I hope this subject wasnt discused before...

Anyway, i'm wondering when did you guys first own a PC. No consoles count, just PCs (not Player Character ;) ).
And what OS did you have on it?


I got the first one sometime in 1993. It was miraculus. Everyone from the street went to have a look at it. I remember i felt so proud. Its not it was the only one but it was one of the first ones where i lived then.
IIRC it was pentium already. The first one naturaly. It was normaly running on 20Mhz... but check this out... i could boost it by pressing a button on the box to 40Mhz!!! A real monster :lol:

And i had DOS on it. Dont know what version or anything else... i was only 8 or 9 years old then.

The first PC that my family owned was an 8088. Before that we had an Adam. The first computer that I had that was solely mine was a 286. I would say that the 8088 was purchased in the early 80s and that I probably inherited the 286 in the late 80s shortly after the 386 came on the market.

'89 or '90, sort of. 8086 commonly known as XT. No hard disk, 5.25'' floppy, Hercules graphics, amber only screen. No sound, not even a PC speaker. It was heavier than my head in mornings and slow.

At the beginning of second millenia ( :p ) I got my first PC. Wasn't even very good, but then I didn't know very much of computers. It had 500 MHz Celeron (****), and TNT2 graphics card. OS was, what else?, win98. It used to sin and crash every second hour and I often had lustful thoughts of hammering it to little pieces, but then a greater wisdom showed me the Way; a good kick the rear helps. Thus was the evil vanquished once again.

Then I got a new comp :D

I didn’t get my first home computer until 1997. I had always used them at work, but I just didn’t really need/want one at home until then. It was AMD 166, 32MB, 2GB hard drive – nothing special, but not bad at the time.

I got my first and only computer in 2000. It's a HP Pavilion 566 celeron, running windows 98. I'm suprised the thing still works, after all the things I did to it :lol:

My first computer was an old Macintosh, all in one piece, black and white screen, that my dad brought from work one day. (must have been in the late 80ies) Man, I spent entire days playing Lemmings on it with my cousins, the memories...

Apple II+, running whatever Apple's pre-Mac OS was, with a 6502 chip, 48K memory, a 5.25" floppy disc drive, green monochrome monitor. You essentially either loaded a pre-made program or wrote your own program in Basic, unless you were a true geek and could program in the 6502 machine language. (BTW, for those who are nostalgic, this chip was used by the Atari 800 and 1600 computers and the Commodor Pet, as well.)

This ancient history took place in 1982 or so. Any of you who were not born then, please do not rub it in. Thanks.

I got my first Pc 1996, it was a P166 Mhz, MMX with an onboard graphic card. I still have it and use it, if I have to type something or if I want to play my old Snes games :D

I guess I used my dads PC (which he had for his business) for a gaming machine in early 90'. That was before all the pentium stuff and I guess if I should give it a number it was a 33 mhz. IBM business PC if I remember correctly.

I was in my NES days that time until my nephew came for a visit with some strategy game. He installed it, I took a look and saw him explore lands, build square colored cities and build roads and irrigation. You guessed it, it's the game that made my PC gaming too what it is now: Civilization :thumb:

Mmmh, must have been that Olivetti M24.
Somewhere in the mid 80's. Started my passion for Fantasy Games with playing Sierra's 'King's Quest'.

Intel 486 100 Mhz, 16 Mb of RAM, 512 Kb S3 graphic card and Windows 3.1
Got it in 1995 :spin:

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1983, the Sinclair Spectrum. DMC, please pass the Geritol. ;)

Here's what this proto-home-computer looked like. The Sinclair Spectrum (http://www.80snostalgia.com/computers/spectrum/)

I believe mine was fluourescent blue. To make it work, you connected it to your television and an audiotape recorder. Games were generally purchased as a few pages of code that you typed in yourself and saved on the audiotape.

