What are the specs of your first computer?

[teddymines]

Originally posted by: vegetation

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
AH, so far I win for crappiest computer!

Nope, the crappiest thus far is the Commodore VIC-20. Which, for those who didn't know, was essentially a crippled version of the C64 -- same processor but much less memory, expandability and graphics capability.

Does anyone have a Timex Sinclair? They look to be similar to the vic-20 as far as specs go.

 

[burnedout]

Timex Sinclair 1000
3.25 MHz CPU
1 K RAM
B/W TV for a monitor
Purchased new in spring of '83.

It was disappointing because I'd used an Apple II a little bit while in college the first time.

 

[wake]

286 AT computer
running at 12 mhz
Desktop case with 2x 5 1/4" drives
20mb harddrive
about 1mb ram
CGA monitor and graphics
blasingly fast 2400bps modem
bought used for $250 around 1991

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
Apple II-something

 

[glen]

TRS-80 with cassette tape drive

 

[screw3d]

AMD K5 90MHz, 16MB EDO, s3 (trident?) video, ESS AudioDrive sound card, 14 incher, 1.2gb quantum fireball, 6x CD-ROM drive, 1.44mb floppy, win95 OSR1.

Can't believe i still remember all this!

 

[sharkeeper]

This

4.77 MHz, 64K RAM, DUAL 8" Floppies!

Matching Visual V55 Green (P33) Terminal display.

Ran CPM. When you consider this was 1979, 64KB was a hell of lot of RAM. :Q

Cheers!

 

[edro]

A 386 from Microcenter... which they told us was a 486. I wondered why Wolfenstein was so slow...

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: screw3d
AMD K5 90MHz, 16MB EDO, s3 (trident?) video, ESS AudioDrive sound card, 14 incher, 1.2gb quantum fireball, 6x CD-ROM drive, 1.44mb floppy, win95 OSR1.

Can't believe i still remember all this!

S3 was S3..

I had a S3 ViRGE 4mb card with the Am5x86/133 system...

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
AH, so far I win for crappiest computer!

Piker!

Behold the Sinclair Z80

 

[Regs]

A Compaq Pro. Pentium 1A class 133 MHz w/ 32 MBs of ram.


I wonder what the bus speeds where for both the memory and CPU's. I can only imagine what the RAM timing were back then . If there was even any timings, that is. Hard drive seek times of 20 MS>+ w/ PCI bottlenecks. O boy, this reminds me of my current @work computer which I'm using now.

 

[DaveJ]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
PCjr. and if you dont know what that is dont ask...wow after some of these posts it makes 25 sound really old (i just got rid of my pII 300)

Whoa, you had one of those too? Ours had the IBM 16 color monitor, and we had two or three of those memory "sidecars" that gave it a massive 256KB of RAM! Woohoo!

Dave

 

[radioouman]

Commodore VIC 20
then a
Commodore 64
then a
386SX-16
then a
386 DX-40
then a
486 SLC-33
then a
486 SLC-66
then a
486 DX4-100
then a
486 DX4-120
then a
Pentium 120
then a
K6-200
then a
K62-500
then an
Athlon 700
a currently an
Athlon 1.4 ghz

 

[Spoooon]

My first computer was a C64/128. I guess the actual specs are online somewhere.

 

[zerocool1]

tandy 286 8mhz 640k ram

 

[beyonddc]

Packard Bell Branded
Intel 486/DX2 66MHZ
8megs of ram
50 megs of HD

 

[nwfsnake]

1984:

Tandy 1000
4.77 Mhz Processor
640K Memory
Dual 360K Floppies
CGA Color with 14" Monitor
Joystick

Seems it was less than $2K with a Radio Shack Student Discount.

Splurged a week later and picked up a $100 aftermarket clock card, remember those???

Loadrunner - A truly classic 4 color computer game, the one that got me hooked forever!
King Quest - I think this was 16 colors! Oh Baby!

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: bolido2000
Intel 486/DX2 66MHZ
8megs of ram
40 megs of HD

Paid $2500 in 1994/5

The computer is still in my room

 

[prontospyder]

Acer Aspire
Intel Pentium 75
8MB RAM
750MB Hard Drive
14.4kbps modem
14" Monitor

 

[Siddhartha]

IBM AT 12 mHz

 

[conjur]

The first PC I bought for myself:

Zeos
386/16
1MB RAM
40MB SCSI harddrive
Monochrome 14" monitor
9600 baud modem


The first computer I had was an Atari 1200XL

 

[sharkeeper]

LOL, I remember Zeos back in the early 90's. Kind of like Alienware (without the rice) of today.

Cheers!

 

[conjur]

heh heh

I bought that somewhere around 1990. Probably ran about $1500.

 

[MrChad]

1992:

486 DX 33 MHz
8 MB RAM
212 MB HD
1 MB Video Card

We also bought a multimedia kit (for almost $1000 I think) that included a smokin' 2x NEC SCSI CD-ROM and a MediaVision 16-bit sound card.

 

[Murpheeee]

It was a DX4-100 with 640Mb HDD and 14" monitor

One of the first machines to have Win 95....which I hated and wiped it to install DOS/Win 3.11
I think it cost about $1700