What was your first computer? When and how much did it cost?

Man I thought I was smart when I reinstalled Windows XP on a used HP in 2007...

Kind of a throwback thread I guess but tell us some good stories about your younger computer days...

I heard a computer was very expensive back in the day.

Love y'all

 

A Commodore 64
We played Roland's Rat Race loaded from a small tape drive with a cassette that had a few programs and games on it. You would have to wind the cassette back to the start, reset the counter to 0 and then fast forward till you got to just before the new game and it would load up and play on the tv. Awesome! It used to crash out and we never did get to the end
This is me and my Son and Daughter, we were glued to it, nothing has changed. I play Cold War quickplay most nights for an hour and do quite well, they'd be mortified to know an old fart wasted them

Roland's Rat Race Longplay (C64) [50 FPS] - YouTube

Spindizzy was another game that we had then Spindizzy (video game) - Wikipedia

 

I don't really remember the specs, but my parents got us a PC in 1995/1996 i believe.

I think it was some 133 MHz or 166 MHz Pentium? That's all i remember.

I still got the first game i bought for it in the big box -- https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p/network-q-rac-rally-championship.html

 

I was excited when we got a 36.6K modem!

 

i486DX (P4) 33Mhz was the first. Hmmh after that I remember us paying like 1000 Finnish Markka for a really small harddrive. That is something like 100€ I guess. I think after this we got Pentium II that was amazing all the games I was playing darn it. My first own pc I got tad later Athlon 1300.

I actually got two GeForce MX400 with both melted then 4200 Ti. But really I was such a nvidia fanboy back then. Even when ATi was making better gpus fuk it I bought a 5950 Ultra awwww yis such a frikkin disappointment that was.

Had AMD CPU till core 2 duo / core quad then Intel till Zen 1. I think I had nvidia gpu till I changed from 7800 gtx to 1950 xtx. Then after that it's been mostly AMD some nvidia like 980 ti.

 

Mine was a C64 also in the early 90s (91-92)

we played afterburner mostly and a f1 title i cant remember the name of

my first actual gaming pc was a athlon xp 2800 512mb ram and radeon pro 9800

before that i had some old pentium systems just for text docs and no 3d LOL

 

Amiga 500 1991 with 0.5 MB memory expansion.

 

I actually didnt get into PC's until late 90's. I was a still on PS1 when i saw my friends pc playing battlefield 1942 and UT99, Gothic 1 i jizzed and i got myself a first gaming pc.

PIII 800mhz
Nvidia MX440
256mb ram

 

celeron 400,voodoo agp card and a 6GB barracuda drive.
then a slew of all amd+ati rigs until I got a core 2 duo with 8600GTS
I think athlon 2200+ w. 9700 pro is the single longest serving system I had.prolly 6-7 years.I kept it until it couldn't deal even with playing video files smoothly anymore.Had to upgrade to a dual core and a newer card for that.

 

486DX2, 66Mhz was first computer I had at home, and first started to learn on 386 at mother's work. It ran DOS ofc. Later had Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

 

I don't remember the specifics, but it was a Gateway about 1998-1999 era. AOL and all the bells and whistles.

 

Bought my computer with a bank loan, it was expensive.
Had a GeForce4 MX and an Athlon XP 3000+ Barton in it, I was able to play Diablo 1&2.

 

The year was 2000, PC was a Dell Dimension 8100, first line that started with the all black everything.
It came with a Geforce 3, Intel Pentium 4, 256mb Rambus memory from Kingston, 18" Dell CRT monitor, cost $1000 USD.
Really Loved that PC, it changed my life.

 

First Computer was a Intel i486DX2-66 640MB HD 5400rpm 8MB Ram sound blaster awe32 ati rage xl 8mb pci vga. And at the time
i was playing the hell out of catacombs 3d then a got blood & Darkstone .
All this for $850.00

 

Spectrum +2a bought for my fifth maybe sixth birthday by my parents. First tried my hand at computer programming with that piece of legendary kit, many man hours typing in Basic with the net result being a clock face with 4... count them 4 colours.

 

same for me, those rubber keys! chewed up tapes, got stolen in a burgalry, got the 128k after with the lightgun and played operation wolf, i do miss the dizzy games, ikari warriors, etc.

 

My first real PC was an Olivetti 486SX2- 50 it was the first PC i upgraded, I wanted better gaming performance so i upgraded the processor to 486DX2-66 i also upgraded to 4MB of ram
i remember it was not cheap but it was the start of my years of PC upgrading.................................... This week i added 2 NVME drives to my current build when will i stop upgrading.

Olivetti PCS42 (tripod.com)

 

Manic Miner.