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Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 10, 2005, 05:29:45 PM: Tell me your first computer or computer related that you own or use...

Here is mine...

I believe my first computer is a 33 - 66 Mhz Pentium with Windows 3.1 or 6.1 or something like. This Window version uses floppy discs instead of CD, I believe Windows 95 is the first Windows to uses a disc. Then a couple years later, my uncle bought me an 200 Mhz Intel Pentium with 4 MB Graphic Card PCI running Windows 98 SE. Those were the days, and man i remember how innocent and passive I was back then. I Remember I used to have lots of fun when I was younger.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Phil on September 10, 2005, 05:54:19 PM: commodore 64, if you want to count that.

First true PC was a toshiba 133. Don\'t really remember any other specs. Piece of shit though.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 10, 2005, 05:54:29 PM: 386 DX33, I think.. can\'t remember that far back.. Got a Commodore 64 and a 486DX66. Then went onto a pentium 60. Then after that, i\'ve had so many pcs i couldn\'t name them in order.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: mm on September 10, 2005, 07:08:29 PM: IBM 5150
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.homecomputermuseum.de%2Fcomp%2Fbilder%2F97.jpg&hash=9075c7bd474b160a9d8d44a94103cef6b0fc5106)

go go 4mhz cpu!
hard drive? who needs a hard drive?
and what\'s this "windows" thing?
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Blade on September 10, 2005, 08:54:27 PM: Apple IIe.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Luke on September 10, 2005, 09:30:30 PM: I had a Hewlet Packard. Thats all I remember.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: THX on September 10, 2005, 10:02:52 PM: mmmm our family made good use of our Brother typewriter before I caught up with the rest of my classmates with a decent Word Proceessor.

P-166 MMX
16mb ram
15" crt
2-6gb HD (forget)

It\'s still in those house and even works, but way too slow even for web browsing nowadays
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Samwise on September 10, 2005, 10:08:25 PM: 80486 33 MHz (no co-processor)
4 mb RAM
240 mb HD (I think)
14" CRT
Crappy printer
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Knotter8 on September 11, 2005, 04:03:30 AM: In 1985/86 I had

IBM 5160 ( XT )

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.homecomputermuseum.de%2Fcomp%2Fbilder%2F99.jpg&hash=dea9d0bee37c07259082e7ed5010bc26f9bd92b3)

cpu 8088 at 4.77mhz
ram 256 kb
ms dos 2.1

After that in 1988 or 89 the

Olivetti PC 1

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.old-computers.com%2Fmuseum%2Fphotos%2FOlivetti_PC1_System_1.jpg&hash=2cd6b78d7d374031ccff63eee77d3a86d505b135)

specs are here (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=182)
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 11, 2005, 08:13:25 AM: whoa, $640 for that thing? Would be funny if somebody mistaken that as today\'s price tag and try to bought one.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: videoholic on September 11, 2005, 09:33:06 AM: Comp #1:
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computercloset.org%2FTI994A-CosbyAd.jpg&hash=819fcd1a43209c92967cc8686c5f18c79a470992)

Comp #2:
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.clarkson.edu%2F%7Ejohndan%2Fdatacloud%2Fimages%2Fcommodore_64.jpg&hash=5d14fc60264de2963e7ef5ac74ddc08b2d8a5964)

Comp #3:
Acer 386sx 16mhz (Paid 400 bucks for a meg of ram)

Comp #4:
486 dx2 133 mhz (I think)

Comp #5:
Pentium 1

Copm #6:
Pentium 4 1.3 ghz (What I have now)
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 11, 2005, 11:47:39 AM: Quote
Originally posted by videoholic
Comp #1:
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computercloset.org%2FTI994A-CosbyAd.jpg&hash=819fcd1a43209c92967cc8686c5f18c79a470992)

Comp #2:
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.clarkson.edu%2F%7Ejohndan%2Fdatacloud%2Fimages%2Fcommodore_64.jpg&hash=5d14fc60264de2963e7ef5ac74ddc08b2d8a5964)

Comp #3:
Acer 386sx 16mhz (Paid 400 bucks for a meg of ram)

Your Comp 1 & 2 looks expensive for its time and whoa $400 for 1 MB of RAM for your computer #3? Is this in the late 80 early 90\'s computer or something?

