I had an old 486 which still runs.

I'm 21. The first one I can remember using is an Atari 800XL when I was about 3 or 4, although my dad say I was playing games on an old TI since I was 2. First PC I used was an XT clone. 10 mhz, 640k RAM.

First computer I bought myself was a 200mhz Pentium MMX. It was the fastest Pentium available and remained that way for a whole week and a half after I bought it.

1993.... 486/33SX Still have it somewhere. May make a good shooting target.

I'm 23. My first computer was a 286 with 2 MB of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive running DOS 3.3. I think it was '87 or '88.

26 and counting.

The first "computer" I used was a tandy something or other.. Everything except the tape drive was inside the keyboard. Went out to a tv monitor I believe.

First pc was a 386-16 with 4mb of ram. I was the cool kid on the block with that kind of speed.

BUMPED BACK FROM THE DEPTHS!!!!

Old Tandy 1000. 640k, dual floppies, VGA graphics, 2.5 MHZ processing power.

Games:

Dark Castle

Dr J. vs. Larry Bird 1 on 1

F-15 strike pilot (which, ironically, had you bomb Iraq.)

Lotus v 1.1, baby. Woot!

I'm 20. Let's see.....first computer I used was the old Macintosh's in elementary school. First computer I had was a pentium 133 MHz.

C64, then a Laser 128k Apple compatable.

Icky.. Those days.

First PC was a 486sx25, 4Megs of Ram.
Added 4 more megs after xmas.

-SF

I was probably 45 when I used my first computer....an IBM dumb terminal connected to an IBM-370 H-mainframe...with "unlimited storage capacity" This is one of the current fortune 300 companys, and you can not believe your eyes when you walk onto the floor and see what looks like acres of large hard drives....(they look like R2D2 standing in rows) plus a robotic tape system for backup.

My first personal computer was this 1998 Dell V350 that I got when I was 65.

First computer I had was a gateway p5-120. $3500 for that piece of trash that couldn't run video with sound at the same time.

I'm 39

all the old Apples were available and we had classes writing BASIC in math

I had an Apple IIc+ for years that my wife wrote all of her law school papers on in the late 90's, with that old loud dot-matrix printer

I think it was an 1997 P3 500 MHz EMachines? I dunno.
Boy, that thing sure was slow.
Probably in the garage collecting dust

Macintosh IIci
$1800
1987-88??
System 6.0
8MB RAM
160MB HD
I had a small business that I ran on the thing, simple spreadsheets, and graphics programs.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RY4M-AKHS/macIIci.jpg

First computer I used was an Apple II, and then the Comodore PETs. First computer I owned was an Amiga 500.

Timex Z-80

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i'm 20, and the first computer i played games on was a commodore 64 when i was 6 or 7. as far as actual use goes, it wasn't until i was 11, in middle school, and all i know was it was an ibm POS. as far as a pc goes, my first was at 14

Man. Way back in the day. I was about four or five, so that would make the machine about 15 years old. Probably a 386 or something. The only thing I remember about it was playing hangman on it :)

My dad said I started on a TI 99/4A, but my earliest memories are of an Atari 800XL that I used when I was 3. I'd type in BASIC games from books.

I just found one the other day at a Goodwill for 10 bucks, and I ordered a power supply for it in eBay. That's gonna bring back some good memories when I fire it up. :)

First computer I ever _used_ was a Microdata mini circa 1981 with the never-popular PICK operating system. I was a journalism major hired to put a software company's manuals in some kind of reasonable shape. I learned. Had a big ADDS Regent B/W terminal that pretty much ate my desk.

As a writer, even the minicomputer's limited text editing and formatting capabilities appealed to me, so in '82 I brought a used Apple II+ with two single-sided 160K disk drives, an Epson MX-80, an 80-column card, a modem card, a Microsoft CP/M card, and a bunch of used software. Cost $2500 for the package; at the time, a steal. Used it mainly for word processing, and heavily. Me and WordStar -- we were real close.

