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What was your First computer like

post #1 of 20
3/25/08 at 5:54am
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What was your First computer like? and how is
it compared to your current one?
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post #2 of 20
3/25/08 at 6:03am




I loved them. My dads of course, he use to write programs for them. He wrote some games, for me to play at school. I remember reading some later that it was said it wouldn't be able to play any games. My dad figured out a way to play poker and a racing game.

and look at my Brilliant worklog for my current pc.
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post #3 of 20
3/25/08 at 7:46am
First PC of my own was a Dell Inspiron 9300, so not really all that old. That was the start of my interest in computers....shoulda known that it's more expensive than it seems
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post #4 of 20
3/25/08 at 3:09pm
First PC, as in MY own PC:

HP Vectra
AMD 486 DX4 100MHz
24MB RAM (upgraded from 4MB)
Sound Blaster AWE32
Cirrus Logic 1MB onboard video
100MB+200MB Hard drives
CD-ROM
Windows 95 (reinstalled AT LEAST 2-3 times per week)

Current computers are in my sig
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post #5 of 20
3/26/08 at 3:22am
first pc i paid for with my own money was a celly 533mhz, overclocked (by myself!!!) to 600mhz

had 256mb ram, and onboard video, thanks to Everquest i sold an account for 100 bucks, 1 single 512 stick of ram, and a ati rage 32 AIW vid card

that was around 2000?


first every computer experince was some old 386 machine, my mom was in a car accident, she was given 10k cash, we used all of it for the whole machine

used a dos OS of some sorts, where you had to manually type in what you wanted

we played Leasiure sp* Suit Larry on it lmfao

oh the old days
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post #6 of 20
3/28/08 at 1:57pm
My first computer was a 386....

If you could count that as a computer. Then in 94, I believe... I got a p2 233, with 32 megs of ram, a 1 meg Verge PCI video card. It had a MASSIVE 3.9 gig hard drive... and some other random crap.
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post #7 of 20
3/28/08 at 6:11pm
I bought a Compaq, back in November of 1999. It was a 1.0 Ghz Athlon, with like 128MB of RAM and a 32MB TNT 2 video card, with a 40Gb hard drive. Two months later, I got rid of the free AOL thing I had and bought DSL from BellSouth.
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post #8 of 20
4/7/08 at 3:30am
first comp was a pentium 200mhz desktop, had about a week...Then got a Pentium II 300mhz HP with DVD player built in...I upgraded to a 16mb Voodoo Video card AWESOME and then a Ultra TNT II 32mb video card. Played that for along time with Rainbow SiX.
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post #9 of 20
4/10/08 at 12:07am
First PC I was given (and had to carry with me home on a bus) was a giant 386 with a PSU with one of those rocker power switches you'd find in a nuclear power plant. It had 2MB ram, but had an add-on board card the size of a 9800GX2 with another 10MB. Running Win 3.1 and a ram doubler, the system saw 24MB ram. Not bad for a 386 LOL

First PC I bought myself was an AMD 586-100, 8MB ram and Win 95. Sold it to a school later on for profit

First laptop was an Emachines 2400+. I think widescreens in laptops were just becoming popular at the time.

And my family has owned many different computers, from the "PET" to various versions of Tandy "CoCo's" and overly expensive Macs. Could barely put food on the table, but had to have a Mac worth thousands...
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post #10 of 20
4/17/08 at 7:21pm
My First PC, I built myself

IBM Clone 8088 based system
2 Sp/I par/ Game Port card
16K ram
5.25 Floppy
Hercules Video Card
amber monitor
300 baud modem
12 inch Amber monitor
Ran DOS 2.0

later upgraded to 64K ram, amd a 10 meg hard Drive, and a ATI Vga Card with a CGA Color Monitor
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post #11 of 20
4/26/08 at 7:29pm
First comp bought with my own money:

Gateway 2000
Pentium 200MX
64MB Ram
Soundblaster 32
Some 56k Modem
Floppy
CD Drive
Nice Speakers (for the time)
17" Monitor

My first actual computer

Commodore 64
Tape Drive
1 Floppy Drive
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post #12 of 20
4/30/08 at 3:13am
The first computer I used extensively was in the engineering labs at the University of Colorado. It was an HP, used HP basic language, and had a cassette tape drive.

