Recently i found pictures of my first computer. Just wondering what all those here at AntiOnline started out on...
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Recently i found pictures of my first computer. Just wondering what all those here at AntiOnline started out on...
:)
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Here was mine:
http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclu...s/osborne.html
The "Osborne Portable"
I think I started with either a Win95 or some form of Mac. And if you mean what kind of computer than I started with a Gateway or HP. Not sure though...
I started with the good ol' Vic20! :D
Then it was a Commodore64
Then a clone 286x16, to a clone 386x33, to a clone 486x100
To now a Compaq Presario 5403 (now heavily modified)
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My First (and only) laptop is a Toshiba Satelite Pro 230cds 100mhz! :)
This may seem odd to some, but my first computer was the Mits Altair. My dad got it in 1976 then he gave it to me in 1986. hehehe I was only 5 years old. A young master mind programmer.... I wish I still had my Alltair... :(
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I had an Apple IIc....Then a Commodore64...Then 2 laptops with Windows 1.1 for pen applications....then a Compaq...Those are the ones I owned not just worked with I worked with 1000's of computers
Well, my first exposure to computers was way back when I was around 6-7 years old but I can't remember what kind they were. My first real box, one that was really mine to work with as I choose, was an old Packard Bell 486SX-25 running Windows 3.1. That's where my interests were really sparked and here I am now. I've learned a few things since those days...
I started out with an Apple Macintosh. It had 640k of memory and didn't have a hard drive. But I could still play asteroids.
I then graduated to an 80286 PC with 1MB of RAM with a 20MB HD. It ran 16MHz in "turbo" mode :). But it was enough to learn how to program on.
Mine was a Gateway386/sx with Win3.1
the first time i put my hands on a computer, it was about 6 years ago. it was at my father's office. i dont remember the os but i think it was msdos or win 3x. it had two games. pacman and space invaders. i dont know the make. at that time i didnt know **** about computers. i didnt even care when i saw one. i use to think that people become lazy because the computers do all the work; not knowing that household robots weren't invented yet.
My first serious compputer waz a HP 233mhz Pentium. 32 ram win 95. Slow , but good enuf to learn HTML and program on!
I don't remember what my first computer was, but my second was an Acer 486...
It was a long time before I got this computer, and it wasn't exactly what I wanted, but it was affordable....Compaq 5000.
You can see the dinosaur I started on HERE. It didn't have that cool hard drive add-on though. I had to save my 8-bit programs on a cassette tape recorder. wow was that fun. I wish I still had it. It hooked up to a TV. heh
My first comp was a 486sx 33 with 4megs of ram running windows 3.1.
The first computer that was truly 'mine' was one my grandfather gave me......
It was an original IBM PC-AT......lovely '286. He had installed the 512k memory expansion on it.....and he had gone all out, and got the CGA for it, too! 4-color graphics! It was a beautiful machine for me.....it's what I learned to program on. Ah, the good old days of DOS......
My first computer was a XT 8088, a gift from my dad. then, a 286, a 386, 486 overdrive, Pentium 200mmx, then a Pentium 3 486, now a heavily armored computers, An Athlon XP 1.4 and a Pentium 4 1.6
I don't even remember my first computer it has been so long. About 22 years ago actually. I know I have gone through a lot of machines since then. TRS-80, AT&T 6300, TI 99/4A, etc. My family used to get a new computer every 1 to 2 years....Now it like every 6 months or so. I somehow still remember the first time we owned an actual hard drive. It was an external box about 14"x16"x2". It had a 5 Meg drive and a 5 Meg optical floppy drive. We had to drive to Tennasee to get the machine (lived in Michigan), and it cost over $5000. But then we figured we would never need more then 5,000,000 Bytes. Thats just an enormous amount of space...
Commodore 64. . .load "menu", 8 <return>. . .yeah Baby, yeah!!!!
A super duper Vic20 with a huge 4k of ram! You were the coolest when it was upgraded with the 16k cartridge! hehehe Good old times, I used to buy book and make my own tic-tac-toe or text based adventure games lol
10 Print "Commodore Rocks"
20 goto 10
My comp bio :
Vic20
C64
C128
Amiga 500
386
485
Pentium 60
Pentium MMX
P2
P3
P4
Memory Bio :
4k to 320 Megs :D
Data Storage :
Audio tapes to two 40 gigs hd + cd burner
I am aiming at having a motherboard implanted in my body within the next 50 years ;)
Remember the game Neuromancer?
Packard Bell 486 running Windows 3.1 16 megs of ram.
I remember starting out with a Commodore Vic20, complete with a tape drive!! Later I got two paper routes going so I could buy the NEW Commodore 64. It had 64K of memory and an optional 1541 Disk drive, which I also had to have....<woohoo>....5.25 in floppies.
Makes me laugh now but atleast I remember my roots. My intro to Basic programming.
Anyhow, as dated as it sounds, they really were good machines to begin on.
