Guest endgameaddiction Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 I'm not certain if this already exists, sue me if it does! Basically just state (if you remember) what brand was your very first PC, which OS you had and anything funny if you feel like throwing anything out there. I can't for the love of anything remember my very first PC brand. I think it was IBM. I know it was Windows 95 and I was like 13 years old. I didn't care much for it then. It was just there and rarely used it. I didn't actually start getting into the PC till I was 16 and I had a Compaq Presario 3GB Hard Drive. I had a 56k Modem and I was hooked on AOL 3.0 back then lol...Go go chat rooms! So what was yours?
FallenWarrior Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Mine was an IBM 386 with windows 3.11
Guest airdance Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 When I was in grade school, my Dad let me use his "state of the art" computer supplied by his company I believe it was a 486, running windows NT 3.1 or 3.11.
carnifex Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 My first PC was of a local brand (now defunct, but it was big in my country at the time). It was around year '96, I believe, and it was a beastly Pentium 200 with 16MB RAM, a 1.2 GB hard drive and a 1MB graphics card. Oh, and how could I forget - a real Creative SoundBlaster music card! (Actually, that was pretty shit, the really cool kids had Gravis cards with much better MIDI playback quality.) Worked under Windows 95. My biggest problem was, some of the older games literally worked too fast to play them
Rayblue Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 A Packard Bell XT with a 10mb 5.25" Seagate, a couple 360k floppies, and a CGA display. It was loaded up with MS-DOS 6.22, everything crawled on it, even Simcity, but I managed to code programs out of it.
lordofthedread Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 A 386 under DOS without HDD, played Prince of persia a lot on it then I got my hands on a nice 486 DX2 66 My very first computer was an Apple IIc with 5.25 floppy disks, many awesome games back in the day like Ultima 3. When you think about it now that we all have such monsters on our smartphones in terms of power ....
Slammer64 Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Mine was a Tandy 32k Color (CoCo2), .89Mhz and the 32k referred to the memory, not the amount of colors! Had a fastloader cartridge and a metallic oxide tape drive for loading programs.
ToJKa Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Commodore 64, if that counts 985 Hz processor, 64kB of RAM. If not, Hewlet-Packard 486 SX with Windows 3.11. 25MHz processor and 4 MB of RAM. A computer used in office that i got for free when they upgraded. With few memory tweaks it could run Doom, though levels with big rooms like were too much for it. Also it didn't have a sound card, so playing games on it was a bit strange. Also i remember that getting Doom to fit on it's hard drive was problematic, due it's humongous 20 megabyte WAD file
Pixie-K Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 My very 1st PC was also a classic Commodore 64,which I got my hands on back in 1995 from a garage sale's free bin. My second, if the Commodore doesn't count... I can't remember the brand but it had an AMD K-6 200mhz, 128mb of ram, and a soundblaster sound card EDIT: I dont remember what OS it had, but I remember using both WIN NT 3.1 and '95
gvman3670 Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 TRS-80 and MS-DOS. I have a VIC20 back then, too. Even a Coleco Adam. My first Windows machine was a Packard Bell in like '94/'95. I remember that it was about the fastest machine available then with it's enhanced Pentium 1 chip that ran at a blistering 67mhz. Between that and analog dialup modem I could barely use the internet at all. It was horrible. Simply horrible. But at the time it was the most awesome thing ever.
ТigегШооd Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 When I was in grade school, my Dad let me use his "state of the art" computer supplied by his company I believe it was a 486, running windows NT 3.1 or 3.11. Are you kidding me? I had the exact same computer when I was little, it was ridiculously thick laptop that took 3-4 minutes to boot.
Guest airdance Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 it was ridiculously thick laptop that took 3-4 minutes to boot Yes, that was it, my father said that "NT" stood for "nap time" He said that you go turn on the computer then take a nap till it is ready
ТigегШооd Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 it was ridiculously thick laptop that took 3-4 minutes to boot Yes, that was it, my father said that "NT" stood for "nap time" He said that you go turn on the computer then take a nap till it is ready That was not state of the art, in fact it was terribly unreliable for anything except record keeping & Dyna Blasters.
Guest GuyWhoAbruptlyDisappeared Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 Hand-me-down. MS Dos. I was 5. Aww yeah.
Sweatington Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 My first computer only had DOS I was six.. Can't remember the brand.
SquallPT Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 My first computer was a Pentium 486 with Windows 95. It had a turbo button " Time to enter the extreme" *click* 5 mhz faster " DAMN TOO MUCH SPEED "
Vancien Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 My very first PC experience was on an IBM. I do not know the exact model but I can tell you. It was a DOS box and I played a game called "Leisure Suit Larry" on it using a floppy disc. I was about 8 or 9 years old. My Dad owned the computer and the game. I wasn't allowed to play it, as it was an adult game. I had my first taste of sexual situations in the game and it was my first education of adult in nature anything really. I loved the game and played it for hours and hours. I don't recall if I ever beat the game or not. I should try to look it up and play it again lol.
