| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/2/2005 9:06:18 PM | Not the first computer I used, but the first one I build and owned was:
12mhz 80286 PGA CPU (overclocked to 15.8mhz) 4 megs of Extended ram (DIPS)
2 meg LIMS card (Expanded memory)
st506 RLL controller with a referb server drive I paid over $300 for with a full 65 meg of space on the primary drive and a 30meg Seagate R238
QB2 external bus expander with 10 2400 baud hayes compatable modems
Duel floppies 5 1/4 and a 3.5
256k VGA video card
DOS 3 running RA
This was before sound or CDs
It cost me about $3000 to build it
That may not sound like much but at the time most people that had computers were running 8088 with 10 meg drives and 128k EGA video
I just ordered the parts tonight for my latest system
AMD duel core 4400 with twin pci express LSI video cards with a half gig of ram
DVD burner, DVD player 2 160gig drives 650wt ps and a 8ms 19" wide screen LCD panel....
systemboard is an ASUS A8N SLI Premium with 2 gig of PC 3200 ram
Not a true screemer but a very respectable game box | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/3/2005 9:44:11 AM | | Commodore Vic 20. What a scream. This email will use up more bytes then the amount of ram on the damn box, lol. Then I got a Commodore 64..and a 300 baud modem. Ah, those were the days. | |
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| Trash80 LOL
Posted: 12/5/2005 7:08:14 AM | Me to did you ever see the speech modulator? or the video upgrade? I had all the toys for mine, now my cell phone is 3000% more powerfull Frank | |
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| Trash80 LOL
Posted: 12/5/2005 9:42:51 AM | | My first one was Commodore 64 and i still have it! I never was a computer buff but since i am a musician ,the computer arrival was a revelation for me and let me tell you that computer gave me the best drum sounds i ever heard and still to this day, i cannot find a drum machine who gives me the most acoustic sound that Commodore brought...Musician outhere would probably agree...aaaah! the good old days.... | |
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| Trash80 LOL
Posted: 12/10/2005 12:01:32 PM | A red frame...two knobs...and a silvery, coloured blank thingie.
It was called; Etch-A-Sketch. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/11/2005 9:43:33 PM | | Same here...graduated from a vic 20 to a commodore 64. Then I hit the big leagues! I got an apple II after deciding TRS 80s really were Trash! | |
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Joined: 11/21/2005
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/12/2005 5:49:48 PM | Radio Shack TRS-80 MC-10 (TRASH 80)
CPU: Motorola MC6803 @ 0.89 MHz
RAM: 4K internal, 16K external
Ports: serial, cassette, TV out
Display: 32 x 16 text, 8 colors
20 Years later I used the cassette recorder to record Greed Day over a chess game. 
Yea for Trash 80 | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/13/2005 6:03:17 PM | Man to think back so many computers.
Hmmm
I had an Apple IIe. Single 3.5" floppy...
I also had a Commodore 64.
Those were the days when you had to do everything manually it was great.
Now the computer does it for you...
Now I have an HP Pavilion ZE1210 laptop (the biggest pile of crap out there)..
That is all I have until I finish building my new one (boy what an expense when it came to Duel AMD processors)...
How many of you had an IBM PC-XT? | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/13/2005 6:45:16 PM | Phew.
I am not as depressed as I thought I would be!
An Apple II with a cassette player hooked up to a TV. There are clearly other PC pioneers here. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/15/2005 12:35:21 AM | Please note this beauty didn't even have a hard drive.
NAME MACINTOSH
MANUFACTURER Apple
YEAR 1984
KEYBOARD Full stroke 59-key
CPU Motorola MC 68000
SPEED 7.83 MHz
RAM 128 kb (expandable to 512 kb)
ROM 64 kb
TEXT MODES 40 chars x 32 lines bit-mapped pseudo-character mode
GRAPHIC MODES 512 x 342 dots
COLORS black & white 9'' monitor
SOUND 4 voices, 12 octave sound @ 22 kHz
I/O PORTS Two serial (RS 232/422) for printer and modem, mouse, external floppy drive, sound out
BUILT IN MEDIA One 400k 3.5'' internal floppy drive, 400K external drive optional
OS Macintosh System 1.0
POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit
PRICE $2495 | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/19/2005 10:22:48 PM | Well, the first computer I owned was a 386 DX 33
40 MB HDD
4 MB 30 PIN SIMM RAM
No CDROM
Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.x with Word Perfect 5
Now the first computer I ever used.
Now that was a Commodor PET with the black and green screen. and a tape cassette drive.
Boy thats a long time ago.
Then came out the Commodor CBM
and maybe a few years latter the ever popular Commodor VIC 20
and Oh my good then the miracle of Commodor 64
Anyway. Feeling a little nastalgic now.
