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Old 09-10-2003, 10:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What was you're first PC???

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
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Old 09-11-2003, 12:27 AM   #2 (permalink)
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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"
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Old 09-11-2003, 01:22 AM   #3 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-11-2003, 01:30 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 09-11-2003, 01:34 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Tandy 1000 - Man that was years ago...
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Old 09-11-2003, 02:42 AM   #6 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-11-2003, 02:43 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Mine was a Mac PowerPC - Performa I think. I remember the sound of the modem grinding fondly...
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Old 09-11-2003, 04:09 AM   #8 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-11-2003, 05:55 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Old 09-11-2003, 06:58 AM   #10 (permalink)
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First computer was a Commadore 64.
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.
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Old 09-11-2003, 08:18 AM   #11 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-11-2003, 08:21 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Commadore 64 for me. My first PC was a Gateway 486, can't remember all the specs though.
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Old 09-11-2003, 09:23 AM   #13 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-11-2003, 10:36 AM   #14 (permalink)
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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!

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Old 09-11-2003, 12:27 PM   #15 (permalink)
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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...
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Old 09-11-2003, 03:01 PM   #16 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-11-2003, 05:14 PM   #17 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-11-2003, 05:36 PM   #18 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-11-2003, 07:10 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Old 09-11-2003, 09:54 PM   #20 (permalink)
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5x86 75Mhz with 8Mb ram 600Mb hdd...... from CyberMax.....
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Old 09-12-2003, 12:35 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Commedore 64.

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Old 09-13-2003, 11:28 AM   #22 (permalink)
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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)
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Old 09-13-2003, 12:33 PM   #23 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-13-2003, 08:19 PM   #24 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-14-2003, 08:31 AM   #25 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-14-2003, 07:02 PM   #26 (permalink)
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My parents bought me a tandy in 1990 from Radio shack/ whata piece.
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Old 09-14-2003, 07:29 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Atari VCS (2600) with the Basic Cartridge and the Keypad controller
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Old 09-16-2003, 04:30 AM   #28 (permalink)
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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
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Old 09-16-2003, 05:29 AM   #29 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-16-2003, 05:42 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Old 09-16-2003, 05:49 AM   #31 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-16-2003, 07:57 AM   #32 (permalink)
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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!!!)
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.
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Old 09-16-2003, 10:07 AM   #33 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-16-2003, 10:24 AM   #34 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-17-2003, 05:13 PM   #35 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 09-18-2003, 10:05 AM   #36 (permalink)
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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!!
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Old 09-18-2003, 10:21 AM   #37 (permalink)
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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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Old 09-18-2003, 08:44 PM   #38 (permalink)
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286-12MHZ
40MB HD
256K RAM
dot-matrix printer
CGA monitor
$2500 in 1989
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Old 09-18-2003, 11:30 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Old 09-19-2003, 06:51 AM   #40 (permalink)
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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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