I came late to computing... A Pentium 66 (When it was the second fastest Intel CPU), with 8Mb RAM, a Quad speed CD-ROM and a huge 720Mb Harddrive... Still got it around somewhere...

My first real pc was an IBM PS1 Consultant. This thing was a 486 with 4mb of ram and a 1g hard drive. I can still remember windows 3.1.

My first computer was a 233 mhz Pentium 1 or 2, i forgot. it had 32 mb of ram and some sucky gfx card. It was a packard bell and it sucked booty scratch.

My second was/is a compaq with a 300 mhz Pentium 2 with 64 mb of ram. It really useless now, except for taking it's ram :-). it had a ati rage pro with 2 mb of ram, I thought i was top dawg for a while...

My third and probably last computer from my mom is a 700 mhz Pentium 3 at 864 mhz (sometimes) with 192 mhz of ram. This is my main source of fun and stuff. It has a nvidia geforce 256 sdr @ 135mhz and 185 mhz.

packard bell e153
yea tight huh

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Some old Packard Bell (386 I think) that I recieved as a gift. I remember playing a ton of some game that involved apes chunking exploding bananas at each other. It sounds stupid now but it was actually fun to play with my brothers.

gorillas.bas - A QuickBasic program that comes with DOS, along with Nibbles, one of those classic don't-hit-your-tail-while-you're-sneaking-across-the-floor-eating-everything-in-sight games. I don't know who wrote the original of that game...I had one for my Apple II called Mouse Viper or something like that...Funny...in retrospect, most of my Apple games had better graphics than those old CGA DOS games I used to play...

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My first computer was a 486DX/33. Purchased in December 1994. Win 3.1 and DOS 6.0. 4 MB RAM!!!

Comodore 64!!! (with the color 13" display of course!)

That was crazy back in the day.

(AND IT STILL WORKS!)

The first computer I worked on was a Honeywell model 200. This was a character addressable machine with 32k of iron core memory, 2 x 1/4 meg disk drives, 2x12inch tape drives, an 80 column card reader/punch, a 132 column pin feed printer, and a keyboard console. Programming languages used were autocoder (assembler language), COBOL, fortran, basic, SNOBOL, and in some cases binary. A real antique like me.

sundagger

Ah, memories!

First computer I ever used was a Burroughs B300. No idea what the proc speed was except it was in the khz range, like 200-300 khz. Memory - 3k core. Disk - Are you jokin', it didn't have any. Display - naw, you had to interpret lights on the front panel. Had a card reader and a card punch - Do you know what they are? Also it had a 7 track tape drive, big suckers. And I can't forget the check sorter which sorted 1000 checks a minute. All those little pieces of paper flying at 25 mph. What a racket.

My first PC was a Commodore 64. It had more power than th B300 and my watch is more powerful than either.

My very first computer was a commadore 64. I bought with my paper route money before I was a teen ager. I't was incredible ! I played all kinds of games on it, programmed games, and used a cassete tape drive to store the programs.

I subsequently purchased an Amiga 2000 when I wqs in college because it was also an incredible machine and because of the great experience I had with the Commadore 64. Those were the good days !!!

