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Title: First Computer
Post by: AdmRose on August 30, 2002, 07:51:01 PM

Well all have these kick bellybutton high cost fast systems nowadays, but we all started out with some (now) obsolete piece of garbage.
Mine was:

Packard Bell 75 Mhz
14.4 kbps modem
1.2 GB hard drive
16MB RAM
1 MB video card (upgradeable to 2 MB lol)

That was from 1995. I'm on my 3rd computer, 4th printer, and 2nd monitor now.

What did everyone start out with?

Title: First Computer
Post by: Greese on August 30, 2002, 07:58:25 PM

Commodore PET.  (not sure of specs).

Played "miner" a lot.

Title: First Computer
Post by: Skuzzy on August 30, 2002, 08:21:22 PM

TRS80 Model 1

4K of ram
2Mhz Z80 CPU
160KB 5 1/4" floppy

Title: First Computer
Post by: SKurj on August 30, 2002, 09:17:46 PM

C64

what a load o crap that was +)  We had a 5 1/4 flppy drive that its alignment changed daily...  save something today... it may not read tomorro!!



SKurj

Title: First Computer
Post by: Roscoroo on August 30, 2002, 09:30:51 PM

i have an old ...well  '86 kaypro exp ... it doesnt have a mb so to speak, a 46kb seagate hd that weighs more than a whole modern day desktop pc ..   it has the imfamous 9 in green screen . it boots up on 2 floppys, dual side read of course . oh yea no mouse ... And this was a top of its line office pc in its time.

I wonder if i should donate it to a museum ??? (its all compleate and still runs, I'm not shure if the printer still works it ran outta paper over a decade ago ...):p

By the way this thing cost more then the most suped up Pent 4 /water cooled /ti4600/ rambuss , ect... costs today .(over 3g if i remember right)

Title: First Computer
Post by: BenDover on August 30, 2002, 10:34:35 PM

first console: Atari 2600
First computer: Amiga 500 (had alot of fun on that, even though i didn't have any speakers for it)

PC #1
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Began as:
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celeron 644
64 meg ram
6 gb HD
onboard GFX & sound
2 point speaker system
15' monitor
DVD drive
3 & 1/2 floppy drive


Now:
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Duron 1.1 ghz
384 mb ram
20 gig + 6 gig HD
Voodoo 4 4500 PCI (hope to replace it this x-mas)
CL SB Audigy hooked up to my stero which is 5.1 dolby (starting to break down now though:( )
same 15' monitor
same DVD drive
R/RW Drive (CD burner is layman's terms)
same 3 & 1/2 inch floppy drive
Soltek 75KAV mother board

Title: First Computer
Post by: Animal on August 30, 2002, 10:45:07 PM

a Compaq Presario

90MHz Pentium
8mb EDO RAM
800MB Hard Drive
1MB Video (SVGA!)
Sound Blaster!
Windows 3.1

My first game: Mechwarrior 2

It is still the best gaming experience, ever.

Title: First Computer
Post by: lord dolf vader on August 31, 2002, 05:01:50 AM

same first console atari 2600 Adventure !! was my favorite game.

then a commedore 128  with a huge disk drive that held very little date 256k ?


both were a load of fun.

Title: First Computer
Post by: FOGOLD on August 31, 2002, 08:25:22 AM

Well!  Amstrad PCW 8615 with Supercalc on it (Not really a PC I know) then an Apricot 386SX then an Apricot 486DX 50 with 36Mb RAM (none of these PCs could run games needless to say) Contrary to popular belief the 486DX ran Windows 95 no problems at all and thats where I learned Windows.

Then MS Combat Flight Simulator came out and I had to get a PII350 with 64MB Ram. Soon had a Voodoo2. Soon had a Voodoo3 and a PIII600 slotted in with 256Mb RAM as gameplaying  got more fevered. Soon had Geforce2 GTS.  I still use this machine for work and as a server.

Now (purely for gaming) XP1800 Gf3 Ti500.

Luckily I was able to buld my son a PC with spare parts. Actually gave him my Geforce2 and put his Voodoo3 back in my work machine. Doesn't need good 3d any more.

I'll never forget the thrill of fitting my first Voodoo 2.:D

Title: First Computer
Post by: capt. apathy on August 31, 2002, 09:18:39 AM

first 'game console'- pong

pc- TI-99-4a,  16k ram, cassett tape storage (30 minutes to load 10k worth of data).

 it also had the ability to plug in game cartriges, wich was kinda cool at the time. the cartriges came with enough extra ram to run more complicated games than the pc alone. so you could plug in the cartrige and not load the game and get up to 4 times your system ram to work with.  64k ram was top end for a minute or 2 back in the early '80s

Title: First Computer
Post by: Pongo on August 31, 2002, 12:05:21 PM

386sx 16mhz
1 meg of ram
256 colour vga card
40 meg hd(sloooooow and LOUD)
First upgrade was a 300 dollar sound blaster.

