For the geeks: Your first PC

[bobsmith]

My first was a Pentium 100Mhz system with 8Mbytes of RAM with Windows 95 in 1996 in Korea. I was one of the first around my block to have windows 95 and well it didn't get used much for a while as most of the games and programmes my computer savvy friends back then had were for DOS. It soon got updated with 16Mbytes of memory and stayed with me for 2 years until it got replaced by a pentium 3 1Ghz machine in 1998 or 1999. Since then I've switched to AMD and currently have a AM2 dual core machine.

[Flyingpony]

The Sega SC-3000 perhaps?

** Does a quick Google **
Yes it was (at least according to my fading memory of it) (linky), with the rubbery keys. Got it 2nd hand back in the early 90's.

[k14]

Can remember the day when all the parts arrived fairly clearly. I had an AMD XP1600+ (palomino core), 256mb ram, 40gig hd, geforce 3 ti200 ($550 worth), 4 speed cd writer too, very speedy....

[ManDownUnder]

In this order

ZX81
C64
IBM clone, 40MB HDD 1 MB RAM, paper white mono screen

Successive series of work machines/notebooks.

[Skunk]

Built from scratch from plans in a magzine. 4Mhz, 64k ram. No hard drive - just a modified tape drive. Programmed in BASIC or machine code. This was about 1978...

[Drunken Monkey]

A Spectravideo 328 or something like that. One of those old MSX based thingies that died out around the mid-eighties. Coolness. Not. I guess it was technically better than the Atari 2000....

[crashe]

Vic 20 - Sold it.
Commodore 64 - Still have all the games and the printer, ran it throu the 14" tv. GEOS was the way to go before microsoft hit town.
(plus still have 2 containers full of floppy discs - some naughty ones too..... lol)

Windows 3.1 - Ex-parliament computer. Still have instructions on how to operate it etc - then upgraded to.
Also got a HP Laserjet4L printer - Now all these years later I have to replace the toner or look at getting another printer. $$$$$$
windows 3.11 - Then upgraded to another machine.

Windows 95 - buggar all gigabytes, 32 RAM memory and 333 CPU - since then I upgraded a few times to get the following....
Windows 98se - 20 Gigabyte and 64 RAM memory - Now I have the following.....
Windows 2000 - 80 gigabytes, 256 RAM memory and 500 CPU

I also stilll have all the discs to load up Windows 95 about 50 of them to load it all on.

[onearmedbandit]

C64 with tape drive. Oh how I remember waiting 45mins until you turned the tape over to continue loading Guantlet, only for it not to work so you would reload it again.

[Hillbilly]

1st PC? A "PC General" Pentium 120 w/32 Mb 60ns EDO Ram, 512Kb L2 cache and 1.2gb HDD. I then upgraded the S3 Trio 64 graphics card to a Creative Graphics Blaster w/2MB V-Ram and then a Creative 3D Blaster with the Rendition Verite V1000 chipset and a 40ns EDO ram. Ooooo.... 3d acceleration at it's best! (V-Quake anyone?) Also upgraded the mother board to get the "new" Pentuim 200 (before MMX) and added a second HDD - the massive 2.5 Gb 5" Quantum "Bigfoot".

[Mental Trousers]

zx 81

[Swoop]

I doubt that an Atari 2800 with both joystick AND paddle controllers gets an inclusion in this geekathon.

Some kind of apple machine at school...
C64 - cheers Meatbomb!
Commodore AT/XT (5-1/4" floppy A & B drives!).
*cringe*

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Our school had Apple II, and then upgraded to BBC Micro...

[Mom]

Commador 64............learned to write BASIC.........think i may have managed to create a primitive ball and bat type game thing...... wish i had not admitted that somehow.......first real computer was a HUGE thing installed at the BNZ i worked at, that would have been early 80's

[bane]

my dad bought a Dick Smith "System 80" in 1979 (cost >$1000 at the time, a lot of money!). Based on the Radioshack TRS80, it had 16kB ram, green mono screen, and a tape drive. Even with only 16kB ram to play with, still had over 500 games.

By 1982, it had been upgraded to 64k ram, and had a DD disk drive. Last update it had in 1985, was a 10meg HD...(wow), and a 1200 baud modem to connect to a bulletin board called Tinkerbell.

My first PC was a Franklin Ace 1000 (copy of a Apple IIe - in fact Apple shut them down in a court case). Cost me $50 in 1987...

ah the memories

[Joni]

Im showing my age... but my first was a 486 - 100Mhz