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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/3/2005 9:38:35 PM | LMAO
Then the stack of people that have heard of it is
: DOUBLE 2 
When you have 1k and have just finished making something you raelly don't know too much about, since no-one else does - and anyone that does is too busy playing and lives somewhere else and doesn't have access to a telex machine - not having to write an OS is a major bonus. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/6/2005 2:21:48 PM | | Mine was a AT with a 20 MB hard drive, floppy disk don't remember the ram, windows 3.1 in its childhood days, screen was a monochrome and programs were rare, the mouse was invented and back then you could make money from selling a computer | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/12/2005 9:32:04 PM | hmm....memories of my first computer - ah yesh, the good old 386!  that lasted 4 yrs then we finally upgraded to a pentium before those became 'the standard' lol. we had it 2 yrs pre-pentium. LOL that sucker went 10 yrs! | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/16/2005 3:26:48 PM | Good ole DOS?
What's this "DOS" thing? Oh yeah, that was when our audio cassette drives became passé :)
CLOAD !!!
(Don't worry. I still opt for DOS when I could get the same thing done in twice the time in Windows) | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/16/2005 8:06:47 PM | ^^ ROFL!!! cload .... i remember sitting there waiting for Zaxxon to load ... having to restart it every 5 min ...
cload
do DOOT! do DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
cload
do DOOT do DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
rofl rofl | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/18/2005 11:15:15 AM | About 1982 - the Acorn Atom - predecessor to the BBC micro
6502 processor at 1mHz, 4kB ram and sockets for a TV and tape drive.
Best thing about it was a manual that taught how to use the computer, program in BASIC and assembler and make OS library calls. Learned more from that little book than any computer course I took. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/18/2005 4:42:17 PM | Commadore 64 with cassette tape drive
Moved up to the screaming 8086 processor in the IBM PS2 with two 720K floppies (could buy a 10 MB hardrive for around $700 US) MCGA graphics and 1 MB RAM. Loaded everything to RAMDISK and was living large. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/20/2005 12:29:39 PM |
Best thing about it was a manual that taught how to use the computer, program in BASIC and assembler and make OS library calls. Learned more from that little book than any computer course I took.
Sadly, those days are long gone. Anyone remember the Apple ][ Reference Manual, aka the Red Book? | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/20/2005 1:11:32 PM |
remember the Apple ][ Reference Manual
Musta had one, but I don't remember it. Used to use Apple ][s in the lab to run experiments. Had to program them in assembler - YUK!!!! I seem to remember a printout of the entire OS in a book smaller than the first volume of Inside Mac.
The first computer I ever played with was a LINK 8 from DEC. You had to program the boot instructions in manually from toggle keys on the front of the machine. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/21/2005 3:04:31 PM | I had a ZX Spectrum +2, a Sega Megadrive and then an Atari ST. The specs of the first PC I ever bought in 1995 were:
DX2 66Mhz processor
4Mb RAM
420 Mb HDD
CD-ROM Drive (twin speed)
FDD
DOS 6.2 (autoexec.bat? config.sys? A real nightmare to get any games to work)!
Windows 3.1
I once tried to upgrade the RAM myself with a 16Mb chip, but broke all of the bay clips! Oh, the joy! | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/24/2005 10:04:27 AM | I had a ZX81, 16k expansion pack that disengaged itslef if you pressed down too hard on the membrane keyboard, hooked up to the TV and cassette player and as much as it frustrated the hell out of me I'd sit in my room until 2am trying to imput the latest program for the back of a magazine only to discover that frogger in B&W was not quite the same as the arcade version | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/26/2005 12:56:52 AM | My second computer was a RadioShack Tandy 1000 ES <--- woohoo!
first was..
Timex Sinclair 1000 (I had the 64 mb expansion and casette deck....pimpin)
Introduced: July 1982
Price: US $99.95
How many sold? 500,000 in first 6 months
Weight: 12 ounces
CPU: Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz
RAM: 2K, 64K max
Display: 22 X 32 text - hooks to TV
(frogger only game i had was a green block jumpin across the screen avoiding other colored blocks....took 45min to load off cassete :P)
Ports: memory, cassette
Peripherals: Cassette recorder - T/S printer
OS: ROM BASIC <-- OLD SKIZZY FO SHIZZY
peace
th30ry | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 4/26/2005 10:01:15 AM | Commodore Vic-20. My parents were too damn cheap to buy me the C-64. But, I created some fancy programs I stored all on cassette. If I wanted to play a game, it took me a damn hour and a half to program it first.
Just in 96, I bought me an Acer 486DX2 with printer for $2500. Can you believe it? I was on AOL before it was even connected to WWW. 8mb of RAM (sales person told me that would be more than what I needed). I bumped it up to 16mb a year later and swapped out a 56k modem (before most providers even dealt with 56k). It sure makes a nice doorstop in my spare bedroom. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/1/2005 3:45:15 AM | apple II laser 128k clone, 2 5.25" drives, no harddrive, had to load bios from floppy to run any programs. had a modem i never learned how to use, i was obsessed with the games (still am)
wings of fury was the best game ever made for the apple, i still have an emulator and a rom i play sometimes. bad ass 4 color strip poker at age 7 ;), this was back when it was called sharing not piracy to copy your friend's software.
IBM gave me a PS/2 through a guinnea pig pilot program at my elementary school, so i guess technically that was my first x86 based machine. i remember playing scud attack, missle command adapted for the gulf war which was raging (1989) and sopwith, oregon trail, etc and a prodigy dialup account which i played madmaze with and read newsgroups.
those were the good old days of staying up past my bedtime trying not to click the keys too loud.
waspleg
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/1/2005 7:01:30 AM | Get this : My first comuter was an Atari 800 (Back then Atari actually made computers).
Memory: 48K
Speed: 1.2 Mhz
Storage: Tape drive
Resolution: 120x400 pixels | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/3/2005 4:31:37 PM | We just took our inner office Network OFF DOS in December!!! WHOOO HOOOO! Hey if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
My first thing was a Word Processor. circa 1986ish. Brother with a 13 character LCD display. I thought I was movin' up! Did all my small business on it. It even had a calculator!
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/9/2005 12:54:18 AM | | I don't even know what the specs were. I had someone put it together for me. But I do know it was a 386 and ran Windows 3.1. Then I upgraded to what was it? Windows for Workgroups 3.11?? | |
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