What are the specs of your first computer?

[JC]

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

My first computer also. They actually had 2k of RAM, there was a 16k (gasp, huge!) expansion module available. Also, used a cassette tape recorder for loading/saving programs.


Timex-Sinclair 1000

 

[gflores]

133mhz, 32mb ram, 2 gb, 15in monitor, Windows 95. I got it about 7-8 years ago and I still use it to this day. It's great.
My first computer is like a supercomputer compared to everyone elses, hehe.

 

[maziwanka]

p100, 16mb ram, 1.6 gig hdd, blah blah

 

[EngenZerO]

Apple IIc Plus...dont know the specs...

second computer.

486 with 32 MB of ram
2 GIG HD
Integrated 4MB video and sound
14k modem
2X CDrom
Floppy

 

[Jadow]

Magnavox Headstart 286
12 mhz
1 meg of ram
40 meg hd
no sound card
however believe it or not, the damn thing DID come with a CD rom drive, it was one of the first commercially available computers that did. The drive was 1x and you had to use caddies.

I have fond memories of that computer!

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth

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.

I beg to differ. The Vic-20 came out before the 64 and the 128. At the time of release, home users had choices of Radio Shack TRS-80 (b/w), Texas Instruments TI-99, and Apple (I) and IBM AT (but not really for home use).

You got color (if you had a color tv), midi output, and expandable memory and a modem, besides being be lightweight in mass. It was pretty slick for its day. The C64 improved upon the Vic-20 design and the 128 was the ultimate expression of that chipset (before moving to a completely different platform in the Amiga).

EDIT: How could I forget??? The Atari 2600 had a programming cartridge. Check it out!

The TRS80 editions at that time had a more powerful processor and a full 64k ram. The Apple I was never a mass produced model, only a few were ever made. The Apple //'s initially were extremely weak but had INCREDIBLE expansion capabilities -- I know of many people who had Apple //+s with 5MHz zipchips processors in it. In fact, it is for this expandability reason as to why Apple prospered so well with their computer line and were able to move on while other makers died a quiet slow death with their nonexpandable lines.

The VIC-20 was a pathetic model, Commodore made it into a last ditch consumer edition when they realized nobody wanted to purchase the technology for video game machines. The goal was to make the VIC-20 as cheap as possible, cutting corners wherever possible. You had a wonderful 22 column screen for instance, making it unusable for any serious computing application. And I don;t know what you're talking about with a modem, that was never built-in the machine, nor was there a midi interface -- that honors goes to the Atari ST for being the first to ever have it built-in.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
TRS-80 CoCo, 16K ram ... don't know about the CPU. Had a game slot, but no non-volatile storage except a cassette player I jury rigged that sometimes worked.

That was the first machine our family got, Colour Computer 1.

From the magzines I learned to use the cassette port to digitize sound and play it back, cool stuff for back then.

 

[FrustratedUser]

C128 and then this rig.

 

[VRmaster69]

My first was from a company called PC Direct.
It was pretty fast at the time.... AND it had Windows 95!!! WOW

Pentium 200MHz with MMX Technology
32MB SDRAM
S3 Trio64V2...... 2MB PCI Video Card
Creative Soundblaster 16bit ISA Sound Card
33.6k Dynalink ISA Modem
24x Matsushita (Thats So Shiti) CDROM
Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB (very Big in Size) Hard Drive

I only know this because I went exploring when I got into puters hard out.
Which was about after 3 months. ... There goes the Waranty

 

[Vortex22]

386SX (or DX?)

That's all I know.

 

[wetobasura]

286SX with dos 6.2.2 had 2MB of ram then upgraded to 4MB 5 1/4 floppy drive and 2SDD floppy drive. 14 inch monitor displaying about 8 colors (maybe)

 

[LuckyTaxi]

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

wish i still had mine ... same specs

 

[Turkish]

it was a 286... i dunno anything else about it....
i just know it was boring...

then came the 486 and doom, oh life was beautiful then.

 

[petey117]

no mention of what platform, so here goes:

it was a timex sinclair 2000

predates the apple2e!

i think it had a few K of ram....i know i had the 2K expansion pack that wab about the size of 2 cigarette packs put together.....
ahhhh the memories!

