amc11890 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 My first pc was a old HP 8mb of ram not sure how big the hard drive was pentium 1 60mhz win 95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Texas Instruments.... Have no idea what it was, just remember the programs you could make with it....lol There was no windows...still a sperm looking for an egg at that point.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdf216 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 hmmm my first.. If you mean modern type then an HP Pavilion with a 433 Celeron A. with 128 MB memory and I think a 12 GB HD. but the first Computer I owned was a Texas Instruments TI 99-4/A 48K memory, no HD, cassette storage. First PC I ever used was an Apple II way back in February of 1978 -- 2 1/2 months after they were first developed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltageman Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 That look familiar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimPrice Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Commodore VIC 20. 86502 Processor with 3583 bytes of RAM and a noisy tape drive. Then I got a 720k floppy disk drive and that's when things really started moving... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammolo Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Hi, Intel 386, 20MB HDD DOS 4.0, had to buy win for bout $90, 4 MB RAM, memory was very expensive in those times, 8MB will set you to $75, by the way it was a 12/24, think it was 1993 Happy Holidays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructable Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 HP Pavilion 8575C, still have it, and it's a great computer... Pentium 3 - hell if I know GHz 128 MB Ram 19 GB hd NVIDIA Vanta gfx lol...great pc, I'm gonna put XP on it soon, it's still got 98 on it, and it's never been formatted and reinstalled!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 my first pc was a Micron Millennia Pention 200MHz 96MB of ram 4GB HD 16MB Creative Rivia Graphics card. (Best at the time) 4X CD-Rom 300Watt power supply. 17in monitor Windows 95, then 98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted December 24, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 my first pc was a Micron Millennia Pention 200MHz 96MB of ram 4GB HD 16MB Creative Rivia Graphics card. (Best at the time) 4X CD-Rom 300Watt power supply. 17in monitor Windows 95, then 98 the computer was pretty good back then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 the computer was pretty good back then thanks it cost alot too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PioneerCrazed Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 A Compaq Presario from about '98. AMD K6-2 400mhz 128mb pc100 12gb HD DVD drive and a ZIP drive(Never used that). Top of the line at the time, the whole package including the 15" monitor was about $1200, ouch! Still running in my room though, the Zip drive was ripped out a long time ago and replaced with a CD-RW drive. I also upgraded to W2k from 98 recently, and finally added a stick of 128mb ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted December 24, 2005 Author CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 My first pc was a old HP 8mb of ram not sure how big the hard drive was pentium 1 60MHz win 95 o yeah i think this thing was 2000 dollars when my dad first bought it( i guess u could say this was not "my" first computer) BTW i still have this monster in my closet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kicoman Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Timex Sinclair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Funny how times change, technology advances, and prices drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunted 2 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 1.3ghz celeron 256 ram crap video and i forgot what else but it sucked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 my first was a c-64 but i forgot the spec lol that must been back in 1984 or something 1994 i bought this Compaq Presario 333 Mhz AMD K6 48 MB of RAM 4MB Videocard 2x AGP ATI Rage 8 GB hardrive VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane_floyd Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 I have played with a couple of old Texas Instruments and even a few old Apples (school in the 80s). But this is about PCs. After attending computer classes in 1999 I built the following machine. AMD K6III 400MHz (OCed to 500, K6IIIs are TOUGH and FAST, benchmarked higher than an 800MHz Pentium III) Aopen AX59Pro MoBo (rock solid) 64MB PC100 SDRAM (shortly updated to 128MB and then 256MB, RAM was expensive in '99) 10GB Fujitsi ATA66 Hard Drive (still use it for small backups, going strong, too bad Fujitsu is now defunct) Nvidia TNT2 M64 8MB AGP (operational but currently in drawer) Aureal Vortex 2 Sound (still in use) 15inch CRT monitor (had to be replaced 6 months later) Bootleg copy of Windows 98 (first edition) Lots of bootleg software ----------------------------- My friends dad still runs the MoBo and CPU till this day to bootleg Karoke disks (blah). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROM-DOS Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Ouch! Oh man, this made me laugh and cry at the same time. I'm sure it was an HP with an i486 DX-33 and 32MB of Ram ~ lol . . .Strange thing is, I don't think it came with that much ~ I must have upgraded! God ~ the prices back them! What was it? ~ I think Windows took something like 3-6MB or was it 12? . . .and the hard drive was 20MB ~ upgraded to 40MB! and I don't think I ever got close to filling it! ~ lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Does anyone remember the Tandy MC-10? Tape back-up (cassette tape!) Worked 3-4 days programming , maybe 2000 lines of code for nothing but a 1 dimensional robot W/ a horizontal light swing for its eye! After correcting the syntax errors (full day)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resopalrabotnick Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 first comp was a commodore c16+4 ca. 1986 first ibm compatible was a 286-12MHz, 640K ram, 256K VGA, 14" Color Monitor, 5.25 floppy (HD), 48 MB Seagate SCSI HDD (5.25" Full Height internal, 28ms random access), 9 Pin epson printer. quite the rig for about 2200 dollars in 1989. about the third of the price of a small pickup truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 486 x 66 IBM cannot remember all the specs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boston617 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 My first comp was an old TI 99/4A with the speech synth addon. My second comp was an old IBM AT portable computer (40lbs., size of a large suitcase) with 256Kb mem and an 8086 processor. It had dual 5 1/4 drives, no hard drive, built-in amberchrome screen, and a flip-down keyboard. The video card did have a CGA out for a color monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurricane_floyd Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 My first comp was an old TI 99/4A with the speech synth addon. My second comp was an old IBM AT portable computer (40lbs., size of a large suitcase) with 256Kb mem and an 8086 processor. It had dual 5 1/4 drives, no hard drive, built-in amberchrome screen, and a flip-down keyboard. The video card did have a CGA out for a color monitor. COOL! One of the laptop precursors. Good ol TI 99/4A, used to spend days coding simple pictures and music notes on them (had 2-used). Damn are we old or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 Doesnt it all give you a nolstalgic feeling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted December 24, 2005 CID Share Posted December 24, 2005 mine was...an IBM Aptiva...with a Pentium (1) @ 133Mhz...and...i think 32mb of RAM...and...a cd drive...and...Windows 95...and some ATI graphics card... =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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