"Your 1st PC" or "the good old days"

# 1 11-06-2003 , 03:38 AM

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ok aside from my Atari 400 in 7th grade(1982?)... my first real PC (1990?)was a 25 mghrtz processor with 4 megs RAM(upgraded to 8) 250meg hrd drive.... wahhoo I was flying when I made circles in Corel draw. I had bought some 3d terrain software called "VistaPro" and all that I remember about it, is that it took so long to render that I never let it finish. All this for the same price that I paid for my current p4 2.4. *ug*

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# 2 11-06-2003 , 03:56 AM

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yeah, the atari was my first one, too. Remember my my first Mac (1985) - a 512k - cos had to use the floppy drive a lot user added image

. was really something using the new desktop. Gosh, have times changed...

When the only tool you use is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.

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# 3 11-06-2003 , 04:05 AM

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I got my first computer fairly recently, in 1999. It was a PII 400 with 64 mb of Ram 10 Gb hard drive. Nothing fancy at all. I had it all the way up to about a year ago.

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# 4 11-06-2003 , 04:07 AM

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<-- First computer was a Commodore 64. Then came the HP Vectra (75 mhz) .. and then my current Pavilion (900 mhz). user added image

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# 5 11-06-2003 , 04:10 AM

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LOL - whow, must have been a hyperjump:wow:

When the only tool you use is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.

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# 6 11-06-2003 , 06:52 AM

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My first was a Sharp something. The first PC was a 8MHz i286 with 1MB RAM (640kB usable). Enough for anyone said big Bill once user added image

*Edit*
Found some info of my first computer:
https://www.homecomputer.de/pages/f_i...rp_MZ-721.html
Take a look and laugh user added image

My second was this one:
https://home.swipnet.se/~w-16418/hardware_svi328.htm
Not much better user added image

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# 7 11-06-2003 , 07:08 AM

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My first home-pc was a Commodore 64... then came a i286 with a 40mb HDD user added image

(good-old-days when a game fitted on a 720kb 3,5" floppy disk user added image

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After that I got an i386... then a i486, after that came a pentium I 90mhz. And after that came a blasting PIII 650 Mhz. Now I'm working on a AMD TB1400 with 512MB RAM and 180G of HDD space.

I remember back in the i386-i486 days, the Bernulli packs. These were huge packs (30cm x 20cm x 2cm user added image

) whitch could store a whopping 40MB's user added image

whatever!

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# 8 11-06-2003 , 09:31 AM

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I am not sure if it counts as computer but my first one was a AMIGA 400.

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# 9 11-06-2003 , 12:25 PM

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My first was 486 clone system in 1997. I still use the original keyboard. I still having laying around the house somewhere. It had a 2 meg trident video card 8 megs of ram. It cost me $1500 bucks for that baby.

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# 10 11-06-2003 , 12:41 PM

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First computer was a Mac Powerbook 165...grayscale, 256 display with 16MB RAM and 180MB HD....this was back in '94. First win-based machine was a Dell H233 - 233MHz processor, 16 MB RAM and 6.4 Gig HD....bought it when it first came out in '98 or so.

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# 11 11-06-2003 , 01:13 PM

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My first was a Lambda 8300 (kind of similar to a zx81) with 16kb (yes KB) ram expansion, and I also bought a 4 color module user added image

Then I had a ZX Spectrum

Then a PC/XT with two Floppy drives.

Then a Commodore 64

Then an Amiga 500

And finaly a long range of PC's from a PC/AT to Pentium PRO 200 mhz and currently I have a Tbird 1400 mhz, 512 mb ram and such..

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# 12 11-06-2003 , 01:14 PM

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commadore 64 and a sinclair QL

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# 13 11-06-2003 , 02:52 PM

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Man, ADL and I are SO much alike in SO many ways user added image

hehe...

Played around with a friends' Amiga during a few summers, then later, when the Commodore 64 came out, my dad and I bought one of those, (LOVED Spy Hunter!).

Then WAY later, I bought my first machine, the HP Vectra, then after that I bought the Sony VIAO tower, and then a year and a half ago, I bought my current 2 homebuilt machines user added image

(Asus Dual P3 1gig each proc, with a gig o' ram, and a CRAPPY set of 3dlabs 32 meg Oxy vx1's user added image

hehe..

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# 14 11-06-2003 , 04:39 PM

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I still remember the days of My Radio Shack 286sx 1 MB CGA Monitor Tandy and playing my first game called, Lesser Suit Larry and the land of the lounge lizards. And Space Quest.

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