Your first computer
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We got a PC around 1995, 133Mhz, 4GB hard drive, I don't remember about RAM, probably 128MB. It had a Beta version of Windows 98 installed.
However, I consider my first computer to be a Macintosh in my father's office. I remember I used to boot that Macintosh from a floppy with some other OS on it in order to play some games, but I have no idea what that OS was.
However, I consider my first computer to be a Macintosh in my father's office. I remember I used to boot that Macintosh from a floppy with some other OS on it in order to play some games, but I have no idea what that OS was.
Commodore 64 rings a bell, but that would have been purely for games. Could you use without a keyboard?
The first computer I turned on myself, typed in run"disc and other such delights would have been an Amstrad circa 1985 which despite being a bulky thing still resides in the spare room somewhere. Not been on in 20 years.
First PC was in 1991.
The first computer I turned on myself, typed in run"disc and other such delights would have been an Amstrad circa 1985 which despite being a bulky thing still resides in the spare room somewhere. Not been on in 20 years.
First PC was in 1991.
Father used to have an amstrad. It died on us when i was three or something. Its a british company unless im mistaken.
I customized it on a catalog in late 1995. It wasn't a brand name. It was 150mhz, 16MB of RAM, and 2GB hard drive. Before that I used a friend's computer for 4-5 yrs. My gf of the time had a 200mhz pc and I was jealous 
. My current computer could prob be upgraded, but I've simply had no need to. It 's an HP with a 500GB HD, 2.3ghz dual-core processor, and 3GB of PC6400 RAM. My wife has a laptop with better specs than my original pc.
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. My current computer could prob be upgraded, but I've simply had no need to. It 's an HP with a 500GB HD, 2.3ghz dual-core processor, and 3GB of PC6400 RAM. My wife has a laptop with better specs than my original pc. RAMA
I still have most of my computers.. 
This one is my first, I actually bought two of those, both are IBM PS/2 Model 30 machines, 8086, 640 Kb RAM 2x 720Kb floppy drives and no harddrive, I later on found one which had a 21Mb ESDI drive and an external 5.25" drive..
These two have harddrives, I've bought the IBM XT and the Philips P 3105 later on.
The IBM of course is a 8088 at 4.77 Mhz, the Philips has a NEC V 20 chip at 8Mhz
The IBM has a Seagate ST225R RLL drive, the Philips the far more common Seagate ST225 MFM drive, both 21Mb.
Besides these I own around 53 other machines including Commodore 64's Atari 8 bitters and ST's, MSX 1's a few XT's, I've got a 80286, 386, 486, some Pentium I's, a Cyrix M-II MMX 200+, some Pentium II's, Celerons, Pentium III's, IV's, Intel Core chips, AMD Duron's, Semprons, Athlon 64's, Athlon64 dual core and my current main machine which is a Phenom II 955 black edition 3.2Ghz, 8 Gb RAM, 2x 1Gb HDD's, an ATI Radeon 5870 and so on..
This one is my first, I actually bought two of those, both are IBM PS/2 Model 30 machines, 8086, 640 Kb RAM 2x 720Kb floppy drives and no harddrive, I later on found one which had a 21Mb ESDI drive and an external 5.25" drive..
These two have harddrives, I've bought the IBM XT and the Philips P 3105 later on.
The IBM of course is a 8088 at 4.77 Mhz, the Philips has a NEC V 20 chip at 8Mhz
The IBM has a Seagate ST225R RLL drive, the Philips the far more common Seagate ST225 MFM drive, both 21Mb.
Besides these I own around 53 other machines including Commodore 64's Atari 8 bitters and ST's, MSX 1's a few XT's, I've got a 80286, 386, 486, some Pentium I's, a Cyrix M-II MMX 200+, some Pentium II's, Celerons, Pentium III's, IV's, Intel Core chips, AMD Duron's, Semprons, Athlon 64's, Athlon64 dual core and my current main machine which is a Phenom II 955 black edition 3.2Ghz, 8 Gb RAM, 2x 1Gb HDD's, an ATI Radeon 5870 and so on..
I had a Laser 486 that i got from MicroCenter back in 94'.
She was a DX2/66 with 8 Megs-o-ram and a Conner 320Mb harddrive. 8bit soundblaser knockoff 2x cd drive. 512kb VESA video card.
It's finial upgrade were are follows. 486-DX4/100 20Megs-o-ram. Same HD 16bit soundblaser w/ wavetable addon. 4x cd drive. 2meg #9 VESA video card. And a Promise technologies caching controller card. 286 20mhz w/ 4megs-o-ram.
She was a DX2/66 with 8 Megs-o-ram and a Conner 320Mb harddrive. 8bit soundblaser knockoff 2x cd drive. 512kb VESA video card.
