Your very first PC and OS

[Guest endgameaddiction]

phone rings bye bye internet. I used to think 56k was so fast then. I never upgraded to DSL. I went to cable modem when that came out. 5mb then 10mb and so on. Never had much issue with connection here since I live in the heart of Vegas. I had a friend who had really really bad internet. Always disconnected every 5-10 minutes. he also liked to afk a lot. He inherited the nick name AFKing. Funny times.

[calranthe]

First computer Texas instruments Ti99/4a first computer built sinclair ZX80, first game programmed a 1k game called zombie from the sinclair magazine you actually had to type it in, 16k ram boost for the zx81 lol.

 

Best computer Systime 500 miniframe, local college was switching to a Dec Vax system and I got the mainframe hooked it up in the garage took about 15 mins to boot up, 10 terminals connected to it, unix! sounded like an aircraft taking off, sold it for gold content 2 years later, still miss it.

 

[canderes]

Windows 95 on an IBM machine was the first one I used-though it wasn't mine and I also played C&C TS on it. This was back when dial up was the only thing available in our area I think. I never did ask how much they paid for the thing, but we were cleaning up the garage a while ago (5+ years I think) and it was still there tucked behind a freezer. It did have an tiny amount of ram, but we found a box with more that was never used-I think my friend's brother got the computer when he was in the military, so he just got it for free with all the other parts and shit. From then on everything I saw was a Mac jelly bean computer, until middleschool I think-the first computer I saw running 95 again since that time was in this wood construction/drafting class and I think that was where I saw my first catastrophic failure, it gave an access violation because someone had ejected a cd while the program was was running-it was some shitty rube goldberg simulator running off a cd. It's almost surreal to think that we needed cds back then in the computer to run things and now we have steam/origin and whatnot to do it without it.

[dje34]

Win 3.1 and I don't remember the PC, sorry... But there was no pentium on the French market at that time I'm sure of that.

 

It was my dad's PC...

 

And games were on floppy disks ! 

 

1st game I played on PC : Flight Simulator... and I never managed to make the plane fly, only take-off and crash...

[Darklordsithis]

Commodore 64

[shane4244]

A gateway built PC in 1998 (I was 19 at the time)  that I paid $2000.00 for. It had a Pentium II screaming at 350mhz , more SDram than i was told i would ever need (64mb) and supported up to 256mb , a 56k modem, a 16Mb video card and windows 98 installed on a huge 10GB hard drive. It would play any game I threw at it (mostly Age of Empires) . I still have it and it still works I use it for my NES emulator stuff when I'm in the mood.

[Oversette]

A Gateway with a good ol' Pentium II. It was around the year 2000, but it still had Windows 95. It could display 16 colors of awesomness.

There are still some parts around the house; I even have the processor, big heat sink and everything, on a shelf in my room.

[TiredGerman]

I don't remember the details exactly but my first computer was a recycled, Laptopbottom from my dads workspace. Its display was busted and it was supposed to get thrown out? I don't remember, but I do recall that I had to hook up a big raytube monitor to work with it.

It ran Windows 95 on it and boy was I happy.

 

Ahhh. Nostalgia.

[AlyxMS]

I don't have a picture of them but I do remember some details about it.

I was like 3 years old and my dad bought a new laptop so he gave the old one to me.

It's got Windows 95 installed however you need to type a command in DOS to start windows. I think it's like "win" or "win.com"

All I do is draw with mspaint, I made about 300 pictures of cars and buildings.

 

When I was about 6, my dad bought a pretty expensive(at that time) Windows 98 computer.

It got a Pentium processor and a 40GB hard drive(I don't remember it's 20x2 or a single one)and it even got internet connection through telephone wires which is just fascinating to me.

I downloaded so many games on it and painted even more cars with mspaint.

However some years later my dad found out that my cousin had a porn picture collection(he was about 10 at that time) and took the computer away which made me mad to my cousin.

Later it's back with illegal(cracked) Windows XP installed. However the computer is too old and runs really slow. I was interested in MAD L33T  Ski11z computer skills and I read a crap load of books about computers. So I formatted the disk and installed windows 2000 on it, that made the computer ran a little bit faster.

About two years later my dad sold it for like 5 bucks and gave me his  awesome 2003 dell laptap. When he bought its price is about $2000 and he never lets me to touch it. I was so happy to own a retro-top-notch laptop.

 

After that is all modern computers and not that interesting.

Thank endgameaddiction for posting this, good memories.

[Guest endgameaddiction]

Anytime.

 

As long as it makes anyone's day with good memories. Then I'm glad I did something right.

[YX33A]

It was so long ago, I remember not what build it was, nor what OS it ran.  I could ask my dad, he'd remember, friggin' Apple Zombie.

Yes, it was a Mac.  The only Mac I've ever owned.  We had a house computer, technically, but really, it was my baby.  I even taught my Grandma the first thing she knew about Computers; which button turns it on!

