First computer?

[TheRash]

A Gateway 2000.

Back in 1997 my entire family took a trip to Springfield Missouri to the nearest Gateway store. It was quite the event. My parents met with a Gateway rep and they chose the perfect "Home Computer". I remember my dad saying it cost two thousand dollars....1997 dollars. My family had that computer for almost 4 years before it took a giant shit and died. I still remember some of the games it had, one being "A Bridge Too Far" basically Age of Empires except WW2. Also it had the original Age Of Empires.

Then in 2004 I bought a Dell while in college. It lasted a few years, maybe 4, then it took the same giant shit and died as well.

 

[djacobox372]

 

[The Hash Slinging Slasher]

Gateway...box looked like a cow

I remember those. My parents bought 2 of them for their business. They were my family’s first computers.

 

[Gandzooka]

Pentium 386

 

[HUGHPHUG]

wait, we had something like this too before the Commodore. But it was called Pong and it just hooked up to the TV. Totally f’d our Tv too. Don’t recall a joystick. More like a dial sort of paddle - twist a puck like dial to move the on screen paddle.

Yeah that was it, I think it's this one
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/2028664034...MItpmuitP95wIVSsreCh1rgQC8EAQYASABEgKr6_D_BwE

 

[Prutfis]

Atari 2600 --> C64 with tape deck --> x386

 

[RawHawg]

Was approx 1998. I got the first Pentium 2 system Gateway sold, the G6-233. It was heavily advertised as having "MMX technology". Solid system, but did not give me a lot of longevity because while I could upgrade the cpu to a 450, I could not overcome the limitation of the 66Mhz front side bus. It shipped with a great game, Red Line Racer

 

[Lubaolong]

ti-99/4a

First computer I bought myself had an overclocked celeron 300a.

 

[GSP_37]

My first computer could use Microsoft Office just fine. Now you got all this lame animated buttons and shit to use more RAM and CPU, in addition to official spyware copying your shit and sending it back to motherbase. Spying on your emails, contacts, webcam, mic, etc. too.

 

[Otto!]

Commodore VIC 20 for me. Then on to the 64 after that. We also had Pong before anything as well.

VIC 20 for me as well, in 1982 I believe.

 

[rj144]

My first computer could use Microsoft Office just fine. Now you got all this lame animated buttons and shit to use more RAM and CPU, in addition to official spyware copying your shit and sending it back to motherbase. Spying on your emails, contacts, webcam, mic, etc. too.

There was no MS Office on the C64s for me.

 

[FyrFytr998]

I did a thread earlier on your first tape, CD, etc... but do you remember your first computer?

My parents bought me a C64 when I was a kid that was awesome. But, I bought my first computer for myself when I went to grad. school. It was Pentium 386 266 Mhz CPU with something like a 2 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM, and a 4 MB video card. I'm pretty sure most of that is correct. I thought I'd never fill the hard drive back then. It also came with VGA, 14" CRT monitor. Cost about $2k too.

Everyone had the Commodore 64. Not me though, we were too poor, and had the cheaper Commodore 16 version that didn't have any good games.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Commodore 64.

All I remember is playing Lode Runner a lot and using an early text to speech program that sounded like HAL.

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

I did a thread earlier on your first tape, CD, etc... but do you remember your first computer?

My parents bought me a C64 when I was a kid that was awesome. But, I bought my first computer for myself when I went to grad. school. It was Pentium 386 266 Mhz CPU with something like a 2 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM, and a 4 MB video card. I'm pretty sure most of that is correct. I thought I'd never fill the hard drive back then. It also came with VGA, 14" CRT monitor. Cost about $2k too.

When I was in junior high in maybe 1997, my parents bought a Gateway 2000 computer that cost about $2500 for the computer, monitor, and printer. It ran windows 95 and my Dad hated it. Our school made it clear to my parents that my family was the only one in the school district that did not have a home computer. He was not too happy about having to drop all that coin.

Anytime I crashed it or screwed it up, there would have to be a massive family cover-up while we worked to get it working again. My Dad also banned us from the internet, and we had a hidden phone cord we would whip out and use when he left home.

Ohhhh the memories.

 

[JoeyJoeJoeJr]

I don't really remember what it was, but my first computer had 2mb of ram and ms dos

 

[Xuh]

 

[Alphaboy]

Hewlett Packard. Probably 1997 or 1998 iirc.

 

[Lint]

I think he has mistaken Pentium "x86" with it Pentium 386, no ordinary 386 went past 66mhz for sure, and 32mb of ram is akin to a core i7 with 128gb RAM nowadays.

 

[Tone C]

Had a C64 but there was a bad run of them that Christmas. Faulty tape decks. Had 4 of them. Ended up with a Spectrum 128k instead.


Any one remember a game where you had 2 animals that could climb on each other and you had to negotiate a 3D maze with them?

 

[Curmudgeon]