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My first pc was a Pentium 120mhz... not even MMX. 32MB of RAM (though it was upgraded to that), no video card, and about 1.1 GB of Hard disk space. It lasted for 6-7 years as well... considering the stuff it had to put up with. However, an upgraded CD-ROM drive that was installed onto it ate my copy of Total Annihilation.... the disc shattered inside the drive.... and with it my heart.... *sniff* :cry:
 
my first was a ATARI 800XL
CPU: 6502, 1.79 MHz
Memory: 64K RAM, 24K ROM
Operating System: BASIC in ROM
Atari XL operating system on diskette
Input/Output: 2 joystick ports, Atari cable bus
Bus: Atari daisy-chain cable bus, connects floppy drives, cassette drives, printers
Atari 1050 floppy disk drive 5 1/4, and 1010 cassette drive

got it to replace my 2600 game concole 8)
 
My first computer was an Altair front panel
My Second computer was a Vector Graphics Machine w 64k ram and a hard drive
My third computer was based on a fergouson bigboard
My fourth computer was an IBM 5150 dual single sided floppy machine running at 4.77
This machine went from an 8088 to 80386 with a WIETEK math coprocessor
I had to buy a whole new computer when I went to a 486
I am now running an AMD 3700+, x700, 160gb SATA drive, with 2 gb of ram
I have also own
a TI -99/4a
Timex Sinclair 1000
Apple IIE
Apple SE
Atari
Kaypro
 
My very first one was a 386 of some description, used it for Lemmings and word processing (with a dot matrix printer!)

First proper gaming rig was a PII350 (back when they were slots!) with 64 mb ram and 8 gig hdd. Taught me a lot, tinkering eith that PC (much to my fathers annoyance at the time)
 
Z80 in a Radio Shack TRS-80 with the full 16K of RAM. All programs were stored on a casette tape (with a little fingernail polish to show the proper volume level for loading) though later some people were able to buy floppy disks that held a 180K on one disk. You could even write another 180K on the back of it, though I wasn't sure anyone actually had that much data to store.

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Exactly what I started out with! A Trash 80 Model 1, with the expansion board, cassette tape, and a Exatron Stringy Floppy (actually asmall endless loop tape cartridge) which you can see here on Wiki and here on Digibarn.

Then I had one of the first clone 8088 IBM PC's (I lived in Taiwan from 1982-1988) which I had until I moved to the US, which I then got a free 286 motherboard from one of my father's friends who ran a factory in Taiwan (I had to buy 1 megabyte of memory for that, which were DIP packaged IC's). Then a 386, a 486DX-33, a pentium something, a K6 something, pentium ii, pentium iii....

I have a AMD something in my daughters computer, a bunch of Celery's in the rest of the systems in the house, and a dual Xeon 1.8 that I got for $10 from the Pratt and Whitney surplus store. The memory cost me more that the box, lol (damn Rambus crap). I bought an Asrock 775Dual-VSTA to upgrade, will be getting an E4300 sometime (not much into overclocking, just what is cheap at the time).

Hopefully that will last another couple years.
 
486SX-33, 8MB ram, 40MB Hard Drive..

Worked for a local country club. Someone in the office got a new computer and asked me to just throw the old one away. I "threw" it away into the back seat of my car and the rest is history..

Prolly have had 25 or so different computers since..

Current cpu is only a Athlon 2500+ OC'd to 3200+ stock cooling..

Been a AMD fan for years, but the new Core 2 Intel is offering might bring me back to the Intel side.. Looking to upgrade to dual core..

Good Post, really brought me back.. and made me feel older than I am..

As with most, I too had a Vic20, C-64, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (Great Computer, saved to cassette!)
 
Packard Bell

486 @ 66 mhz
8 MB ram
1 Meg VESA video
14.4k Modem
200 mb HD
2x CD-Rom

1994, I was 13, first thing I installed was MechWarrior 2, Within a couple of years, I was online gaming.

