what was your first computer? - Page 2

I was told they are basicly worthless.

Lets see, I was raised on a Atari 800 for our serious computer. Later we got a Commodore 128 and 64. My dad built a kickin 486 66MHZ with 16mb of ram (SIMMS 60pin IIRC) 3gbh hdd. Shortly after that I built my own machine (in the 3rd grade) 386 DX 33mhz with math co-processor, 80mb hdd 4mb of ram, 2x cd-rom, and eventually a 100mb parallel zip disk drive w/ 2gb of disks.

First laptop was some brand I cant remember 8086 8mhz 640k of ram and a tiny screen. It was ripped off when my house was burgled

a 386

TRS-80 my parents bought me because they thought computers were going to be the thing of the future and they wanted me onboard. Cassete drive and floppy drive. Mainly I played games on it, but I did write some code when I was, I don't know < 10. That was pretty awesome of them as we weren't rolling in it. My first 'real' computer was my 486 DX 33 Mhz -- the DX was a special option as I needed the math coprocessor. 8MB RAM, 220MB HDD. Three grand. One day I upgraded it to a 1 GB HDD and was all that. It served me well for probably seven years, then I got my still-favorite, a PIII 733 Mhz Coppermine machine, with 128MB RDRAM, dual 30 gig drives, Matrox dual-head graphics card, TV tuner card, and my Altec ADA880 speakers which just died and I'm sad about. Awesome system, still on my network running XPpro beautifully. ~ Huntsman

and then upgraded to an Apple II le:

PETs, etc., in good working condition were selling for a few hundred dollars on Ebay when I last checked. More common systems like the C64 and C128 fill the shelves at Goodwill.

Man you guys are old school. My first was a Gateway 2000 Pentium-166. My next door neighbor was the first I knew with a PC, had one of those old Tandys from Radio Shack in the early 90s. I bugged my mom until she got ours in 1996.

AST Advantage 486 from Costco.

I had a 8086 that had an attached monitor that was CGA compatible. 512k total memory with two 3.5 inch drives.

I think I had an MS-DOS.

packard bell. Don't remember the exact model though.

I can't remember what brand it was, but I do remember having to learn MS-DOS, Lotus, Harvard Graphics and Wordstar. When Win 3.1 came about, I used up all my savings then to buy a 386dx, with a whopping 512kb hard drive, 14" crt monitor, a 12x cd-rom drive, and a telephone modem. I was teh pc king in our 'hood, yo! But if you expand the definition of "computer" this is my first...

The earliest one I can remember, though I'm sure my family had older ones, is an IBM 286. I would play King's Quest V, Wolfenstein 3D, and MS Flight Simulator on it. Which were at least as much fun when I was 7 as anything out these days.

Dell XPS Intel Pentium 200 mhz MMX