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Poll: What was your first IBM-Compatible computer?

realy not sure, has a two color monitor, (as in color that was yellow and then not color as in black), a 10mb hd and I used to play all of the old sierra games on it
 
Apple II

48K of RAM
5.25" floppy drive
monochrome (Green) monitor

it had sound!!!!!! 😀
*edit*
gack! he went and changed the thread title

ok

Intel 386 DX-33 with the 387 math co-processor (it was probably never used, software had to be special written to use it)
8 MB RAM
210 MB hard drive
1 MB ISA video card (it could do 16.7 million colors, most cards of that day only did 256 color)
sound blaster PRO sound card
14.4 Kbps modem
both 5.25" AND 3.5" floppy drives

i built it myself at a cost of over $5000 dollars in Jan '93
 
i attribute much of my computer knowlege to the fact that i had a Packed Bell 133mhz with NO help from tech support. most of youknow that the packard bells were notorious for shoddy computers, so i learned a ton from formatting, trouble shooting, and the like. it sparked my knowlege in computers


the computer is still running today as a linux box
 
Here's all of mine

1986-1MHz Commodore 64 with that awful drive (5781 or something). 64KB of Memory.
1992-4.77MHz 8088. Tandy SL1000 with 640K of Memory.
1995-Packard Bell Pentium 60 with 8MB of Memory, later upgraded to 24MB
1997-K6-200 with 64MB of Memory
1999-Celeron 366 with 128MB of Memory
2001-Tbird 1000 with 256MB of Memory
2002-Dual Athlon MP 1800+ with 768MB of Memory
Today, Feb 27, 2003- Dual Athlon MP 1800+ with 1280MB of Memory (as soon as the FedEx dude arrives)

🙂
 
I had an Apple II then I went straight to the cream of the crop Pentium 2 266 mhz, 32 MB ram, 6.4 gig HD. I was so jealous of my friends 486 with Windows 3.1 for so long

Anyone else make such a big jump?
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
You don't want to count Atari's either? 😀
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Heh, my brother had an Atari 800 back in the day (same time as Apple]['s). That thing kicked major ass. I used to play Star Raiders all day. Atari was so ahead of everyone else back then in graphics and sound...
The only thing that sucked about the Atari 800 is that it had a cassette tape drive, no floppy. So slow... and God help you if someone reset the counter.

edit: Star Raiders link
 
Originally posted by: amdmang
i attribute much of my computer knowlege to the fact that i had a Packed Bell 133mhz with NO help from tech support. most of youknow that the packard bells were notorious for shoddy computers, so i learned a ton from formatting, trouble shooting, and the like. it sparked my knowlege in computers


the computer is still running today as a linux box
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I had a Packard 286. Good god that thing was a POS. didn't teach me anything, other than how to get pissed off at a machine.
 
Originally posted by: nitsuj3580
I had an Apple II then I went straight to the cream of the crop Pentium 2 266 mhz, 32 MB ram, 6.4 gig HD. I was so jealous of my friends 486 with Windows 3.1 for so long

Anyone else make such a big jump?
Click to expand...

Went from a Pentium 200 (non-mmx mind you) to an Athlon-B 800. The P-200 was cream of the crop when I got it, the Athlon was mind range.
 
C64. that's a computer, it should be on the list. otherwise you should ask "what was your first IBM-compatible PC?"

to answer THAT question, a 486DX/40 w/ 8M of RAM. 250M HDD and 2X cdrom.
 
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