What was your first computer?
 

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.

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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.

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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.

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Commodore 64 from the time when processor speed wasn't even discussed just the whooping 64 K of Ram.  Had an  :o 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 :D , just turn it on and go.  It even used Atari controllers for games.

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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.

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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!).  

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he he he
packard hell

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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 ;)

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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).

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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...

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My first was a commador colt their first IBM XT running at a boot scootin' 7.5 MHz with two yes count em two 5 1/4 floppy drives, (no hard drive) DOS 3.2 a mouse, keyboard and a 14" RGB Monitor. All for the suttle price of $999.00.

I just got tired of using it as a door stop about 9 mo. ago and finally recycled it.

Ah the days of Lesiere Suit Larry - King of the lounge Lizards  ::)

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lol..thats funny.  At a place that i used to work at we used a old mac for the doorstop.  We would always make sure to kick it as we walked in.  Dont tell apple... ;)

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Packard Bell...therefore I built my second...  ;D

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Apple, GS I think it was, it's now a lovely plant holder for the old lady's plants on the back porch.

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Magnavox 386SX 20MHz, 2 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD and 1X Sony CD-ROM with caddy, 3.5" FDD, 14" VGA monitor.

Always had a hard time because no one else had a 3.5" floppy, and there were no good CD-ROMs available.  It did come with Microsoft Bookshelf 1992.

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hmm, mine was an Acoron somethin, cant remember the model number

the one they used to have in most UK skools around 92-96ish

the main machine and keyboard were one unit with a 3 1/2" floppy on the rite had corner

although my oldest ive owned is a Spectrum 128k ZX+2 which i still have (albeit a broken tape drive)