| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/20/2005 8:45:03 AM | The first computer I ever used was an Apple IIE with a monocrome screen. I know nothing about what hardware was inside that thing cuz it was a school computer back in 1984. Now the first computer I owned was a Packard Bell P133. It had a 2 or 3gb hdd in it and 128mb ram. I've since started building my own and am currently on a home built. In it I have an Athlon XP 2600 (thorton core) sitting on an Abit NF7 mobo, GeForce 5200fx (lite version) 128mb video card, 256mb 2700 ram, cdrom (that I salvaged from an old Emachines box), and an off-brand dvd burner with +r/+rw technology. Wired into a Linksys router to connect to cable internet. Have jumped leaps and bounds since 1984 I'd say! Peace
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t3rr4
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Joined: 10/13/2004
Msg: 77 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/21/2005 8:18:25 AM | mine was an emerson 286 that clocked in at 16mhz. 1M of ram and a 40M hdd. First OS was Dos3.0 but eventually migrated to dos6.22/win3.11 for workgroups.
I remember programming in qbasic all day long and when i got tired of doing that i'd play 'nibbles.bas' or 'gorilla.bas' lol
I even remember my first sound card, it was an adlib midi card, i still have the floppy that came with it that had a jukebox :P | |
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CKY2K
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Joined: 6/21/2005
Msg: 78 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/22/2005 1:09:48 AM | | I am with you I was 6 or 7 had a ZX81 and was pissed because I had to type in the games you could not use any controllers and Defender wasn't even invented yet. Hindsight, now I can do more than pop a CD into a PC and hope it works. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/22/2005 6:44:02 AM | Because my Dad's self-employed our family were PC early adopters... WAY early adopters... so the first computer I laid my hands on I was about two or three years old. It was an HP 'luggable'... designed to be a portable computer even though it was about the size of a small suitcase. It had a tiny amber monitor, tape drive and built-in thermal printer... if you left the print-outs in the sun they actually turned black.
I remember it had a game called 'ski' where you navigated down the slope by hitting the function keys. I wasn't very good at it, but it was still entertaining. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 6/26/2005 3:21:42 PM | Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 1-
6809E CPU
0.89 Mhz
No floppy drives
No hard drive
Cassette recorder interface for data storage
I wrote my first BASIC program on this computer, stored it on a cassette tape and everything. Wow - a LONG time ago!
As I recall, it also had a read-only cartridge interface for games and such.
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 7/2/2005 12:11:50 AM | Yeah this is interesting
My first computer was a clone computer. It was top of the line in the time with a 386 processor at 33mhz, 4 mbs of ram, a 400mb harddrive and 2 mb videocard. WOW!
Now I have a pentium 4, 3ghz, 256mbram (which I will soon upgrade to 1024mbs of dual ram), 128 mb nvida card, sound blaser audigy 2Z and a 40gig hd. much better! | |
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squint
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Joined: 12/14/2004
Msg: 83 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 7/2/2005 8:49:40 PM | Does Comadore 64 count?... I had one of the few Comadore 64 Laptop models.. not very mobile.. but cool non-the-less.. :)
After that I got a.. 286.. Running GeOS. !! Yay!.
Then I got a real computer.. good old 486-DX66!! ...
I have had machines that should be in Museums.. lol
Now I am rolling with just my laptop AMD64 1800+.. I am thinking of getting a Mac Mini to toss up with my TV though.. to use for multi-media..
Fun stuff.. | |
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| MC-10
Posted: 7/3/2005 1:48:11 AM | Hmmm....
Mine was an MC-10 with chicklet keyboard:
4k Ram, expanded to 16k
300 Baud Modem
Cassette Recorder for Data Storage
Wow, what an antique these things are now, eh?! LOL!!! That cursor going line by visible line, printing text, and stopping for an input and all, wow... the 80's man. Being born in 1962 BC (Before Computers) I get to watch the chips go by!
