The title says it all. What was your first computer?
The first computer I used was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. I used it wayyyy back in grade four (1982-ish)
The first computer I
OWNED was:
Fujitech Jumbo PC
- 6Mhz 8088 processor
- 360k 5.25" floppy
- 720k 3.5" floppy
- 20MB "Winchester" HDD
- 640kB RAM
- "Hercules" monochrome graphics card with 16kb VRAM
- 12" amber monochrome monitor
- Epson LQ-1050 wide carriage dot matrix printer
- Software included Dos 3.3, Professional Write, Stacker (doubled HDD space by compressing everything. Don't ask what happened when you got greedy and deleted the file "stackvol.dsk" in an attempt to free up some more room. This single file contained all info on the HDD. It was catastrophic enough that I remember that file name 18 years later...), Direct Access (this was pre-Windows, everything was command-driven, this was a rudimentary shell that allowed you to run programs by selecting them from a list) and XTREE Gold (a very primitive "Windows Explorer"-type program
That's it. No mouse, no modem, no internet, no sound, no color. Two "F-keys" on the keyboard. Looking back I can't even think of why I used it. It was HUGE, and when that Winchester HDD started spinning (there were no fans, it wasn't powerful enough too need them) you'd think somebody fired up a 747 engine. LOUD!
Naturally, that paled in comparison to my 3.2GHz P4, 80GB, 1GB, CD/DVD+/-R/RW, 17" flat panel Dell, but you know what? That ol' Fujitech ran Professional Write just as fast as the Dell runs Office XP...
Some kind of Atari. Had no hard drive had a external 5.25 and a cartrage port on the side. Plus two controler ports and basic was installed on the computer.
Was using this back in 1984 when I was 4
First used, Apple ][, junior high era.. ('83-'85)
First owned: Commodore 16.. the cheap version of the Vic 20 and 64.. black case, gray keys. Late '80s.
First "IBM-compatible" owned: Packard-Hell 486 SX/20, 2 megs RAM expanded to 6. 130 meg HD I still own, half meg video RAM expandable to 1 meg, 2400 baud modem, both size floppies, (3.5"/5.25") 14" monitor. 1992. DOS 5/Win 3.1.
Old Television Commercial (http://www.retrojunk.com/media/163/)
Bought my first computer(used from freind at work) in '90, was a Epson 286 12mhz, I still have it..
I got a 14" VGA monitor and mouse with mine, :D also has...
40 meg Winchester HD
3.5 Floppy (1.44 meg, up graded the 720 orig in it)
5.25 floppy High densety 1.2 meg
What ever video card Epson supplied with the monitor..
640K memory..
no modem, never had it on line...
DOS 4.0
Bought it to get my feet wet in computers and run some data base programs and games... Used
PC Tools as a desktop.. No windows ever...
mine was a Commodore 64.. something like this one:
(http://www.larwe.com/museum/img/c64system.jpg)
That was back in 1992 (i was 8 years old) when we moved out to Canada from Hungary and was given to us by my cousins. let me just say, in hungary i lived outdooors, I wasn't familiar with technology whatsovever. no video game consoles.. no cable.. not even a VCR.. and definitely no telephone.. so when we moved out, of course i thought the Ol' Commodore 64 was the most amazing piece of machinery i've ever seen.
First I've used was either an Apple ][ or a Commodore 64 (think the 64)
First my family owned: My brother won a 386SX 25Mhz with 4MB ram for a business contest in the very early 90's. Was a very top of the line machine at the time.
