what was your first...

fastspaz · Post by **fastspaz** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:10 am

computer like? how fast, what model, what features, and how old is it now if you still have it? full specs.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:12 am

Commodore 64, 64K ram, no hard drive, used audio tapes. Small color tv for a monitor. Spent hours typing programs out of books just to make the screen change colors and lame ass games LOL

p2ii · Post by **p2ii** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:15 am

first 'pooter was an IBM PC-XT with an 8088 processor. I think it had a 25MB HD and like 64kb ram or something. what a beast!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:23 am

HP p-3 500,128mb ram,onboard video, bought in dec. '99

then i found this site and the amazing amount of info to be had from the internet.

it still runs 24/7/365 folding with XP pro and 256 MB ram, it is my final resort if things go bad with the other boxes.

i have to say it is the most stable rig in the whole garden i have

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:28 am

Atari 1200XL.....Man now that was power.....

It kicked Commodore's butt.

Mine had a whopping 64k of memory. I remember I first disc drive. Man it as a speed king over my tape drive.....the Indus GT.

I actually finished all three Zork games....

I still have all that tucked away...along with an Epson dot matrix printer that still works.

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:31 am

Well, define 'first' computer

When I was young I stayed over at a friends house after school, his dad had a Comadore 64 I played games on a lot, really liked it. They got an Atari, played that too.

However the first computer we got in our house, that was actually ours, as a family, was a Packard Bell 386sx. I forget the speed, but it was slow, like 16Mhz or something, it had 1MB of RAM which we upgraded to 4MB. It had an old sound blaster sound card and a 2400baud modem. Had DOS, forgot what version, and Windows 3.0, yes 3.0 not 3.1. Though windows would only work in black and white cause it didn't have enough RAM. The hard drive was 20MB in size, oh and a dot matrix printer. It had a 5.25" drive and even a 3.5" drive. That is where I learned all my dos/windows old school skillz hehe. I mainly operated out of DOS since it ran better. That computer I also messed around with message boards a lot, you know, the old BBS stuff, also with prodigy a little bit.

Then I moved to NC to live with my dad, and him and my step-mom had an IBM 486sx computer. It had 8MB of RAM and a 14.4 modem. That computer is the first computer I ever did an upgrade on, I put in a multimedia kit that included a CD-ROM and Sound Card with speakers and a joystick. It was awesome

That computer I really got into the Internet on with AOL (hey, it was good back in the day!)

Then I went for the gold and built a brand new computer for them, totally new and faster, a Socket 7 mobo with an AMD K5 75Mhz CPU and 16MB of RAM. Also upgraded to a 28.8 modem, then we were really smokin

Now that was all not my pc's, but pc's I played with and built up for the family.

My very first PC I ever built for MYSELF, which went in MY ROOM was a Pentium 100. Now, I guess I should say I did actually get to take the 386 with me to NC cause before I left my step-dad bought a brand spankin new Pentium 75 machine for the family. So i got to play on that a little bit (where i first played Descent) and then when I moved to NC kinda downgraded to the 486, but then re-upgraded since I built the AMD K5 machine.

Anyways, so I had the 386 as my own computer all that time, but of course it wasn't fast enough. So I bought a huge full tower AT case and put a Socket 7 mobo in and a Pentium 100 chip which I got for free from building some new machines for a local Day Care, they had a Pentium 100 from a machine i was able to use. I also overclocked it to 120Mhz with multipliers, even though the FSB went down a little bit, it was still cool. Had a 2GB hard drive, S3 Trio 64V+ vid card to start out with. 28.8 modem, 16MB ram, later upgraded to 32MB. 15" monitor, Windows 95, oh yeah baby, it was the shiznit.

So I guess you could summerize it all and say:

First Computer I played on: Comadore 64
First Computer family got: 386
First Computer I built for family: AMD K5 75 machine
First Computer I built for myself from ground up: Pentium 100 machine

i think thats it

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:31 am

Originally posted by downhill
Atari 1200XL.....Man now that was power.....

I still have my 800XL, although I'm missing one of the cables (I believe the power one).

fastspaz · Post by **fastspaz** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:32 am

ok... i guess i'll post bc i made the thread. it was a 486sx, 25mhz, half gig harddrive, no sound card, no video card (i don't think). 2MB ram, no cd rom. oh, the good old days...

i think i got it back in 1992 or 1993.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:33 am

IBM model70 25 mhz 386

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:36 am

Tandy Radio Shack TRS=80 color computer, with EXTENDED COLOR BASIC and 32 MB of memory. Had the tape drive, stepped up to a disk drive eventually and got a hardware voice synthesizer too.
Microsoft made the OS and and early version of OS/2 was written for it as well.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:37 am

Originally posted by Jim
I still have my 800XL, although I'm missing one of the cables (I believe the power one).

