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What was your first PC

What did you start your computing life with??

from JoeUser Forums
Allright, I think I'll start one of these get to know your community threads.
What was the first PC you owned or worked on? 286, 386, Pentium I, II, III etc.
Mine was a Radio Shack TRS80 Model 4 (basic language computer) my company bought for me to do survey closures, roadway design applications and some basic drainage programs. I believe it was 1983 or late 82.
There been a whole lot of others since. Currently I use a Pentium IV Laptop. What a ride it's been.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The 1st PC I worked on was a Commodore 64 owned by my cousin. The 1st PC I owned was a Timex Sinclaire 1000.
When writing a program and press enter the page would refresh, the longer the program the longer it took to refresh.
It was the year 1981 (I think) and I paid about $120.00 for it. [What a rip-off ]
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First computer was a Commodore 128D which had a separate case with a built-in large floppy drive w00t!! and a keyboard. I had that thing for over 10 years. When it started acting up I'd just give it a good ole THWUMP!! on top of the case and all was better I used it for spreadsheet, word processing and games.

First PC was a Packard Bell P200, 16MB RAM, 2.5GB HDD, 4X CD-ROM, 2MB Video Card, running Win95. I used it for spreadsheet, word processing and games.

Now....Home Built P4 533HT 3.06GHz, 1024GB DDR Dual-Channelled, two 120GB Seagates, ATi 256GB Radeon 9550, SB Audigy2 ZS, Klipsch Speakers....

....spreadsheet, word processing and games
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My computer history goes something like this; Atari 130XE, Amiga 500, 486-40DLC, K6-300, K6-500, P3, then a couple of P4's
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
THe first I ever used was a Radio Shack TRS-80 (affectionatly called the Trash 80, remember?) back in high school, then I owned a computer with a dx2-80 processor with 32megs and a 1GB HDD which was handed down to me by a good friend (think I still have the board around here somewhere). When I get my income taxes back, I hope to jump from an Intel 300MHz to at least a 2400+ AMD brain.
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In 1984 I bought one of the Original Macintoshs. It had a whopping 128K of RAM and one single sided floppy drive. That was before they even made a hard drive for it. The first box of 5 floppys cost me $50. The Mac and a dot matrix printer cost $2500.

Wow what I could buy with that now.

I now have 5 various PCs. The newest is a 2.6GHz P4 with 1GB RAM. In fact I have a PocketPC that has a total of 640MB of Flash RAM. It has tons more power than that first MAC.
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my first machines were an appleIIe and a Tandy (TRS-80). for what i paid for them i could get me one of them smokin alienware machines.

right now i'm using a CTX (266MHz PII, 384mRam, 4megAGP video) and an Intellistation (700MHzXeonPIII, 786RAM, 128 megs Video) for the more mundane tasks and a VAIO (2.8GHz P4 - 800mHzFSB, 1GB RAM, 128MegsVideo) for the more demanding stuff. All are running XP pro.

times sure have changed.
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jafo,

They still make Amstrad's? I had one back in '83 and thought it was awesome!!! I believe it used some DOS shell called GEM or something similar to that. Prior to that played with a Commodore Vic20.
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've had many over the years
TRS-80, Sinclair 1000, Kaypro II (Heavy as a tank), TI-994 and 994A (we had many of these in the garage with voice modules and sold them at a yard sale last year, Damned TI and proprietary modules is what killed this baby), PC 286,386, Apple IIc, 486 SX and DX, and my entry into Modern PC's 90mhz Pentium, and 166 AST Box. I then went to work for a Grey Box Builder and the rest is repitition into modern hardware. Now in my stable 450Mhz Dell Lappy, 3 Compaqs 500mhz, 850mhz and 2.6Ghz Lappy, and Surplus OfficeMax Box bought through Parts reseller 2Ghz Celeron Box.I finally got rid of all my older Surplus parts and Manuals and Whatnot. I hauled them off to the Dump, 10 years (since the last cleaning) of collected manuals and Junk filled the bed of my Pickup Truck to the top.
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

bmetelsky ... I don't know ....my one was built in 83, I think it was...

My first actual 'IBM PC/clone' was an XT  40 meg drive...Hercules B/W screen...

