What was your first computer.

Ok lets start where we left off in "explain your usernames" and then see where it goes from here.

The Texas Instruments TI 994/A? That was my first pc then I moved up to a Commodore VIC-20 then an IBM PC XT. I guess I'm revealing too much about my age, huh?!

C-64 1541 DRIVE crappy 13inch black and white monitor with the t.v. game switch thingy to go from antennae to computer on the back of the t.v.

I had DOS and no CD-Rom- thats all I remember:o

Like I said in Explain your Usernames, Commonwhore 64 baby :D :D

Originally posted by Gonthrax
Like I said in Explain your Usernames, Commonwhore 64 baby :D :D

Did you game any with yours? I had Indiana Jones, I think something called skate or die and a few others. I remeber Atari 2600 joy sticks would plug into the c-64 and work with it.

My own first computer was a Packard Bell. It had an Intel Pentium 1 75MHz, 8MB of RAM, 1MB of video RAM, 850MB hard drive, 4x CD-Rom, 14.4K modem/soundcard.

I still have that computer, it now has an Intel Pentium 1 133MHz, 48MB of RAM, 2GB hard drive, and everything else is still the same, oh and I added a 33.6K modem and a 10 base T NIC.

The first computer I used? That would be debatable IBM XT, Commador 64, or and old Apple IIE. I can't be sure.

8086 with Dos 3.0 AND an Apple IIE :finger:

First comp I used would be a 386 at a friends. First one at home was a 486, bought from one of my moms school friends. It ran at 100mhz, had 16mb of RAM, and about 600mb of hdd space. Played Warcraft 2 great, starcraft, well, it worked, just the videos didnt play. I never really had access to shooters on that; my mom was against them. Had quite a few really fun games, tho; I got really good at Terminal Velocity, Warcraft 2, and a few others. It never was online, tho:rolleyes:

Gateway 2000
Pentium 120 (being used for an office pc)
2.1 gig hd (currently my second drive in this pc)
48 megs of ram
2 meg video
Awe 64 Soundblaster ( currently in this pc)
33.6 US Robotics Sportster Fax/modem (still have laying around somewhere)
8x cdrom
Sony Trinitron 17" monitor (still using it)
MS natural mouse ( just died a couple of months ago)

Who ever said they don't make things like they used to is bloody right! Those items still in use were new in 1996. The motherboard, cpu, cdrom, video card, and power supply are still going! Hard to believe.

as far as i can remember a brand new 386
then a 486 with 66 mhz
then p2 200mmx (gateway)
then a p2 450 (gateway)
and now a p4 2,4

This one:o

HP Pavillion 8802.

Still trying to figure out how it all works!:p

My first computer was the almighty TANDY 1000TL! dont know its specs but boy that was fun. then we got the IBM Aptiva, whose guts are now spread among different computers. My dad got this dell laptop (pretty nifty, what im using now) and my computer at school is a different IBM, 450 K6-2 96 megs of RAM, 8 gig HD, Voodoo 2, oh yeah. Ill be building my own frankenstein soon enough.

The first PC I ever purchased was a IBM 386 box. The oldest computer I used was a commodore and TRS-80 (back in high school)

well the first computer i ever had was an old beastly little 386
haha got no specs not like it really matters anyways it was a piece of shit and i think its somewhere in the basement collecting dust:D

My own first computer is my current IBM Thinkpad 700MHz Celeron POS. We've gone through tons of different family computers though that I used until I got my laptop and moved out for college. First one (which we still have, working immaculately) is a 1984 Commodore 128 (with built in 64 mode). It runs all the 64 programs, plus the slightly more advanced 128 programs. Same old monitor, but a newer disk drive and sleeker keyboard/motherboard. I have 200+ games for it...they're fun as hell :-D

C128 mode
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C64 mode
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Originally posted by Heep
I have 200+ games for it...they're fun as hell :-D

Nice setup! my dad got rid of our old 64 a few years back. There is a good site that has tons of roms and emulators for the c64. I think one of my favorites was the zork series by infocom. Practically learned to type playing those games.

my first one was a Commodore with the classics........like...........

Bubble Bobble
Ranbo
Arkanoid
(thats all i remember...heh heh)

but yea it was a wikked system

162-mhz something. I dunno...