First I exclusively owned: A Compaq Presario 4504, 200Mhz Pentium (not even MMX), 48MB Ram, STB Velocity 128 8MB graphics. Got it slightly used with a ton of software from someone who didn't know what it was worth.
still useing most of my first computer :D
my first comptuer that I built was a 486 dx with 8mb ram and 1.44mb as well as 5 1/2 floppy and external 24x cd player running windows 95. I was around 8 or 9 years old.(I am 18 now so yeah)
The first computer I owned was my very own "micron" computer. An old amd k6 @ 233mhz with 64 megs ram , matrox mistiuqe graphics card with 8mb cache. 3.1 and 7 gig hard drives with a dvd player, dvd decoder card, a 2x/1/6x cd burner, and a sound blaster 16 sound card, also it had two diffrent web cams :cool: . I added usb as soon as I figured out what it was. That was 1998ish maybe as late as 1999 I dont remember for sure. I remember my teacher showing me a lazer disk"the way of the future" when I was in 6th grade. after I had watched my first dvd. that computer would hit a clean 1600x1200 at 32 bit color and still get 32+ frames per second. I was one of the only people that I know that didnt have to upgrade for mechwarrior 2
The first computer that I actually built and owned was my 266mhz p2 overclocked to 300 mhz(oooh yeah) with the same dvd player from above, same surround sound, usb mouse, and 96 megs of ram.
all of which used the same 14" monitor bought from a flea market for $12 dollars. I just recentally upgraded to a 15" because it would hit maximum resolution.
hey baxo check this link out.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/c64/
First computer was the legendary lol, commodore 64. I didn't have another computer until work gave me a compaq laptop in '95, I have no idea what the memory or processor speed on it was other than slooow
hey thunder chicken, are you still interested in the old ti/99's? I have around 10 or so that I didnt throw out when we moved. I have the box thingy that goes under it and over 100 games. let me know
Somewhere around here I should still have a portable Trash-80.. if I still have it and I can find it, I should make a mini-ITX out of it.
that's frickin awesome.. however.. speaking of mini computing.. this is my newest toy (arriving sometime this week) the Apple macMini (http://www.apple.com/macmini)
I have an old "pizza-box" 386 case that I had in the soon-to-be-thrown-out box, that I just rescued since you reminded me of mini-ITX. Maybe instead of getting a Mac Mini, like I was hoping to do sometime this year, I'll build a mini-ITX out of the pizza box case.. could even put two ITX boards in it.
compaq pre pentium 486
80mb memory
windows 3.1
dos 5?
sim city (now called classic)
got it in 1990
internet connection thru PINE (mmmm text based internet, nothing like bbs!)
vga graphics
dont remember much else
8088 that my brother built for me, within a week i fried that sob, i was walking around in my socks and decided to go poking around in the case. Man i loved bbs's'
I remeber the screeching of my BLAZING fast (24 when i first got into computing)96 k dial up modem
Had a program called banna grove it took your bbs's and remebered them for you
only susposted to be a 30 day trial thing .........man stuff was easier to "borrow" back then being that there were no security issues
Commodore 64 exactly like the one Baxo posted, that is untill I stepped up to my apple llc :hick:
Commodore 64 with the external tape drive....ah, the memories.
First serious machine: Apple Macintosh Performa 450. Pizza box style, whopping 64MB RAM, and a blazing 25MHz Motorola 601 processor, hooked to a 14" color monitor that displayed a mind-boggling 256 colors. Yes, this was a Photoshop lover's dream. Still have it, still works fine for the most part....debating on whether I want to spend $18 on the CMOS battery to keep it from crashing though. :)
Was the acer PIII with 64 Ram, cdrom and 10 gigs HD. Still very Good......
Packard Bell 401CD
75MHz
16MB of RAM
850MB Hard Drive
14.4 Modem
Windows 3.1
Prodigy Internet (text based did rule)
"Upgraded" to AOL 1.0.
Just got rid of that box a few weeks ago. Had it since 1994. It was a reliable, proprietary POS, but it got the job done for several years.
My first computer is my current computer. 866 PIII 20g 256 and a basic sound card and CD burner (2000 pro at first, but ped out on me, so I reformated with '98). The only decent thing in it is the video card I got for Autocad use.
but the ol' 20G took a nose dive last month, so I have my first upgrade to an 80G, and run XP home ed. (now I'm legit....... at least with windows)