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[dude]

I only thing I remember about it was that the OS (probably DOS) was blue with a list of all the stuff that I picked games from...
I don't remember much else, I so remember I had a 386 (it could be the same one as what I mentioned above, but I'm not sure) and later I had a 486.

 

[Always-honest]

Apple PowerMac G3. I was late.

I turned it on and stared at the monitor... didn't know what to do.
Installed Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and bought a book to learn the software.

Now i make a living with that software as a grahic designer and an Illustrator

edit: sorry, double post

 

[squall211]

First was a Tandy 1000 I think.

However, the second computer we got, back around 1992, had a 1GB hard drive. I can still remember the salesman saying to my dad "You'll never use all that space".

 

[Vagabundo]

Oh this bad boy here('82):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sord_M5

Got a basic cartridge with it and started banging away. I was seven.

 

[Jasup]

Played games on audio tapes.

Yes, this. I remember that a national radio station back here had a show where they broadcasted programs for Vic-20 and C-64. You just had to record them on a tape and you were ready to go.

 

[iapetus]

One of the first home computers available over here. You could either buy it ready-made or save money by getting a cheaper pack which you had to build yourself. It was a family Christmas present back in 1980.

The first computer I bought myself was this beauty:

In many ways, miles ahead of the competition. I have to admit the CMT OS was a little clunky, but it had some beautiful features, including font handling that wasn't equalled in the Windows world for a hell of a long time. Not to mention the fact that ARM chips were sex on a stick to code for.

 

[Ignignort]

Pretty sure the first pc I had was a very basic pentium 2, it was a old office machine that I mostly used for rpg maker =D

My family wasn't very into computers, they were for school and consoles was where the fun was!

 

[sublime085]

first family computer was a handed down apple IIe

Came with a ton of badass floppies. I especially remember a program where you could have a conversation with einstein.

 

[tedtropy]

Atari 1040 STfm:

Oh man, my cousin had one of these and I can remember typing in the code for really crappy text adventure games only to lose it when it powered off. Eventually I took the thing apart out of curiosity.

 

[SmokyDave]

Put me down as one of those that started with the magnificent Commodore VIC-20.

I still remember the first tape I popped in, it was the included tape with RACE-HOPPIT-TYPEATUNE-BLITZ on the spine. Little did I know that Blitz was going to spark off a hobby that sticks with me to this day.

 

[tedtropy]

For all the crap Packard Bell caught for their modem/sound/kitchen sink garbage combo cards and the like they actually made some nice looking boxes for the time, design-wise.

 

[saelz8]

 

[ElectricBlue187]

It looked just like this one

200mhz of godlike horsepower. The peak of human achievement

 

[ToxicAdam]

Commodore 64


I love it so much. It's entire purpose was to be accessible to the widest audience possible.

1) It hooked up to any television
2) It had joystick ports that could take Atari joysticks
3) It was easily upgradeable (fastloaders, modems, tape drives could just be plugged in).

 

[SmokyDave]

2) It had joystick ports that could take Atari joysticks.

Not to mention Megadrive and Master System control pads!

 

[Ceres]

We had some MS-DOS computer. Don't remember what model. The best was the printer.

After that was a 486 with Win 3.1

 

[CountScary]

Laser 128 (The original Apple IIe clone) with an orange monochrome monitory, baby!

Came complete with a built-in handle.

After that I remember getting a Midwest Micro PC and convincing my Mom that we had to go for the 4MB of RAM (vs. 1MB) and the 125MB hard drive. That one clocked in at a robust 10MHz and had a button to "boost" it to 25 MHz!

 

[Jburton]

C-64, got it for Christmas one year ....... best damn Christmas ever.

Started me on the path of gaming, still at it 23-24 years later.

 

[LakeEarth]

IBM 486SX with a blazing fast 25MHz processor and a whole 160 megs of hard drive space. Kings Quest 6 was the bomb.

 

[MarkMclovin]

ZX Spectrum 48k. Loved it.

Fucked up about 3 joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon though.

 

[krzy123]

This is basically the exact pc i had:

started with dual 5 1/4" floppies drive w/o HD, bootings OSes off disk.

ended up upgrading to a 20meg HD later tho!

 

[Deleted member 20415]

The Laser 128

This was an Apple II clone. It blew my mind at the time... lots of Number Munchers and The Black Cauldron on this bitch.

