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#1 samanthademeste
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My first computer was a windows 95.

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#2 d_parker
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A used Commodore 64 in around 1988. It was pretty sweet.

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#3 genius2365
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Haven't owned a computer yet ( too young), but the computer I'll remember growing up is a core 2 duo, gtx 275 my dad built me for graduation ( primary school). A bit old, but can max any none quad game.

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#4 ronvalencia
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My parents bought the Commodore-Amiga 500 around 1989.

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#5 Kendog87
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I dont remember then extact specs but my first note worthy pc had a Geforce 4400 TI

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#6 Steameffekt
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An old Windows ME machine around 98 I believe. I remember the specs too. 64mb of Ram, Celeron Processor, 30GB HDD. I loved playing Age of Empires on it. :D

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#7 jun_aka_pekto
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Commodore C-128

Tandy 1000SX

The two above sucked. So, I immediately followed them up with a Commodore Amiga A500.

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#8 genius2365
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An old Windows ME machine around 98 I believe. I remember the specs too. 64mb of Ram, Celeron Processor, 30GB HDD. I loved playing Age of Empires on it. :D

Steameffekt
Wow. 64 MB of RAM? Thank god I am growing up in a more modern age ( Next gen of people will complain how we only had 6GB of RAM)
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#9 DJ_Lae
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A Commodore Vic 20 followed by a Mac Plus. I do not miss that Vic 20, or (especially) its tape drive.
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#10 Installing
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The first windows computer I owned was:

Windows 98SE

Pentium 3 1.00Ghz

128MB RAM

integrated graphics

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#11 ChiliDragon
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Pentium II, running Windows 3.11 Those were the days... :)
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#12 katana_duo
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Commodore 64 for me, we even had a bunch of floppy discs with games and a cartridge of frogger. Good times.. The first real PC I had was a 2002 compaq presario with Celeron D, 512MB ddr333 and some generic intel graphics controller.
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#13 Ravenprose
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I bought my first computer in 1996:

Compaq Presario

  • Pentium 133MHz
  • 16MB ram
  • 4MB on-board video card
  • 1.5GB HDD
  • Win 95

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#14 Steameffekt
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I bought my first computer in 1996:

Compaq Presario

  • Pentium 133MHz
  • 16MB ram
  • 4MB on-board video card
  • 1.5GB HDD
  • Win 95

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Man what a Dinosaur. :P
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#15 Steameffekt
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[QUOTE="Steameffekt"]

An old Windows ME machine around 98 I believe. I remember the specs too. 64mb of Ram, Celeron Processor, 30GB HDD. I loved playing Age of Empires on it. :D

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Wow. 64 MB of RAM? Thank god I am growing up in a more modern age ( Next gen of people will complain how we only had 6GB of RAM)

Yeah. It was golden to me back then. I was able to run Jedi Outcast at a decent framerate.
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#16 Tezcatlipoca666
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The first PC I used was my fathers PC. All I remember is that it had MS-DOS installed. I played some games that he had from 5-1/4 floppy disks.

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#17 Zevante101
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a 98 emachines e-tower.

Not too old, and not bad in its time.

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#18 RisethNameless
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My first computer was a standard windows 95 desktop computer. I can't remember much about it though, I was 5 when we got it I think.

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#19 Bikouchu35
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Shared with brother, an old Sony Vaio

Pentium 2 333mhz

64mb ram

Ati rage intergrated 4mb.. Im assuming thats shared memory

win98, my god that thing crashes a lot. XP was a god send in comparison with stability.

8.5gb hdd, Always had drive space issue with fps games(maps). Amazing isnt it? An sd card holds the same memory for peanuts nowadays thats small as your fingertips. Couldnt even play counterstrike but team fortress classic was fine because of the limitation I played that game instead and had a blast with that. Also starcraft ran good on that lil thing.

