Your First PC?

My 1st computer was an Apple IIC man those were fun!

1st: Leading Edge 286 16Mhz , for playing Mean 18, F-19(remember js pyrate?)

2nd: 486 33Mhz, 8MB ram.... Hmm 10 free hours huh, AOL

3rd: Packard Bell 486DX4 75Mhz oc'd to 100Mhz, and 12MB ram LOL, an a 14.4 modem

4th: Emachine 366i(cele) 32MB ram and 56K woohoo!!,Byebye DOS 6.22, hello Win 98, ATI RageII C learned to love earthlink

5th: " " P4 1.6Ghz 256MB ram 60 GB HDD an 32M TNT2 graduated to DSL 256k/256k

6th: (and current) Emach T3165 Athlon XP 3200+ 1 GB PC 2700 128MB 6600GT DSL bumped to 2M/512K.

Atari 800XL with 256kb of RAM, a black box hard drive adapter for the parallel bus, 4 floppy drives, and a 19.2k modem, and additional whoop-de-do equipment. Best damn computer ever made in its time in my opinion. Ran circles around the competition.

not to mention the oodles of games.

amd sempron 2600+1833mhz

i accidentally knocked out wires to my motherboaed there are for sound double white double blue and an orange,black,red can you help tell me where they go thanks please

Um, wrong post? If you made a new thread in the proper forum (and were more specific about the problem) I'd be glad to help.

please post in the correct forum and do not post questions not related to thread already started. This forum is not a Q/A forum.

My First PC

386 DX
100 MB HDD
14" B&W Screen

It taught me many thing about troubleshooting!!!!!
I Salute it!!!!

you can learn so much more from working on an older AT system than a modern one. boards these days have no dip switches, and few jumpers if any. i remember having to mess with IRQ assignments, DMA channels, COM ports, and of course the venerable MS-DOS files. i still tell anyone who wants to get into computers to work on an older AT system or something like that...it requires far more knowledge, skills, and understanding of the technologies than setting up a machine these days does.

I agree. Fiddling with MS-DOS is still something I fondly remember and miss at the same time. I still have a Windows 98 Startup floppy lying around that I use for formatting my PC from time to time. I've been doing it for years and the process has worked like clockwork ever since. It'll be interesting to see how many people still remember MS-DOS syntax....deltree anyone?

You said it.....I LOVE OLDER SYSTEMS! Newer systems are no fun fixing: they're too frustrating...but older systems are more fun and easier to fix. I've never used deltree, but I'm guessing that it deletes a folder and all subfolders? MS-DOS IS STILL KING!

Yes that is what it does.

Yay!!!!!!!!!

Yes,
deltree, com, format, ramdrive, smartdrv, setramd, himem, extract, fdisk!

To this day, the biggest dumbness I ever made on a PC was when I was 10 years old and deleted ".." from one of the directories on my hard drive.

Let's just say that I was only one level from the root directory of C:\ and the command "del .." wiped out command.com, autoexec.bat, config.sys, and those other lovely things that allow DOS to actually run your system. Those were also the days before I discovered the wonders of keeping a boot disk handy.

Needless to say, I've learned a thing or two since then...

Not sure what our first pc was, i'm 18 now..I just remember it having Windows 3.1 and a "Turbo" button!

Hmmm, a Sony Vaio w/128MB ram, Inel 8281-Series Int. vid. card., 866MHz P3, and a 40Gb hd, and Windows ME....I still have it . I just ran the recovery after I installed Xp on it....way too slow .

Wow, thats a pretty new computer compared to most of them here. Did you get into computers relatively recently?

Yeah, I got my first computer in 2001 when I was 11.

Well you certainly caught on quickly judging by the excellent posts you make around here. Keep up the good work :grinthumb


You did miss out on the good ol' MSDOS days when we pushed the turbo button to slow down the processor to use old games and 500mb was enough storage to last a lifetime.

Wow, thanks ! I started getting "into" computers last June, when I bought a barebones pc off eBay :haha: . I know where know half of what some of the members here know though :giddy:

:haha:, I wish I were there! I have a computer in my basement/office mix at one of my parents' house that runs off of Win95, a Pentium @ 133(66)MHz, and has 80Mb Memory (in a format before SD-Ram?), 1.- Gb hard drive, and some 2.0Mb graphics adapter...

I used to play around with an old laptop that ran Win3.1 and, well, to say the least, I was really surprised since at the time I knew nothing about computers and was running 98