-Tombo
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wh33t
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Joined: 7/10/2005
Msg: 85 | |
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Posted: 7/11/2005 1:30:16 PM | | Holy, this thread is pretty cool. Got some people who used the early prehistoric dinosaurs. You know, those machines that weighed about 100 pounds lol. My first machine was a 486 DX4 100, with a whopping 8mb of ram, 1Gb harddrive. Might actually be 4mb of ram and it ran windows 3.1 and Dos 7 i think. It sucked lol. I dont even think computers really even became usable until MMX came out with Pentium 1. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2005 7:39:39 PM | so i hit the reply to this post which is not right ,ill figure it out later
so going way back ,,my first was a texas intruments ti9964a ,,,i could bea bit wrong on the number parts
it was sold at consumers distrubiting in canada ,,,listed at over 700 ,,,but when TI got out of the computer bis they sold these off at something like 67 bucks,,hell ofa mark up eh ?
it had 4 kilobites of memeory,,had atape drive,,and that was it
follower that with all the commadore stuff,,vic20,commodore64,,the commodor atmega,,then into the pc clones ,,,
386 ibm clone ,,,with a 20 meg hard drive,
ahh those were the days | |
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khama
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Joined: 3/31/2005
Msg: 88 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 7/16/2005 8:05:45 AM | Geez...
When I started in computing Windows was not even invented and the mouse
was not avialable at all...
We had keyboard commands only using Syntax with DOS 5.0 as the OS and X-tree Gold
as the menu to access the files on your computer faster...
The computer I was running it on was an IBM 386 sx25 no math co-processor
640K Conventional Ram, 4Mb Hard Drive, 1Mb Tseng Labs 3000 Video adapter,
I tell you at the time a 4Mb Hard drive was about $500 and it was huge in physical size
CD roms were not available yet and computing was far from automated... | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 7/17/2005 3:49:31 PM | Commodore PET .... the heavy mother with the mastaba-like hood and an unspeakably low RAM count. I died laughing when I saw one used as a "video monitor" prop on the Glen Larson "Buck Rogers" series. Mine was part of a hand-me-down kit from an uncle who worked for NASA contractors. It included the black C= cassette drive, a tinny bookshelf speaker, and a mess o'software on mag tape. Want to play "MicroChess"? Press Play and stand by for thirty minutes. Holy Delayed Gratification .....
Uncle also gave me a little handheld job with an LCD display called the Nixdorf LK-3000. It called itself a computer, but was more of a glorified calculator with letter keys in alphabetical order. It accepted small cartridges that held simple databases and programs. The software catalog was heavily populated with language translators and Olympic records. For a while, it's amusing to translate "contraceptive" into Portuguese and French, but the novelty passes. Naturally the company folded a few months after I got the foolish thing. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 7/17/2005 4:50:46 PM | I got my first computer when I was 11. It was a Texas Instruments 994A - It had a tape drive and the games were cartridges. It had a speech synthesizer....it was fun making that thing talk..lol
The next thing was a Commodore Vic-20, then a Tandy Color Computer 2, then a CoCo 3....I've went through some dinosaurs here.....programming in basic was fun, though ;)
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 7/18/2005 8:02:26 AM | OMg..going wayyy back now eh? laff Well, mine was a Commodore 64, wiht a 300 baud modem..no harddrive and a 5 1/2" floppy drive. Used a cassette recorder to program them
Then, went onto a Alextel. Bell Canada used to offer these for 5 bux..just basic terminals for chatting to people with. Then, I guess I moved on to Xt's, 286's, etc...
