mobilenvidia Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 I've done this before but sometime ago and it's time to renew this. Quite interesting what was our first love computer I was 14 at the time and paid NZ$100 for it. Here is my one: I was spoilt and got the 8KB RAM version, twice the standard :O Having a tape drive build in was sooo cool. Keyboard was a bit naff. All the info on my baby can be found here PET 2001 series Specs CPU: 6502, 1 MHz RAM: 8 KB ROM: 18 KB, including BASIC 1.0 Video: discrete TTL video circuit, 9" monochrome monitor, 40×25 character display Sound: none / single piezo "beeper" (optional external speaker driven by MOS 6522 CB2 pin) Ports: 2 MOS 6520 PIA, MOS 6522 VIA, 2 Datassette (1 used / 1 on the back), 1 IEEE-488 Notes: 69 key chiclet keyboard and built-in Datassette / full-sized, full-travel keyboard, no built-in Datassette What did you guys have a first ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlogic Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 I wonder if it can play Crysis smoothly? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted September 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 It was too powerful to play it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest resurrectionmartyrs Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 LOL what a beast !!!!! Please stop showing off ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted September 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 What showing off how old I am :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Aucott Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Nice. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, which I got in 1982, just before the Spectrum came out (got a 48K one of those a year later). I got the 16K RAM pack for it as well, and my Dad, who's a bit of an electrical tinkerer, soldered the RAM pack on so it wouldn't wobble and put it in a perspex case with a proper push-button keyboard and a reset button so you didn't have to disconnect the power to reset it. My first PC, bought in 1987, was an Amstrad PC1512, with, as the name suggests had 512k of RAM, CGA graphics (with Amstrad's bizarre 640x200 16-colour graphics mode extension), a monochrome monitor and one 360k Floppy Drive. I eventually upgraded to 2 360k floppys, then switched one for a 720k drive, then eventually got a 10mb hard drive. Never quite managed to fill it with stuff :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrm Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 My first computer was a HC 90. This is what it looked like: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoCLoneWolf Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 (edited) Heh, a bit older than my first computer, a Commodore 64. This particular one was one of the first 1,000,000 off the production line and the only reason I know this ... I looked at the serial on the bottom of the case. My dad bought it used when I was about 11, along with a full color monitor, a dot matrix printer, TWO 5.25" FDD, and a whole lot of PC World magazines. I did reports, homework, and played games on that for about 8 years before I left home for the Navy. Commodore 64 Introduced: January 1982 Released: September 1982 How many: ~17 million Price: US $595. CPU: MOS 6510, 1MHz Sound: SID 6581, 3 channels of sound RAM: 64K Display: 25 X 40 text, 320 X 200, 16 colors max, Ports: TV, RGB & composite video, 2 joysticks, cartridge port, serial peripheral port Peripherals: cassette recorder, printer, modem, external 170K floppy drive OS: ROM BASIC Edited September 16, 2009 by DoCLoneWolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 My first PC was an AST Advantage Adventure 60/60p that I pulled from a junk heap in 1999/2000 (I forgot which). It had a 60mHz Intel Pentium I (no MMX), 40mb RAM, and a 1gb hard disk. The graphics card was a Cirrus Logic POS that couldn't output a true color signal in any resolution higher than 640x480. It ran Windows 95 originally, but I later upgraded it to 98SE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galdere Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 The first computer I could call my own, and didn't have to share, was a 1985 Amstrad CPC 6128. It had a disk drive! :) Think the computer I loved the most was an original Amiga A500. Had a hard drive for it and loads of other extras. We had an IBM in the early 80s, but I wasn't allowed to touch that much. First modern type PC I had to myself was a 486. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvarv Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 After wasting copious amounts of change playing arcade games, at age 9 I saved up an bought a Commodore 64. Played until some of the internal components melted. Bought an Amiga 500 at a trade show the year the model was introduced, which was 1987. Type Home computer Release date 1987 Discontinued 1991 Media 880 KB floppy disks Operating system AmigaOS 1.2~1.3 CPU Motorola 68000 @ 7.16 MHz (NTSC) 7.09 MHz (PAL) Memory 512 KB (9.5 MB maximum) Graphics 640 x 256, 6 bpp @ 25 fps Predecessor Amiga 1000 Successor Amiga 500 Plus Information and picture grabbed from Wikipedia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 In the same ballpark - except my A500 ended finally into a tower with 68060 (~Pentium)@ 57 MHz, 2-3 GFX cards, 128MB RAM, several HDs etc - which other computer can be updated to 100x faster? (Don't ask the costs...