Soldato
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I had an Epson 80286 given to me whilst at Uni, followed by an awful Cyrix gaming pc in the mid 90s with a 6mb Voodoo Rush gpu that crashed all the time playing Doom.
So that PC was 30 years ago!Prior to 8086 based computers I had a mixture of Commodores and Sinclair’s but I got my first actual PC 18 years ago. It was a Toshiba T3100 laptop (manufactured from 1986), it featured a 8 MHz Intel 80286 CPU, 512K of memory (yep K not Mb), 20Mb harddrive, 3 ½ inch low density floppy drive and a monochrome 9.6" gas-plasma display with a resolution of up to 640x400 pixels.
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Used it doing by first year of college and did me well for all my coding work (Pascal iirc) and assignment write ups. Wasn’t until the following year that I moved to a 486 Dx33 system mainly because I started using a Object Oriented version of Pascal that wouldn’t work on the laptop.
What really did impress me was despite such a low spec it still ran all the main types of apps, spreadsheet, relational database, WYSIWYG (wow that’s an old term) word processor, and a copy of Autoroute UK. (although the 4 colour gas-plasma screen was no good for looking at smut )
I'm not ashamed to admit my first PC was a shop bought one. This was back in September 99' I think.
Other than the old systems like CPC, Amiga, C64 etc.
PIII 450
128MB RAM
12GB HDD (I remember the guy in the shop telling me I'd never fill a 12GB HDD)
Voodoo 3 2000
15" CRT
Goldeneye on DVD came free! The computer had a DVD player inside it!
It also game with a copy of Delta Force! Oh my days, what a game. I still remember the first missing, running over the first hill and taking out the guard in the watch tower.
I'm not ashamed to admit my first PC was a shop bought one. This was back in September 99' I think.
Other than the old systems like CPC, Amiga, C64 etc.
PIII 450
128MB RAM
12GB HDD (I remember the guy in the shop telling me I'd never fill a 12GB HDD)
Voodoo 3 2000
15" CRT
Goldeneye on DVD came free! The computer had a DVD player inside it!
It also game with a copy of Delta Force! Oh my days, what a game. I still remember the first missing, running over the first hill and taking out the guard in the watch tower.