What was the first computer you had? :)

[Conspiracy.]

Mine was a Windows 95. Well, technically it was my sister's, I just used it more than her :P I must have been about 6. I just played games on it and drew crap on MS Paint.

Memories <333333


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T260UBgmxKg

[Neversoft]

Ooh, man. I remember that screensaver. It used to be on my science teachers computer all the time. I spent many science lessons just spacing out watching that maze. Don't know what our first computer was, but the first one I actually started using frequently had Windows '98.

[xxMATTGxx]

Ah I remember that screensaver. I'm not quite sure when my Grandad actually got this but I do remember playing on this now and then:

BBC Micro

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Pics/BBCDE1.JPG


But a computer I started using on some sort of regular basis had Windows 95 or 98 on for sure.

[Caution]

Haha I remember that screensaver, it must have been on Windows 98 as well. Mine was a bulky Hewlett Packard with Windows 98, and I think it had like 64mb RAM haha

[Conspiracy.]

LOL ours had something stupid like, 16/32MB RAM :')

We still have it up the attic. I don't know if it still works. I'll get it tomorrow and try and use it :') I'll check how much RAM it had.

[xdinosaurdaniel]

Windows 98 like a boss

[Conspiracy.]

OMG!!! Nostalgia D: D: D:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8

[beth]

OMG!!! Nostalgia D: D: D:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8

omg trying to sneak on the internet late at night and then that bloody sound would happen and i'd go flush the toilet or something to cover it hahahhahahaha.

can anyone explain what that sound actually IS?

[Red]

Um in 1998 we got this big white brick with windows 98 for christmas. I played games like jazz jackrabbit and adiboo. haha

[Conspiracy.]

I don't actually know :| I know it has something to do with it connecting to the ISP Server but I don't know why it makes that noise.

God, I remember how horrible having dial-up internet was >____< so slow.

[xxMATTGxx]

What about the dial-up being slowed down:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2v32xCD0Y&feature=player_embedded

[jasey]

My first real computer that was my own was a machine with Windows 3.1 on it. I remember it fondly!

[kitten]

probably some old windows crap..

[Catchy]

Haha I can't remember was probably really old Windows 95 or something, I loved that game DX Ball was it called? ahahahah

Loving the HD graphics

http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scrn/8000/8802/dx-ball-2-21.jpg

[Chippiewill]

can anyone explain what that sound actually IS?

Low beeeep: (I'm a modem!)
High beep: (Oh, please tell me you're a modem too!)
PSHHHGGhghggghghgshhh: (You're a COMPUTER? What's your speed?)
Shhhh Ba-bong...ba-bong..: (Oh, you're a high speed (14.4 HST or greater) modem)
PSHHHHHhhhh: (Okay, we've negotiated our speed)
SHHHHHHH: (Okay, we're connected, I'm turning off my speaker).
http://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/qdnuw/what_data_is_being_passed_during_the_incredibly/c3wyaqh

Fun fact, it never even had to make a sound.

[GommeInc]

I think I had a Commodore 64, I just remember larger than usual floppy discs :P It was there just to play interesting pixel games, one was called AirWolf I think and was quite a good army game - you get an Apache and then a fighter jet :D

After that it was Windows 95.


http://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/qdnuw/what_data_is_being_passed_during_the_incredibly/c3wyaqh

Fun fact, it never even had to make a sound.
A bit like ATMs, self-service check-outs and anything with a delay while it counts something, then? They all make unnnecessary sounds to re-assure you something is happening :P It seemed too good to be true that the dial-up sounds were actually doing something useful other than sound nice.

[Eric]

OMG!!! Nostalgia D: D: D:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8

I don't remember my first computer, seriously. I only remember it's huge and heavy.

Oh and yeah i remember this! it's so annoying haha

[Recursion]

I never got to hear that wonderful dialup sound when I was a kid :( I think by the time I was using the internet we had ISDN

[Chris]

It was my old windows 98 machine aha, I used to sneak on the internet on it haha.

[Conspiracy.]

I never got to hear that wonderful dialup sound when I was a kid :( I think by the time I was using the internet we had ISDN
i wouldn't be upset :P It was a pain in the bum.

[Oleh]

I believe it was something from the council in 2001, never worked so my uncle chucked it down the stairs in 2003 and we got a new one from CEX which was turned on everyday all day for the better part of 8 years, had 2 GPU changes and 2 PSU changes.

[Vause]

we had a really old windows 98 one and we didn't get the internet for like 3 years after having it. I think. All i know is it was a huge one that took forever to load. And my mums ex-husband used to play on DOOM lmao i loved it!! And we had this jungle book game? aw memories.