It's finial upgrade were are follows. 486-DX4/100 20Megs-o-ram. Same HD 16bit soundblaser w/ wavetable addon. 4x cd drive. 2meg #9 VESA video card. And a Promise technologies caching controller card. 286 20mhz w/ 4megs-o-ram.
My first computer was a Vic 20 round about the mid to late 80s when it was really cheap and not top tech.
My first PC was in 1993 and was again not very top tech, it was a Sprint 386SX, no sound card(as i found out later) and i think a 10 meg hard drive...and if i remember correctly i bought a Co-prossessor to turn it into a DX model....for extra number crunching...or so the box said....first ever game i bought for it.....Star Trek 25th Anniversary.....spent nearly 3 days wondering why all i could get was bleep types sounds.....then i found out about Sound cards.
And the found memories of high mem and low mem, oh and with enough force behind it the Dos 4 manual can achieve flight from one side of the room to the other even with its bulk.
My first PC was in 1993 and was again not very top tech, it was a Sprint 386SX, no sound card(as i found out later) and i think a 10 meg hard drive...and if i remember correctly i bought a Co-prossessor to turn it into a DX model....for extra number crunching...or so the box said....first ever game i bought for it.....Star Trek 25th Anniversary.....spent nearly 3 days wondering why all i could get was bleep types sounds.....then i found out about Sound cards.
And the found memories of high mem and low mem, oh and with enough force behind it the Dos 4 manual can achieve flight from one side of the room to the other even with its bulk.
Mine is a Gateway PC from 2001, 128 MB RAM, with an Intel Pentium 4 processor running Windows ME.
Although long since disconnected from the internet, I still use it as my primary word processor and to play old games.
Although long since disconnected from the internet, I still use it as my primary word processor and to play old games.
1989 - an IBM clone 8088, EGA and a 30 MB hard drive running DOS 5.0
Tandy 1000 EX, first computer my parents bought way back in 1986 or so. 8088 processor, no hard drive, 5 1/4 floppy drive.
The first computer I personally bought was a CompUSA machine with a 300 Mhz processor, Windows 95 and if IIRC a 10 or 20 GB hard-drive. It had one of the earliest recordable CD-ROM drives, in fact that was such a new feature it took a few weeks longer for me to get the computer delivered because it took them a bit longer to get the drive and to get it to work with the machine. I bought this in late 1997.
My next two or three computers were personally built with whatever the latest technology was.
My current computer is a Gateway with a 3.x Ghz Processor, 2 GB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive running Windows Vista.
I'm already planning to build my next machine sometime in the next year using the best available processor, 8 GB of RAM, a 1 TB hard drive and whatever else strikes my fancy.
The first computer I personally bought was a CompUSA machine with a 300 Mhz processor, Windows 95 and if IIRC a 10 or 20 GB hard-drive. It had one of the earliest recordable CD-ROM drives, in fact that was such a new feature it took a few weeks longer for me to get the computer delivered because it took them a bit longer to get the drive and to get it to work with the machine. I bought this in late 1997.
My next two or three computers were personally built with whatever the latest technology was.
My current computer is a Gateway with a 3.x Ghz Processor, 2 GB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive running Windows Vista.
I'm already planning to build my next machine sometime in the next year using the best available processor, 8 GB of RAM, a 1 TB hard drive and whatever else strikes my fancy.
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I had one of those! Had to do my high school reports on them, which was difficult because there was no such thing as "save" in the word processing program I had! Had to do the entire thing in one shot, and if the power blipped or anything, you had to start completely over. Even if there was a "save" function, it would probably take forever because I just had a tape drive.
But my *first* computer was a TRS-80 model 4, which my dad used mostly for a pricing program, and I programmed a few of my own games on it. My dad was still using it up until a few years ago when it finally died.
Yeap one of Lord Alan Sugar's companies. I grew up in the town his head office was.
Very similar. In '87 I bought a "Leading Edge", which was an IBM 8088 clone, with dual 5.25" floppy drives (no HD) running DOS 5.0, and I splurged for the stylin' amber monitor, instead of the standard green. A couple years later I added a whopping 20MB hard drive. WOO HOO!
And, I have to say, for what it was, that little chunk served me pretty darn well for close to 10 years, believe it or not.
When it was time to move on, I tried to donate it to a VoTech school, but they said it was too old to be of any use to their students.
I remember my last year at school - I did business and finance which was 95% on computers and our first day of term they gave us one floppy disc each, saying how many books you could get on it, etc, etc and it would be more than enough.
I think by the end of that year I had over 30 of them.
I also remember borrowing a music CD from the library and wanting to keep a pristine digital copy of one track. The sound recorder could handle it, but I had no way of keeping it on the hard drive for long. I had to split it over 3 discs as a WAV file.
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