Post Your First Computer!

[oboeguy]

Apple ][e with one floppy disk drive and green monochrome monitor, got it in '83 or '84. Had the "80 column text card" expansion card and didn't realize until years later it meant the computer had 128KB of RAM. Too bad, b/c I passed-up on some good games that required 128KB. Doh!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

This topic is one of those, that rotates back into the line-up over and over. I think a far more interesting thread would be "Post from your first computer" How many could pull that one off?

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
This topic is one of those, that rotates back into the line-up over and over. I think a far more interesting thread would be "Post from your first computer" How many could pull that one off?

Sure what browser runs in CP/M?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
This topic is one of those, that rotates back into the line-up over and over. I think a far more interesting thread would be "Post from your first computer" How many could pull that one off?

Hmmm, that is a good question. The Kaypro had a built in modem and I was able to access BBS so that part would work. The trick would be finding a dial-in server that still supports kermit and also still maintains a text based browser. I was able to surf on a PC XT via a mainframe based browser until 1998 when the university I worked for finally pulled the plug on it's kermit service. I don't know if the web server (Charlotte) accepted cookies.

If I still had the Kaypro I would certainly give it a try.

 

[dwell]

286 @ 8Mhz 640K RAM
CGA 16 colors @ 320x200
360KB 5 1/4" Floppy
720KB 3 1/2" Floppy
No HDD
No Mouse

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Hmm, the first computer I could definitely call mine:

HP Pavilion 7360 from I think 1996

Pentium MMX 200 MHz
32 MB EDO RAM
2 MB of video DRAM, OMG! I think it had an S3 ViRGE in it
3.8 GB HDD
16x CD-ROM
Floppy drive, w00t
33.6 kbps fax modem, also came with a video conferencing pack-in, yes, in the mid 90s
USB!

 

[TheSlamma]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Commodore 64, cassette tape drive

 

[oslama]

IBM Aptiva A40
(250-0451) Specifications Faxback Doc. # 19184

IBM Part No.:......................................................2168-A40
CPU:............................................................Pentium 133 upgraded to 166 w/MMX
Upgrade:..............................................................P54CT
Video Chipset:.............................................Trident 9680 XGI
Video DRAM (Installed/Max):.........................................1MB/2MB
Open Sockets:.............................................................2
Max. Res. (Colors):........................................1280 x 1024 (16)
Max Colors:..........................................................16.7 M
System RAM:.....................................16 MB upgradeable to 128 MB (upgraded to 32)
Open SIMM Sockets:........................................................2
Cache (Int/Ext/Max):.........................................16KB/0KB/512KB
Slots (Total/PCI):...............................................6/1 or 5/2
Bays (Total/Open):..........................................6/3 (Internal)
Ports:..............................................VGA, Parallel, 2 Serial
..Joystick, PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse
Communications:...................................................D/F/V/SP*
28.8 Data (newer 33.6k)
14.4 Fax Send
14.4 Fax Receive
Multimedia:
CD-ROM:........................................................Six Speed
Audio Card:........................................................Mwave
Speakers:........................................................30 Watt
Microphone:........................................................Telex
Voice Recognition:........................................VTC Navigation
MPEG:............................................................SW MPEG
Hard Disk:...........................................................2.0 GB (mine came w/ 3.2gb)
Diskette Drive:.....................................................1.44 MB
Power Supply:......................................................145 Slim
Mechanical Package:...............................................Minitower
Shipping Dimensions (LWH):...............................23.5 x 19.7 x 17.4
Shipping Weight:.......................................................56lb


(BKL-02/16/96)


I paid $1638 for the bundle w/ samsung 15" and lexmark 3200 printer.
3 yrs later sold the monitor and PC for $500 . I still have the printer but have not used it for a while cuz of cost of ink.

