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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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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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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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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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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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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A windows '98. Thats all I can remember about it.

**represses all the crashing**

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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.


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.


Haha, but doesn't Windows ME crash more?

 

 

 

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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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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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