What was your first computer.

[Shortbus]

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.

[Jimster]

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

[Gonthrax]

Like I said in Explain your Usernames, Commonwhore 64 baby

[Shortbus]

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

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.

[Polygon]

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.

[Oz]

8086 with Dos 3.0 AND an Apple IIE :finger:

[Chris]

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

[RazorGTR]

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.

[Menu dei Motori]

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

[taranaki]

This one:o

HP Pavillion 8802.

Still trying to figure out how it all works!

[Steel]

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.

[YogsVR4]

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)

[Amish_kid]

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

[Heep]

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


C64 mode

[Shortbus]

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.