What was your first ever CPU?

[Danny_75]

bbc model B
C64
Amiga 512 (thats KB kids not MB....)
386 SX 16

What was the name of the game on the 512. Its was like C+C............ I remember !!! Cannon Fodder. What a game that was Might get it out the loft and see if it still works;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ob73lgvE0M

 

[EniGmA1981]

First CPU in any system that was given to me as a gift was a 386SX-16 but the first one I saved up for and bought myself was an AMD Duron 1100

 

[avrc]

If I remember rightly a 486 SX 33 although I did have an Amiga 500 before that.

 

[EnderXi]

Amstrad CPC 6128
my first x86 was a 486 25SX in a dell machine all of 25mhz of processing powah!!!

 

[deadbeatrocknro]

Sinclair ZX81 1k ram!

 

[Cuchulain]

Sinclair ZX81 1k ram!

Beat you!

ZX80 (which my dad built from a kit), NEC 780C-1 @ 3.25mhz (also had a SuperPET for a few months, 6502@1mhz, 16k of ram)

First PC cpu was an 8086 running @ a mind boggling 8mhz

 

[Prophet]

Why are people listing computers as their first CPU?

Mine was the Zilog Z80A CPU.

 

[reflux]

Pentium 2, 350mhz. Absolute beast!

 

[MeatLoaf]

The first PC i used, my dads, had a 486DX2/66. My forst PC has a Pentium 100 in it

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

C64 (not sure what the CPU in this was)

The first real PC I had had an AMD 486 DX4 120.
That was one my parents bought me, not sure what the first one I paid for was.

 

[OrWolf]

MOS 8501 0.89MHz, in my Commodore C-16.

The first CPU i ever bought tho, was a Thunderbird 1GHz.

 

[Nymins]

Celeron 333
Duron 1Ghz
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
Athlon 64 3000+
Core 2 Duo E6300 - T4300 in laptop (fits in around here or below)
Athlon II X2 250

 

[avatar12m]

486 dx66 for £475

 

[mk17]

6502C - Atari 600XL

honourable mention to Star Raiders - along with River Raid, two of the best games of the era.

 

[Rikki]

AMD386SX-25
Chips N Tech mobo
640kb base / 384k extended
256k Oak 067 VGA card
40mb IDE IBM HDD
1.44mb Alps floppy drive
14" Mono monitor

 

[core2core]

Nothing to get to excited about but bought a 486DX2 as my first. It was not cheap at that time. See here on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486DX2

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

AMD K6 200Mhz @ 233Mhz.

Awesome performance...

 

[sarge78]

ARM3 @ 25 MHz
AMD K6-2 @ 266 MHz
Cyrix GX something @ 333 MHz?
Pentium 3 1Ghz
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
Core2 2160 @ 3 Ghz
Core2 8400 @ 3.8 Ghz
ARM cortex A9 @ 1Ghz (back ordered until late march )

 

[slipperydave]

MOS Technology 7501 @ 1.77 MHz in the Commodore Plus/4

Modern CPU would be AMD Duron

 

[DragonQ]

No idea what my Amstrad had so ignoring that it'd be my first PC's 100 MHz AMD 486.