Rayblue Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 My very first PC experience was on an IBM. I do not know the exact model but I can tell you. It was a DOS box and I played a game called "Leisure Suit Larry" on it using a floppy disc. I was about 8 or 9 years old. My Dad owned the computer and the game. I wasn't allowed to play it, as it was an adult game. I had my first taste of sexual situations in the game and it was my first education of adult in nature anything really. I loved the game and played it for hours and hours. I don't recall if I ever beat the game or not. I should try to look it up and play it again lol. Don't forget to install Dosbox first if you do. (BTW, I like the way that game authenticates the player's age by quiz that it should be de jure in LL for registering new users.) -------- BTW, before I got that shitballed XT, throughout Compsci I used customized 5.25" and 3.5" boot disks, which included everything, such as high memory support, editors for DOS programming, mucho utilities, and had the RAM disk upped with Stacker... and the first PC I ever got to use was an Intel 386DX (with 2mb of memory, a VGA card, no hard drive, a couple of floppy drives, and a 15" paper-white monitor). We were the last in my year who did much of the programming in DOS, before the school curriculum finally moved up to Windows and OOP.
Vancien Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 My very first PC experience was on an IBM. I do not know the exact model but I can tell you. It was a DOS box and I played a game called "Leisure Suit Larry" on it using a floppy disc. I was about 8 or 9 years old. My Dad owned the computer and the game. I wasn't allowed to play it, as it was an adult game. I had my first taste of sexual situations in the game and it was my first education of adult in nature anything really. I loved the game and played it for hours and hours. I don't recall if I ever beat the game or not. I should try to look it up and play it again lol. Don't forget to install Dosbox first if you do. (BTW, I like the way that game authenticates the player's age by quiz that it should be de jure in LL for registering new users.) -------- BTW, before I got that shitballed XT, throughout Compsci I used customized 5.25" and 3.5" boot disks, which included everything, such as high memory support, editors for DOS programming, mucho utilities, and had the RAM disk upped with Stacker... and the first PC I ever got to use was an Intel 386DX (with 2mb of memory, a VGA card, no hard drive, a couple of floppy drives, and a 15" paper-white monitor). We were the last in my year who did much of the programming in DOS, before the school curriculum finally moved up to Windows and OOP. I totally forgot about those questions. Thinking back now it took me a while to even access the game, lol. I agree with you. That would certainly deter any adolescents from joining. But, even youngsters at age five know how to Google these days.
Sarathis Posted March 1, 2014 Posted March 1, 2014 I had a Gateway with Windows 98 on it. Late bloomer, I guess. I didn't get into computers until after high school.
AKM Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 Think it was a 386. MS DOS was the main prompt, with Windows 3.1 under it.
Vancien Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 My very first PC experience was on an IBM. I do not know the exact model but I can tell you. It was a DOS box and I played a game called "Leisure Suit Larry" on it using a floppy disc. I was about 8 or 9 years old. My Dad owned the computer and the game. I wasn't allowed to play it, as it was an adult game. I had my first taste of sexual situations in the game and it was my first education of adult in nature anything really. I loved the game and played it for hours and hours. I don't recall if I ever beat the game or not. I should try to look it up and play it again lol. Don't forget to install Dosbox first if you do. (BTW, I like the way that game authenticates the player's age by quiz that it should be de jure in LL for registering new users.) -------- BTW, before I got that shitballed XT, throughout Compsci I used customized 5.25" and 3.5" boot disks, which included everything, such as high memory support, editors for DOS programming, mucho utilities, and had the RAM disk upped with Stacker... and the first PC I ever got to use was an Intel 386DX (with 2mb of memory, a VGA card, no hard drive, a couple of floppy drives, and a 15" paper-white monitor). We were the last in my year who did much of the programming in DOS, before the school curriculum finally moved up to Windows and OOP. Look what I found.. Made me lol.
Symon Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 The very first computer I played games on (and learned to code on) was a DEC-20 running TOPS20 circa 1979. T'was an awesome beast with 1Mb of core ( ferromagnetic core mind) and another 3Mb on a rotating magnetic drum. Strtrk, Hack and Advent were the games of choice. It wasn't until 1995 that I bought a computer because I wasn't prepared to accept lower capabilities than the machine I'd cut my teeth on.
xartom Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 386 with win 3.1 had that thing until high school (2002ish) when it fried. Don't make rigs that last quite that long with that few part replacements.
...0... Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Around '96 my first PC with Win 95 had no internet yet and knew little about pc's. win95-win98-win2000-xp-vista-win7 over the years. Why i purchase a PC for playing chess game lol. I realy get into PC around '99 when i had internet and started my first MMO Asheron's call 1 on my dial up from europe it was not a big succes my connection was terible. Played more on my dreamcast then my PC hehe. 2000 got adsl and my PC era realy started, up to this day im PC only gamer. P.S Don't think you count the Clive Sinclair '79 or commodore vic20 later 64 as PC's right?
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