For the geeks: Your first PC

[Lias]

What were the first computers/PC's you guys had?

First PC I ever used was an Apple in school, but I dont really remember it.

My first computer at home was an original C64 , with a tape running through my mums 14" tv. Many many many hours of my childhood were spent in front of this and its sucessor C64C

My first IBM was my dads 8mhz 286 AT, with I think 2mb of ram, but a whopping 110mb hard drive (MFM/RLL boat anchor style). We also had an XT with dual 360k floppies and dual 10mb HDD's but I rarely used it. I still remember the thrill of dad bringing home an EGA card and monitor and us upgrading from herc mono and being able to play police quest in 16 colours.. BLISS!

The first IBM I brought myself was a 386 SX-20, with 4mb of ram and a 40mb HDD for which I paid around a thousand bucks second hand. Also got my first modem around this time, a 1200 baud external monstrosity (it was not all that far descended from the acoustic coupler era). Discovered the internet and BBS's and life was good.

How about you guys?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Sinclair ZX 81, and a zx Spectrum then a C128D (I still have this), from there a XT then ummm hmmm a 286, then 386sx (it had 8mb ram wowsers) and a 80mb hdd then I got a 686 (with 64 me rab and 4 gig hdd) which still have and use as a linux test system. now we have 5 or 6 various systems , both PC, Mac and Linux most are under a year old of various size and power... (be a bit rusty on the full names and stuff)

http://nighthawk.muzic.net.nz/studio1.htm
the specs are bit old cause im too lasy to update it...

ZX81 ZX Spectrum
C64

[pervert]

I was upmarket, I got an Amiga 500 at about $3500 when I was very young...

[Disco Dan]

The Spectrum Sinclair.

[sAsLEX]

Amiga 500. We had two legit games and four cases of a few hundred other discs of games in the end. The best games were spread across 5 or 6 floppies.

[Indiana_Jones]

some compaq computer in 1997

-Indy

[riffer]

Some horrid thing that Dick Smiths brought out. Had a numeric keypad. All the programs had to be entered in via the keypad, in hex. urgh. (1976)

Then a Vic20, then a Commodore64.

Then got into them at school - a Challenger 1P, Apple IIGS, IIe, XT, AT

Then work - 386SX25, 386DX33, Mac Plus, Mac II, Mac IIci (with Rocket CPU Card, 37MB RAM, a 12 inch colour and A4 Radius Pivot), then a Quadra 700, Quadra 840AV, PowerMac 8100/80, PowerMac9500/180MP, PowerMac G3, PowerMac G4 Sawtooth 400, PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 733, PowerMac G4 Mirrordoor 1.25DP, then my current Mac - Dual 2Ghz G5/3.5GB RAM 24inch Cinema Display)

My personal computers since the Commodore 64 - Acer Extensa 366T laptop, Compaq Deskpro 4000, Compaq PIII 600, Toshiba Satellite 4300 laptops (still use one at home in the lounge for surfing KB), Apple PowerMac G4/400 Sawtooth customised with ATI Radeon 9600Pro, 2GB RAM, 21 inch G4 Display CRT, and a custom Athlon 64 3500/2GB RAM, Radeon X600 video & 17 inch Philips LCD.

Phew. That's about them all.

I can remember buying a 32MB drive, paying $600 for it, and having to partition it into 2 partitions cause DOS 3.2 wouldn't recognise a single partition of that size.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Some horrid thing that Dick Smiths brought out. Had a numeric keypad. All the programs had to be entered in via the keypad, in hex. urgh.

Then a Vic20, then a Commodore64.

Then got into them at school - a Challenger 1P, Apple IIGS, IIe, XT, AT

Then work - 386SX25, 386DX33, Mac Plus, Mac II, Mac IIci (with Rocket CPU Card, 37MB RAM, a 12 inch colour and A4 Radius Pivot), then a Quadra 700, Quadra 840AV, PowerMac 8100/80, PowerMac9500/180MP, PowerMac G3, PowerMac G4 Sawtooth 400, PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 733, PowerMac G4 Mirrordoor 1.25DP, then my current Mac - Dual 2Ghz G5/3.5GB RAM 24inch Cinema Display)

My personal computers since the Commodore 64 - Acer Extensa 366T laptop, Compaq Deskpro 4000, Compaq PIII 600, Toshiba Satellite 4300 laptops (still use one at home in the lounge for surfing KB), Apple PowerMac G4/400 Sawtooth customised with ATI Radeon 9600Pro, 2GB RAM, 21 inch G4 Display CRT, and a custom Athlon 64 3500/2GB RAM, Radeon X600 video & 17 inch Philips LCD.

Phew. That's about them all.

Oh yeah I forgot about the Vic20 I have one those in the spare room somewhere to I think... (or did I actually throw it to the tip...)

[bungbung]

First personal PC

Sord M23, Z80 processor 128k ram and twin 5 1/4" drives, a Z80 graphics card and 14" color screen. (about 1985)

First IBM clone was a 6Mhz 286 with a 3Mhz 387 co processor and a horrid yellow phosphor monitor and hercules graphics. 20meg HDD yay

[RantyDave]

As a kid I had a Sinclair ZX81 followed by a Spectrum.

Then nothing for about ten years.

Then an Amstrad PCW8256 (word processor with pretensions); an Atari ST for my last year in Uni; Nothing for about two years; A Brother laptop (piece of shit, never buy a brown computer); A P75; A P2-233 I got for a song when work went broke; An Athlon 1600; An iBook G3; A PowerBook G4 (for sale); And now an Intel MacBook.

Somewhere in there I ended up owning a PPro 180 (still being used as a server); a p3-700 overclocked to 933; a couple of MiniITX based machines (very reliable low end servers); a G4 PowerMac; a dual G4 PowerMac (recently upgraded too); and an Athlon64-3000 that's used by her indoors and for games.

In my defence about 3/4 of these were at least allegedly for a business at the time and four of them were second hand.

Old schoolers need to see this - http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

Dave

[TerminalAddict]

zx81
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[Flyingpony]

First computer machine was some Sega box well before Sega became popular.

[ArcherWC]

Apple IIE with the brown screen

many many hour of Elite on that

[XP@]

ZX80 :-P
dad helped me build it from kit form. it lasted about 2 weeks then blew up.
We built another one and didn't put the case together and pointed a modified hand held fan at it. It then lasted about a year when it was replaced by the zx81, after that the c64 which is still in my dads attic, and was still working about 6 years ago!

[Drum]

First computer machine was some Sega box well before Sega became popular.

The Sega SC-3000 perhaps? Which was my first.
Also had zx-81, Spectrum, Vic-20 and C64.

When I did computer studies at college, we were the first year that the course started. We had Vic 20's. The 20 stands for 20k, the amount of ROM that they had!!