What was the first computer that you owned that ran on a Microsoft operating system?

[mpitts]

Packard Bell 486SX/33 (later upgraded to DX2/66)
4MB RAM (upgraded to 16MB)
120GB HD (upgraded to 420 & 540MB drives)
2X CD-ROM
Aztech sound
2400/9600 proprietary modem (upgraded to 14.4 Sportster)
15" NEC flat-screen monitor

 

[Booster]

What was the first computer that you owned that ran on a Microsoft operating system?

286 12Mhz with 1MB RAM, 40MB HD, 256KB EGA dispay, running DOS 3.3 and Norton Commander. I pretty much couldn't use it w/o the Norton Commander.

 

[Cerebus451]

Had a Leading Edge PC way back when. Have no idea what version of DOS it was running. I think 2.x. 640K of RAM in that baby, and dual 5 1/4 floppies! No hard drive. I was jealous of my friend that had a PC with a 5MB hard drive in it. I was a Macinhack through my college years and didn't return to Billdom until I bought a Dell Dimension XPS200 (200 MHz Pentium w/ MMX) with Windows 95.

 

[Descartes]

486DX2 66MHz, 4mb ram, 640mb drive, I think.

I ran DOS6.22 and Windows 3.11WFW, although I rarely actually went into Windows. Back then, my internet experience was through a Sys V box w/ lynx, pine, etc.

It's too bad DOS never had a tcp/ip stack. I played w/ an open-source implementation, but never got it to work properly.

 

[bleckywelcky]

I think I started out with a couple computers in 94/95 that run DOS/95 - a 100 MHz and a 133 MHz. Before that I was into Ataris hardcore. Wooooot! Atari, yeah! /|\ <- Lame attempt at an Atari symbol.

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[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: bleckywelcky
I think I started out with a couple computers in 94/95 that run DOS/95 - a 100 MHz and a 133 MHz. Before that I was into Ataris hardcore. Wooooot! Atari, yeah! /|\ <- Lame attempt at an Atari symbol.

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Didn't Atari sell some sort of personal computer for a while?

 

[Viper GTS]

The first that I owned was a Pentium 100.

The first my family owned was a 486 SX25 IIRC, which we later upgraded to a DX33.

Viper GTS

 

[Anghang]

486 DX/33...
4 MB
200 MB HD
windows 3.1
dos 6.2
2x cdrom
1200 baud modem

 

[Jugernot]

Packbard Bell Legend 386sx16MHz. (4) 256K 40pin SIMMS, 512k video, MSDOS 3.3, 33meg HD compressed to around 60megs, 3.5" floppy with second 5.25" floppy, 24pin Panasonic dot matrix printer, 14" SVGA monitor, and a bad ass old keyboard! Had multimate, printmaster, LHX, Mech Warrior, 3d boxing, and a few other games loaded on it. I actually got Windows 3.1 loaded on this badboy right before it died...

I remember the days when I didn't know anything about dos and couldn't delete files. So when my hard drive got full or I didn't want some files, I'd just format the thing and start over.

No sound card, no mouse! Toward the end of it's life, I bought a gameport card from EB ($50 in 1993).

First computer all together was an IBM of some sort. My parents said they were so cheap in the early 80s that when we broke one they'd just buy us another. All together we had around 5 of them. It had a cartidige slot and hooked directly into your tv. The keyboard was attached to cartridge, case, etc.

Jugs

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
The first that I owned was a Pentium 100.

The first my family owned was a 486 SX25 IIRC, which we later upgraded to a DX33.

Viper GTS

When you say "upgrade," do you mean you installed one of those overdrive processors?

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: Vespasian

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
The first that I owned was a Pentium 100.

The first my family owned was a 486 SX25 IIRC, which we later upgraded to a DX33.

Viper GTS

When you say "upgrade," do you mean you installed one of those overdrive processors?

He could have just upgraded it if it had the coprocessor socket....

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: Vespasian
I had a 20 MHz 386SX that ran DOS 5.0.

Before that I was a Commodore fanatic.

Funny that I had exactly the same thing, and Commodore/Amiga A500 & A1200
But, befor all of that were an Apple IIc.

 

[lowtech1]

286 of some sort. Don't remember what version of DOS was running on it. This was back in 87 or 89, can't remember.

Verylikely that it was crappy DOS 3.3 or 4.0.

