Tell us about the first computer you owned >Compaq Presario, dunno about the specific model >AMD Athlon 64, 1 gig of RAM, some shitty Nvidia gpu >was the family computer for a few years until my parents bought some all-in-one Dell thing >I inherited it and was free to do whatever on it >couldn't really play games of the time so it was basically my internet machine >installed Ubuntu on it for fun and tinkered with Rainmeter on Windows 7 >eventually got rid of it and got a laptop when I started uni
What was yours
Jordan Phillips
That same Compaq case, but with a low end core2duo, 2gigs of ram. Came with a CRT with a tiny ass screen, and really horrible speakers. Over time it got 5 gigs of RAM and an HD 4350
Colton Morris
Packard Bell 100 MHz Pentium, 16mb ram, 1gb HDD. Everything was proprietary. The motherboard sat horizontally at the bottom even though it was a tower case. It had one slot which was used for a riser card, and the riser card had the PCI and ISA slots on it. It was a nightmare to upgrade anything on it. Partly because I was a kid and partly because that motherboard was a piece of shit. Back then you had to deal with IRQ conflicts and Windows 95's shitty hardware detection.
Gavin Robinson
some fucking 286 machine that couldn't run wolfenstein because it had an ega vid card and not vga.
Jace Reyes
An Apple iie my dad bought from a sale at a retirement community or something. I don't have it anymore, which is a shame.
My first x86 computer was some Compaq presario with a 400mhz AMD k6-2 and 64mb ram. Remember putting a 30GB hard drive in and upgrading the ram to 128MB. And installing slackware on the thing eventually.
Adrian Martin
Flat CompaQ PC with 512mb of ram, 100gb hdd and 64mb nvidia graphic card. I never played games so it was really fine for that time
Grayson Howard
Amiga 600. It was a good machine.
Nolan Gray
>1 gig of RAM
WHOA RICHIE RICH OVER HERE
Robert Bell
IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium MMX @ 133MHz and 64MB? of RAM.
Blake Thomas
>Small white Compaq (about the size of an xbox) >Windows 2000 >Pentium III >128mb RAM Not sure about the GPU but it could run Age of Empires just fine. CRT and a mechanical keyboard of course
Blake Lopez
My dad brought one of these from work when I was like 2, it was originally the 486DX4 model but it was board swapped up to a Pentium 90 around 1995ish. Still have it in a neglected state, had it board swapped again up to a PMMX-166 with a pair of shitty Fujitsu disks and 32 MB of RAM.
Now I have a nice P90PCI that I'm slowly decking out eventually to use as my main DOS box.
Nathan Cook
1.4 ghz pentium 4 willamette 384 mb of ram some ati rage gfx card windows xp
was okay at first but ran like shit after a few years
my next pc was first gen core 2 duo that is still going strong 10 years later
Dylan Martin
386DX with 8 MB of RAM and 20MB hard drive (later upgraded to 40 MB that looked like a brick and was noisy as fuck), self built.
Isaac Barnes
Oh, it was an Am386DX-40.
Parker Morales
can't believe you could even still buy a 20MB drive by that time
sounds like a nice little poorfag build though, the DX-40 was a pretty good choice
Tyler Ross
Yeah, it was pretty much salvaged/discarded parts put together, but at least it was mine (and I miss the beige case for some reason).
Colton Ramirez
First personal computer was purchased from NCIX in 2001 - here's the original e-mail invoice:
NETLINK COMPUTER SYSTEM ยท AMD DURON 900MHZ PGA462 200MHZ FSB OEM THERMALTAKE VOLCANO III SOCKET 370(1.2G)/462(A)(1.3G) HEATSINK&FAN Up ECS K7SEM SIS730S SOCKET A UPTO 1.5GHZ ATA100 W/VID/SND/LAN/56K PC133 SDRAM 128MB 168PIN WD CAVIAR 30GB 7200RPM ATA/100 HD 3.5LP 9MS 2MB 1.44 MB High Density Floppy Drive LOGITECH INTERNET KEYBOARD OEM Logitech 2B NetMouse w/ Scrolling PS/2 Netlink 320K 18'' 300W ATX 4X5.25 3X3.5 BAY LG CRD-8521B 52X MAX EIDE ATAPI CD-ROM OEM AOPEN MS608 PRO TWO SPEAKERS 160W 1 Year Parts & 3 Years Labour Limited Warranty On System Components
Tyler Brooks
Don't know anymore, a custom pentium 4 probaly. My dad built it for me when i was 5 to play gta vice city
Jayden Hall
>when i was 5 to play gta vice city >I was 5 in 2002 >kids from 1997 are 20 now Fucking hell
Hunter Cooper
I was willing to turn a blind eye to this until you did the math. Thanks a lot, asshole.
Jason Wright
Gateway desktop >Pentium 4 with hyperthreading >2GB DDR >Dual dial up connection card >gigabit card >generic motherboard with Nvidia onboard graphics >connected to an 800x600 CRT monitor
That bad boy played world of Warcraft at 20 fps on the lowest possible graphics settings possible in non populated areas.
Jaxson Gonzalez
using a first gen core 2 duo as your main cpu, ishygddt
Caleb Diaz
First computer when I got into computing: 400mhz AMD K6 64MB ram which we paid some guy to upgrade to 128mb 4GB HDD 15 inch 800x600 Windows 98
But before that: 90mhz intel pentium 8mb ram 100mb hdd Windows 3.1 but I only ever played gorillas.bas on qbasic and paint on that system,
before that: Atari 1200XL, but I only ever played games that my parents got me that run off floppy disks.
Connor Hernandez
Same story.
Logan Williams
G3 powerbook
Matthew Perry
I've used boxes more destitute than his first system as daily drivers post-2010.
If you're not a child who falls apart without a constant stream of mind-numbing media and video games, it's perfectly doable.