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What was your first Computer?

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Archman

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What was your first ever PC, be it a home built one or bought?

Mine was an IBM Aptiva 2176 tower:

120MHz Intel Pentium CPU (overclocked it to 133MHz)
16MB of Edo RAM
2 MB Video card
and a whopping 1.6 GB HD with Win95

share what yours was as well 😀
 
It was the (semi)Portable version of the Commodore 64. Not sure what the spec's were.

The first computer that I actually built myself was a Pentium 166, 64MB of RAM, 2MB video(later upgraded to a V32K), and a 2GB hard drive.
 
Refurbished CTX system from local Egghead store

  • Win95
  • Cyrix PR166 CPU on some cheap Socket7 mobo
  • 16MB EDO SDRAM (I doubled this to 32MB at purchase)
  • Quantum Bigfoot 3.2GB HDD
  • CD-ROM drive
  • Hercules Stingray128 VoodooRush video card, 8MB :Q (another upgrade I bought at purchase)
  • 14" AuroraVision VGA monitor with one refresh rate, 60Hz 😱
  • Epson printer of some kind
Ironically, I began using 3D modelling software within a week, Caligari trueSpace 2/SE that I pulled out of the bargain bin at Egghead. Oooo, make the sphere, render the sphere. Faster, faster!! :Q And down the slippery slope I went in the endless quest for better hardware.
 
Commodore VIC-20. It had an MOS 6502 CPU clocked at 1mHz (same CPU as Apple's I, II and IIe), 4K RAM. You had to buy a tape drive that uses audio cassettes for data storage, and it transfers something like 100 bytes per second or something.

Those were the good old/bad old days..

(P.S. that semiportable Commodore SX64 specs... MOS 6510 CPU 1mHz, one or two single-side double-density 5.25" floppy drives depending on config, uses a commodore-proprietary version of an RS232 serial port. 64K RAM, 320x200 16-color graphics.. Not too bad for its day, had some great games like Archon that are still very playable today.)
 
My first one that I bought:

K6 300 Mhz
64 Mb Pc-66 ram
4 Gig hard drive
Diamond 2d/3d card (can't remember what is was called for the life of me) Later upgraded to TNT card
CD Rom (later upgraded to the newest technology....a Memorex cd burner for $299.00:Q)



 
Commodore 64

First actual windows running pc was a:

486SX 25mhz?
4MB RAM (probably)
and a 1GB hdd

It had windows 3.1 and kept freezing after 5 mins of simcity. So i put windows 95 on it and it ran like a 1 legged animal 😀 yay!

 
I don't even remember...it was some IBM PC in the late 1980's with a monochrome monitor... (I was about five years old or less at the time)
 
486 DX33 w/ 4megs I think. Later on we got one of those overdrive piggyback chips. Can't remember the hard drive but I'm sure it was something that would seem ridiculous by today's standards. It was on this system (stepdad bought it as family computer when I was in 6th grade) that I learned computing. It was later passed to me when they got a P100. When it was officially mine I took it apart and figured out the internals of a computer.

First computer I actually built myself was a K6-2 300 with 64 or 128. I remember it was on some FIC mobo.

The first good computer I built was the ol' Celeron 300A@450 of computing legend. I even remember the exact motherboard too the Abit BH6. Now that was a good system and a great overclock. *sigh* The memories.

I ran the C300A for quite a while and during that time stockpiled a bunch of parts and started having multiple computers going at the same time.
 
Ha! How about a TI99/4A? I learned BASIC on that thing. Memorizing the code for a quick bubble sort helped my team take 3rd in the state computer fair back in like '83 or something. Forgot most of it though...

Next up was a Commodore 64. Dr. J vs. Larry Bird; Track and Field; and Lode Runner were the games I remember from those days. Then there were the games that you could find the code for in some early PC magazines and enter them in BASIC. God, I hated the typos! I think the Erving vs. Bird game (on a 5 1/4 inch flopy) was the first game I ever copied with the help of a little utility from a friend.

Next was about 10 years or more later after college. Bought my roommates old PC after he got a new gateway. $100 for PC, monitor and all. I don't even know what the CPU was, but it did have a state of the art 3600 BAUD modem...

Then I stayed out of the game except for work PC's until my Gateway PII-350 back in '98. That lasted me until this past December (with several upgrades, but the CPU was still only a PIII-550------man that 440BX chipset was and still is a sweet thing---my kids are using it today!), when I built my current main PC, an A64 3000+ NewCastle.
 
Heathkit H-88 - dual Z-80s (one on the processor board, one on the terminal board - casette tape (modified GE portable recorder) mass storage - 16kB of RAM (yes, that's kiloBytes)...

.bh.
 
TI99/4A

Apple II+

Apple IIe

V20 laptop (I think it was V20, I believe it was NECs foray into 8088/8086 processor manufacturing)

286..... from this point on I have built all of my computers
 
Commodore 64 if you are counting these.

First PC was a 386DX 33mhz, 4meg ram, 130meg HD(who would need more than that), 1 meg svga+ vid card, Win 3.1. In order to play Doom I had to reduce the window to about 2in. square then it was as smooth as butter. My machine met the minimum requirements but being that it played so bad Microcenter took back the opened box. Now those were the days.

Added a math coprocessor later, then it really kicked some axx.
 
IBM PC - first model - 5.25.DD drives, 2 MB RAM, and a green mono monitor. I didn't buy it - it was issued to me in the spring of 1981. 🙂

The first machine we bought for home use as an Atari 800. Long ago and far away!
 
first computer was atari 800XL with 2 disk drives, still got it on a shelf🙂 first pc was 486DX33,8mb ram,floppy,2X cdrom,325mb hd,14.4 modem,win3.1.....paid 1200.00 for it....damn that was just wrong!🙂
 
First computer was a second hand Apple II i got about 1991. I was just starting grade school at the time.
 
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