What Computers Have You Owned?

[Alnitak]

Commodore 64
iMac G3
Gateway (486 or Pentium I don't remember)
Acer laptop
Gateway laptop Pentium iii
Compaq laptop AMD Turion 64
Toshiba Satellite Core i7

The Toshiba turned 5 this month and still going strong. Very well built laptop.

 

[Aron9000]

IBM S/360

 

[jbrown329]

1st one was a Packard Bell, Pentium 166
2nd one was a build
Current one is an HP H8-1534 Envy

 

[tarallucci]

An Amstrad pc
A custom pc with intel pentium cpu and 200MB or ram
An Asus netbook
A Vaio notebook Y Series
An Asus notebook with an i3 second or third generation
A gaming Gigabyte Brix

 

[Alnitak]

IBM S/360

Woahhhh no way. Do you still have it?

 

[cityboy-stl]

The first one was a Gateway 2000 486 with Windows 3.1.
The next three, including the one I'm using now, I built myself.

I first learned programming, assembly language and COBOL, on a S/360 but that's a museum piece now. The one I used had a whopping 32K of memory from the factory plus another 32K (not gig, not meg...K) memory expansion unit that was the size of dishwasher. Ah those were the days...key punching programs into cards, no screens - the console printed on teletype pin-feed paper, reports printed on printers the size and weight of three refrigerators, everything was single threaded, those big-ass tape drives like in the picture. UGH! How far we have come.

 

[TickTockMan]

1st) A cheap desktop
2nd to 4th) A HP laptop
5th/Current) A Dell



I always get a cheap one because I just do basic stuff.

 

[purina]

Starting from about 2002 the first was a Gateway 486 after the branch of TRW where my brother-in -law worked was finished with it.
Second was a Dell Dimension 4550 bought new in April of 2004.
A few years later, as backup, upgraded the 486 with a used motherboard and Cyrix something or other.
Eventually replaced the backup with a decommissioned Dell Optiplex GX260 from another of my brother-in-law's workplaces.
The GX260 died a few weeks before and the DIM4550 a couple of weeks after I received the birthday present of a Toshiba Satellite Pentium N3530 laptop from my sister and brother-in-law last year.

That's not to mention tablets.

 

[star-warrior]

My first computer was in 1990, a mish mash hand me down that someone put together as a hobbyist. It was a 286 with a maths co-pro, came with a Hercules monochrome (orange coloured graphics) monitor and a 9600 baud modem for dialup. Incredibly slow but ran DOS 5. Then I had a 386 running DOS 6, which also doubled as upright heater for my cold room...
I upgaded to a Win 3.1 machine, a chunky pale creamy grey coloured Packard Bell computer around 1994, and it wasn't until 2001 when I got a Sony Vaio laptop computer running win xp. That was kinda pants when it started going wrong... I accidently dropped it and it landed on the power socket which dislocated from the motherboard...

Then I moved onto another winxp machinese, a Toshiba satellite which also ended up as a crotch warmer. Having taken out a £150 extended warranty thingy on it, it proved to be worth every bit. I also dropped the machine which landed on the power input socket, breaking the mother board. Twice. Both times, they changed the motherboard and got it back to me within the week.

I'm currently using another Toshiba, a vista machine, which I've had since 2008.

My sis gave a new computer because she had nothing but trouble with viruses and popups. It's a win8 machine which I don't use very often, mostly for the bairn to use. The mousepad has issues, so it needs a mouse all the time...

I use a Samsung S3 Tab for watching movies and stuff off the web, but not porn. I now use my smartphone much more than all the other devices I have other than this laptop.

 

[seven2go]

IBM Aptiva, built, can't remember but bought two and upgraded them, Lenovo, ACER laptop and the one I use most is an iBUYPOWER gaming machine with a core i7 cpu except I'm not a gamer.
It was an open box deal from newegg and the price was REALLY right.

 

[Alnitak]

My first computer was in 1990, a mish mash hand me down that someone put together as a hobbyist. It was a 286 with a maths co-pro, came with a Hercules monochrome (orange coloured graphics) monitor and a 9600 baud modem for dialup. Incredibly slow but ran DOS 5. Then I had a 386 running DOS 6, which also doubled as upright heater for my cold room...
I upgaded to a Win 3.1 machine, a chunky pale creamy grey coloured Packard Bell computer around 1994, and it wasn't until 2001 when I got a Sony Vaio laptop computer running win xp. That was kinda pants when it started going wrong... I accidently dropped it and it landed on the power socket which dislocated from the motherboard...

Then I moved onto another winxp machinese, a Toshiba satellite which also ended up as a crotch warmer. Having taken out a £150 extended warranty thingy on it, it proved to be worth every bit. I also dropped the machine which landed on the power input socket, breaking the mother board. Twice. Both times, they changed the motherboard and got it back to me within the week.

