What are the specs of your first computer?

[FelixDeCat]

Vic 20 :-(

Programming in 1982 sucked.

 

[manly]

Wang PC (non IBM compatible). I think it was a 4.77 MHz 8088 w/ 128 KB RAM and a full-height 5.25" floppy drive.

 

[Rigomortis]

Originally posted by: 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.

Me Too and I still have mine sitting here. I don't know what I did w/ the power adapter but just still having it is pretty cool.

I used to love writing the programs and then praying to the computer gods that the tape backup worked and you could reload your program. 🙂
Those were the good old days when all you needed was 2K of ram and didn't need a HD.

LOL

 

[grrl]

Tandy SX1000 with 8086 processor, 640k RAM, 5-1/4" floppy, monochrome screen and a 'huge' 30 meg hard drive.

 

[milagro]

Vic 20

all my friends had PAC-Man on their ataris....but I had SNAKMAN....whoo hoo! and GORF!

 

[Genesys]

IBM PS/2
486 66MHz

 

[DanTMWTMP]

damn....i guess i'm too young compared to you dudes who owned 3.5 mghz computers lol

<--286 ..12Mghz..ehh i forgot the rest.....lol

 

[Boyne7]

3x commodore 64. still use the monitor for one of em as a tv

 

[xenos500]

this is prolly the fastest 'first computer'

P3 533EB
128MB PC100
20GB 5400RPM

I got in the computer game late, but I caught up fast....

 

[Trente]

I can not seem to remember the detailed specs. 🙁

 

It was an Epson something. I remember that my dad pulled an all-nighter getting DOS set up on it when I was about four and a half years old.

I loved playing Clue on that thing!

 

[RossGr]

Apple II+, 1Mhz 6502 Processor with 48K Ram and a single 146k floppy drive. This was in 1980.

 

[Ionizer86]

486DX-25 (IIRC)
Cheesy 13" CRT. Right before trashing out, the thing was recoverable every time it stopped working if we smacked it hard!
Windows 3.1
(That's all I know)

How come not that many people had SX chips? Everyone needed a CoPro?

 

[blakeatwork]

no-name whitebox Intel 286..

5.25 & 3.75
20MB
512KB Trident
4 MB RAM
512KB stick of cache
no co-processor
13" monitor that was quickly upgraded to a whopping 14" with 64K colour
14.4 USRobotics Sportster modem that I had to manually configure everytime I connected to someone..

Ahh... those were the days..

 

[moonshinemadness]

P90, win 3.1, 16 bit sound i think and a taxan screen. it r0x0r3d my b0x0rs!!

 

[thejman]

I remember building a "Sol-20" from a kit in 1977 or 78. It had an Intel 8080 processor, and I hooked it up to either a green, ot an amber monochrome monitor that I salvaged from a successful "dumpster dive" in an office park. I had to switch between the two monitors, because they had severe burn-in on localized areas of the phosphors, each on different parts of the screen!)

I also remember about 20 years ago when I worked at (yes, I'm admitting it) "Rat Shack", we had to run a daily report via modem with Tandy in Texas, using a modem with a Baud rate of 300 bps! It had a manual switch to capture the phone line. (Sometimes it didn't properly release the phone line, or grabbed it on its own at random times, which I remember leading to more than one late night call from the Police because the Alarm Company got a signal that there was "trouble" on the phone line, requiring me to drive back to the store and manually reset the modem and the alarm. A royal pain.)

The store's computer (a TRS-80 Model 100??) used an external hard drive (a Winchester, I believe) that was the size of a full size CPU tower on it's side . It sounded like an old time Victrola with ceramic grinding sounds emanating from it while it was revving up to speed. And it had a massive storage capacity - 10 MEGABYTES !!!

Ah, the good old days.....

 

[matt426malm]

My old Mac LCII

 

[bockchow]

first box ran DOS never used it, first one i actualy used was a pentium 50mhz, that thing was sweet.

 

[Lawrencetan21]

I remember I was a freshman in HS. Got my first computer at Incredible Universe (remember that store?) for $1300 and a Sony 15in Monitor for another $500. The spec was 166Mhz (or 160 I forgot), 2 Gig Hd, Ran Win 95.

 

[josedawg]

Gateway 2000

Pentium 90
8mb ram
2x CD-ROM
1.4gb HDD (this just came out at the time)
15" Trinitron monitor
Gateway2000 kb/mouse
14.4kbps modem
Can't remember what video card, motherboard.

Win3.11WFW
Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Word
A few more old programs I don't remember.
A few games I don't remember.

Price, a whopping $3300+, back in 1994 or 1995. I can't recall.

 

[Wooster]

IBM PCjr with 128KB memory. 5.25 floopy drive and two cartridges slot. No HD. Got it back in 1984.

 

[glareman]

Student account on an IBM 360 mainframe, FORTRAN IV, punchcard input. We wouldn't see our output for at least 8 Hrs.

First computer on my desk: TRS 80 w/cassette drive

 

[edmundoab]

let me see,

Intel 486 DX - 33Mhz
4MB system memory-- on windows 3.1
upgraded to 8MB memory-- for windows 95 platform
Trident VGA card
some sound card and Mobo I can't remember,
14inch Hyundai Monitor
256MB Quantum HDD, I believe its Bigfoot
Canon BJ-10 Black and White Printer

 

[toant103]

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

40MB or 400MB?

 

[NeoPTLD]

Macintosh Performa 6320(or something like that)

100MHz PPC 603e
4x CD-ROM
6.3GB HDD
32MB RAM?
14" monitor