I remember my first real computer (the AOL days)........dont get me wrong, I had the Commodore 64 8 bit system with the 20 inch floppy drive....(that was 1985). Move to 1994 I had the smoking 100mhz 1gig hard drive 8 mb ram with the 56k fax modem Packard Bell for an amazing $1250.99........my roommate thought he was the man when he upgraded to a 133mhz with 16 mb of ram for an additional $300............we were robbed!!
Remember that 1st computer
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My first computer was an atari 800xl that hooked up to the tv with a slider switch. We had to buy the 5.25 inch floppy drive separately for $300.
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My first one was in 1983 a commodore vic 20 hooked up to a tv, it had 16k ram and no harddrive, you saved data to the external "cassette tape" drive. I remember getting frustrated with the new modem when it came out trying to connect to compuserve. Most people i know hadnt even seen a computer so getting help was pointless. Also since the internet wasnt around you couldnt google for an answer.
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My first computer that I can say it was MINE...hmm.
Windows ME
AMD Athlon 2200+
64MB Memory
12GB Hard Drive
CD Reader
Baud 9600 Modem (I think...never had internet, so I wouldn't remember)
Voodoo 4 4500 GPU!
Ahh, Quake and Unreal...
My first family computer was an Intel Pentium II, 1MB of memory, 200MB hard drive, Floppy Drive, ran exclusively on DOS and a very, very, very slow baud modem.
My true first personal computer was my Nintendo Entertainment System.....but that doesn't count does it?
*sigh* I'm kind of new to the scene I would guess. Every one of my families computers had a modem of some sort...
Windows ME
AMD Athlon 2200+
64MB Memory
12GB Hard Drive
CD Reader
Baud 9600 Modem (I think...never had internet, so I wouldn't remember)
Voodoo 4 4500 GPU!
Ahh, Quake and Unreal...
My first family computer was an Intel Pentium II, 1MB of memory, 200MB hard drive, Floppy Drive, ran exclusively on DOS and a very, very, very slow baud modem.
My true first personal computer was my Nintendo Entertainment System.....but that doesn't count does it?
*sigh* I'm kind of new to the scene I would guess. Every one of my families computers had a modem of some sort...
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Lunar Leaper on the Apple 2 Plus Also have fond memories of Zaxxon on same machine. Then moved to atari 800xl, then atari st, then ibm compatibles. First one was a packard bell then another couple of them until my dx33 amd system with DUAL 107mb hard drives and like 4 megs of ram. I recall playing wolfenstein on it quite happily. mein Leben!
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386sx 16mhz 20meg hd 2 gig of ram with vga
was used to browse the BBS's and then got compuserv my 1st image ever downloaded was the usa weather map. in full 16 bit color.
was used to browse the BBS's and then got compuserv my 1st image ever downloaded was the usa weather map. in full 16 bit color.
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My first family computer was an Apple IIe in 1986. Everything ran off the 5.5" floppies but it did quite a bit all things considered.
Then we got a 386 around 1989, which ran Dos. I believe it had a 20MB hard drive and 8MB of RAM with no modem.
The first PC I bought myself was back in 1995. I got a Pentium with a 100Mb HD and 16MB of RAM, which I later upgraded at a cost of $150 to 32MB, lol. It ran Windows 95 and a 28K modem. Aol 2.5 was the latest and greatest at that point.... funny looking back.
Then we got a 386 around 1989, which ran Dos. I believe it had a 20MB hard drive and 8MB of RAM with no modem.
The first PC I bought myself was back in 1995. I got a Pentium with a 100Mb HD and 16MB of RAM, which I later upgraded at a cost of $150 to 32MB, lol. It ran Windows 95 and a 28K modem. Aol 2.5 was the latest and greatest at that point.... funny looking back.
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I had a ZX80 and the school asked me to bring it in. The whole school sat round to see it on an TV on a stand!
I remember it had 1KB of memory and the screen cleared/blanked when you pressed a key.
My favorite early computer was my Commodore 64. I bought the machine code programmers guide and taught myself to program in assembler - shift bits left and all that. I never wrote anything down or planned anything and still managed to produce machine code games that worked! Now I can hardly remember which day it is.
I remember it had 1KB of memory and the screen cleared/blanked when you pressed a key.
My favorite early computer was my Commodore 64. I bought the machine code programmers guide and taught myself to program in assembler - shift bits left and all that. I never wrote anything down or planned anything and still managed to produce machine code games that worked! Now I can hardly remember which day it is.
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My first computer was a locally built 6 MHz (12 in Turbo mode!) 286 clone with 1 MB RAM and a 30 MB HDD. At the time I was living in an extremely humid locale and that first HDD was killed by a mold growth! I upgraded to a 60 mb drive that I thought I could never fill up. 
jay c, you're speaking my language.
My first computer was a TI 99/4A I bought at K-Mart for $60 when they were closing them out, but my first PC was one I started piecing together in 1989 back when things were expensive.
Instead of going for that really expensive 386, I bought a 286 12MHz motherboard with I think 512KB of memory. I remember spending real money on a used Seagate 40MB hard drive that was the shiznit at that time. And DR-DOS!!!!
My first computer was a TI 99/4A I bought at K-Mart for $60 when they were closing them out, but my first PC was one I started piecing together in 1989 back when things were expensive.
Instead of going for that really expensive 386, I bought a 286 12MHz motherboard with I think 512KB of memory. I remember spending real money on a used Seagate 40MB hard drive that was the shiznit at that time. And DR-DOS!!!!
Heh, same for me back in August of 1982. Moved to an Atari 800xl a couple of years later, then in 1987 bought a Commodore Colt with a 386 and a 20mb hard drive. (yes that Commodore, they made IBM clones for a while).
At work, the first IBM PC came in during 1982. 64k of memory, green screen monochrome monitor and two floppy drives. No hard drive, boot off one floppy, use the other for data. Only 180k instead of 360k. It was for the office, but I always considered it "mine", and would stay after work, playing with DOS and dBase II. Good times...
arh my old spectrum 16k (was my first computer) a little black lump of rubber that you spent ages typing code into just to play noughts and crosses (tic tac toe) lol. I then bought the complete set of the input magazine (in the UK) and was hooked buying gizmo's to get into the code of software and changing it just for fun. (what a miss spent youth). First pc was a packard bell pentium 150 with 1.6gb hard drive and 16mb of ram bought in 1994/95 and i still got it and it still works lol same as others i had external 28k modem and AOL and yahoo was my buddies. I still remember my first issue with it as well it was a IRQ problem with the scanner and printer that's what started me on the path of how it all works.
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Timex Sinclair 
Good info here: Timex Sinclair 1000
Then Apple 2e and then an IBM clone from Sears Roebuck.
Good info here: Timex Sinclair 1000
Then Apple 2e and then an IBM clone from Sears Roebuck.
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