Wheres that lava lamp
10 print "Lava lamp"
20 Go to 10
Hahahahaha | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/31/2005 7:16:42 AM | My first was a commie 64.
I miss alot of the games that I had with it. They were pretty spartan with graphics and such, but it was FUN!
Oh yeah, I UPGRADED to a 300bps modem. 
I partied like it was 1979 when I got it! | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 12/31/2005 1:53:36 PM | Mine was a brand called Quantex which I bought in Jan '96.
It was a 200 Mhz Pentium
3 Gig Hard drive
32 Megs of RAM
It had a PD?CD-ROM drive which was kind of unique. Back then CD burners were about $850. This was a $150 upgrade, It was an ordinary CD ROM and a removable drive in one. The PD disc was like a floppy disc only it was 650 Mb optical and re-writable just like a zip disc.
The PC last until Nov. 2003 when it finally died. It out lived its manufacturer. But it had a 3 yr warranty which didn't run out on me. They gave me good service and when I called them up I didn't get India, I got support in AZ. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/11/2006 3:20:43 PM |
Any way, UNIVAC1, with all 8 bytes of computimg power, YEA!
OK you win. The first one I ever worked on was one of the old IBM 1400 series (1440 I think).
Had to run the punch cards through a compiler then run them through the computer then run the output cards through an interpreter. Whee, loads of fun! It had 64 kbit core memory (the actual magnetic cores). Don't remember how fast it was.
First one I ever owned was a Commodore 64. I remember how proud of myself I was when I wrote a program to solve simple differential equations over short intervals using the Runge/Kutta approximation method. Can't reliably make change today.
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/11/2006 6:05:59 PM | HAHA! (Revealing my age now!) My first computer was a Timex. (No, it wasn't a watch!) it was about eight inches by six inches and attached to the television.
I graduated from that to a Tandy TRS80
The first computer that I built was a 286. I put a WHOPPING 8 meg of RAM in it. (At that time 1 meg of RAM cost $100.) I still have the receipt from that somewhere. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/11/2006 6:14:22 PM | In grade 7, our phys ed teacher bought a TRS-80 Model I that he kept at the school and let us play games on. I remember spending hours typing programs in BASIC into it to get some crummy game that you thought was the greatest.
It did get me hooked on computers...the next year I had saved up half of the $1000 needed to buy a TRS-80 Color Computer and Dad chipped in the rest...I managed to get the 32K model that turned out to be 64K that you couldn't actually access without tweaking it with peeks and pokes. I think it had a clock speed of 0.7 MHZ, but it could have even been 0.7 KHZ that you could poke to run faster.
The sad thing is...I still have it buried in a back closet downstairs...kept it partly for nostalgia, partly for one day when the Antiques Roadshow comes to town, and partly because it's about the only thing I've ever been able to prove Mom she was wrong about when she said I'd play with it for 2 months and that would be it... | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/11/2006 7:54:29 PM |
it's about the only thing I've ever been able to prove Mom she was wrong about when she said I'd play with it for 2 months and that would be it...
Nice!!!
486 at 33Mhz....I was sooo thrilled when we up graded to a 66
around 200MB HDD
16MB Ram I belive
Windows 3.11
15" monitor at 16 colors, then upgraded to 256. Dont remember the resolution
I was 9 years old | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/12/2006 4:12:05 AM | First one, a Sinclair ZX-81:
Zilog Z-80 CPU, 1Mhz
2K RAM
Membrane KB
Cassette storage
8K BASIC & "OS" in ROM
Current homebrew rig:
Dual-core AMD64 4800 (= 4.8Ghz)
2Gb RAM
IBM Model M keyboard from 1992 (still the best keyboards ever made)
~ 500Gb total HDD storage/double-layer DVD RW
SuSE Linux 10.0 x86_64 (No idea how big, but thousands of times larger than 8K)
Amazing how the technology has advanced.... | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/13/2006 12:28:53 PM | As I have said before, my first computer (aside from the Atari Home Computer which was just an Atari 2600) was the Adam Computer.
Apparently I am the only person on this site who was ever heard of it or seen one. | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/15/2006 8:50:56 PM | Heh...that was a looong time ago.
8 MHz 8088 processor
512k RAM
20 meg hard drive
Hercules Monochrome graphics, amber monitor
Technically, I'm still using the same computer, though it has a serious case of "grandfathers axe" syndrome. (I've replaced every component at least twice, but never actually purchased a new computer). | |
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| What was the specs of your first computer??
Posted: 5/15/2006 9:44:22 PM | Finally, someone remembers the Adam. I can remember it like yesterday. I played Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom on it and did a research paper on Wolverines for a school project in the fifth grade. It actually had a sort of operating system that you had to load using a cassette tape. It was really ahead of its time. Too bad Coleco had not the vaguest clue how to market it.
I don't think I have ever owned an 8088 or 8086. | |
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