Played the original Harpoon on that thing for hours.

Title: First Computer
Post by: Teforto on September 01, 2002, 12:29:31 PM

486DX2 - 66mhz
4MB RAM (later upgradet to 8MB)
some 35MB hd
SVGA-Graphics
14in Screen
Windows 3.1
plus a HP Deskjet500c that still does its duty today...

(edit: fixed typos)

Title: First Computer
Post by: Pfunk on September 02, 2002, 12:11:41 PM

286sx
1MB ram
10MB HD
5 1/4 floppy
vga graphics
1400 Baud Modem

Title: First Computer
Post by: Furious on September 02, 2002, 06:28:27 PM

1987-

Amiga 2000

7.14 Mhz
1 Mb RAM
No HD
4096 Colors
14" Monitor
__________
$3,500.00

Title: First Computer
Post by: Heinkel on September 02, 2002, 08:30:08 PM

1991 - Kinetex 386

386 - 12 Mhz/40 Mhz (Regular/Turbo)
4 MB Ram
Dos 3 / Windows 3.0
40 Meg HD
512K VGA Card
14' Moniter

First upgrade was a Sound Blaster card (200 somthing)
Second was a Modem ($150 - External 14.4 BPS)
Third was AOL 1.5 (Paid for by the hour)
Last was 4 MB of ram ($50)

Still have this PC :D

Title: First Computer
Post by: BenDover on September 02, 2002, 09:05:26 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Heinkel
1991 - Kinetex 386

386 - 12 Mhz/40 Mhz (Regular/Turbo)
4 MB Ram
Dos 3 / Windows 3.0
40 Meg HD
512K VGA Card
14' Moniter

First upgrade was a Sound Blaster card (200 somthing)
Second was a Modem ($150 - External 14.4 BPS)
Third was AOL 1.5 (Paid for by the hour)
Last was 4 MB of ram ($50)

Still have this PC :D

In a box.......right???

Title: First Computer
Post by: Heinkel on September 02, 2002, 09:21:17 PM

No...just spread out across the floor

Yeah, in a PC case :) small case had 1x5.25 Floppy, and 1 regular floppy drive, with 1 extra 5.25 slot

Title: First Computer
Post by: ramzey on September 02, 2002, 09:36:33 PM

niah;)
my first was Sinclare zx 80 16 kb  1985 or 6 y
"Dam Buster "game somone remember that? /little later when im buy Timex 2048

my first PC was PC XT 8 Mhz 640kb Ram, floppy 1,2 CGA graphic card plug in into videorecorder to black&white TV . Year 1989
it was end of could war and i was living in Poland;)
I buy him and my first PCsim was "Fighter Bomber"

Title: First Computer
Post by: Tapper on September 03, 2002, 01:09:27 AM

IBM PCjr, need I say more.

tap :)

Title: First Computer
Post by: Karnak on September 03, 2002, 06:56:27 PM

Atari 520 STfm in 1987.

Title: First Computer
Post by: Morgoth on September 03, 2002, 09:04:24 PM

The first one I owned was a Micron P90, 16MB RAM, 14.4 modem, Matrox Millenium vid, AWE32 sound card, 1GB HD, Win 3.11. This was one of the P90s with the floating point bug so it got replaced after pissing all over Intel (cool phone call that was). Got the box in late 94 I believe.

I had played a few computer games previously but they were all on a buddy's Mac.

Title: First Computer
Post by: BenDover on September 03, 2002, 10:52:04 PM

whats a mac;) :D :p :rolleyes:

Title: First Computer
Post by: Morgoth on September 04, 2002, 08:12:18 AM

Other than something to play the original "Reach for the Stars" sim on, I have no idea. I was too inexperienced to realize I was gaming on an inferior platform. You have to remember that the playing field looked like this:

. . . . . . . . . . x . . . o
. . . x . . . o . . . . x . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

and the entire game was monochrome text-based  :D

Title: First Computer
Post by: hardcase on September 04, 2002, 11:02:48 PM

Z-80 Sinclair had 5 settings on each button. Took both hands to input basic then on to a  8088 Franklin 512 k, dual 5 1/4" drives, 12" CGA 4 color monitor. Ran on dos 3.1

hardcase