First computer was a BBC Micro Model B. It had a 2MHz CPU, 32kb of RAM, and an optional floppy drive (no hard drive).

The first PC I had was in 2000, it was a 1.4Ghz Athlon with 512Mb RAM and 60Gb hard drive, and a GeForce 2MX graphics card, running Windows 98SE. I made sure this one had a floppy drive :)

First computer commodor Vic 20 (loved omega run on it)


Then a spectrum +

Hell i am really showing my age here )

Apologies. I considered clarifying but decided that it should be clear in context, and it's a common enough phrasing anyhow.

I finally recall what the motherboard of my second computer was: a K6-2. Or maybe it was the processor. I forget.

I think it was Compaq Presario, one of the really older models with a grayish and standing case. It had a harddrive of awesome 5GB. I remember the beautiful tones when you connected to the interbbbrrrrzzztttskreeeeeccchhhhhhhshupshuptalumiiiiiiiiiclickclickclick.

Okay, I don't think thesound went like that, but... it was really memorable. And that the internet usage was billed by the minute and not very cheap. (In fact, my parents wanted me to pay them from my allowance to be on the internet for one hour. Best money ever spent.)

One of the first games I played on the computer was Starshot. I wish it would work on newer computers because I still have the disc. :P

PC Pentium 100MHz with 8Mb of RAM, 1.9 GB HD, Win 95, Creative Multimedia Kit.

It came with Pinball Dreams Deluxe and Time Commando.

My father also got me The Dig and Robot City.

This was back in 1996 and I was only 12.

Saudades...

My first computer was a Pentium MMX 233 MHz, with 32 MB of RAM and a 4.3 GB HD with WIndows 98. I remember playing Age Of Empires, Carmaggedon 2, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Heretic, Hexen, Moto Racer, Quake, Rise Of The Triads, Shadow Warrior. Good times.
The first retro computer I've bought using my own money was an Amiga 500. The sad part was that the floppy drive failed a couple of days after receiving it and I couldn't use it anymore. I tried to give the parts away but no one here in Mexico seemed to be interested.

Lessee, I think it was a Pentium 133Mhz and probably 4 megs of RAM. Some of my first games were Spider-Man Cartoon Maker, Putt-Putt Goes to the Zoo, Lego Island (darn thing wouldn't run on our machine, though, because I didn't know how to run software emulation instead of Direct 3D, so I had to use my grandma's computer), and of course the classic free Windows games: Ski Free, Bow&Arrow, JezzBall, Solitaire, etc.

I may write more later on this subject. :)

Based on what I remember from its specs it was an IBM 286 computer. It had a hard drive and 5.25 floppy drive. The best game I had on it was Oregon Trail. The word processor was a bitch because it printed a line every time you pressed enter. If you made a typo, you had to realign the paper and start again.

C64 is the first one I had, I believe.

Amiga 500!

Very first one was an Apple IIe my family had back in the late 80s, followed up in the early 90s by a 486SX that was an absolute POS and gave us nothing but trouble (although trying to fix all the problems it had probably taught me quite a bit about computers).

I wish I'd thought of that line :)

Ah, the TRS-80 Model 1. That was also my first -- second-hand with amber text and yellowed plastic. No working floppy or tape drive; if you wanted to play a game on that beast, you had to code it yourself, in BASIC no less.

We went from that to a custom 486 with Windows 95, and that was quite a leap. ^^

A TRS80

An early '90s DOS laptop with a broken screen, hooked up to a CRT. I can't remember the make of the laptop, but given that it was a laptop it only had the sound and graphics capabilities of a PC at least 5 years older. Couldn't tell you the specs beause I was only about 6 or 7.