BarMac

Hehehe OK so we're waxing nostalgic about our 1st loves, er... computers well here's a romance novel for ya.
My first computer was a Koeffel & Esser, that's a slide rule to all you younguns, yep I'm that old. I was an engineering student working full time as an engineering aide and trying to handle 18 credit hours at a nigttime community college. The drafting department gave me this 18 scale model that was awesome, except ya couldn't play any games on it LOL.
The odd thing is I didn't "get it" about electronic computers till much later. Odd because in 1970, my bass player with whom I lived on a band commune ( yeah I was a Flower Child ) who was massively into mathematics, was learning computer languages in college and now he owns a company and never goes to work. He just dials in. I wonder if he still plays bass. I still play guitar but the importance of that to electronics and my history with computers is I spent a lot of years repairing, modifying and later designing amplifiers ( even worked with some Big names ) and that's how I finally got the bug. I had lusted after a Siclair 64K kit cuz I knew a guy who wrote a program that ran his band's lights, but I never got one. ... couldn't see what else I would use it for.
Somebody gave me my first. It was on a Tandy 8086 with 1 meg of ram and an ancient WD 20meg IDE drive that plugged directly into an 8bit expansion slot, that I got hooked. It had a sound card tacked on the front that maybe had 10 components. I modified the card so I could plug it into a stereo amp, but it still sucked. It was when I first loaded in PCTools and got a glimpse of "the tree" that I realized that a PC wasn't a tool but more like a magic tool box that could be reconfigured to fit any kind of tool imagineable in it.
With my electronics background I contacted techs who gave me ( and are still giving me ) broken stuff they couldn't fix. The first one I got running was a Tandy 1000, a 286 with clunky MFM 30 meg drives... then a second one just like it. I started networking then through serial and parallel null modem cables. I had read about them in "The Hardware Bible" but because it kept referring to OS/2 as being so killer I just had to have a 386. Very soon I had 3 and I started using a 286 as a print dump, so it was possible to actually do something else while printing before I managed to save up for OS/2.
By the time I had the money v2.0 came out and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it to install. I mean, hey, just because I had bare minimum requirements and was stretching that with a CGA monitor and MFM drives.... Well after about the 20th install I had finally figured out I could fool it into accepting the monitor as an EGA but the MFMs were just too damn slow. I could see that the hard drive couldn't keep up with the install and would fail at different places, depending on how much quick repetition of "retry" would hold out. A 40 meg RLL drive did it! and behold a real GUI with incredible networking capability and memory management.
Since then I have built a couple hundred systems and have given away some 34 PCs mostly to kids, but some to friends and family. Once when looking for a 486 motherboard to base a system on for my girlfriends son's birthday I went to Goodwill cuz I heard they had 486 mobos for like 20bux. I came home with ( yer not gonna believe this but it is true )
An IBM 17 inch flat screen 6327 monitor
A Dell 17 inch flat screen ( actually NEC/Mitsubishi ) monitor
AND........ AND....
A complete mini tower containing
An Abit mobo with soft menu and a Pentium 166 ( not clock locked )
16 megs of ram
An SB Awe32
An ATI Mach 64
A 6.3G Maxtor Hdd
Acer CDRom
33.6 Modem
All for ( are you sittin down, hehehe ) I swear this is true...... 60bux cash!!!!

BTW the boy said he must be "the luckiest boy in the whole wide world" and I thought..."Well.....maybe second luckiest!"
Now my main box is an Asus P3BF with a homemade cooling system OCing a Celey 366 to 577. Presently it boots 5 OSs but thats about to change. I'm gonna dump Mandrake and Corel Linux in favor of Slackware as soon as 7.2 hits the streets. The others are Win98 ( cut to the nuts by Revenge of Mozilla ) for gaming, but it is slowly giving way to Win2k because the better TCP/IP stack makes it more buff playing Q3Arena online while I'm still stuck with dialup. For everything serious I still use OS/2, but it is a hybrid Warp 4.5 now seeing as how I compile Unix stuff right inside it, run an Enlightenment desktop and Odin handles the Virtual Machine that runs most Win32 proggies under IBMs red-headed step child who has been pronounced dead so may times by Billy and the Boys. I guess they just figure if they wish hard enuff....... Sorry boys, it's going Open Source and will never die now.

Geeez now I need a hanky. Hope y'all had fun sharing my addiction. This is where the 12 step PC Anonymous meet isn't it?

Jimmy

Hello,

My first computer was an 80486 DLC-33 Mhz with Win 3.11 and 4MB of RAM and I was very happy with it at that time. My other systems were:

AmdK5-133
Intel 120 Mhz
AmdK6-300
AmdK6-II 500

Athlon 600C (My current system)

I never thought I'd see the day of cpu's to even come close to 800 Mhz, but the technology has advanced since those days.

Apple IIe

My first PC was an 8088 better known as an IBM XT. It had 640k RAM, ran at 4.77 MHz (10 Mhz Turbo). It had a 20 Mb hardrive. It runs just fine.