What was your first computer?

[DyslexicHobo]

The first system I had? Wasn't too bad, it's the computer that I had before this one.

Dell Dimension 2350.
128 MB RAM (Later upgraded to 640)
2.0 GHz P4 (I think it was a P4)
Integrated video (later upgraded to Radeon 9200 SE)
Integrated Audio (later upgraded to Sound Blaster Audigy)

 

[suklee]

A Packard Bell *shudder*

386SX-16

 

[elandys1]

i dont have a computer.......so what?

 

[imported_goku]

IBM XT 4.77MHZ Processor 8088, Monochrome Graphics, orange color tinted monitor, 14MB HDD 2 5.25 FDD drives that thing was the shizznit at the time. I still have it and it's in the living room, we have a Printer/scanner/copier right next to it and we joke all the time about hooking that Printer/Scanner/copier into the IBM LOL! It took us a while to uprgade agian and out next system was a 486 (Dont remember the processor speed) ATI 2MB Mach 32 Graphics 21" Monitor etc.. And then the list continues on from there (wayyy too many machines after that like 15 to list).

 

[Boobers]

I just remembered, I don't know exactly what the first computer I used was! LOL! It was some kind of mainframe.

I accessed the mainframe computer using a DECwriter Terminal. (That was back in the mid 70's).

It connected to the mainframe by use of an old 300 baud (seemed more like 10!) modem, you know, the OLD kind where you dialed up the mainframe using a rotary phone (you kids probably don't know what that is) and then placed the handset into this box that had two rubber cups that fit around the mic and the speaker. There was a time when that was cutting edge...

 

[mhoytech]

Lets see. First purchase: Tandy 1000HX. Color monitor, no HDD, 5.25 inch external disk, 3.5 floppy. Added 300 bps modem..(major upgrade), 8088 processor (7.16mhz), 256k or ram. Tandy DOS 2.11 was the OS of choice. In all this machine was a major iprovement over the Radio Shack TRS 80 which was provided as our colleges educational choice. This machine used a tape data storage system. There was very little software to use and programming in basic was what they taught us. Boy have we come a long ways in 25 years.

Still own the Tandy

 

[Bateluer]

My first was a 286 based Tandy machine, but I had a Commodore 64, if you want to count that.

 

[sharkeeper]

It connected to the mainframe by use of an old 300 baud (seemed more like 10!) modem, you know, the OLD kind where you dialed up the mainframe using a rotary phone (you kids probably don't know what that is) and then placed the handset into this box that had two rubber cups that fit around the mic and the speaker. There was a time when that was cutting edge...

That is called an acoustic coupler. Had those...

We used punchcards too!

Cheers!

 

[wirelessenabled]

Originally posted by: heartsurgeon
Data General SuperNova (#2 off the assembly line)

this is at least 9-10 years before the IBM PC became available.

4K of memory covered a board 16" square.

maxed out, the machine had 64K of memory (man, you could rule the world with that much memory)

DEC PDP-8 and PDP-11. Bunch of us started programming a PDP-8 to run an ocilliscope to play a asteroids type game. Before completed we upgraded to a PDP-11. This would have been in the early 70's. Was really cool playing a 2 player games on a tall tower type maybe 16" diameter scope.

Moved the game to a VAX later.

Played with several CP/M machines with 8080s and the huge Z80 upgrade. Did a lot of assembler then. At the end of it's run CP/M had 64K memory with the OS taking about 35K or so. Sure learned to page!

Built up a program to run on a HP125. The customer bought a 4MB hard drive for about $4,000. It was divided into 4 logical drives of 1 meg each which matched the size of the 8" floppies the system had.

Big machine in 80's was a AT&T 3B2. Great machine!

Since have moved on to various less distinguished machines. But sure faster ones

 

[mehmetmunur]

1) Commodore 64 with a freaking tape drive. For some reason I never got the "head adjustment" right. I remember having nightmares about the color screens loading and the game not showing up.
2) 486 DX2/66. 4 MB Ram. I remember the day I got a cd-rom. I did not have to use 20 floppy disks to install my games.
3) Pentium 100Mhz 16MB of ram
4) Athlon XP 2500+ 512 MB Ram
5) Really want a 12" powerbook (probably the best looking laptop I have ever seen, though not the fastest) And a Dual Opteron workstation.

