What was the first computer you had? :)

[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]

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[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 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. 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