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Model NuTopia KIP450 Intel Pentium II 450 MHz (I never could figure out if this was a PII or PIII, the bios and writing on the processor said PII but I always recalled the PIII started at 450 :? )
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The fastest Pentium II model is the 450MHz which was the last release. yes Pentium III starts there but Pentium IIs ends there too 8)
 
The fastest Pentium II model is the 450MHz which was the last release. yes Pentium III starts there but Pentium IIs ends there too
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Right. I bought a Gateway P2 450 machine, which I gave to my daughter a year later when I bought their P3 500. She complained about getting "used leftovers" and didn't buy my explanation that he who gets the paycheck gets to have the latest and greatest :). Finally got tired of her whining so after noticing the front panels on both machines were identical, I switched the front panels and told her she now had the P3. She was happy for several years, never noticing the 'Pentium II 450 MHz" bootup screen :)
 
386sx 33Mhz really wanted the dx because it had the build in copro 🙁 It came with 2MB of simm mem and I went out and paid £100 for another 2MB so I could play Doom in a really small window lol! Thats not the worst of it! I sold my Motorbike to buy a 486 cpu and board (Intel DX2/66) when I think back its really bad but in real terms I am still doing it now :)
 
TI-99/4A! 256Bytes of RAM!!!!!!!!!! Woot!!!!

Of course the Video card kicked with 16KB of RAM!!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_99/4A
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This was my first one but don't remember the specs. Here is a link to info about this great machine. Just think back in 1979 it cost $1000. Think what that would equal to today.

http://www.99er.net/994.html

I still have this machine and remember typing for two days to create a two page program in basic that ran from a tape recorder. They still auction them on Ebay and maybe I will too since some people really like collecting these old computers just like antique cars. I also remember the old cards we key punched to run some simple stats on the Big Burroughs computer at school. It filled a fair size room. I guess this sort of dates me, right?
 
IBM w/ 8088 cpu, 640k memory, two 5.25 floppys, and a 10mb HD with an RLL controller that bumped it to a whopping "I'll never use all that space" 20mb, and a Paradise monochrome video card. Jeez, we're showing our age now.
 
IBM w/ 8088 cpu, 640k memory, two 5.25 floppys, and a 10mb HD with an RLL controller that bumped it to a whopping "I'll never use all that space" 20mb, and a Paradise monochrome video card. Jeez, we're showing our age now.
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Yeah, I had this one too. It was my second one I think. I had a monitor that had fluorescent orange characters when you type it in. Come to think of it I had many of these computers people have listed her over the past 25 years. Unfortunately I still have many of them in the garage.
 
IBM w/ 8088 cpu, 640k memory, two 5.25 floppys, and a 10mb HD with an RLL controller that bumped it to a whopping "I'll never use all that space" 20mb, and a Paradise monochrome video card. Jeez, we're showing our age now.
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Yeah, I had this one too. It was my second one I think. I had a monitor that had fluorescent orange characters when you type it in. Come to think of it I had many of these computers people have listed her over the past 25 years. Unfortunately I still have many of them in the garage. Yeah, I upgraded to a 16-color vga card, and with a Norton "Be" command, we could make DOS display in TWO colors. Whoa!
 
My first computer was an Apple IIe. No hard drive, 5.25 inch external floppy drives - that really were floppy, and green screen monitor. I doubled the normal memory with two sticks totalling 128K. Dot matrix printer.

I remember how neat it was when I saw my first color monitor and, strangely, how neat it was to hear sounds coming out of a pc - just little beeps and short recorded snippets.

Later I boght another Apple - I don't remember the name - and my processor moved up to a speedy 33 Mhz.

After moving to San Jose I finally upgraded to a Gateway G6 266Mhz. When it became data, I upgraded it by installing a conversion kit and another 500 Mhz processor.
 
The first 'real' computer I ever owned was the Amiga 500 made by Commodore. Oh man, that thing was so awesome. The games rocked and it kept running for years and years.

Amiga 500...Remember workbench disks?

My first IBM-compatible (lol) was a Pentium 100MHz. Honestly, since I was still using my Amiga so much more at the time, I can't even remember the rest of the specs.
 
A pentium 200MMX, 32Megs of EDO RAM and a 2 MB graphics card. But i started learning about PCs on a 286 with no HDD, no mouse, and no color ... DOS and EDIT (on a separate 5inch floppy) ...back then, "Double Sided Double Density IBM formatted" was as publicized as today's perpendicular recording.....
 
My first pc was an epson and had this turbo button from 8mhz to 12mhz and had a 5 1/2 floppy and the classic program banner😛
 
My first was an 8080a/s-100 bus/CP-M machine I soldered together myself.

My first purchased computer was an Apple II+.

I still have a Mac SE in a closet. I had an original mac motherboard until a couple of years ago (I kept it after I ugraded the mac to a Fat Mac). I used an Apple Lisa prior to the Mac... does anyone remember Lisa cancer?

I had an original 4mhz IBM AT that I overclocked to 6mhz with a new clock I bought at Radio Shack. The original AT's had the clock in a socket so it was a slam dunk to upgrade it.

The AST 6-pak boards and Hayes Smartmodems. Them were the days.

My first 386 was an ALR. They came out with a 386 before IBM.

I've built so many 386 and 486's that I can't remember them all.
These days they're just tools/applicances/toys and I buy them off the shelf. I think I have 7 computers in my home and two in my weekend place.
 
My first PC had 33Mhz CPU speed, and 512k RAM. Cant remember the model, but my gosh. How I ever survived??? I loved playing a game called Nightmare on Elm Street. The other one was Double Dragon. I'm going to Google Images.
 
