What spec was your first PC?

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3.25 MHz Zilog Z80A CPU
8K ROM, 1K RAM externally expandable to 64K (56K usable)
Display: 24 lines x 32 character text display
Monochrome only
Sound: None
I/O: Z80 bus, 250 baud cassette interface, UHF television out
Storage: External cassette recorder
 
First that I can remember, had a few running on windows 3.1, but don't know the specs, remeber upgrading the hard drive on it though to 100mb and the ram to 8mb! :)

1ghz t-bird athlon - thought this was the mutts nuts.
Cd-rewriter - this was also so awesome.
128mb ram.
Can't remeber the gfx card.

This thing would run anything back in its day, no one would beleive me at school I had a 1GHZ cpu.
 
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Go you, Neo.
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:D Quite humorous, actually. The full extent of "hacking" back then was downloading games from BBSs and having a huge collection that your friends could admire. Instantly you were dubbed a "hacker". Making the games work, however, is where the true skills came in. :)

I did, of course, have a "war dialer" that sat and tested phone numbers while I was at school, looking for other computers. There were a lot of BBSs back then, and since most of them only had a few modems you were likely to get a busy signal at any time. Therefore, the more that were in the queue, the more likely you were to be able to find some open channels. Ran a BBS myself for awhile: IvoryBoard, it was called.

It was then that I learned what "zone calls" were... even though you didn't have to dial an area code or enter a +1 prefix, it was still a charge call and not a local call. I had a nice phonebill one month because of it. :eek:


edit: heh heh... there's a Wiki for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_BBS
 
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