Your First Computer!

[Triadcool]

What windows version did your first computer have and how much did it cost?




Mine was a 25 dollar computer and it had windows 3.1 ..... How about yours?

[h121589]

my first computer wuz a Compaq Windows 95 or 98 it cost about $800

[h121589]

Originally posted by Triadcool@2 March 2004 - 23:06
Mine was a 25 dollar computer and it had windows 3.1 ..... How about yours?
:blink:

[LSA]

I remember when I was like 4 or 5, maybe less, and I had an old DOS laptop. Didn't really know how to use though :lol: I just played little games with it.

[vampiro]

windows 3.1 for me n bout £500

[h1]

:lol: Windows... ha! My first comp was an Apple ][. :w00t:

[4play]

my first was a sinclair 128 and it was so crap at loading the tapes that i sometimes wrote the programs out since it was quicker. :01:

[100%]

Bought off newspaper article

obviously stolen
the guy who sold it didnt look like an english histroy book translator.....

still works-smoothly

Toshiba
300mgz
$180

[quiksilver_aus]

my first was given to me by my dad...

a dell laptop with win3.1, battery lasted 2 minutes, monochromatic lcd

it was fun to play with :D

[shn]

A SPARCbook with Solaris o.s. :)

[Robert00000]

cyrix 300mhz with windows 95. It cost £200 ($300)

[ck-uk]

spectrum 16k with the rubber buttons and one game caterpillars :)

[NightStalker]

I believe my first computer was not a name brand, with Windows 95 installed. I got it from a friend for $500 :blink:

[Monkeee]

myn was like 1,000$

Windows 98 (First Edition)
500 MHZ
128 RAM
8 Meg Video

yep it was the crappiest comp yet! :music1:

[tesco]

my first is in my specs except it didnt ahve teh 20gb hard drive or teh 256mb ram, had 64mb. and it was windows 98.

cost like $1,600. ripoff i know, but i knew nothing bout computers at that time.

[bigdawgfoxx]

first one was some pos my dad had...32mb ram, like 300mhz MAYBE 2gb hdd.....pos.....duno how much it cost, i think like 1200 or so..cuz he bought it right when it came out brand new haha...ran Windows 95....worst o/s ever!

[Mullyman]

number 2 h/b pencil and binder paper...total cost 23cents B)

[Smurfette]

Commodore VIC-20.
£130.

[neevakee]

i think it was about $1500
it was a 486 25
8 or 4 mb ram
approximatley 300mb hard drive
a 14" monitor 480x640
5.25 disk drive
3.5 disk drive
windows 3.1

No sound card or cd rom

[Shiranai_Baka]

My first one was a Packard Bell I bought from Comp USA. Cost $3k
win 95
100mhz
32mb ram
3 gig hd
4x cd rom
not sure about vid card..

was a monster back in 96.. LOL...

[abu_has_the_power]

my first computer was around $500-800 ish. i built it with my dad when i was in 4th grade. i think i was 8-9 ish. i had windows 95 on it

[Skillian]

The classic ZX Spectrum:

http://www.fitg.de/images/pc20j/r13.jpg

No idea how much it cost though.

[Evil Gemini]

mine was a super fast 100mhz, a whopping 16mb of ram and an unlimated amoun of disk space (500mb) and it ran 95 :lol:

[h1]

Originally posted by Evil Gemini@2 March 2004 - 23:20
mine was a super fast 100mhz, a whopping 16mb of ram and an unlimated amoun of disk space (500mb) and it ran 95 :lol:
Unlimited? I had disks in the Ks...

[Keikan]

Unfortunately this is my first computer running windows 98......


What I'm young.

Tho I did have a computer when I was 5 or 6 but I never used it. It has win95.
It was a cyrix I think.

[I.am]

Originally posted by Keikan@2 March 2004 - 22:44
Unfortunately this is my first computer running windows 98......


What I'm young.

