Serg

For me, the first computer I personally owned was back around 1984 and it was a Commodore 64. I had STACKS of 5 1/4 floppies with games. All notched to be doulbe sided of course....

I really didn't do much other than play games on it and then helped run a bulletin board. 600 baud modems! Ha.. those were the days.

Sometimes I think it would be fun to get a used C64 to mess with.. then I stop and think about it, and realize it would be a pain in the ass..

So what was your firts PC??

CineMATTaG

My first computer was quite recent (a couple of years ago) and it was an eMachines, believe me I haven't regretted anything more in my life

Serg

oy.. My parents keep buying eMachines.. god knows why. I think it's one of THE worst PC's made.. "Buy quality, buy it once" is what I say.

GadgetSniper

Yeah, I steer clear of the emachines... Won't find me buying one... My friend has one, pretty recent, a 2.9 GHz... It seesm to be working pretty good for him, only problem he's had so far is that it was supposed to have a PCI express slot, but it doesn't... so that made for a trip back to london drugs to get a standard old PCI video card, thing doesn't even have AGP...

My first computer was around 1991 I think... It was an XT 086 with 2 5 1/4" floppy drives.. I was pretty young then, and it was mostly for games... I played around with print shop version 1 on it a bit, with my good ol' dot matrix printer.... like you said... those were the days... But getting one of those ancient boulders to play around with, probably would cause some headaches with what we're used to today, even if it was for nostalgic effect.

CineMATTaG

When I bought the eMachines, I didn't know much about the 'computer world' and so the decision was more based on how cheap it was (£499) and just the excitement of having my own computer. It did work really well at first but it wasn't long before the CD drive broke.

I replaced the drive and sold it too my boss

hammybaby

oh wowwww...my very first computer was a HP...it worked well for couple of years until someone stole it. :dunno:

now i have a gateway computer. i totally love their desktops!!!!

49ocsiDRL

My first comp was back in 1995 a ACER it was pretty tight... it had a weird setup there was no desktop...and there was this game i always played... it was this rambo style Bunny that would shoot machine guns and plasma rifles.... good old days

Joel007

I remember that bunny, Jazz Jackrabbit! My first was a black and orange screened dinosaur with 5 1/4" floppy drive. I played a game called "beast" in which your diamond pushed the blocks around to crush the "H" monsters that tried to get you.

Green

Think my first was around '94. It was a 386 running Windows 3.11 and DOS (ah, the good old days), with 100MB diskspace and 4MB of RAM It struggled to play X-Wing and X-COM and... pretty much everything.

Lucien21

My first computer was a 48k Rubber key ZX Spectrum way back in 1983.

Then I had an Amiga 500 which was a superb machine.

My fist PC was probably a 386 or 486.

HeadCase

Well, my first computer was a hand me down from my uncle back in '91 I think. It was an old VGA monitor, really slow, but I do remember having a lot of games on it. Didn't really get my own computer for myself until '96.

nangel78

I remember the Tandy computers from the 1980s. I think that was the first one I ever used.

ninikins

I had a Tandy too and it lasted me a lifetime. One of the first games I ever played was called Cyberdog. I wish I could find it again

Joel007

Aha! I found that classic Jazz Jackrabbit game! and its free

Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Jazz Jackrabbit 2

nangel78

I cannot remember any games. I only remember having one lol.