Question? What was your very first Computer

Imsai 8008 and a TRS80 with a Z80 processor. The TRS80 was in a kit and every part soldered. IC sockets, resistors, caps, power supply. And used bulletin boards. No such thing as internet.
Had a 8080 also that i recall. Maybe a SOL terminal. Too far back. A pentium II and up from there. Never a 386. missed that one.
 
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My first had an AMD Duron and 128MB of RAM and Windows 98 SE or something like that. I think that was back in 2004. I've had many, many since then - most with Pentium 4s.
 
Mine was dos 4, 5 and 6. When windows come out it was 3.1. Yes, 98 2nd edition was the big break for me also. 3.1 ya had to set up everything manually. I was in the day comfortable with dos. Was a time and place for it and all there was.

And green screen and black and white and maybe 8 or 9". No such thing as color. commodore Amiga gets credit for 1st color. had that too. And everything was written in basic but slow. Hand assembly programs was rare. Only sub routines was written then jump. Learned a lot then.
 
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Gateway 2000 with Pentium MMX @ 233mhz, 32Mb Ram, 2Gb Harddrive, ATI Rage II 4Mb, Soundblaster audio and running Win95
 
forgot about that one. Still have the disc for 95 OSR2 and 98 2nd edition. Had windows 3.1 on 3-1/2" disc. maybe 8 or 10 disc i think. Also only about 32 k memory at most. A $1000 for kit form with older computers. 4k of mem. 16k cost $300. also 5-1/4 disc and 8 disc drive. 360k writable only. and no mouse. no such thing. 8 drive 360k was about $500. Old school.
 
Dell Inspiron 3000

Pentium 4 HT - 3GHz I believe
512 MB of ram
40GB Hard drive

Was top of the line for it's time.
 
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forgot about that one. Still have the disc for 95 OSR2 and 98 2nd edition. Had windows 3.1 on 3-1/2" disc. maybe 8 or 10 disc i think. Also only about 32 k memory at most. A $1000 for kit form with older computers. 4k of mem. 16k cost $300. also 5-1/4 disc and 8 disc drive. 360k writable only. and no mouse. no such thing. 8 drive 360k was about $500. Old school.
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I've got a 95 OSR 2.5 disc, genuine and all. It was still in the seal wrap until I unwrapped it about 3 years ago.

That OS is older than me. :P
 
sell it on Ebay. I know one person today that swears by 95 and 98. Won't use anything else. I have the same thing. kept for memory's only. even have notes dating back to 1978. always been a hawk and taking notes for the processors. its old school.
 
for the record, this conversation came up before. Maybe 2 yrs ago.
still fun though. keeps me thinking. pretty much a user now and positive.
dont know what you people know. I just ask here.
 
Gateway 2000 with an Intel 384 I think. 64mb RAM and originally a 5GB hard disk.

My father then built a custom machine with a 700Mhz Celeron, 20GB HDD and maybe 768MB RAM in it. That thing ran real good back in the day. Can't forget the VooDoo3 graphics card either :D
 
Compaq Presario SR1616NX

  • AMD Sempron 3200+
  • ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series
  • 1.4GB RAm (added 1GB)
  • WinXP SP3

Still running, actually using it right now at my parent's house :). It's about 7 years old and only had one problem where I had to reinstall XP.
 
Not sure exact specs but it was Compaq something on Windows 95. Was hand me down computer that used to be my dad's work computer. Had it in like early 2000's or so. I remember the PSU blew on it at one point. Looked something like this.

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