Pentium 133Mhz
16MB RAM
Floppy
Windows 3.1
no CD-ROM

But Compaq (on my 2nd - not by choice) makes the biggest POS's on Earth. I hear their laptops are OK.

Any input on this??

Toshiba Laptop
2 color screen (blue and lite blue)
DOS
Wordperfect 5.1 (i think)

ACE - Air Combat Emulator
Elite - I was so addicted to that game (I also had it on the PC XT too)
Scramble - a 16 block simple game like the arcade one but simpler

BTW I'm also old enough to remember mechanical adding machines and learning how to read the new fangled electronic calculator with those LED number readouts. Oh and when we had a rotary dial on the TV to change channels

Originally posted by replicant_008
Oh and when we had a rotary dial on the TV to change channels

Yeah who could for get pulse dialing and two party lines:flash:

I remember on the top of my parents set(with rotary dial U - 13), for the aerial there was an electric positioning box. We were spoiled:frog:

Macintosh SE. (BOOOOOOOO)

Had that until 1994, got myself a 486 66MHz

At home:
Atari 800 XL (was Commodore 64 oponent), then
486DX66 with DOS, Win3.11, then
Pentium 1 - 200MHz with Win95 and Win98, now
AMD Duron - 750MHz with WinXP

At work:
lots of different equipment - through the complete range starting with XT, AT, 486, 486, Pentium 1 & 2. Now I use a laptop from Dell Inspiron series.

Huudo

My first computer was from my Grandpa.. it was a Mitsubishi 200se? Laptop.. thing weighed like 30lbs at least. I got it from him in like 1995 along with this mini Dot-Matrix Printer along with it. Was very cool.

Cost 3 grand in like 1990... It had Windows 1.0?

Very Simplistic. Fun games like Microsoft's Flight Simulator and that Ski-Free game.

I was later upgraded to a random company computer, Just had a Pentium 200 chip with MMX Processor. I still have that computer, dont use it.

Right now I'm on a Gateway P2 450 with 12 gig HD Windows 98, cable modem w/ 15" Flatscreen monitor. Isnt the best computer but it does its job.

I believe we were supposed to also explain our names???

Redneck - my best friend calls me that because of the way I'll say something or the way I'll think of a problem. He said I'd be more fitting in the south than I would in SoCal. Not to mention my primary mode of transportation for over a year was a Primer Gray 70 Nova with a hole in the hood. Then I got a K5 Blazer (avatar) which is truely a redneck mobile.

383 - Refers to the number of cubic inches my motor is in my Nova.

I hope I wasted your time :)

486 100mhz, 4mb ram , soundblaster 16, 2x cd-rom, a really small harddrive and win 3.1

then i got a pIII 550mhz, win 98 se

current computer desktop: Amd athlon xp 2000, win 2000 pro
laptop: Amd athlon xp 1500, win xp home

A Packard Bell Pentium 60mhz witha whopping 4 mb of ram! oh and a 246mb hard drive to go along with a 13.3 modem!!!!!!!!!!

fastest computer ive ever had hands down.

Spectrum ZX lots of black plastic and pretty coloours(just on the keyboard though) sounds like a good name for a car!!!

my first computer was a 486SX2 clone had a 14.4 modem, 20 megs of ram, a 2x cdrom drive, a 3.5 inch floppy, a 750mb hard drive,a 500mb hard drive, and a dot-matrix printer. it ran off of windows for workgroups 3.11 and had Lotus 123 lol.

Hell, imma list all of em

XT 8086 DOS 5.0 computer
386 Epson with 40mb hdd running win 3.1
486SX POS also running win 3.1

And now my first REAL computer

Emachine 333mhz celeron processor
32 mb of ram (later upgraded to 96)
2.1GB HDD (later upgraded to 10 gb)

My current pc
Pentium 3 800mhz
728 mb pc133 sdram
2 hard drives, 10gb and a 15gb
16X10X40 CD RW
16X DVD ROM drive
ATI Radeon 32MB Video card
19" Monitor
3PC speaker system
and some other shit

My first computer....the one i still have now :p

It has a "ON/OFF" button and that's about all i know :bloated:

I don't remember what my first computer was, probably a compaq, actually I think it was. 3 of 4 computer later and I still have a compaq, my 2 lap tops are compaqs also