First computer?

[milliniar]

I've always done custom...so not sure.
Had amd athlon cpu, and ati graphics card...though may have put my voodoo3 in at first.
Probably 512mb ram, and probably a "large" 20gb HDD.
I won a voodoo3 when they first came out and put it in the house computer.
It had windows xp so was either late 2001 or 2002.

 

[General_Speckz]

First PC we had was a Windows 3.1 OS Pentium 75 mhz, 8 MB of RAM later upgraded to 16 MB and Windows 95. I was 13. Later I asked for an HP K6-2 AMD 333mhz 64 MB of RAM I believe, around 16.

Taught myself BASIC and C on that guy.

When GHZ processors, GB RAM, and TB HDD's came about dat computer life was so much easier. Now pretty much the only thing expensive on a PC is a newer CPU or Graphics card.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Pong? I had pong too before the C64, but that was a game, not a computer.

I can't remember what it was called, it was an orange consol you plugged into the telly and had joy pads with twisty knobs

 

[TeTe]

I can't remember for sure but it was around 1997. IBM 386 with a 2400 modem. Had Windows 95 on it.

 

[Loiosh]

 

[BitFlip]

I did a thread earlier on your first tape, CD, etc... but do you remember your first computer?

My parents bought me a C64 when I was a kid that was awesome. But, I bought my first computer for myself when I went to grad. school. It was Pentium 386 266 Mhz CPU with something like a 2 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM, and a 4 MB video card. I'm pretty sure most of that is correct. I thought I'd never fill the hard drive back then. It also came with VGA, 14" CRT monitor. Cost about $2k too.

My first computer was the Texas Instruments 99/4A which we bought for 10 bucks. I had a C64 later on. I think you are wrong about the Mhz speed of your 386 (16, 25 and 40Mhz were common speeds), and I also don't think you had a 2GB harddrive for it.

This but it barely counts as a computer although it was and it predates the commodore 64 of the TS.

Nothing wrong with the Speccy, it had a better Basic than the C64 for instance and a lot of exclusive games that were never ported to the C64.

 

[-Magua-]

IBM thinkpad in 1993.
Freshman year in hs.

 

[dc007]

Apple 2C was our first computer at home. I think that thing was like 5 grand when it came out.

 

[rj144]

My first computer was the Texas Instruments 99/4A which we bought for 10 bucks. I had a C64 later on. I think you are wrong about the Mhz speed of your 386 (16, 25 and 40Mhz were common speeds), and I also don't think you had a 2GB harddrive for it.



Nothing wrong with the Speccy, it had a better Basic than the C64 for instance and a lot of exclusive games that were never ported to the C64.

My bad... it was a Pentium II. Pretty sure the hard drive was that size though.

 

[Sharkey]

Commodore VIC 20 for me. Then on to the 64 after that. We also had Pong before anything as well.

 

[lowlife]

IBM PC Jr

 

[bigkick]

We had one of these things with the orange twisty joy stick ting

Then a Commodore 64

wait, we had something like this too before the Commodore. But it was called Pong and it just hooked up to the TV. Totally f’d our Tv too. Don’t recall a joystick. More like a dial sort of paddle - twist a puck like dial to move the on screen paddle.

 

[Sharkey]

I did a thread earlier on your first tape, CD, etc... but do you remember your first computer?

My parents bought me a C64 when I was a kid that was awesome. But, I bought my first computer for myself when I went to grad. school. It was Pentium 386 266 Mhz CPU with something like a 2 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM, and a 4 MB video card. I'm pretty sure most of that is correct. I thought I'd never fill the hard drive back then. It also came with VGA, 14" CRT monitor. Cost about $2k too.

Do you remember RUN magazine that used to include the coding for games and other programs within it? The games were all underwhelming, but the fun was in something coming to life after typing out 2, 3, or 4 pages of coding. Good times.

 

[lostdog000]

$1,000 used in 1987

 

[rj144]

Do you remember RUN magazine that used to include the coding for games and other programs within it? The games were all underwhelming, but the fun was in something coming to life after typing out 2, 3, or 4 pages of coding. Good times.

I used Computte's Gazette.

 

[My name is]

Does web tv count

 

[Grassshoppa]

 

[rj144]

Does web tv count

What?

 

[Sharkey]

I used Computte's Gazette.

I remember that mag as well. It was for those who were into more of the nerdy technical stuff than was RUN from what I remember.

 

[rj144]

I remember that mag as well. It was for those who were into more of the nerdy technical stuff than was RUN from what I remember.

Lot of MXL programming in my youth.