Tho I did have a computer when I was 5 or 6 but I never used it. It has win95.
It was a cyrix I think.
how old r u now :lol:

You had win 95 at 5-6 yrs of age and ur still stuck at win 98 :lol: Microsoft improved in 3 years what were u doing? :lol: :lol:

[skelley521]

Commadore 64

I waited until it came out...passed on getting the vic-20 or radio shacks TRS-80.

[delphin460]

my first real comp had only dos, and was an orig ibm, lol , but my first real comp was an atari 1027 i used for music, man i still got it and it still works, great sequencer

[uNz[i]]

I don't know what it was... the first ever computer I had access to was at the local weapons research facility.
I never got to actually see it.

The computer club I belonged to in the early '80's had 30 minutes access to the mystery machine once every two weeks.

Club members spent about 2 hours per meeting making up punchcards to printout ascii text pictures and calendars because thats all we were allowed to do. :lol:

[j4y3m]

My first computer ran Windows 98(FE) and had these specs...

Motherboard: ???
Processor: 600MHz
RAM: 64MB
Hard Drive: 4GB
Video Card: ???(Shit)

Edit... It cost £600 I think I was riped off. :angry:

[Storm]

Originally posted by Triadcool@3 March 2004 - 00:06
What windows version did your first computer have and how much did it cost?
the first comp i had didnt have windows........ nor dit it cost anything....... it was a present from my grandparents.....

a DOS laptop........ less memory than a floppy (640KB), HDD smaller than your video cards memory (5MB) and an amazing 2 colors!!!! (though we did have diffrent shades of blue)............

the days of having to hit
c:\games\tetris\tetris to start a game..........

but at least it dint crash as often as windows does.......... (though multitasking was kinda impossible)............

[Evil Gemini]

Originally posted by stupidguy@3 March 2004 - 14:53
My first computer ran Windows 98(FE)
WTF is windows 98 (FE) ??

[j4y3m]

First Edition... :lol:

[Ben Hayes]

lol use to just use mac, macs are so much more stable because they didn't just release the source code so that anyone could make programs for them. but microsoft has many more games so i swiched, bought a $3000 CND computer three years ago, its got 1.7 pentium 4, 512 SD, and 64MB Gforce 2 GRX card. win xp

[Amarjit]

Windows 95, with 16-32MB of RAM. Very unreliable and plain crap with the sub 1GB HDD.

[Keikan]

Originally posted by I.am+3 March 2004 - 00:06--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (I.am @ 3 March 2004 - 00:06)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Keikan@2 March 2004 - 22:44
Unfortunately this is my first computer running windows 98......


What I&#39;m young.

Tho I did have a computer when I was 5 or 6 but I never used it. It has win95.
It was a cyrix I think.
how old r u now :lol:

You had win 95 at 5-6 yrs of age and ur still stuck at win 98 :lol: Microsoft improved in 3 years what were u doing? :lol: :lol: [/b][/quote]
I&#39;m 14 now, THis is my first comp but I upgraded to Windows 2000

[SingaBoiy]

Im still using my first computer. Its a micronpc with a 667 mhz intel celeron. I upgraded to 256 mb ram and added an 80 gig hdd (100 total). It originally had Windows ME :angry: but its got XP Pro now.

[kaiweiler]

I&#39;ve had tons of "family computers" that I was the only who who ised it, but my first one that was really mine was an old Intel Celeron 850Mhz w/ Windows ME :x :x :x

[peat moss]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@3 March 2004 - 17:50
I&#39;ve had tons of "family computers" that I was the only who who ised it, but my first one that was really mine was an old Intel Celeron 850Mhz w/ Windows ME&nbsp; :x&nbsp; :x&nbsp; :x
Boy you had it tuff :lol: Mine was a cyris 586 ,16 mb ram, win 95 with double space installed :rolleyes:
OH ya 800 mb harddrive.

