Your first computer

[beatmeofficer]

An 8086 that my father built. I used it to type papers (in elementary school) with Word Perfect and play "F-15 Strike Eagle". In the late 80's/early 90's, my father did some work for Tandy (now defunct branch of Radio Shack), and we got a few 386 & 486 server machines. I got a 486 DX2/50 w/ SCSI hard drive fitted out w/ 16 1MB SIMM's, and I got to keep it in my own room! It played "Wing Commander 2" like a champ!

Edit:
By the way-- I still have and use two of the keyboards from those Tandy machines-- best keyboards I ever used, really well made with great key feel and no fucking Windows or "multimedia" keys.

[Ouster]

An old 486DX with 300MB hard drive running Windows 3.1. Can't remember anything more about it other than I played Chip's Challenge on it all day.

[MunkeyQ]

I played DX-Ball (a Breakout clone) on my 486 - it ran but took ages to load. When our house got the internet via a 56k modem I was dead pleased. I remember going to get a glass of juice and make a sandwich while waiting for Dogpile to load.

[beatmeofficer]

Originally Posted by MunkeyQ

I played DX-Ball (a Breakout clone) on my 486 - it ran but took ages to load. When our house got the internet via a 56k modem I was dead pleased. I remember going to get a glass of juice and make a sandwich while waiting for Dogpile to load.

Dogpile? Was that like happypuppy.com (which, I just checked is "Coming Soon!")?

[MunkeyQ]

Originally Posted by beatmeofficer

Dogpile? Was that like happypuppy.com (which, I just checked is "Coming Soon!")?

Nah, it was a search engine I used because it had a cool name. It's still there: www.dogpile.com

[maximo]

The first computer i ever owned was an amstrad black and white one, the first real computer was an Intel 100mhz processor, 600mb HDD, 10" screen and 64mb memory. It was a hand down from my father, but at the time it was hilariously fast. It ran Windows 3.1 like a dream, anything after that was horrible

[DocShay]

I was also to young to remeber the specs, it ran windows 3.1 - so in that era.

[reidy-]

we had some generic 486 machine, running some variation of DOS (not sure as I as I was +/- 2 years , 6 years old

all I rember was playing the most awsome game every which was TFX (tacticle fighter experiment) DOS box that flight sim its sooo good

the game was on like 11 floppy disks :O, I also have the newer ef2000 but dos box just wont run it with decent frame rates even on the e6400

[MunkeyQ]

I remember installing Windows 95 off a stack of floppy disks as high as my knee. My computer didn't have a CDROM - I eventually got a super-slow external one which plugged into the parallel port.

And you had to install IE separately!

[tyrael]

my first computer was a IMSAI8080 with a 300 baud modem that my cat used to knock the phone off of at the worst possible moments