 

[CryHavoc]

you can tell the age of a person by the first computer they owned. LOL

my first computer that I owned was a Tandy / Radio Shack Color computer (COCO) with a cassette drive. Hooked to a tv via the RF box. circa 1985

About the same time, I had a Commodore 64 with one of those slow arse floppy drives, and I had the Commodore 64 portable with a color screen.

I also STILL have my Amiga 1000, Amiga 500 and an Atari 1024ST and a 512ST.

of course I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 and an Apple II in school.

I was fortunate to have a very good computer teacher by the name of Leo Christopherson. He is the author of many Tandy compatible games such as Dancing Demon, Voyage of the Valkryie, and a couple others which escape me at the moment.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Wow.. I think my first computer was my trusty Commodore 64. I never had a tape drive but I eventually got a 1541C Disk Drive. It was larger than the computer! I had an assortment of cartridge games including Math Mileage, Logic Levels, and there was a car racing game that was played with the paddle controller, I forget its name but when you touched another car, your car just turned into a ball of fuzzy static and slowed off the road. For disk games, I had Super Cycle, the Great American Cross Country Road Race, Realm of Impossibility, F-15 Strike Eagle and some others. Wow. Good times.

 

[imported_Beavis]

First System

Atari 5200
1983
* CPU: Custom 6502C @ 1.79 MHz (not a 65c02).
* Support Hardware: 2 custom VLSI chips
* Maximum Screen Resolution: 320×192 resolution, 16 (out of 256) on-screen colors per scan line. Palette can be changed at every scan line using ANTIC display list interrupts, allowing all 256 colors to be displayed at once.
* Graphics: ANTIC and GTIA
* Sound: 4-channel sound via the POKEY chip which also handles keyboard scanning, serial I/O, high resolution interrupt capable timers (single cycle accurate), and random number generation
* RAM: 16 KiB
* ROM: 32 KiB ROM window for standard game cartridges, expandable using bank switching techniques. 2 KiB on-board BIOS for system startup and interrupt routing
Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_5200#Technical_specifications

Loads of fun playing games on that

Second System

Puke Bell 1990
386 33Mhz
250MB of HDD space
Windows 3.11
5.25 floppy
Rest i dont remember

Third System 1995
IBm 486 60Mhz
Windows 3.11 then Windows 95
500MB of HDD Space
8Mb of video Ram
28.8K Modem
3.5 Floppy
and a Slow as Piss CD-Rom Drive
forgot how much memory it had

Played Doom Flawlessly

Forth system
Compaq Pentium 2 333MHz 1997
8Gb of HDD Space
8x CD-Rom
CD-RW Drive installed in a expansion bay
96mb of memory
Soundblaster Sound Card
8mb video card
28.8K Modem upgraded to 10/100 Nic
AOL then Verizon DSL around 1998
Windows 95, then Windows 98se
3.5" floppy drive
17" CRT
Played Quake over the intraweb, Descent II via IPX over broadband, Doom, Doom 2,

Fifth system 2001(Still in use)
Compaq AMD 1800+
100 GB HDD Space now 120GB HDD Space
64mB Geforce 2 video card
1GB of ram
10/100 nic connected to a Netgear RP614 Router
Soundblaster soundcard,
Replaced a Dead DVD rom drive with a 52x CD-Rom Drive
replaced a CD-rom drive with a DVD-Burner,
windows xp
Usb ports on the front
1394 Ports on the front
17" CRT Monitor
Verizon DSl to Adelphia HSI(Comcast)

Sixth System

Pentium D EM64T 3.0Ghz 2005
2Gb of ram
400GB HDD Space
3.5" floppy/card reader
Windows XP Pro
10/100/1000 Nic connected to RP614 Router
Soundblaster Audity 2 ZS
Nvidia 6800 ultra 256 MB video Card
19" LCD (soon to be Westinghouse 37" LVM-37w3 in a few months)
Front USB Ports
Front Firewire Port
16x DVD Rom
16x DL-DVD Burner
Comcast HSI

 

[oldman420]

8086 16 mrg ram no hdd 2 big assed floppy drives monochrome monitor

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Commodore 64 with the 5.25" Floppy Drive and an old 19" B&W tv - 1983

 

[SoulAssassin]

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

Same here. 3Mhz...256 bytes of memory. That's bytes. Not kilo or mega. Just 256 bytes.