Quote

Copm #6:
Pentium 4 1.3 ghz (What I have now) [/B]

Heh, and I was surprise to see some people are deciding to upgrade to a faster computer even thought the computers they are having right now is probably faster than what you have right now. Hardcore PC gamers I say.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: videoholic on September 11, 2005, 12:13:06 PM: I guess I bought the RAM in 1990.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Coredweller on September 11, 2005, 01:30:44 PM: #1: (~1981) Sinclair ZX81. Z80 CPU, 1K RAM, and I got the 16K RAM module. Stored BASIC programs on any audiocassette recorder.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.old-computers.com%2Fmuseum%2Fphotos%2Fsinclair_zx81_1s.jpg&hash=2f38e9b706a343ab212af606dc3038e05abb3764)

#2: (~1983) Atari 800XL. 6502C CPU, 64K RAM, and I also got an Indus GT "dual density" floppy drive. Did a lot of stuff with this box. I learned 6502 assembly language, and still have many manuals on that subject. Awesome game selection for this machine.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.old-computers.com%2Fmuseum%2Fphotos%2FAtari_800XL_System_s1.jpg&hash=b13f944e2deeca2e0d5d7c80f7b87dac07f51808)

#3: (~1985?) Texas Instruments TI-994A. See Vid\'s post above. Even when it was discontinued and with a reduced price, it was still a waste of money.

A bunch of other crap until I bought my first x86 based PC:

(~1993) Zeos 486/66 w/win 3.11. A piece of crap before the Pentium existed, but it ran DOS games like Civilization, Doom, and X-Com pretty well. I remember I used to think the 486 was so incredibly fast compared to the 386s we used at work…:laughing:
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: nO-One on September 11, 2005, 02:34:15 PM: (https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww7.plala.or.jp%2Fpapermoon%2Fimage2%2FSE30.01.jpg&hash=c5ce88c12a056c88deb0a33605fadb49af0d5dd0)

Se30, all kinds of bad assness.... I still have it
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Avatarr on September 11, 2005, 03:03:25 PM: 386DX 33MHz - you could press the turbo button and it would turn to 48! kewliowooio! 4 megs ram, could play Duke Nukem 2 like a breeze. 3.5 inch floppy plus one of those huge ass 5 inch ones with the flippy thing. WOO!
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: videoholic on September 11, 2005, 03:49:14 PM: Man, I remember the Timex Sinclair. Had a flat keyboard, right?
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Jar O Pickles on September 11, 2005, 05:30:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by mm
IBM 5150
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.homecomputermuseum.de%2Fcomp%2Fbilder%2F97.jpg&hash=9075c7bd474b160a9d8d44a94103cef6b0fc5106)

go go 4mhz cpu!
hard drive? who needs a hard drive?
and what\'s this "windows" thing?

sad part is that mm still uses that thing
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: mm on September 11, 2005, 05:37:49 PM: i do

used to kick blade\'s behind in Q3JB all the time on it
;)
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 11, 2005, 05:39:51 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Jar O Pickles
sad part is that mm still uses that thing

Good one. :rofl:
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: FatalXception on September 11, 2005, 09:49:45 PM: I don\'t remember my families first and second computer (more than vaguely)... too young. But I remember the one that came third. An Epson Equity II+ with DOS... I remember that that old Equity came with 2 megs of standard memory, and we had the max of 16 in it, which at the time was crazy. I could run any game... once I figured out how to load everything into himem. I also remember how much of a step up EGA was with that computer from the CGA and monochrome ones we had before... those Sierra games that were coming out (the quests), were incredible! You know.... somewhere in my parents basement there\'s a box full of old 5 1/4 disk games...

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recycledgoods.com%2FImages%2Fs_p_13477_1.jpg&hash=59969e8f3d711b5ee83d0302951132db45651459)

Great thing about having cut my teeth on those older computers is that you HAD to learn about hardware AND operating systems to make things work... which means now I\'ve got lots of understanding for fixing today\'s problems.
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Post by: Evi on September 11, 2005, 10:01:54 PM: Good gawd, I don\'t even remember my first computer. All I remember is having to do everything in the the dreadful green DOS text.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: GigaShadow on September 12, 2005, 08:22:49 AM: Atari 800!!!! Core - I had one of those! Cassette tape for storage and that stupid cartridge thing - can\'t remember what it was for... Basic or memory?
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: JBean on September 12, 2005, 07:09:34 PM: I remember... my first comp was a 486 DX2 50mhz monster with 4 MB of onboard Mem and a 4 gig HD. It played sim city pretty good.

A buddy of mine had the 66mhz DX2 and I was jealous.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: videoholic on September 12, 2005, 07:22:44 PM: Quote
Originally posted by GigaShadow
Atari 800!!!! Core - I had one of those! Cassette tape for storage and that stupid cartridge thing - can\'t remember what it was for... Basic or memory?

I had to use tape for my TI also. I also programmed my own games. Man, I\'d love to see that again. I got the C64 mainly because it had a disk drive. FInally not having to use tape.

