Well, my first ever computer was Commodore 64 (rev B I think)...

I got it in 1989 or 1990, when I was about 8 years old... I know it was expensive as hell, and that we could buy a laundry washing machine for that kind of money

Anyway, it had base of 640K RAM, youc could attach a hard disk of some sort to it, but I never saw it... I used a tape drive, for ordinary audio casettes, I had Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive (5 1/4" floppies)... Two joysticks, and a 2400bps modem

Of course, it hooked to a TV instead of a monitor... And I know, I could run any game made for commodore... No need for more powerfull graphics cards, or stronger and faster processor... everything could be run on it...

I first learned to programm in BASIC on that computer... I still have it somewhere, but I think it's not working anymore poor thing... He served me well

Then came 286, 386, etc

Ouch. 5.24 inch floppy drive?? That's huge.

I remember Gates saying that 1 MB is all the space one will ever need forever. Ha. Now, they have 1 TB drives.

You should have kept that computer though. It might be worth something later on.

My first computer? Anybody remember a big box called a "PC Junior"?

It had two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and NO hard drive! I started out by learning something called Disk Operating System (DOS) version 3.0 and played "PONG" until my eyeballs hurt from being bloodshot every night!

Months later, I learned QBasic and was able to move on to some more fun things like saying, "Hello World!" Sort of reminds me of reading, "See Spot. See Spot run." But now I digress and am dating myself...

Today, I have many computers. My top three producers are;
1) (PIII-850MHz, 256MB RAM, 2775XDVD, purchased for Xmas of the year 2000) My trusty Toshiba laptop that goes everywhere I do.
2) (AMD Duron 1.1GHz, 1GB RAM, Off the shelf home built, configured, and loaded for bear) My "Base Unit" which carries the dubious duty of testing everything and anything before being deployed on any other computer (One of mine or of the ministry where I volunteer helping with their network, website and desktop issues), with the exception of my Linux machine.
3) (An older PII-350, 64MB RAM, an old 4.6GB HDD, which has had many different flavors, or distributions, since its "rebirth" experience) My Linux machine.


P.S. - Sorry for the empty first draft. I couldn't see where to type my post.

i own my first computer in 2003
it is p4 and is really fast and still going good
configuration is- p4 1.8 ghz, 256 ram, 845 intel original motheboard, 120gb hdd, dvd-rom,cd- rw
i m happy with it:)

I have gutted my oldest computer.

It was a Pentium, the older pin processors (before the Pentium 2 cartridges and the Pentium 3 pin processors). It had somewhere around 33 MHz if I recall correctly? It ran Windows 3.1.

This was in 1994, We upgraded to Windows 95 the next year. Same computer, then we got a crappy early Pentium 3 (or a late Pentium 2?) which ran Win 98. I still used the older one, it was the best . Asteroids, Battletanks, Centipede, I owned all of my dad's arcade favorites on it. Great machine.

I really should try to scrap together some old parts and put that thing back together. Just for nostalgia's sake.

BTW, I was 3 at the time we got it .... all I did was play the games, but when I was 4 I started using it more.

Since then I have used all Windows and Mac OS's since 1995, as my school used Mac computers.

I know I had one before, pretty sure an older IBM 386, but the one I remember is an old Gateway 2000 486 Pentium that ran Windows 3.1.

It sat flat on our desk and had a floppy and CD. I begged my parents for a zip drive when I realized how many things I could store on that one super-size floppy.

The IBM ran on DOS and had a 5.2 Floppy that I could play puzzle solving games and reader rabbit. It chirped really loudly because it didnt have speakers and the sound card (whatever it was) was internal.

I think the IBM was from when I was 8 or 9 and the Gateway 11-13. I was too young to remember any more details.

Geh... the first computer!? I have the worst memory ever, but I think it ran on Windows 98. Or maybe that was the second oldest... >_> But I remember one of the old computers we had didn't even have a standard floppy disk drive. Instead, it ONLY supported those mega floppy disks (I don't know their exact names, but they were basically these humongo 'disks').

We had a 24k modem at the time (which is completely horrifying to imagine right now XD) and the graphics were... eh... pretty bad. All I remember playing on the computer was Packman. And I think that was the ONLY game the computer was capable of running. What a scary thought...

Hewlett packard, the worse computer company in the world, we had it where the that windows tips boxed stayed frozen with in the windows, then we went gateway 2000 it had a pretty good run until we started having are problems with it and now we have a dell and its bene pretty good to us so far.

I had my first computer about 8 years agoo
It was a
Pentium 166mhz ,
32 MB RAM

It wasnt that bad for a first pc, i still know the first night i had the pc i played all night long PacMan
I had sowmutch fun.
And then it happend, a few hours after i got my new pc it already had a virus
I was terri