 

[BurnItDwn]

when i was younger my dad got a 486 dx 33 with 4mb of ram, a 1mb video card, and a massive 130mb hard drive. The first PC I ever owned was a low budget project i built in 1996, back before anyone had heard of the Sub-$1000 machine. It was a Cyrix p200+ (166mhz) with a generic board, 32mb of ram, a 4.3gb quantum bigfoot, and a generic 8x cdrom. I also picked up a cheap used monitor (14in) for under 100 bucks ... It ran win95, then win98, and was then upgraded to a K6 233, then to a celly 300@450, which was replaced by a celly 533@824, then a duron 700@1 ghz, then a 1ghz tbird at 1.2ghz, then an xp1800 at about 1.6ghz .... ahhh so many changes in hardware

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: Jugernot

Originally posted by: Vespasian

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
The first that I owned was a Pentium 100.

The first my family owned was a 486 SX25 IIRC, which we later upgraded to a DX33.

Viper GTS

When you say "upgrade," do you mean you installed one of those overdrive processors?

He could have just upgraded it if it had the coprocessor socket....

Do you mean one of those swank i387 math coprocessor?

 

[BigSmooth]

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw
8086 IBM PC, DOS 2.0. I think that was the version that introduced subdirectories.

They have subdirectories now?!? Man, what won't they think of next?

The first PC we had at my house was a 486 DX2/66, I believe. It had Windows 3.1. I remember that it cost my dad thousands of dollars.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Vespasian

Originally posted by: bleckywelcky
I think I started out with a couple computers in 94/95 that run DOS/95 - a 100 MHz and a 133 MHz. Before that I was into Ataris hardcore. Wooooot! Atari, yeah! /|\ <- Lame attempt at an Atari symbol.

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Didn't Atari sell some sort of personal computer for a while?

Yes. An older brother of mine even owned an Atari 800 back in the early '80s. They were amazing for the time... IIRC, they had 640x480x16 (65k colors) video and 8-bit sound, which was mind-blowing back then. Not much good beyond home entertainment though... they were designed (like the consoles) to hook into a TV and had no floppy (data cassettes :Q ). Thankfully it had a cartridge for loading games, BASIC, etc. I remember Star Raiders... that was the bomb!

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Vespasian

Originally posted by: bleckywelcky
I think I started out with a couple computers in 94/95 that run DOS/95 - a 100 MHz and a 133 MHz. Before that I was into Ataris hardcore. Wooooot! Atari, yeah! /|\ <- Lame attempt at an Atari symbol.

-

Didn't Atari sell some sort of personal computer for a while?

Yes. An older brother of mine even owned an Atari 800 back in the early '80s. They were amazing for the time... IIRC, they had 640x480x16 (65k colors) video and 8-bit sound, which was mind-blowing back then. Not much good beyond home entertainment though... they were designed (like the consoles) to hook into a TV and had no floppy (data cassettes :Q ). Thankfully it had a cartridge for loading games, BASIC, etc. I remember Star Raiders... that was the bomb!

They sold them at toy stores, right? I vaguely remember seeing them on sale at KB Toys back in the day.

 

[heartsurgeon]

original ibm pc, twin 5.25 floppy drives (no hard drive)
no graphics

dos 1.0

eventually upgraded it over the years to run windows 1.1!!!!

added a Tallgrass 40 meg harddrive ($5,000) external, added a AST 6 pack plus expansion card (maxed out memory at 640K)

still have it!

absolutely magnificent keyboard

 

[isekii]

Packard Bell P166 with 32mb Ram and 2.0 GB hd with 64bit Graphics Accelerator~

LoL

 

[Eli]

IBM XT.

4.77MHz, baby!

Running DOS 6.22.

 

[SSP]

286, 12Mhz with some version of dos. Then later to a 486 DX2/66 running windows 3.1

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Jugernot

Originally posted by: Vespasian

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
The first that I owned was a Pentium 100.

The first my family owned was a 486 SX25 IIRC, which we later upgraded to a DX33.

Viper GTS

When you say "upgrade," do you mean you installed one of those overdrive processors?

He could have just upgraded it if it had the coprocessor socket....

I'm a bit rusty on this, but how would a coprocessor socket allow you to go from a 486/25 to a 486/33?

 

[AU Tiger]

IBM PCjr. There were many good games that I played on that old piece of crap, but the wireless keyboard owned.

 

[bizmark]

generic brand 386SX at 16MHz. Ran Windows 5.0 and Windows 3.1. 3MB (upgraded to 5MB) and a 105MB hard drive. It came with a 2400 baud modem.... I was so happy when I put in a 14.4! Also I installed a sound card and CD-ROM from one of those multimedia kits.