What was your first PC?

[Audioave10]

I seem remember playing with a demo model at the Magnavox store in 'the mall' when I was in high school.

Yep...I bought a Magnavox TV and the Odyssey at Sears ( in the Mall ) Christmas 1976 I think.

 

[Greenslade]

Wow, some amazing first PC's in this thread!!!!!!!!

First thing I used was an original Atari and I think it just had Pong on it?

First official "PC" was an 8088........Can't even remember the MHz or memory. I had to load the operating system from a floppy disk. Then I upgraded it and installed some huuuuuuuuge hard drive. I think it was a 4 megabyte drive. LOL

I then wrote a hard drive parking program to keep from damaging the hard drive when I would have to transport the system.

Of course the monitor was monochrome.

I am not surprised with you lot of Retros. Being that i am a Retro HiFi person ,and a vinyl Junkie for many years.only getting in to Retro PC,s in the last couple of years I had to look *Pong *up as never heard of it before

sounds like one of thouse songs they played at thouse Raves Back in the 80,s

 

[freeagent]

Yep...I bought a Magnavox TV and the Odyssey at Sears ( in the Mall ) Christmas 1976 I think.

I was born in January 78

 

[Greenslade]

Did anyone have one of these? I got one when I was 9 or 10..

Magnavox Odyssey 2 - Wikipedia

Cheapest one on eBay 115 pounds looks on good nick and boxed.ebcerthing inclided looks a nice unit.

 

[Muaadib]

Pentium III 800Mhz
256MB DDR RAM
15" CRT Dell Monitor
10GB Seagate Barracuda

It was a reward for getting a high score in my high school entrance exams. This was right when the P4 launched but I was still amazed at having my own computer. Spent days on paint/word and the like

 

[Greenslade]

Oh man, this really got me thinkin....

Apple II... the fruity one !

how far we have come since then.....

We sure have ,it is like another world as thse kids can see ,from there reactions of using an old PC.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

I started with ZX Spectrum 48Kb in '84 then later switch on Amiga 500 and my first PC was 486DX and then after that as I remember it was Celeron on 300 Mhz that I managed to OC on 1Ghz that was a time when 3D GPU's also started first I have some "weak" Diamond Viper card but soon after that I get Voodoo Banshee 16mb which was Great for gaming........Also recently I made few games for ZX Spectrum so I needed original machine and I did bought again ZX Spectrum + It didn't work but after some fixing & soldering it works perfectly fine......

 

[68Olds]

I was born in January 78

I got my driver's license in '78.

 

[Greenslade]

I got my driver's license in '78.

I had driving lessons then ,i was ready to take the test ,,but decied not to.And looking back i am glad i didn,t .
You don,t need a car in London where o live anyway.

I started with ZX Spectrum 48Kb in '84 then later switch on Amiga 500 and my first PC was 486DX and then after that as I remember it was Celeron on 300 Mhz that I managed to OC on 1Ghz that was a time when 3D GPU's also started first I have some "weak" Diamond Viper card but soon after that I get Voodoo Banshee 16mb which was Great for gaming........Also recently I made few games for ZX Spectrum so I needed original machine and I did bought again ZX Spectrum + It didn't work but after some fixing & soldering it works perfectly fine......

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I was wondering when someone would say the ZX Spectrum and the classic Amiga 500

 

[Audioave10]

I had driving lessons then ,i was ready to take the test ,,but decied not to.And looking back i am glad i didn,t .
You don,t need a car in London where o live anyway.


I was wondering when someone would say the ZX Spectrum and the classic Amiga 500

Those were more popular in Britain rather than in the US. I got my driver's License in 1971 - oh crap -
One of my early PC cases from Antec...

 

[TheLostSwede]

Mitac, slim desktop case, Intel 386SX 16 MHz with 2 MB of RAM (30-pin SIMMs of course), 256kB graphics memory (I think I was a Cirrus Logic), a 40 MB hard drive and a 3.5" floppy drive, as well as a 14" CRT display. It came with a very boxy mouse. Over the years it got upgrade to 6 MB of RAM, had a second 40 MB hard drive and a SoundBlaster 2.0 added.
I even made a "sound card" for it, although it mainly only worked with MODs, a thingie that connected to the parallel port and required an amplifier to work, but hey, it was a really cheap DIY thing you could do.

 

[bonehead123]

We sure have ,it is like another world as thse kids can see ,from there reactions of using an old PC.

Yea I remember recently talking to a 20-something co-worker and mentioned floppy discs and 1MB ram sticks, after which I got the clueless "deer in the headlights" stare from him, hehehehe

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Gateway with x-p on it about all I remember, that and it didn't last very long think it lasted 13 months

2nd acer aspire 775 socket last up until I sold the board/ memory/ cpu a couple months ago for 80.us so 13 years not bad for a 300.us desktop.

 

[SJZL 2.0]

I only had laptops. Don't worry, they are also PCs.

