Post Your First Computer!

[dethman]

8086 at 8mhz, i don't remember how much ram or hd space there was, or if there was any at all.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Bard's Tale for sure man

I honestly can't remember too many C64 games. I played Hardball a lot, Pool of Radiance, Archon, quite a few more. I know I played all of the LucasArts games (Maniac Mansion, Zak Mc, Monkey Island(s), etc.) but I'm not sure which were on my c64 and which were on my Amiga 500.

Oh yah, Ghosts & goblins!

OMG ARCHON!!! Jeebus did I obsess on that game. Played the Pool as well, and some Hardball. Wow. Archon. SWEET!!! How about Ghostbusters. Impossible Mission. California (or winter or summer) Games. Defender of the Crown. Raid over Moscow. Spy v Spy. International Karate. Samantha Fox Strip Poker. hehehehehehe

 

[XxPrOdiGyxX]

Compaq Presario 800 series...I think it was 810
486 DX2 - 50
4mb RAM
210mb Hard drive
Integrated 2mb Cirrus Logic VESA Video
No CD-Rom Drive
No Sound Card
Windows 3.1
DOS 6.0

 

[bondboy]

486SX 25Mhz
4mb ram
210mb HD
2400 baud modem
windows 3.1/dos 6.0
$2k in 1994

 

[Soundmanred]

Yup, I still have the Star Raiders cartridge and I have the book to it as well. (They used to make them with holes punched so you could put them in a binder or a folder.) It was such a Star Wars ripoff and I loved it! I also have Donkey Kong, Centipede, Miner 2049er (with the blue and silver cartridge) and Frogger and Zork II and III on 5-1/4" floppy. I have tons more, but my memory is hazy. FYI - I'll be selling all of my classic stuff soon, so keep an eye out for it!
Anyone remember Return To Fractalus? You had to use your radar, land, pick up a guy and take off without getting attacked by the aliens. Weird game, but fun. The noise it made when the aliens started running for your ship scared the poop out of me EVERY TIME.

 

[ebaycj]

First Computer: Apple IIGS

First x86 computer:
Pentium 75MHz (OC'd to 120MHz)
8MB EDO 60ns
850MB Hard drive, 3600RPM, PIO Mode 4
2x CDROM
Cirrus Logic 5434 (1MB EDO VRAM, upgraded to 2MB)
14.4K Modem
Sound Blaster Pro (compatible) sound card

 

[gerwen]

1983 or 1984
Atari 600XL
64Kb Ram
Colour TV

Anybody remember the 'Happy' chip for the 810 and 1050 Drives? My first internal computer mod.

Loved Archon, basilisk ftw!

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: drnickriviera
Ti-99
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99

Me too! I was in 2nd or 3rd grade... so around '82-83.

 

[Kelemvor]

First computer of my own:
1992
Packard Bell
486/SX 25
2megs of Ram
Don't recall how many megs the hard drive was

First family computer was an
Apple IIGS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIgs
Don't recall the year or anything though.

 

[lobbyone]

386? (33MHz)
100MB HD
3.5" floppy
5.25" floppy

don't remember how much ram this system had, maybe 128-512KB?

 

[PrinceofWands]

Oh hey, are we counting the Magnavox Odyssey II? I'd consider it more of a console than a computer, but *shrug*

 

[markgm]

1979 Sony SMC-70

2 1.44" floppy drives
Dot matrix printer
Color Trinitron monitor
CP/M OS
Z80A , 4.028 MHz
64 KB RAM

It got fried in an electrical storm around 1993. I think the insurance company gave us around $3000 for it since it was impossible to get any replacement parts. After that it was some Compaq system that kept getting replaced from Service Merchendise because of different problems. Then in 1996 we went to a computer show and got the computer that started my tinkering with PCs. It was:

Pentium 166 (ooh, with MMX)
16 MB RAM
1.6 GB hard drive (I have it sitting around somewhere)
28.8 modem (I wonder how many hours I spent on the local BBS before they got "the Internet"
17" monitor
Soundblaster soundcard
6x CD ROM drive

