Lets see, the very first I had was on that my grandpa gave me probaly when I was 7. I think it had 51/4 floppy drive andit ran windows 3.1. The secoind one got was a free at a garage sale. It was a Packard bell 8mb ram 95A (I Think) CD and floppy. The reason it was free is that they said it could not "Start Up". Well, I came home, pushed the power button and it came up perfectly! Now, The only thing I have from it is the cd and floppy drives. --Daniel L
Some really old mac from the 70s/80s. My first PC was the following: Celeron 800MHz 128MB RAM Integrated 4MB video Maxtor 20GB HDD Foxconn 150W PSU NEC CD-ROM 40X Windows ME Yes it was a Dell.
My first PC: Cyrix CPU 233 Mhz Some PC Chips SiS 530 socket 7 mobo 64 MB SD RAM Integrated SiS 530 "graphics" :haha: 4 GB HDD 250W PSU Then I "upgraded" to: Celeron 600 Mhz Some cheap (Acer) mobo, socket 370, SiS 630 chipset 144 MB SDRAM Ati Radeon 7200 32 MB PCI 9 GB HDD 145W PSU :haha: It was an Acer "Power" SE machine...
My first PC (I think) was an Olivetti of some sort running DOS, can't remember what version of DOS, but it was set up with text-based menu on boot-up, where you could choose some kind of word-processor, a game called Ports-of-Call and some other stuff I can't remember. Went from that to an IBM "Aptiva" running Win95, so I newer really experienced Win3.x
Mine was an ATARI 800XL Mi first computer was an ATARI 800XL with Atari Basic language. No hard disk, i had to write down in paper the programs that i made on it, didn´t have any media to record hehe. Nice games i played there: Donkey Kong Jr., Popeye, Pole Position, Defender, etc...
My first PC Intel Celeron 2.60 GHz Integrated 64 MB video card 256 MB RAM CD-RW drive DVD-ROM drive Now I upgraded it to: Intel Celeron 2.60 GHz nVidia GeForce FX5500 PCI 768 MB RAM CD-RW drive DVD-ROM drive Whole cost for the PC was $652.17USD sw123
my first pc was a..... black PC with a keyboard and a tape machine (hey, i was 7 yrs old back then.. don't remember things that far). Got stolen.. next one was a commodor 64.. dad gave that away to one of his friends kids (damn) Then my first 'proper' pc was a compaq something, 386/20mb hdd/8 mb or 16mb ram?, upgraded to a 486 then pentium 1 100mhz/500mb hdd (rest of the specs fuzzy here). running windows 3.1. R.I.P(s) (literally, in the garage) first laptop: Asus A8Jr
lol... the lightning fast 1MHz CPU was state-of-the-art in 1983 you could upgrade it's memory to a whopping 1MB. it was also the first [Apple] computer with the ability to type and display lowercase letters -there was a game I had for it (it may have come with it, I don't remember) where a series of open-apples and closed-apples would move along a conveyor belt, at the end of the belt there were two trap doors each leading to a bucket. you had to press the open-apple or closed-apple buttons (where the windows keys are on a regular keyboard) to choose which door to open and let the apple fall through. nowadays a game like that would bore you in less than a minute, but back then you could play it all day long :bounce:
I know exactly what you mean, I used to play games like that for hours on end because they were "state of the art":knock:
Imagine running WoW with a 486 and it somehow works, but it is super laggy and u 2000000ms latency cuz u have dial up--all u can get with a 486. I have a working 486 in my loft right now, i use it for typing x468 33 MHz Processor 4 MB RAM CD, Floppy and HUGE floppy thing drive 1 GB Hard drive Windows 3.1 w/ DOS It a power switch thing
I think you are right! I was watching a show on the Discovery channel lastnight where they predict that by the year 2030, computers will be as much as 3000 times more powerful than they are today!
My first computer was a Packard Bell 286 12mhz (if you used the turbo button) 20MB hdd and 1MB of ram. You could upgrade with another MB of ram if you filled all four slots with 256K. Back then it would have been cheaper to buy a new computer.
Heh...gotta post here. My first computer was an Atari 800 (a couple years before the XL came out)--probably 1980 or '81, with the tape drive (which never worked). But that's okay--I soon had not one, but TWO 5.25" floppy drives attached--the sexy black ones whose name escapes me at the moment. I was able to hook that up to CompuServe via a 300-baud modem--but we didn't have a local number, and my wife was rather aghast at the phone bills! Fortunately for our bank account, I was sent to Germany shortly thereafter. While in Germany, I mail-ordered an 8088 PC system: 640K of RAM, a 30MB HD, a Logitech 3-button mouse (heh...I think the only mouse-aware app I had was the mouse config program!), and *gasp* an EGA monitor from Hitachi!