Anyways, the first PC I had was an i5-5000 something with Intel HD 5000 I got in 2021. I tried mostly SEUS shaders on Minecraft java with my laptop.

 

[ARF]

Funny thread.

First PC: IBM, Pentium MMX 233 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 2 MB Cirrus Logic graphics and a terrible small CRT display...
Don't wanna go back to that.

First normal PC was in 2006 - Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1 MB cache, ATi Radeon X1600 Pro 256 MB GDDR3.
ATI Radeon X1600 PRO Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database

 

[Oren_elec]

intel 8080XT 10MHZ , with CGA graphics card 4 color 320X200 and 2 colors 640X200

 

[xu^]

486 dx2 66mhz
4mb ram ( had to go buy another 4mb to get sound in Doom)
cirrus Logic 1mb video card
14" crt vga monitor
cheapo kb +mouse

Traded my Amiga 1200 in for it at a local PC shop, he did all my PC's up until i built my 1st which was an AMD xp2000+

 

[Wirko]

Yea I remember recently talking to a 20-something co-worker and mentioned floppy discs and 1MB ram sticks, after which I got the clueless "deer in the headlights" stare from him, hehehehe

Yeah. My second x86 PC already had dynamic RAM in the shape of sticks. Far easier to handle than individual chips in DIP packages.

 

[maxfly]

My first rig was a gateway hunka junka with a p3 866?and seagate 10gb hdd running win me (thats all I can remember, I tried very hard to forget that machine). I knew nothing about computers other than they were expensive af. Cpu was great. The rest was junk. 1st. That began my introduction to over the phone tech support and how utterly and completely useless it was and how much I hated being st the whim of some dipshit reading a card. 2nd. I made it my lifes mission to never, ever, have to rely on another human being to make my computer run correctly.
It worked! Hahaha. I taught myself how to build and repair computers thanks to that experience via forums just like this.
Back to my lovely gateway... After building my first AMD t-bred rig a few months after getting the gateway(and still paying it off I might add). I upgraded everything possible in and out of it and promptly gave it to my mother and father in law. Who looooved it and ran that bad boy for many years without a hitch( with the infamous, ahoy matey, corporate win xp pro os)! Until they were forced to upgrade due to obsolescence. They were devastated. It still resides in their basement to this day. And works
So you could say that gateway was literally my gateway into computers! yuk yuk yuk man I crack myself up

 

[mb194dc]

Carerra branded, 486sx33, 4mb ram, 170mb hard drive, cirrus logic 5450 1mb vesa graphics card, 14 inch svga monitor, Windows 3.11 and Dos 6.2... Put the original ISA sound blaster in to it later...

Could play Sim City 2k on it, doom, Monkey Island, ran OK!

 

[ARF]

Are there newbies who can claim that the mighty Ryzen 9 5950X is their first PC?
We live in very interesting times. While the current most powerful CPU the Ryzen 9 5950X was launched back in 2020, we are yet to see anything to beat it.

This means that the users who own it now, would not need to upgrade for a very very long time.

 

[maxx2575]

 

[onemanhitsquad]

Those were more popular in Britain rather than in the US. I got my driver's License in 1971 - oh crap -
One of my early PC cases from Antec...

still have one of those in the garage...was the wife's case for a bit...nice

Commodore VIC 20 still have it...serial no. V006018

 

[Greenslade]

still have one of those in the garage...was the wife's case for a bit...nice

Commodore VIC 20 still have it...serial no. V006018

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I take it you don,t use it any more? It looks in good nick.

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Are there newbies who can claim that the mighty Ryzen 9 5950X is their first PC?
We live in very interesting times. While the current most powerful CPU the Ryzen 9 5950X was launched back in 2020, we are yet to see anything to beat it.

This means that the users who own it now, would not need to upgrade for a very very long time.

Not on this forum for sure

Funny thread.

First PC: IBM, Pentium MMX 233 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 2 MB Cirrus Logic graphics and a terrible small CRT display...
Don't wanna go back to that.

First normal PC was in 2006 - Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1 MB cache, ATi Radeon X1600 Pro 256 MB GDDR3.
ATI Radeon X1600 PRO Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database

Whats funny about it? I think it is a good topic

What I meant is that in his eyes this whole PC thing is a waste of time/money since all we do is play games on it or whatever stuff instead of doing something 'productive' with our lifes.
Hes not saying it but even till this day when I upgrade my PC and buy new hardware with my own money that I worked for I feel like I just committed a crime or whatever bad thing.

He thought that we will grow out of it after a few years when we get older but that never really happened.

I guess if I was making money with a PC related work then it would be different but thats not the case sadly.

No one can be without one in this day and age.It is your money you can do what you like with it

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I bring news from Gondor!

A fellow member on another forum I hangout on has just dug this out of his loft and booted it up.

Not quite sure what he's going to be doing with it now...