Woohoo!!!
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Coredweller on September 13, 2005, 10:04:31 PM: Quote
Originally posted by GigaShadow
Atari 800!!!! Core - I had one of those! Cassette tape for storage and that stupid cartridge thing - can\'t remember what it was for... Basic or memory?
Yeah, the carts were mostly for games, but they also put some applications on them. I have the Atari BASIC cart, and the Atari Wordprocessor, and a couple of 6502 editor/assembler apps on cartridge.

I still have ALL this stuff. I never got rid of any of my Atari hardware. You can build a simple SIO2PC cable to connect your Atari computer to the serial port of a PC, and use the PC as an emulated hard drive. Pretty much all the software every written for the Atari computers is now available for free, so you can play any game you ever dreamed of playing... on the actual Atari hardware. Or just get an atari emulator and run it on the PC instead. It\'s all good. :)
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 13, 2005, 10:10:55 PM: wow...i wonder how old you guys are or did your dad/mom bought this for you when you are kid?
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 14, 2005, 12:20:13 AM: my parents got my my first pc.. i was like 7 or younger. So it\'s not like i could work for it. After then Pentium 60, My brother and I have paid of every rig we have upgraded from or built.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: videoholic on September 14, 2005, 03:11:58 AM: I was 10. My grandparents bought it for me. It had 16k of ram in the TI, but I got the 32k expansion pack. It rocked cause it gave me the ability to program sprites.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: GigaShadow on September 14, 2005, 05:00:20 AM: I was 15 when I got my Atari 800. Sadly, that computer is long gone. I have moved so much I honestly don\'t remember what happened to it, though I believe I sold it.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Jumpman on September 14, 2005, 05:56:02 AM: man computers use to suck
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: MPTheory on September 15, 2005, 12:40:34 PM: I remember my first computer... It was a home-build 386 with an amber and black, monochrome monitor.. My favorite programs to play with were corel Draw V3.1 and Sim City.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: CHIZZY on September 15, 2005, 12:57:29 PM: Commodore 64 here...also had a TI994a at the same time. I used to write games like "zork" in basic for the commodore, and Rambo rocked, as well as summer games and lode runner\'s rescue.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 15, 2005, 02:52:13 PM: some of you knows how to write/program/code games back then on computer at such young age? whoa...
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Coredweller on September 15, 2005, 03:37:43 PM: Coding on 8 bit computers was simpler in some ways than it is today. This was BEFORE Microsoft, and that in itself helped a great deal.

I was a freshman in high school in 1981 when I got the first computer. My dad paid for that, but it was only $150 if I remember correctly. I paid for all the Atari hardware and everything after that.

I was like Matthew Broderick in "WarGames" except with a slower modem. :)
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 15, 2005, 08:43:10 PM: heh, so you are in your late 30s now eh? Cool nonetheless.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: CHIZZY on September 20, 2005, 07:53:14 AM: 10 GET $
20 IF $ = *, THEN GOTO 30
30 PRINT "PAUL2 IS A FAG"
40 PLAY "03,255,98,98"
50 GOTO 30

;)
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Paul2 on September 20, 2005, 11:00:26 AM: Quote
Originally posted by CHIZZY
10 GET $
20 IF $ = *, THEN GOTO 30
30 PRINT "PAUL2 IS A FAG"
40 PLAY "03,255,98,98"
50 GOTO 30

;)

Really. You got money at age 10, and when you turned 20, you immediately age 10 years more? Then you print my name on it. At age 40, you play what seem like some sort of color. And when you turn 50, you print my name again.

I see. I guess I must have been special to see you.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: CHIZZY on September 26, 2005, 07:21:05 AM: nah, I think that\'s sort of how you program in BASIC... that might have printed "paul2 is a fag" over and over again, while playing a sound.

Probably not, though. It\'s been 20 years...
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Samwise on September 26, 2005, 07:42:27 AM: 100 PRINT "PAUL2 IS A FAG!"
200 GOTO 100

That should do the job just fine. :p

Man \'coding\' on that C64 was fun times indeed.
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Eiksirf on September 26, 2005, 07:48:33 AM: Mine was something like this:

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Description: 8 MHz, 286 CPU, 640K RAM
CGA Monitor, 720Kb 3.5" Floppy Drives
104 Key Keyboard, Five Expansion Slots

On mine the floppy disk drive part was attached to the back of the keyboard... Harddrives are for losers, heh.

-Dan
Title: Do you remember your first computer?
Post by: Titan on September 26, 2005, 10:12:01 AM: Mine was an IBM Aptiva that my family got soon after Win 95 came out. I still use it from time to time. I used it a lot in high school but could only use the word processor and AIM (4.1 I think is the only one that worked) when I had dial up. I could never upgrade Netscape, so the only one I could still use was Netscape Navigator 3.0.