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Good old Apple IIc. Monochrome green monitor. No hard drive; just a 5.25" floppy drive. No mouse; just a keyboard.

It had a number of programs that worked like an old video game console in that you had to power it off, swap the discs and power it back on to do something else with it.

I remember some sort of Print Shop-type program, one of those "how to use your PC" disks and a handful of games. The best was Torpedos Away, a 7-in-1 game where all seven games were about ships and airplanes fighting each other. Then there was an adventure game based on Jungle Book, some pretend baking game where you had to follow the recipe, and of course Carmen Sandiego.

My family had a W95 machine too, but this was the first one I got to keep in my room, lol. It had been my older brother's until he decided to hand it down.

I don't remember. I do remember it had Windows XP which was the last good OS from Microsoft.

The first for the family was when my dad got the Atari 800 computer.

The first for me personally I think it was the Commodore Vic-20.

Tandy 2000

No internet didn't even have a brand OS system grandad designed his own OS that was just as simplistic as you could make it. Just a list you could scroll through with arrow keys then click enter on what you want. Thing was around before I was born so I've always had a computer in the house.

First computer with internet was a Compaq. Can't say much other than I'm hindsight it was a piece of shit.

Gateway running Windows 95

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a9231832.jpg

i remember playing with the door cuz it made for a funny fidget toy.

Packard Bell desktop 486DX2/66 with 4MB RAM, Cirrus Logic graphics chip with 1MB VRAM, Sound Blaster 16, 503MB hard drive, and 14 inch monitor with those crappy monitor-mounted speakers running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Later upgraded to 8MB RAM then 16 MB RAM and running Windows 95.

Had a lot of fun with that old thing. It was fantastic for DOS gaming.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d139e851.jpgthis looks like the one we had. A Packard bell tower running windows 95

This one below was similar but didn't have the vertical tower
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/56c47ef2.jpg

I forgot the exact brand (I believe it was an HP), but it had Windows ME preinstalled on it. Actually lasted a good amount of time before we replaced it. I still have the hard drive for it.

xp, i played the shit out of the pinball game, also virus took it over lol

Packard bell with not enough ram to play Mega race.

I don't know much. I think it was just some simple DOS with some explorer on it, so I didn't had to type every shit.

What I can remember better is the computer of my friend / neighbor.

They had some PC with Windows 3.0, and a MHz display (24 I think?) and a Turbo button! (always pressed, because stopping the turbo put it to like 8 MHz, making it crash)

Commodore PET

there's not much to say about it. It was a useless machine and the games weren't good.

I believe my parents bought an Atari 800 XL

First computer I ever used was just like yours, TC. I can still hear the 'tak tak tak tak' of the "footsteps" in Where In The USA Is Carmen Sandiego?

First computer I ever owned was an 1.47 Ghz CPU eMachine.

Tandy 1000HX

Idr too well. My parents would switch out to a new pc every few years. Was always underpowered for the time tho. Like couldnt play any games that required specs higher than runescape smoothly. I remember the pc they had in 2008 could barely play runescape with the HD update. Choppy af.

First pc I bought and owned was one with a 6700k cpu, 16 gb ram ddr4, gtx 1070.

My grandma had an old computer around 1994. I dont remember what it ran on. It was definitely a PC, so maybe windows . Def not 95.

Anyway there was nothing on it except for old programs like Lotus Works.

She had Shanghai 2, Solitaire, and Minesweeper.

We never had more games or other things downloaded to it,

Then, around 99 or 2000, my family got a computer. I remember how excited we all were. We got that entertainment desk everyone had too. I dont know if we had the internet at first. I do know it was Windows 98. We had a few games. Millennium Gamepack, which was a co pilation of mostly bad shovelware. We had Sim Safari, Sim Cooter (which wouldnt run), anither Sim game with a car (that wouldnt run) and. Maybe one more Sim game. We also had burned copies if Hexxen 2 which my mom hated because it was evil.

Eventually got the internet, and I found Neopets and that was my entry into the dark future of online message boards,

Mom bought a Commodore 64 back in 1989. I played TMNT, Infiltrator 2, ATF, and a whole host of games. I learned about command lines then. I had a teacher that could copy Commodore 64 games, so I ended up with a bunch of them. She was a fucking legend. Probably what sparked my love of PCs. I remember wanting an IBM Aptiva in grade 6, but never got one. My first actual PC was a clone PC that mom bought from a dude. No idea how much she paid for it, but it was in the low hundreds. It was a P166 running Win98 SE, that came loaded with Earthworm Jim, Warcraft 2, and Quake. Mom got a bunch of freeware games, and I found the fantasy pack. I tried playing Baldur's Gate, but my PC wasn't good enough for it. I settled on Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, Exile, Avernum, and others.

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We had Sim Safari, Sim Cooter (which wouldnt run), anither Sim game with a car (that wouldnt run) and. Maybe one more Sim game.