Good ol' Commodore Vic20 with the "external tape drive" (LOL) and then on to the Commodore 64.
Man, I'm glad those days are over! It was fun, but, uh, no thanks!
I would give my left little toe for an Altair! Anyone wanna deal?Quote:
Mine was an old 8086 @ 12 MHz. 640KB of RAM, 20 MB hard drive, running on DOS 3.2. It was made by AT&T.
My first computer was a Leading Edge 8086, 512k of RAM, Monochrome monitor, 40mb HD, in about 1992 we got a 486DX2 - 66 , 8mb of RAM, Windows 3.1, 800mb Harddrive. After that I got a AMD K6-133, I had a Cyrix 200, then I got rid of all my computers and concentrated on my stereo for a while. Then I built a Celeron 400, which burnt out, it became a underclocked PIII 450, which was replaced with an AMD XP 1700+. I also recently rescued an Emachine 900 mhz Celeron for a linux box, and bought a 900mhz AMD laptop. Upstairs I believe there is a 1000ghz Desktop AMD, and there is a GW2k 500mhz PIII upstairs I received for free...... Lots of PC's at my house I guess....
My first computer was based on an Intel SBC 80/30 running an 8085 at 6.144mHz with 4k rom and 16k ram on board. It had an additional 32k of RAM on an option board along with a ROM based editor/assembler. The console was a Teletype ASR 33 with a paper tape reader/punch. It was fun. Come home for lunch and turn on the system. Start a paper tape load, eat lunch (15 mins), edit program, start paper tape punch to save work, wait 15 mins, turn off machine and go back to work. And you guys thought cassettes were slow.
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/appleiic.html there's mine. I had a pile of options for it too. I wish I still had it
first the C64, just the tapes, my dad didn't want to buy the tapedrive.
then a 286 16Mhz with a monochrome monitor, i had 320x240 256 shades or 640x480 16 shades
then we had a 166 Mhz Pentium
followed by a 300Mhz PII
and an AMD 1Ghz we use @ home right now,
the best I got to work on now is an AMD 1800+XP with a Gforce3 and 1GB of memory
Tandy with a tape drive...........
it was a.....486dx 33mhz with 32megs of ram runnig 95...i think i still have it somewhere in teh basement.
Commadore 64 for me, with the 5.25 inch drive...
Then various Macs (a plus with no internal and and external 10 meg hard drive, then an SE/30, then a Performa 410, then a PowerPC 6500 [I think] then a blue iBook with a 3 gig hard drive, and now this 550 mhz PowerBook with 256 ram, and a 20 gig hd and an external fire wire 40 gig hd and a CDRW/DVD dual drive!)
I also had the Vic20 and tape drive... love the old scott adams text adventures... you can get those emulated on the net if you look hard enough... ;)
took me a long time to find, but I found the old Vic20 emulator and all the games WOOHOO
and you actually have to type "load ""progname"" and it says press play on tape lol
Good topic,
Mine was a Packard Bell, Legend 300sx
It was acctually a 386 sx
I had a whopping 8 megs of ram
a 14.4 modem(not original equipment)
VGA graphics
and 90 megs of hardrive space....that windows 3.1 raped most of. Eventually I deleted Windows and simply ran dos. It was really all i needed to run Telix and do the whole BBS scene. It was sad when i watched my favorite BBs's fall to the Internet. OH well i fell in love with it soon after.
Mine was a ZX Spectrim with tape drive and it used the TV for a monitor
Then a Tandy trs 80
Both still work
Mine was:
Quantex PII 300Mhz, 64MB Ram, 8MB Video Card, 56Kbps Modem, 17inch Monitor. Worked like a horse, went through so much. Incredible that it lasted 3years.
My Current Set Up:
Oc'd AMD XP 1600+ (currently runs at 1800+)
256DDR
SCSI 9.1GB HD (OS, Primary apps)
EIDE 60GB (secondary apps, music, etc etc)
MP3+ Soundcard
GeForce 256 Vid Card/TV Out of course
Custom cooling.
Full Tower
12/10/40 Plextor
SCSI 40X Cd-Rom
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I wont Mention my other 2 1/2 babies.
But I choose my friends and girls before PC's
I am still an addict though ;)
[gloworange]PiMp On My FrIenDs[/gloworange]
I don't remember the brand name- but i'm sure it was a 286...
My first computer was an Atari 400xl. This little baby packed in 16k of ram and had a audio tape drive to load software. I remember staying up all night typing in Basic code to the editor so I could play a game, only to find out I needed 32k =(
i started out using my dad's wok computers when i was 5 or 6, i think they were in the 286 region, the first computer that was mine was a pentium 90, after a year or so the mother board blew so it was put in the garage, i think it's still there...
mine was a Amstrad 16mhz 286 with 1mb RAM and 40MB hard disk, it ran Dos 3.0 which meant having to partition th HDD into 32mb and 8mb because it couldn't adress more than 32 MB of disk space I think.
I still have the 8" floppies from my first computer.