My first computer was an Amstrad in the 80's. Am I the only one ?? Games were better on the C64, but it did do word processing and other stuff.
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My first computer was an Amstrad in the 80's. Am I the only one ?? Games were better on the C64, but it did do word processing and other stuff.
How far we've come:
www.old-computers.com
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"I'm not a real doctor, I just play one on VDr!"
My first one was a 20 Digit with Bio Memory system. Still got all of them, but the memory is weak at times with slow access times.
First commercial putter was a Data General Mini that had neat toggle switches on the front so when you trouble shot it you could walk the program thru 1 bit at a time. Needed to set to octal 318 to boot. Had neat 8" floppys that you you could tape to a coat hanger and make a good fly swatter.
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Wow talk about a trip down memory lane.
My first (comp that is) was an atari or C64. My ol' man bought it for me when it just came out.
Then came a 286 IBM
and i have litterally went thought 20 computers since then. Blowing some up, fixing up others. and still trying to get top notch. but Top Notch is getting up'd every month or so. So it is rather had to have a Top of the line computer. One day i will get there though.
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It was a used NEC 286 when I first got mine back in 1994. Had the store upgraded it to 386 six months later and eventually got to 486DX 100MHZ after a year. It was in 1997 when I first put together my own pc from scratch. The computer store owner eventually got tired of me asking him questions and he was the one who encouraged me to pry open my computer case and fool around with it and read more computer magazine. So, I did. My trips to his store decreased dramatically since then. The following computers I put together were P133, AMD 266, PII 450 and finally, my current PIII 700. It was amazing to see how much good the store owner advice had made me.
Asus P3B-F
PIII 700MHz
Maxtor 80gig 7200 ATA/133
Seagate Barracuda 10gig 7200
256MB RAM
Voodoo 3 2000 AGP video card (16MB)
Turtle Beach Montego II sound card
TDK VeriCD 24x10x40 CD-RW
CDROM 52X
Motorola 56K internal modem
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Thanx
9th grade teacher with a really fat ruler. Learned to count real quick. We called her a calculating B......
Well never mind.
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"Don't know where I'm goin but there's no sense being late"
My first computer was a Tandy 1000.
After that one, I got a Compaq Presario with a Pentium 133 mHz.
Now I have a computer that I built last year. It is a AMD Athlon 700mHz, 50x CdROM, 48x 24x 48x Yamaha CD-RW, 600 mb SDRAM. This was my first attempt at building a computer and it is still going strong. Still fairly fast too compared to my Compaq.:D
My first machine was a Packard Bell 1720 P200 with 32MB EDO RAM, and a 5.1GB 5400 RPM drive, 56K modem, and Windows 95OSR2.
It was an OK machine, but just did not have the punch that I wanted in a machine.
I now have 11 machines, all networked, and the one I am currently using is a PIII 733, with 768MB SDRAM, 1 60GB drive, and a 10GB drive, both 7200 RPM, and a CDRW drive, and it runs Windows 2000Pro. There is a big change from what I started out with. I would not trade any of my machines for anything else at this point. I would also build any new machines in the future too, and not buy any of the ready made variety.
My, things have changed since the old days of late 1997.... ;)
After 6 months this thread suddenly comes back to life - fftaz336 are you related to Dr Frankenstein ?
My first one was in November 1999, a Compaq Presario micro-ATX with 475-MHz AMD, 64MB PC-100 SDRAM, 8-GB HDD, onboard audio and 8-MB video, with a PCI modem.
I upgraded with a ZIP drive, then an 8X HP CD-RW, then up to a 40-GB HDD that it turned out my Compaq mobo wouldn't accept.
I got a new case, an Intel D850GB mobo, 1.4-GHz P-4, 256 MB RDRAM, an ATI All-in-Wonder vidcard, a Soundblaster PCI512 sound card, and a DVD-ROM drive.
Then I sold the 15" Compaq monitor and got a 19" Envision flat screen CRT.
Then I got a 32X Lite-On CD-RW, a scanner and a faster printer.
Now I have a second hard drive, 80-GB, and I have spent a lot of money by now. :)
My first computer I made at 1990 and it was hand made IBM-PC XT 8088. I mean I soldered IC on empty PCB myself.
Then about 1993 I replaced it with standard IBM-PC XT by Russian origin with 20M HDD.
At 1994 I bought 386DX40 without soundcard and CD-ROM which I continue to upgrate for present days.
Now I have Celeron 850.
Apart from word processers by Amstrad, my first PC was a Fountain, Made in USA and still going strong after 7 years. great stuff, uncomplicated, easy to use and in all departments first rate.
Todays machines are wonderful, but mainly O.T.T, who wants to move around at near the speed of light anyway ?
My kids were small and paid $3500.00 for an Apple II GS (graphics and sound). Back then was told IBM was on the way out and all the schools were going to Apple computers. After about 5-6 years I got smart and went into a Best Buy and picked out the computer I wanted. Took the little card that listed the specs and then took it to a neighborhood computer shop and had him build it for half price.
But like some of the others, I started with a slide rule.
OK, you asked for it:
1) Fingers
2) Fingers & Toes
3) TI Red LED Calculator (wasn't allowed on tests!)
4) C64 w/ 1541 Flash Drive, Commodore official monitor, paper-reader (all this stuff still works, but I can barely remember HOW to work it)
5) Original IBM PC, serial # xxxxx253 (was a dealer at the time)
6) IBM XT! (no way I'll EVER need more than 10meg HD, right?)
7) Generic 386-40 (Cyrix chipset, what a dog!)
8) Pentium 133
9) Pentium 300
10) AMD Thunderbird 1.0 ghz, fully loaded, lots of crap, lots of peripherals, more crap (current!)
All of the above, with the exception of #7, which I pawned off on an unsuspecting relative, are under covers, in storage, still operational (cause I don't have time to make boat anchors out of them).
Do I win anything?
:cool: