What was your first CPU ?

[Ranman68k]

Timex Sinclair 1000

Commodore SX-64

My SX-64 looks like a DX-64 now. I added a second floppy drive and controller card. It is rumored that Commodore only made 3 official DX-64 computers.

 

[enewmen]

You beat my Vic-20.

2 8080s? That's dual socket, multi-processing. Ahead of its time!

 

[maina231]

awesome pictures man really treat to watch 8O 8O 8O 8O

 

[Sethanis]

commadore 64 for me but i remember playing on my mates apple, playing tennis on the mono color green screen.

 

[HeavyF]

First I owned:

Tandy 1000 HD
-10mb harddrive! yes 10 megabyte and we were grateful to have it!
-incredible sound for the time ( integrated- three distinct sound channels and 16 volume levels per channel... remember this is well before soundblaster!)
-incredible (for the time) 16 color graphics @ many (low) resolutions like 160x200.
- 4.77 MHz Intel 8086 processor

I am getting old 8O

that computer still makes me smile. If shipwrecked on an far off island, what computer would you bring (stupid question I know.. on what island could you be shipwrecked that even has electricity?) it would be a Tandy 1000HD

 

[Brutuz]

Cyrix 6x86MX @ 150Mhz was the first one I owned, The Pentium MMX 200Mhz was the first used.

 

[CzechM8]

486 DX
On board graphics
4 or 8 MB of RAM
100 MB HDD

Not quite as old as some people's here, I only got into computers in about 96, before this I wasn't that interested in computers.

 

[powerbaselx]

9. intel p4 550

Wouldn't this be a PIII?

 

[jitpublisher]

486 DX33
512 meg of cache memory!
8 meg memory
Trident Video card, 512k memory
250 meg hard drive
14400 modem
2X CD ROM
Sound Blaster Pro, 16bit

 

[djgandy]

Intel Pentium MMX 233 (which was then changed for an AMD 200mhz by my cousin :? )
64mb EDO RAM
4 meg S3 Virge most likely.
4.3gig quantum bigfoot
17inch monitor

 

[duthoy]

my good old IBM PS/2

80286DX
8MB RAM
50 MB HD
S3 graphics
1.44" floppy

perfect for commander keen! and duke nukem 1 - 2 - 3

 

[evongugg]

First computer:

Texas Instruments keyboard with everything included. Ready to be programmed in Basic. Hard drive: tape recorder. Monitor: television.
Sale: $50.00. Had to stand in line to get it.

Second computer:

486DX with Vesa card
4 MB of memory
400 MB of hard disk
Windows 3.1
14 inch monitor
Built to order: about $1,000.00

 

[ZozZoz]

ZX80 (or was it Z80?) Spectrum. Yeah, I booted it using audio tape, later upgraded to 5,25 floppies

 

[CMBURNS]

dudes why not some pictures that will make this posts more better

http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=261&st=1
Sorry can't post pictures until I have 100 posts, but here is a link to a picture of my first computer (Heathkit H100)

 

[Sloehand]

486DX-50, 4Mb RAM (payed for the upgrade from 2Mb), 130Mb HD. About 2 years later I upgraded with an NEC multimedia kit (CD + Sound card).

 

[michiganteddybear]

The P60 and P66 predate the P75 and where actually built on a different die. It had simular pin spacing like a 486, but was bigger. I think it was the biggest CPU I've ever seen.

I remeber seeign a Pentium Pro a few years ago (when it was already opsolete), they were HUGE !

here is a pic i found:

(direct link)

I think my store still has a PPro mobo or 2 in stock, new in box too IIRC.

 

[martyjs]

First Computer I bought was a
TRS 80 1979
4k of RAM
Green Screen Monitor
Tape deck took up to 10 Minutes to load a 2k program

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

After about 14 year and another 5 assorted computers including a CAT
my first build was a
386 40Mhz DX AMD CPU
2 MB of Ram
51/4" Floppy
20MB HDD (I think)
Cutting Edge 8)

 

[hammerhead2]

Ranman68k
that was my first home computer,, upgraded to a 16k memory
module and built the 5.25 inch floppy kit also
so cool to not use the cassette tape deck.. but you
had to code tight with the original 2k


Mighiganteddybear,,, had dual P pro machine for a while
as server,,, (2x 180) took a large case first computer
to break 64 meg ram

 

[4745454b]

Cyrix 6x86MX @ 150Mhz was the first one I owned, The Pentium MMX 200Mhz was the first used.

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.

 

[rodney_ws]

Depends on what you're talking about. My first personal computer that I actively used was a Commodore VIC 20. The first one I owned was a Commodore 64 (paid $130 for it and a bunch of software).

The first actual IBM PC compatible that I ever actually owned was a 486SX-33.

My first "dream machine" was an AMD 286 20 MHz beast with dual floppies. 😀

The AMD wasn't PC compatible? Oh come it... it had to have been... or are you saying you never actually owned that machine.

 

[atp777]

Packard Bell (I know, I know)

486DX2 50MHz OC'ed with a jumper!!! to 66MHz
8MB RAM
420MB HDD
1MB Cirus Logic Video
Blazing 2x CD-ROM
Floppy
DOS 6.22 Win 3.1 -> Win95

 

[CaptRobertApril]

Here's my second computer:

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.

 

[Hawkeye22]

:lol: My first computer was a timex-sinclair 1000. It had a Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz CPU. Then moved to a Vic-20, C-64 which I think both had a 6502 processor.

 

[Bobsama]

The first one I remember...

Intel Pentium II 233mhz
32mb RAM
8GB hard drive
14" CRT monitor
CD-ROM drive
3.5" floppy
Windows 3.1

Yeh those were the days... going through DOS to boot Win 3.1. It was my first gaming rig! :lol: my uncle built it at least 10 years ago so we could play computer games. There was an older one, but I don't remember it; that was the first one I remember.

 

[SEALBoy]

I was around 6 years old at the time, so I don't quite remember. it was something like this:

486DX2 (66MHz?)
8MB RAM
Trident ISA videocard
500MB HD?
Windows 3.1
Floppy and 16x CD-ROM drive