 

[Rankor]

I always keep a text file of all the major upgrades I've done in the past.

Computer Rig History circa 1992-->Present

Intel 486SX-25 < Cyrix 486SLC-33 < Intel 486DX2-66 < Intel 486DX4-100 (120) < Amd 5x86-133 (160) < Intel Pentium 133 < Intel Pentium 200 MMX < Amd K6-2 300 < Amd K6-2 500 < Amd K6-3+ 450 < Intel Celeron 300A (450) < Intel Celeron 466 (525) < Intel Celeron 566 (850) < Amd Duron 800 < Intel Pentium 3 1000 Slot 1 < Intel Pentium 4 2533 533 < Intel Pentium 4 3000 800 Northwood < Intel Pentium 4 3400 800 Northwood

Generic Motherboards---> SuperMicro Super P5STE < FIC 503+ < FIC PA-2013 < Abit BX-6 Rev. 2 < Asus P3B-F < Abit BF-6 < FIC AZ11E < MSI 845E Max-L < Intel D875PBZ

Generic Sound---> Creative Labs SB 16 Value < Creative Labs AWE 64 < Creative Labs AWE 64 Gold < Creative Labs SB PCI 16< Creative Labs SB PCI 128 < Creative Labs Audigy MP3+ < Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS

Generic Video card---> Trident 512K ISA video card < Trident 1MB PCI video card < Hercules Graphite 128 VLB 2MB < Hercules Dynamite 128 PCI 2MB/Diamond Monster 3Dfx Voodoo < Matrox Mystique G200/Best Data 3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI with Stealth V2 coolers by Tennmax < Matrox Mystique G400/Best Data 3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI with Stealth V2 coolers by Tennmax < 3dfx Voodoo3 < eVGA.com e-GeForce2 MX < eVGA.com e-GeForce2 MX Twin-View < Leadtek GeForce2 Pro < Gainward GeForce2 Pro Golden Sample < Matrox G450 < PNY GeForce4 Ti 4400 < ATI Radeon 9800 AGP/ATI Radeon 7000 PCI < ATI Radeon X800 Pro AGP/ATI Radeon 7000 PCI

Generic Cases---> Inwin Q500 < Inwin Q500N < Inwin Q500N modded by 3DCool.com < Inwin S500 < Chieftec Silver Aluminum with clear side panel < CoolerMaster WaveMaster

4MB Fast Page RAM < 8MB EDO RAM < 16MB EDO RAM < 32MB EDO RAM < 64MB EDO RAM < 128MB PC-100 SDRAM < 192MB PC-100 SDRAM < 256MB PC-133 SDRAM < 768MB PC-133 SDRAM < 1GB PC2100 DDRAM < 2GB PC3200

 

[element]

1st computer I ever owned or 1st I've ever used?

1st I've ever used was at school, called the Classmate 88. it was teletype (no screen) and had a basic interpreter. I was in 2nd grade.

Next came the Commodore PET computers.

Then the C64

1st computer I ever had at home was a Tandy 1000. 8088 7.16mhz and 384k of RAM which I upgraded to 640k. According to Bill Gates no one would ever need more than 640k so i use this computer to this day and run Windows XP on it. I hope longhorn works on it too.

Just checking to see if you're paying attn.



Anyway after that I was on computer haitus till the 486 days when I got a DX33 with 8 megs of RAM and I think a 245meg hard drive IIRC.

After that was a PII 266, then a celery 366@550, and now an Athlon XP 2400+ 1gig RAM 80 gig HD. CGA graphics...nah jk, geforce 4 4200 128Meg.

