| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 7:27:37 PM | yeah that's why I hate Notebooks.. I look at that and think .. .sheesh you know what kind of desktop/workstation I could get for that price?
I just picked up a Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2Ghz with DDR2 533Mhz RAM (1GB) and all the fixings.. right now sitting on 2x200GB HDs a GeForce 6600GT 128MB PCIex, SB Audigy2 Soundcard... all that good stuff
and it cost me total? Around (if you include the LCD which I already had), the Wireless KB/Mouse, the 2xDVD R/RW drives.. etc) about $2000 Canadian.
and they are all high quality name parts.. upgradable to a dual-core on a 1066Mhz Bus.. 8GB RAM.. etc.. even has room for 12 HDs/Devices (without any expansion)!
and this is the first PC I fully bought for myself (after 16 years of PC use) | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 7:42:32 PM | I am an avid laptop fan personally.
The trade off's are all worth it if I can bring my spreadsheets with me.
If I can work on a powerpoint presentation on the skytrain and check my email anywhere.
The possibilities are endless, having the good ole lappy on business trips allows the time to go by faster with a few extra batteries and some DVD's.
Just my opinion you may want raw power, I guess I can go for semi decent power and utilize portability to it's max.
If worse comes to worse I have a desktop as well :P :P. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/12/2005 8:20:57 PM | yeah the trade-offs... the smaller it is the more portable but the more restrictions
I'd have no problem with a laptop but I would definately never give up a solid workstation hehehe | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/13/2005 1:40:19 AM | A clone 286 that I think ran at 16mhz. Not sure how much memory, did come with Win 3.0 though. I do remember the gal telling me that my 20 MEG hard drive would never fill up!  This was 1989 or 90 best I remember. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/16/2005 6:19:52 PM | my first computer was an Atari 800, with 8K of ram and storage was a tape player, that was nearly 25 years ago and you had to program it yourself. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/18/2005 12:16:29 PM | | lets so my age!!! I have a 10 meg Hard drive I now use for a porch heater. It is about a 18" cube. And yes i had a 240 baud modem and thought it was smoking fast. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/18/2005 1:34:32 PM | The Coleco ADAM!!!!
It used cassette tapes instead of discs and had a built in COLECOVISION!!!
Sadly, this computer was a commercial failure and not supported by Coleco by the time anyone had heard of it. It ran at a whopping 3.58 MHz and it had......
COLORS!!!!! 16 of them no less!!!!
I mostly used it to play BUCK ROGERS PLANET OF ZOOM and used my dad's 286 for everything else.
Ahhh, the Adam....
Specs:
Introduced: June 1983
Released: October 1983
Discontinued: January 1985
Price: US $600
CPU: Zilog Z80-A @ 3.58MHz
RAM: 80K, 64K available to user
Display: TV (RF) & composite video
36 X 24 text, 16 colors
256 X 192 graphics
Ports: cartridge, video, AdamNet
Expansion: 3 internal expansion slots
Peripherals: Daisy-wheel printer (required)
Storage: 1 or 2 internal cassette drives
External floppy drive available
OS: BASIC, loaded from cassette
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 8/19/2005 8:23:08 PM | Commadore 64!!!!
Man for it's day that computer was smoking fast. Now you can't even run 30 Windows XP Icons on it without you filling up your hard drive space. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 9/15/2005 8:09:57 AM | I had an Atari 16 with the flat keyboard. I had to load games from a cassette tape that would load after many tries. It had no HDD everything was loaded into memory.
Bought a 286 when they came out for over $3k. It was a deal at the time.
Now its an
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
AMD 64 3000 939
Only 1 Gig Kingston RAM
Nvidia 6600 GT SLI
200 Gig Samsung SATA
Lite-on Dual Layer DVD Burner
19" CRT Daytek
Was a third the cost of that 286 and a million times more powerful. Man times have changed. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 9/15/2005 6:29:45 PM | trash-80, rs-232 expansion module,Imsai 5.25 floppy,sanyo cassette recorder for storage, Dos 2.1, sanyo 19in. TV?mon.,
The I got an Amstrad wow WTF is a hard drive? SUPER VGA, now we're talking, two internal 5.25. floppy, 1200 bps cradle modem and Dos 3.2 Woooo Hoooo we got BBS baby! Still have some of those early games like California Games with frisbee freestyle, skateboarding ahlf ramp, hackysack, and disc golf. Wish I could find that for Win 3.1 or Win 95 I loved that hackysack game.