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first PC was purchased in 89...a 286 so no windows there, but that was also my first time online (Prodigy). Then I bought a laptop in 95, Texas Instruments P75, Win95, 8 MB Ram (upgraded to 24 MB woot!), and 520 MB hard drive. That was my "desktop" computer for years, until I bought this one in 2001...so my current one is getting old too. But I actually have my old computers in my closet right now.
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Atari 400.
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first computer was a kit: the Dream 6800 built while I was in high school.

Motorola 6800 CPU, 512 bytes (yes, BYTES) of RAM, 1k of EPROM which contained the 'OS' called CHIPOS and an interpreted language called CHIP8.

It actuall had a VDU (video display unit) i.e the TV with a massive 32 x 64 pixel resolution in glorious monochrome.

See: http://www.cate.com.au/download/m6800/Dream6800/Magazine%20Article/Main%20Article%201/Dream6800_Article1_p1.jpg

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Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not sure about brand,due to age (i was only five),running at 60Mhz with 1MB Ram is all i remember. Curently working on P4 3,0Ghz...i must say tech has moved on? I wonder what will tomorrow bring to us all?
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
AMSTRAD CPC464 64K Green monitor (the screen, not the casing). I went all out, I have rare addons like 'multiface II - hack/copy any game, pause and look at the actual running code', '2 AMSJOYS, two joysticks, 2 ports, but the second port is on the first joystick!','Amstrad DM printer...and a scanner head for it...',3 *3-inch* disc drives - these are not those big floppy ones, these are tough as bricks and longer than a 3.5inch (strangly) 512 KB expansion - suddenly fulscreen swapping/animation (all 8kb or whatever it was that was needed) became possible.

I programmed stupid text adventures, made my screen flash so violently it could cause a fit, drilled a hole and used a paper clip to make a reset switch, and enjoyed classics like chuckie egg, boulder dash, and leather goddess of phobos ...
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Skarn....I need some of those 3" thingies....you got any spare?
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First one I owned was a 486 ...but prior to that I had access to the Commodore 64 thru my next-door-neighbor, who owned one. For nostalgia's sake, I'd love to get my hands on a functioning one again.

...My, how times have changed. I look forward to new technology, but at the rate things are improved upon ...money spent today will need to be spent again tomorrow.

...it's killing my bank account!
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first computer was an Apple PowerBook.
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BBC Micro. Yes, BBC used to make computers. The Micro was a direct competitor (or so they hoped - erroneously) to the Apple Macintosh and C64.
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Mine was an Atari 400xl with a membrane keyboard. Well, it wasn't really mine, my elementary school selected a few of us for their first "computer program" and that was their equipment. It was still cool nonetheless!
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Gee I must be older than I thought. My first computer was a Commodore 64. Back then we didn't even have disk drives, you used cassette players . I'm not kidding. Had a TI 99/4A at some point too.
Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
discounting my commie 64 (in my living room now, hooked up to our small TV, YES, i still use it for games, use the Tape cassette to save to...), and that ATARI, My first "real" PC was a 386 Gateway 2000, With 100Mb Hd, 8Mb Ram, Both sized floppys, Win3.1.

It is funny, i never actually cared for the cmoomdore's basic, but qbasic and gwbasic was insanely great to me.

Anyway, If i go digging i am sure that i can find my Vic20 also...
Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My 1st pc was a Commodore 64 which I had many great games, around 1986
Since then Tandy 1000 (286) 488sx/25i Pentium 133, Duron 700
My current PC is an AMD athlon XP 2400+

Wow, 20 years (almost!) what a ride..... think ill go play some hardball on my c64!
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first PC was a Gateway. I was a complete computer novice until around 1999. Its sitting here on the floor waiting for me to decide what to do with it. It was slow, had only a 4gb hard drive. When I tried to apply SP2, it gave up. Not enough space. Still it might make someone a nice little toy.. or word processor. If i could let go of the memories...
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My first computer sux i know that, And it was a gateway pc too with 8gb hd. Right now iam running a new Area-51 240gb hd pc that rocks!
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i find it kinda funny, al of the people in here saying "it had only so and so Gigabyte hardrive..." This is why i say that for the big apps and games coming out now, the programmers are not using the tricks that they had to in the past days for good apps... they need to compact there code a bit more. If an install is under 5MB now, i feel appreciatiave.