Whooaaa.....some of you guys have been playing with those dinosaurs while i was still sucking....erm....milk...

1st
286 me think,don't know the speed;old pc at that time
2 x 5.25" floppy disk
12" or so mono monitor

I was forced to learn Wordstar and Lotur DBase, but well,I didn't :wink:
Was so envied :evil: my friends who were playing warcraft (or warcraft 2 :?: dunno on newer machines :cry: )

hmmm my first ever I touched was a :

286 10 MHz 512kb ram and 128 kb videoram.
monocrome..
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May be it's this one...


1st build
Cyrix MII 233MHz
32mb ram
Tx sth board with one of the suxest bios i've ever seen
3.2gb seagate medalist


actually, its via who should be blamed of this reputation, since most of their chipsets where terrible, with insane amounts of faults, yet they delivered the products, its almost like intel paid via "make the worst chipsets ever for them" XD
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And dont forget Sis chipsets too...I think they are a lot worse than Via's

I remember when I continued my study to tertiary lvl,my friend had this pc which has AMD K6-2 300MHz,64MB ram and Eon Picasso 8Mb vga card that sometimes beat even a Voodoo in certain games while the other with a 486 that have an MPEG card....VCD never looked so good on a pc at that time.when another richer boy bought a Pentium II 350MHz,we were like 'I'm gonna kill him and stole his pc!'

1st owned pc;100% mine,not shared
AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice
512MB x 2 DDR400
etc etc etc
 
My first computer?

Sol Processor Technolgy - Sol-20
Built from a kit
Intel 8080A (I think the CPU clock was driven by a hamster wheel)
S100 bus with 5 slots
2K static RAM on the Motherboard
2K (I think) SOLUS EEPROM boot loader
2 (count them 2) 8K static memory add-in cards
Processor Technology BASIC loaded from cassette tape (it was pretty good too)
I also purchased the then new Microsoft BASIC on tape (with code actually written by Bill)

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My 2nd computer
Apple ][+, serial number 289
MOS 6502 running a 1MHz (well 2 actually but half of the CPU cycles went to refresh the dynamic RAM to give 1MHz effective clock rate)
64K RAM
1 floppy disk
color display
Apple BASIC


I feel very old now... 🙁
 
I'm feeling kinda old now....

Mine was:

The IBM Personal System/2 Model 30 286 (IBM 8530-E21) is a new entry level 80286 version of the Model 30. It combines existing Model 30 function along with improved processor performance, 1.44MB diskette drive capacity and VGA graphics. The Model 30 286 utilizes the Intel 80286 processor and operates at 10MHz with one wait state to system memory. The IBM Personal System/2 Model 30 286 (IBM 8530-E01) is a single diskette drive, without a fixed disk drive, version of the Model 30 286. An optional 3.5-inch 20MB fixed disk drive feature (P/N 27F4969) is available.
 
My first processor was the Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz in my Amstrad CPC 464.....

Wow baby look at her go, I used to love playing games on it (was about 7 at the time).

My first PC was an old IBM 286 which was a cast-off from my dad who had just being given a brand new Intel 386 from work (big deal back then) I can still remember see the inside of a PC for the first time when he opened it up a few weeks later to install a maths co-processor.

What I consider my first real PC was a Intel 486 DX @33Mhz, this was the machine that turned me from a user into a techie and got me interested in PC's.

Essentially my Dad purchased a brand new Gateway 2000 33Mhz PC with a sound-blaster card but Gateway being Gateway sent the wrong card, one that wouldn't work with Doom the game that I was desperate to play like all my friends (I was probably 8 or 9 by this stage)

Anyway a few days later a brand new sound-blaster card turned up in the post. My farther had made me promise I would not install the card (afterall I didn't even know how to change a plug back then and PC's were believed to be complex).

To cut a long story short I didn't listen and installed the card and everything went wrong (thankfully this was first thing in the morning).

After telling my mother, and her calming down (remember a DX33 back then was £1,500 of PC and £1,500 was worth a lot more then) she decided that it might be a good idea for me to fix the PC.

Anyway I struggled day and night (thankfully was during summer holidays) to get that PC back up and running (I laugh now I think it was just faulty placement followed by DOS drivers but you learn these things the hard way).

Anyway it was fixed by the time that he got home (not that it made him any less angry that I had installed it in the first place).

I learnt so much about PC's drivers how PC's work from the whole incident and never really looked back (when I look at my bank balance I wish I had) it was that DX 33 from Gateway of all manufaturers that I have to thank for it.

Scary really.
 
First family computer: Apple 2e

First actual owned computer: amd k6-2 450mhz, 128mb ram, dont remember the vid card. this was back in 98 or 99 cant remember exactly.

Second owned computer: celeron 1.7ghz, 768mb ram, geforce 5600xt

Third owned computer: athlon64 3700+ @ 2.4 ghz, 1gb ram, geforce 6800

Fourth owned computer: athlon64 4800+ @ 2.85ghz, 2gb ram, geforce 7900gto
 
lol ... some of you "kids" probably don't even know what an ISA slot is. :lol:
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ISA slots aren't that old. Motherboards stopped supporting it around the time the pentium 4 released.

First computer:

CPU: Pentium MMX 133mhz
Ram: 192mb (this amount of ram costed me alot. 192mb back then was about the equivalent of 4gb ram nowadays)
video card: 4mb
HD: 2gb
OS: windows 95 (later upgraded to windows 98.)
 
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