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Oddest Brand system you ever owned????

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FFactory0x

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I had a Compudyne from compusa. I mean, what the H*LL brand is that. Cost like $2000-$2500 and I remember Compusa saying it was a new big company. YEA RIGHT!
It had a P-60 and thats about all i know it had

Man, Tie fighter and C&C on that thing were awsome.

It also played Starcraft. Mom has it in her class now in case a student needs to type something
 
this thing had a 14.4 modem. Didnt find out until like 2nd year having it. Cant beleive it stil runs and with windos 98. LOL. What a piece of sh*t but it strangly has a place in my heart b/c of those long C&C nights
 
First computer my family bought was a 486 sx, 25mhz WITH brand new 1x CD-ROM. I believe it was a Compaq. Since then (circa 1994) he has bought a Packard Bell Pentium 60mhz, USA Flex P133, IBM Aptiva 200mhz, Compaq 233, Compaq 500mhz, Compaq 1.5ghz, HP Media Center 2.53ghz, Hp Media Center 3.06 ghz, and his newest is a Dell 3.06. And I wonder why he makes so much money but is in debt!
 
IMSAI S100 system. 14 slots, 50+amp linear power supply .... one megahertz of whompin' Stompin' Silicon rarin' to go.

FWIW

Scott
 
The oldest system my family owned was an Apple IIe. After that we got an Power Mac 5200LC (75MHz, 4x CDROM, 8MB RAM - later upgraded to 24,). From there, the rest of the computers have been mine; they're all listed in the Rigs link in my signature. In short: 400MHz/64MB RAM -->750MHz/256MB RAM--->1400MHz/512MB DDR RAM & 1600MHz/256MB DDR RAM. All AMD, except for the 1600, which is a P4-M Laptop.

EDIT: got the power mac model number a little mixed up.

Nate
 
I had a Leading Edge AT. I could switch between 8, 10 and 12 Mhz! Wow, 12 MHz...I was in speed demon heaven. It had a 40 MB hard drive (MB mind you, not GB and that was huge at the time). Sigh, those weren't the days...
 
Leading Edge
386 25MHz
2 MB RAM (later upgraded to 4!!)
82 MB Hard Drive
5 1/4" floppy drive
Super VGA monitor (256 colors?!?!)
later bought a Sound Blaster 16 with a 2x (blazing fast) CD-ROM
I was the envy of all my friends when we got it 🙂
It was finally retired about 2 years ago and now resides in my parts bin for nostalgic purposes.
 
Austin
486 DX 25MHz
4MB Ram
202 MB Hardrive
5.25 Floppy
3.5 Floppy
4X CD-Rom
Soundblaster Pro

got it in 91ish, costs 3000+ dollars
 
California Computer Systems (CCS) S100 based Zilog 80 CPU system running CP/M. Used to control climate in large aerospace hangars and stuff. 🙂

I used this back in the 90's to assist with the task of keeping half a dozen sharks, 35 kW worth of Xenon lighting, Ozone, and 25,000 gallons of seawater in balance. 🙂

-DAK-
 
Originally posted by: FFactory0x
I had a Compudyne from compusa. I mean, what the H*LL brand is that. Cost like $2000-$2500 and I remember Compusa saying it was a new big company. YEA RIGHT!
It had a P-60 and thats about all i know it had

Man, Tie fighter and C&C on that thing were awsome.

It also played Starcraft. Mom has it in her class now in case a student needs to type something
Click to expand...

Had a compudyne as well..and agreed, big company..HA...ran decent for the time, it was a 486 which we had at home for like, 4 or 5 years. After I headed off to college and my parents couldn't use my sys anymore I forced them to get a new puter...🙂

moogs
 
When I was a kid my neighbor got a Commodore Vic 20. He programmed a little bird to fly across the screen and we thought he was God 🙂
 
Get this, we had a Kaypro computer. Remember those? "Portable" computer, that when folded weighed around 30 pounds. My dad actually used it for business stuff for many years, before replacing it with a 286 computer...

Here is a link to KayPro, with all the details to the sweet goodness inside... Kaypro
 
I bought a C-64. I think it was about $200 plus $30 for the tape drive(parallel port I think)
Upgraded to a 5.25 inch external floppy drive about a year later for like $130.
Woohoo. Now it only took 3 minutes to load a program instead of 30 minutes.

EDIT: I thought it said oldest, not oddest.
 
OK, I know I posted already, but I have to post for my bro...he had an original Osbourne PC. Which some will argue was the very first PC. I don't remember too much about it (I was about 12), but I remember playing games on the little 6" black and white monitor mounted between the dual 10" floppy disk drives!!! Osbourne...anyone remember those??? Here is a link with some history and a pic
 
Gateway P1 100MHz, 8MB SIMM, 1GB HDD, 4x CD-ROM, 2MB video, crappy 15" monitor that died after a few years. ~$2500 in December 1995. We spent hundreds upgrading the RAM to 32MB and adding a 5GB HDD. I think my parents dropped it off at the thrift store last summer 🙂.
 
I don't remember the brand...
486
no modem
no sound
Win 3.1
I then went to a Packard Bell(POS...still have it though)
P1 100 mhz
14.4 modem
Win 95
I then went to a Compaq Presario 2266
PII 233 mhz
56k modem
Win 98SE
I then went to a Compaq Presario (xxxx)
Duron 400 mhz
56k modem
WinME(upgrade from 98)
I then took a huge step to a custom built
2.4 ghz
56k modem(can't get broadband yet)
WinXP
and a lot more for about 1,600 bucks

That there folks is my evolution with computers...
 
A used Premier Model ? with a 286 @16Mhz and 2 megs of ram, 40meg hard drive onboard video and a 14" Samsung VGA monitor. After it died I noticed that it made a neat sound when it hit the bottom of an emtpy dumpster.
 
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