Mine was a old windows 98 dell its now in my basement since, I have xp now but, everything has change now.. lol
I have high speed internet, xp ect it's almost like saying the future is here

Lol, I'm not that old, only 16, but here's my first PC's specs:

24(Yes, that's right, 24) MB RAM;
I don't really remember what processor it had, Pentium something...;
24x speed CD-ROM drive(No burning );
2MB integrated video card;
And a 10 GB hardrive. xD

-JD

The first computer that *I* owned (as in - wasn't Mom's) was an IBM 386. The thing ran Win 3.x, but I miraculously pulled off an upgrade to Win 95 (boy, did that computer protest). I don't remember most of the specs at this point, but they were far from impressive by today's standards.

Even the keyboard was weird. I don't know if some of you remember IBM's earlier keyboards, but the thing had this massive, coiled cord. The keys were anything BUT quiet to the touch. Said keys also had caps over them with the letters/numbers/symbols painted on. I popped them all off (since I touch type) and the keyboard was a lot more comfortable for me to use. Not having marked keys drove everyone else nuts, though. Anybody who couldn't touch type just gave up.

It's the one I have now.

I got it this year.

533mhz intel pentium three.

384 mb ram.

really old mother board

30gig HD.

and ummm some crappy intregrated video card. i am upgrading with a new hard drive+processor and a new mobo for my birhtday probably. then on christmas im getting a new video card and 1 gig of ram.

i'm probably gonna get a new case and monitor too eventually.

sweet huh?

running windows 2000 btw.

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First Computer You Ever Owned

Not sure if they really qualify as computers or not, but I had a Vic20 and a Commodore 64. I remember typing reams of gobbledy gook to get a 5 second tone like "wind" from the thing, lol. Before that I used some old beast of a thing in school, typing BASIC commands. We sold popcorn at my school to raise money to buy it, one of the first Toronto schools to have a computer!! Then my mom bought a Tandy something or other from Radio Shack. The thing was phenominally expensive...I remember it was around $3600, and my mom bought it on a five-year plan! I used an IBM 386 and 486 for work, Harvard Graphics being the most exciting thing ever at the time. I left the "office" field just as Windows 3.1 entered the scene. My next PC was a Pentium 3, 533 with 4 GB HD (which I still use as a secondary in my kids' PC). I know have 3 desktops, and a laptop, in a household of two pre-teens and one adult. 1 runs 98, I XP Home, 1 XP MCE with tuner, and one Vista. 2 new desktops on the way for the kids, since most games won't run on their older AMD XP 2400. Both Vista, since they are "curious" kids, and Vista has great parental controls.

-electra

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First Computer You Ever Owned

Replying to ckuehner Mine was a radio shack TRS-80 -- that right, the trash-80. Remember when a modem was a little box that you had to lay an old phone receiver right on to? and we used cassette tapes to save everything. Had to program our own games too. Played text based games like hamurabi. Sooooo pathetic!

-reply by cin67

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First Computer You Ever Owned

Replying to ckuehner Mine was a radio shack TRS-80 -- that right, the trash-80. Remember when a modem was a little box that you had to lay an old phone receiver right on to? and we used cassette tapes to save everything. Had to program our own games too. Played text based games like hamurabi. Sooooo pathetic!

-reply by cin67

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First Computer You Ever Owned

Replying to mr ? impressive

You have Pentium III.

That is my favourite processor.

-reply by Manley

My first computer was running windows 98, had a whopping 1.5GB Hard drive, and a massive 32mb worth of ram. No Graphics card. And I can't remember what the CPU was, probably a p1 or p2

This post has been edited by saitunes: Oct 3 2008, 06:42 AM