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What was your first computer?
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First computer bought by my father was a 66 mhz Packard bell. Think it cost like 3000 back then. Had windows 3.1 and something called navigator as an os.
I built the first computer that I actually owned as my own.
I built the first computer that I actually owned as my own.
And here. It was rubbish.
Btw this thread already exists here.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1709560/
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My Apple II+ still works. First computer I used was a IBM 650 in 1959. Lots of vacuum tubes. Huge air conditioner. Usually down for repairs.
My Apple II+ still works. First computer I used was a IBM 650 in 1959. Lots of vacuum tubes. Huge air conditioner. Usually down for repairs.
I got my first computer on 1993 and I was 10 years old at the time. I was actually waffling back and forth between a PC and a Mac, but choose the PC instead. It was some sort of IBM computer and it had 486SX-33mhz, 4MB of RAM, 256MB HD space. Also it had a 2400 or 9600 baud modem and 3.5" floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive. It came with a 13" VGA CRT monitor that seemed huge and heavy; the screen was very convex.
Mine was also in 1993 but the spec was a lot more humble. Purchased from a local Chinese-ran shop it featured a mighty 386SX/33, 1MB RAM, 40MB hard disk (WD iirc) and a 256K graphics card. Lasted me for a while until it was upgraded to an 486SLC/33 made by Cyrix.
eMac G4. That thing was HUGE. Couldn't watch Youtube on it, but it was a great computer at the time (bought it years after launch btw).
I've answered this before in this forum- 1984 Apple IIe $2300 (as I recall?) 
Very similar appearance with the Apple IIe.
Very similar appearance with the Apple IIe.
As I recall, that price included the duo-disk drive and monitor, maybe even the printer too, but I'm fuzzy on that.
I purchased a Compaq portable with a tiny screen. It weighed 30 lbs. I debated whether to get it or the similar IBM portable, finally choosing the Compaq because the text was a bright amber. No GUI in those days.
Apparently I'm not nearly as old as most people posting in this thread.
My first computer I got new (I had an older Dell beforehand but I forget if it was passed down) was an XPS 720. That is easily one of Dell's most beautiful desktops. I still think the design is stunning.
First computer I bought with my own money is the 15" rMBP.
My first computer I got new (I had an older Dell beforehand but I forget if it was passed down) was an XPS 720. That is easily one of Dell's most beautiful desktops. I still think the design is stunning.
First computer I bought with my own money is the 15" rMBP.
Atari 65XE as a Christmas present. I think I was 11?
I was pissed my parents didn't get me a Nintendo. I wound up taking the computer apart within a week, to their horror. I just wanted to see what it looked like. Put it back together, started programming, eventually got a disk drive about a year or two later -- I think that sucker was like $250!
Do kind of wish I kept it.
I was pissed my parents didn't get me a Nintendo. I wound up taking the computer apart within a week, to their horror. I just wanted to see what it looked like. Put it back together, started programming, eventually got a disk drive about a year or two later -- I think that sucker was like $250!
Do kind of wish I kept it.
That is cool. I never knew there were pretty PC towers.
I see this is from the mid to late 2000s. I remember my G5 Mac as a work of engineering art. It had plastic channels in it to control airflow.
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That is cool. I never knew there were pretty PC towers.
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It was definitely inspired by the G5/Mac Pro... but hey, Dell is capable of releasing one piece of art every decade
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We had a C64 when I was young, and got an Amstrad PC20 in the late 80s. Other "notable" machines I've had were an LC III and a B&W G3.
