What are the specs of your first computer?

[FelixDeCat]

Vic 20 :-(

Programming in 1982 sucked.

 

[manly]

Wang PC (non IBM compatible). I think it was a 4.77 MHz 8088 w/ 128 KB RAM and a full-height 5.25" floppy drive.

 

[Rigomortis]

Originally posted by: burnedout

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: burnedout Timex Sinclair 1000 3.25 MHz CPU 1 K RAM B/W TV for a monitor Purchased new in spring of '83.

My first computer also. They actually had 2k of RAM, there was a 16k (gasp, huge!) expansion module available. Also, used a cassette tape recorder for loading/saving programs. Timex-Sinclair 1000

Thanks for the link. Hehe, talk about bitter-sweet memories! I couldn't remember how much RAM that old thing had. I used the computer for about 1 1/2 years until purchasing a C64. The TS1000 may still be in a box over at my mother's.

Me Too and I still have mine sitting here. I don't know what I did w/ the power adapter but just still having it is pretty cool.

I used to love writing the programs and then praying to the computer gods that the tape backup worked and you could reload your program.
Those were the good old days when all you needed was 2K of ram and didn't need a HD.

LOL

 

[grrl]

Tandy SX1000 with 8086 processor, 640k RAM, 5-1/4" floppy, monochrome screen and a 'huge' 30 meg hard drive.

 

[milagro]

Vic 20

all my friends had PAC-Man on their ataris....but I had SNAKMAN....whoo hoo! and GORF!

 

[Genesys]

IBM PS/2
486 66MHz

 

[DanTMWTMP]

damn....i guess i'm too young compared to you dudes who owned 3.5 mghz computers lol

<--286 ..12Mghz..ehh i forgot the rest.....lol

 

[Boyne7]

3x commodore 64. still use the monitor for one of em as a tv

 

[xenos500]

this is prolly the fastest 'first computer'

P3 533EB
128MB PC100
20GB 5400RPM

I got in the computer game late, but I caught up fast....

 

[Trente]

I can not seem to remember the detailed specs.

 

It was an Epson something. I remember that my dad pulled an all-nighter getting DOS set up on it when I was about four and a half years old.

I loved playing Clue on that thing!

 

[RossGr]

Apple II+, 1Mhz 6502 Processor with 48K Ram and a single 146k floppy drive. This was in 1980.

 

[Ionizer86]

486DX-25 (IIRC)
Cheesy 13" CRT. Right before trashing out, the thing was recoverable every time it stopped working if we smacked it hard!
Windows 3.1
(That's all I know)

How come not that many people had SX chips? Everyone needed a CoPro?

 

[blakeatwork]

no-name whitebox Intel 286..

5.25 & 3.75
20MB
512KB Trident
4 MB RAM
512KB stick of cache
no co-processor
13" monitor that was quickly upgraded to a whopping 14" with 64K colour
14.4 USRobotics Sportster modem that I had to manually configure everytime I connected to someone..

Ahh... those were the days..

 

[moonshinemadness]

P90, win 3.1, 16 bit sound i think and a taxan screen. it r0x0r3d my b0x0rs!!

 

[thejman]

I remember building a "Sol-20" from a kit in 1977 or 78. It had an Intel 8080 processor, and I hooked it up to either a green, ot an amber monochrome monitor that I salvaged from a successful "dumpster dive" in an office park. I had to switch between the two monitors, because they had severe burn-in on localized areas of the phosphors, each on different parts of the screen!)

I also remember about 20 years ago when I worked at (yes, I'm admitting it) "Rat Shack", we had to run a daily report via modem with Tandy in Texas, using a modem with a Baud rate of 300 bps! It had a manual switch to capture the phone line. (Sometimes it didn't properly release the phone line, or grabbed it on its own at random times, which I remember leading to more than one late night call from the Police because the Alarm Company got a signal that there was "trouble" on the phone line, requiring me to drive back to the store and manually reset the modem and the alarm. A royal pain.)

The store's computer (a TRS-80 Model 100??) used an external hard drive (a Winchester, I believe) that was the size of a full size CPU tower on it's side . It sounded like an old time Victrola with ceramic grinding sounds emanating from it while it was revving up to speed. And it had a massive storage capacity - 10 MEGABYTES !!!

Ah, the good old days.....

 

[matt426malm]

My old Mac LCII

 

[bockchow]

first box ran DOS never used it, first one i actualy used was a pentium 50mhz, that thing was sweet.

 

[Lawrencetan21]

I remember I was a freshman in HS. Got my first computer at Incredible Universe (remember that store?) for $1300 and a Sony 15in Monitor for another $500. The spec was 166Mhz (or 160 I forgot), 2 Gig Hd, Ran Win 95.

 

[josedawg]

Gateway 2000

Pentium 90
8mb ram
2x CD-ROM
1.4gb HDD (this just came out at the time)
15" Trinitron monitor
Gateway2000 kb/mouse
14.4kbps modem
Can't remember what video card, motherboard.

Win3.11WFW
Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Word
A few more old programs I don't remember.
A few games I don't remember.

Price, a whopping $3300+, back in 1994 or 1995. I can't recall.

 

[Wooster]

IBM PCjr with 128KB memory. 5.25 floopy drive and two cartridges slot. No HD. Got it back in 1984.

 

[glareman]

Student account on an IBM 360 mainframe, FORTRAN IV, punchcard input. We wouldn't see our output for at least 8 Hrs.

First computer on my desk: TRS 80 w/cassette drive

 

[edmundoab]

let me see,

Intel 486 DX - 33Mhz
4MB system memory-- on windows 3.1
upgraded to 8MB memory-- for windows 95 platform
Trident VGA card
some sound card and Mobo I can't remember,
14inch Hyundai Monitor
256MB Quantum HDD, I believe its Bigfoot
Canon BJ-10 Black and White Printer

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: bolido2000
Intel 486/DX2 66MHZ
8megs of ram
40 megs of HD

Paid $2500 in 1994/5

The computer is still in my room

40MB or 400MB?

 

[NeoPTLD]

Macintosh Performa 6320(or something like that)

100MHz PPC 603e
4x CD-ROM
6.3GB HDD
32MB RAM?
14" monitor