First computer you ever bought?

[rocklobster]

What was the first computer you ever had? Mine was the Commodore Vic20. Yeah, I know. It was useless, even back then. We didn't know that back then, okay?

[Kaligraphic]

Ho, a fellow Commodore user. I started on the C64. Fun times.

[Slater]

First computer I shared with my dad. That was back in... 1991. Cost 1700 USD for... oh, I dunno... 20 MB with 1024 KB RAM? oh, and don't forget Win 3.x and AfterDark (zomg screensavers!!!)

hahaha, how times have changed...

[rsnumber2]

First computer I bought was a 1999 Rev A Blue and White Apple G3 running OS 8.6, with matching 17" CRT Cinema Display. I still use it everyday as my main computer. Originally a 350mHz/DVD Rom/256Meg/6gig. I am now running OS 10.3 and have since replaced the motherboard with a Rev. B, added 512 megs more ram, replaced the optical drive with a CDRW, added two more hard drives equaling 100 gigs, and swapped out the processor with a XLR8 (Daystar Technologies) 500 Mhz G4 chip. The chip is now overclocked to 600 Mhz and the cache speed running 3x. (I 'm pretty sure the cache is running 3x, it's been too long since I set it.)I plan on using it for another 2 years, if it can make it that long... My family had two computers before then, 1990 or so, but they were homebuilt pieces that gave us more headaches than progress. It did have a color dot matrix though!

By the way, Daystar is a Christian company, and great to do business with!

[Radical Dreamer]

I think the first computer we had in the house was a Compaq. One of those that had the horizontal CPU. XD We always had a lot of computers filtering through my house, though, since my dad's old job always netted slightly used (and cheap or free) computers for us. XD

[Mr. Rogers]

My first one was a LeadingEdge. Had 640k of RAM and not just one, but two 5 1/4" floppy drives. Hard drives were pretty expensive in those days, so we didn't have one. It ran MS-DOS. Good stuff.

[Mithrandir]

Hmm... I think the first one I *bought* was the Apple IIgs, but I had a previous hand-me-down knock off based on the 8088 (yup, not the 1,2,3,4,5, or 686). I think I still have the IIgs... Somewhere. I think it's a Woz sig ed.

[Warrior4Christ]

I think it was a 386 (maybe 33MHz?), 4MB RAM, 40MB HDD (Doublespace/Drivespace FTW!), VGA monitor capable of 800x600 at maybe 72Hz (was more fiddly to set in Win 3.1). (That might have been SVGA? Not sure..)

Oh look! There's MEMMAKER.EXE! Lets run that lots of times to get lots of memory! Maybe we can make enough spare memory that we can take out a stick of RAM and sell it! And then make some more!

[Kenshin17]

Hm...first computer I actually was on (and gamed on) was an old school AST 386 I believe. It had a 66mhz cpu, something like 8 megs (my dad uped it to 24megs) of RAM (SIMM RAM ) and a 512 meg HDD. I used to play Tie Fighter on it all the time.

Later my Dad upgraded the CPU to a blazing 133 mhz. The thing had a passive heatsink XD. He may have upgraded the HDD eventually, not sure.

The first computer I actually bought myself was a Toshiba Tecra laptop (I had had two laptops before that one). Thing had 32 or 64 megs of built (can't remember for sure) in RAM and could handle 160 or 192 megs max, in one expansion slot that could handle a 128 meg mem module. It had a four gig hard drive, a four megabyte video chipset and a 1024x768 LCD. It was easily over an inch thick and weighed probobly close to my new 17" MacBook Pro. It was a tank of a computer though and as far as I know its still going. I forget how much I paid for it. Close to 300 I think.

[Shao Feng-Li]

My first computer was a laptop my dad got from work. A Dell Latitude CPi. Came with Windows 98. I forced it into retirement when I took a screw driver to it a few weeks ago XD

[Kenshin17]

Incidently I used to game a lot on the Apple II we have. Its still in our storage trailer somewhere....