What was your first home computer?

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The first home PC I ever had was a Mitsubishi Apricot. I remember it well. 75Mz Pentium 8MB RAM, 850MB HDD. All running Windows 95. I managed to incrementally upgrade it over time, including adding a Soundblaster AWE 64 & doubling the RAM. I also overclocked the CPU to a whopping 90Mhz

 

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I remember waking up on Christmas morning, before the sun was up, and ripping it open. I was so tired, that I got back into bed with it under my arm lol.

 

Can't remember the smell of it exactly, but I remember it was very distinctive.

 

I was too young/stupid to do anything other than play games on it :(

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I remember waking up on Christmas morning, before the sun was up, and ripping it open. I was so tired, that I got back into bed with it under my arm lol.

 

Can't remember the smell of it exactly, but I remember it was very distinctive.

 

I was too young/stupid to do anything other than play games on it :(

 

I had one of those too, and like yourself I only played games on it really. Hence me not classing it as a PC.

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Commodore 64. It was a hand me down from my brother.

That was one that was actually mine. I had before that used an Atari 130XE and 600XL (maybe an 800XL)

 

Like most i only used it for gaming but i considering it being a PC when you have to enter cheats for a game as it was usually a couple of hundred lines of code before you run the game.

Then you still don't know if it'll work.

 

DRM back then was so poor. Have a two cassette tape deck? copy away. Got high speed dubbing? time saving.

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The first one we had at home was a Timex Sinclair 2068. We still have it, and it still works.

 

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The first one I co-owned was a Spectrum 128k +2, the one with the built-in tape player.

 

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The first one I ever owned alone was a self build Pentium 166MHz. Sadly no picture of that one.

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My first pc was an IBM Aptiva Celeron 833mhz?, 10gb HDD and either 256 or 512mb of ram.

 

That pc got me into gaming, I used to love playing GTA: Vice City multiplayer on it. :D

Couldn't win any races though, being 20% under spec meant I was always last. :(

 

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It's weird that my Motorola Xoom can play GTA: Vice City on full with a higher resolution and not break a sweat.

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I started with a timex sinclair 1000...  i was only 9 or 10, so i didn't know what i was doing, but learned a little basic, which is probably all it could do.

 

then i got a C64, which was awesome, then a couple of amiga's (500 then 2000), and then into DOS pc's then windows, just buying parts and building a new computer every few years....

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First was a Gateway G6-400, then a Gateway 400SD4, then (and currently) a Dell XPS1530. I also currently have going a Lenovo A63 (thanks to Neowin) and Dell Dimension of irrelevant model number (thanks to science) - both are desktops and have internals that no longer resemble the manufacturer specs.

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My mom met someone off AOL using my grandpa's laptop back when I was in the 5th grade, he ended up buying her a Star (I believe that was the company) desktop, and he flew out to met her, it was over after a lunch date, lol.

 

But that computer stayed strong for awhile.

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I had an old Compaq Presario.

 

Intel 486X2 66 MHz processor

8MB RAM

420MB Hard Drive

3.5" Diskette Drive

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Windows 3.1 with TabWorks

 

Still works, though it's just sitting in my closet collecting dust.

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