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: CryHavoc
you can tell the age of a person by the first computer they owned. LOL

The 233mhz P2 was the first one I owned, not the first in the family. First one I can remember is a Kaypro II and then a Commodore rig that was before the C64, it took cartidges in the back and we played games on that. First true computer was a 486 with a 33mhz proccessor, later upgraded to 66mhz with 24mb of ram to run Win95. After that came my own 233mhz P2 that I picked the parts out and had someone else build it since ATX was a new standard at the time.

 

[50cent1228]

all i know it was purchased in 1995 and it was a pakard bell
windows 95

 

[91TTZ]

Commodore 64.

First IBM compatible was an Epson 8088 with 10 mhz turbo button, CGA graphics, and 20 MB hard drive.

 

[hube235]

Macintosh Performa 476(?)
25 mhz Motorola
4 MB RAM
256 MB HDD (I believe they used SCSI those days too)
OS: Finder
Purchased: 1994

This machine wuz a trip: ya never know wut's gonna happen next time u switch it on!

 

[Noema]

I love these threads

First one: Commodore 64 ca. 1985 with a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive. I didn't have a monitor so I'd plug it into the TV. I also used to write very, very simple BASIC scripts with it. (Stuff like: "What'd you rather eat: A)Apples B) Chocolates", if B), it'd go 'Ah, you've got a sweet tooth' )

First PC: It was an Acer my dad bought for me in 1992. Specs:

386@33MHz
2MB RAM
40MB HDD
12" VGA Monitor

I used to play Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on it, as well as Day of the Tentacle and Dune II. I remember pimping it up with 4 more megs of RAM and a 500MB HDD, as well as a Sound Blaster 16 in order to play Simcity 2000 and X-Com on it.). I later upgraded to a 486DX2@66MHz with 8MB of RAM to play Doom and Doom 2, as well as Descent, Heretic and Mechwarrior 2 after I got my first CD-ROM drive.

The good ole days.

 

[Fardringle]

TI-99. I don't remember exactly when we got it, but some time in 1983. It took forever to do, but it was actually possible to program and save your own games in BASIC on the thing using an external tape drive. It still works as well as it did when new, and sits on a shelf with my first "real" PC, an IBM 8086.

 

[Kaervak]

The first one that was bought for me was in 9/96.

Compaq Presario 4112
120mhz Pentium
16MB Ram
1.6gb HDD
4x CD-ROM
33.6 modem
Integrated audio/video (played quake II though)

First one I bought myself was a Abit BE-6 p3 650mhz based system. Those were the days, still new and exciting. Computers are still great fun, but not as much as they used to be.

 

[moogen]

apple II
back in 1982, was the family's. apple adventure baby!

you are in a room.
there is a cute little bird here.
there is a cage here.
there is a lantern here.
there is huge, poisonous snake here, dripping poison and coiled to strike you in the ear.

>kill snake

you swing clumsily at the giant cobra, trip on the cage, slip on the lantern, and fall eye-first onto the little bird's cute, tiny little beak.

you are dead.

ahhhhh, those were the days

 

[Random Variable]

I had a C64 with a tape cassette drive.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: 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!

My first PC, too. I got a TRS-80 CoCo2 in 1986 with floppy, cassette, printer, modem, and a new TV. My third computer was finally a PC clone - 486 DX33. Man it sucked.

 

[ntdz]

I had a Mac when I was really little, but it was a piece of sh!t. My first "real" computer was a 486 66mhz with a 500mb hd. I don't remember any of the other specs.