Then a gateway p-166, 192 MB Ram, 16MB ATI Rage pro, onboard sound, 3 DIMMS!, The best computer Gateway sold b4 the P-II's, by the time i was through actually had an old HP cd-writer that would burn a cd in about 45 minutes. Turned it on after installing Win 98se and it stayed on without crashing for months at a time, super stable finally fried the WD caviar HD with one of the Star Wars games, but it still lives on as a friend's word processor. I think by the time i was through with it, I had like 2300 hundred buck in it?!?!?!?! Crazy. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 9/17/2005 12:56:36 PM | My first computer that I actually used (that wasn't a joke; Adam) was a:
486SL Tandy Laptop computer:
CPU: 486SL (486 based CPU, designed for power effeciency, mathco processor disabled)
Ram: 4 mebabytes (upgradeable to 8 megabytes)
Display: Monochrome LCD, could be hooked up to regular monitor to support up to 256 colors (at least hypothetically)
Harddisc: 150 megabytes.
Modem: Didn't have one
Mouse: Trackball
Operating system: Windows 3.1 (on floppies)
CD-Rom: Didn't have one
Floppy: It had one.
Software: Microsoft Office, few other apps.
This computer couldn't even run Doom. It did Wolfenstein 3-D pretty good though. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 9/28/2005 2:49:05 PM | Mine was a Vic 20 then I went huge with the Commadore 64 then I went with the Commadore 128/64 that was a joke Puter.. LOL but it hurt me in the pocket back in the day..
I still have the 64 all parts that works and softwear I paid close then 3500 bucks thats like now days 5 grand for a pc that well was just a tad good for games LOL..
Shakes my head... | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 10/5/2005 9:25:32 PM | my puters in order of ownership.
1) ATARI 1200XL a very fun useful machine/toy in its day and I still have it.
2) AppleII ok and useful but lacked graphics of the atari.
3) 586 clone was my first IBM type computer with win95a and a whoping 203mb drive back in 1996. ooooh!
4) what I use now: P2 256k compaq with win98se and a 20gb drive.
but then again, who really gives a darn what Ive had. I was just bored and thought I would kill some time practiceing typing.  | |
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Joined: 9/20/2005
Msg: 121 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 10/6/2005 12:23:13 AM | | first compuer i ever owned?...a Timex Sinclair a whole 32K of memory,...the games had to be literally programmed in using Basic. 10,000 lines of programming for a simple defender style of game in 4 bit color. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 10/9/2005 4:45:58 PM | I wanted a computer for a decade before I actually got my first one from Gateway:
386SX running at 25MHz
120 MB hard drive
3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drives
4 MB Ram
14" SVGA Monitor
2400 baud modem with NNTP
ran Windows 3.0 and DOS 5.0
When I got it I new nothing about computers. I'd never used one and new no one who owned one. It was a great machine and I learned a lot from it. Possibly the best investment I ever made.
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 10/9/2005 5:01:00 PM | My first computer was a commodore 16, then a Commodore 128 and finally an Amiga (my fav computer ever).
My first PC computer was a 386sx based machine with a 8bit soundblaster card. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 10/9/2005 5:29:52 PM | My first was a commadore 64, then some IBM that had a whopping 66mhz cpu. After those two i got a packard bell (the P in hp before hp became hp), was 200mhz processor, a 16bit video card, later upgraded to a diamond monster fusion and then a voodoo banshee, sound was a soundblaster 16 awe card, and it has two 8mb memory sticks, later upgraded to 64mb the machines max capacity.
Currently i'm using:
Nvidia Nforce 2 Ultra MB
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (soon to be a Sempron 4800+)
Nvidia Geforce fx 6800gt
1.5gb of 400mhz ddr
Creative Sound Blaster Live Gamer edition
Western Digital 60gb 7200rpm hd
All powered by a Thermaltake 480w psu | |
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drs13
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Joined: 10/8/2005
Msg: 125 | |
| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 10/10/2005 5:48:23 PM | | mine was a 1967 commodore 64 i know because i still have it and the box it came in for the last three years my girls used it for a typing skills after all they cant hurt it i alos have an Apple 2 in its own box unopened somethings you just never let go of. | |
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