I'm currently using another Toshiba, a vista machine, which I've had since 2008.

My sis gave a new computer because she had nothing but trouble with viruses and popups. It's a win8 machine which I don't use very often, mostly for the bairn to use. The mousepad has issues, so it needs a mouse all the time...

I use a Samsung S3 Tab for watching movies and stuff off the web, but not porn. I now use my smartphone much more than all the other devices I have other than this laptop.

That's so interesting because my satellite has been very reliable for five years. Maybe they took care with the run that I got.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

Let's see if I can remimber.

1. TRS-80
2. Tandy 1000
3. Some off brand 8086/88 (4 Mhz, turbo 10 Mhz).
4. Packard Bell Legend 2440 (Pentium 75) w/Windows 95a
From then on I built my own.

Right now I have an AMD Athlon II X3 440 (3.0 Ghz), with 4 GB of RAM and Windows 7 Ultimate.

 

[Overwatched]

I can't remember the exact details of each computer, but...

1). An old Dell that I received for Christmas. It was used, and ran Windows ME. It lasted a year before it eventually died.
2). eMachines desktop that I got from Wal*Mart. It still runs but the specs were embarrassing.
3). a couple of cheap laptops that I got for school, but I'm not much of a laptop person.
4). My current desktop. It's a Dell Gaming PC, can run everything I've thrown at it. Pretty happy with it so far

 

[Kriiss]

1) Some crabby Dell tower which I got for Christmas (wasn't really into tech at the time)
2) iMac G3
3) Acer Aspire 8930G
4) Acer Predator
5) Custom built PC from PCspecialits (pretty good at the time but due an upgrade now as it's running like crap and sucks for doing my university work on currently)
6) Mac book pro mid 2015 model

 

[GamerBear]

1) An old Compaq computer in 1998 (Windows 98)
2) Another old Compaq computer in 2001 (Windows ME & Windows XP)
3) An HP desktop computer in 2005 (Windows Vista)
4) Power Macintosh 6500 (Mac OS 9)
4) A Mac PowerBook laptop in 2007 (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger & Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard)
5) Macbook Pro in 2009 (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan)
6) MSi gaming laptop in 2013 (Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7)
7) HP laptop in 2014 (Windows 7)
8) Digital Storm gaming desktop in 2015 (Windows 10)

 

[star-warrior]

That's so interesting because my satellite has been very reliable for five years. Maybe they took care with the run that I got.

Same here, but I've now got a new Samsung laptop running Win10. The startup is amazingly fast compared to the others. But them I've not wedged it full of competing software and crud yet

I just discovered that I can't call up the 'pipe character' becase it is a # both with the shift and without the shift button depressed. Some genius did that at Samsung unfortunately. (Why is it important? Its one of the characters sequences (dot dot pipe) to call up the thumbs up emoji here... That's for the English (UK) Input Method Editor. The English (US) is fine

 

[trinket]

8) Digital Storm gaming desktop in 2015 (Windows 10)

Is it any of the models here, or a prior/slightly older model? Some beautiful looking systems. What made you choose them over, say, Alienware?

 

[GamerBear]

Is it any of the models here, or a prior/slightly older model? Some beautiful looking systems. What made you choose them over, say, Alienware?

Vanquish 5 with a few upgrades (GTX 1080 and i7 6700k processor). I chose that cause a friend told me that they were very good gaming company. I tried Newegg but it gave me nothing but problems and it was more money than the Digital Storm system so figured that I would just go with DS then Newegg. It's a real good system, I would of gone with Windows 7 but it was free with Windows 10 and I would of had to pay money for downgrading to Windows 7.

 

[Rubicon66]

The very first system my parents purchased, was a IBM. I never knew the model, but it had MS-DOS. Interestingly enough, it was entertainment for me hehe x) eventually, I know we bought another IBM desktop. This time, it was Windows 95. Then in the year 2000 I believe, we've purchased an HP Pavilion 7800 series with Windows Me. Although the OS wasn't that great, that Desktop was my very first gateway to PC gaming. I replaced Windows ME with XP Pro (32-bit) so me and my older sister would be able to play newer games that used DX9 and had better compatibility with XP. The gem of an HP desktop lasted all the way up to 2009. Nothing was wrong with it. At that time, I salvage parts to put in a desktop that was about 5 years newer than the HP. Seeing how it had an AGP port as well. Anyway, jumping to November 2010, I was given a gift. You can say this was my very first PC, since it's actually mine lol. A Gateway DX4840. It's 2017 now and it's still giving me great performance Of course, parts were added and swapped overtime. I plan on either selling or giving my Gateway to family or a friend after I build a new PC. Which, I really can't wait to get started on.

 

[Keljuki]

Spectrum +3
Amiga 1200
Around 10 PCs over the years