikoguy]

This exact model sans Monitor:

My parents had a friend make a set of rescue disks, and gave me free rein. It's probably why i'm so into computers as a career.

We upgraded it to 8MB of Ram!
And eventually added a Soundblaster CD-ROM and Card.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

ibm aptiva from radio shack in 1996, had some cyrix pr166 cpu in it

 

[kendrid]

Apple IIc. We got the mouse a year later.

My first actual PC was a 486DX2. We had a house fire and it was destroyed and it was replaced with a Pentium 60. All the computer geeks at school were jealous.

 

[Nostremitus]

It was an early 90s Packard with Windows 3.1(I think) It didn't really have 3D acceleration, but it would play select games like Wolfenstein, Corridor 7, The old Interplay Star Trek adventure game(I need to play this again... So good), and Mega Race.

 

[choco-fish]

Amiga 500, with half a MB of RAM, cost several hundred to upgrade to 1MB.
Mine had no HDD, and one of my first games, Fate of Atlantis was on around 8 floppy disks. It was amazing.

 

[LQX]

My family got gifted a system with a Pentium 2 and a 3DFX card. Did not even know it was capable of gaming until it was way outdated.

 

[Geist-]

This piece of shit. Many many many hours of StarCraft on this machine.

 

[crazy monkey]

Pentium 2 i think, 256 mb of ram, windows 97. sometime in 1998

 

[AetherZX]

An IBM Thinkpad.

...in 2009.