What was your First Computer Model and what OS was on it

hello my first real computer i started using was actually this macbook i haven't really been really into comps for more than a year or so :D i really am interested in comps now though but that's the first one i really used and was mine :)

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Permalink Reply by UncleJohn on September 5, 2008 at 8:53am: Well that was MY VERY own and not the families.. That would been a Microsoft 1.0 machine. I dont remember the stats.

Then my 95 machine with 128megs of ram I believe.. A 30 gig drive I took out of a satalite reciever from a tv station that threw it out (was in a live truck), um dont remember the cpu speed I do recall it being a P1.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andrew Vane on September 5, 2008 at 9:10am: My first real computer was an IBM PC. It had an RGB monitor, two 5-1/4" floppy disk drives (you had to insert the DOS disk at bootup), keyboard made by NASA, and an EPSON printer. It cost abotu $3000 and my dad brought it home for me in 1981. My first game BTW was MS Flight Simulator (the original in B&W). Obviously the first OS was MS-DOS (640K).

Eventually in 1990 I got a Generic IBM 266DX2 with a massive 20MB Hard drive and Windows 3.1.

Showing my age here. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eivind on September 5, 2008 at 9:15am: I got my first computer when i was 10 years old.
It had Windows 3.11, 20MB of Storage and could not suport a printer.
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Permalink Reply by Adam on September 5, 2008 at 9:22am: oh man, windows 3.1, I remember how cool it was back in the day. My grandparents still have a computer with it installed, I boot it up every time I visit them for nostalgia purposes :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robzor on September 21, 2008 at 12:25pm: me too!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by memizex on September 5, 2008 at 9:22am: It was a HP system running a AMD k600???? 128MB Ram with a 40 gig Hard Drive. It had windows 98. That was at least the first good system. I remember loading windows 2000 and Redhat on it as well later down the road.

Before that i was using a 586 Clone with 32mb of RAM. It wasn't really mine but eah. It had Windows 3.1 and I upgraded it to 95. I remember doing that at the age of 6 though. My Mom gave it to me and said if you can fix the modem and get it online, it's yours. I had to get my brother in law to buy the modem, but I fixed it and got it online using Old School AOL....this was in 92....wow; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by alex on September 7, 2008 at 1:02pm: age of 6 what????; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Guillaume Boutin on October 2, 2008 at 4:15pm: the 586 Clone was a CYRIX processor I bet !; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jim Elliott on September 5, 2008 at 9:42am: Atari 520st I think is what it was called.
It was great.
It ran the 1st release of windows and it was fabulous.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Scott on September 5, 2008 at 10:27am

My first computer was an Atari 400. It did not have an OS. You had to put in cartridges to do anything. I taught myself Basic and played games mostly. This was somewhere around 1980. I upgraded the memory from 12k to 48k. It saved data to a cassette tape.

I wish I stuck with computers back then. After that, I stayed away until 1995 when I got an IBM dx2/50mhz with Windows 3.1.

Attached is a picture of my Atari. It did not have a monitor. It hooked up to a regular tv.

Scott

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Permalink Reply by djdick on September 5, 2008 at 11:02am: I love love love that picture.... i have my original Atari 400 sitting right behind me!

Many many hours into that rock solid machine!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rich on September 5, 2008 at 10:32am: My first computer was 386, I am not sure what company made the machine. The Operating system was 3.1 I think....; ▶ Reply to This