What was your first CPU ?

[NeoRecon]

Mine was the same. Had to love those Tandy's!

My second was a 486SX 33 that I got the UBER upgrade chip to make it a 486DX 66 that had a fan on it instead of just a heatsink!!!!!

Tandy HX 1000

Intel [8088] 7.013 Mhz
640k ram
3" 1.4 MB floppy
5.25" floppy external drive.

NO HARDDRIVE!!!

spent over $1200 on this glorified typewritter. :twisted:

 

[ender123]

MOS Technology 6502 in an Atari 800XL with a whopping 64K ram yeah.

The first PC compatible was an 80286.

 

[RJ]

Celeron 466 mhz
8 GB hard drive
MAYBE 256 mb memory
onboard graphics
Win 98

Pretty sad when video cards today spank my original comp.

 

[RJ]

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

The first computer I ever worked on was one down at the local Radio Shack that needed a tape drive to load and save programs. I had to learn BASIC and type programs in by hand. This was in 1980(?).

Second encounter with computers was the Apple II GS, the hottest thing out then. 1 gig(maybe) hard drive, maybe 1 mb memory. REAL good at word processing.....lol. 8O

 

[CaptRobertApril]

had it not been for all the bugs, Sim City 4 would have been a great game.

I agree. I just don't like having to pay $39.95 for a game and $50 for a case of Raid. 8)

That's why I don't have Star Trek Legacy too! Same reason!

SC3K is just great. There are some days when I start playing it at 8 am and then suddenly realize it's evening!!! Completely addictive. I've got tunnels running underwater, service module blocks... I could go on and on...

 

[ShadowdogKGB]

Heh. Vic 20 was my first. I even had the 300baud modem and a CompuServ account. Text only! Then came the 2, 3, and 486's.

 

[CaptRobertApril]

Heh. Vic 20 was my first. I even had the 300baud modem and a CompuServ account. Text only! Then came the 2, 3, and 486's.

CompuServe!!! $12.50 an hour! One of the main reasons for my first divorce were my CompuServe bills!!!

 

[ShadowdogKGB]

Ah yes. And slow doesn't even describe it.

 

[CaptRobertApril]

Ah yes. And slow doesn't even describe it.

You could actually watch the ASCII download and appear on your screen character by character. I love it now when some spoiled rotten kid screams about how his ADSL2 connection sux because he can't download an entire season of Smallville in 20 minutes.

 

[suretma]

Wow some of you kids are making me feel way too old. I have used some oldies but my first real PC was a 486 DX2 50mhz. Oh the memories. I played so many Sim City, Civilization 1 and Dune 2 on that one. I remember using the super weapon from the Evil Harkonnen and it literally blew up my 13" monitor. I finally upgraded to a 14". Then it was Windows 95 and I spent 600$ to upgrade my PC with a 6x CD-Rom 8 megs of additional ram and a new hard drive.

Then went to a Pentium 233MMX, Duron 600 .....

 

[mitch074]

First PC used:
Commodore PC-1, Intel 8088, 512 Kb of RAM extended to 640K, single 5.25" doudble sided double density floppy drive, Hercules mono graphics compatible card, B/W display. No hard drive.
Could play Bitmap Brothers' Xenon 2.

First PC tinkered with:
Amstrad 16386, Intel 386 DX 20, 4 Mb of FPM RAM, single 3.5" HD drive, VGA graphics, 64 Mb HD.
Extended using a Diamond Speedstar Pro (can't remember the chip model) and a Creative SoundBlaster 2.
Could play Id Software's Doom 1 somewhat.

First PC built:
Shuttle 569 iTX motherboard, Pentium 75, 32 Mb EDO, S3 Trio64, 1 Gb Maxtor, 1 Creative SoundBlaster Pro2
Extended with a Quantum 6.4 Gb HD, Creative SB32 (added 2Mb of RAM to EMU8000), Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo1+4Mb), 64 Mb SDRAM, Pentium 133@166.
Could play Epic's Unreal with all goodies.

 

[Harrisson]

My first PC was "IBM compatible" with 10MHz or so, had massive 512kB RAM and no HDD

From Intel/AMD, my first three PC's were with intel (starting with Pentium 100 MHz) and 4th (current) is AMD64, planning C2D soon

 

[Starship]

Wow! talk about nostalgia!
I've been reading these posts on here for years and never joined in.

Anyway, first post 😀

OK my first rig was:

486 DX 50
EISA bus
16 meg ram
2 meg ATI pro turbo isa (yah the bus sucked at the time as VESA local bus had just came out.)
Was able to run at the unheard of rez of 1024X768 at a whole 16bit color when everyone i knew was stuck at 640X480 256 colors!
SCSI 1 running a 150 meg tape backup and a
Double speed CD ROM drive
NEC 17" monitor <--- cost $1000.00
340 meg WD harddrive
300 watt PS
DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0 that came on 5.25 floppies
1 3.5 and 1 5.25 floppy drive

i had a ball getting all those drivers loaded into upper memory
so i could clear 530k of memory to run most games at the time 😛

i got this rig on January 1993

 

[cxl]

Zilog Z80 4Mhz
48KB RAM, 16KB ROM
Shared 6KB RAM "GPU" in "chipset" (256x192 resolution, with two colors per each 8x8 box)
Tape drive external storage (5 minutes to load/save those 48KB)

Development on that machine was really hardcore

Using one tape to store one assembly source all over again - any bug in code meant full machine reset, reload of assembler from the one tape, reload fixed data (e.g. already finished parts of code, because there was not enought memory to store sources for the whole program) from the second tape, then reload sources from the third.

