What was your first computer?

2007-07-29 10:44:43

#26

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox: Big Mouth Prick; +219|6522|Golf 1.8 GTI Wolfsburg Edition

P2
Dell Motherboard
64MB of RAM
ATI Rage or GeForce 2, don't remember
All in a shiny brand new 15 toned gray, white, beige colored case....could barely play Medal of Honor Allied Assault with everthing on low.

2007-07-29 10:45:42

#27

znozer: Viking fool - Crazy SWE; +162|6536|Sverige (SWE)

Commodore 64..... and i still got it somewhere i believe....
now i think about it it was a Philips G 7000 > www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.a … amp;c=1080

Last edited by znozer (2007-08-09 13:25:01)

2007-07-29 10:47:10

#28

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6573|SE London

leetkyle wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
BBC Micro Model B with 32K ROM.
Same! Although I don't know if the model was the same. I loved that system!

Great stuff. Used to love playing Elite on that.

FoReVeRTS! wrote:
486, circa 1995. It had 16mb of RAM and a lousy grfx card, which I remember coundn't run FS95. Still have it, actually, although I converted it to a P1.

Overdrive or new Mobo?

2007-07-29 10:49:15

#29

williedyna: Member; +7|6636

znozer wrote:
Commodore 64..... and i still got it somewhere i believe....

You must have been one of the rich kids..

out on the streets it was all about the VIC 20

(and I'm sure I no longer have it)

2007-07-29 14:40:35

#30

ceslayer23: IN YOUR MIRROR; +142|6352|CLOSER THAN I APPEAR

gateway 2000.... it had a turbo button

2007-07-29 14:42:55

#31

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6214|Escea

Man I can't remember what my first comp was, my second one was a Packard Bell, I liked both my old comps , just a shame you always have to uprgade the things.

2007-07-29 14:45:29

#32

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|6757|Cambridge (UK)

https://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1457/sinclairspectrumplus3lagc6.jpg

BTW, this thread has been done already.

2007-07-29 14:51:27

#33

BALTINS: ಠ_ಠ; +37|6477|Latvia

Amd something 66Mhz
8MB RAM
1GB x2 HDD
onboard gfx (no agp slot )

1996, i think it cost me ~300 $

2007-07-29 14:53:02

#34

LT.Victim: Member; +1,175|6554|British Columbia, Canada

Some Pentium 1 Piece of shit... It had a turbo button, that's all that matters

2007-07-29 14:54:20

#35

Smitty5613: Member; +46|6518|Middle of nowhere, California

does a Nintendo count as a computer?

2007-07-30 07:13:50

#36

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6214|Escea

Actually here's my original, with me playing pong on it,

https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/images/1950_pilot_ace_large.jpg

2007-07-30 07:16:44

#37

RDMC: Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!; +736|6556|Area 51

I find it amusing how we've gone from 64KB of RAM to 2 GB of RAM (Yeah, some have more, some have less)
And from 133 MHZ CPU's to Intel Quad Core's @ 45456 mhz

2007-07-30 07:56:21

#38

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6708|Riva, MD

Mine was something with Windows 3.0 on it, my dad gave it to me when I was like 3, which was around 1995. I don't know the specs because he sold it at some point.

2007-07-30 08:42:51

#39

=Karma-Kills=: "Don't post while intoxicated."; +356|6575|England

Got Windows 3.1 still running in the garage.

2007-07-30 08:57:56

#40

_j5689_: Dreads & Bergers; +364|6708|Riva, MD

=Karma-Kills= wrote:
Got Windows 3.1 still running in the garage.

I can hardly remember what it looks like. Wasn't it a just one large open window in the middle of the desktop with all your icons in it?

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2007-07-30 09:41:05

#41

=Karma-Kills=: "Don't post while intoxicated."; +356|6575|England

Yeh basically. Resolution is like 1x1 and it makes you wana guage out your own eyes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Windows_3.11_workspace.png

Last edited by =Karma-Kills= (2007-07-30 09:41:21)

2007-07-30 09:44:16

#42

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6573|SE London

RDMC wrote:
I find it amusing how we've gone from 64KB of RAM to 2 GB of RAM (Yeah, some have more, some have less)
And from 133 MHZ CPU's to Intel Quad Core's @ 45456 mhz

I haven't seen any 45.4GHz Quad Cores.

But anyway, your point is perfectly valid - but have you ever heard of a little thing called Moore's Law?

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2007-07-30 10:05:43

#43

DonFck: Hibernator; +3,227|6623|Finland

Oh yes, I had the complete package!

https://img58.imageshack.us/img58/2852/a500fulth5.jpg

I need around tree fiddy.

2007-07-30 10:08:10

#44

xXCortoMalteseXx: Member; +11|6142|Some Pub in Valletta

C 64, shame I sold it....

2007-07-30 10:11:46

#45

[pt] KEIOS: srs bsns; +231|6644|pimelteror.de

sweet! amiga 500 was great fun... and it was extremely cool, to have an extra floppy and 1mb of ram...

2007-07-30 10:14:03

#46

Funky_Finny: Banned; +456|6124|Carnoustie, Scotland

I had a computer in.. 1997 I think.. I was 5 years old.. my brother hogged it.. We had Sonic on the go! I remember exactly that it had 2.9GB, yes GB of hard drive space. Windows 95 basic. We upgraded to 2000 in.. 2000, but that used up too much HD space so we downgraded again. No 3D graphics here. 56k Dial up Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition - god knows how it managed to run that. I've still got the speakers we had. They're UBER 1337. Cost over 200 pounds! Now people would expect me to pay you to take them. But they're amazing! Sure, the cable fxcks up and you only get 1 speaker if you move them too much, but they're still over 140 watts. I love them.

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2007-07-30 10:28:29

#47

JG1567JG: Member; +110|6579|United States of America

I had an old Epson with no HDD and no idea on the ram or cpu. I booted MS-Dos from a floppy. This was around 1985 or so. I did get a graphics card but have no idea on that either but it played a few basic games. I used it all the way up to probably 1994 when I was in college. I played a lot of Battle Chess and Monopoly on it in the Dorms. In 1993 my senior year of High School I used it to make fake report cards for around $5.00 a card. I used GW-Basic and had a program saved to where all I had to do was enter the classes and grades and it would figure the GPA out and arrange everything for printing. My best friends mom couldn't believe it when she found out he might not graduate. I kept him ungrounded for probably the last two years of High School. It was the schools fault since they went to a plain white paper with standard printing. You honestly couldn't tell the two report cards apart.

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2007-07-31 22:56:22

#48

-101-InvaderZim: Member; +42|6835|Waikato, Aotearoa

RDMC wrote:
I find it amusing how we've gone from 64KB of RAM to 2 GB of RAM (Yeah, some have more, some have less)
And from 133 MHZ CPU's to Intel Quad Core's @ 45456 mhz

Indeed - and dont forget what Mr Gates said - NO-ONE WILL EVER NEED MORE THAN 64k RAM.........

oh my 1st ever pc was an Amiga 500 with 1/2mb RAM and no HDD

2007-07-31 23:07:06