When did you get your first PC?

[bodyhard]

I got my first PC in 1990, when I started working for a computer company.

It was a 386, with no hard drive a 3/4 floppy disk!

Then I upgraded it to a 486 with a 40 Meg hard drive and man it was the best thing in the world.

FYI since I worked for a computer company all my PC's were free for the 10 years I worked there. I worked from 1990 - 2000

When did you get your first home PC?

[mslman71]

Christmas 1979. Apple II+. 2 drives and a monochrome monitor. I remember opening it and having _no_ idea how to get started.

Back then, Apple came with detailed manuals down the schematics of all the hardware

[Old-Time-Lifter]

1990 here too and it was also a 386. Cost me a fortune too, by far the most expensive computer I have ever purchased. Bought a laser printer at the same time and thought I was cutting edge.

[Old-Time-Lifter]

My little brother bought a Radio Shack Trash 80 way back when he was in high school.

My older cousin actually made his own computer in high school (he's an electrical engineer now surprise surprise) that was before you could even buy a pc.

[Brackneyc]

Crup is reading this on a Commodore 64 asking himself WTF is a PC.

[cowboybiker]

Im wondering with all these "When" threads is BH gonna start a "When did you get your first beej" thread

[Bando]

1999. eMachines with a 4 GB HD. It actually did crash on Dec 31 1999 so I had to send it to Korea

My 8 year old daughter has a camera with more memory than that 1st PC

[IronCharles]

Commodore 64.... mid-eighties.





It's how I learned Vogon poetry!

[cowboybiker]

Early to mid 80s

[Karl_Hungus]

Commodore Vic 20 ... Early 80's.

[mikieson]

1999..hated computers until this point..now its the most important thing in my life..i even build and work on them..

[IronCharles]

1999..hated computers until this point..now its the most important thing in my life..i even build and work on them..

Wow.... they must be important to you, if they're more important than your wife and kids, man.

[mikieson]

Wow.... they must be important to you, if they're more important than your wife and kids, man.

[BalhamBeast]

1988. I had an Amstrad 8086-based machine running at a cracking 8Mhz. It had no hard drive (we - my boyfriend at the time and I) later added a 32MB hard card (which you had to park before turning the thing off) and the very first model of SoundBlaster. It had a mono monitor but was at least VGA. 640K RAM. I was able to play Midwinter, Populous and Sim City on it.

I was (and still am) into games so I wanted an Amiga but he said a PC would be a good move. And it was - 5 years later I started a 10 year career working on PC games magazines, which was one of the best periods of my life.

[IronCharles]

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[wetweva]

I had a personal VIC-20 and a TRS-80 back some time in the mid '80's, ('83/'84?). I was using the Mac's and Kaypro's at the office. That Kaypro was a 20 Lb luggable, and handy as hell.
Moved up to a personal Apple 2c+ around '89/'90. Man, that thing was a screaming speed demon. I used it to run a construction company until the 386 came along around '94 or so.

I remember using cassette tapes as storage. They were handier than programming using Hollerith cards.

[rubenmd]

I got my first computer.. wait, I've never had a computer lol. I'm always on my cell or someone else's computer.

[mikieson]

[Corbi]

Im wondering with all these "When" threads is BH gonna start a "When did you get your first beej" thread

1979 backseat of 70 Nova froma chick named Debbie.

1st pc was 20 yrs later.

[-=FLEX=-]

I think it was around 1997.

DELL XPS D266: Pentium II 266MHz MMX processor, 128 MB of RAM, 24xCD ROM drive, 6.4 GB hard disk, 56Kbps modem, STB Velocity 4 MB graphics card.

[Getsum]

Commodore 20 in the early 80's.

I think I still have a Commodore 64 in box somewhere, no idea why I haven't gotten rid of it.

[mikieson]

Commodore 20 in the early 80's.

I think I still have a Commodore 64 in box somewhere, no idea why I haven't gotten rid of it.

classic..lol..a bottle of water has more power than those old things..hahah..

[MrNismo]

I think it was around 1997.

DELL XPS D266: Pentium II 266MHz MMX processor, 128 MB of RAM, 24xCD ROM drive, 6.4 GB hard disk, 56Kbps modem, STB Velocity 4 MB graphics card.

That's about same time and horsepower of my first PC as well.

Off topic but just finally upgraded my PC for first time in 6 years and DAMN have they gotten insanely fast. Solid state drive is no joke for anyone looking to really speed things up.

[commonguy001]

I had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4 in the early 80s, probably after they discontinued it as my parents would have never bought me something new and full price. I had friends with the Vic or Commodore 64, both of which were pretty cool.
My first home *** type PC was in either late 1995 or early 1996, it was an Acer with a Pentium 100, SWEET. Ok I had a 'computer' in probably 91 but it was a freebee and didn't really do anything.

[alkemyst]

1983, Apple //e...dual drives, 80 column card, grappler+ graphics printing card and an Apple Imagewriter printer, tilting green screen monitor, 300 baud modem, Kensington system saver.

[waldopepper]

Christmas 1979. Apple II+. 2 drives and a monochrome monitor. I remember opening it and having _no_ idea how to get started.

Back then, Apple came with detailed manuals down the schematics of all the hardware

That was the first I ever saw. My dad had one. We all thought PONG was so cool.

[hammerfelt]

Atari Video Computer System in 1977. First game played on it was Tank Battle that came with it.

Commodore 64 in the early 80's.

[mslman71]

Atari Video Computer System in 1977. First game played on it was Tank Battle that came with it.

Commodore 64 in the early 80's.

I had one of these as well. I loved the tank game though I wouldn't call that game console a PC.

Wasn't there a way to use the Atari game controller on the C64? I seem to remember playing the olympic video game on the C64 using the Atari joystick. Maybe my memories are criss-crossed.

[Karl_Hungus]

I had one of these as well. I loved the tank game though I wouldn't call that game console a PC.

Yup, me too. I think the tank game was called Combat (IIRC), and it also included a game where you had airplane battles -- Three small airplanes flying in formation against one big airplane. They were completely mismatched, so the person playing the big airplane pretty much always lost ... lol.

[mtpockets]

Can't recall but it was a brand new tandy 1000 with a whopping 128k