Weekend Open Forum: What CPU powered your first computer?

[Thorney]

It was a Pentium 100mhz but very quickly upgraded it to 200MMX with a Voodoo2

 

[Lionvibez]

80286 12Mhz

 

[Puiu]

I'm not really sure, it might have been an 6x86MX Cyrix CPU (Intel compat) which was close to an P2. I was in 2nd grade when my parents bought it so I didn't really pay attention to the details that much.
It was running win95 and I remember upgrading the video memory from 1MB to 2MB

 

[Manuel Diego]

My first computer was the ZX Spectrum, powered by the mighty Z80. Then came a PC with a 286, and then pentiums, athlons, etc. Ah, the good new times!

 

[Tgard]

386DX. Picked it over the 486SX because the DX had a math co-processor if I remember correctly.

 

[Nero7]

Whatever that is inside of a Bull Micral 45 or 200.

 

[SirChocula]

Intel Pentium II 233mhz!

 

[DarkLord]

My first machine had a Intel Pentium 133 Mhz (standard, not the MX version), 16 MB of PC100 Ram, 3.2GB? hard drive, 2x CD-ROM, Intel chipset graphics (not sure on which GPU it was, not that it would help anyway, lol) and ran Windows 95. I still have it tucked away in my closet, I just can't bring myself to trash it .

 

[hahahanoobs]

AMD AthlonXP 2600+ barton core.

 

[mrtraver]

My first computer was an Atari 800, followed by a 1200XL, but my first Windows PC had a Pentium-II 350.

 

[pacostrano]

Intel 8088 on a Tandy 1000TX... I was 5 years old and playing Thexder on that computer lol

 

[red1776]

Or a Intel 486 25mhz...I don't remember

 

[jznomoney]

I had an 8088 powered tandy 1000hx

 

[Fimbulvetr]

Atari 600XL, so 6502C @ 1.79Mhz

 

[EClyde]

IBM Intel 8088

 

[jobbus323]

Intel 286->486sx25->486dx66->AMD K6 300MHz

 

[mcborge]

First 8 bit computer, 6510. First 16bit computer, MC68000. First pc, 8088. First home built system, AMD K6-2 400.

 

[alabama man]

Motorola 68000 7,15909 MHz

 

[ErikNZ]

My first PC was a 10Mhz XT with a 12" Hercules/CGA monochrome (amber) display with 2x 5,25" (360kb) floppy drives but no hard drive. All this magic was powered by an Intel 8088 CPU. This must have been around 1988/1989.

But it wasn't for long until I started upgrading all the internals with faster components, better graphics card (EGA, then VGA and SVGA), sound card, hard disks, CD-writer, etc.

I think my CPU journey looks like this:

10Mhz 8088 -> 20Mhz 286 (AMD) -> 386DX 40Mhz -> 486 DX2 66Mhz -> 486 DX4 100Mhz -> IBM/Cyrix 6x86 PR 150+ CPU -> Pentium 233Mhz -> Celeron 300A (OC'd to 450Mhz) -> Pentium III 500Mhz -> AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900Mhz (OC'd to 1.1Ghz) -> Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz-> Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz -> Q9550 (OC'd to 3.4 Ghz)

And I'm still using the Q9550 today

 

[trparky]

Intel 8088.

 

[Abby Normal]

IBM PC 5150, 8088 with 8087 math coprocessor. Later swapped out the 8088 for the NEC V20. "The NEC V20 (μPD70108) was a processor made by NEC that was a reverse-engineered, pin-compatible version of the Intel 8088 with an instruction set compatible with the Intel 80186. The V20 was introduced in 1982,[1] and the V30 debuted in 1983.[2][3]

The chip featured much more than the 29,000 transistors of the simpler 8088 CPU, ran at 5 to 10 MHz[4] and was around 30% faster (application dependent) than the 8088 at the same clock speed, primarily due to faster effective address calculation, along with faster loop counters, shift registers and multiplier." - Wikipedia

 

[FOXBAT2000]

My first computer was TRS-80 and it was using a Z80 -A running at just 2Mhz with 64k
of ram. I got a Compatable three months later called a LNW. it used a z80-b and also
ram CPM. LOved it

 

[namesrejected]

I don't remember "my" first, but my elder brother is naturally gifted in that area so dad really encouraged it. I believe dad had bought my elder brother a Tandy TRS 80. I also remember we had a PC-jr at one time. Countless 386, 486 pc's.

I always wanted to outdo him, and when I got my own job I did with a P4 system that I went all out on.

I want to do an outrageously all out system again that would be cooled via a phase change system outside cooling a water / antifreeze mix that would cool a peltier array that would cool a computer immersed in Novec 7000. My wife wont let me though.

 

[Will86c]

I had an eMachine with a Cyrix MII. I got it in 98' or 99' shortly after Cyrix had gone out of business. I've collected the processor chip to every computer I've ever had and I still have that old Cyrix up on a shelf.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

233MHz Pentium MMX in a maxxed out dell XPS M233S. 64MB of RAM was so sweet back then.