What was your first computer?

[Keefe]

What was your first computer?

Mine was a Laser 386 with 16 MB of ram and a 200 mb hard drive.  I originally had windows 3.1 installed on it but i was able to get windows 95 on it.

Mine was an IBM XT.

Later we got an IBM 386 with dos and 4mb of ram - it could play wheel of fortune. woot!.

My first windows machine was a Leading Edge 486SX-25 w/4mb ram and a 250mb seagate harddrive. It came with windows 3.1 and I later managed to shove Windows 95 onto it when it became available. Had to upgrade the ram when I got the game Mortal Kombat. (not sure which version). anyway - it wouldn't run on 4mb of ram.) upgraded the machine to a 486 DX-100 overclocked to 120 w/16mb of ram, and later to a 586 125 overclocked to 150 w/32mb of ram. Still have the machine today - it is churning along with an early distro of redhat on it.

My first was a Dell Dimension, 4g hard drive, 266 mhz and 32mb Ram. I bought it 4 years ago and I still have it. I am getting ready to upgrade the ram. Hopefully it will last another year until I can get a new one.

Commodore 64 from the time when processor speed wasn't even discussed just the whooping 64 K of Ram.  Had an   external 5 1/4 drive.  Only took 5 minutes to load some of the simplest games.  Lot's of lockups and I'm just very thankful I didn't have the tape drives.  Up to 45 minutes to load data.  But the second you turned it on it was on. No Post ;D , no loading windows , just turn it on and go.  It even used Atari controllers for games.

Commodore 64 was my first as well and I had one of the tape drives.  Damn I'm old  :-[  
Here are some specs I found:
CPU: 6510, 0.985 MHz (PAL) and 1.02 MHz (NTSC).
ROM: 20 Kbytes.
RAM: 64 Kbytes.
Sound: SID 6581, 3 channels of lovely sound.
Display: VIC-II, 16 colours, text resolution at 40 x 25. Graphics resolution at 320 x 200.
Storage: Tape interface or a 5 1/4" floppy drive that can store 170k/side.
Keyboard: Non-standard ASCII, 66 keys.

Oh man, that brings memories to me.  My first comp was a Commodore 64, followed by a Commodore 128D, then an Amiga.  Once that wore off I then got a 16 Mhz PC (Packard Bell...POS!).  

[Keefe]

he he he
packard hell

heh mine was a dell p2 266mhz 32mb ram 6gig the first one out of my friends with a 2d/3d card LOL they couldnt belive it... i think it was teh rivia 128 or something hmm velocity? i forget but hey it was agp and had 4mb's vid ram!!

also i trashed the comp first week i got it and need a restore disk LOL...

ah those were the days heh all i have from it is my good old usr 56k winmodem and a floppy and cdrom drive

1mb dsl was sure nice thing man could never go back to 56k

And my wife had an Apple II, the monochrome ones.  Let's all pray for her for a moment that she can't outlive this autrocite.  (By the way she is looking over my shoulder).

hehe, a trs-80 from radio shack. i was stoked when i got the external tape drive. oh, and the 320 baud modem to dial into compuserver 300 miles away.

i still have it... somewhere...