When did you get your first computer?

**1cooldude** · April 5th, 2009, 02:59 PM

When did you get/buy your own personal computer (that also includes all other brand of products)?

My first computer was an Apple clone with an 8-bit 6502 micro.I built it with all my money that I had earned during the summer in 1979. I was learning "Basic" and had built a few more summer contraptions.

**fleecy** · April 5th, 2009, 04:57 PM

we had a really old DOS beast that was mostly used for mahjongg... well, okay, so is this one, to be fair.

**rainbowdemon** · April 5th, 2009, 05:51 PM

Got a Dell about 7 years ago. It's been downhill ever since.

Don't remember the model, but it had:

CPU was 1.86 g Intel

256 megs of memory

40 gig hard drive

Windows 2000 Pro

And a CD burner

I was happy!!

**YWD67** · April 5th, 2009, 05:53 PM

Commodore 64 1983, cost about $500.

**1cooldude** · April 5th, 2009, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by YWD67

Commodore 64 1983, cost about $500.

lol..I had one of those too.:wiggle:

**mountain_rage** · April 5th, 2009, 06:03 PM

I was 4 and it was an Intel 386 assembled by a local company. If I remember correctly my dad had updated it the year after with a Sound Blaster card. It had windows 3.1, remember playing a lot of worms, reversi, gorillas, and sierra adventure games on it. Still remember the line from Space Quest 3. "You get the ladder and put it in your pocket. Ouch."

**mfgbypooter** · April 5th, 2009, 06:19 PM

I was given an abacus when I was a kid.

Didn't use it much other than to slam the beads back and forth.

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**Potato** · April 5th, 2009, 08:07 PM

Hmm... I like how some of you guys had a computer before I was born.

**1cooldude** · April 6th, 2009, 01:26 AM

Originally Posted by Potato

Hmm... I like how some of you guys had a computer before I was born.

Potato, we're just old pharts.

**RACKnRAIL** · April 6th, 2009, 12:38 PM

I first had a 486 and then in 95' my first decent computer with, if my memory serves me, 9 floppy disks with WIN95. Then did an upgrade to WIN98, which was cheaper than the ram upgrade. I think I went from 32mb to 64. I remember it being expensive.