I upgraded a year or 2 later too a 133 MHZ Cpu, I can't remember the brand Everforest or some crap. It maxed at 75 Mhz on my machine though due to the Motherboard. Bought a 16 Meg Stick of ram and beefed it up to 24 MB. She worked great, died around 2001 or so. I probably have brain cancer right now and not even know it due to that 15 inch CRT radiation factory of a monitor it came with.
 
IBM PCjr. (My dad worked for IBM) I learned BASIC through cartridge basic . Here were the stats on that powerhouse:

Intel 8088, 4.77 MHz
320K RAM (we put on 2 of the 128K expansion side cars)
4 Color graphics (ah, the days of playing Test Drive and F19 stealth fighter in black, white, magenta and cyan. Oh and who could forget the beautiful keyboard overlays to tell you what the buttons were for!)
 
I'm a little confused about your post. Are you saying that you went from an 8088 to an 80386 on the same motherboard? If so, how did you put it so nicely to PARGE? Oh yes. WRONG!!! The 8088 and the 80386 were 2 totally completely separate technologies. The 8088 was a DIP style package that looked like the RAM chips of the time, and the 80386 was the First x86 Processor to be in the "new" square format that we have today. Not to mention the 8088 was only an 8 Bit computing technology with an 8 Bit Datapath where the 386 was the first 16 Bit Proc in the x86 lineup.
 
Here's my second computer:

NTDS-cp-642-.jpg


NTDS UNIT COMPUTER
(a.k.a. UNIVAC CP-642,
UNIVAC 1206, and AN USQ-20)
Remington-Rand Univac Division


Word Length 30 bits

Speed: 9.6 microseconds add time.

Primary Memory: 32,768 words core memory (3.6 microseconds access time)

Secondary Memory: Magnetic drum and magnetic tapes,

Instruction Set: 62 30 bit, single address instructions.

Architecture: Parallel, binary, fixed point arithmetic, 7 index
registers, 1 accumulator register, 1 free register.

Technology: 10,702 transistors,

Input and Output: Punched cards, paper tape, CRT

Price: $500,000.

Size: 58.6 cubic feet, 2,320 pounds, 25 kW

Software: CS-1 compiler

My first computer was lithoetched into granite by Slate Rock, Gravel & Silicon Company, Bedrock.
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lol
 
I'm a little confused about your post. Are you saying that you went from an 8088 to an 80386 on the same motherboard? If so, how did you put it so nicely to PARGE? Oh yes. WRONG!!! The 8088 and the 80386 were 2 totally completely separate technologies. The 8088 was a DIP style package that looked like the RAM chips of the time, and the 80386 was the First x86 Processor to be in the "new" square format that we have today. Not to mention the 8088 was only an 8 Bit computing technology with an 8 Bit Datapath where the 386 was the first 16 Bit Proc in the x86 lineup.
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I agree there was no upgrade path from 8088 to 80386, but there were some upgrades that went from one class to another. Here's an example...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/08/06/cyrix_to_offer/

Yes, it's the Register and it's old... but I do recall seeing something similar to this back in the day.
 
I remember those!! There were ones that took your 386 sx 16 and made it a 486 sx 25 or 33 depending. There were also some others that went up to the DX4 100. Essentially it was just a socket adaptor because the pin configurations were different. Ah the good ol' days. 🙁
 
Here is my progression from 1981 --->

Vic-20 -6hrs of typing in basic program from byte magazine, then tape storage would fail...
C-64 -Load *.*,8,1 ...sheesh 🙁
Amiga 500 -the 7.1mgz multitasking beast $2400.00 w/dotmatrix printer :cry:
P120 system -1/3 the price of the Amiga 500 Win95 8)
Celeron 300A -first build
Duron 600 win98 wahooo !!!
2400+ tbred w/9550 gpu
Several other board/cpu/gpu combos in rapid sucsession that went to daughters, son, and mother.
-----> current in sig.
 
