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[Herne]

A Commodore 64 breadbin with orange function keys, which means it was an early model. My not comprehending this, I swapped it for a C64C as that model looked more modern and was nicer to type on. It was either 1990 or 1991 when I got this.

My first x86 machine was a Compaq Presario 5186 in 1999 with a K6-II 450MHz processor, 64MB of ram and a 6.2GB hard drive. It had a lovely, curvy case, that was unfortunately proprietary on the inside so it was a bitch to work with. Two years later I would build my first pc, a Duron 650MHz with 128MB, 20GB hard drive and a Voodoo 5 5500.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Trash-80 bros assemble

 

[appaws]

First computer: commodore vic-20

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Same for me. A lot of hours of Gorf and Cosmic Cruncher.

 

[King Al B]

Packard Bell Legend 812CD purchased at Montgomery Wards, i think it was like $2000 back in 1995.

 

[HorseFD]

A Unisys 386 PC, which looked very similar to this computer that Tom Hanks played in the movie Big.

It ran Windows For Workgroups 3.11 (and obviously DOS).

 

[CreepingFear]

There were 2 other computers in the house.
But this one was the first that was personally mine. Want to say 8 years ago.

That was my third computer and my first real gaming tier computer. It had a 9800 Pro and Pentium 4. I upgraded the ram to 2 GB's of RAM as well.

 

[petran79]

this ugly thing

Dad decided finally to get a PC since in the mid-90s they were relatively cheaper than during the 80s. Though I was PC gaming years earlier at friends, both Amigas, C64s, AtariSTs and XLs, IBM PCs etc

486sx25
4MB RAM
Cirrus Logic 512 KB ISA
40 MB HDD
Windows 3.11

First game he got was an infected floppy with Scorch and Lakers vs Celtics

Fortunately my friends brother had upgraded from an 8088 to a 486dx2/66mhz, 1 MB VGA, so the golden era of DOS gaming had began! Copied a lot of games in floppies (ARJ format, later RAR).

Though most games would run slower on mine. Later I added a sound card and a CD-ROM. Since the CD-ROM would not fit, the technician converted it to an external one, just connecting the IDE cable.

I have to say I played the best games on that PC. When few years later I got my own PC (Celeron, Ati Rage Pro VGA, Soundblaster 16) I felt ecstatic.

 

[Sectorseven]

Packard Bell POS

 

[univariate]

An IBM clone.

 

[peaceiscloser]

I think the first computer that could be called my own personal one was an IBM ThinkPad. Don't know the year, probably 2001 or so. I don't remember the first family computer.

 

[smurfx]

it was a dell with a pentium 2 processor.

 

[sixteen-bit]

 

[Doomedfool]

Commodore 128 was my first.

After that I got an 8088. Don't remember the brand and whatnot, but was super excited to finally be able to play Eye of the Beholder. At least until I kept getting parity check errors, and it was back in the day when I couldn't just try and find answers on the internet. sigh...

 

[CreepingFear]

Don't lie, that was Prince's PC.