| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/2/2005 1:04:45 AM | Wow what a cool post for a computer geek, LOL!
Lets see it all started back in the 5th grade when dad gave me his MINIVAC 601 electromechanical digital computer. The Minivac is considered the 4th publicly offered personal computer in history. I remember little of it I think it allowed you to hard wire electrical relays as logic switches the funny part I still own it for no other reason than I know it's a musem piece, LOL! look it up in google! I had a TRS 80 model 16 black and white with tape drive still have at dads house, c64 & 128 (still my favorite  yep own that too, Atari 800 thats around here somewhere, Apple powermac gave away, Packerd Bell 486 brother has it, Compac persario notebook broke  , HP pavalion present. No wonder Im a computer geek and a packrat  | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/4/2005 5:01:32 AM | Very first was a Commodore Vic20, 6502 CPU, 3.5Kb of RAM, and no offline storage (for me at least). I used to type in programs, run them, crash, reboot, type in again etc. I learnt pretty quickly to code accurately and safely.
I then 'moved on' to an Osborne 1. The *real* first portable 'microcomputer'. Looked like a sewing machine, weighed a ton, ran CP/M on a Z80, had 2 x 160kb drives (as I recall), and a scrollable green screen monitor. Learnt more things on here, WordStar, SuperCalc, dBase and a rather lovely programming language called CBasic. Oh, and also did Z80 ASM. Wish I still had it, probably worth a lot of money.
Sigh... those were the days? | |
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pef459
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Joined: 9/20/2005
Msg: 128 | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/6/2005 4:15:38 PM |
Compac persario notebook broke. That company made the worst computers in the last decade of its independent existance from HP.
One of my old computers is a Pentium 233 Compaq Presario and it is impossible to upgrade it beyond 64 megabytes of ram, and it was murder just to get it to recognize the additional 32 I put in it from the 32 on-board. It also shares system resources and can't handle a resolution above 800 X 600 with more than 256 colors.
When the OS got corrupted years ago I couldn't reinstall because it wouldn't boot from a floppy so I had to get creative. I impressed my friends by putting windows 2000 pro and win98 dual boot on it on only a couple of 1.5 gig hard disks. It really is a terrible design.
Compaq certainly earned its reputation. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/7/2005 6:51:38 PM | Wow...I haven't thought about my TRS-80 in years... :)
As an adult, my first one was a 486-SX...then had to fork out like $500 just to get the DX processor. And that was only 12 years ago! | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/7/2005 8:14:18 PM | first:
purchased in 1998 solely for Half Life Game of the Year Edition, installed mod : Counter Strike 5.6b.
~799Mhz Pentium III cpu 64MB fsb
Asus clsuc2 mobo with ViA chipset
512MB pc133 dimm SDRAM
Nvidia Geforce 256 32MB onboard (original GPU)
40gig SaTa 5700rpm Hdd
Microsoft Windows 98se (later XP)
Creative Soundblaster Live! Value (32bit surround)
Cambridge Soundworks PC 5.1 surround
19" Pixie .24dpi :)
Current:
Semperon 3200+ 64bit dual core
Nvidia Nforce-4 64bit mObo (onboard wicked sound, LAN, WiFi, etc)
Dual Nvidia Geforce 7800gtx PCI express
Audigy Sound , surround sound
1gig wicked inline ram
too much to type
2x250gig sAtA
still playing vid games. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/9/2005 9:18:49 AM | First computer was an Apple IIe. 12" green screen, dual 5.25 floppy drives and i beleave like 16k of ram. The Apple II was followed up by an Mac Quadra 605 with a 200MB HD!! YEA! But it did have a color screen, and aside from the OS getting messed up still runs fine.
First PC was a 486-DX with 32 MB of ram and a whopping 1GB HD! Running DOS and Windows 3.1. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/9/2005 5:51:10 PM | Tandy Sensation :::
i486SX 25Mhz.
130MB HD
4MB Ram
Floppy/2X Cdrom
512K video card
windows 3.1 and ms-dos 6.22 (MS-DOS 5.0 on the CD's)
God did i upgrade that thing... | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/10/2005 9:10:06 AM | TI-99 had colors. Did you get the first model or one of the later ones? The first one was as expensive as a used car. Technically, it was a 16 bit computer (albeit a very slow and crippled one). I think the last model only went for a C note back in 83 or 84.
At the time it had some awesome games though. You could actually tell Donkey Kong was a Monkey. Not the greatest selection of software. That was one hell of a computer back in the day. | |
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Joined: 5/19/2005
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/10/2005 8:40:11 PM | | not sure what model (it's like 20 or so years ago) but it was Amstrad, some sort of first wave of laptops with 8 size D batteries, quite heavy wall plug adapter, folding aprocs. 6 or 7 inches LCD monitor with no hard drive but two floppy drives :) | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/12/2005 11:41:36 PM | Damn I feel old! First computer was a Tandy TRS-Model III, 64k ram, no hard drive, and loaded programs from a cassette.