The first computer for my use was a laptop from HyperData in 1998 (I think they're still in business, they shouldn't be!) I'm not positive of the stats.
It started out as an AMD 300 which wasn't compatible with the system, so they swapped it out and put in a
Pentium II 266
128 MB RAM
8 GB hard drive
12x CD ROM drive
Cardbus 10/100 Ethernet card
Internal 56k Modem

 

[manowar821]

Macintosh Performa 460
68030 CPU - Had NO FPU LOL
33 MHz
8 meg ram
80 meg HD
I ran the OS off of the drive, and then everything else off of zip disks, because they had 20 meg more storage than the actual HD... HAHA

 

[Zolty]

P1 166 w/ MMX
16MB EDO Ram
1GB HD

15in NEC Monitor

1995ish

 

[funboy6942]

1984ish, couldnt afford a C64 so I mowed enough lawns to get a Vic 20, tape drive of course. Then a Tandy 80, and not till 1999 did I get another computer and it was a 400mhz Socket 7 E-Machine, thanks to the MSN $500 rebate thing they had going on. It has gone nuts since then, building my own rigs and learning as much as I could about them.

 

[j00fek]

ADAM Computer 1983

 

[MrPickins]

Tandy TRS-80 III

I forget the purchase date, but I inherited it in '85 or so.

 

[adairusmc]

Commodore 64 that my grandfather gave me, around 1992 or something.

The first real computer I bought myself was a Crappard Bell, Pentium 133 with 16mb of RAM.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Commodore Vic 20. I got a Timex Sinclair after that, but it wasn't working by the time I got my hands on it. I had a ton of Commodore 64s and my father was a certified repair man for Commodore Business Machines....so I had a lot of fun gadgets to play with.

 

[Scarpozzi]

My first PC was an IBM PS2 model 60z. 286 with 1mb of RAM and a 20MB hard drive.

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: mrzed

Originally posted by: waggy
my first computer was a timex sinclair 1000

Introduced: July 1982
Price: US $99.95
How many? 500,000 in first 6 months
Weight: 12 ounces
CPU: Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz
RAM: 2K, 64K max
Display: 22 X 32 text
hooks to TV
Ports: memory, cassette
Peripherals: Cassette recorder
T/S printer
OS: ROM BASIC

Quoted for Laziness.

Never did get the cassette to read properly. Perhaps it was the cheapass tandy cassette recorder I was using. I got bored with it when I was unable to save programs. Damn. If it hadn't been for that stupid cassette, I'd be an IT multimillionaire by now.

I remember using one of these. It took forever to loand data from cassette though.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
My first PC was an IBM PS2 model 60z. 286 with 1mb of RAM and a 20MB hard drive.

Mine wasn't that primitive. Mine was a used proprietary-designed local bus mainboard (not VESA) with built-in video, 486DX33 (33 mHz) Intel-CPU'd box put together by an engineer. It had 4 MB RAM and a 220 MB HD and I bought a used 12 inch B&W monitor for it. I bought four 1 MB RAM chips for it at a computer show for $100 each for a grand total of 8 MB. Later I bought four 4 MB chips for it for a similar cost. Using 8 RAM slots it totalled 20 MB. I picked up a Cyrix 486DX66 CPU for it. Bought a 2x Plextor CD drive + MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum soundcard combo for around $400 at a computer show. Things have changed. I still have that 486DX33 CPU! It was the end of July 1993 that I bought that first box. It was preloaded with Windows 3.1 and a few applications including Wordperfect 5.1, QEMM 386 and PC Tools 6.0. I bought Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for it.

Originally posted by: HendrixFan
486 (SX/DX?) 50Mhz
4MB RAM (upgraded later to 8MB!!)
530MB HD
Windows 3.1

I think that CPU was an SX (no math coprocessor).

 

[O2Deprived]

Commodore 64, got it some time in the mid 80's. I still have it in the basement in a box. I should set it up and give it a go one of these days.

 

[sobriquet]

Packard Bell, purchased in 1995
75 MHz Pentium
8 MB RAM
2x CD-ROM
540 MB HD
512 KB Video RAM

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Centris 650

25mhz 68040
4 (8?) mb ram
250 mb hd