Yeah I upgraded my 1200XL to the 800XL....a whooping 128k of bank memory.

Flying high....

Star Raders ROCKED!!!

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:46 am

Packard bell 408CD
75mhz pentium
8mb ram
1gig hard drive
windows 3.1 with free windows 95 upgrade
4x cd rom
ISA sound card/14.4k modem combo card
some onboard video card

good times

I still have it, i like to throw random hardware in there somtimes (it has 2 pci slots surprisingly enough). I put a phoneline network card in there. those rock!

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:51 am

Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2k ram built in, and a 16k ram expansion module...and the obligatory tape drive that went along with it...got it back in '83, I think...followed shortly thereafter with a Commodore Vic-20, then a Commodore 64...

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:59 am

Originally posted by downhill
Atari 1200XL.....Man now that was power.....

It kicked Commodore's butt.

Mine had a whopping 64k of memory. I remember I first disc drive. Man it as a speed king over my tape drive.....the Indus GT.

I actually finished all three Zork games....

I still have all that tucked away...along with an Epson dot matrix printer that still works.

ok i forgot about that one....i liked defender....never had the disk drive...just the tapelol

my "second" venture into the pc world was a pentium 200 with mmxtechnology (it had been upgraded before i bought it...the case touted a 75 mhz processor) 128 megs of ram, (well i bought it with 64 and upgraded the next week)an 8 meg video card dont think it was even 3d...1.18 gig harddrive, Win 95 with a 98 upgrade, 15 inch Viewsonic, and 2 creative speakers...bought it like 5 years ago...i still have some parts to it...mobo,harddrive, ram,video card, processor and heatsink fan, some other stuff as well but i cant remember...

MRB · Post by **MRB** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:00 am

let see 1979 or 1980 Texas Instrument model # TI91
1mhz. ram 24k 16 bits Language Basic oh yes the famous tape recoder.

Brandon_k_W · Post by **Brandon_k_W** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:10 am

Originally posted by TEH WIN
Packard bell 408CD
75mhz pentium
8mb ram
1gig hard drive
windows 3.1 with free windows 95 upgrade
4x cd rom
ISA sound card/14.4k modem combo card
some onboard video card

good times

I still have it, i like to throw random hardware in there somtimes (it has 2 pci slots surprisingly enough). I put a phoneline network card in there. those rock!

that was the same exact one i had !

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:21 am

Apple IIc.....

1MHz SynerTek 65C02 processor
128K system RAM (200ms... yes, milliseconds)
max resolution: 560x192 @ 1bpp

actually, was quite a nice computer in it's day (bought mine in '84), though it wasn;t expandable at all, unlike the Apple IIe.

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:26 am

originally posted by downhill

I actually finished all three Zork games....

oh, man! haven;t heard that game name for a looooong time. my folks had one of the first-gen IBM PCs, and i played the Zork series on that. was pretty darned fun

.

on my Apple IIc i remember the Wizardry and Ultima series of video games, and the original Castle Wolfenstein..... oh, and Brodebund's "Lode Runner". that was such a cool game.

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:44 am

Originally posted by Blisster
Tandy Radio Shack TRS=80 color computer, with EXTENDED COLOR BASIC and 32 MB of memory. Had the tape drive, stepped up to a disk drive eventually and got a hardware voice synthesizer too.
Microsoft made the OS and and early version of OS/2 was written for it as well.

whoops, i mean it had 32K of memory, hehe not MB

deleted_acct · Post by **deleted_acct** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 2:01 am

Some sort of apple cant remeber.

Annalysa · Post by **Annalysa** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 2:02 am

Originally posted by TEH WIN
Packard bell 408CD
75mhz pentium
8mb ram
1gig hard drive
windows 3.1 with free windows 95 upgrade
4x cd rom
ISA sound card/14.4k modem combo card
some onboard video card

thats what i had too..

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 2:16 am

hah, funny

it's been heavily upgraded

it now has a mega-powerful 133mhz pentium
72mb ram
still the 1 gig hard drive, although it has gone through many hard drives... ive killed many hard drives on that machine just testing them out and ****... normally small ones though. i wish my 3 gig hadnt died though

no cd rom unless i'm installing an OS, then i'll throw some random cd rom drive i have in there.
zip drive (instead of CD rom drive)
NIC
no sound
no modem
powerline network card
window 2000 baby

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 2:22 am

the original was a packard bell 386 16Mhz with 1 meg of ram and a 40 meg hard drive and a 2400 boud modem, then we upgraded it with 7 megs of memory and a 80meg hard drive, originaly it didn't even have windows

the first machine i built with my own money back in college was a P 3 500Mhz with 128 meg of ram, abit BE6 motherboard and a voodoo 3 3500, with a soundblaster live value with a 8 gig hard drive

ub3r_n00b · Post by **ub3r_n00b** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:02 am

ermm first computer...

