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Lets hear it - what was your first PC?

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Valhalla1

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I got my first PC in 1988 when I was 7 years old.

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IBM 8088 processor, @ (I think) 2 or 3hz
Mine had 256k ram, later upgraded to 512k (stock model came with just 64k ram!)
160x100x16 colors, 160x200x16 colors , 320x200x16,colors and 640x200x4 colors graphics modes (yes that 16 and 4 colors, not 16-bit or 4-bit 😉 )
3-voice sound :Q (this was a true innovation at the time)
Wireless keyboard :Q

At first, it came with just 2 cartridge drives, and a 5 1/4" low density floppy. by the time the 90's rolled around, I rigged up a 3.5" low density floppy and a 40 megabyte harddrive. The harddrive was the size of the whole rest of the computer, and it had a huge external I/O controller card with it. Man that thing was a beast!


🙁 wish I still had it. ended up trashing it after it stopped working one day a few years ago, I think the power supply conked out finally after 12ish years.


I had like 5 shoeboxes full of 5.25" floppies full of all these awesome old games. Man I had a blast. Plus I used it to learn BASIC.



 
1) Commodore Vic 20
2) Commodore 64
3) HEAVY XT
4) 286
5) Mac Plus
6) Mac Performa 630CD
7) iMac rev B
8) Dell Dimension 4100/866 (current machine)
9) Dell Inspiron 4000 (selling)

Wish list:
1) Home brew Athlon TBird 1.something GMHz
2) PowerBook G3/400
3) The next iMac rev with Mac OS X pre-installed and hopefully a PowerPC G4 CPU and CD-RW.

Oh and of course my Casio G-Shock watch !!!
 
Total Refected Power - Hehe, I remember drooling over the $1,195 Commodore 128 it was the almighty machine.

Thankfully I never got one, otherwise I'd have been in debt forever with a pretty door stop.

I do kind of miss how my Commode Vic 20/64 would instantly turn on with a whopping (64k ROM)? Programming in BASIC on the fly, the heavy a** 5.25-inch disk drive weighed at least 20 pounds, then there was the tape drive which was kinda nifty.

Wow technology has come a long ways since the good 'ole War Games days ...

edited ROTFLMAO corrected spelling from Commode to Commodore 😉
 
TI-99 4A,
later, a Commodore 64.
My first IBM clone was a 486/dx2 at 66 Mhz that I bought used with 430 MB drive and 16MB of FPM and 1 MB Integrated video. I overclocked it to 75 MHz. My next IBM clone is this one.
 
Atari 600XL w/64KB for christmas '83 (age 11) and 1050 disk drive for christmas '84. Nothing quite so annoying as writing a rather long (at the time) BASIC program and knowing it will only be around until your parents accidently unplug the computer. Thing is, I don't remember the thing ever hanging...

Regards,
Craig
 
Even before the IBM PC-compatible, my first experiences with a copmuter was the TI-99/4A, VIC-20, TRS-80, Atari 800, and some others I have long forgotten. I did not own any of them, they were at school (elementary through middle school). For some reason I was really attracted to computers and would learn as much as I could and get some extra time on them through accelerated learning programs or by stayed after school for computer club.

Aaahhhhhh... memories of innocent gEEky youth 🙂

 
1) Commodore 64
2) Commodore 128D
3) 386-16
4) Macintosh SE (a mistake - due to my ex-fiance, who was also a mistake)
5) 486-25 (upgraded to 486/66)
6) Pentium 75 (upgraded to Pentium 133m Cyrix PR200, and then K6-233)
7) Pentium II 400 (being upgraded to a dual 550 Katmai rig)
8) Pentium III 600 (upgraded to 800)

I also have a P166 laptop.
 
IBM PC Jr. 🙂 256K RAM, 1 360K floppy and two cartridge slots, one for BASIC and the other for software... had the IBM 16 color monitor, too. Still got a copy of DOS 1.0 around here somewhere...

Dave
 
Hmm... some sort of Kaypro, then a C64, then a C-Colt (XT clone), then a 486/66, then a P133, then a AMD-333, now a PIII-700.
 
1. Timex Sinclair 1000
2. Commodore 64
3. Commodore 128
3. Amiga 1000 (300 baud modem, Compuserve, $12.00 per hour connect charges -- ouch)
4. 486 DX33
5. P120 @ 133
6. K6-2 300 @ 333
7. Duron 700 @ 700 (soon to go up)

I've had others, but those were my main rigs.
 
well since people are posting their upgrades, I guess I'll do mine. I keep my systems in use a lot longer than most anyone I know. I'm due for an ovrehaul in a few months, waiting for late spring though for dual t-birds

PCjr
386 33mhz/16megs ram
Pentium 66mhz
Celeron 300a@450mhz/256mb ram (current system)
 
Dude, i had a Kaypro!! That thing was SWEET!! It's nickname was "Darth Vadar's Lunch Box" because it looked like a giant black spacy lunchbox, the top unfolded into the keyboard, and the 5 inch green screen and 5.25" floppy were both mounted on the face. Crazy thing had a whopping 10MB Harddrive, way ahead of its time....Green space invaders was the pimp. 😉 Also had a Xerox dedicated word processing behemoth, swear it was 4.5 feet tall, took those 360k floppies that were twice the size of a 5.25 and were usually colored....64k ram, big ole' black & white screen, wordstar was all it ran. 😀 $7,000...it was my dad's, don't look at me....

 
1- commodore pet
2- commodore 64
3- 486/33 DX, which i upgraded by adding a 500meg HDD and a 1x CD-ROM
4- P75
5- see RIG in my sig.
 
First computer? hmmmmm
that would be the family Apple II, I remember playing a game based on Labryith (you know that movie)
It had nice green graphics.. lol
 
A Gateway P100 with 16mg RAM and 1.2 G HDD, we upgraded it to a P200 with 48mg RAM. 🙂 Danm thing was over $3000
 
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