What Was Your First Computer?

[Dove19983]

486DX2 77Mhz
410MB HD
RAM dont know
Video dont know.

I still have all the parts.

[vagpap]

I am proud to have started with an Amstrad CPC6128 (4MHz Z80,128K ram, disk drive 3", colour monitor and stereo sound, could connect a printer, a second diskdrive and a tape recorder)
Long live 8-bit.....
Anyone remember these?
Here in Greece they were very popular back in 1986 when I bought it.
It was far better than C128

Vangelis

PS:
Still in use just to play Ikari Warriors, Kick Off and Golden Axe!!!!!!

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[GunHo]

Timex sinclair 2000
vic 20
commodore 64 (and 3grand of software and hardware)
apple 2 gs
486 dx66
etc....

[GunHo]

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[cooter007]

Apple IIc 1984 and I still have it!!!!

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[Darknyt]

TRS-80 A.K.A. Trash 80 (16K RAM)

Pretty pathetic until I made my first real PC 19 years later......

Intel Celeron 400
ABIT BX6 Rev.2
8mb VGA AGP card
128 MB PC-100 RAM
9.1 GB SCSI HDD
SCSI CDROM 14X
SCSI Writer 4X

[Tron]

My first computer

was a Schneider Euro PC a 286 without
Harddrive and ~640k ram, and Monocrome Monitor in Orange

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[awforrest]

A Panasonic Sr. Partner:
a luggable computer with an

8088 processor
10" or 12" green phosphor display
20 MEG hard drive
512K of RAM
5 1/4" floppy
built-in thermal printer
weight: 35 lbs.

[vintron]

Pentium 120 Mhz
8MB 60ns RAM EDO
1.2GB Quantum Fireball
1.44 FDD
14" Monochrome
101 buttons Keyboard
2 Button Mouse


that's all.

[FeOats]

Great topic! My first computer was some IBM clone back in late 1987. It had 2 floppy drives, the big honking floppy drive size, lol. No hard drive. No graphics card, no sound, no nothing. Just DOS and WordPerfect and less than 1 MB of memory. I was such a greenhorn and didn't want to mess with upgrading, besides, I used the computer to work out of my home. Cost $1500. I still have it but it has long since died. Blew out a monitor which was monochrome in the first 3 months. Lost a lot of data due to power surges. That computer was frustrating! It was years before I ventured to get the next one which was a 486, 500MB harddrive, Win95, 1mb video, 8mbRAM, no CD-Rom, no soundcard (I added the CD-Rom and soundcard later). The third computer was a Cyrix 200mhz, 4gig harddrive, 64MBRAM, 2MBvideo, CD-Rom and sound card transferred from the 486. The fourth computer was from Gateway, PII 450Mhz, 40gigs, 16MBvideo, 16xDVD, 16x10x40 CD-RW (yes, some of the hardware are recent additions) and is the one I use now.

[defaultuser]

Tandy 1000ex
640k Ram
2 360k floppies
RGB monitor
DOS 2.1
Then,
IBM 5150
8088
640k ram
Seagate 21MB HDD
360k floppy
Monochrome monitor
And even had a parallel port on the video card.Wow.

Still have the IBM.Still boots.Runs Windows 3.0. (Yeah. I know. Why?)

[nishant]

A 386DX with 8 megbyte ram

[Spelljammer]

In case anybody wants to know:
My first computer was an Amiga 2000 with 1 MB memory and a second floppy drive, bought in 1987. Later it was upgraded with 2 MB and a 120 MB HDD.
When my father bought an AMD 386DX-40 (4 MB RAM, 200 MB HDD, 2 MB VGA) I didn't waste a glimpse on it until 1996. This one got upgraded with a sound card, cd-rom and 4 MB.
In 1997 I built my first self-made PC. It was an AMD 486DX4-133 (P75!) with 16 MB RAM, 4 MB VGA (Matrox Mystique) and 2.5 GB HDD.
Follow ups were:
1. intel Dual P166MMX (later upgraded to 233MMX) with 64 MB, 4.3 GB HDD, Voodoo1 4 MB.
2. intel Celeron 300A@450 with 128 MB PC100, 10 GB HDD, RivaTNT 16MB.
3. (now) intel Celeron2 566@966 with 512 MB PC133CL2, 2 x 30 GB HDD RAID0, GeForce2MX 32 MB.

[SPEEDO]

I think it was a TI64 or something like that. It was a while ago in a time far away!