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[Ventus]

Well you know everyone had a first computer, weather it was new or used. 

I myself obtained my very first computer back in 2002, it was a Dell Optiplex. I can't remember the exact model of it.

I but remember the specs of the system.

 

It consisted of-

Windows 98SE - OS (It had Windows 95 on it But I went ahead and I had a windows 98 disk on hand so I upgraded it)

Pentium II - 233 Mhz - CPU

256 MB - RAM

20 GB - HD

8 MB Nividia TNT (I think?) - Video

CD Drive

 

It was a pretty slow computer but it did play Doom 1&2 pretty great. And some other games to. 

Me being 10 years old thought this was a great computer. I even had a Gravis Gampad best thing ever!

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Man I'm feeling pretty nostalgic right now...

[The Satellite]

Our first family computer was either a Windows 95, though I don't entirely remember what it looked like. It was a solid machine, though, back in the days where dialup was all the rage. We'd progressed through the years, to a 98, to a ME (*shudders*), to an XP, and to a 7. Well, I'd gotten my first laptop in 2010, and that was before the 7 desktop. Then I got a new laptop last September which runs so much better, but my first laptop was good at the time. Ran better than my home computer, which was an XP. Then it became a piece of junk, and now this one's pretty nice, I'd say. Still have the old one, and occasionally pull it out if I need it for something, but that's rare.

[Hergiswi]

Ventus, I'm not kidding when I say I think the place I worked for 3 years is still using that computer (or something extremely similar to it). It was pretty sad.

 

I actually can't remember the first computer I personally ever owned. My dad introduced me to computers around the age of 2 because he realized how important they were becoming in society, so I've used tons and tons of them since I was a kid.

[Kite]

I don't remember the exact brand of the computer I first owned, but it was literally older than me when I got it sometime in the mid 90s. It was a hand-me down from my uncle and his family that was made in 1986. It had a really early version of DOS on it and used the actually floppy disks you could bend. There was no mouse since there really wasn't a need for one. It probably didn't have a hard drive since I remember doing almost everything, including initial booting, using floppy disks. I also accidentally overwrote the "fancy" word processor floppy disk containing Alphaworks trying to make a copy of it, so I was stuck using what I think was Edlin to write reports and such. The computer had no modem, so there was no internet (not that I could have used it if there were). The only game I had for it was an educational typing tutorial program that contained hangman and such (which could only be accessed by going though the tutorial every single time).

 

I eventually got an Acer Aspire with Windows 98 Second Edition in either 1999 or 2000 brand new. It only had 3 GB of hard drive space and the OEM install took up almost 2 GB of it, so that was fun. I remember literally running out of space trying to save quest files that were only ~300KB and getting corrupt files because of that. Still, while I had used Windows 95 a bit at school, making the jump at home from pre-Windows DOS to Windows 98 SE was kind of mind blowing for me.

[Anthus]

My first real computer that I called my own was also a Dell Optiplex model that I got sometime in 2007. It was the smallest one they made, and I think it was discontinued later that year. It had an Intel dual core processor, and 2 gigs of RAM, poop on board video (and no capacity whatsoever for any type of video/ sound card enhancements due to its tiny form factor), and a 40GB HDD which I actually used in my new computer I built. I'm a bit hazy on the exact specs, but I had Windows 2000 for ever, and I think the processor was only clocked at like 1.7GZh.

 

It lasted me a long time, and seemed like a good computer. I stopped using it when I bought a laptop in the summer of 2010, which then became my main computer till building this one at the end of last year.

 

Actually, even before that, I remember briefly using an old computer my dad had at his office which was a custom built model with a Pentium 2, and 1 gig of RAM, and Windows 98. The case from it was the one I later repainted with a NES controller theme.