[atiVidia]

my first comp was a p133 HP pavilion model 7125 from 1996


can u believe it? it hasnt crashed a single time&#33; funny how microsoft gradually fucks its own software <_<

btw: windows 95.

[Samurai]

First computer I ever owned was the Commodore 64 :01:

Had a few &#39;household&#39; PC&#39;s and if I remember correctly the first cost around £1200 and had a Intel MMX 233MHz Win 95.

My personal first however is this one I&#39;m using which I purchased in September 2003...

AMD Athlon 3000+
512MB Memory
17in TFT
Windows XP etc...

Give it 6 months and that&#39;ll be out of date too :lol:

[scottwile]

windows 95
p 200
32mb ram
5 Gb driver
PCI rage 2 GFX card
"speedster"

for almost 3,000&#036; in 1997

[TheKiler]

My first computer was:

1.0 THz CPU Speed
9000 TB of HDD Space
Microsoft doors 1.0
Video: 12D 1.0TB RAM w/ Ultra Cooling
Power: 100 Watts
Speakers: Ultra Dolby 10.0
Monitor: FCD (Fantastic Current Display)
Internet Speed: 1.0 TB/sec
First Game: Counter-Strike 5
First Printer: Light generated ink (requires 7 solar panels)
Enviorment Management: Helps fix ozone by producing o1 that shoots right up to atmosphere.
Keyboard: Mind monitoring keyboard. (What you think is what appears on the screen)
Music: Winamp 10
Internal System: Self cleaning system and Nvida Dust Cleaner 2.0 intergrated.

Total Cost: &#036;25.00 w/ tax at 1989.

Oh boy.. it seems outdated.

[kaiweiler]

Originally posted by TheKiler@3 March 2004 - 22:39
My first computer was:

1.0 THz CPU Speed
9000 TB of HDD Space
Microsoft doors 1.0
Video: 12D 1.0TB RAM w/ Ultra Cooling
Power: 100 Watts
Speakers: Ultra Dolby 10.0
Monitor: FCD (Fantastic Current Display)
Internet Speed: 1.0 TB/sec
First Game: Counter-Strike 5
First Printer: Light generated ink (requires 7 solar panels)
Enviorment Management: Helps fix ozone by producing o1 that shoots right up to atmosphere.
Keyboard: Mind monitoring keyboard. (What you think is what appears on the screen)
Music: Winamp 10
Internal System: Self cleaning system and Nvida Dust Cleaner 2.0 intergrated.

Total Cost: &#036;25.00 w/ tax at 1989.

Oh boy.. it seems outdated.
the sad thing is, is that someday people will actually say that but mean it&#33; :(

[Markil]

My first one was a Kaypro. Not sure of the specs, dos, hard case, looked like a metal suitcase. Had 2 games on it, a real improvement over "Pong".

[TheKiler]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@3 March 2004 - 21:45
the sad thing is, is that someday people will actually say that but mean it&#33; :(
Haha very funny. I&#39;m talking the truth here. I hear Doors Longhorn is coming out in 2006.

Here are my current stats for my computer:

31.0 THz CPU Speed
10,000 TB of HDD Space
Microsoft doors XP
Video: 12D 16.0TB RAM w/ Ultra Mega Cooling
Power: 1000 Watts
Speakers: Ultra Dolby 21.0
Monitor: GCD (Great Current Display)
Internet Speed: 5.0 TB/sec
First Game: Counter-Strike 7
First Printer: Light generated ink (requires 7 solar panels) at speeds up to 1 light year/sec
Enviorment Management: Helps fix ozone by producing o1 that shoots right up to atmosphere.
Keyboard: Mind monitoring keyboard. (What you think is what appears on the screen)
Music: Winamp 15
Internal System: Self cleaning system and Nvida Dust Cleaner 5.0 intergrated.
Quick Fix: Self hardware failure fixer intergrated
Bios: Kiler Bios 7.8 w/ auto hardware repair

[Wolfmight]

