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Your First PC?
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Your First PC?
OK everyone, here i would like u lot to post your very first ever PC!
Mine was: 386 @ 33mhz 1mb RAM 220mb hrad disk It was given to me by my dad when i was 9 (im now 15) because he upgraded to : 486 @ 66mhz 4mb RAM (i later got this PC aswell) Have Fun
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When I started university I bought:
486DX2 4Mg ram 300mb hard disk That was my first PC but not my first computer
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Mine was a 386/33 too. Well, I had an Atari before that, but that doesn't count I guess. Can't remember exact specs but it was something like 2mb RAM, 80mb HD, no soundcard, no modem, just a floppy drive (3 1/2 at least
) and a 512k videocard I think.
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PC? or first Computer?
First Computer:
Commodore 64 13" TV Tape Drive Floppy Drive First PC: 300Mhz PII 48Mb RAM 8Gb HD 56k Intregrated 4Meg ATI Rage Fury Pro w/TV out 2x DVD 2x Burner |
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My first PC is the one that I bought about 6 months ago.
I have used many before that, but MY first pc is as follows. 1.2 GHZ Athlon T-Bird 256 MB RAM ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder video card Mitsumi 24x12x40 burner AOpen DVD player Maxtor 40Gb 7200 rpm hard drive Onboard sound and an SMC 10/100 ethernet card |
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"The only computer I have ever thrown out"
My Timex® Sinclair kit (1982) had a mighty 1k of memory & a blazing 3.25Mhz clock speed
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well, if you are talking x86 architecture here, and not "what was your first computer?" then it was:
286 SX 20 MHz (I think!) 2 MB RAM 20 MB HDD No sound card. NO PCI BUS (thus ISA graphics card, ISA HDD controller card) This was actually a good machine at the time which ran a wicked game of Nine Men's Morris.... DOS ONLY next I upgraded to: 386 SX 33 MHz 4 MB RAM 50 MB HDD Again no sound card Again no PCI BUS. Windows 3.1 Then I upgraded to 486 DX 2-50 20 MB RAM 800 MB HDD Soundblaster original ISA Unknown graphics card.... Windows 95 Then I upgraded to Cyrix PR-200 Plus 16 MB RAM 3.2 GB HDD Matrix Mystique Video Card PCI Soundblaster 16 Windows 98 I can't be bothered going on.... |
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Well inbetween the C64 and the PII I had a:
Mac SE/30 (can't be bothered with the specs, you can look them up if you care to). and a Mac Performa 550 (see the SE/30 above) |
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8088 XT, 4.77 MHz
512K memory 20M hdd 5.25 DD floppy drive (360k) Hercules/MDA display adapter (720x348, b&w) 10" black & green display XT keyboard, no mouse, no soundcard MS-DOS 3.30 Good old times..
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The first family PC in my house was an Apple II GS with no hard drive and a 15" Sony Monitor/TV. All I remember was that it cost 5,000 in 1987 and for games I had Bop'n Wrestling and Test Drive.
"My" first computer was a Compu-add 386sx 16mhz with 1mb of ram and a 20mb hard drive. It had a 14" monitor, 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drives, and a Panasonic KXP-1124 dot matrix printer. Once I got an Intel 14.4 external data modem I was hitting the BBS' everyday. In 1993 when I was a freshman in college, I had one of the fastest computers in my dorm. While others had Tandy 286's and Brother Word Processors, I was chugging along with my 386 playing Wolfenstein 3D and downloading all kinds of stuff from L.I.T.S. BBS. Here is the "new" homepage for L.I.T.S.(Lost in the Supermarket). I believe he shut the BBS down in 2000, but its memory lives on through this site. Check it out..Its kinda cool to see what people were doing before the internet as we know it now. http://speakeasy.org/~jmarrs/index.html |
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My first one was an 80286 12Mhz with NO hard drives. Somehow I did manage to get 2 5 1/4 floppy disk drives with that system. Still remember the number of disks I had to swap to play Wing Commander 1
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Mine was a 386sx 16 Mhz, 5.25 and 3.5 drives, 80 meg hard drive windows 3.1 with a whopping 2 megs of ram, the first meg being hard wired, no sound or cd-rom or modem.
Speaking of firsts, anyone remember doing the BBS thing all night with 2400 baud ?? |
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As for my first x86: Dell Dimension xps p100c Pentium 100 S3 Trio32/64 16Mb Ram 1Gb Disk 4x cdrom I payed around 2200£ for it at that time (1996)... |
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I never knew you were an L33tHaXor MrGaribaldi.
I only got online with my first pentium (P60 which died so P75 which I dropped a HD on and fried so P100). Prior to that I had Uni access to the online world of BBS. My first was called Monochrome which still runs today
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My parents actually got their first computer after me, they got a 486 dx2 66 with cd and all. It is now sitting in my house, althought I have no idea what I will do with it. It has a whopping 512 meg hard drive. It's just collecting dust right now.
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Though that was a long time ago... I started using BBS' (again) around 1994 after a little break (2 years)... Was at my friends house for ages playing (Jones in the Fast Lane springs to mind) and perusing BBS'... When I finally got my own 'puter, my family gave me my own telephoneline so our regular wouldn't be busy all the time... I even managed to avoid paying for it (But I had to stay under 150£ a quarter...)
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I remember my first computer. It was a Pentium 133. I loved it. Can't compare to those today, however
![]() Come to think of it, I miss it. I wish I had an Amiga
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