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| Thread ID: 71697 | 2006-08-14 01:41:00 | Your first PC? | sarel (2490) | PC World Chat |
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| 478332 | 2006-08-15 07:31:00 | I had a amiga 500 then nothing for about 10 years or so then purchsed a windows me Hp around 2000 or 2001 not quite sure... | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 478333 | 2006-08-15 07:33:00 | Oh how I yearn for the old "C:\>" those were the days...before this modern fandangled windows thingy that took all my control away.......anyone remember the junkie virus? And then there was my Atari 800XL, what a powerhouse! |
straitjacket (9698) | ||
| 478334 | 2006-08-15 08:03:00 | The first computer our family had was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, back in 1983. It had a massive 16k of RAM and programs / games had to be loaded from cassette tapes. We had it upgraded to 48k of RAM and also got a micro drive for it, although the discs for the micro drive didn't have enough storage space to hold any decent programs or games. Around 1989 we got a Commodore PC 10, which was an 8086 with 640k RAM and a 20MB hdd. (I think those were the specs) Also had a CGA video card (max 4 colours on screen at any time for games) We also got a Star colour dot matrix printer with it and I think the whole bundle cost about $3500! Around 1992 we got a 386 (can't remember if it was SX or DX) and that was the last PC we bought pre-built. From then on I upgraded and built our PCs, ranging from a 486DX2-66 to what we use today, an AMD XP2500+ (will be getting upgraded when I get back to NZ in a few weeks!) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 478335 | 2006-08-15 09:25:00 | The first computer our family had was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, back in 1983. It had a massive 16k of RAM and programs / games had to be loaded from cassette tapes. We had it upgraded to 48k of RAM and also got a micro drive for it, although the discs for the micro drive didn't have enough storage space to hold any decent programs or games. This was also the first one that I owned, around 1985. And after that I decided all computers were useless and went outside to play rugby and beat up people instead. Never seriously used another one until 1999. I was forced to get an AMD k-6 500 running Win98 in 1999. After that I decided MS Windows sucked and went and played with *nix. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 478336 | 2006-08-15 10:13:00 | my first computer was a mac, it was so good we upgraded it to 8megs of ram (the highest @ the time) but as the saying goes ones you've had mac you never go back so im now full time pc lover :P :help: |
handya (3666) | ||
| 478337 | 2006-08-15 20:44:00 | Any of you ever played the mentioned Montezuma's Revenge? - imho the most addictable game in the world. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 478338 | 2006-08-15 21:17:00 | A PC Direct 486 DX 2 50 345 megs HDD 8 megs ram. Advertised as the Dream Machine. Re-christened by me The Nightmare Machine. Had at least 16 trips backwards and forwards to PC Direct. The motherboard was a dog. The PCU blew up. Three time DOA. The 14" monitor had a one inch border on each side. Ran out of adjustment. In the end they gave me a 486 100, and a new monitor. No further trouble. Dos 6.11 and windows 3.1 and Word 6. All good MS programs. None gave any trouble. Funny but in those days I thought Bill Gates was god and MS was the best software in the world. Didn't have any A/V. Used to play Doom off 2 floppies. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 478339 | 2006-08-16 07:22:00 | Mine was the Eniac 1,oh what fun I had changing the valves. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 478340 | 2006-08-16 07:54:00 | Mine was the Eniac 1,oh what fun I had changing the valves. All 17,468 of them... Even more fun paying the power bill Cicero. At today's prices the cost would be $25 - $30 per hour, assuming you had a large enough supply (equivalent to 100 normal house connections). My Burroughs E8000 cost me $48 to buy second hand, the IBM System/34 cost $51 second hand .... In $ per ton terms, it was quite cheap. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 478341 | 2006-08-16 11:21:00 | 1st pc i got was the vic 20 ...then the commodore 64 . the games i had for the c64 were flammin gr8 , they were on the 5/quarter disks i think it was, pretty sure. the games today r nice, but i sure did love the classics and 1 of my all time faves was "lemmings" cute little fellas lol :thumbs: off topic: just reminded me of the gr8 judge dread comics :D |
GhostBuster (10141) | ||
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