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#20 rock_solid
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my parents had an IBM PCjr but i was never really into it. then i got my own pc. it was a 386SX/33. i remember it had 2MB of RAM and i upgraded it to 4MB. 2400 baud modem.
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#21 neogeo419
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IBM Aptiva 2176-133mhz Pentium, 16mb of ram, 2 gb hdd, ATI Mach64GT, Windows 95..Ran Duke Nukem 3D and Descent like a charm.

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#22 deactivated-579f651eab962
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I still have the 200mhz Pentium pc we bought back in 1995, I think it cost about £3000. Lolz. I was a beast though.

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#23 jun_aka_pekto
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IBM Aptiva 2176-133mhz Pentium, 16mb of ram, 2 gb hdd, ATI Mach64GT, Windows 95..Ran Duke Nukem 3D and Descent like a charm.

neogeo419

Ah, my first PCI video card. I bought it, wasn't happy. Then I tried an S3 trio64V+, same thing. I finally ponied up some cash and bought a Matrox Millenium.

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#24 DeX2010
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It was a Dell, I can't remember when, somewhere around 1998-2000. It was HUGE, wasn't meant for gaming, just cool to get my first computer though.
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#25 CUDGEdave
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Zx81 back in 1981, Oh the black and white days of gaming!

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#26 Rocker6
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Bunch of old timers,don't even know what most of that stuff means.I LOL'd when I read someone upgraded from 2MB RAM to 4MB RAM :P

I've been PC gaming since 2001,but the first PC I actually got was in 2005,a standard desktop PC,able to play games,wasn't built by me(back then,I had no PC understanding,I just wanted to play games),it served me nicely and played games decently,had Windows XP,1GB RAM,and 256MB Ati card,for the rest,can't remember,I think the CPU was Pentium 4.Lasted until 2007,when I bought a new one due to Shader Model 3.0,to play Bioshock and Crysis.Also,that 2005 PC went out with a bang,the PSU blew up last year,when I decided to try if it still works...

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#27 metacritical
Member since 2008 • 2537 Posts
Atari 800XL
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#28 gatorteen
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Well my first PC was built around 2002.

- Windows XP

- AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (Stock Heatsink)

- 30 GB Hard Drive

- 128 MB of Memory

- On-board graphics

- AGP 8x video card slot

- Knockoff white generic case

- 5.25 CD - ROM Drive

- 3.5 Floppy Drive

- 15 Inch CRT monitor VGA (Very Heavy)

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#29 gamerns
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The first computer we had in my house was a ZX Spectrum, back in the early 90s. 48K, baby!

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#30 whitey_rolls
Member since 2006 • 2547 Posts

It was an IBM that cost over $4,000 in 1994/5 I think.

It had windows 95

- Pentium 1, 133mhz

- 8 mb of memory

- 2.4 gigabyte hard drive

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#31 damann22
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First family desktop was a win 95 desktop (dont remember the specs)

First laptop was a pentium m 1.3 ghz, 512 ram, integrated graphics, 14inch screen

First desktop that I bought myself is my current one - 2500k, 6950 2gb, 1tb hard drive, 8gb ram

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#32 Installing
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back in 1981....

CUDGEdave

The year I was born. :o

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#33 howlrunner13
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First family desktop was a eMachines. 400MHz Celeron, 4GB harddrive, Rage Pro graphics, 64 MB RAM, all on a 15 inch CRT and Windows 98. I was pretty much the primary user, remember playing Homeworld and Starcraft on it. Those were the days, getting disconnected while playing Starcraft because someone calls the house (dial up) :lol:

But the first one that I really bought and considered mine was an Athlon 4000+, 2 GB DDR 400 RAM, a 7600GT, 250GB HD, and a 17 inch CRT. (which was quickly replaced by a 22inch LCD)

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#34 CUDGEdave
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[QUOTE="CUDGEdave"]

back in 1981....

Installing

The year I was born. :o

Lol! Yep i'm an old gamer! :?