 

[thermalpaste]

My first comp was an 8086 with a 10 mb hard disk and an X87 FPU. This was way back in 1986 I was a kid then,
Then I hadda 486DX laptop with 8 megs ram and windows 3.11 in 1993.
A pentium-133 overclocked to 150 Mhz in early 1996 with 32 MB IBM EDO-RAM and a 2112 MB Fujitsu HDD.(my first overclock and it was a Tyan mobo)
Then A pentium-pro 150 with 64 megs EDO and seagate medalist 4.3 gig HDD. LAter I also hadda voodoo-1.this was in 1997
Then a Pentium-II klamath 233 overclocked to 300 on an asus P2B in 1998 with the same 4.3 gig HDD and Voodoo.
The P2B bios was flashed and a 450Mhz Pentium-III katmai was installed with a Matrox G-400 which was just launched. this was late 1999 if im correct. (Intel was to launch a camino chipset with AGP 4X, but it was never launched and I stuck to my good old BX)
october 2000: a pentium-III 700 Coppermine with an Asus CUBX-E motherboard.(I was compelled to buy this mobo because it could take a mammoth 8 IDE devices at a time) THis processor was overclocked to 1050Mhz on a stock HEATSINK!!!! I miss those good ol' days. 384 MEgs of SD-RAM and a 40 GB seagate U-6 5.4Krpm drive. A geforce-2 GTS was also was installed.
2002: AMD athlon XP-1800+ and a KT-333A. 256 MB DDR (pc-2100). 80 Gig MAxtor.
now I havva 2000+ T-bred with 1.5 gigs ram , a7-n8x delux with uber BIOS, Asus V9520Magic, SB live! 5.1 connected to my sony hi-fi....

 

[element]

"This was way back in 1986 I was a kid then..."

86 that's when I got my first ever video game, Space Quest I on my 8088. Ever play that one?

 

[thermalpaste]

I remember playing prince of persia and there was this bouncing ball game.
I was 4 years old when dad purchased it, I learnt a bit of qbasic on that........oh i miss those good old days

 

[tooltime]

appletalk

 

[oldman420]

an anceint word processor about the size of a pinto it used 12 of 14" floppys they wrer huge man.
never did get it to do nothing but beep and roar

 

[Commodus]

The first computer I really used was an old 16 MHz 286 with, I think, 2 MB of RAM on it. This was in 1987; that meant that it was actually pretty fast.

If you want to go far back, though, I did end up playing simple games on one of the first IBM PC clone models (Compaq's). Monochrome screens and not even a hope of using a mouse!

 

[Oyeve]

My first computer was an Atari 400. My first PC was an Amdek (I think), it wa an 8088 with a whole half meg of ram! In turbo-mode it ran 10mhz, I bought a whopping 10 meg HD for $600, a Magnavox 12" EGA monitor for $650. The whole thing cost like $3000 after I was done. That PC is long gone but I still have the Atari 400!

 

[Chaotic42]

My first computer was a C64. My first PC was a 4.77MHz 8088 with no hard drive and a TGA graphics adapter.

 

[ronach]

My first home PC was a Radio Shack Tandy 150 bought in 1976, the B/W monitor was built in, and it used a cassett recorder for recording Basic programs. I learned Basic programming and my greatest accomplishment was a program I wrote that would interface with my Ham Radio [ via the cassett port ], allowing me to receive and send CW. I designed a small circuit [ in effect a D/A convertor ] for the connection to my transmitter, the receiver fed CW sound directly to the cass port. After many trial and errors, I finally got the thing to work up to about 16 wpm, the timeing was very critical. I located a basic compiler, after awhile and got the sys to work up to around 30 wpm reliably. It was sure neat to see the received code just stream across my screen, of course, THEN, I had to learn to type fast as well. I do remember useing some canned responces, such as callsign, location, the CQ CQ CQ thing ect.

 

[tehDeviLwithiN]

My first computer purchased was an IBM PS/1 Consultant. It had an i486SX 25MHz processor, 4mb RAM, 170mb HD, and a Cirrus Logic 512kb on-board video. It came with a 1400 baud rate internal modem and, at that time IIRC, Prodigy came bundled with the computer, since i couldn't afford the membership, I use to connect to local BBS. The first computers I used were Apples and Tandy's, but i can't remember the exact models although the monitors were monochrome.

 

[andypress]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Ill tell you guys right now here are my systems in the order i had them.

