Your First PC?

[tifc8lraz]

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 .

 

[Boogityboo04]

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?

 

[tifc8lraz]

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

 

[Boogityboo04]

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.

 

[tifc8lraz]

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

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:

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.

: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

 

[daniel161]

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

 

[zephead]

and has 80Mb Memory (in a format before SD-Ram?)

probably EDO or FPM DRAM, 72 pin SIMMS.

 

[TheDrizzle50]

My first PC was a macintosh PowerPC™ not sure what the specs where but it was a P.O.S. for sure.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

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.

 

[wolfram]

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...

 

[Jesse_hz]

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

 

[zephead]

was that cyrix a 6x86? i remember those...they used to run hot

 

[Ralphmex]

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...

 

[KingCody]

first computer: Apple IIe

first PC: HP Pavillion 6545C

first laptop: Dell Inspiron 8000

:wave:

 

[halo71]

ha....my first computer was a Texas Intruments calculator!

 

[tifc8lraz]

first computer: Apple IIe

It had an 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz !?

 

[sw123]

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

 

[N3051M]

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

 

[KingCody]

first computer: Apple IIe

It had an 6502 or 65C02 running at 1.023 MHz !?

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:

 

[Boogityboo04]

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:

 

[tifc8lraz]

We're going to look at games like Oblivion in 20 years and think the same thing :suspiciou .

 

[sw123]

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

 

[halo71]

We're going to look at games like Oblivion in 20 years and think the same thing :suspiciou .

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!

 

[nickslick74]

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.

 

[-Kestrel-]

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!