I don't recall that game

Windows 98 Compaq Presario. It was my aunt's computer. Man, so many good memories on that thing. I think the first thing we (my sister, my cousin, and I) used it for was to go to Dragon Ball Z websites.

It was like Sim Ant but you were pubic lice.

Apple 2

It compooted

Old school Dell tower, monitor, and speakers that did that annoying noise whenever I was about to get a call on my Motorola flip phone.

My parents bought a Packard Bell PC for me and my brother. It came with an Encarta CD. I remember playing Muppet Treasure Island (3 disks!) and Hercules on it.

The PC is long gone. I think the box it came in is still used to pack up the Christmas decorations.

It was either Windows 95 or Windows 98 and I believe an HP of some sort.

It was from 'Headstar', ran at like 10Mhz, did have a CD drive, but you had to put the discs in a special case which basically looked like a huge floppy disk. 20MB storsge and it's own OS on top of DOS.

iMac. Not what I wanted, what my mom thought I wanted. Used it mildly for like 10 years before getting my first pc.

It had 8 megs of ram or something because the sales person told my dad that was all that would ever be needed. Windows wasn't a thing, this was back in the mid to late 80s. While I had to know a little about DOS the only commands I remember are dir/p or something to show all the contents of a disc and then starting the exe file.

It was an IBM I remember that.

It had a "turbo" Button that I don't know what it did.

I played all my games with this joystick:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/07ad3177.png

My very first video game might have been Alley Cat on that computer on a 5.25" floppy.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2ee98aae.jpg

IBM XT. No way I could remember how to use this thing now, but it had some ASCII games on it that I would play quite a bit.

First Computer I remember having was an Amstrad of some kind. Maybe a CPC?

486, no math co-processor, 4MB RAM 200 something MB HDD, sound blaster 16 bit sound card.

A computer with Windows 3.1 gifted by my elementary school in the late 90's. It had a 5.25 inch floppy drive, 3.5 inch floppy drive and a Turbo button.

Played a lot of Ski-Free, Commander Keen, Flight Simulator, Wolfenstein and Wheel of Fortune on it.

An old texas instrument no idea the model I was like 2 at the time.

My first computer was our family's Apple ][+. Noteworthy for being one of the black ones. My dad is/was unaware of any shadiness by the local computer dealer, but in retrospect, there probably was, since black Apples were only intended for schools.

My first computer that I bought with my own money was a clone 80386SX 8/16. It was interesting because it had sockets for both DIP and SIP memory chips.

It was an emachine my mom used for work and handed down to me when a disk got stuck in the floppy drive. In retrospect I'm pretty sure the thing had so many viruses it probably was the world's first AI.

It would turn itself on, as soon as I connected to the Internet all kinda weird shit and pop-ups would appear. It had like 18 search bars on it. Even had that old purple gorilla thing that walked around the screen.

I used it almost exclusively to play a DOS copy of Street Fighter 2 that I still have lmao

Tandy 180

My first computer experience was in the classroom in the early 90s in grade school because I would play oregon trail. It would always sadden me when some other kids got on the computers before me.

An HP laptop destroyed by porn and downloading ram. At least it could run wow at the time

Commodore 64. Loved it.

My first computer I believe was a DOS computer, we then upgraded to a Windows 3.1 computer shortly after that. But my favourite of the bunch was a Pentium 3 with only 3 gigabytes of hard drive space. What was so special about that is that I managed to nearly brick the entire thing by installing Diablo 2: LOD on it. For those that don't know D2 and its expansion Lord of Destruction take up 2.2 gb of space, so the remaining space in the machine was less than .4gb after we include the OS. Combined with 56k internet?

The first time we got dsl was magical. Little side note, dad did manage to brick one of our computers at one point. They didn't have built in protection like they do with modern systems. So dad was cleaning up the computer trying to make it run smoother. Key note that my dad knows near to nothing about computers. So he saw 11,000 files in the windows folder and deleted the entire thing. Yeah.... took a while to get everything back.

For being around '98 I had a really decent PC. My Dad added a 128bit video card and added extra RAM.

He tought computer science and he gave it to me when he upgraded. So I actually had a gaming PC before 2000s.

Black and white VGA monitor
5 1/4 floppy drive
8086 processor

later updated to include a 10 mb hard drive and 300 baud modem

The first computer I ever interacted with was an Apple Macintosh owned by my dad. I mostly remember playing around with the word processor and playing Lode Runner and Glypha on it.

I built a PC with a friends help for the first time in 2011 ahead of Skyrims launch. It was a budget build of around 700 at the time, cant remember all the specs on it but it served me well.

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Black and white VGA monitor
5 1/4 floppy drive
8086 processor

later updated to include a 10 mb hard drive and 300 baud modem

A B&W monitor would have been rare back then. I would have expected amber or green.

Tandy 1000 EX

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1d540b31.jpg

8088 cpu running at 7.14 mhz. 5.25 inch floppy, 256k ram
Tandy graphics and sound

It was pure magic and bliss

A hand-me-down HP Pavilion from like, 2002 or some such.