Your history with computers.

[Sparty]

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[Sparty]

Sometime around 1980 Parents bought us a Tandy TRS-80 Color computer with cassette drive, 300 baud modem, and printer.

January 1994..bought IBM PS/1 486sx25, 4meg, 170meg. later upgraded it to 50mhz overdrive, ATI graphic's wonder, 4 more meg, and Creative labs multimedia kit.

late '94.. kept overdrive and ATI video, bought used case, motherboard,sound and CDrom, and openbox 540 HD from BB, and built my first system. Sold IBM to sister-inlaw.

1995, bought used P60 and board, 72 pin simm, upgraded system, sold 486/50 and board to brother. bought Win95.

1996, bought P120/133 overdrive and set jumpers to 66mhz to run cpu at 133, more memory. sold P60 cpu.

1997, bought openbox Toshiba P90 laptop, 40meg, 810meg, 4x CD.
1997, bought SB32, 24x CD, m3d, USR 56k.

1998, bought Win98, LX board Celeron 300 (not the a), WD 6.4 gig HD, used 20" monitor, Quake 2, Voodoo-2, case, etc. sold P133 & board on fleabay.

1999, bought Abit BX6r2, Celery 300a@464, DVD, WD 8.4 gig, 256meg SDram, PII SL2W8 @ 504, ATI Expert 128 AGP, ATX case, Quake 3 and UT. Gave old system to the wife, built network.

2000, bought SB live X, Voodoo3-3000 AGP, Shopss PC less cpu , 384 meg SDram, CII 566@850, scanner, and ?????. installed Shopss 13.6 HD, Zip, and CD into my main system.

And of course bought all kinds of other smaller stuff over the years.

 

[StanTheMan]

My first PC was a 286, no hard drive, no sound card, 2 floppy drive 5.25 inches (I still use one of them now in my K6-III), 256 vga card , and 1MB of memory

 

[dszd0g]

Oh man, my memory isn't very good with years.

The first machine I used was an early Atari with dual floppy drives at my grandparents. They have always had way too much money to blow.
Got an 8088 I don't remember what year, probably 1984.
Then I used Apple IIes at school around 1985 or so.
Got a Tandy 286 in I believe 1986, first machine that was MINE!
Got a 486DX25 in January 1990, family computer. (I remember that one cause it coincided with moving part of the loan was to pay for the computer around $8k.)
Got a P90 in I believe 1993, MINE!.

Since then I've been upgrading left and right.

Right now I have:

Mine!
Celeron 566 @ 875, 512MB, GeForce DDR (Win 98)
P3 500 @ 560, 192MB, TNT2U (Win 98)
K6-2 350, 256MB, Thriller 3D (Linux)
Plus tons of parts some still in boxes, some old. Hey, I ever have a 9-track with VMS on it.

Also in the house:
Celeron 466 @ 525, 256MB, TNT2 (Win 98)
Dell Inspiron 5000 Laptop
K6 200, 128MB, TNT (Win 98)
And 2 machines I don't touch, no idea what's in them.

 

[Sillyputty]

My first was a fully loaded Atari 800. Tape drive, the whole 9-yards. It sucked so bad that I skipped whole generations of computers before buying a 286 in 1987, a PC's Limited, at that.

I used that until *ACK* 1994. I then bought a 486 DX2 66 with all the goodies.

Then came a long line of misc computer junk that ended last October with the purchase of a Katmai PIII450/527-560.

PC's Limited has since become Dell Computer. I liquidated my meager funds, and dumped the totality into Dell a bit after IPO. I am quite happy with the return (no need to worry about funds after retirement)

The 286 still works, and tech support still covers it. I'm going to do my first system back up of it in, ah, 13 years.

 

[EatCheeseOrDie]

TI99 (parent's bought this when I was a kid) wrote a few programs and then stored them on the ole cassette tape..

In High school I signed up for a computer class. They had the AppleIIe computers. I dropped out because I thought it was geekish and boring... (I am now an I.S. Manager for an organization with 100 plus workstations and 3 Nt servers)

4 years after college I played doom on a buddy's computer and then decided to buy my own computer to play doom. I bought a 486/33mhz with 4 meg ram 220 meg hard drive. I think that it was like $1800.00. It was an acer. I added a 320 meg Maxtor drive for like $350.00. upgraded processor to 66mhz. I added 4 meg of ram for $180.00. I started playing network doom with buddies (learned about networking this way)

Started building my own systems
486 80mhz AMD
486 100mhz Cyrix
P90mhz (paid $650 just for the processor)
p100 (overclocked to 120mhz)
p166 32 meg ram
p200 64 meg ram
p233 mmx 128 meg ram
Amd K6-2 300mhz 128 meg ram
Amd K6-2 3dnow 333mhz 128 meg ram
PIII 500mhz -192 meg ram. Have two 13 gig and -just bought a 40 gig drive. Have multimonitor (4 monitors hooked to the same computer with one video card containing a TV card).

 

[kmike75]

Packard Bell 486... therefore I is a cumpder genius...

 

[Henry Kuo]

my first computer was an Apple if I am right. Don't have much impression about that. Then I got 286, next 486, and Pentium, so on so on.....

