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First computer I can remember was a 486 runing Windows 3.1. I had a computer even before that, with a cmd line OS but I cant remember what it was, (it wasnt linux).
 
I had an old 386sx/25 I believe that was bought around 1991 or so. I don't know the price since my parents bought it.
 
Atari 65XE
64K memory
1.79Mhz CPU
Floppy Disk Drive after I saved up the $400 for it. I don't recall the model.
B&W TV for a display

Man, I loved that thing.
 
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Originally posted by: compman25
Originally posted by: ATLien247
Originally posted by: drnickriviera
Ti-99
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99
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Me too! I was in 2nd or 3rd grade... so around '82-83.
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Me too. I was in 5th or 6th grade. I loved Parsec. That game was great.
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Have you ever played Wacky?
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nope, just parsec and lots of games you had to write in basic that i had gotten from magazines and had to save to tape. I remember I had a GE tape deck for it, those things sure were damn slow.
 
First one I used would be an original Mac in 1984, followed by a Mac Plus, Mac SE30 and Mac 2C.

First one I bought would be in 1999.

Celeron 433
Aopen AX6BC mobo
128 MB PC66 RAM
14 GB Quantum Fireball HDD
4X CD-ROM
19" KDS monitor
Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 (not Ultra) graphic card
Windows 98
Logitech Internet keyboard
Logitech Trackman Plus trackball
Altec ACS45.1 speakers
Generic case
Generic power supply
 
My very first computer was an 8086 but we took it back within a week after we figured out it wouldn't run anything (including SimFarm)

So my parents got a new computer:

Intel P133Mhz
32mb ram
1.5gb HD
33.6k modem
ATI Video Card 1mb of RAM!!!
 
My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a tape drive and a B&W TV! I got the whole setup for $10 from a yard sale in 1990.

The same year, my dad brought home a PC from work... An IBM PS/2 Model 50Z. It was a good system at the time, with a 10 MHz 286 processor, 3.5" HD floppy drive, 30 MB hard drive, VGA graphics, and a memory expansion board with a whopping 4 MB of memory! 🙂
 
the year - 1995. was 15 yrs old

Pentium (1) 90Mhz
16MB RAM
850MB HDD
1MB Graphics
4x CD-ROM
Windows 3.11 workgroup (and a few months later bought Windows 95 upgrade for $150 or something)
Cost - $2000 - my dad still talks about it how he spent so much money and I only used it for a few years... sigh...

i took it to the local shop to get a modem and sound card. i remember they charged me $200 or something for it. then i got AOL for $20 a month. i remember pr-n used to be jpegs that take up to 10 minutes to download.
 
1993

486DX2 - 66MHz
4MB RAM
250MB HDD
3.5" Floppy
5.25" Floppy
14" SVGA monitor
Microsoft Windows 3.1

:Q
 
Kaypro II
Zilog Z80 2.5 Mhz processor
64kB RAM
2x191 kB 5¼ inch SS/DD floppy drives (w/ virtual memory handling)
9 inch, 80 column text-only CTR monitor built in
CP/M
1983
 
I want to say it was about '96, but it was an Acer Pentium I 133. It was suprisingly good now that I look back at the three store bought computers I've owned. If I remember the specs it goes something like this:

Pentium 133
12MB RAM
1.2GB HDD
Windows 95

What I can find on Google says it came with 16MB of RAM, however I remember thinking my second rig (Pentium 166MMX) had more, and I KNOW it had 16MB. But who knows I was about 20 when I bought it.
 
386SX
25Mhz
1MB RAM
20MB HD
5.25" and 1.44" Floppy Drive
Trident ISA graphics card
Windows 3.1
-> 1992? ($1000)

486DX2/66
66Mhz
8MB RAM
100MB HD
1.44" Floppy Drive
2X CD-ROM Drive
->1994 ($2000)

486DX4/100
100Mhz
32MB RAM
540MB HD
1.44" Floppy Drive
4X CD-ROM Drive
->1995? (+$250 - upgraded to this from above)
 
08/1997

233mhz P2
Shuttle Spacewalker motherboard
64MB EDO
5.1GB Hitachi HD
24X NEC CDROM
S3 Virge PCI 4MB
AWE64 ISA Sound Blaster
 
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