09-11-2003, 12:27 AM | #2 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Alaska
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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" |
09-11-2003, 02:42 AM | #6 (permalink) |
Addict
Location: Wisconsin, USA
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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. |
09-11-2003, 04:09 AM | #8 (permalink) |
Talk nerdy to me
Location: Flint, MI
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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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09-11-2003, 10:36 AM | #14 (permalink) |
Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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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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09-11-2003, 12:27 PM | #15 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: Initech, Iowa
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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... |
09-11-2003, 03:01 PM | #16 (permalink) |
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Location: right here of course
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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. |
09-11-2003, 05:14 PM | #17 (permalink) |
Just here for the beer.
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Floriduh
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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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09-13-2003, 12:33 PM | #23 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: Tucson, AZ
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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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09-13-2003, 08:19 PM | #24 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Little Rock, AR
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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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09-14-2003, 08:31 AM | #25 (permalink) |
is Nucking Futs!
Location: On the edge of sanity
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Commodore 64. It still runs. Used mostly for gaming, although, it did help me write a resume or two.
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09-16-2003, 04:30 AM | #28 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: New York
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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 |
09-16-2003, 07:57 AM | #32 (permalink) | |
Psycho
Location: Initech, Iowa
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Quote:
Those were the days. |
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09-16-2003, 10:07 AM | #33 (permalink) |
Insane
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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. |
09-16-2003, 10:24 AM | #34 (permalink) |
Submit to me, you know you want to
Location: Lilburn, Ga
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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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09-18-2003, 10:05 AM | #36 (permalink) |
Addict
Location: Kingston,Ontario
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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!! |
09-18-2003, 10:21 AM | #37 (permalink) |
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Location: Just look over your shoulder!
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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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09-18-2003, 08:44 PM | #38 (permalink) |
Invisible
Location: tentative, at best
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286-12MHZ
40MB HD 256K RAM dot-matrix printer CGA monitor $2500 in 1989
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