Then fix sources, compile with assembler, run, crash and repeat

Still, I have developed about half megabyte of Z80 code this way (about 10 games, wordprocessor, graphics designer etc..). It was nice to be young 😉

 

[CarlG]

The first computer I owned, was a BMx computer (Belgian company) that manufactured IBM compatibles:

8088 (4 mhz)
640Kb ram
2x floppy 5.25"
2x hard disk 20 Mb (a whopping 40 Mb)
Propriety video card with a green monochrome monitor. After the monitor did, I put a hercules card in the system and a white monochrome monitor.
Installed MSdos 3.3, WP 4.2 and XtreeGold 3.0 on it. (I didn't like Norton Commander)

Second PC:
80286 12 Mhz
1 Mb ram
1x floppy 5.25"
1x floppy 3.5 "
1x HD 85 Mb (added second HD 220 Mb to it later on)
I used MS-dos 5.0 and Windows 3.11 on it...
Ecga video card and 4 color Ecga monitor (640 x 350 pixels, 2bit color)
Later I bought a VGA card and 14" monitor when... the Ecga monitor blew up 🙁

Third PC, and the first I build myself:
486 DX2-66 on a soyo board
4 Mb ram (later upgraded to 16Mb for windows 95)
1 HD 520 Mb (later added 1.2 Ghz) (on a Vesa Local Bus controller)
Tseng labs ET4000 vga card with 4 Mb memory on Vesa Local Bus
CD-rom 4 speed (upgraded to 16 speed when it broke)

Fourth PC:
Compaq Presario 5460 (New, top of the line and very cheap!)
Intel PII-400
64 Mb ram (upgraded to 128)
8GB Hard disk
ATI Rage Pro (added a Voodoo 2 to it... to play need for speed on it )
DVD-reader first generation (couldn't read DVD9)

Fifth PC:
AMD Athlon 1 Ghz
MSI K7T Turbo Raid motherboard
256 mb ram (upgraded to 1Gb)
40 Gb HD (later added 80 Gb)
Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS (later Geforce 4 TI 4600)

Sixth and current PC:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1Ghz, 250 Gb HD, Geforce 6800, etc.

I have bought a few pc's second hand in parts where I could find them, usually for little more than 50$, such as:

486-DX33, first PC to run Windows NT server 4.0... and RIP in 2000
P200 mmx on an Abit board with 256 mb Edo-ram... Used it to run Windows NT server 4.0 for 5 years...
AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz on the same MB as the fifth PC, still using it today to run Windows 2000 Server

There, I hope you like my little history, and like me, fondly remember the old days...

Charly

 

[Rhinofart]

The 286 era of computers were refered to at the AT. The 8088 and 8086 were refered to as XT

 

[ohsonice_99]

The XT was the 5151 it had and extebded number of bus slots as the 5150 only had 5 which meant after
1. video
2 floppy disk controlller
3. hard disk controller
4 parallel and serial ports
you had a single bus and due to trmination in the early pc's it could not be a modem or serial card.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Pretty sure this is what I started with

 

[s4fun]

Motorola 6502 in the Commodore VIC20.

First x86, was a 286@10mhz over clocked to 12mhz by the little shop that sold the thing. I figured that out because the thing had cooked itself after 24 months, and had to take it apart. The shop sold it as 12 mhz 286 when in fact the intel label on the thing said 10mhz.

 

[Braingeyser]

10 Print "Everett"
20 goto 10
run
Everett
Everett
Everett
Everett

Oh the good old day's.

Awww stop it you guys, you're gettin' me all misty-eyed

Tandy TRS-80, 16k RAM. No offline storage. Monitor was the gf's black and white portable telly(when I could steal it for a few hours). Took me hours to type in the code for "battleship" before I bought a tape deck.

Mind-bogglingly tedious looking back on it now, but at the time....AWESOME fun 😀

 

[Bobsama]

LOL thats sorta funny... a good way to escape a guarentee, sorta. How did it run vs a 10mhz system? Did the 2mhz make a differance?

 

[digitaldoc]

Cyrix Media GX 180 MHz in a Compaq 2200, 16 megs ram, 1.6 gig hard drive.

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

you just picked a random computer

 

[goonting]

Intel Pentium 166Mhz with MMX
Intel BX mboard
32MB memory
2.0GB Seagate hard drive
Creative AWE64 sound card

 

[digitaldoc]

What's random about it? Back in 1997 it was the first computer available for under a grand including a monitor, hence it fit within my budget at the time. When I went to upgrade it I realized it wasn't much of a bargain...