Your first computer

#1 Postby **coriolis** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:41 pm

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.

Website · #2 Postby **Brent** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:52 pm

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 :lol:

) 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.

mf_dolphin · #3 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:11 pm

Kaypro 4

Z80 based 64 kb of RAM dual 160kb floppies

What a beast! :-)

#4 Postby **coriolis** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:43 pm

Is this it Marshall?

http://www.gaby.de/ekay10.htm

weatherlover427 · #5 Postby **weatherlover427** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:14 pm

I once had a computer that had one of those monitors with only 2 colors. :eek:

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! :lol:

#6 Postby **azskyman** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:45 pm

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.

ColdFront77 · #7 Postby **ColdFront77** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:29 pm

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 1st, 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.

#8 Postby **LAwxrgal** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:08 am

Commodore 64

therock1811 · #9 Postby **therock1811** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:20 am

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.

NWIASpotter · #10 Postby **NWIASpotter** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:07 am

I had my first computer a long time ago, and guess what, I still have it now!! :lol:

Skywatch_NC · #11 Postby **Skywatch_NC** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:46 pm

A Midwest Micro that my Dad and I shared.

Eric 8-)

breeze · #12 Postby **breeze** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:39 pm

"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! :lol:

#13 Postby **pojo** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:20 pm

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.

#14 Postby **coriolis** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:00 pm

We have a serious generation gap here. It makes me feel like I should remember the horse and buggy days.

Lindaloo · #15 Postby **Lindaloo** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:36 pm

coriolis wrote:We have a serious generation gap here. It makes me feel like I should remember the horse and buggy days.

ColdFront77 · #16 Postby **ColdFront77** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:39 pm

I live a generation gap every single day even if computers didn't exist. 8-)

Martinsville Weather · #17 Postby **Martinsville Weather** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:27 am

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.

chicagopizza · #18 Postby **chicagopizza** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:20 am

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.

frankthetank · #19 Postby **frankthetank** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:41 am

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!)...

#20 Postby **vbhoutex** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:58 am

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.

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