It all started in 1985 I guess...

 

[Prodigy^]

Started maybe 8-10 years ago where I got a little hooked on my older cousins 286 with 2 Mb RAM and 12 Mb HDD

4 years ago I got a used laptop, 386SX 25 MHz, 2 Mb RAM, 20 Mb HDD, ultra-crappy DSTN grey screen

3 years ago I think I got a new one, 486 25 MHz, 4 Mb RAM, 40 Mb HDD, same crap monitor

2 years ago it really took off.....got an IBM (I was obsessed with all the design, funky programs, etc., I bitterly learned to hate it later on), PII 266, 64 Mb RAM (said 32 Mb in cataloque, but IBM always put in extra for some reason ) 4 Gb HDD, crap integrated sound and ATI video, 2xDVD...I upgraded it with a V2, then V3, burner, scanner, extra 10 Gb HDD, extra 64 Mb RAM and such.....

about 4 months ago I bought a whole new system, P3 750, 320 Mb RAM (bought 256 Mb, found out I could use stick from old system), 20 Gb HDD, 10xDVD, etc.......used old V3, burner, 10 Gb HDD.....later on bought new 45 Gb HDD, V5 5500 and such.....hehe, yeah that's about it, here I am

 

[ndee]

First PC:
286AT 10MB HD
386XT ???
Pentium 150, 1.6GB, 2MB Videocard, 16 MB Ram (Desktop)
1st Upgrade, 32MB RAM
2nd Upgrade, 8.4 GB IBM HD
3rd Upgrade, Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB
(Yes this PC was full)
4th Upgrade, overclocked to 180 without a special cooling system. Just a passive cooler.
Athlon 500 128MB RAM, specs like today
1st Upgrade Voodoo 3 isof Voodoo 2
2nd Upgrade Thunderbird 700, with MSI K7T PRO

That's it

 

[fow99]

If I am gonna tell you my first finger on a computer, it would be some 13 yrs back... Apple II.

My first own pc was a 486. Not Intel, TI 486DX-80 ( some one here still remember that? ). QDI mobo. VESA 2D video card ( there weren't any 3D card then anyway ). 540MB Maxtor HD, bla, bla. Quite a nice computer. Still running on DOS and Win3.1 at the moment.

About 3 yrs after that ( or shorter? ). Gotta a chance to build a new one. A Celeron 266 (@400). Gigabyte BXC mobo. nVidia Riva128(oh god. did i really buy that?) .... 2.1G Seagate HD (... shabby huh? ). Quite nice and stable as well.

3rd one hasn't been done yet but very soon. Would be a Duron + geforce 2 MX hopefully.

 

[MWink]

I started with a Zenith 8088-8Mhz Laptop. I didn't really get into comuters until my Gateway 386SX-16Mhz. The first upgrade I did myself was installing a Creative Sound Blaster 32 in my P75. My first system that I built my self was a Intel P133, 16MB EDO RAM, WD 730MB HD, Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 (HORRIBLE CARD), Logitech Sound Man Wave, and Sony 2X CD-ROM. My favorite system was my AMD K6-2 300, 64MB PC100 SDRAM, Diamond Viper V330 (WOW!), Creative SB AWE64, USR 33.6 Modem, STB TV PCI, WD 2.5GB HD, and Creative/Panasonic 2X DVD-ROM.

 

[Doomguy]

My first comp was a dell 386dx with 4 megs of ram(later upgraded 8),with a 1 meg built in video card, no sound(later upgraded with a PAS 16 and 2x cdrom). I got this computer when I was 7.

 

[SkyDiver]

1987: XT Clone. 640K, 2 floppies, Turbo to 8MHz (Wow! 167% faster than IBM).
Upgrades: 1) 40 MB HD. (Sooo much faster than booting from floppy.)
2)Logitech 3-button Bus-mouse (required an ISA slot, but 3-button in 1989!)
3) 2 Meg EXPANDED Ram. (anyone remember expanded mem?)
4) 80286 CPU on an ISA card. Connected to CPU socket via a cable of some sort (makes this the only 286SX I ever heard of--16 bit CPU on 8-bit bus)
5) 80 MB SCSI HD. Scuzzy in 1991! BTW, all this with a monochrome monitor (what is a graphics card?)

1993: 386-40 MHz. First AMD CPU! 8 Meg RAM, 2 Meg Vid Card
1996: P75 16 Meg RAM, 730 MB HD, 4 Meg Vid Card!
Upgrades: 32 Meg RAM, P166 CPU upgrade, Riva 128 Vid Card, Gigabyte VX motherboard (so Riva 128 could use Bus Mastering 2.1), 64 meg ram, P233MMX (maxed motherboard out), K6-3 400 MHz CPU upgrade, Unicore BIOS chip update (to get the K6-3 to work), 40X CD, VooDoo3 2000 PCI, SB Live, Soundworks 4-pt Surround.

1999: Used old parts (see above) to create 2nd computer for kids, networked, etc.

2000: Planned system = Abit KT133, T-bird 800, GeForce2 GTS, etc. etc. WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT HAS BEEN!