Spec your first home computer.

Datamonkey · 30 Oct 2006 at 18:27

bbc b, first family computer

Apple Golden II

Atari 65XE

Some really old IBM Battle ship with 8" fdd's and green screen oh the text adventure joys i had on that.

Then i got a Wang Tec from my parents (my first real pc), 8088 8mhz, 1mb ram, cga graphics and 10mb hdd, 5" fdd. the fun i had trying to free enough base mem to play leisure suit larry and prince of persia, f-19 stealth fighter. It was cool, the hdd was sooo loud old skool segate that you thought you were in the f19!!!
muckin about with dos 3.2 and xtree gold. then windows 3.0

and then came the good ol' amiga a600
loved this,

good ol days.

Images taken from google, i aint sad enough to keep pics of departed kit

lol

Snapshot · 30 Oct 2006 at 18:49

My first home computer was a UK101 (big single board based on a 6502 processor. I blew it up with one 'enhancement' too many. :rolleyes:

Next was an Acorn Atom as it took the same RAM as the UK101.
This was followed by an Apricot then an Epson PC.
The first PC I built was an 80386 SX/16 with two 68MB 5.25" full height FDDs. This was somewhere between Xmas & New Year 1989!

Jonathan

bitslice · 30 Oct 2006 at 19:08

Snapshot said:
My first home computer was a UK101 (big single board based on a 6502 processor. I blew it up with one 'enhancement' too many.

I remember the articles in Practical Electronics :cool:

that and the Tangerine. Proper computers...

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DeeJay-Mo · 30 Oct 2006 at 21:50

Compaq Plus, 8086 cpu, upgraded to 640k RAM, 10MB HDD, CGA graphics. That was my Dads. He got it in 1985. Here's a pic:

Ours only had one floppy drive tho.

My first was a Sinclair Spectrum ZX+ 128k got that in about '87.

malccy · 30 Oct 2006 at 21:58

Commodore 64

ishamy · 30 Oct 2006 at 22:19

First was an Atari ST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_st

First proper machine was a Tiny :eek:

450mhz P3, 128Ram, integrated sound and graphics with 15gig HD and 17" beast of a crt.

celliott · 30 Oct 2006 at 22:34

I cant remember the specs of the first pc we had (it was old) but the second pc we had was:

Packard Bell "Executive Multimedia" - Package cost about £1k in 1994/95

Intel Pentium 1 133Mhz
16MB RDRAM
1.18GB Seagate HDD
24x Toshiba CDRW
150W PSU

I then got another pc from somewhere (I cant remember??) to mess about on as the other was the family pc:

Intel Pentium 1 90Mhz
48MB SDRAM - Yes, this was amazingly fast at the time
2Gb Seagate HDD

Snapshot · 30 Oct 2006 at 22:56

Datamonkey said:
Then i got a Wang Tec from my parents (my first real pc), 8088 8mhz, 1mb ram, cga graphics and 10mb hdd, 5" fdd. the fun i had trying to free enough base mem to play leisure suit larry and prince of persia, f-19 stealth fighter. It was cool, the hdd was sooo loud old skool segate that you thought you were in the f19!!!
muckin about with dos 3.2 and xtree gold. then windows 3.0

Gawd, that one brings back all sorts of unpleasant memories. I was at Wang for nine years and for three of them was the authority on the old PCs for the engineers in central London.

Jonathan

Nelly · 31 Oct 2006 at 00:06

Well 1st PC I bought was a Packard Bell - 486-sx 25mhz, 4mb ram, 1mb graphics, 250mb hard-drive.

First PC I ever used was an Amstrad 286, 20mb hard-drive etc, when I was at college doing I.T.

nshire · 31 Oct 2006 at 10:11

a 486 133mhz PC

can't remember specs apart from SoHo was somewhere in specs mobo?

semi-pro waster · 31 Oct 2006 at 10:36

nshire said:
a 486 133mhz PC

can't remember specs apart from SoHo was somewhere in specs mobo?

I think you might be thinking of the company that put them together, a mates brother had one from SoHo - a 486 66mhz machine with 8mb Ram, a 540mb Conner hard drive and a 4x CD-Rom drive but it cost him the better part of £2,000 at the time if I remember rightly.

z0mbi3 · 31 Oct 2006 at 10:46

Atari ST.

It really was a box of magic tricks.

Dr_Evil · 31 Oct 2006 at 10:49

This was my first computer:

CPU: 1.79 Mhz
RAM: 16K
Display: 256x192x16

And this was my favourite game on it (a bit comparable to the BattleField series now ;-)

MadMatty · 31 Oct 2006 at 11:06

While spectrum +3 and c64 were my first computers, my first computer not used for just games was te Amiga500 , and later A1200 which is still alive and kicking to this day with ppc cpu, voodoo5, sb128, ethernet and tv card.

Although the OS is running on a 25mhz cpu, you know the system is efficient when watching tv takes 0% cpu time

Captain Fizz · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:07

wizardmaxx said:
Commodore 64.

'twas a beast too.

Then 8088, 286, 386 then:
Cyrix 333 MHz, ATi Rage 128, 64MB RAM and 20GB HDD!
First game-able PC other than Wolvenstein 3D etc.

Dr.EM · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:10

First computer, Amiga C1200 I guess. Still have it too

krooton · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:27

My first pc, as in not shared family one:

Celeron 400Mhz
192MB RAM
Nvidia Vanta 32MB gfx
17" CRT
20GB WD HDD

I've come a long way in the past 6 years

zid · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:56

cyrix 233
32m edo ram(think thats what it was called)
intergrated graphics
14" crt
8 gig hdd

Had it taken apart on the second day

Mayhs · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:10

my first computer:

amd 3500+
1gig of geil ram
200gb hd + 160gb hd
x850xt pe
19inch crt monitor

i got this when the x850xt pe came out...all brought from www.overclockers.co.uk

Northwind · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:58

Rubber keyed speccy first... Came with Horace Goes Skiing and Survival.

First PC was a Gateway P75, 8mb ram, 2mb S3 Trio, 4x CD-rom drive, 15" screen. Rockin'!