For the geeks: Your first PC

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Im showing my age...

So what does that say about me and my 1st puter...

[Jantar]

The first computer I ever used was an IBM 360. The first I owned was a Dick Smith System80 with 16 kb of Ram, followed by a 64 kb TRS80, then an Amstrad 286 with a 20 MB HD, an IBM 386 with a 120 MB HD which got upgraded to 486, then pentium etc etc, until it just couldn't be upgraded any more. It finished 16 MB ram and 4 GB HD, and I still have it here tucked away in the spare room, but haven't used it for some time now.

[Mr. Peanut]

Acorn Electron

10 Print "Fuck I hate BASIC"
20 Goto 10
Run

[rainman]

Oh this is sad... My first computer was a Compukit UK101, which I built from a kit. Buying this took almost all my wages from the electronics shop I was working in - and who I bought the kit from.

After that, a weird CP/M machine with 8" floppies called I think an Ibex, a zx80, then zx81, then spectrum, I think there was a vic20 in there too but that might have been a mates, assorted apple ii's, an epson hx20, a sanyo mbc550 (8088 processor?), and many IBM compatible pcs from XTs to the present including one of those breadbox-style PCjr things and just about one of everything else up to my current P4 something. Might have missed a few. Never a mac though, for some inexplicable reason - I'd buy one today if I didn't think the non-existent money would be better put towards a decent cruiser...

I was offered an IBM System/34 once, but didn't have room in my garage, so the owner cut the drive bays out the front and installed a small bar fridge instead, with shelving for spare beer in the sides where the huge 64M drives used to go.

[limbimtimwim]

My first computer was probably one of the first clones of an IBM XT in the country. After that, just a usual progression of x86 based shit.

Old man made a few bucks selling those back in the day.

Probably the most exotic system (Which isn't really) I've got is a SparcStation 10 in the wardrobe though with half a dozen hard disks and 128mb of ram, which back in the day would have cost an absolute stack of cash. It's got a single 40MHz cpu, I could put in another CPU but I'd need to find another SS10. It still goes, uptime is a sad 29 days at the moment due to a powercut. It runs my email and webserver.

[Magua]

1998 my first comp. HP something. 266mhz, something like a 5gb hard drive, if that. :S

[Rhino]

DSE VZ200 with 16k RAM, cassette tape loading. Upgraded to VZ300 with 5.25 floppy. Z80 based machine that I used to write assembler on. At the same time I was looking after an Epson QX10 cp/m 2.2 machine at work. No h/d, put the cp/m boot disk in drive a: and your application disks in drive b:

Since then I have had Intel 286, 386, 486, Pentium 90, PII, PIII and P4 machines with various O/S installed. At work I have used a multitude of machines and O/S's including SCO, DOS, Win95 to XP, BSD and Linux.

[deeknow]

What the hell we're doin talkin up all this geek stuff on a bike forum I dont know, but the 1st machine I ever actually paid for (with my hard-earned pocket money) was a programmable Casio FX-702 (pic attached) which I bought in 1982. I thought it was a mighty thing at the time, on-board BASIC interpreter, I/O port (I bought a thermal printer to go with it), 12-character LCD display, 3kB of memory.. yee ha !!! what more could you want

all my friends were jealous of course... oh wait a minute, no they weren't

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

we had a sharp similar thingy at school... spend hours typing in the code to find out you made a typo and it didn't do what you thought it did..

them were the days

[RantyDave]

a SparcStation 10 in the wardrobe though with half a dozen hard disks and 128mb of ram. It runs my email and webserver.

You, sir, are a geek. We need a special geek certificate for this sort of thing. If you ran IRIX you'd get a golden geek certificate.

Dave

[Pathos]

I played on my dad's trs80 for five minutes before begging him to let us take it apart with a screwdriver.

The first computer that I fell in love and the first new computer we bought with was our HP pentium 150mhz with win95. QBasic rocked and it could play interstate 76.

My first machine was a AMD 2500+ barton system that I'm on ATM. Fantastic machine. It's my younger brothers late christmas present.

My first brand new machine is sitting next to me waiting for the motherboard to arrive. Core 2 duo extreme overclocking ftw ....

[Shadows]

ZX81 with a whopping 8K of RAM. Later it was upgraded with the 16K RAM pack before being redeployed as a door wedge.

[Donor]

Ahhh... my dead sexy Commodore][ - cost of around $900 (I got it cheap!) approx 20 years ago... didn't have the coin to upgrade to the uber powerful Commodore 128, so just had to keep bribing me mate with booze and pirated software to let me play Barbarian on his. (It loaded SO much faster from floppies vs the old Dataset!)

Still have it sitting in my garage, working well... need a joystick though, so's I can do the Spinning Web Of Death move... that rocked!

Nowadays, progressed through the XT/AT wars, fallen in and out of love with Intel, and currently shacked up with AMD. Duron 1800 in my desktop with 512MB and an ancient GeForce2 MX 4000 32MB card ... yes, **32MB** I just don't need anything more than that, it displays my essential pics at 1280x1024 in 32 bit just fine thankyewverrrymooch!

The lappy is a run of the mill Compaq V2000, running Kubuntu, so nyah nyah to Billy Gates... and an ALL wireless LAN, so's I can sit in my dunny and post messages on what PCs I have had and seen, and still use today... cripes... pass me a match will ya?

[scracha]

Atari 65XE. Then a Commadore 128, then a Spectrum 128, then Amiga, then an Amstrad 286. Then various PC's. If work is mentioned then the nicest were rackmounted arrays of Power PC's and Sharc processors. Quad core PC's are for girls.

Atari basic + 6502C assembler...mmmmmm