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#35 silversix_
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What i have now. First evaaaa.
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#36 DieselCat18
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1999 Compaq Presario 4xxx something refurbished

375 Mhz AMD-K6 processor

32mb ram SyncDRAM

8Gb HDD

2 MB video memory

56K modem

Windows 98SE

19" Compaq CRT monitor + speakers(beautiful screen)

*+

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#37 vfibsux
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I had 386SX 33mhz with 1mb of ram, a 512k video card, and like a 256mb hard drive or something like that lol. I upgraded it to 4 mb for like $300 or something stupid like that if I recall correctly. Was like 1994. Craziness lol.

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#38 GummiRaccoon
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My first computer was a windows 95.

samanthademeste

wat

Also my first computer was an 8088

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#39 entropyecho
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My dad bought our family an IBM XT personal computer back in the '80s.

I have fond memories of helping my dad drill holes on the top left corners of 3.5" diskettes to increase their capacity. :lol:

/nostalgia

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#40 gmaster456
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The first computer I could actually call mine.

It was a Gateway G6-350 made sometime in 1998.

Windows 98 SE

Pentium ll 350mhz

64mb RAM

6gb HDD

STB Velocity 128 8mb

It's what got me into Computers and Gaming.

I don't even know how many hundreds of hours I spent playing Roller Coaster Tycoon on that thing. Oh the memories.

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#41 gmaster456
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[QUOTE="Steameffekt"]

An old Windows ME machine around 98 I believe. I remember the specs too. 64mb of Ram, Celeron Processor, 30GB HDD. I loved playing Age of Empires on it. :D

genius2365
Wow. 64 MB of RAM? Thank god I am growing up in a more modern age ( Next gen of people will complain how we only had 6GB of RAM)

A clean install of Windows 98se on 64mb of RAM ran about as fast as Windows 7 on 4gb. It was actually quite snappy.
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#42 GummiRaccoon
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Pentium II, running Windows 3.11 Those were the days... :)ChiliDragon

That is quite a mismatch.

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#43 GummiRaccoon
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[QUOTE="genius2365"][QUOTE="Steameffekt"]

An old Windows ME machine around 98 I believe. I remember the specs too. 64mb of Ram, Celeron Processor, 30GB HDD. I loved playing Age of Empires on it. :D

gmaster456

Wow. 64 MB of RAM? Thank god I am growing up in a more modern age ( Next gen of people will complain how we only had 6GB of RAM)

A clean install of Windows 98se on 64mb of RAM ran about as fast as Windows 7 on 4gb. It was actually quite snappy.

except harddrives were abysmally slow and loud.

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#44 Bruin1986
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An old Mac from around 1993 or so. All I really remember about it was playing "Lemmings" on it for hours lol. Anyone else play this?

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#45 dramaybaz
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First Computer was a Windows 95? Does not compute.
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#46 WWIAB
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The first windows computer I owned was:

Windows 98SE

Pentium 3 1.00Ghz

128MB RAM

integrated graphics

Installing

That was the first computer that I remember owning fully

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#47 MrJack3690
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I believe we (My family) first had an HP running Windows 95. then I'm not sure what make the second desktop we got was but I know it had Windows 98.

After that we got a compaq with Windows XP (had a 40GB Hard Drive and 256 MB of RAM) and then we got a Dell desktop with pretty much the same specs I believe, but it was a slightly smaller tower.

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#48 kraken2109
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The first computer that belonged to me was a toshiba laptop running ME with a 1024x768 14" screen, 700mhz (i think) pentium 3 cpu, 128mb ram, 8mb integrated graphics, 10GB HDD.

I ran HL, AOE2, Empire earth, RA2 all fine on it.

My next one was an acer with 1.6ghz pentium 4 M, 256mb ram, 16mb integrated, 20GB HDD on XP. I ran Halo CE on it. The glass textures were broken and not transparent but it ran the game ok.

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#49 Diwashb
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My first computer was a windows 95.

samanthademeste
Pentium 4 :) and i am still rocking it after 7 years. :D