Your first Computer

#1 Postby **cycloneye** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:45 pm

Many right now have their second,third or fourth computer but some are right now with their first PC.I have now my second PC which is 3 weeks old.

My first one was a dell dimension 2700.

southerngale · #2 Postby **southerngale** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:55 pm

My first one was a hand me down and I don't even remember the brand. lol
It didn't last long though as it was very slow! I bought a new Monorail, a generic with very few problems...only had to update a few inexpensive things in 4 1/2 years.

Then the hell on earth computer that I had custom built and paid out the butt for from a scumbag thief. He built me crap from many used parts, took my money, sold his business about 2 weeks later and ran off to the Philippines. At that same time, he upgraded my old Monorail. It is very crappy as well with constant error messages, blue screens and it has to be restarted at least once a day as the resources get very low. I've seen it get under 10% before. Both of them are garbage but I just got the custom built one back from someone else who has supposedly fixed it. I haven't hooked it up yet though. I'm on my brand new Dell Dimension 4700 and planning a mission to the Philippines.

Website · #3 Postby **Brent** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:57 pm

It was an Aspire Acer something 500 MHz... don't ask LOL

Got it for Christmas in 1999 and it lasted for about 3 years. Have had this Hewlett Packard 2.4 GHz since February 2003

#4 Postby **pojo** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:10 pm

compaq presario 1300 in 2001...

My newer computer is over a year old now.

#5 Postby **streetsoldier** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:24 pm

A 6GB CyberMax...one of the companies that dropped off the face of the earth 3 months after we got it in May of 1999.

DoctorHurricane2003 · #6 Postby **DoctorHurricane2003** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:37 pm

I've had two computers...about to get my third:

1st: Got in 1994...hand me down...AST Vision 33 MHz SX (I think that sounds right?)

2nd: Got in 1999...Gateway Essential 500 with a bagillion upgrades...lol 500 MHz Pentium III Processor though.

3rd: Getting this year...Dell Inspiron 5100 (I think) notebook with a 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 Processor and 60 GB hard drive.

#7 Postby **alicia-w** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:53 pm

Mine was a Heathkit H-8 that I built myself....this was in the late 70s/ early 80s

http://www.decodesystems.com/heathkit-ads.html

#8 Postby **vbhoutex** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:59 pm

A Radio Shack Tandy1000 which I think had 16k memory. I believe we bought that in 1987.

#9 Postby **alicia-w** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:00 pm

uh oh, i think our age is showing....

#10 Postby **vbhoutex** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:05 pm

alicia-w wrote:uh oh, i think our age is showing....

NO KIDDING!!!!! :eek:

Website · #11 Postby **Brent** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:17 pm

alicia-w wrote:uh oh, i think our age is showing....

'Ya think? :lol:

#12 Postby **alicia-w** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:19 pm

wise acre....

i really had to stop and think that i've been working with computers for over 26 years! wow

Miss Mary · #13 Postby **Miss Mary** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:20 pm

We've had nothing but Macs in our house....our first was this tiny thing.....looked like a black and white portable TV you'd put on a kitchen counter, it was that small. We gave it to a nephew.....wonder if he still has it.

Mary

#14 Postby **PurdueWx80** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:50 pm

We had a Commodore 64 back in the 80's and early 90's. After it died I think we had an IBM leftover from my aunt. Later my parents got a Compaq, as did I in college. They now have a Dell and I use a Mac iBook.

CentralFloridaGal · #15 Postby **CentralFloridaGal** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:03 pm

Mine was a Timex Sinclair 1000. 2k RAM with about a 3MHz CPU. Ran off of a tape player. Only game I could play was Big Flap Attack.

Second machine was my beloved Commodore 64. EA Winter Sports and Zork fans, unite!

Fast forward a whole bunch of years and machines (most of which are saved for a technology museum I'd like to open one day, along with every single AOL disk ever received - including the DOS version :lol:

), and I'm loving my Pentium 4 Gateway w/256 MB RAM. Meets all my current needs and runs like a dream (with exception to the XP-targeted viruses last year. Yay.). Running a wireless network off of it. Hubbie's stuck with the Dell, and eldest daughter has the off-the-shelf HP. Neither of them are allowed to touch my machine :wink:

#16 Postby **CaptinCrunch** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:05 pm

Pong, need I say more?

CentralFloridaGal · #17 Postby **CentralFloridaGal** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:06 pm

southerngale wrote: Both of them are garbage but I just got the custom built one back from someone else who has supposedly fixed it. I haven't hooked it up yet though. I'm on my brand new Dell Dimension 4700 and planning a mission to the Philippines.

ROFL!! Seeking retribution for the BoS, eh? (blue screen of death)

#18 Postby **DaylilyDawn** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:08 pm

This is my first computer, a HP Pavillion 7865 with a 80GB hard drive. It came with WIN ME as tha operating system and only 128 mb of memory. With that amount of memory, ME was as slow as a turtle in molasses on a cold day. I doubled the memory after I found a PC help forum and posted about my slow WIN ME. Since then I have doubled that amoun to max out the memory this computer will handle. I also upgraded to XP. We bought this computer in June 2001 after my youngest son exposed us to computers when he came home from boot camp.

HurricaneGirl · #19 Postby **HurricaneGirl** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:09 pm

My first computer was a piece of crap. :roll:

CentralFloridaGal · #20 Postby **CentralFloridaGal** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:10 pm

alicia-w wrote:Mine was a Heathkit H-8 that I built myself....this was in the late 70s/ early 80s

http://www.decodesystems.com/heathkit-ads.html

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