I also had an HP 41C programmable calculator. It was programmable, so technically I guess it was a computer.



First personal computer I used was an Atari desktop my father in law owned. POS, but it played Liesure Suit Larry and some early games.

First computer I bought for myself was an old original pentium system from Acer. It was their top of the line media computer. It actually had a small subwoofer with the speakers. Onboard graphics rage 128, and I think 256M memory.

Second desktop was my first Alienware.
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post #13 of 20
5/7/08 at 2:55am
zx81, and yes it was shit

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...icial%26sa%3DN

When I was 11 my school got lots of money from the EU and so we were the first to have a full suite of BBC micro computers, which did basic and we happily played about on them. This was early 80s. Some basic games like frogger.

The sinclair spectrum had colour and some cool games (manic miner anyone?), but commodore vic20 really took off with cartridge type arcade colour games, pac-man etc

I've posted this somewhere here before but had

zx81, commodore 64, amiga and then a big gap through college until getting a dell xpsr400 and then into laptops
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post #14 of 20
5/7/08 at 2:59am
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...icial%26sa%3DN

brings back memories LOL
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post #15 of 20
5/7/08 at 8:24am
anyone else have an Amiga???
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post #16 of 20
2/25/09 at 8:33am
i had a emerson 386 for a while running DOS/ DOSSHELL for the longest, then i remember win 3.1 rolling through, didn't use windows much though, most my games were DOS, Then i got a Packard Bell 486, about that time i was big into Wolf 3D, Leisure Suit Larry and SimFarm, and i used to sit on BBS systems up into the late hours on FidoNet, etc. eventually Win95 rolled around and like some 30 install disks later i was in a whole new world, (sort-of) sometimes i help a relative who wants to get on teh internetz and i turn on there machine and find windows 95, and can't believe the 256-color/or/16-bit world i suffered through, sure it was acceptable when i was playing Hexen/Heretic/Diablo and Warcraft II but i just don't think i could live like that again. For the most part it was the 14.4 and later 56k modem speeds that were killer, if a relative would scan and send pictures via email, i would have to let it d/l overnight....Very primitive times
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post #17 of 20
2/27/09 at 1:08am
- TI/99 4A, top of the line 16-bit processor back in the day and a whole 16K RAM to work with. I was like 4.

- Jumped to the glorious Commodore 64/128 lines.

- Mac SE/30 which was later upgraded to a IIsi, then a Power Mac 6500/225.
All computers were bought by my dad and then were handed down to me.

The very first computer purchased exclusively for me was a 6500/300 multimedia workstation which got me started in graphics design and video/sound editing.

First computer I bought with my own money was a Power Mac 9600 to aid the 6500/300 in rendering.

All computers I´ve had after those have been PC´s, all home built. First was a Pentium 4 and the latest build is a Core2Duo based build.

My first laptop was a Power Book 170 which did well for office work and sneak in some good olde B/W Mac gaming here and there. It was bought for business use so it wasn´t exactly mine.

The first laptop I bought with my own money was a Powerbook G3/300 (traded in the PM 9600). Next laptop was a G4 Powerbook 1.4 Ghz and the latest one is a Dell Vostro 1500 with a C2D processor and Nvidia 8600 card.

Whew, that was long...
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post #18 of 20
2/27/09 at 10:20am
TRS-80 Level I. Z80 processor, with 4K of RAM.
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post #19 of 20
3/28/09 at 2:38pm
1988 IBM PS/2 Model 70
Intel 80386-16Mhz, 80387 Math Co-Processor, 2 MB Ram, 60 MB Hard Drive, IBM 8514a Video Adapter with 1.5 MB RAM allowing XGA 1024x768 resolution and a Piper Industries Sound Card running on DOS 3.3 - yeah baby........

Here's the video card I still have it, they were really expensive in the day.

http://www.tavi.co.uk/ps2pages/ohland/8514A.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8514
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post #20 of 20
3/28/09 at 2:50pm
hahaha look at the size of those components!
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