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[Corey]

what were the specs of your first PC,,,...

my first computer was a Compaq's laptop..

Intel 100MHz
42 MB ram...i think
8 MB video memory
750 MB hard disk
CD - ROm...

[extremehardware]

Not as bad as mine!

Intel 33 MHz CPU
16 MB RAM
4 MB video memory
400 MB hard drive
2x cd-rom

I win.

[snlildude87]

extremehardware, on Mar 21 2005, 05:25 PM, said:

Not as bad as mine!

Intel 33 MHz CPU
16 MB RAM
4 MB video memory
400 MB hard drive
2x cd-rom

I win.

Ouch extremehardware! How was your experience on that computer??

Mine is:
Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
64 MB RAM
4 MB Video Card
6 GB HD
16x CD-ROM
Windows 98

My first computer is not that old, but it was a pain to do stuff like open Microsoft Notepad

[Corey]

snlildude87, on Mar 21 2005, 10:43 PM, said:

Ouch extremehardware! How was your experience on that computer??

well...

i *BLEEP*ed up Windows a couple of times...

it was pretty bad

[PHPtech]

Packard Bell Multimedia R500 (Desktop)
-200MHz Intel Pentium Processor with MMX technolgoy, and 32 KB of internal cache
-4.3 Gigabyte Hard Disk Drive
-32 MB EDO RAM
-36 Kbps Modem
-24x maximum, variable CD-ROM Drive
-2 USB (Universal Serial Bus) Ports
-64-bit Graphics/Video Accelerator with 2 MB EDO Video memory
-14.2 KBPs Fax installed
-Telephone Answering system with full duplex speakerphone
-MPEG 2 full full motion video playback with Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoding
-16-bit SRS Amphitheater Stereo Sound, Sound blaster
-keyboard and 2 button mouse

[Corey]

my 100 MHz Intel still works


does yours..

[alperuzi]

42MB of RAM on a P100??? noway, thats close to impossible unless you got it waay later on.

My first comp was:

Pentium 133 CPU
16MB EDO-RAM
2MB Oak Spitfire SVGA
8x CD-ROM
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card (this thing was like 3 times the size of current graphics cards! and had its own RAM slots)

...and nothing else, that was it, oh, an Epson Stylus 500 printer

I think I payed around $2000 for all that... but that was close to the best computer you could get back then. After that all my computers have been close to mid-high range machines.

[alperuzi]

sorry forgot the harddisk (where is the edit button gone?)

it also had a 2GB Seagate Medallion harddisk,

talking of harddisks, my next hdd was a 6.4GB Seagate Medallion, and now I have a 40GB Seagate Barracuda IV and a 40GB Seagate Momentus on my laptop. Seagate harddisks rock!

[Galahad]

If we're talking about any PC, my first comp was

Commodore 64
I think it worked on 8MHz, had 64KB RAM
Commodore 1851, 5.25" Floppy drive
Two joysticks
a modem (wich I had no use for ; didn't have any ISP's at that, time)
I think, that covers it

Oh yes, it connected to a TV... It costed about, well, at least 900 euro's, converted to that time, it was in 89 or 90 that I got it, but I started really using it in '94...

If we're talking about first PC PC, it was

Intel 80286
16MHz, haaad... 1 MB RAM i believe
Unknown externaly mounted HDD, 40Mb
Hercules display adapter (orange/black combination)
aaaand, that about covers it

Nice, right?

[sandymc]

Yawn, i already forgot of what my first computer was.... i remember that my father bought it when i 8 years old.. i think it is still DOS based Operating System, you have to type WIN to enter Windows... and the Floppy Disk was also very big. From that computer, i had learned my first programming language, GWBasic and Basica... Lotus 123, DOS-Games, Return to castlevania, Pacman, Bomberman... owh man, that's really a great nostalgic time.

But i think my computer was same as Galahad's

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Commodore 64
I think it worked on 8MHz, had 64KB RAM
Commodore 1851, 5.25" Floppy drive
Two joysticks
a modem (wich I had no use for ; didn't have any ISP's at that, time)
I think, that covers it

... but without modem... hehehe