Sure don't miss that 300-baud modem, though. Painful.

You had 8 megs of ram on a 286?!? I envy you!

My 5th computer was a Tandy w/ a Intel 486sx-25, it only had 8 megs of ram!

-SF

I bought a 386 for $600 back in '94/95 not sure when. I got gipted(sp?) for sure.

I ran Doom II on it at about 15 fps :D

Don't remember all the specs but I had these:

1996 - 386 that I upgraded to a 486 and upgraded from windows 3.11 to Win 95

1998 - Bought and built my first pc. a 233mhz AMD K5. Ran Quake 1 really crappy. I put in a Voodoo 1 in it with a ATI all in wonder.

1999 - AMD K6 w/3Dnow! 400mhz with a Voodoo 3 which I still have around. Needs a hard drive. Ran Q2 great and Unreal like a dream. That machine kept me entertained for a long time.

2001? - AMD T-Bird 1.2 with a GF3 MX400. I think I already had HL2 installed on the previous computer. I wet my pants when I upgraded to this.

2003 - AMD XP2500 w/ FX5600 256mb. This machine the first to dissapoint me. Ran everything else ok. Not much of a difference from the previous machine except that it ran UT2k4 like crap for some reason.

Now - AMD FX53 w/ ATI X800 Pro. I wet my pants every day :D

I know that this thread was about the first PC ever own but it brought back memories.

IBM 360 with 1MB of core ram, card sorter and IBM keypunch/tape combo using BASIC and Fortran.

50.

The first computer I used was an old 286 with a whopping 8Mhz of processing power and a whole 4MB of ram, with a 20MB hard drive, CGA monitor, and a 9600 BPS modem. I was about 3 at the time, back in '87. A that point, I could read really basic stuff and didn't really do much with the computer other than a few games. My father taught me to use computers at an early age, and I was able to type by the time I was 5, and around that time I started gaming, with good old Mega Man, Qbert, Space Invaders, stuff like that. I first beat Zork when I was 6 or 7, and I've since regressed to the point where I can't get past the stupid snake or the dwarf that throws axes. For school, I used that computer for word processing (good old WordPerfect)

In second grade (around age 8) , I got my first computer, one that my uncle's workplace was throwing out. It was a step up, a portable computer with a 10Mhz processor and EGA graphics. It had a keyboard that attached to the case and covered the monochrome LCD screen. It was the first computer I fixed, changing switches and jumpers until the LCD actually worked, although I usually connected an external monitor. It had Xwrite, Civilization (the first game I hacked, changing the credits and in-game messages by using "edlin" to rewrite lines of text files,) Duke Nukem, and Commander Keen 3 and 5.

I finally let my mom convince me to get rid of the old portable comp three or four years ago, and my biggest regret is that I didn't save backup copies of the original Civ or Commander Keen.

Commodore 64, I learned basic on it and then they came out with some utility, I don't remember what it's called, where you type programs like 2G5, 743, 294, 210, 204. It would piss me off so bad after typing a program for a game for 3 or 4 hours and it not work, then trying to proofread all those numbers on a shitty 16 color monitor. It had some kickass games on 5 1/4" floppys though, I had Indiana Jones, One On One Dr.J vs Larry Bird, some Olympics game, and a bunch of others. We used to copy them from each other at elementary school for a dollar.

Apple II ... don't remember the year but it was a new computer.

My first computer was either an 8088 or an 8086 XT IBM clone.

Boy, reading through a thread like this makes me feel very old. Some people had their "first" experience by the time I had my own kids, yikes.

The first "real" computer I had (word processing, etc) was an Apple IIc that my parents bought in the early 80's. (I think I am 32, no, I turn 32 this year, yeah that's the ticket)

On the other hand, my daughter's first computer was a PIII (850Mhz) when she was 3 1/2.