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Hey there...list you're first PC specs here...I don't know the exact specs of my first one but it was a HP 8770C...what were you guys first PC's like??? THANX
C'YA ?:-D

Frozen North

Tandy 1000: 2 5-1/4" floppy drives, good ol' DOS, complete with what I believe was the first version of Flight Simulator. But hey, I was 5 and I thought it was the coolest toy ever.

Reminds me of the Bill Gates quote "no one will ever need more than 640K of memory"

Latch

386-33, I came in late 4Meg ram, 8 meg HD, ran a BBS off it

Oh, 3.5" floppy and 5-1/4" floppy too.

Sun Tzu

Apple IIe

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Tandem

Tandy 1000 - Man that was years ago...

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mtsgsd

Compudyne 286 16mhz. No memory, no hard drive, just a keyboard and a 720mb floppy. $400.00 and that was cheap!

Shit, for that matter the first monitor I owned was a very nice 14" Panasonic that went for $550.00! I'd have to be buying a LCD now to be paying that. Sheesh.

eris

Mine was a Mac PowerPC - Performa I think. I remember the sound of the modem grinding fondly...

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allhaileris

God of Thunder

First computer was a Commadore 64.

First windows-based PC was a 386-SX16 with 4mb of RAM, a 110mb Hard Drive and was running DOS 6.22. Man I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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onetime2

TI-99 4a

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mtsgsd

Oops, that's right, I had a Commadore C128 before I bought a "real" computer!

My family had a Ti99 before that. We even had the voice module! oooooh.

meff

Hoo boy.

IBM PS/2 with a 170meg HDD, 4 megs ram, 486/33.

Now: 2.2ghz P4, 263gigs, 512 megs ram.

Boy how the times change

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absorbentishe

Commadore 64 for me. My first PC was a Gateway 486, can't remember all the specs though.

Redlemon

Apple //e as well, although I cut my teeth on a Commodore Pet a few years earlier, and before that (4th grade) did a little time on the school mainframe.

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Lasereth

Our first family PC was a Pentium 99 MHz I think. My first personal PC was an AMD K6-2 at 400 MHz. What a PC! That bitch runs Warcraft III damn well. Plays a mean game of CS, too! I had a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI. Retailed for $349.99 when I got it. Ha ha, good ole 16 MB!

-Lasereth

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Dibbler

First work DOS pc was an IBM-XT with 64k RAM and a 10Mb harddrive. Best thing was the CGA graphics card! Cost us $10,000 to get it up and running. First non-DOS was an HP-96 which was, I think, the first computers to use the 3.5" discs.

After that the usual 286, 386, 486 etc...

Speed_Gibson

Commodore 64 to start with, but the oldest IBM clone type system that I have worked for any real length of time with was just a few years after that one and was an classic IBM XT

that ran DOS 1.0 off a floppy (might have been a HD in the 5-10 MB range) at a blazing 4.77 Megahertz or 8 MHZ in turbo mode.

Wyodiver33

Commodore 64 here, with the tape drive! Start loading a program, go eat dinner, come back, and maybe it's done. lol. I loved that computer though. Then had a Tandy 1000, then an Atari 512ST, then an Amiga 500, then a Pionex 486/33, then an AST P 200, then a Sony P2 266, Then I woke up: Started making my own computers.

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mrcraptastic

i had a 386 to start, and oh how i miss my collection of 5-1/4" floppy games. now i've got my computer made of the components i bought last summer. she's still keeping up with the latest stuff.

Jesus Pimp

A 486SX 25mhz

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steveincolumbus

5x86 75Mhz with 8Mb ram 600Mb hdd...... from CyberMax.....

saltfish

Commedore 64.

-SF

thebigk

VIC 20, then a Commodore 64, then a Coleco Adam, then an XT.

I wish I'd kept some of them...I'm nostalgic about them now. (Well, maybe not the XT)

quantumburnz

wow, I feel like I got in so late. I had an AST computer with the monitor built in. Cyrix 50Mhz-DX2. Windows 3.11. Can't remember how much memory, maybe 32 MB? Something like that...

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albion_t

You youngsters. Timex/Sinclair with a whopping 16k memory expansion pack. 2k (not a misprint) of ram built-in. Gel keyboards rules (in 1984!!!)

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Dano069

Commodore 64. It still runs. Used mostly for gaming, although, it did help me write a resume or two.

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Totally Head

My parents bought me a tandy in 1990 from Radio shack/ whata piece.

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cj2112

Atari VCS (2600) with the Basic Cartridge and the Keypad controller

dogzilla

My first computer was a Kim-1, 6502 processor with 1K memory, an additional 4K memory hacked in from a 6800-based computer and a 16x32 video display hacked from S100 bus.

Then I bought a Radio Shack Color computer, an Atari 512ST, and finally a Quantex 386 with 4MB memory.

Since then I've built a bunch of computers from parts

johnnymysto

Apple II+. I learned BASIC on that thing! Whee! We'd hook it up to the TV and play Choplifter. Good times.

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bobw

TI-99

Thraeryn

I had a Tandy 1000HX. I remember the fun we used to have, playing King's Quest 2 on that thing, surfing Prodigy on the old modem. . . . *sighs wistfully*

I'm pretty sure my parents still have the thing.

Dibbler

I remember those! A friend got one when we were kids. We spent the whole afternoon typing in the code for a flight sim and then saving it on a cassette tape. That was my first sim experience and I was hooked from then on...

Those were the days.

smarm

TI 99/4a! I used a regular old voice tape recorder to "store" the programs I wrote on it. (If you changed the "Tone" dial at all after you recorded something you never got that data back!)

I had an IBM PCjr with the 128k expansion pack. I still have that somewhere. Pretty crappy computer, but I loved it at the time.

ShaniFaye

I dont even remember the name of it, it was hooked up to our b/w tv and all the programs and games were on a cassette tape kind of thing...had that until we got the Commodore 64. 15 years later I still use the monitor that came with it. My dauther uses it in her room and I have a tv antennae hooked into it to watch tv and a vcr and her nintendo. Best damn monitor I ever bough

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Viking1064

We had a PET! Do you remember those? It stored data on a cassette tape. Unbelievable. Used to play a game called Lords of Kharma on it. Great game. Wish I could find it somewhere now.

rmarshall

Apple ][ standard /w language card (64K), two Lobo floppy drives 133 K/floppy, 300 baud Cat modem (acoustic coupler)

Bought in 1980 for about $4000 CDN.

I loved Choplifter too.

Later I made my own Z80 card and bought an 80 column Videx card and a RGB monitor . I got into CP/M and learned 'C'.

I then got a Zenith Z-100 dual processor machine (8085 and 8086) in 1983. It ran CP/M, MP/M and MSDOS and had SCSI 20 meg hard disk. Woo hoo!!

candyman

LOL! I was just laughing about this with a friend the other day.

My first:

Commodore 64
13" balck and white TV (with rotary dials!)
Radio shack tape player (that was media then... a common cassette tape!)

Took me all summer to save enough money to buy that computer. Oh the memories!

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yournamehere

286-12MHZ
40MB HD
256K RAM
dot-matrix printer
CGA monitor
$2500 in 1989

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AP1

i started w/ the commadore 64 old schoolin' it. first pc was a gateway pentium I/133MHz processor 16Mb ram summed up with 4 letters: C.R.A.P.

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