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted September 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Those bring back memories. Good to see all the piccies of days gone by. Keep it up, will merge this in a few days with the original post I made here So much more info available these days on these old beast that began the computer revolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taz3d Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 Sinclair 48K ZX Spectrum computer (1982) :) Had lot's of fun with it for 3 months, then the little thingy went up in smoke. Bought a vic 20 afterwards, c64, amiga 500, amiga 2000 My fist pc : pentium 90mhz - 850mb hdd - 64mb memory - hercules stealth 3d 4mb pci - 15" casper monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squall_Rinoa89 Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 (edited) 1st computer i owned was... A 2001 HP Pavilion 775e 2.0GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 120GB 7200RPM HD 512MB DDR 333MHz Ram nVidia GeForce 4 MX440SE 64mb ram 16bit 18" CRT Monitor $900 or so i think it was. Sad thing is i still have it and use it.. just not much... It's got a 20" Acer LCD, 1GB DDR 333MHz ram, 6600GT. Edited September 17, 2009 by Squall_Rinoa89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShnikeJSB Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 "My" first computer was an Apple IIe my parents bought. I was about 4 years old at the time. It was used and an original model with 2 (TWO!) 5.25" floppy drives! I learned everything myself on that computer. I was teaching my parents things by the time I was 5 years old, LOL! We had an Apple dot matrix printer, too. Oh how I loved Oregon Trail, Reader Rabbit, and the zillion other games! Although, if you wanna get picky, my first "computer" was an Atari 400. Which I loved dearly, and wish my parents didn't just throw it away without my permission later on... I'd still play it, let alone sell it later as a collectible! Our first PC was a Packard Bell Pentium 90 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11. 2x CD-ROM baby! What a piece of junk... :) Then after that was a computer they bought JUST for me -- a used Performa 6200CD w/75mhz 603 (not 603e). Then they bought a beige PowerMac G3/333, which they used all the way up until a few years ago with their Mac Pro 2.66Ghz 2x Dual Xeons. My own first PERSONAL purchase with my own money was a PowerBook G4/667 when I went off to college. That lasted forever, until I bought a Dell XPS Gen 2, which was such a lemon, they eventually replaced it with an M1710, which also sucked with reliability. My most recent purchase was this Gateway P-7811fx which I've had more than a year with zero problems (which I could not say for either Dell I had...). I plan on finally deserting notebooks next year and building an i7 or i9 desktop when they release motherboards with SATA 6gbps, USB 3.0, and PCI-Express 3.0 and drop in a GTX380. I only had notebooks before for school and for LAN gaming and going to my buddies' places to play games. I don't need laptops anymore (despite being with them exclusively for 8 years now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nukulorrr Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 The first PC I really called my own, without having to share it with someone else, is a Dell Inspiron 9400 and I'm working on it right now! :) (Ok, I'm 17 years old...) The first PC I ever had an account with is a 6.5-year old HP Pavillion which takes 10 minutes to boot :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 I first had Commodore 64. I didn't like it very much, I always envied my cousin because he could play Contra and Mortal Kombat on his Pegasus console, later I wanted Amiga because it had a mouse and sooo advanced programs. And I 'only' had a C64 :) I remember those constant errors, trying to load a game for several minutes just to see an error. I was like 7 years old. It looked something like this: In the year 1998 my parents bought me a real PC. Intel Pentium MMX 166MHz, 32 MB's of RAM, and Intel i810 chipset that had 4 MB of memory. Worth mentioning, it had a horizontal PC case, we chose it because the towers were really expensive back then. Also a 14" Belinea monitor. It was a dream machine to me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted September 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Just great seeing all these awesome old beasts. To think we paid so much and looking back we got so little but for me the biggest pleasure was still from the original PET :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerXML Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Micron 386 4MB RAM 20MB HDD DOS/Win 3.11 I couldn't even play Doom when I let Windows load at boot and had to create a second autoexec.bat just for DOS programs since Windows ran like crap and slowed it down. Later upgraded to a 100MB with a couple of bad sectors that I scavenged from the trash and 8MB RAM (Doom ran fine after that. On a side note, my second computer was a 100Mhz 486 that I fried because I had no idea why you would ever need a heat-sink on a cpu. EDIT: This is about what it looked like, just no CD-Rom drives and a large floppy drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alex Posted September 18, 2009 Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 My first PC was 5170 IBM PC AT (Advanced Technology). Manufacturer: International Business Machines Corporation Date Announced: 1984 Date Canceled: 1987 Price: Approximately $6,000 base Current Value: $10-$100 CPU: Intel 80286 @ 8 MHz 16-bit processor Memory (RAM): 512 KB RAM ROM: 64 KB HDD: 20MB hard drive Floppy: 1 5.25" floppy disk drive (1.2 Mb on special diskettes or 360 KB on regular media) Operating system: PC-DOS 3.0 Monitor: Color CGA monitor (the highest resolution of any mode was 640×200, and the highest color depth supported was 4-bit (16 colors but only 4 colors can be displayed at a time)) The monitor had overheating and shutdown issue but nonetheless best times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvalencia Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 On my own(i.e. without family support), my first PC is an IBM T20 laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PaperstarNinja Posted September 20, 2009 Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 Whhhaattt... Nobody else had a Vic20? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galdere Posted September 20, 2009 Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 Whhhaattt... Nobody else had a Vic20? You haven't read the previous posts. Bought a vic 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJSSUK Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 I love this post. I had a Sinclair ZX80, in 1980 with 512bykes (0.5kb) RAM Then a ZX81 in 1981 Then a ZX Spectrum 48 Then an Acorn Electron Then a ZX Spectrum 128 Then an ATARI STFM 512mb Then a 486 SX 25 PC Memories... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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