First computers Thread

**alti** · 07-11-2005, 04:57 AM

Elmos post in the non carputers thread got me thinking it would be interesting to see what everyones first computer was.

I had a some sort of "computer" that worked with my intellivision game console, it would let you program in BAsic and record to tape. had a musical keyboard attachment too. Also my mom was a teacher and they let her bring home an apple IIe for a couple of summers when school was out.

But my first PC was:
Wang 386 SX 20 mhz
2 MB RAM
EDIT: 20 Meg HD
5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy drives
I think the onbord video was 256k (I think it did 640x480 @ 256)
2400 baud modem
14" VGA monitor
came loaded with dos 5.0 and windows 3.0

later upgrades:
A 1 MB video card
2 more Megs of ram for 4 total.
a 486 upgrade kit (plugged into the coprocessor plug in I think) claimed to make the computer a 486 sx20
A single speed CDROM with a tray that you had to put a CD into before loading it into the drive.
A sound card of some sort, (I honestly dont remember what it was)
14.4 k modem

**ATXaccord05** · 07-11-2005, 05:10 AM

mine was an apple II and I played games on it most of the time. haha

**shizzle** · 07-11-2005, 05:30 AM

I dont remember the specs of my first computer, except that there wasnt even a meg of ram! I can't beleive your first pc had 20 gigs!! Mine had 40 MB!!!!! I think, but could be wrong, that it was running at 14 MHz. Only had a 5.25 floppy for removable media.

The first pc I had that I remember the specs:
HP 66mhz, 8mb ram, 500MB HD (somewheres around there, cause there was only 400mb left with windoze)
It cost almost $100 to double the ram, and it still played video choppy.

**alti** · 07-11-2005, 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by shizzle

I dont remember the specs of my first computer, except that there wasnt even a meg of ram! I can't beleive your first pc had 20 gigs!! Mine had 40 MB!!!!! I think, but could be wrong, that it was running at 14 MHz. Only had a 5.25 floppy for removable media.

The first pc I had that I remember the specs:
HP 66mhz, 8mb ram, 500MB HD (somewheres around there, cause there was only 400mb left with windoze)
It cost almost $100 to double the ram, and it still played video choppy.

oops,sorry that was 20 megs

**shizzle** · 07-11-2005, 05:58 AM

Originally Posted by alti

oops,sorry that was 20 megs

LOL... That is WAY more like it. I was confounded.

->

**rustyboxx** · 07-11-2005, 06:03 AM

Mine was a BBC B with 32k Ram, double floppy drives, RGB monitor, dot matrix printer - Awesome! Actually, I still have it if anyone is interested

Mostly played Elite on it and wrote some little programs

**sweetlikealemon** · 07-11-2005, 06:12 AM

EPSON XT (based on IBM Extended technology)
8086 CPU 4.7 Mhz
640KB RAM
Hercules Graphics Adapter (monochrome)
10mb HDD
5.25'' FDD 360k

Now this was around 1984/5. I was only 4 years old!

**DarquePervert** · 07-11-2005, 08:11 AM

My first computer was a TRS-80 Color computer.
I had a Star SG-10 dot matrix printer, a 300bps modem (VERY WarGames!) and a floppy drive.

My first PC was a Tandy 1000, which was early XT-class. I upgraded it to 768K of RAM. It had two 5.25" floppy drives and I added a 20MB "hard card" (a HDD on a controller card that went into an 8-bit ISA slot) and a 2400bps modem.
CPU ran at a whopping 6mhz.

**DJSmiley** · 07-11-2005, 08:47 AM

My first computer: A commodore 64, which sucked and did only work for a few moths...

My real first computer, which I worked on for several years, and still loving it: a MSX. Started with a MSX1 with tape recorder, upgraded to a MSX2 with 720kb floppydrive... 3.58Mhz, very cool graphics / sound (For that time), and the first computer using 3.5" disks instead of the fragile 5.25 **** from that time.

Since I was like 13 years or so, I couln't pay a real computer, so I used my MSX2 for years, till I upgraded to a Pentium 200 MMX. At that time I started working to earn money, so from that moment I regulary upgrade my PC.
I also bought a CD burner (payed like $300 for a crappy 2x Philips CD writer) and a 33k6 modem.

Now I still have a rather old machine, but it works like a charm, no need to upgrade. Now have a Dual P3 1Ghz / 1.5Gb ram / 18Gb 15k SCSI / TI4200 GF card (dont play much games). All storage (5x160Gb) is in my server.
And I have 2 notebooks: A P3 850 (Evo N400c) and a P4 2.0Ghz (Evo N800v) Internet:
my 33k6 has upgraded to 56k, ISDN (64k), cable (1.5Mbit), DSL (2Mbit), DSL (8Mbit) and by the end of the year to 20Mbit. Traffic has increased even more: avarage of 150-200Gb / month at the moment.......