Mine was a 500mhz 7gb hd 16mb video 64mb ram compaq with windows 98 for &#036;700
Heh, now a days &#036;700 will getcha around atleast these specs: 1.5ghz, 64mb video, 128mb ram, 40gb hd. Prices just keep droppin :P

[Wolfmight]

Originally posted by TheKiler@3 March 2004 - 20:39
My first computer was:

1.0 THz CPU Speed
9000 TB of HDD Space
Microsoft doors 1.0
Video: 12D 1.0TB RAM w/ Ultra Cooling
Power: 100 Watts
Speakers: Ultra Dolby 10.0
Monitor: FCD (Fantastic Current Display)
Internet Speed: 1.0 TB/sec
First Game: Counter-Strike 5
First Printer: Light generated ink (requires 7 solar panels)
Enviorment Management: Helps fix ozone by producing o1 that shoots right up to atmosphere.
Keyboard: Mind monitoring keyboard. (What you think is what appears on the screen)
Music: Winamp 10
Internal System: Self cleaning system and Nvida Dust Cleaner 2.0 intergrated.

Total Cost: &#036;25.00 w/ tax at 1989.

Oh boy.. it seems outdated.
LOL AT YOUR POWER SUPPLY&#33;&#33;&#33;
100W... Holy Dog Sh*t that system wouldnt even boot up because of the lack of power supply. Youd need atleast a few 500W Power Supplys dazy chained to each other.. Todays servers have lower stats than that and run of some Massive Watt sizes.
hehe.. i hope i taught ya a lesson or two about power

[SingaBoiy]

Originally posted by Wolfmight@3 March 2004 - 21:07
Mine was a 500mhz 7gb hd 16mb video 64mb ram compaq with windows 98 for &#036;700
Heh, now a days &#036;700 will getcha around atleast these specs: 1.5ghz, 64mb video, 128mb ram, 40gb hd. Prices just keep droppin :P
I can make a 2.6 celeron w/ 80 gig hdd 128 mb geforce video card w/ a 5.1 dolby surround card for less then 500

[TheKiler]

You must be joking about our power supply. You must be outdated, the new power supplies uses 5x less power since 1980. You must be 9 years outdated. Also, the power supplies by turning on it&#39;s "old mode" and have the capability to run 10 of your outdated servers.

[Triadcool]

You must be joking about our power supply. You must be outdated, the new power supplies uses 5x less power since 1980. You must be 9 years outdated. Also, the power supplies by turning on it&#39;s "old mode" and have the capability to run 10 of your outdated servers.


HAHA&#33; Yea right. With that power supply I would barely be able to run my 100 Watt lightbulb. HAHA

[TheKiler]

I made a typo. It&#39;s 1,000 not 100.

[fred devliegher]

First Printer: Light generated ink (requires 7 solar panels) at speeds up to 1 light year/sec

You do realize that defies the laws of physics ? :huh:

I vaguely remember a laptop from the late eighties/early nineties - DOS (can&#39;t remember which version , but it didn&#39;t have mouse support) , B&W screen , basic text editor , Prince of Persia. I&#39;ll see if we still have it in the attic - bet that ol&#39; geezer still works :)

First "real" PC : Dos 3.11 , 80 MHz (I think) , and - ooh - a printer &#33; (family comp)
My first PC : nx9010 (just 6 months ago)

[Livy]

custom built

amd k6-2 350, 64mb ram, 4gig hdd, everything else integrated, £480 about 6 years ago

[Sonict]

My first computer that I ever used was:

Amiga 500

7 Mhz CPU speed
512k ram -- Updated to 1 MB of ram
Floppy Drive -- 880K
OS -- Workbench 1.3

Price &#036; 1500 Cdn

Second Computer

486 -- 33 Mhz
1 GB hard drive
4 MB ram
Video card -- ???
Sound card --- ???
Cd-rom, floppy
Os -- Windows 3.1

Price -- ???