Now, let me think..that Commodore...must have been back in 1987..laff
Still got most of these old computers down in my basement...but since I"m moving soon, don't think I'll keep them anymore:( | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 7/18/2005 10:08:49 AM | my first computer was a 486 dx
that was the learning basis for my computer knowledge...
then i got a celeron 500 with 32 mb of ram and a 10 gb harddrive ( but i since upgradded it to 512 mb and 400 gb hd
its my beaten up linux server box lol ...
as for now i have an amd 64 bit 3200+ with 2.5 GB ddr ram and 500 gb hd space:)
its liquid cooled and it overclocked from 3 ghz to 3.4 ghz *stable*
my vid card is an ati radeon 9600 and my soundcard is sb audigy 2 24 bit w/ 5.1 surround sound :)
i may turn the previous computer into a halflife server ... or a very fast linux server
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/9/2005 10:06:22 PM | it was a Campus Computer (UBC)
Intel 80286/20Mhz (one of the RARE ones)
a whopping 44MB HD
a 5.25" and a 3.5" drive
ran MS-DOS 4.01 up to 6.22 with Win 3.11 (but no emm386 support) :(
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Lavim
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Joined: 5/23/2005
Msg: 94 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/10/2005 6:30:45 PM | Wow what a trip. I've only seen pics of some of these pc's listed.
Honestly the first PC I ever owned was a packard bell 486dx/66, 16 Mb RAM (mabye 8) and a 250Mb Hd. That damn machine started my obsession with tweaking and hacking. I was annoyed with bare booting to get conventional mem to play DOOM so I tweaked everything and could exit win 3.11 and have 615kb of conventional mem free. Then we found BBS's and managed to get a hyperterminal link through our 2400 baud modems. This was with no help at all rofl. I finally got my parents to stop using it last year.
The first machine I actually used was an ICON (I have no idea specs was in my public school) then a commadore 64, 286, etc. My touch with programming was on a vic 20, massive amounts of scrolling lines were cool then.
The oldest pc I own (that still works) is my IBM ps2 model 30 286, with a modem. Sadly I salvaged it from a dumpster and rebuilt it. We had grand plans to bring it online for giggles but I never had time to work on it. I got it working messed with it a bit and packed it away, mind you I also have 2 8086 procs I acquired through the years, just in case.
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 11:25:50 AM | | Hahaha..wowo..all these old systems. anyone wants one let me know. I"m moving soon and computers in my computer museum are going to the big CHIP in the sky...everythig from Alextels;..C-64....XT...286..386...486....laff | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 11:30:42 AM | Hmm, My first computer was an Eniac 3 ... 8 bit memory core the size of a football field....  what a monster that was. The next one was an "Elephant", Bill gates  will remember that one, before there was such a thing as a PC.... lol | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 6:41:33 PM | I learned to program...
on a 8088 I think it was 2.5Mhz with only a LD floppy (3.5" though phew) with 512k memory .. TOTAL!
the highest DOS version would run on it? 3.3 -- and Novell for the Network good old fashioned 10base2 Coaxial networking!! WOOHOO .. the Server was a blazing super speed insanely quick...... 486DX/66.. man it was INSANE!! ;)
programming in Turbo Pascal (dont know the version) | |
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j-roc
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Joined: 5/24/2005
Msg: 99 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 6:57:22 PM | I just bought my first computer this year. It has a sticker on it with the specs, these are them.
Averatec AV3250HX-01 - Notebook
Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+ w/ PowerNow Technology
512MB DDR RAM
80 GB Hard Drive
Wireless 802.11g
DVD +/- Burner
12.1" High Resolution XGA LCD
1" thin and 4.3 lbs Light
1.66 Mhz
My only complaint is the display...graphics are good but not great and it is small, but for the price and what I use it for it is more than good enough. | |
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Rake
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Joined: 3/12/2005
Msg: 100 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 7:26:56 PM | My first PC was an Apple....I dont remember what model but it was '82....
a year later my dad bought our first hard drive....it was 10MB....it was HUGE and it cost a few hundred at least....
I thought WOW! This thing can hold like 100 floppies!!! We'll NEVER need anything bigger than that.....
I also remember when RAM was at least $50/Mb | |
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