This is not my first, but second PC back in 1994.
486DX2-66
How about you?
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First PC in 1981:
Also had this in 1983
I drooled over this a lot in the late eighties, but we couldn’t afford one:
Have also owned a VIC-20, C64, IBM AT PC, 386, 486, P133, PII-350, etc. The P133 ran a multi-line BBS using FrontDoor and RemoteAccess.
Pixel.
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I’m not sure about pc
But my dad was one of the first people to use the Internet where we lived. His company helped open the Internet to the public on certain days while they were still learning to use it.
He said the first time they ever used it they were sending text messages with a modem to their lawyer. They couldn’t believe it was actually happening 
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The first PC in my house growing up was a Tandy which I believe for that period of the 80’s was pretty decent technology, at least compared to those big Apples with the tiny screens we had at school…we were way ahead of that. The hole family would sit around that thing and play King’s Quest.
Good times.
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I don’t have a picture but my first computer was a Dell Dimension with Windows Millennium Edition on it. It was filled with errors galore. I’m so glad I managed to upgrade to Windows XP. Now, I have a Dell Optiplex that is refurbished with Windows 7.
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Our first computer was a 286. Don’t remember much more about it than that. My dad spent around $800 for it, if I remember correctly.
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My first pc was a windows xp gateway. Or whatever was before windows xp. Damn everyone has the antiques, thats awesome
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Windows 2000…
Then it was windows xp. I didn’t know if it was 2000 or if there was something in between. Ive used windows 95 and 2000 at my Dad’s workplace as a kid but first computer my family ever owned was a gateway windows xp with aol dial up internet the slowest worst sounding thing ever invented
Has anyone use Windows 1 /2 /3.11 before?
And, have you ever seen floppy disk this big?
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I’ve used Windows 3.1.
I’ve seen computers that use them but I haven’t used the disks nor actually seen one that I can remember.
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The first graphical OS I used was Windows 3.1 I’ve seen the 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch disks, but never the 8 inch one.
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AMD Phenom II hexcore 1100T (black edition)
Radeon 6850
16 Gb DDR3 1600
Samsung pro rated SSD
Some crappy mobo to hold it all together
recent switch
4th gen i3… (more or less same processing power at 54 watts)
radeon 390
8 gigs DDR3 1600(need to fix this)
same SSD (new micro ATX case and board… I had to face it… I’d never end up crossfiring/SLIing)… which without a 4k display it’s rather pointless anyways… the duplicate card for maybe 20 to 25% performance gain? hah… just upgrade.
I plan to get an i7… 4x8Gb ram… and uhhh bru ray drive…
Your latest PC…!
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I used a data acquisition machine called a Bascom Turner that used 8 in floppy disk drives. It was made to record battery voltages when I was doing research in like 1983.
Then they bought an instrument from Perkin Elmer that had a rudimentary computer that didn’t want to use DOS so they wrote their own OS called PETOS. Perkin Elmer terminal operating system. It had dual 51/4 floppies you had to flip over. They had a higher end system with a hard drive they called a Winchester if I remember.
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I had a TI-99/4A!!! My dad actually used to work for Texas Instruments, so we got it cheap.
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The first PC that I owned that was 100% mine was a shitty emachines that I got in 1999 so I could play the game Everquest. My family owned a PC before that I used to play wolfenstein 3D on when I was a kid, but I can’t remember what model. It was purchased in the early 90’s so had DoS.
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I used to play Wolfenstein 3D on my first PC too. It was an Apricot Xen 386 with Windows 3.1 which my dad got reconditioned from work for me. I had an Amiga 500 before this and still have several.
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I’ve got relics in my house. Holly crap how embarrassing.
I’ve used my brother’s computer which he horded in his bedroom at my parents house. We were both in high school, so it was around 1981. Don’t recall what it was, just that it had an extremely sensitive process of turning it on and off. He would lecture me on the strict sequence that, unless followed, would blow the thing up. Was more work than fun just to play the one game it offered.
Married into a family that worked on the very first computers, when they were the size of a ‘family-room’ (in a house),
and my ex had his business running on DOS and writing his own programs because there was nothing on the market that could do it. In 1996 he showed me how to get on the internet (that awful dial up sound still haunts me) with a 3 key lesson: ‘Tab’= move to the next field,
‘escape’ = exit without applying info
‘return’ (I still call it ‘enter’) = submit info (or apply).
That was it. ever.
so pardon my ignorance about computers, I can hack through one to dig up long buried secrets best forgotten, but to this day, I still can’t compose a letter- never have either, nor successfully make a list that I so want to do.
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