Third Computer

Amd k6-2 300

32 Mb ram (Updated to 128)
6 GB hard drive (Updated to 20 GB)
Video card -- 4 MB (Updated to Voodoo 3)
Os -- Windows 98

Price -- ???

Current Computer

Amd Athlon 2000

1.6 Ghz
128 DDR ram -- Updated to 394 Mb
16 Mb Savage 3 - Video Card (Updated to 32 Mb G-force 2MX)
Intergrated sound
OS -- Windows Xp Home

Price -- &#036;700 Cdn

P.S -- my family had an even older computer but I didn&#39;t use that first

[ck-uk]

Originally posted by Skillian@3 March 2004 - 01:44
The classic ZX Spectrum:

http://www.fitg.de/images/pc20j/r13.jpg

No idea how much it cost though.
It is classic mate.

I used to love them days me & my nipper playin games :(

[Chewie]

VIC-20 (http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cvic.html)
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/VICnTED/vic20.gif

Commodore 64 (http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/c64s.html)
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/64n128s/c64.gif

Amiga A500 (http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/ca500.html)
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/amiga/a500.gif

Amiga 1200 (http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/ca1200.html)
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/amiga/a1200.gif

Cyrix P120+, 8MB RAM (later upped to 24MB), 525MB HDD, 4xCDROM, 2MB gfx, Win95

AMD P200MMX, MSI mobo, 32MB RAM, 1.5GB total HDDs, 24xCDROM, Millennium II gfx, Win95/98

AMD K6-II/350, Gigabyte GA5-AX, 194MB RAM, 10GB total HDDs, CR4804TE CDRW, S3 AGP 2x gfx, Win98/98SE/Me

AMD Duron800, A-Bit Kt-7A, 256MB RAM (upped to 512MB), 23GB total HDDs, CR4804TE CDRW, Afreey 10xDVROM, Hercules Prophet II 32MB gf2MX gfx, WinMe/XP

Latest is in sig.

[Cage72]

Pentium 75mhz Packard Hell system..running Windows 3.1.1,man is it scary the thought of how expensive that was back in &#39;95 and today that would be able to get you a Really good Gaming System. Ughh&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

[bulio]

apple 1992 model, dunno the make tho... ;)

[Izagaia]

Packard Bell PS/2

Pre-Pentium@133Mhz, 16meg ram, 8xCD-Rom, some kind of ancient soundblaster card and Windows95 installed.

A gift from my mother. Of course the motherboard in that burnt-out during an ice storm, along with a slew of other household electronics. From the insurance settlement (laced with a wee-bit o&#39; exageration), I was able to upgrade to my current set-up. B)

[LSA]

Originally posted by TheKiler+3 March 2004 - 22:57--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TheKiler @ 3 March 2004 - 22:57)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-kaiweiler@3 March 2004 - 21:45
the sad thing is, is that someday people will actually say that but mean it&#33;&nbsp; :(
Haha very funny. I&#39;m talking the truth here. I hear Doors Longhorn is coming out in 2006.

Here are my current stats for my computer:

31.0 THz CPU Speed
10,000 TB of HDD Space
Microsoft doors XP
Video: 12D 16.0TB RAM w/ Ultra Mega Cooling
Power: 1000 Watts
Speakers: Ultra Dolby 21.0
Monitor: GCD (Great Current Display)
Internet Speed: 5.0 TB/sec
First Game: Counter-Strike 7
First Printer: Light generated ink (requires 7 solar panels) at speeds up to 1 light year/sec
Enviorment Management: Helps fix ozone by producing o1 that shoots right up to atmosphere.
Keyboard: Mind monitoring keyboard. (What you think is what appears on the screen)
Music: Winamp 15
Internal System: Self cleaning system and Nvida Dust Cleaner 5.0 intergrated.
Quick Fix: Self hardware failure fixer intergrated
Bios: Kiler Bios 7.8 w/ auto hardware repair [/b][/quote]
Put slackware 50.7 with kernel 34.7.4 and she will fly&#33;