My first copmputer... ah, those were the days. I bought it used from a relative of as relative... It was in 1994 or 1995, I think. It was a pentium, I have no idea of the mHz:es... It never really worked. It had both DOS and the "miraculous" Windows 3.1.... :/

Those were the days. I still miss Paintbrush... so much better than Paint... :D

I remember Paintbrush. Still got it on the old comps, lol.

Hmm, absolute first one, a 1987 Epson Equity. I think it only had a few kilobytes of RAM, not even an 8086 processor, no hard drive, no video, no sound card.

First gaming one was a much older IBM AT that my dad brought home from work. It actually had a hard drive and Windows 1.0! Who remembers that?

First one? Must have been about 1981-1982 that my family got a TI 99-4A. It was mostly used for gaming with the game cartridges, but by attaching an audiocassette recorder I could write programs in BASIC and save them as audio signals. It must have been running some version of DOS. That was when I began my lifelong career. :)

The first one I bought on my own was a 16.67MHz 286 w/ 2MB RAM, and a 20MB HD. It ran DOS and Windows 3.1.

Gosh, I must really be getting old!

My first comp was a 486 with 33 mhz and 8 mb ram. We bought it used from a friend sometime around 1994, and it came with lots of games. I still miss X-Wing, both Indy games and the first game I bought with my own money: Worms!

An Osbourne running CPM in 1982-83. 5MHz. 64kb memory, 5-1/4 drive. I feel OLD :(

Well, my (or my family's) first computer was 486 with 25 mhz (I thought that it is far too fast :D ). We got it in 1994. I played Tetris and other arcade games with it. And, of course, drawing with paintbrush was great.

My first computer was a 386(18 MHz and if you pressed the turbo button it was on 40 MHz). My father bought for my brother(because he broke his arm) but I palyed too. This happened in 1993 IIRC. Then a 486, a Pentium 1(I still have this one), a Pentium 3 and now a Pentium 4 - 2,4GHz.

Well Since I'm relatively young (15) at least compare to you I've used my parent comp for the last 8 years, but I bought mine last Fridays

AMD athlon 2100 Mhz or 2.1 Ghz :p
A geforce 4 128 mo
the sound card is on the mothercard but is a equivalent of a sound blaster
512 mo Ram
Win XP ('o course what other OS as many game as Windows?)
80 gig Hard drive!!!!

48K memory So your ram was 48k ? :eek: wow...

@ DM - you betcha. 48 whole K of whopping memory. Mind you, that was enormous for the time. At least I had a floppy disc instead of a cassette tape reader as storage. Nothing worse that those commodore pets with the tapes. You'd have your space invaders or whatever on the tape and, if you looked at it cross-wise, held it near a light bulb, or audibly cursed -- whoosh, there goes your data.

Let's not even get into the computer I first worked on. A PDP 20/20 mainframe with a paper-only terminal run through an underpowered phone line equivalent at 110 baud (220 on a good day). FYI, that's like your 56K dial up modem divided by 500 for purposes of calculating speed. (The actual computer, by the way, was in another town and was the size of a small office building.)

A Tandy 1000 (or Tandy something or another, think it was 1000).

I distinctly remember buying a computer years ago that had 1 gig and everyone I talked to saying, "oh yeah, that is huge, that'll last you a long, long time." Liars.

Heh, Sprite, I had one of those too! But I didnt get it until -89 or so. Inherited it from my uncle. I never could get it to work properly. That whole thing with casettes and fastforwarding was too advanced for me. I had this huge basket of casettes full of games though. The only times I could use it was when my uncle came over and started it up for me. :) I was not and is not the most technical of persons.
Later in -94 I got myself an Amiga 600!!! Now this was some powerful sheit! :D

I started with a C64 in 1989 (or something). I still have some games, i.e. "Guship".
Then, I moved on to an Amiga 500. Ah, to play Turrican with that excelletn soundtrack again...

My first MS-DOS Pc was a 486.

Dell Inspiron 8100

I bought it in the year 2000, or was it 2001. :confused: