This was my first computer too!

[Quadophile]

I remember back in early eighties when I bought my first computer, today when I stumbled upon the article once again I thought I'd share it here for younger folks to let them know what life was like back in the early 80's (when some of our member's were not even born)

Back to memory lane.........The ZX Spectrum

 

[psd99]

"Even though it crashed every hour and even though it took 20 minutes to load a game from a music cassette the Spectrum had a genuine user friendliness that no computer maker has really matched since. Even a relative beginner could program the Speccy themselves, either in the surprisingly easy Spectrum BASIC or, if there really was nothing on TV, in hexadecimal."

wow just imagine this happening in 2005!

how much did u pay for it? bet that was a lot of money in those days!

 

[ChristopherP]

intriguing!

My first computer was a 200MHz P2, and was a fair whack faster than my parents ageing P1 75MHz... it was good, though computers arent as fun without internet, which we only had on the main office PC, with Zetnet, back in the day. Reminds me, just signed up for 2Mb ADSL with them..

Those spectrum things have got to be great fun!

 

[psd99]

first computer in the house : CBS Colecovision the first colour console ever! 1982!


first computer for me : Amiga 500 just the best around 1990
first pc: Packard Bell P1 200mhz, and its from this peice of machinary i started to open up pc's! 1997

now: bits of sh** stuck together in sixes and sevens! 2005! at its very best

 

[KGB-911]

KGBs PC's:

1) Win 3.1 (3.11), 64MB RAM, 2GB HD, floppy drive (no CD) - Well, it was free
3) Win 95, 64MB RAM, 4GB HD, Floppy Drive, CD Drive
3) Win 95, 128MB RAM, 4GB HD, Floppy Drive, CD Drive
4) Win 98, (TINY - ahhhh), 128MB RAM, 8GB HD, Floppy Drive, CD Drive

-- All the above PC's i got free! --
-- The following are laptop's --

5) Win XP, 256MG RAM, 20GB HD, CD+RW/DVD Drive (15")
6) Win XP, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, DVD+RW Drive (15")

That is about it... although at one point i did have about 3 Win 3.1's

KGB

 

[erebon]

KGBs PC's:

1) Win 3.1 (3.11), 64MB RAM, 2GB HD, floppy drive (no CD) - Well, it was free

How could you have 64MB of RAM? That's huge for that times! My first three PC's had 4MB, 8MB and 64MB:

1. 1994: Pentium 100MHz, 4MB RAM(upgraded to 8 for Warcraft 2), 640MB HDD, Floppy, Creative 3600(24x) CD added later
2. 1995: Pentium II 200MHz mmx, 8MB RAM(upgraded to 16MB), 4GB HDD, first Windows 95 machine, Trident 9750 Gfx w/ 4MB
3. 1997: Pentium II 500MHz mmx(died due to a faulty fan ), 64MB, 20GB HDD, ATi Rage 8MB(I think), all on a Giga Via Apollo MoBo running Windows 97
4. 1998: Pentium III 800MHz, 64 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, CD drive died, upgraded to ASUS 40x, same Gfx (system still living happily under my father's administration with DOS 6.22 , my times it run 98se)
5. 2003: Pentium 4 2.6GHz HT, 512MB Kingston DDR400 RAM, 40 GB Maxtor HDD, MSI CDRW, MSI GeForce FX 5600, MSI Neo2 865 MoBo running Windows XP, got stolen
6. Under construction(bought parts): AMD64 3000+, Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Fan, Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT PCI-Ex, Maxtor Plus 10 200GB, Pioneer DVDROM and waiting for: GA-K8NXP-9 MoBo, Crucial 2x256MB DDR400, Zalman PSU

ponder ponder

 

[Quadophile]

I did not expect everyone to be posting their computer specs in chronological order as they were purchased over the years, but, must say you guys have made this thread very interesting.

However, its been 25 years for me since my first PC and I have lost count of what I had owned over the years, one of the first ones I remember was a Wang, wonder how many remember that brand!

 

[Ian]

The Spectrum 48 was my first PC, I still play some of the games for it now! :

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/archive.html

 

[KGB-911]

i think is was '95 that i got the Win 3.11, it was a buisiness machine before i got it. my dad needed powerful (for then) machines to run his dental surgery

 

[bkush]

Like Quad, it's been 23 years since my first pc, but I still remember her well... don't you always remember your first? First was a Commodore PET, then a TI99. Those were the days...

 

[floppybootstomp]

I can't really remember, but apart from messing about with a BBC machine, my first was an 8086 or something, it was given to me. Can't remember any details but it was huge and had a 12" mono monitor. Was running DOS 5.0.

I liked that, so 'upgraded' it to a 386 which eventually ended up having 16Mb of RAM, which was a lot in those days. And got a colour monitor, 14".

And there ended my association with Intel.

Next was a 200Mhz Cyrix based system, then what I consider to be my first 'real' machine, a Gigabyte board (I think) with a K6-2 350Mhz CPU, 32Mb RAM, and... ta-da.... a Voodoo 3 16Mb Video card By now we're on Win 3.1 which, together with MS Office '97, totalled around 35 floppy disks

And then - Abit KT7-R and an 850Mhz Duron - at last, cooking with Gas

And from there, I honestly couldn't guess at all the different machines and combinations.

I was a latecomer to computing, kinda buried my head in the sand, but after that first 386 upgrade, I was hooked

 

[psd99]

owned over the years, one of the first ones I remember was a Wang, wonder how many remember that brand!

a Wang? lol that sounds like a number 34 on a chinese takeaway menu!