[Mikey]

This:
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/155/a/0/windows_98_logo_vector_by_pkmnct-d3i2myb.png

and this:

http://www.sitevip.net/wallpapers/Computers/Windows-Me/Windowsme3wallpapers.jpg

[Jazz]

a massive windows 98 computer, it had so many memories attached to it

[hiyahon]

an awful toshiba laptop WITH ONE OF THE TINY BALL TRACKPADS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!

[David]

When did you get your first computer? & What was the reason?

First family one I was like 8 or 9 and it was just a ****** big thing that only had a few games and the basic stuff like paint and notepad on it lolol. obv no internet. for the life of me i dont know what OS it was, some kid of windows i don't even know why we got it.

My first personal one I was 13 when I got mines, and it was mainly for MSN for teh chatz init. Then I got into some online games and ended up starting graphics :P it was windows vista.

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[Mark]

Same as you, I used the family computer when I was very young playing all the cbeebies games, my favourite was Brum (the little yellow car). Then when I was about 9/10 I got my first computer for MSN and bebo, that had XP on it. I got my first laptop with Vista on it when I was like 12 or something.

[geo]

Ha, I used the family computer too! I wasn't aware of the internet when I was first on it (at like the age of 6) and then found out about the internet at the age of 8 ok. I always used to play on paint and just draw loads of those circles and colour them all in. I remember trying to play that minesweeper game or something, never understood it! I then became friends with a person about 2 yrs older than me and he sadly introduced me to online games, lol addicted*+*. I've forgot when I got my first laptop, maybe it was when I was 11? Not too sure. :P I think it had vista on, not too sure.

[Markeh]

The first family PC I believe ran Windows ME and was from Time. I believe it was an early Pentium 3 but I'm not sure as I was little then.

My first desktop was from a local PC shop and was a 1.2GHz AMD Duron with 192MB of RAM, an unsupported motherboard and 98SE. Later it ran ME and then XP before it finally died a few months ago.

Then I moved onto an old family PC when they bought a Packard Bell in 2005 (which we still have), a 1.66GHz Sempron, 256MB RAM and a 40GB HDD. Eventually I upgraded it to 512MB and then gave it to a friend a while ago. I still have the PSU, HDD and CD-RW drive from it.

Then, in 2010, I thought "sod it" and built my desktop. Same board and HDD you see below, it started out with an Athlon X2 250, 2GB of Corsair RAM and a HD 4670.

My first laptop was an Acer Aspire 9300 which we won the money for in a competition. It was a dreadful 17" thing with Vista and 1GB RAM (256MB was taken up by the Nvidia Go 6100 GPU) but at the time it was the best PC in the house and I loved it to pieces. Eventually the Nvidia GPU bit the dust and it was replaced under a cover plan, with one of the first HP dv6s, which is now useless in the bottom of my wardrobe as it overheats at the smallest attempt of usage. So right now I use a Toshiba L300 which I was given with a dead screen and HDD, replaced these and threw 7 on it.

I also have my HP Mini 210 netbook which gets occasional use.

[Luke]

My first was something running Windows 3.1. Then we moved to Windows 98, some IBM computer - lasted AGES.
My childhood consisted of Joanna Lumley saying 'Welcome to AOL' and 'You have email'. AOL 9.0 </3

[NeverSkem]

Windows 7 for me ^_^

[Showder]

A Wndow Pc older version I guess, was really crappy and took half an hour to load.

[wiktoria]

windows 98 computer, it was my brothers but he let me play on it *\o/* my personal laptop i got in 2009 and i still have it.

[Conspiracy.]

Same as you, I used the family computer when I was very young playing all the cbeebies games, my favourite was Brum (the little yellow car). Then when I was about 9/10 I got my first computer for MSN and bebo, that had XP on it. I got my first laptop with Vista on it when I was like 12 or something.
Aw, I loved Brum <3 :')

I used to play Rugrats games on mine :D

http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh593/whereisthelove_x3/g03826e7ene.jpg

http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh593/whereisthelove_x3/g03824eo4qe.jpg

LOL I remember our first computer was too slow to play this properly :') :

http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh593/whereisthelove_x3/g03825t41yt.jpg

I actually found that game a few days ago and tried to install it on my Mac (it's PC and Mac compatible), my Mac isn't backward-compatible enough -____-

Edit:

OMG


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi6lKWGCKow

I wanna play it :'(

[dbgtz]

My first one (which was actually mine) was this:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/dell-c521.jpg
with good ol' Windows Vista, the piece of crap. I remember my control panel was broken and every time I went into it, the explorer crashed.

[SackRace]

windows 98 :)

[FlyingJesus]

Full time showing my age here, my first computer was a ZX Spectrum...

[Tuts]

Compaq Presario with Windows 98. It cost an absolute fortune at the time.

http://kaitlinring.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/5726.jpg