 

[Litflynt912]

first computer was an Apple II in elementary school (first grade I think)
then I received an AST from Radio Shack when I was in the 6th grade,

66MHz
8MB ram
2x CD-ROM!!!!!!
took it apart to see what made it tick

and here I am 23 years later, working in IT

 

[besada]

48K of computing glory.

There's my baby. Well, technically mine was gray and only had 32K, but a CoCo is a CoCo is a CoCo.

And you're pretty old for a junior.

Note: I still have one of my CoCos (a III, I think) in the closet, with disk drives, and disks, and last time I checked it still worked fine.

 

[3rdman]

Worst keyboard ever.

Learned to program in BASIC by copying programs out of Byte Magazine. Had a ton of awesome games for it too.

Wow...same experience I had...right down to "Byte Magazine"...Funnily enough, just last night I was rummaging through my closet and had some of those old magazines hit me in the head!

 

[The Technomancer]

Apple PowerMac G3. I was late.

I turned it on and stared at the monitor... didn't know what to do.
Installed Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and bought a book to learn the software.

Now i make a living with that software as a grahic designer and an Illustrator

http://www.africapc.co.za/images/G3l.jpg[img]
[img]http://www.mrmartinweb.com/images/computer/macg3bluemonitor.jpg[img]

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Ah, the Powermac G3. One of my all time favorite computers, one of the last great Macs, using my beloved OS 9 before the oncoming "dark ages". Fortunately OS X and Mac in general seem to have seriously cleaned themselves up in the last three years or so, but there was a period where I hated what they had done to Macs.

 

[Darth Pinche]

Yeah I'm a late bloomer when it comes to the gaf. 39 is pretty old around here.

I upgraded from my coco to an Atari 800XL. I now use a variety of macbooks but for surfing I mainly use a Dell Dimension 3000 that is old but for some reason as reliable as a iron axe.

 

[besada]

Yeah I'm a late bloomer when it comes to the gaf. 39 is pretty old around here.

I upgraded from my coco to an Atari 800XL. I now use a variety of macbooks but for surfing I mainly use a Dell Dimension 3000 that is old but for some reason as reliable as a iron axe.

Welcome to GrayGAF. I'm 41. Superkool up there is ancient, too.

My dad worked for Radio Shack at the time, so I started with CoCos and upgraded to Tandy PCs, although there was a Kaypro "portable" in there, too, on which I played all the Infocom games.

 

[Evening Musuko]

Holy crap do I feel young.

My first one was a POS Compaq Presario with Windows 98 and a 20 GB hardrive we got on Bastille Day 2000. It was for the whole family, but me and my sister were the only ones who could work a computer in the household.

The first one I bought with my own money is an HP g60-235dx laptop that I bought in June 2009. Came with Vista but I installed W7 not much later. It has served me well, but it's not really a gaming PC.

It also came with a HP Mini 1116nr netbook which comes in handy on trips.

 

[Zoe]

Apple IIC, some time before kindergarten.

Then one time I left the window in my bedroom unlocked and people came in and stole it.

 

[Diseased Yak]

Like a lot of you, my first was a C-64, which I love dearly and still own to this day. I never had a floppy drive for it, but instead had the audio cassette drive. I spent hours on end punching in BASIC programs out of the backs of COMPUTE! magazine, then reworking them, teaching myself programming.

I also had Choplifter in cartridge format hah.

I graduated later to an Amiga 500 and then Amiga 2000. It wasn't until I got to college when I bought my first Windows-based machine, a Packard Bell with a Pentium 66mhz cpu.

The Amiga's were the shit. I spent countless hours using them, making customized boot disks that spanned two 3.5" floppies. I remember jumping for joy when I finally saved up enough money to afford a 250mb hard drive from Seagate lol.

 

[clav]

Then one time I left the window in my bedroom unlocked and people came in and stole it.

-------

PC powered with a 90 MHz processor and 32 MB of RAM (Initially 16 MB) bunlded with an IBM Model M Keyboard, three button mouse, and a CRT monitor with VGA resolution.

MS DOS 6.0 Windows 3.11

Ran games like Wolfenstein 3D, Keen 3, Bananoid, Test Drive 5, King's Quest, and many others.

I remember the day I discovered the command: dblspace. Went from 100 MB to close to 200 MB of hard drive disk space.

 

[Futureman]

My fam always had some shitty computer when we were younger, but I guess the first real PC we got was a Gateway 2000 in 1995. I believe it was 1.06 GHz Pentium, 8GB HD, 128MB RAM.

