Do you remember your first computer?

define "first computer".

if youre talking about the first computer I remember using, that would be sometime in 1992 when I was playing games like Prince of Persia at my grandparents' computer , I think it was a 386. I was also playing on a 486 games like Wolf3D at my other grandparents' house.

the first computer I actually owned though was in 1997 I believe , it was a Pentium 166 I think , 32Mb of RAM and a massive.... 8gb hard drive , which was probably the highest capacity drive we could find at the time. The amount of time I spent playing Starcraft and Tiberian Sun on it....

had Win95 in the begining , but ended up upgrading to 98SE , along with an extra 32Mb of RAM for good measure.

The first computer in our house was this old Apple (although I feel like it ran a DOS-like OS so that doesn't make sense) that had a 5.25 drive and monitor that was only capable of producing the color green.

The first computer that was mine and mine alone was a IBM 286. A local college was throwing away computers and my mom picked up this one and gave it to me. It had a 16 color screen. It was old when I got it and I remember the irony of suping up the modem with an old 33.6k one from our previous home PC that was like a 486. It was a fun machine. I used to make text adventures in QBasic and play BBS games on it.

I'm sorry to say I never took photos of my Commodore C-128 or numerous Commodore Amigas (from A500 up to A1200). Nor did I take photos of my early IBM-compatibles (Tandy 1000SX, Leading Edge 386SX-25).

However, I did take a photo of my first DIY which was assembled in 1992.

AMD 80386-DX40, AMD 80387 math coprocessor, Cirrus Logic ISA SVGA card, 1mb(?) RAM, ISA SB Pro sound card, 3.5" and 5.25" high density floppy drives, 52mb IDE hard drive

Plus a then brand new 1x CD-ROM drive - the reason why the photo was taken (in 1993).

A Magnavox Video Writer Processor. The thing was only good for typing, though. I think it had one "word game" on it which is all I pretty much used it for since I was too young to care about writing.

My childhood <3

Love the Chip's love.

Mine was a Compaq with Windows 3.1.1; a 1200 baud modem, and a 50mb HD. I couldn't tell you how much RAM or what the CPU clock speed was. This machine was from the early 90s ('91-92).

The only games I really remember playing were Sid Meier's Pirates, Doom 1/2, Wolfenstein 3D.

hmm.. i don't recall exactly what it was but remember it had a catridge slot or something on it.. would have been in like 1983/84/85 or something like that. i just remember playing some presidential trivia game on it.

after that we had a commodore 64 which i loved because we had a ton of games for it

my first x86 based system was an 8MHz 286 w/ like 640K of ram and like a 5 or 10MD HD running some version of MS-DOS that my father built which we had until like 1994/95. didn't have a ton of games for it but it ran the original civ so i can't tell you how many hours i logged on that badboy..

Yep!

• Pentium II 233 Mhz
• 32 MB RAM
• 3 GB HDD
• 8 MB S3 GPU

My dad bought this bad boy in the mid 80's. Cost like a $1000 lol. It had two 5 1/4 floppy drives that I would play classics like Might & Magic II on. I remember playing all the goldbox SSI D&D games on it in with its 16 amazing colors.

Ahhhhh, good times.

This beast be it. Complete with two floppy disk drives and this weird thing called a CD-drive. Also weighed a ton. Be jealous.

always wanted a Compaq when I was younger, mainly because of the huge red logo, lol.

Yeah, there's something about Compaq that makes it appealing. Windows 98. I still remember the monitor model: MV720.

One of the first things I tried with the computer was selecting all the icons on the desktop and pressing enter... it didn't end well.

386/33 with 265K RAM. Played Gorillas and Nibbles. Amazing for it's time.

Then we upgraded to a 486/66 with 1MB RAM. Played Doom II with the "beep boop" sounds. That was epic.

@chaoscougar1 said:

My childhood <3

Yes.

From one of, if not the, last colonies on Earth: Puerto Rico. People born here are US citizens, however.

@Master_Live: So I managed to be right AND wrong at the same time. I'm just that awesome.

@Allicrombie: My PC i think looked like yours, but i can't remember it. Played Rodent's Revenge, Ski free, Hover, a number of free games like Hugo's House of Horrors, some space games, Doom 1 and 2, if i remember correctly. i think it was a Pentium 2 with anywhwere between 8-64 megabytes of ram.

Commodore 64 with that big ass disc drive... ahh memories!!!

I don't remember the name, but it had DOS and it was an early 90's model i think

I just remember getting a PC (Windows 95) when I was 6 years old in 1997 with:

• Duke Nukem 3D
• Shadow Warrior
• Doom 1 & 2
• Mass Destruction

I wish I kept it. It would have been interesting to know what the specs of the machine were.

Yes, Windows 3.1.

Apple ll+

Bonus points for the Myst CD. My first desktop started with a key

Some "IBM compatible" 286 16mhz I believe. I think it had 20mb hard drive or maybe 40. My first game was some nightmare on elm street then later got commander keen and a gravis gamepad snes controller knock off.

I ran on dos and I had a file explorer called xtree. I remember installing kings quest 6 on like 10 floppy disks and I had to delete like everything else to fit it.

@br0kenrabbit said:

Yup.

Yeah, I remember playing on Commodore 64 in elementary school as my first computer when I was little. Then I remember having to play computer games from Apple II to Apple IIgs in special ed middle school. Then I had to play games on my uncle's first computer, called Windows 95. Those were the days I remember fondly. :)

Remember the computer games at school were just like green and black colors. My friend had Commodore 64. It's joysticks would work in my Atari 2600

@sammyjenkis898 said:

**** if I know the specs. It was Windows 3.1, and I played these two games constantly:

What is the name of that first game? I recently found the ski game. Those bring back some memories. :P

My first computer was a 286 hand me down way back in 1991.

I remember blueness

@kitty said:

@sammyjenkis898 said:

**** if I know the specs. It was Windows 3.1, and I played these two games constantly:

What is the name of that first game? I recently found the ski game. Those bring back some memories. :P

Chip's Challenge.

@sammyjenkis898 said:

@kitty said:

@sammyjenkis898 said:

**** if I know the specs. It was Windows 3.1, and I played these two games constantly:

What is the name of that first game? I recently found the ski game. Those bring back some memories. :P

Chip's Challenge.

Thanks :) I used to play these games all the time on a computer back in elementary school. I remember math munchers and number munchers as well. There are a few others, just cant think of them. It's been a super long time haha.

can't remember what brand it was or what specs it had. I know it ran MS-DOS and I remember playing a fair amount of Mach 3.