I'm a bit surprised about all the people talking about the C64 as their first computer. I grew up playing on this "computer", along with my dads coleco vision and intellevision. (yes, he had the voice adaptor.) I think I've got away with posting this link before, so I'll do it again. (if this is against the rules, let me know and I'll take it down...) For anyone wanting to relive the C64 glory days, go here.

Your welcome if you like playing this sort of thing. (I love playing Spacetrader, M.U.L.E., Lords of conquest, etc.)
 
Cyrix 6x86MX @ 150Mhz was the first one I owned, The Pentium MMX 200Mhz was the first used.
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How long did that Cyrix chip last? No one that I know who had one managed to make that chip survive. They all died before they stopped using the computer. I remember getting mad at the local shop because for the same price they would have sold my mother in law either a P233 or a K6-2 400 (it might have been a 450) They told my MIL that AMDs were junk, and unless she wanted to replace the chip again, she needs to get the P233. Morons. Last I checked this shop has stopped selling all AMD devices, and sells only Intel.

Back then, even w/ the K6-2, AMD still had a horrible reputation with enthusiasts and builders. They would have taken Cyrix over AMD any day. Up until the K6, anyone with a brain stayed away from AMD. I remember telling a buddy of mine (who was VERY knowledgable) about the new K6 and how it spanked the Pentium MMX. He laughed and said "yeah right." He didn't believe me until he saw the benchmarks.

AMD's good reputation didn't really start until the K7 Athlon.
 
hmmm my first ever I touched was a :

286 10 MHz 512kb ram and 128 kb videoram.
monocrome..
I think this sistem was called "XT"

my next one was a LANIX 386DX 33 MHz, 2 MB ram 60 Mb hdd
with a TURBO button 😀
 
Cyrix 6x86MX @ 150Mhz was the first one I owned, The Pentium MMX 200Mhz was the first used.
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How long did that Cyrix chip last? No one that I know who had one managed to make that chip survive. They all died before they stopped using the computer. I remember getting mad at the local shop because for the same price they would have sold my mother in law either a P233 or a K6-2 400 (it might have been a 450) They told my MIL that AMDs were junk, and unless she wanted to replace the chip again, she needs to get the P233. Morons. Last I checked this shop has stopped selling all AMD devices, and sells only Intel.

Back then, even w/ the K6-2, AMD still had a horrible reputation with enthusiasts and builders. They would have taken Cyrix over AMD any day. Up until the K6, anyone with a brain stayed away from AMD. I remember telling a buddy of mine (who was VERY knowledgable) about the new K6 and how it spanked the Pentium MMX. He laughed and said "yeah right." He didn't believe me until he saw the benchmarks.

AMD's good reputation didn't really start until the K7 Athlon.

actually, its via who should be blamed of this reputation, since most of their chipsets where terrible, with insane ammounts of faults, yet they delivered the products, its almost like intel paid via "make the worst chipsets ever for them" XD
 
Feeling all nostalgic now so now let us post, what was your first cpu/rig 😛
I'll go first :)

Intel Pentium MMX 133Mhz
16MB of RAM
2GB HD
2MB sirius logic graphics card ( I think )
Modem Fax 33600
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Actualy you had a Pentium MMX 166MHz cuz. I was the one with a Pentium 133MHz. The rest of the specs of my first rig:
16MB RAM
1.3GB HD
2MB Creative 3D Accelerator
10X CD-ROM (the first one in town to own one that "fast"!)
33,600 Boca Modem
 
Feeling all nostalgic now so now let us post, what was your first cpu/rig 😛
I'll go first :)

Intel Pentium MMX 133Mhz
16MB of RAM
2GB HD
2MB sirius logic graphics card ( I think )
Modem Fax 33600
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Actualy you had a Pentium MMX 166MHz cuz. I was the one with a Pentium 133MHz. The rest of the specs of my first rig:
16MB RAM
1.3GB HD
2MB Creative 3D Accelerator
10X CD-ROM (the first one in town to own one that "fast"!)
33,600 Boca Modem

Yup :) and my first upgrade was getting a Voodo Rush 6MB (2mb 2d and 4mb 3D )
 
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