What was Your First Computer?

Mine was a Packard Bell

200 MHz MMX Pentium processor,

32 MB of EDO RAM

20 GB Quantum hard drive 

3.5" floppy drive

GoldStar 16x CD-ROM drive.

2 MB of video memory

Windows 95

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Apple II GS.

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Mine was a Compaq 486 with little or no grunt.

1.2ghz Intel

32mb RAM

10gb HDD

on board graphic/sound

14" monitor

Win 98 SE....

Whoa, compared to what I have now, it was miniscule.... 'cept the monitor was heavier than my 1st wife. :-"

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1994 Gateway 2000 Win 95 System

Intel Pentium P1 Processor (75mhz - 90mhz when Turbo button was pushed, Overclocked with Graphite Pencil mark to about 105mhz)

32mb RAM

120mb 5400rpm hard drive

Floppy drive

Rage Pro 16mb Graphics Card

 

Loved rocking out with Doom 1/2, Decent II, Chip's Challenge, Starcraft (just barely! Min requirements were 90mhz), Age of Empires, and Nascar Racing. :D

 

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A nice ol' 286 with a whopping 20MB HD.  It had DOSShell, and both kinds of floppies!  I played a Jeopardy game all the time, which is odd, because it only had one set of questions.  It kind of turned into a memory game, rather than a trivia game, but I still enjoyed it.

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I think Rosco_P is the only one with one older than mine. So far......... :-"

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CBM64.

First 'PC clone' was an XT..... then a genuine IBM XT .....that one had a ONE MEG ram extension card about 20 feet long [it seemed like it, anyway].

Those two were monochrome....though the IBM was at least 'green'....;p

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Oh, that's easy, my brain, the interface was either a pencil and paper or my eyes if I was reading, secondary interface was my ears if I was listening, which never really worked well.   :O :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

First home computer was a Commodore VIC 20.  :sun:

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Ryat....the first Computer I 'played with' was a Fortran from Melbourne Uni ... only one of about 4 or 5 computers in the country [Oz] at that time ... 1968-ish.  It used punch cards for input.

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Bamboo so it wouldn't warp. Memory? Mine. Never broke down. Was beyond cool.

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Doc...yes, I forgot the shuffle-stick.... I still have mine [it was plastic]...and my dad's...it's cane and enamel...;)

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Mine was the VIC 20, made a program to keep cricket scores for the year and used the tape drive for the database, ah the memories... ^_^

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a 386.  I'm sure my dad paid alot for it.  Then I took it apart, built a 486... and so on.  The rest is me building and upgrading pc's for the rest of my life. 

 

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Jafo - I still have my plastic one. The K+E was lost years ago... 1964, I think.
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Quoting Jafo, reply 9
Ryat....the first Computer I 'played with' was a Fortran from Melbourne Uni ... only one of about 4 or 5 computers in the country [Oz] at that time ... 1968-ish.  It used punch cards for input.

Knew there would be older ones after I said that.

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Quoting pacov, reply 13
Then I took it apart, built a 486... and so on.

Yeah, I did that.... took it apart, not that I knew what I was looking at, but the fact it worked when I put it back together encouraged me to take apart and build more.

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Quoting starkers, reply 17

Quoting pacov, reply 13Then I took it apart, built a 486... and so on.

Yeah, I did that.... took it apart, not that I knew what I was looking at, but the fact it worked when I put it back together encouraged me to take apart and build more.

Finally. Someone understands surgeons!   ;)

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I had a wonderful Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) with a whopping 8K of memory, that I purchased in the Fall of 1977.  It had the "Basic" language built in.  Within about 18 months, I traded it in for a "top-of-the-line" Commodore PET with 25K of memory. 

Ah, the good old days! ... (and yes, I had a Slide-rule in college, but I don't think that counts, 'cause it wasn't electronic, at all  ...  :D   ). 

 (The first computer I ever "programmed" was an old IBM Model 1620, which used Punch Cards, and a primitive computer language called "autocoder".  It was in my high-school, during my senior year (1966).   YES, I am old ...  :thumbsup:     )

 

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I briefly used the one below but then was in the military and didn't have one for some time.

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My first one was this a Hitachi Peach which i got for my 12th birthday in 1982, it was huge 

Then for my 15th birthday i got a Tandy TRS 80 which i though was the bees knees.

After that i went through Amstrads and Amigas until now where i have a Quad core laptop.

 

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Mine was a slap together from parts headed for the recycle bin lol.

1997. Case was an old IBM, 3.5 in. floppy,  486 AMD @500 mHz with a heavy ass monitor, resolution 800 x 600. No special graphics or anything like that. Ran Win 95, Win 98SE and NT 4.0 in a multi-boot. That was when a 1 gig HDD in a tower with mouse and keyboard but no monitor went for a whopping US $600.00! Now you can get a 500 gig for less than one. Go figure.

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Here's my first...

 

My second was a IBM PS2 Model 25.

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Radio Shack Tandy 1000 an Intel 8088 MSDOS based computer.  I purchased it with a whole 384KB of RAM memory.  However, getting my computer was delayed more than a week beyond what was promised.

Apparently, there was a RAM memeory shortage at the time so they only installed 256KB and flipped a jumper switch on the MB so the bootup would show 384KB installed.  It took me a year to find what they had done.  Needless to say I wasn't happy to pay for the extra RAM and not receive it.

So for all of you who work in sales don't lie to your customers.