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What was your first Computer?

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Hmm, let me think:

Win 95
Pent 233 MMX processor
40GB 5,400 RPM Fujitsu HD
Diamond Stealth 32MB video card
SB Live sound card
64MB RAM
MSI mobo (forgot the model)

Anyway, I had that system for almost 5 years and it was still in great shape when I gave it away for my current rig!
 
first three (3) computers I bought were comodore 64's... every darn one of them was bad out of the box! Wouldn't even power up. So I bought a Atari 800XL and have had an Atari in the house ever since.

first pc was a Cordata lunchbox portable. 4.77 / 2 - 360k floppies, 256k memory, 9 inch green screen. One of the best computers I've ever owned.
 
Turbo XT Clone at 12Mhz (NEC V20 CPU)
640K RAM
Amber mono monitor 12"
Dual 5.25" Half-height floppy drives (Mitsumi)
Monochrome video card
101 Keyboard
MS-DOS 3.3

Yikes. My first upgrade to it, and what brought me into the world of building and repairing PC's was to add a Kalok MFM 20Megabyte HDD. For you younger guys--MFM stands for Modified Frequency Modulation, and there were three other competing standards at the time:

RLL, or Run Length Limited
ESDI, or Enhanced Storage Device Interface (I think...been a while)
SCSI (still with us, obviously)

Shortly thereafter, MFM was incorporated into the IDE scheme. Controller was then put onto the drive. Previously, the controller was seperate from the harddisk, as is the case with SCSI drives still.
 
well, i was very young at the time, but it was a zenith from the mid '80s with 64k ram, thats pretty much all i know. i remember playing games on that thing. so fun. like load runner. that game was sweet!
 
My mom originally bought us a 486 something computer, Packard Bell. I don't remember the specs of it though. We returned it to Costco because it gave us some problems and they gave us a newer, 166mhz Pentium computer. After that, I got my own, P2 266mhz Compaq Presario.
 
Apple II+, my dad paid $500 a piece for the two 5 1/4 floppies in 1982...it was great when we hooked it up to a 13 inch color tv and got to play games in 8 colors. Ah Joust, BC's Quest for Time and Load Runner.
 
Timex Sinclair ZX 81, had a Z80 and the 16 meg cartridge. Also had a VIC 20, C64, TRS80 4P "luggable"..

Also had a Columbia PC with 2 floppies, later I added a 20 meg hd with a MFM controller, later put a RLL card in and got 30 megs out of it. That thing is so old it has the cassette port.

I still have them all 😛
 
First "real" computer was a Leading Edge Model D. The monitor caught fire and almost caught the house on fire.
 
My dad bought an apple IIe and let me play games and stuff on it since I was 4 in 1984.
Then in the early-mid 90s, he bought a 486 DX 33 .... I used it for games, but it was not "my" pc.
"my" first PC was a 486 that I garbage picked in like, 1995.
the first PC I bought/built was a cyrix p200+ in 1996 (I was only makin $5 an hour, and I had to pay for my crappy beater car and insurance, so I went uber low budget ...)
 
486 SX/2 50 Mhz, 4 mb RAM, 340 HD, 256k Video, 14.4 modem, CDROM running Win 3.11 for Workgroups. 14 inch monitor.
 
Ordered a computer from Wonderex.
Came with Win95.
Pentium 100
1.2 gig Quantum Fireball HD
16 MB RAM
2x CD-ROM
14.4 modem
Diamond Stealth video card w/ 2mb
soundcard unknown

Delivered New Year's Day 1996.
$2048
 
Mine was some old Mac that we borrowed from someone. Then we got a whitebox Pentium 75 Mhz, with no video card. I remember wanting to get more RAM, up from 8MBs. My dad got an additional 32MBs and it was like a dream come true. I also remember getting an additional 1 GB hard drive to complement the pretty much filled-up 640MB hard drive. We had Windows 95 on that machine, and it was also my first encounter with the Internet via AOL. First thing I did was search for "poop" on the AOL websearch. Came accross a Tamogachi enthusiast/fetishist website that stated simply "I like my tamogachi poop with a little garlic sprinkled on top." Needless to say I was beside myself with laughter. I was also 9 years old.
 
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