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So...which was the first computer you ever had...
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?c=352&st=1
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
mine...the one I have now...1999 ACER, with a HP 17" Monitor, running Windows 2000 Pro...got it about 11 months ago...very late starter :D
Commodore 64 baby!!
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=121
BBC Acorn Electron (1984)
Sinclair 128+2A (1989)
Commodore Amiga 500+ (1993)
Simply Pentium 200MHz, 32Mb, 2Gb, 2Mb gfx with a 4Mb Voodoo 1, 15" monitor (Dad still has that)(1996)
Dell Dimension 4100, P3 733MHz, 256Mb, 20Gb, TNT2, 17" Monitor (I've still got that)(1999)
DIY Athlon XP 3000+, 512Mb, 80Gb, 256Mb NVidea gfx (2002)
+Sega Megadrive with CD thingy, Playstation 1, Xbox and now a Sega mastersystem.
TRS 80 (Trash 80) Model I
followed by an Apple IIe and a PCjr.
Then an A1000... and then I dropped off of the scene for a bit with that box. I picked back up in the 486 days but I was building my own stuff at that point.
486 running DOS 4 was my first... It was actually my dads, and he owned it when I was born, but it counts as my first comp!
aah, makes me remember days when one who has even access to computer (school lab) was considered as super intelligent and ffavoured by teacher. And those "big" floppies, heavily guarded computer rooms, and lots of things. and it was just 15 years back.
that makes me think about future too, what we will have 15 years from now? james bond gadgets....:-), we never know.
This is my oldest one:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/....asp?st=1&c=29
It is the BBC Model B. I have the 32kb expansion card for it and the original colour monitor.
I also have one of these:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=286
IBM PCXT 640kb RAM, 10Mb HDD and a greenscreen.
:)
zx spectrum then tandy trs 80 (still have them and both still work)
Followed by commodore, vic20, then the IBM clone's i.e. 286,386,486 66mhz,486 dx 100 , pent11, pent 111, AMD xp2000 and now 2 x AMD Athlon 64 3700 ,1gig ram, 120gig h/d, 256mb nvidea 6800 ultra.
Regards
Mike
This was my first (I think)
It was a home computer and my dad got it for me around 1980. It was a Tandy / TI...something like that. I remember my dad teaching me BASIC. I made like a dinky calculator and remember thinking how cool it was to be able to make a computer do things. It also came with three games....I can only remember the car game. There would be a square on the screen...and from a top down view you would race (using the arrow keys) your little white car around the track. It was a black and white monitor. Ahhhh....memories. :rolleyes:
Edit:
Then in college I got a 386 with windows 3.11 for workgroups...yeah!!! I even installed an internal modem....all by myself!!!! Yay!!!!! Dork! :rolleyes:
That was in 1995...I think.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/....asp?st=1&c=71
Apple 2 GS came with 128k RAM which was upgraded to 512k (had to play those Sierra games - Kings Quest - Quest for Glory, etc) and then up to a HUGE 4MB of Ram.
Only until it got the 20mb external SCSI hard drive was it ever l337. Oh the fun we had. ;)
The first one I had was the VIC 20
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=252
It took about a 1/2hour to load a game off of the tape drive.
Sinclair Spectrum with rubber keys(non querty)Quote:
Hi jm459,
Here ya go...
http://home.hetnet.nl/~peter.verhaar..._spectrum.html
Sinclair Spectrum
Eg :D
How were the keys laid out if they were not in the qwerty format?Quote:
Yes, That's it. Then I progressed to the Sinclair Spectrum with the real keyboard :DQuote:
Originally posted here by Egaladeist
Hi jm459,
Here ya go...
http://home.hetnet.nl/~peter.verhaar..._spectrum.html
Sinclair Spectrum
Eg :D
Then they actually came out with one with an in-built tape player "yee-ha"
Mine was the same as mathgirl32, bought it 1980 for $100. Using a cassette recorder to store your programs was a real treat. :p
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=236
Apologies, sorry for mis-information, this is what I was trying to explainQuote:
Originally posted here by CXGJarrod
How were the keys laid out if they were not in the qwerty format?
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?c=223&st=1
C64 as well and then one of those everpopular Tandy T1000SL's with 1mb storage card that cost me $350 for the card alone.
Then a Packard Smell P60 with W3.11.
Now about every two years, I'll go out and buy the fastest MoBoard, CPU, etc., I can get (and of course a couple of months later, it's outdated already:( )
~cheers~
These days, it's usually outdated before you get it home and set up :DQuote:
Originally posted here by Relyt
Now about every two years, I'll go out and buy the fastest MoBoard, CPU, etc., I can get (and of course a couple of months later, it's outdated already:( )
Commodor 64 -- got it for Christmas. Later acquired a 300 baud modem, the only thing that types slower than me !!
I wish that was more funny than true :pQuote:
These days, it's usually outdated before you get it home and set up
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Yep me ,nihil,titanmike falls in the same category ..Old xt,s 32kb add on memory card with monochrome screens..then 286.386,486 with the later 32pin sims, 1meg , best learning i ever experienced
Well here is the 2nd pc I owned (certainly not the first I used..that goes back before the Apple II..
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...asp?st=1&c=287
The First I owned?... it was the kit built version...with the massive 16k ram.. the 32k was upgraded to 128k with twin 600k FDD..3.5".. .. I wanted the 2Mb HDD.. but it was just plain out of my budget $1500 at that time..
these were ROM based OS.. and you were anble to get many Apps in ROM..or you could flash your own.. very quick loading times.. got the "faster" fdd version.. and still prefered the rom version for the boot times.. so I doctored the FDD machine to a hybrid ROM/FDD.. worked a treat..
ahh the good old days..