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What was your first computer?

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Nice Thread this one....
Started my days on a ZX-Spectrum.... with 2 button JOYSTICK! 🙂

286, 1MB ram 20MB H/D - 14" Colour Monitor OakTech 256colour Graphics Card. 5.25" floppy drive. Adlib Gold sound card

486DX-33, 4MB ram 500MB H/D, 1MB Vesa Graphics card, Sound Blaster 16 Value.

P2 333mhz/66 375MB ram 2GB H/D

P3 800mhz/133 1GB ram 20GB H/D Voodoo 3 PCI and then GeForce 3 Ti 200, CD-R 24x

Present day -
P4 2.4ghz/533 1GB 2700 ram 2x160GB H/D, DVD etc.

Does anyone remeber having to use PHIX and KLUTZ in order to load games? Though I cant remeber why exactly?

Ah the good old days memories 😎

Wish i kept me 286
 
486 (DX?) 66 Mhz
64 MB RAM (upgraded)
350-ish Meg HD
5.25" and 3.5" Floppy Drives
2X-4X CD-ROM Drive
1 MB Graphics Card

Running Windows 3.1
And the best game ever, Return of the Phantom (of the opera)

Good Times...
 
My was a beautiful old Tandy 1000. I'm not quite sure which Tandy 1000 it was though. I think it was like $1000 at the time (1989) so it was probably a couple years old already.

We eventually upgraded to a Packard Bell that had a 486DX 50MHz processor. Man I loved playing Ski Free on that thing. We eventually upped the RAM on it from like 8 MB to 16 so we could run an internet browser decently.

Next move was to a 200 MHz Pentium HP. I got a nice new 3dFX Voodoo 2 for that baby. Quake 2 never looked so good.

After that were upgrades that weren't really significant to me. The last one I built isn't even being used by anyone anymore b/c my parents bought a laptop. It's less than a year old too. 🙁
 
Pentium 133, 32 MB RAM, 1 GB hard drive, unknown MOBO, WIN 95, i cant believe i paid that much for it, when i got it it was top of the line i remember all my friends trying to play Doom and surfing in a whoping 14 kbps, o well old times...
 
Pentium 120
32 MB Ram
2.1GIG WD HDD
6x CD-Rom
15" Sony SX monitor
Win 98

Custom build by a fried of my dads 😎
 
Acorn RISC PC (retired a few months ago).
Before that my Dad's Amstrad. I think a 1512 DD, 8 MHz (In use till a couple of years ago!)
 
first i used was some old laptop that was really slow that my dads company gave him. not sure on specs as its long gone and i didnt know anything at the time. first machine i could call my own was an xp1800+, 256mb pc2100, gf4mx420... i guess one could say i am new school heh.
 
Some sort of Texas Instruments Computer it had parsec and a race car game on it I think chase or something. Green was the only color. I was a child and it was a hand me down from my uncle.
 
Originally posted by: bluemax
Originally posted by: Matthias99
Man, you guys are new-school.

The very first? The oldest one I remember being in my parents' house (that I used, anyway) was an IBM AT 8086 running at a whopping 4Mhz (I think, or maybe it was 2Mhz...)! Yay DOS 3.0 and 4-color CGA graphics!
IBM PC = 4.77MHz
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Should be PC/XT 8086?

I had a overclock button to run at 8MHz. Stock speed is 4.77MHz.
Comes with CGA and a internal speaker.
Games wise, I spend all my pocket money on games.

I fiddle with dos programming at age of 13? INT10, INT21...
Now, 14 years had passed and I'm a software engineer.
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Tandy TRS80 Model III - I had a whopping 128k of memory and a cassette player hooked up as my drive. Coded in BASIC all day long on that computer. Then I moved to a couple of 8086/8088 machines and even got a 10MB HD. The first one I bought new was a 486sx with 4Mb of ram and 80Mb HD 14 inch .39 interlaced monitor and a epson 24 pin printer.

Good times........
 
Started out on one of those laptop/benchtop computers. I was 5 when my dad had it but it was the size of a large suitcase. It was silver with blue stripes and had a small monochrome monitor built in. The keyboard was part of the front/top and came off to reveal the hidden monitor and dual 5.25" drives.

I had a C64 somewhere around that time too.

Then we got a Packard Bell 486@ 33mhz/4mb ram/150mb HD/DOS that was later upgraded to a 66mhz/24mb/Win95 system.

Early 1997 I picked out the parts and had someone build me a 233mhz P2/5.1GB HD/64mb ram/ when parts for this system were hard to find. ATX was rare for the time in this area and we had to wait 7 days to get a case ordered that would fit the board itself. Wierd deal but interesting at the same time.

Used that sytem until 2001 when I built my first system by myself, AMD 1100mhz/40GB/512mb ram.

Since then I went though 3-4 different configurations, only common thing was the HD which I still use to this day.



 
Hmm the first PC that my family had was an atari I believe and then we had a pc made by KLH. I think it was a 386.

The first system that was actually MINE was a Celeron 500, 128mb sdram, Matrox G400 32mb, sblive value, 10gb 7200rpm maxtor, Abit BE6, Pioneer 113 dvd. That was when I was hardcore into Quake 3. I remember this pc would freeze like 15 times a day and I was a newb so I didn't know what to do 🙁

First pc I ever built was an Athlon 700 (slot A), Asus K7V, Geforce 2 GTS and I used some parts from the old pc.
 
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