My First Computer

[Paddy]

I had a 'small' Compaq laptop.

er...
386 SX 25Mhz
It had 4Mb of RAM upgraded from 2Mb
~60Mb (doublespaced) of HD space
on board graphics card

and a custom fitted car speaker!

PC speakers rule!

[Alec]

Oh, I forgot, and I had a OPTI 931 (Soundblaster PRO emulation) sound card...


Sorry, impact, maybe that brand is good, but looking back, it doesn´t seem very classy, you know .

[Jorden]

Not that it matters that much at this time, but the guy building his PC in that 44Mb video wasn't me, or else Paulcs would've seen Holly walking through the screen every frame, I guess

My first PC (after my trusty old C64) was a:
486-DX2-66MHz
Asus (something) mobo
32Mb RAM
810Mb drive
8 speed CD-ROM
Creatives SB32 PnP (the only thing original still in my PC )
S3-765 (Trio 64V+ compatible) with 2Mb
14" Hightech monitor
floppy drive

I soon afterwards bought an LS-120 (one of the 3 I have had since) and a Matrox M3D.
Lacking good drivers I looked around and found myself stranded on these fori

Jord.




[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 23 November 2000).]

[SteveC]

Hey! That video's sound track!! I recognise it......hmmm...uymmm... ermmm... it's coming to me... yes! It's one of the sample tracks from dance ejay!

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[agallag]

The first computer that I actually bought myself was a P-100 with a 1MB trident pci video card. It was pretty kickin' at the time. I had a couple c-64s, an amiga 500, and a 286, 386, and 486, all shared with my brother also.

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Andrew
Carpe Cerevisi

[Pneumatic]

It took me 4 min 30 sec to download. 3 min to watch. Someone out there owes me 7 min 30 sec!

[cerb]

My first pc (well, my parents bought it, but let's not get technical now... ) was an old (well, it was brand new at the time) 286. I think it was around 12 or 16Mhz (phwoar!) and had 1Mb RAM!! (double phwoar!!)

It had a 40Mb HDD, and 3.5" and 5.25" high-density drives.

The first serious one (read "multimedia") was a 486 sx25 with 4Mb RAM, 13Mb HDD, again 3.5" and 5.25" high-density floppies, Sound Blaster Pro, and double speed CD-ROM Best of all, it had a VESA local bus video card - 512k Trident TVGA (again, phwoar! )

I still have the SBPro and CD-Rom (highest bids, people! ) and HDD. Actually, if I look around hard enough, I've probably still got the 4Mb of 30-pin ram.

Ahh... the memories.

Cerb

[Liquid Snake]

My first PC happened to be a 286 as well.

286 at 8MHz (not sure of exact speed)
1MB RAM
512k video card
40MB Western Digital HD
No CD-ROM
No Soundcard
5.25" floppy and 3.5" floppy
14" Panasonic monitor

That's about all I remember.

[Rags]

My first computer was a Trash 80

Anyone remember these things? They were great, assembly required! I upgraded it with a floppy, and that's it. I programmed in BASIC on it, and it helped enormously for me to learn programming

ahhhh...memories

My first PC was again a home built baby, it was a 386, and had many transformations...even to a K6-233 in it's final form. It didn't have windows on it until about 6 months after windows95 was released.

Rags



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[paulcs]

My first work PC was a PC! Single floppy drive. Monochrome monitor with green text. I'd wind it up, first thing in the morning, and it was off to Lotus 1-2-3 heaven.

My second computer was an XT or AT, I can't remember which. It had *two* 5-1/2 floppy drives and an "enhanced" (amber rather green text) monitor. I believe it was powered by a squirrel on a threadmill.

My third computer was a state of the art Dell 286. It had a hard drive! It also had both 3-1/2" and 5-1/2" floppy drives. I found it curious that 3-1/2" floppy disks weren't "floppy" in the least.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[cerb]

Oh, yeah, that's right - our 286 was a Total Peripherals machine... wonder where they are now...

Cerb

[Admiral]

My first computer was an IBM 286 laptop. I remember playing some game called Abrahms or something, some kind of tank simulator, was about 9 or 10 years old.

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[Bixler]

You guys make me laugh!

Rags is the only one that comes close...the embarrasing thing is how little I've had to learn about what goes on under the hood in the meantime.

I was working at a radio station in between Audio shop jobs and they bought a double floppy trs80 to "program" the spot log for the dj's.

We "the advert. reps" had to actually do the programming by filling out these insanely cryptic log sheets filled with x's and o's and boxes that you checked off and 8 column arrays of diagrams that you drew pencil lines through. All so that the mighty comupter could print out a log that a secretary used to fill out by hand.

I quit 2 months later.

only to buy my first home machine some months later, a 286 (cutting edge at the time) with a 40 meg hdd and a full 1mb of ram!! Ran WP5.1 like a champ, and I churned out more sales flyers and correspondence than I ever have since. (does anyone remember the old WP 5.1 graphical view function key??) I wore that dude out!!

[aaroncgi]

I'll start with what you might call my first computer, though I'm not really going to count it. I bought my cousin's Atari 400 off him for probably $20 or something (if I recall, it sold new for $400). Had a whopping 16k or 64k of RAM! Floppy drive was optional, as was a tape drive, no hard drive. Ran everything off the ROM or cartridge. Gotta love the membrane keyboard! On the plus side, it was all one box so no cables to connect, and no fan so it was dead silent. Also came with composite audio and video out, but what do you expect from a video game company? (pretty much all Atari's followed in this tradition) But I'm rambling.. My first REAL PC was:

486sx33
some generic motherboard
came with 4MB RAM, which I upgraded to 8M at a cost of $135 (using all EIGHT slots)
had a generic isa video card, which I upgraded to a Trident 1M VLB card
No sound card, soon added a Gravis Ultrasound MAX - still think this was the best sound card, would still be using it today if it was supported in Win95/98 and Gravis was still making sound cards..
Didn't get a CD drive until two or three years after buying it, then my dad gave me an 8X Goldstar
Oh and it had a 210MB Connor hard drive

The only thing left from that system, is my Daewoo 15" CMC-1501BA1. I paid $380 for the thing back in '94, and it's still running like a champ and looking good on the 2nd head! How many 15" do you know that will do 1280 x 1024?? (albeit at only 60 Hz) Of course that makes text microscopic, as I run this setting on my 19" Samsung also..

Cheers!

Aaron

[Bixler]

You guys are WIMPS!!!

NO ONE has a story about the old 8088 with the combination numeric/function keys that were offered to me when I bought my 286 with the separate function keys on the keyboard????