 

[3rdman]

Just to throw another log on this reminiscent fire.

Although my parents had bought me the 400, I didn't own another computer until I made one from discarded parts at a computer warehouse I worked at...It was a Pentium I - 100mHz with a whopping 250MB hard drive and Windows 95. Weezer...

I used to play a ton of adventure games on the thing as well as classics like X-Wing Vs Tie-Fighter and others...LucasArts owned my life in those days!

 

[aku:jiki]

My first was this bad boy:

Sadly, the picture is a lie and it did not have glowy green text.

 

[basic_element]

IBM PC Clone 8088 XT 4mhz with turbo to 10mhz.
30MB Hard drive
640KB of RAM
EGA (16 colors) graphic card
5 1/4 inch floppy drive
14 inch EGA color Monitor
MS DOS 3.1
EPSON dot matrix printer


My dad bought it for me back in 1989. I loved this thing to death. It cost him like $1800 to 2000 back then which was a lot of money. I remember staying up playing King's Quest, Karateka, Double Dragon, etc..

 

[nny]

Pentium MMX 200 with 3,5 Gb of HDD bought in...1997, if memory serves me right.

 

[Houston3000]

I'll list my computers in order, haven't had that many...

1. Commodore 64
2. 486/33 -> Upgraded to 486/66
3. Pentium 1 ~ 133Mhz
4. Celeron ~ 360Mhz
5. Pentium 3 ~ 1.4Ghz
6. Athlon 64 ~ 2Ghz -> Overclocked to 2.6Ghz
7. Intel C2D ~ 2.2Ghz -> Overclocked to 3Ghz

That time between the Celeron and the Pentium 3 were rough, that computer was shit and I basically fell back on my N64.

I've had a lot of video cards, I want to say I had an ATI Mach 32 in my 486 for a long time and a Voodoo eventually. I had a Geforce 2, Geforce 3, Geforce 4200, Geforce 6400, Geforce 7600, Geforce 8800, Radeon 4850, and Geforce 450.

 

[Zombie James]

My first PC was an old IBM, like this one:

It was a loan so I could learn the basics first. More people should start learning computers with DOS. My first real, bought computer was a Compaq Presario... something (don't remember the model). It had 24MB of RAM, a 2.1GB hard drive, 166MHz Pentium MMX, and, best of all, the first time you booted up you saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKD9XAP_16k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1jnKspXHJo

 

[megashock5]

Apple II GS. Signed by Steve Wozniak, like the one pictured.

And I've still never owned a non-Apple computer over 20 years later. \m/

 

[devenger]

Played games on audio tapes.

My whole family would gather in MY room to play Jeopardy, or my Dad and I would have epic Archon matches.

 

[malingenie]

48K of computing glory.

ah, me too! I never properly thanked my dad for this! I think I will now (sob)

 

[cooljeanius]

My family had a Macintosh LC II when I was a kid:

 

[LuFel]

my first computer was an atari800xl.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I don't remember it too well, but it ran windows 3.1

 

[mokeyjoe]

Dragon 32. For those who don't know it was essentially a UK CoCo clone, it mostly ran the same software.

Had some awesome games. Downland, Shock Trooper, Starship Chameleon etc, as well as some of the best arcade clones on any system, Donkey King (lol) was pretty much perfect. I had over a hundred games for it. Loved it!

 

[Jayayess1190]

Not the first I've used, or the first in the house (that was some desktop I can't remember). This is the most important since it was bought by my mom and aunt for my brother and I. I installed all types of OS's on here (Vista, XP, some Linux distro's, Win 7 beta too I think). It was a hot mess, slow Pentium 4, loud as hell, ATI Radeon 9700, 40GB Hard drive, eventually I upgraded it to 2GB of ram. Then I sold it for a Best Buy gift card:

Dell Inspiron 9100

 

[djtiesto]

Gateway2000 P90.

Here's a P75...

Nice, and the P75 Gateway 2000 was my first computer. Received it as a Confirmation present, as I'm agnostic, it was probably the only thing I got out of taking all those religion classes as a kid

 

[Fixed1979]

Amstrad! Family Christmas gift, I could have never been happier. Got me through a shit pile of Sierra "Quest" games and long time classics like Bouncing Babies.

 

[Raist]

Speccy and Thomson MO5.