What was your first home computer?


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Mine was a custom built PC that had a AMD K-6 processor, and I believe it originally had a Intel i486 DX2 processor in it. I was a little back then (90s) and my mother actually built it. She was in very into and experienced in computers like building them, software etc.  I remember playing games on it like Putt Putt and Freddi Fish.

 

 

Here is a photo of my first home PC

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Mine was a custom built with 486MHz.. 

 

then got new custom built pc with 866MHz, voodoo video card, 56k modem.

 

I used to build the PC in the past... it was fun.. and now I am old.. I am using laptops for now.

 

I have a server tower for backups.

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Laser 386 kit computer. If I remember when I get to a computer I will look the kit up and post specs but I do remember it only had 4mb or so of ram.

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It depends whether you mean the first home computer I used or the first computer that was entirely mine.. BIG difference.

 

First home computer I used was a Tandy 1000 EX with DOS 2 (upgraded to 640k RAM)

First computer that was entirely mine was a Walmart special, HP Pavilion w/ Celeron 768mhz

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First used -- It was either an IBM System 3 or a VAX-11/780, I forget which was first, awful long time ago.

First owned -- TRS-80 Model 1, built it up over the next year or so with addons (boosted memory to 48K, expansion interface, 5MB hard drive, etc), later replaced with a Model 16 running Microsoft Xenix.

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Microsoft Xenix.

The real reason of *nix Operating System moniker.

i always find weird that other referring *nix as linux distro-variants.

 

Microsoft should've continues the Xenix OS.

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Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, I had everything with this, Game Controllers, speech synthesizer, every game and app cartridge, Peripheral Expansion Box,  32K ram card, RS2600px-TI99-IMG_1680.jpg3250px-TI99expansion.jpg2 Card, Disc control card, 2x 360k 5 1/4 Floppy drives, 512k Ram disc, gram cracker and pretty much every game and app ever released for it

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First owned -- TRS-80 Model 1, built it up over the next year or so with addons (boosted memory to 48K, expansion interface, 5MB hard drive, etc), later replaced with a Model 16 running Microsoft Xenix.

I also had a TRS-80 but I believe mine was a Model 2. Came with 16k but I believe it was eventually upgraded to 64k. But never had the expansion or hard drive.

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I came from 90s internet boom era, those are all quite old computers

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Our first was a Commodore 64 when I was like 5.   After that my parents got one from some guy (custom built) not sure brand, or specs, I was too young.  I do know it ran Windows 95.. and we got it christmas of 96.. but other than that I don't know.  I remember it came with Time Commando I played the **** out of that game (even though I was only 6)

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My first one was a tower that literally had the brand "Poor Man's PC" on it, or maybe it was Poormans or something, and it ran DOS.  I was 5 or 6 and figured out how to make DOS menus so I could create shortcuts to games I had like King's Quest, Space Quest, and Mixed Up Mother Goose.  Also had the DOS version of Microsoft Works.  It had something like 8 MB of RAM and a black and white monitor.  Later upgraded it to 16 MB of RAM and Windows 3.1.  Then got a really old Dell computer that had Windows 95 on it, and actually had a color monitor.

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386sx. bought from I believe Computer Shopper. 25mhz on turbo, and I think 15 or so normal. Something like that. Later upgraded to a Pentium 1.2ghz and a 1gb hard drive.

80mb hard drive double spaced

2400 baud modem, 9600 baud, and lastly....56k

Installed a CDROM and 8bit Soundblaster

Dont remember how much memory. Maybe 8 or 16 mb. Been a while. Windows 3.1, later installed 3.11. DOS 5 something and upgraded to 6.22.

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1998, a late comer back then.

Had a Pentium 3 slot CPU running at around 500MHz.  has a whopping 128MB RAM which I upgraded to 512MB.

Originally started with Windows 98 (not SE), so it was hell, and we switched back to Windows 95 until SE came out.  

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My father purchased a Macintosh 128K in 1984. This was my initiation with computers...

 

This was the beginning of a long love story ..  now with Windows :)

 

My first personal one was a Tandy CoCo3

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