 

[CraigRT]

286, 8mhz
40meg hard drive
3.5" and no 5 1/4 !!!! (very high tech at the time)
2400 baud internal modem
256 colors VGA

it was an IBM PS/1

 

[Twista]

1st to house and 1st pc family ever had:
cyrix 333 (like amd it ran at 233)
32mb sdram 100ram i guess
onboard 2 or 4 mb card.
onboard sound card
oh ya packard bell
pb modem
cd rom
there floppy
6gb hdd
win 98

my 1st pc i built (mine):
duron 1300 morgan
shuttle ak32l
192mb ram sdram 133
tnt2 card than i got a ati 7200 than i got a gf 4 mx440se

1st pc i built for family (bout 5months ago)
soyo mb
spare 1700+
old sdram133 ram (233mb worth)
ati 8500le
6gb and 4gb hdd
onboard sound
winxp than win2k (at win2k now)
BTW YOU PEOPLE ARE OLD (WRITTEN IN CAPS ON PURPOSE)

 

[Corn]

My first "home" computer, the Interact Family Computer.

....and I still have it, although it can't read any of the taped programs anymore.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: minendo
We had three of these including all accessories.

I only had one, but I was itching to get the expansion box. I never saw it become available! Then, I turned 15, discovered drugs, and sold it.

I rediscovered computers 5 years later with a Commodore 64.

 

[RayH]

Apple II+ (Motorolla 6502, 1MHz)
48K ram + 16K ram expansion card
143K 5.25" floppy

 

[labgeek]

Sinclair ZX81 -- in KIT FORM. Had to be soldered together before you could even use it.

Moved on to TRS-80 Color Computer 2 and later 3. Ran OS-9 Multi-User Multi-Tasking OS.

Bought a Canon MS-DOS machine with 8" drives.

Then bought a Sinclair QL - Motorola 68008 CPU 32 bit (but only 8 data and 20 address bits), 128K of RAM (expandable to 768K), 2 microdrives (tiny little tape drives), output to Tv or VGA monitor, came with word processing, spreadsheet, database, and drawing programs. Could add on floppy and even a hard drive. And had BUILT-IN networking...

 

[P.O.W.]

Atari 800 w/16K ram. Upgraded to 64K.
2 Cartridge slots and a tape drive (the cassete type) which was upgraded to a floppy.

 

[dionx]

family computer was some packard bell 386 with a crap 14" monitor.

my first actual computer was Pentium 200MHz MMX; 16MB RAM, 15" monitor, 4MB video, 4GB HD

 

[alkemyst]

1986 my dad came home with this around christmas:

Apple //e with enhanced chipset (e chipset added later) (I think 1Mhz)

80 column card w/ 128k

Apple Monitor with green display and tilt screen

4 Apple Disk ][ 5.25 Drives

2 Apple Disk ][ Disk Controller Cards

Apple DMP Printer

Applied Engineering DataLink 2400 baud internal modem.

Kensington Microware System Saver //e

Sonus MIDI Interface

Sonus SuperSequencer 128

CH Mach III Joystick

Grappler+ BUFFERED w/16k

I got busted in 8th grade selling screenshots of Fuller Brushman Pron

The system came to about $2600 for the monitor, printer, apple //e, 80 col, system saver and grappler.

 

[Sideswipe001]

386 SX (No idea about Mhz)
4 MB RAM
20 MB HD

You have never tweaked until you tried to squeeze enough of that 640k out to run Ultima 7 in DOS. That game was incompatible with any version of Windows (3.1 and up) AND any 3rd party DOS memory manager. I "dual booted" DOS. Ultima configuration, or everything else configuration. I also learned to never trust a generic sound card. Parents didn't want to pay for a Sound Blaster, and it was up to me to try to make our generic POS work. I don't think any programs ever worked with it on any kind of default settings.

Ah, setting up hardware is sooooo easy now.

 

[burnedout]

Originally posted by: JC

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

My first computer also. They actually had 2k of RAM, there was a 16k (gasp, huge!) expansion module available. Also, used a cassette tape recorder for loading/saving programs.

Timex-Sinclair 1000

Thanks for the link. Hehe, talk about bitter-sweet memories! I couldn't remember how much RAM that old thing had. I used the computer for about 1 1/2 years until purchasing a C64. The TS1000 may still be in a box over at my mother's.