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post #21 of 34
7/3/05 at 8:06pm
Oh, the memories... Here's my list, in order:
Commodore 64c (still use it for games)
Commodore VIC-20
Compaq 286 laptop (still works)
Pentium 100, made by USA Flex
AMD K6-III 380 mHz, self-built w/ Geforce 2 32MB AGP 2x
Intel celeron 400
AMD Athlon 800 mHz (now my linux computer) Self-built, random components
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Self-built, and fried, random components
AMD Athlon Sempron 2600+ (Windows computer) Self-built, currently with a Geforce 2 64MB AGP 4x, Nvidia TNT2 (second monitor), 80 gig western digital hard drive, Chaintech motherboard (nforce2)

My seondary monitor (Leading edge brand, SVGA, 14 inches) on my current computer is the first monitor I ever bought, and got to use on the Compaq laptop (which had a black and white screen)
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post #22 of 34
7/3/05 at 8:45pm
Heh, my first "puter" was a Vic 20, then a Commodore 64. After those, I didn't play with puters til about 91 when I was in college. Then I had a machine that proceeded the 486's (with math co-processor and all!!) with some crappy 13" monochrome monitor. I think then I started building my own systems (usually AMD) starting in 97 or so, nothing too extreme I guess, but good enough to do the crap that I needed.
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post #23 of 34
7/3/05 at 9:24pm
Ok.. brace yourselves... a Packard Bell running a Cyrix processesor at ~200MHZ with 32MB RAM, 3 GB HDD, and 24x CD-ROM....

Then a Compaq Presario Notebook (1200XL-106) running an AMD 400MHz, 32MB RAM, 5 GB HDD, 24x CD-ROM....

SAD>>>> I am currently saving for an Aviator MX6
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post #24 of 34
7/20/05 at 9:00am
Apple II E
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post #25 of 34
7/20/05 at 2:40pm
The first I can remember was a 286 that I installed a colour graphics card on. All my freinds were totaly geeked, it had 2MB of RAM. Took 3.1 eons to load...
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post #26 of 34
7/20/05 at 4:45pm
My first computer had a 386 processor, and I believe 2 MB of ram. It also had both a 5 1/4 inch and a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive, and I even had a CD drive installed a few years later. I remember having to enter "win" at the command line in DOS to boot up Windows 3.1!
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post #27 of 34
7/21/05 at 3:39am
Performa 5200CD, ancestor of the iMac.
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post #28 of 34
7/21/05 at 3:56am
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Originally Posted by benroethig
Performa 5200CD, ancestor of the iMac.
that slow bastard rulz! back in 1995 a buddy of mine worked at wally world and noticed one of these beauties just wasting space in storage after walmart stopped selling them. he managed to arranged a sale to me for $400(w00t!) i immediately maxed out the ram to 96mb(double w00t!). so she was my first real computer, and remained my primary system until the first iMac was released in 1998.

the performa 5200CD used the venerable moto 75mhz 603 chip, unfortunately not the 603e found in the rest of the performa line, and performance showed it. that was some slow sh!t, but somehow I managed to develop an 85 page website for a honda dealership on her in golive cyberstudio 2.0(now adobe golive).
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post #29 of 34
7/25/05 at 2:19pm
ok, here we go...

1. HP pentium 133mhz, 3 gig hd, 16mb ram

2. custom built P II 400mhz, 10 gig hd, 128 mb ram, 16mb graphics card

3. HP P III 600mhz, 256 mb ram, 30 gig hd

4. Dell dimension 4300, 1.5ghz p4, 16mb ati rage graphics card, 384 mb ram

5. (current) HP Media Center, 2.66 ghz P4, 1 gig ram, 2 x 250gig 16mb cache hd, nvidia mx440 128mb graphics card

6. (current) dell inspiron 600d (specs in sig)

ok, i think thats all of them
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post #30 of 34
7/25/05 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by gr8gatzby
that slow bastard rulz! back in 1995 a buddy of mine worked at wally world and noticed one of these beauties just wasting space in storage after walmart stopped selling them. he managed to arranged a sale to me for $400(w00t!) i immediately maxed out the ram to 96mb(double w00t!). so she was my first real computer, and remained my primary system until the first iMac was released in 1998.

the performa 5200CD used the venerable moto 75mhz 603 chip, unfortunately not the 603e found in the rest of the performa line, and performance showed it. that was some slow sh!t, but somehow I managed to develop an 85 page website for a honda dealership on her in golive cyberstudio 2.0(now adobe golive).
Mine served me well for five years before being replaced by a B&W G3.
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post #31 of 34
8/3/05 at 5:48am
commodore 16
spectrum 48k with teh blue rubber keys
spectrum 128k + with built in tapedeck
commodore 64
commodore amiga, 512, upgraded with huge memory module to 1 meg
pentium 166mhz
pentium 200mhz
pentium 266 mhz
intel celeron 1.1
amd athlon xp 2.2
amd athlon xp 2.6 t-bred
amd 64 2.8 clawhammer
amd 4400dualcore = latest one
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post #32 of 34
8/3/05 at 12:36pm
My first ever computer was:

Sony Vaio PCV-90
Pentium 200 Mhz
32 MB RAM
2.5 GB HD

all this for a wopping $2,200 USD back in 1996!!

And I still own it, I'll probably wont ever get rid of it as it brings way too many memories Once in a while I still play with it, and along with my 5 other computers (2 laptops included).
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post #33 of 34
8/5/05 at 5:09am
My first one was a 286 with a whopping 1MB of RAM. Back in the day, that was an extreme amount. It also had VGA graphics which was extremely unheard of at the time. I think it was 8 MHz with the turbo switch on. It ran DOS 3.3 which had some really bad text parsing bugs:

C:\>del a:\*.* <-- wipes C:\*.*

If you ever find a copy of DOS 3.3, try it out.
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post #34 of 34
8/5/05 at 10:56am
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Originally Posted by Turtle
My first one was a 286 with a whopping 1MB of RAM. Back in the day, that was an extreme amount. It also had VGA graphics which was extremely unheard of at the time. I think it was 8 MHz with the turbo switch on. It ran DOS 3.3 which had some really bad text parsing bugs:

C:\>del a:\*.* <-- wipes C:\*.*

If you ever find a copy of DOS 3.3, try it out.
My first was an Apple II GS with 512K ram and no HD. I hated that computer.
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