 

Many a hour wasted on a cool ripoff of Joust, for sure, but it set me on the right path; the one of the Nerd.

 

After a few minutes on it I found a way to bypass the "program list" and access the desktop/shell.  Dad wasn't too happy 'bout that.

[AgendaDysphoria]

I don't remember the exact model, but it was a Toshiba Satellite laptop, with Windows XP

[itt1968]

I'll show my true age with this one .... in 1984(?) I had the IBM Commodore64... dont remember much about the stats on it but, at the time it was a  pretty good rig, though it was a pain in the a$$ to operate lmao 

[hestial]

The first one was an IBM ,I think, with Windos98, and after this one a HP, Pentium 4, with 32mb of video, I used to play with that computer until one day the graphic card died with a 2d game hahaha.

[ratrace]

First computer was a C64 with a tape instead of floppy, then came an Amiga 500, then a looong time without PC or the like, and then I bought a P3 500 Mhz with Win98 SE.

 

My first game on c64 was International Karate I think. Mission Impossible was coming a bit later. On the Amiga I learned to love adventures like Monkey Island, Uninvited Guest, Guild of Thieves, Pawn and Loom.

 

On PC the first game I bought with it was Shadowman.

[quasimodo75]

An old 8086 in about 1993, absolutely obsolete by then. I think the most modern OS it could handle was DOS 3.27. Hardly could do anything except some writing and Tetris. : D

Had a monochrome green monitor and ran on two 5 inch floppies, one for the OS and one for the files. I learned a lot about DOS programming by using it. Still I liked it. 

[BAB PEEG]

Mine was an HP with 1 gig of memory and windows 95, plus it was a display model so half the shit didn't run right! What a mysterious computer.

[Oversette]

Damn you, guys. You are making me feel like a baby.

[cobaltxevion]

My very 1st  "PC" was a AMIGA!

 

Started with A1000, then a A500. Replaced by a after 3 years of use A2000, then A1200, then A1200T and... ended as AMIGA's failure..... Toomuch errors, too much "they" have used their users for make nothing else than money, Commodore, Gateway and all the others.... Now the AMIGA's fakes computers around are very too much expensive even to think to get one as 2ndary stuff, no games, no programs, no assistence, cost double/triple than a very high end PC.. blah...

 

Now I live happily (by years) with M$ and weeeceeee's. Have a nice i7-3820, on a Sabertooth x79 MB with 16gig's of ram, 2gb's GFX (soon one with 4 gig's on board ^^). SSD 128gb + 2 WB Black 1tb all inside a big HAF-X tower.

 

 

EDIT: And yeah the OS was AMIGADos on Workbench 1.1 to the last AMIGA OS 3.9, then all the M$ series, 95,98,ME,XP,7 x64 and now 8 x64.

[psammeticus]

IBM 8088. I haven't cranked it up in a few years, but there's a good chance that the damn thing still works.

 

It's the only one I never scalvanged for parts.

 

Edit: Oh, the OS, yeah DOS.

[mem4ob4]

In 1979, someone gave my high school math class an Apple II. It ran 'integer BASIC'. One kid brought in a really cool magazine called 'Compute!' and the rest was history   ...and yes, the first game was star trek!

The first one I bought was a brand new Commodore 64 in 1982. Using its BASIC 2.0, I started making random character generators for RPG's like D&D and The Fantasy Trip, for random encounters (that was when we still gamed 'face to face' at the table with dice).

When Commodore came out with the 128 and BASIC 7.0, in 1985, I had to have one. I was in the military by then and
blew my commanders mind by writing up a visual training simulator for the missile system that we used (HAWK missile system).
 

Mem (feeling way toooo old right now)

[Coopervane]

Commodore 64, Basic 2.0.

 

My first "proper" PC was a hand-me-down I386 of DIY build, running Win 3.11 and DoS. It was a super boss I386 though, because it had an I387 Co-Processor installed! Awwwww yeah!!

 

Blistering speeds, unmatched excitement, incredible framerates and visuals, thease are all words that have nothing to do with the I387 Co-Processor, since i was stuck with this thing long after all my freinds had moved on to 166 and 200 Mhz machines

[Magnvs]

An i386 with DOS in 1989

[gvman3670]

In 1979, someone gave my high school math class an Apple II. It ran 'integer BASIC'. One kid brought in a really cool magazine called 'Compute!' and the rest was history   ...and yes, the first game was star trek!

 

The first one I bought was a brand new Commodore 64 in 1982. Using its BASIC 2.0, I started making random character generators for RPG's like D&D and The Fantasy Trip, for random encounters (that was when we still gamed 'face to face' at the table with dice).

 

When Commodore came out with the 128 and BASIC 7.0, in 1985, I had to have one. I was in the military by then and

blew my commanders mind by writing up a visual training simulator for the missile system that we used (HAWK missile system).

 

Mem (feeling way toooo old right now)

 

Seems you have a few years on me then. I didn't unlist until '89. And I feel old so I hate to guess how you must feel!