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Your first computer
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:41 pm
by coriolis
Credit to Pojo, for the inspiration for this one
What was your first computer?
Magitronic: 8088 processor 4.8 mhz
No ram, no mouse, monochrome monitor, DOS only.
But it had TWO 5 1/4" floppy drives. And yes, It was given to me free, second hand.
Then someone gave me a 386.
Then someone gave me a 486, which I upgraded to a Pentium 90 (overdrive processor)
Then someone sold me this 500 which I'm still using.
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:52 pm
by Brent
I can't remember all the specifics, but this is what I can remember
500MHz speed with dial-up
Got it for Christmas in 1999. Had it until February 2003 when it started freezing up every 5 minutes. We got cable internet in January last year when we moved down here(NO DIAL-UP NUMBERS
) and I love this new one(2.4 GHz), although it's currently infected in spyware and isn't totally running right. Most of the time it does, but occasionally it's annoying.
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:11 pm
by mf_dolphin
Kaypro 4
Z80 based 64 kb of RAM dual 160kb floppies
What a beast!
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:43 pm
by coriolis
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:14 pm
by weatherlover427
I once had a computer that had one of those monitors with only 2 colors.
It also had a dual 5 1/4" floppy disk drive unit; and the rest I can't remember because I was too young. But I know it was heavy as heck and loud as heck!
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:45 pm
by azskyman
My first computer was an Apple IIe with duodisk drive capable of something like 128k of RAM. Monochrome screen was green, as I recall. I followed that up with a Mac PowerPC. Then a G3 laptop (I still use it at work), and now a Gateway 500S.
Each computer cost less than the one before yet each is faster and more capable than the one before too. I spent over $2,300 on that Apple IIe.
I tried to give it away back in 1997...but once they plugged it in, they decided it was not worth the effort.
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:29 pm
by ColdFront77
I had, well, it was more mine and my siblings (not so much my sister than it was my three brothers) had a (Commodore) Vic-20 and then a Commodore 64. Those were the days with those huge "diskettes."
I never had access to a computer from the early '90s to Monday, March 1
st, 1999. Although I accessed the internet from a computer lab at the college in the town I lived in in Massachusetts during the mid '90s.
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:08 am
by LAwxrgal
Commodore 64
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:20 am
by therock1811
Never heard of some of these brands...but I'm sure they were all well before I knew what a computer was. Which BTW I didn't figure out what they were until about 1998.
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:07 am
by NWIASpotter
I had my first computer a long time ago, and guess what, I still have it now!!
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:46 pm
by Skywatch_NC
A Midwest Micro that my Dad and I shared.
Eric
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:39 pm
by breeze
"IBM Compatable" 486 with a 14.4 modem,
Windows 3.1! LOL, I could wash and dry two
loads of clothes, waiting for a Java applet
to load up!
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:20 pm
by pojo
Compaq Presario 1200 series laptop 256 MB ran Microsoft 2000 ME. CD-ROM drive Diskette drive. Had it for 3 years.... hard drive crashed. Had to use removable ethernet card hook-up for internet.
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:00 pm
by coriolis
We have a serious generation gap here. It makes me feel like I should remember the horse and buggy days.
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:36 pm
by Lindaloo
coriolis wrote:We have a serious generation gap here. It makes me feel like I should remember the horse and buggy days.
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:39 pm
by ColdFront77
I live a generation gap every single day even if computers didn't exist.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:27 am
by Martinsville Weather
I got a very old 386 (upgraded to 486 before I got it) in about 1996 or 1997 for $100. Then I got my new Gateway with Windows 98 in 1999, which we still have along with my Dell laptop that I got last year.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:20 am
by chicagopizza
It was an apple from 1983. I recall being more interested in my first Atari at that point though. ET and Pong were such a blast.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:41 am
by frankthetank
I had a Packard Bell DX2 66MHZ (not the pentium)...It had 480mb Hard Drive-4MB RAM and a 14inch monitor--i paid---gulp----1500 dollars for this beast...oh yeah, it connected @ 2400BAUD...UPGRADED a year later to 14.4 (WOW)talk about high speed...now i'm running 3MEGS and sometimes I complain that stuff isn't loading fast enough....back then, however, graphics weren't anything, most communication was chat rooms (BBS's)...Google didn't exist (THE HORROR!)...
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:58 am
by vbhoutex
Tandy 1000 was 1st. I think we got it in 1987. Since then we have had a couple of PowerMacs (6400 and something else) and now have a Dell dude and my son has a Compaq(I can't remember the specifics). The PowerMac is sitting in the corner awaiting us formatting the HD before we give it away.