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My first is a Compaq7478... 533mhz K6-2,,, 8X DVD,,,, 4X CD-RW... 30g 5400 hard drive... It ran Win98 and had to have it reinstalled dern near every week... Part my fault part the machine...
My then boss had a Win2k upgrade that he was going to use until someone told hime it had "16 million bugs in it"... So I bought the upgrade installed and that combined with changing the Compaq memory made it bullet proof...
It's now my server running every server application I can throw at it from eDonkey to e-mail...
It's at 550mhz,,, uses a K7 cooler,,, has 512megs (the maximum),,, 1 30g 7200 and 2 40g 7200 drives,,, a 300w PS,,, and runs Win2K Advance Server...
It's like a child,,, I love it and am proud of what it's become...
Jeez,,, I spend to much time with my computers...
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My brain and flash cards to do the math.
electronically? the first commercial palm calculator.
pc? hp 86B statistical with math coprosessor. like 16hz
go figure. my calculator ran faster than that!
Now I kinda laugh at all the xsystems @ 1600x+ gigs? LOL..
I know we've heard it before mach..
Go tell it to the engineers!!
mach :D
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MY first computer was a commodore 64, then a 128. Then a couple of years later got a mac LC, the nice little one. Still have it but it's in storage.
Then went to a 386 and learned how to really mess up a computer.Finally learned enough to build my first machine using old parts for the most part. Didn't get on the net until about 3 years ago when I got a machine that would actually work.
I now have a 1.3 gig Tbird running XP Pro and for the most part it's running great. Still have a couple of minor problems but working on them.
Ain't it great how you learn what not to do faster then what you should do???
cheers mac :cool:
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my first pc was a gateway 450 mhz. Jumped in with both feet in 99 . Just opened the box on my new alienware area 51 custom yesterday 2.81 GBz pentium 4 on a ASUS mother board and 1 GBz memory :D running windows xp pro.
sandman
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1. SlideRule
2. Calculator -WOW
3. ATARI, ATARI,ATARI - ASC and saving programs to a Tape Recorder, and playing that ping pong game...
4. Zenith Z248 don't remember the specs.
5. Wal Mart Special 386SX/16Mhz - a whopping 2MB RAM, 40MB HDD - it zoomed along.. Added a 14.4 Modem all by myself, geez it was quick.
6. Local computer shop put in a 486DX2/66Mhz motherboard and 8 MB RAM I think about $199. Now I had a fast burner - it was fast.... after this I figured out hey I can do these upgrades myself, why pay the computer nerd to do it....
7. Bought my 1st Tower case and moved everything from the 486 into the Tower - hey it worked too...
8. Upgrade's: Added to that 486: 32MB RAM; 4MB Video Card; A whopping 520MB HDD and a Math Co-Processor - now that thing was like a dragster...
9. Ah my first Pentium -built with these hands, using same tower: CyrizPR233 - 64MB Ram, 8MB Vid Card and a HUGE 1.2MB HDD - I was screaming.
10, Between the Cyrix PR233 and my current system, several motherboard's, Cyrix PR 333, then went to AMD K6-2, 350, 400, 450, 500, about 3 different mobo, several Vid Card's gradually going from 8MB to 16MB to 32MB to current 64MB...
Finally, many years later sitting her with this 800Mhx celeron, 64MB Vid, 20GIG HDD, 256MB RAM blah blah blah. Next to the T-Bird then it will fly...
Of all the systems I have built and owned the best was the ATARI - WHY- it was simple, cheap (at that time) and not very upgradeable - look at the $$ I saved....
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IBM Model 30 286. (cost=2900.00 bucks) Upgraded it to Windows 3.1. Had to have some moe ram to get it to run well(another trip to the bank) As it turned out, I liked DOSSHELL better than Win 3.1. It had a 20.8 MB harddrive, one floppy drive and around 1 MB of ram.
After running Windows 3.1, I said: "This Windows operating system will never replace DOS"
After awhile I kinda got tired of it, though my wife used it for word processing. Then along came the thing we now know as the INTERNET, and we went out and bought a Compaq to surf the net. We now have two computers that I've built, plus high speed internet connections.
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l. Fingers
2. 10key adder
3. ti 55
4. This one and only Max Tech 3000 IBM clone (aren't they all) Pent 2, 366mghts (that for some reason runs at 400, I did nothing after the first format and reinstall has been running at 400 since?) with a rebuilt 50 dollar monitor that only had a 30 day warranty. Started with 32mb ram, then went up to 192 although 4 are for the built in video card. And if it wasn't for all the help at these tech boards i probably would have died two years ago. It keeps working for what I do so unless I win the lotto which I probably wont, I will keep going with this one as long as I can, or as long as I can keep win98 fe up and running. What can I say it only cost me 500 plus tax. Oh yea don't forget the 50 dollar monitor. Knock on wood ......
Oh yea I forgot I did use IBM computers at work but they weren't mine and all I did with them was wordprocessing and statistical analysis. Never messed with setting, registrys, or anything like that.
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My grandfathers used to (Might still) have the IBM PCjr.
I used to mess around with that when I was at my grandparents house, I learned BASIC on that thing.
My first Pc at home though, was a 33Mhz Packard Bell
It had no sound or CD-ROM, I later installed those myself.
It came with Win 3.1 but that somehow died on me, so I was runnning in DOS for about a year...Then I got Win95 and a a video card SVGA 1mb card.....hmmm oh yeah and there was only 1 SIMM Slot on this thing, I upgraded it from 4mb of RAM to 12mb.
My next computer was a compaq 5190 Which is still used as a family computer. It is 400Mhz, DVD drive, upgraded to 256 Ram, CD-Burner, Zip Drive, and 12 Gb hard drive.
And my current Pc I built in May is listed in my quote.
