ckuehner
Jul 16 2005, 07:33 PM
| | Just a curiosity issue for me. I know that a lot of you are very young (at least compared to me), so I imagine that some of the responses will be Pentium 3's or 4's.
However, bringing back memories of older technology is entertaining for me. So if you started "Back in the Good Ol' Days" I'd like to hear what you started with.
The first computer that I ever personally owned was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. It was a small thing that hooked upi to a television for a monitor.
The base system came with 1K of memory. There was no such thing as a hard drive at the time. We stored programs on tape (basically a standard audio cassette. I also had this big module that plugged into the back to increase my memory to 16K.
The graphics were pitiful by todays standards, but not bad for the time. I was able to play Frogger and a lot of Text Adventures. I also used it to learn programming in BASIC and Pascal. |
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snlildude87
Jul 16 2005, 07:46 PM
I think that I'm going to have the fastest-slow computer out of all you guys. My first computer ran on Windows 98. That's right. '98. It was 300 mhz, had a 6 GB hard drive and 64 MB of RAM. The graphics card was 2 MB.
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muksimp
Jul 16 2005, 11:11 PM
My first computer ever was like 133mhz, 64mb ram, 16mb video card and hmm 15" monitor and 24k modem if i remember right and teah windows 95 
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guangdian
Jul 17 2005, 01:40 AM
my first computer?? oh,let me think of it.. it's just can play some old ,,very old game... anyhow it 's just using windows3.1...it's so long a time when i'm just 18 years old i think.HA:)
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underworldskateboards
Jul 17 2005, 03:47 AM
Um my first computer was terrible it hardly even worked. It was a mac and it was bad. I still have it but it just sits in the corner being usless. But now i have windows xp and that's cool it works really good and runs smooth.
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TimothyA
Jul 18 2005, 01:41 AM
Mine was a Hewlett PackardBell...man, I could play any game on it I ever wanted, even leisure suit larry  I was 5 years old at that time, *cough*. Right now it's in pieces and the case collects dusts...needed to be thoroughly cleaned. I hope I will be able to put it togheter next week to make it my data storage computer running linux! 
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Dart-kun
Jul 18 2005, 03:28 AM
A windows '98. Thats all I can remember about it. **represses all the crashing**
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snlildude87
Jul 18 2005, 03:35 AM
QUOTE(underworldskateboards @ Jul 17 2005, 12:47 AM) Um my first computer was terrible it hardly even worked. It was a mac and it was bad. I still have it but it just sits in the corner being usless. But now i have windows xp and that's cool it works really good and runs smooth. Hehe. I remember using macs in classrooms. They had sweet games, too, like "Lights Out". I could never get all the darn lights to shut.  QUOTE(TimothyA @ Jul 17 2005, 10:41 PM) Mine was a Hewlett PackardBell...man, I could play any game on it I ever wanted, even leisure suit larry I was 5 years old at that time, *cough*. Right now it's in pieces and the case collects dusts...needed to be thoroughly cleaned. I hope I will be able to put it togheter next week to make it my data storage computer running linux! Lucky you. I remember my first computer being very fast, but over time (like all computers), it slowed down due to loads of useless softwares. It used to be able to handle shockwave and flash games, but since those have gotten complicated over the years, it can no longer handle anything anymore. That's why I don't connect it to the internet. QUOTE(Dart-kun @ Jul 18 2005, 12:28 AM) A windows '98. Thats all I can remember about it. **represses all the crashing** Haha, but doesn't Windows ME crash more?
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BuffaloHELP
Jul 18 2005, 06:04 AM
Apple IIe HA! Beat that! I spent a small fortune to upgrade my stock video card to 80x25 column with 64Kb of video for $80 back in those days. It had: 5.25 inch DS floppy drive Tape drive (it tooke me 4 minutes to load a golf putting game) 9" color monitor Apple stylewriter dot matrix printer and sound card that had only BEEP and BE-BEEP with different pitch It was a hand-me-down computer but I ruled the world with that back then. I had to use weird commands to list the directory. I think it was "category" or "catalogue" and it was very similar to Unix's ls command. I gave that away to my cousin and he ended up using it as a goal keeper.
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ManOfSTEEL
Jul 18 2005, 06:26 AM
QUOTE(ckuehner @ Jul 17 2005, 04:33 AM) The first computer that I ever personally owned was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. It was a small thing that hooked upi to a television for a monitor. The base system came with 1K of memory. There was no such thing as a hard drive at the time. We stored programs on tape (basically a standard audio cassette. I also had this big module that plugged into the back to increase my memory to 16K. The graphics were pitiful by todays standards, but not bad for the time. I was able to play Frogger and a lot of Text Adventures. I also used it to learn programming in BASIC and Pascal. Nice computer hah...Well, me When I was young or lets say young compared today. I am hoping to own my computer but can't afford to buy, When I was in high school I dont know whats the look of computer, still curious whats really computer is, when I was college, that was the first time ever that I used computers, no idea yet, don't know how to use the mouse, or even response to those computer message that sometimes appeared when booting in dos mode. After college I worked and started to save money just to own even old computers. I learned how to fixed computer and yet can't own one. After a couple of months of saving money for my computer I bought computer I don't know what version is that but pentium with 4mb of memory 500mb+ hardisk, I think that was older that pentium II,,,  I set it up and used it, I can't play games there because it runs very slow, when somebody asked me where he can buy computer even the old one, I offered to him my computer and sell it for Php5,000 pesos. NOTE, I bough that unit for only Php 3,500 so I've got a little earn from that and start building a new one. So the second computer I own is pentium III 550mhz with 128mb memory and the third one is AMD 800mhz and the last one is AMD Duron 2.0 with 512mb of memory that computer is the one I used while posting this post of mine During that time also I realized how fast the computer changed maybe 2 or 3 months there is a new computer on the market, so your computer today would be older by tomorrow or two...
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Parubilla
Jan 23 2009, 04:43 AM
Hahaha my first laptop was a Compaq with windows 3.1, I remember it used to be my dad's computer and it broke so he bought a new one and fixed the the broke one and gave it to me, I was sooo excited!!
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anheizhiye
Jan 23 2009, 02:31 AM
My first computer ever was like 700mhz, 128mb ram, 16mb video card and hmm 14" monitor, 256k modem if i remember right , the system os is windows 98:) Now my computer is 1.8Ghz, 1Gb ram, 32mb video card and hmm 17" monitor, ADSL, the system os is windows XP :)It works well!Because i don't like play game,so it is enough to me. In this spring,i want to buy a printer/fax/Copier multi-functional device,hehe.For work use! sincerely
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georgebaileyster
Jan 22 2009, 11:16 PM
A Commodore PET aka Metal Mickey within built in datasette complete with dot matrix printer no less. Ltaer progressed to the CBM Scientific with built in tool chip. Then a NEC APC with duel high density 8" floppy drives and duel prossesor 3D graphics card was running CBM which was far superior to MSDOS and I kept that running until I got an Apricot 486DX2 server. BTW they all still run today.
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sknsoftwares
Nov 25 2008, 10:10 AM
My first computer ran on windows 98 it was 500 mz of speed of intel pentium celeron. 64 mb of ram 10 gb of hdd. Moreover I am still having that computer with me I have not disposed it off as I am emotionally attatched to it a lot. After that I have bought two of them and one is a laptop. But now I have installed XP on it and upgraded the ram a bit. But hard disk is still the same 10 gb.
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hertonsils
Nov 25 2008, 01:49 AM
I rememvber mine was an old school IBM running Windows 3.1. I used to love that thing, amazing to think how far computers have come now.
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