1. Atari.. 5 1/4 played Jumpman, Pac Man and Popeye on it. (Had to be aroiund 6 years old)

2. 486DX 33mhz (upgraded to 66mhz later) (Not older than 8)
ISA soundblaster card
Number 9 2mb Graphics Card
8mb of RAM (The stuff before EDO SIMM)
DOUBLE (Zoom) speed CD-Rom drive
floppy drives
14 inch monitor
Stereo Speakers
816mb HDD

3. Cyrix PR166 @133mhz (Later Upgraded to a Pentium 166mhz NON mmx) (No older than 9)
Unknown board
Same rest of stuff as above with Voodoo 2 12mb

4. AMD K6-2 400 (Later 2 450 and finally 500) (Around 11-12)
VIA 503+
Nvidia Riva 128ZX w/ Voodoo 2 12mb and Monster 3d 2 8mb(Later Upgraded to a TNT2 M64)
32mb of EDO (Later 64mb EDO after that 128mb of SDRAM DIMM then 192mb DIMM finally 384mb
DIMM)
Soundblaster 16 PCI
Various SPeeds CD-ROM
16xDVD Rom (Boy did DVD's crawl)

5. AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (14)
ECS K7AMA (Later K7S5A then MSI K7N2 Delta-L)
Geforce 2Mx (later upgraded 2 Geforce 2 Ti)
Soundblaster Ensoniq Audio PCI
384mb DIMM (Later 512mb DDR 2700)

6. AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (15-16)
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Geforce 2 Ti (Later to Geforce FX 5900XT)
512mb DDR 2700
Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI (Later to SB Live then finally to Soundstorm)
New case and what not...

7. ???? Who knows until next year around this time

If you want to list em all but hey first system is fine... just wanted to list my background

Hope you guys enjoy reminiscing!!

-Kevin

Your systems seem too eerily similair to mine.
1. Quantex 486dx2@33mhz (about 8 years old)
1mb video card
540mb WD HD
16mb ram
15" monitor
Double speed cd-rom

2. Cybermax Amd k6-2 350mhz (about 12 years old)
64mb of ram(later upped to 128mb)
8mb no name video
Auereal Vortex 2 (still reagarded as one of the best)
4x DVD

3. Amd 1700+(about 14)
512mb of ram
Ati 8500dv
The same 4x dvd drive
32x10x42 burner

4. Amd 2500+
512mb of ram
Ati 9700 pro
Chaintec Av-710 sound card
160gb Seagate

 

[Counterspeller]

1st computer... now that brings back memories !!!

1 > (1984) Sony HB 75-F MSX with 64Kb RAM, later added a 3 1/2 floppy disk drive (1985) with 360Kb per disk.

2 > (1990) Olivetti PC80286 with 1Mb of RAM, VGA graphics and a 40Mb HDD, 14" VGA Monitor.

3 > (1995) Pentium 90Mhz, with 4Mb of FP RAM (latter upgraded to 8Mb and finally to 16Mb), a 1Mb VRAM graphics board (don't remember brand), and a 130Mb HDD, Soundblaster AWE32 (1996) and various CD Players, 14" SVGA Monitor.

4 > (1998) Pentium II 350Mhz, with 32Mb RAM (latter 64), ATI Rage (2 or 4Mb, don't remember), 520Mb HDD (latter upgraded to 830Mb), same Soundblaster, lots of cd players and same new 14" SVGA Monitor (Samsung Syncmaster).

5 > (2000) Pentium III 733Mhz Coppermine, 64Mb of RAM (latter upgraded to 128, 256 and finally 512), MB FIC FA-13 (BX Chipset), Creative Geforce 1 DDR (32Mb), the same Soundblaster as above, 3 HDD (8, 16 and 60Gb, added over time), various CD players and a LG 16x40 DVD-ROM drive. External Philips CDD 3660 CD Writer (2x2x6), at first the same 14" Monitor as above, and (2002) a 19" Monitor.

6 > (2004) Pentium 4 Prescott 3Ghz, 512 DDR 400, MB Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, onboard sound, same HDDs as above, same GeForce, same DVD player and same 19" monitor... oh, and same case too!

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I drew in the sand, we couldn't afford an abicus.