Lets see i dont remember what brand or anything it was, but it was really ghetto

Not even windows 3.1 ( that was our second computer )

But ne ways, yeah it booted to something like "dos" and you could play mix up mother goose, and turtle painting ( yeah the ninja turtles baby )... used oldschool 5 1/2 floppies..

Yeah good old days

Second computer was an IBM i believe, with windows 3.1... friggin sucked. I sat on it for a long time and learned a lot about windows.. but then i deleted like all my files to make way for games... Yup.. the comp techie was like dude dont touch your computer ( it was a pentium 1)

First internet computer was upgrading that one, we slap in a modem, pentium 150mhz, ghetto motherboard, 16 more megs of EDO ram, 3 gig hard drive, put windows 95 on it and i was surfing the web

Then we bought a compaq which i had to upgrade everything (long story)

Then.. i bought my current rig...

-Preet

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:24 am

First computer: Atari 520 ST with 640x480 monochrome monitor

First own PC:
Asus Mobo with (intel) P1-120, oc'ed to 133 MHz, 16 mb ram (ps/2), a 2mb S3 trio vga, gravis ultrasound, 1 gb Quantum Fireball HDD, Mitsumi 4x cdrom, Peacock 15" monitor, HP DeskJet 600 (which I still have & use, lol, 8 years old by now), NE2000 compatible 10 mbit BNC NIC. Later I got myself a Voodoo I 6 mb for it

.

Croc · Post by **Croc** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:43 am

Commodore Vic 20 then an upgrade to a 64. WooHooo!!!

Croc.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:49 am

first comp I used was an
Amiga don't know teh specs..

I got a bit more into comps when we got teh
Packard Bell

60mhz 8mb RAM 540mb HDD 4x CD-Rom
Onboard Sound and Video
after that we got a
K6-233 Acer 32mb RAM (don't know the rest of teh specs)
I upgraded it to K6-300 later on..

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 6:48 am

Originally posted by downhill
Atari 1200XL.....Man now that was power.....

I had the Atari 400. That flush keyboard instead of the real keyboard the 800 had. 16k of RAM. Tape Drive. BASIC cartridge. I forget the speed....3 mHz, maybe 11 mHz.

Post by **Philip** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 7:44 am

My first one was a dually... No HD, lol.

Pravetz-8M

"The 8M is very unusual because it always has two CPU's. A Rockwell-6502A (1MHz) and a Z80A (4MHz). So the Pravetz-8M was capable of running DOS 3.3 and CP/M. Which CPU should be used could be determined at runtime by software. So the programmer could write code either for Z80 and 6502, and dynamicly switch between using the first or the second CPU, and using the advantages of each one! (Can Z80 and 6502 work in parallel?)

The RAM is organized 8 x 64kB x 1 (8 chips, 8A too had 8x64Kx1).

The Pravetz-8M had an extended AppleII+ keyboard with arrow keys and 8 slots

ROM with Applesoft Basic (with all features - floating point arithmetic, char and string processing, arrays, color graphics and so on) and a monitor for programming 6502 assembler.

8M has 8 jumpers on its mainboard, which allow to switch off/on the CPU Z80, additional 16kB RAM, internal speaker... User also could change the second char table between cyrillic capital and latin small letters. Although 82 and 8M have external 5 - 1/4 floppies, they have output for cassette recorder, too."

mwkirchner · Post by **mwkirchner** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 8:03 am

The first one I had was an Emerson. IBM compatible ... it had 1 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard drive. The machine was strictly DOS based ... no Windows. It had the 2 floppy drives ... the 3 1/2 and the 5 1/4. Came with a 17" VGA monitor. I think I paid like $1800.00 for it at the time (I think I bought it back around 1989). The girl who sold it to me GUARANTEED me that I would NEVER run out of room on it. She told me there was NO WAY that I would ever use up all that space.

porkchop · Post by **porkchop** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 8:31 am

386 is all i can remember... forget the rest...

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:23 am

AppleII

fastchevy · Post by **fastchevy** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:49 am

Apple IIe.........woohoo!!!!

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:11 pm

Atari 800XL, eventually got a tape drive for it, used regular audio cassette tapes.