lets talk about what computer you had first either as a child a teenager or an adult
the first computer and what memories it holds for you
and if you still have it

my first computer was an commodore pentium 1
120 mhz
16 mb
1,5 gig hd
a 2 mb diamond video card
wandows 95 plus
and a 24 speed cd rom

i got it when i was 12 ish so this was around 2000
i dont play too many games on it even by 2000 this machine was the lowest of the low end

sadly i dont have it anymore

but i do still have my second computer
a toshiba satellite 4000 cdx

pentium II 233 mhz
32 mb ram
4 gig hd
2 mb video card ( again )
24 speed cd rom
and wandows 98 SE

this was 2002 ...ish

these days i use it to play 1990 games
it has 160 mb of ram
and a 20 gig hd
its running windows ME ( why are you making that face ? )

so what about you ?

and just to head tinyE off the at the pass http://www.interfacegeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/BIG_My-First-Sony-Casette-Player-TPM-80001-1.jpg ;p

The first computer I actually owned was a 386 SX. I think it had 12 or 20 Megahertz (sorry I can't remember) and I basically killed it by installing Windows 95 on it.

It wasn't used for much besides porn, given I was 18 at the time. Dial up porn, at that.

dare i ask how you managed to kill it ?

windows 95 theoretically can run ona 386
albeit it very very very very very slowwwwly

486 DX 2 with a Turbo Button :)
it had the two size floppy drives

We bought a multimedia upgrade pack which included the CD-ROM drive, and a pile of PC-CD games, such as King's Quest VI, Fate of Atlantis, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I.

Thus began my love for PC gaming, I soon after got Who Shot Johnny Rock, INCA 2, Leisure Suit Larry 6 (I was 10 years old lol), Doom, Sam & Max, Full Throttle, King's Question VII, Duke Nukem, Quake, Deus Ex and the rest is history.

It still ran, but nothing worked and it acted like a raging asshole whenever I wanted to do anything other than look at porn. If pc's had personalities, it was a provert, well beyond pervert status.

Hence the "It only got used for porn"

you had a pervy pc
im not sure if thats weird or awesome >.> did the turbo work ?

my p1 and p2 only ever had the one floppy drive
i used floppies till 2004

whats wandows? - is it wike dat?

Yes, that turbo button actually made it run like 10x faster. I can't remember any real reason to turn it off.

First computer was an Apple IIe, which my family had around 1986 or 87. 1 MHz processor, 64 KB RAM, and all programs run off 5.25" floppies.

Second was a 386SX we got in the early 90s, with just under 4 MB of RAM (I remember the "just under" part as we had to pull some virtual memory tricks to get it to run Sim City 2000, as that game required a minimum of 4 MB RAM). Ran DOS with a fairly crude shell, and I don't think it was until the computer after that one that we had Windows 3.11 installed. One thing I remember vividly about that computer was that there was a defective BIOS battery in it, so every month or so the computer would "forget" what hardware it had and we had to re-enter all the BIOS information (this was before the BIOS would easily auto-detect hardware). Fun times.

this http://i.stack.imgur.com/3Y8yH.jpg

i have no idea what that cause but i couldnt stop laughing for a full minute
and since then i refer to windows as wandows ( the magnifiecent )

PC-6001 named 'Papicom' in 80's by NEC. lol.

i read that the turbo button does nothing though
it actually slows your machine down
and pressing it lets the machine run at its actual speed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

thats why i asked

Yup! Same here. First computer was the Apple IIe, also from '86 or '87. Except I "tricked out" my rig with the 128 KB card installed which ran things in a higher "resolution" and 2 - 5.25" drives. Also color monitor and an Epson dot matrix.

Some of my games were Castle Smurfenstein, one of the first full mods in the history of gaming over the original Castle Wolfenstein; something called "Adventure" or had the word adventure in it and was part of a series of adventure games that were text parser graphic adventure games; Wishmaster; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Demon's Forge which was a double-sided disk: one side Apple, the other side IBM PC; and some mail-order thing called "Software of the Month" club or something. Some good stuff, some bad.

Still have it! :-) Mainly because I wrote this BASIC program to calculate prime numbers and wanted to run it through until I reached the limit. Only issues I had with it was a blown fuse in the monitor which I replaced and the "a" key started randomly inputting a "z" after about 5 or 6 years.

Maybe my memory is unclear, but I remember that making all processes much faster.

i don't remember, think it was a 286 or something stupendously old
but before that I had a thingie that worked with cassete tapes, unfortunately i don't remember how it was called.