DId anyone own a Pentium 1 when they first got issued?

NateBrown124

My father did, and if I didn't introduce myself, I'm Nathan. I'm a 17 year old kid that loves old computers, and abandonware in general. I own computers from the 80's all the way to 2000-2009. My oldest one is a Vic-20 from 1980, then the newest is a 2009 HP PC. I also play the guitar and organ, and I love experimenting with 80's music.

Skora

NateBrown124 wrote:

My father did, and if I didn't introduce myself, I'm Nathan. I'm a 17 year old kid that loves old computers, and abandonware in general. I own computers from the 80's all the way to 2000-2009. My oldest one is a Vic-20 from 1980, then the newest is a 2009 HP PC. I also play the guitar and organ, and I love experimenting with 80's music.

Welcome to WinWorld/WinBoards.

No i didn't, nor did any of my family.

The first CPU i owned was an Atom, the first CPU i used (i believe) was a Pentium III.

thinkpadman

I had owned a new Pentium 100 back in 1996. I remember it well.

For $1,800 AUS, it came equipped with 16MB EDO RAM, 1.3GB Maxtor IDE HDD, 1MB S3 Trio 64 video card, ESS AudioDrive sound card, 8x GoldStar CD-ROM, and a 14" Acer monitor. Installed was Windows 95 OSR2, and the usual MS Works, Dangerous Creatures, etc. that came with PCs almost by default back then.

DOS and earlier Windows gaming was fine, though I recall when Need for Speed 3 came out and from then on, games began requiring a faster CPU and a better graphics card.

SomeGuy

I used a DECpc Pentium 66 for a while. It was 99.99999724621% fantastic!

Icon

My first computer was a hand-me-down hand-me-down, first given to my parents and then to me. It was a KLH model 195, with an AMD 286 (no FPU), 1MB RAM, 120MB hard drive, and 1.2MB and 1.44MB floppy drives. Came with MS-DOS 4.01 / DOSshell installed and Windows 3.1. This was around 1993-94.

TCPMeta

Nope,

In 1998 a friend gave me a AST system that had 16MB of ram a pentium running at 133MHz. Used it as a IRC bot back in the day.

10 years ago I had gotten a stack of IBM PC330s that had Pentiums running at 133MHz. I tried to build a Beowulf Cluster with it but I ran out of spare hard drives at the time.

ndezoo

My first computer is IBM Aptiva with pentium 133Mhz and windows 95 (later to windows 98). Still goods for running some old game and document writing (using ms office 97, then 2000)