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your first compuer

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Allanv

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abacus

calculator

my first a BBC micro only could use basic on it but hey it was fun

amstrad word processor thingy played games as well it was weird

next a commadore 16 then a commadore 64

next 386 thing cost me £300 for a cdrom drive but they gimme a game with it except me puter wouldnt run it as there wasnt enough ram

next a 486 dx 100 green monitor

p1 200 64 meg ram

amd athlon 600
amd athlon 700
amd athlon 1000
amd TB 1.1
now its a 1.4 TB @ 266 there rest is in me rig page

aint updated it yet....

what was yours
 
got an apple IIc and used it for several years... then a 386 laptop and then a 166MMX and now my 1.2 athlon. Oh... and my handspring has about as much computing power as my apple did.

 
i had the classic mac. the first one, that looked like a box. all black and white. that machine was so fun! so, i guess i have been using computers most of my life. my second was a HP 286. that was slow when i got it compared to what was available. then a mac performa 6300. had that for a while and suffered through it. now i have my Dell 1.7ghz P4, 128RDRAM, 40gig HD. how different things have become! 🙂
 
Intel 486 DX-2
AMI motherboard with SIS chipset
32MB RAM!!! (2*16MB FPM 72Pin SIMM)
S3 Trident Video
ProAudio Spectrum Sound (w/SCSI for CDROM)
28.8K Modem
2x SCSI CDROM (from sound card)
I/O Card
486 Heatsink/Fan
1.58GB HDD
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy
15" Monitor
Windows 3.1
230 Watt AT Power Supply

Retired system - was the top of the line back in the day.
 
The firt computer of the family:
386 DX 33Mhz
4mb ram
23Mb harddrive

My first own computer:
K6 233Mhz
32Mb ram
2 Gb harddrive
 
Acer k6-200, 1-2mb integrated graghics - 1st comp I bought myself, thought it was great until I bought this motorbike game - honda something or other the game wouldn't move!
First lesson on graphic acceleration!
 
Atari 1200XL (64KB)
Cassette tape storage
Floppy drive (was like 360KB - single-sided)
300 baud modem
24cps letter-quality printer

Back in, '84

😀
 
Commodore 64/128, don't recall exact specs...but of course it had no hard drive on it. Was all run off of that 25 pound 5 1/4" floppy drive

486 dx2/66mhz, 8mb RAM, 850mb hard drive, 1mb video

AMD 586 133 (equivalent to about a Pentium 75mhz), 16MB

P100, 16MB

P150, 16MB

P200mmx, 32MB

AMD K6-2 300MHz o/c'ed to 336MHz, 64MB

Celeron 300a @ 450MHz, 128MB

Celeron 366 @ 616MHz, 256MB

P3-700e @ 980, 768MB
 
First one I used was an IBM PS/2 Model 25 (the all-in-one PS/2). 640K of RAM and two of the then-new 1.44MB floppy drives. I don't recal the processor (I want to say 286-16), but it ran MS-DOS 4.0.

ZV
 
From my BASIC days:

Casio FX-750 calculator - BASIC programmable
Commodore 64K with cassette tape recorder as storage device:Q
 
I don't really count abacas' and calculators as computers, so my first was a Packard Hell 8086 which was ridiculously expensive compared to todays standards.
 
it was a packard bell something or other running win3.11, think 486?


next was an ibm aptiva p100, that cost us 2.5k brand new, this was in 1995

then came a cel366/abit mboard (damn thing wouldn't overclock!!) voodoo3 2k

then athlon 850, now athlon 950 ^_^
 
286 way back when, don't remember it much. 386 clone was when I got sucked in. DOS America Online, all those great shareware games from Apogee, Epic, and some other small companies, those were the days. Still chasing that first "high" 🙂
 
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