I remember having a Mac Classic with 2 mgs RAM and a 40 mg hard drive and thinking that noone would ever need anything more than that.
My, how things change. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/25/2005 6:01:15 PM | TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 16k Extended Color BASIC. Wow!
I built it up to 64k, added a disk drive, hooked a DMP-105 printer to it. My guess is that I put around $600 in it in early '80s dollars. I bought it 22 years ago this month when Radio Shack had them on sale for $150. What a deal!!!
I haven't been without a computer since. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/26/2005 8:47:06 PM | AMD K6-2 550mhz
Generic Brand 250 Watt PSU
Generic Brand ATX Case
128mb Sdram PC 100 Genaric Brand
20 GB Fujitsu Hard drive 5400 rpm
ATI Rage Fury Pro 128 32MB
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live Value
4 X HP IDE CD Burner
5 X Creative Labs IDE DVD Rom
Red Fox AT Motherboard
Generic Brand Keyboard and Mouse
14 inch NEC Monitor
Windows 98 SE
Pathetic by today standards but in 98-99 that was pretty fast I can remember it like yesterday. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/27/2005 8:44:00 PM | Wow, this takes me back!
My first computer was a Commodore 64 purchased in 1983-84.
Processor 6510 CPU
1.02 Mhz(NTSC).985(PAL)
Memory 64 Kb RAM
20 Kb ROM
Display Text Mode 40 x 25, 16 colors
Graphics Mode 320 x 200
Sound 16 Sound generator: 3 voice, 9 octaves
Ports Composite Graphics Output
RF
Cartridge Slot
"User" Connector
2 Joystick ports
Serial Port
C2N cassette Interface
How's THAT for cutting edge?!?!
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kelvin
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Joined: 10/6/2005
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/28/2005 11:34:48 PM | This is a way cool post.
My first puter was a Texas Instrument Ti99/4a, which i still have in the closet, along with the voice synthisizer and all the accessories. It all still works. too bad it didn't help me with my spelling. LOL. I used to sit up all night programming in basic programs, and at the very end I would hit clear by accident and f*ck up 10 hrs of programming. The game Parsec was the best game ever. I am sure glad storage has come away from the cassette tape and onto hard drives!!! It sucks having to rewind!! I also had one of the first "laptops" It was a Tandy PC-6 which had 6 Kb of ram, and used basic and assembler code.
I used that little computer for 15 years, 10 of them on the same batteries!!! One day I was careening around a corner in my work truck and my coffee spilled on it and F*cked it up in just seconds. My baby was dead!!!
Since then I've had a 286@25 Mhz, a P II@233 Mhz, a P III@600 Mhz, then a P IV@2.4Ghz Yea, I'm a computer freak. And every computer cost about the same, around 1500 bucks to start with. When the TI 99 came out it was $1000 at the stores, when I bought mine a few months later it was $99. The voice synthisizer was $140. More than the whole computer!! | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/29/2005 10:23:47 AM | | The first computer I bought was a Pentium 90 with 14.4K modem and 4 MB. Back then 14.4K was light years faster than 9600 baud modems. 10 years later, I made a quantum leap to DSL from 14.4!! | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 11/29/2005 10:41:14 AM | | I think I've probably got you all beat, maybe it's an age thing, LOL. Mine was Kim 1, 1K of memory, tape recorder program storage, 6 character LED display (monitor, what's that?) Hexadecimal, 4 for address, 2 for the contents, only add, subtract, and logic operations, no multiply, word processing for personal computers wasn't thought of for 3 years after this. I wrote a program to do floating point multiplication, it used up half the memory, written in machine code, BASIC wasn't even around yet. I couldn't imagine anybody writing a program that used 1k of memory. Since then I've owned just about everything and still have them, Timex, Sinclair, Pet, Vic20, 64, B128, C256, Kaypro, Osborne, etc, etc. Probably have a museum someday. If I had all the money I've spent on computers I could buy a real nice small airplane. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/1/2005 7:10:13 AM | We used to have a Commodore 64 when i was a kid, but our first actual computer was this, as best as I can remember:
486DX2/66Mhz
8MB RAM
Trident 512k Video Card
360MB Hard Drive
8X CD-ROM
SoundBlaster16
14.4 External Zoom Modem
Canon BJC-4200 Printer
Deawoo 15" CRT which I actually used until 2 years ago
Current System:
Desktop:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.0GHz with 1MB Cache, first release), Socket 754
MSI K8T NEO
1GB (2x512MB Twin) Corsair XMS PRO CL2 DDR RAM
ATi AIW Radeon X800XT 256MB
2x Western Digital 120GB Hard Drives
LG 16x DVD+-RW
Hercules Game Theater XP Sound Card
LG 1710S 17" LCD
CarPC:
AMD Athlon 2500+ @ 1700+
MSI KM2M-L Motherboard
512MB DDR 2100
Seagate 160GB Hard Drive
ATi AIW Radeon 7500 64MB
Hercules Digifire 7.1
LG DVD/CD-RW Drive
LG 15" 1510S LCD with Touchscreen overlay
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