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Sony Vaio. Bought in 1997

233 MHz Pentium II
Rage 3D with TV Tuner (whoa.)
32 mb of ram.
2X CD Burner
Floppy Drive
4.3 GB of hard disk space.
15 inch crt.
Windows 95
14.4 kbps modem

Oh man was it great when I was 7...
 
Compaq (blah)
Windows ME (double blah)
800Mhz Celeron
128 mb PC100 SDRAM
40 GB Hard Drive
Integrated Video

Purchase Date: 2001

😕
 
First computer in the house:
Atari 600, followed by
Apple 2

First IBM PC:
8088 w/ 640K RAM, 20 MB HD, 5.25" DD FD, DOS 3.3

-MrManly
 
Tandy 1000EX
256k of memory, Tandy Graphics (EGA offshoot, 16 colors)
1 piece computer/keyboard/built in 5.25 floppy

I eventually upgraded it to 640k of memory and a 3.5 inch low density floppy.

Oh, the memories.
 
IBM PC...just PC, not XT or AT...I think it was like 3-4mhz or something, with a 10MB and 20MB harddrive, CGA monitor (green one), back in 1983 or something. Cost close to $2k for all that sweetness.
 
Originally posted by: mezrah
Compaq (blah)
Windows ME (double blah)
800Mhz Celeron
128 mb PC100 SDRAM
40 GB Hard Drive
Integrated Video

Purchase Date: 2001

😕
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Wow, that wasn't too long ago.
 
you are in a room.
there is a cute little bird here.
there is a cage here.
there is a lantern here.
there is huge, poisonous snake here, dripping poison and coiled to strike you in the ear.

>kill snake

you swing clumsily at the giant cobra, trip on the cage, slip on the lantern, and fall eye-first onto the little bird's cute, tiny little beak.

you are dead.

ahhhhh, those were the days
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those were the days...I remember playing those text adventures all the time.

kids these days would freak if thats all they had to play.

I remember how excited I was when I upgraded a CGA board to an EGA board. WOOT!!!
Before the cga board, I an a monochrome board and an amber monitor.
 
Originally posted by: Pioneer Premier
Originally posted by: mezrah
Compaq (blah)
Windows ME (double blah)
800Mhz Celeron
128 mb PC100 SDRAM
40 GB Hard Drive
Integrated Video

Purchase Date: 2001

😕
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Wow, that wasn't too long ago.
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Yeah...I'm young (23) and that's "my" first computer. Of course I used computers, all the way back to Apple IIe.

 
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
MC6809E Micro-Processor running at .8948 MHZ
8k Standard and 8k Extended Basic Rom Memory
16k cartridge memory
MC6847 VDG and MC6883 SAM controllers

Started with a cassette tape for storage, then got hi tech and used a 5 1/4" Floppy!

760k or something? Fuggin HUGE!
 
My first laptop/PC.

other than a commodore 64, which I don't really consider a PC, that zenith laptop was my first PC. I'm not sure if the first one we had was a 8088 or a 286 processor, either way the 8088 and 286 looked about the same. we upgraded to a 386 zenith laptop later, but somewhere in there we had a desktop. I'm not sure what the specs were, but it was a packard bell.
 
286 (10MHz or so I believe), 2 or 4MB RAM, with a 10MB hard drive, was upgraded to have a 3.5" drive along with the 5.25" drive. DOS 5 I believe it was. Don't remember when it was that I got it. Lasted for 4 days, I didn't realize you had to park the heads on those old HDs. Oops...
 
First extensively used:

Windows 3.1 Laptop
1996
486 Processor
16 MB ram
3.5" floppy drive
14.4 kbps modem

First "Owned"
1999
AMD K6-2 300 Mhz
128 MB PC-100 SDRAM
12 GB HD
32x CD-ROM
Voodoo 2 Gfx card
Soundblaster Live sound card
Windows 98 SE
 
Originally posted by: datwater
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
MC6809E Micro-Processor running at .8948 MHZ
8k Standard and 8k Extended Basic Rom Memory
16k cartridge memory
MC6847 VDG and MC6883 SAM controllers

Started with a cassette tape for storage, then got hi tech and used a 5 1/4" Floppy!

760k or something? Fuggin HUGE!
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Me too :thumbsup:
 
I think our first family comp was a 386 that my dad had. After that we got a 486 100 mhz computer that I spent my childhood years playing games on. Red alert!

My first real comp that I got was when I was 14 or 15.

P3 450 mhz
abit bx6 rev 2.0 mboard
monster sound mx-300 sound card
Hercules Rive TNT 16 meg AGP
128 meg ram pc 133
10 gig hard drive maxtor

First game I installed on it was Half Life and had an orgasm.
 
PIII 1GHz
128MB PC133 SDRAM
20GB HDD (I think)
Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB AGP
Windows Me

Purchased from Dell in October of 2000.


Damn Windows Me sucked. I remember I always had to restart the computer before shutting down to avoid the BSOD.
 
Originally posted by: cube101
Kaypro II
9" green screen 2 5.25 floppy drives
2.5 MHz Z80
64K Ram
crazy money at the time late '82
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Yeaaa! Another Kugger!

It wasn't until I learned perl a couple years ago that I enjoyed programming again as much as I enjoyed programming the KayPro. The KayPro keyboard had the best tactile response.
 
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